Cultivation Kill

Shen Zige jumped slightly and grabbed the top edge of the boulder with both hands.

"We should have worked harder in PE class." It's true that you only realize how little you know when you need it. Shen Zige strained to pull herself up, but when her lips were parallel to her fingers, she lost her strength. She managed to maintain her balance for a few seconds, but couldn't go any further.

Unsure if the secret realm could simulate human potential, Shen Zige exerted all her strength, kicking her legs hard to propel herself upwards, then placing one leg on the edge of the boulder...

"There's movement!"

Upon hearing the sound, the muscular man rushed towards Shen Zige's location.

In the critical moment, Shen Zige gritted her teeth, flipped herself onto the rock, and then lay exhausted on the boulder, panting heavily.

"Up there!" the muscular man roared, wielding a greatsword. "You brat, get down here!"

The current situation is that Shen Zige is lying on top of the boulder, while the muscular man rushes over with a sword, and then uses his greatsword to slash fiercely along the edge of the boulder—

"Peng!"

Shen Zige flipped over to dodge, and the greatsword struck the side of the boulder, sending stones flying.

The muscular man attempted several more leaping slashes, but Shen Zige had already hidden among the boulders, so he was not harmed; his attack was merely intimidating.

The muscular man tried to climb up like Shen Zige, but found that he couldn't succeed. If he used both hands to climb, Shen Zige would step on his fingers and cause him to fall off in pain. So he could only hold the sword with one hand and climb with one hand, but unfortunately, it was too difficult for him to do!

"Fine, I'll stay down here. I don't believe you won't come down!" the muscular man said through gritted teeth, finding a spot under the boulder to squat and rest.

"Let's just wait it out."

Shen Zige found some small stones on the boulder and threw them at the muscular man below. Although they did not cause any harm, they made the muscular man furious.

"Once I catch you, I won't kill you first. I'll beat you half to death before I kill you!" the muscular man roared from below the boulder.

Shen Zige did not respond verbally, but instead made a provocative gesture.

After a moment, the muscular man seemed to have found his lost brain, slapping his thigh and saying, "I'm so stupid! I could have climbed up by building steps with stones!"

Without hesitation, the muscular man picked up stones and piled them under the boulder, quickly forming the prototype of steps.

Shen Zige wasn't going to be foolish and wait for the other person to climb up. Seizing the opportunity, while the muscular man went to move a rock a little further away, he quietly slid down the other side of the boulder and then ran towards the stone platform in the center of the valley.

"You bastard, where do you think you're going!"

Seeing this, the muscular man realized what was happening, threw away the stone in his hand, picked up his sword, and gave chase.

There was still quite a distance to the center of the valley. If Shen Zige ran in a straight line, he would definitely be caught up with given their relative speeds.

"I need to go in circles," Shen Zige decided in her heart, and then ran towards a slightly larger rock on the right.

Seeing this, the muscular man also gave chase, but when he reached the large rock on the right, Shen Zige ran to the left and hid behind the large rock on the right.

The valley was like a stone forest park, with rocks of all sizes and shapes, making the chase much more difficult for the muscular man.

"Damn it, you cunning brat!"

The muscular man cursed angrily and continued his pursuit.

Even with the advantage of the terrain, Shen Zige couldn't completely shake off the muscular man, since the muscular man was much faster than him, and he could only barely maintain a distance.

One minute later.

A stone platform in the center of the valley came into view—

Shen Zige's physical strength was also gradually approaching its limit...

"Look where you're going!"

The area surrounding the stone platform, roughly the size of a basketball court, was an open space with an unobstructed view. The muscular man suddenly accelerated and sprinted towards Shen Zige.

"Faster, faster."

Shen Zige's gaze stopped below the stone platform. Oh no, she didn't see the bell!

With just one glance, every detail of the stone platform was captured in his eyes, as if a camera had frozen the scene.

It's definitely on the back; we have to go around it.

Shen Zige pretended to run to the left and then ran onto the stone platform.

A heavy slashing sound rang out at the edge of the stone platform. The muscular man's heavy sword was aimed at the direction Shen Zige was trying to escape to the left. Unexpectedly, Shen Zige was just feinting. His slash didn't even touch the hem of Shen Zige's clothes.

"Don't run, you have no chance of winning anyway." The muscular man forcefully threw the sword in his hand towards Shen Zige on the stage.

As if she had eyes in the back of her head, Shen Zige turned right in time to avoid the sword that the muscular man angrily threw.

Shen Zige must not touch this sword; he guessed that touching it would mean certain death.

The muscular man was delayed for a few seconds, and Shen Zige jumped off the stone platform without hesitation. With a quick glance, she finally noticed a small vermilion bell three steps away from her. She hurriedly stepped forward and rang the bell.

"Ding--"

The valley scene shattered, and Shen Zige and the muscular man were instantly teleported to the conference round table.

The ball of light slowly rotated above the conference table: "First, please let the person who rang the bell speak."

"So close." Shen Zige said with lingering fear, "Luckily, it wasn't just the assassin and me left in the end, otherwise the assassin would have been wiped out at five times the speed! From the moment I came into this world until now, it feels like a dream. I really wish I could wake up and still be on the street, holding the lunchbox I packed for my brother. Sigh, there's no point in talking to you about this, let's move on!"

The muscular man's seat light came on.

"Don't be so smug. Do you really think you've won?" said the muscular man using the alias Xiang Yu. "I'll definitely vote for you. Even if you vote for me, it'll be a tie. Next round, when we go back into the valley, I'll definitely kill you! I'll be the final winner! Pass!"

"Now we will proceed to the voting stage."

The lights on the field went out instantly.

Shen Zige pressed her hand on her smartwatch and calmly said, "I'm going to use the controller's professional skills to make the other party vote for himself!"

The controller can use a skill once in the game, which is to control one person to vote. This skill is more powerful when there are fewer people, so Shen Zige had been holding back from using it until now.

Turn it over!

Survival successful!

The voting results were unsurprising: the muscular man had two votes, while Shen Zige received zero.

A ferocious beast leaped from the back of the muscular man's chair, its body swelling and swallowing him whole.

"This dungeon is now closed," the orb of light announced. "The winners are the Singer, the Reporter, the Petrified One, the Verifier, the Merger, and the Controller."

The world before Shen Zige's eyes turned into a blank, with no other color but white, and he could not even see himself, as if he did not exist.

Soon, a small dot appeared in the distance, and the dot gradually expanded... into a semi-circular archway. Inside the archway were colorful blocks of color, and his consciousness involuntarily passed through the color block archway.

"Zige is awesome!"

The cheers reached Shen Zige's ears; they were from the six winners of the secret realm game.

Other entrances to the surrounding secret realms also began to flash white light one after another, and the other victors were also teleported out.

Some people at the scene were overjoyed, some knelt down and wept, and others remained silent like Shen Zige.

Three cultivators in blue robes approached and instructed everyone to line up and wait for another two hours.

"I'm not waiting any longer! Anyone still stalling in the secret realm will be declared a loser!" The male cultivator surnamed Mo took out a mirror-like treasure from his waist pouch and manipulated it.

All entrances to the surrounding secret realms have disappeared.

Shen Zige felt a bit scared – luckily he didn't hide inside and waste time. The man surnamed Mo didn't tell them about these hidden rules, he really didn't value their lives!