My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 479 - 358: Short-lived Valley_3

Chapter 479: Chapter 358: Short-lived Valley_3

Owen Bertram glanced at him indifferently: "It’s not convenient to tell you."

Undaunted, Bart gave him a thumbs up: "As expected of a big shot!" He really followed Owen along, who looked at him and smiled: "Well, you can come if you can keep up."

"Alright!"

Owen also approved of Bart’s suspicion: Why would the Imperial Court entrust such an important matter to Evans Graham? Even if the Wood Dynasty was rotten to the core, Lord Dunn was still there.

Originally, simply asking Adonis Dunn could clear up the doubts... but Owen didn’t dare contact him.

For this First Stage Assessment, Owen mainly wanted to get a feel for the situation. If it was indeed a significant matter, he would immediately submit a formal visit invitation to Lord Dunn’s mansion for clarification after the assessment.

The situation in Short-lived Valley was somewhat similar to the Extinction Domain. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary valley, but once inside, one would find the space distorted and incredibly vast. Tens of thousands of cultivators were sent in, and once they scattered, they could hardly meet each other again.

The cultivators soon discovered some forces with obvious malice floating around, repeatedly washing over their bodies and causing their lifeforce to leak continuously, leading to fatigue, drowsiness, inefficiency, and boredom.

Thus, they began desperately following the marked path on the map, searching for the safe route.

However, Owen seemed unaffected, wandering around aimlessly, as if he was looking for something.

Bart followed him, gradually finding it hard to bear: "Brother, aren’t you looking for the way out?" Owen ignored him, gesturing at a flat, giant rock. The rock soared into the air, revealing white bones underneath!

These human skeletons had completely decayed, turning into pale sand when exposed. However, as the white bones appeared, the malicious forces around them suddenly intensified, and Bart let out a muffled groan, his face becoming more and more ghastly.

Owen gently flicked the rock and it fell back down. Inside his body, the Peach of Response slowly rotated, replenishing his life energy. The valley’s effects on him were minimal.

Owen’s fearlessness towards the Short-lived Valley was naturally due to the Peach of Response, which prevented his lifeforce from draining!

Owen left that spot, following the guidance of the power in the void, and found another closed mountain cave.

Bart swore that if it weren’t for Owen prying open the mountain wall, he would never have realized there was a cave hidden behind it!

Again, the cave was filled with white bones. Even the Grandmasters of the Military Department who had transformed this place into the Military School Field had not discovered this location.

The malicious energy surged out of the cave like a dam burst. Unable to bear it any longer, Bart cried out in pain and retreated: "Brother, I can’t accompany you any further, I’m leaving first!"

Owen seemed not to hear, just staring at the cave silently, full of grief. Only by standing there could one truly understand how miserable the human race was during that era.

He didn’t stop Bart, but there was a surge of anger in his heart: Evans Graham was using the Dragon and Snake List, such an important event, for profit! If the ones who eventually ranked in the top two lists all gave money to Evans, the real Heaven’s Chosen talents of the human race might be brushed off, leading to a huge crime against the entire human race!

"I’ll ruin his plans!" Owen hummed coldly. Initially, he had been wandering around the valley to see if he could find any loopholes, treasures, or opportunities with the Peach of Response and the Commander’s Token. Now, however, he had another plan.

Owen intended to change the so-called "safe route" and make those who bought the exam questions hit a dead end, ultimately blaming it on Evans.

Even... simply destroying this stage of assessment and allowing everyone to return to a fair starting point.

However, although this place originated from ghost spirits, the nature of its power had changed over time. With the guidance of the Commander’s Token, Owen could only find these mass graves, but if he wanted to change the safe route, he needed to find the key power nodes of the entire Short-lived Valley and then change the whole valley’s "grand situation."

Owen looked at the phantoms sealed beneath the array above his head. The phantoms had no offensive capabilities and were difficult to define. They had no life, no consciousness, no obsession, nothing. They were just bundles of energy. But why did they gather into shadow-like clusters?

Owen tried to capture them, but as soon as he touched the phantoms, they shattered and dispersed nearby, only to reappear as different forms.

Owen released the Immortal Binding Rope, but it seemed clueless, having no target at all!

Owen realized that these phantoms truly did not belong to the category of "living beings."

He secretly brought out his Commander’s Token, but the surrounding forces, including the phantoms, didn’t react strongly to it. Only one phantom unconsciously flew over, made contact with the Commander’s Token, and seemed to be familiar with its power, swirling around it incessantly.

But that was all there was.

Owen couldn’t find any clues, making him anxious. If he continued to delay, cultivators who had bought the map might already be out of the Short-lived Valley.