165: Chapter 165 Unusual Changes in the Secret Realm Passage

"He's practically a superman!"

Zheng Shanhe and Wei Canglan looked at each other in dismay.

At this moment, they finally understood why Xu Yan had refused their offer to spar without hesitation.

Just kidding; with a punch like that, let alone them...

You could have King Zhenyue try to take it and see if he could withstand it.

As for Su Yue, after slaying that Void Trace Jellyfish, her gaze toward Xu Yan shifted from her original curiosity and confusion to shock and seriousness.

The shock was naturally because Xu Yan's strength far exceeded her knowledge and understanding.

And the seriousness was because she thought of something extremely terrifying.

"Was Xu Yan actually present when I first entered the Tianditan Secret Realm?"

Su Yue's hand gripping the sword hilt began to tremble involuntarily.

"If he wasn't, why did he appear?"

"But if he was..."

The former could be explained by an accident or the butterfly effect.

But if it were the latter...

Su Yue dared not think about it any further.

"I hope... it is the former."

Su Yue bit her lip, her gaze fixed intently on Xu Yan.

Hiss~!

Suddenly, a sharp, urgent hiss snapped the group, who had been lost in shock, back to reality.

"Are they... trying to retreat?"

Yao Ji and the others looked on in disbelief.

They had never imagined that these exotic beasts and monsters attempting to rush out of the Secret Realm Portal and into the human world would ever voluntarily retreat.

Not only had they never seen it, they had never even heard of it.

Whether it was a Secret Realm within the Dragon Kingdom or others abroad, they had never heard of such a situation occurring.

Whenever a Secret Realm first opened, were the creatures rushing into the portal not fearless of death?

How could they possibly retreat voluntarily without being slaughtered or dying out?!

"Don't let them leave!" Xu Yan bellowed, "Lin Feng is still at the portal entrance; we cannot let these exotic beasts get out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, regardless of Su Yue and the others' reactions, Xu Yan immediately threw a punch toward the group of fleeing exotic beasts.

Boom!

Ripples were struck into the space, and another large empty area appeared.

At this, the group jolted, finally snapping back to their senses completely.

Now was not the time to wonder why these exotic beasts were voluntarily retreating.

Once these exotic beasts retreated, Lin Feng would undoubtedly be attacked from both sides.

Su Yue reacted the fastest, charging out immediately, covering the hundred-meter distance in a flash.

With a flick of her long sword, an A-rank exotic beast that had exposed its back died instantly.

Yao Ji and the other two also reacted one after another, chasing after the group of fleeing exotic beasts to slay them.

After throwing his punch, Xu Yan's figure had already vanished from where he stood.

He charged recklessly, forcefully carving out a path of blood one person wide right through the center of the dense herd of beasts.

When Xu Yan passed all the exotic beasts and arrived near the exit of the Secret Realm Portal.

He saw that the only remaining Void Trace Jellyfish already had half of its body disappeared into the vortex portal.

With no time to overthink, Xu Yan swung his fist violently, smashing directly toward the vortex.

Hum~!

With a hum, the Void Trace Jellyfish that had already half-submerged into the vortex instantly vaporized.

However, just as Xu Yan let out a sigh of relief and prepared to turn around to block the exotic beasts charging from behind.

An anomaly occurred abruptly!

The vortex of the portal that Xu Yan had just punched began to shake violently.

Along with it, the entire Secret Realm Portal began to tremble continuously.

The spatial rifts outside the safe path in the surroundings also instantly became extremely active.

Those exotic beasts that had originally wanted to retreat back into the Secret Realm, now facing this sudden turn of events, shrieked in terror and charged toward Xu Yan, fearless of death.

Some exotic beasts near the edges, being careless, were swallowed by the suddenly active spatial rifts without even letting out a scream.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yan's expression became extremely grave, but not because of these exotic beasts charging at him.

No matter how fearless these exotic beasts were, they were nothing more than a single punch for him; they posed no threat to him at all.

What truly made his expression grave were the surrounding highly active spatial rifts.

And, behind him, the vortex entrance which was visibly expanding to the naked eye!

"Is the portal collapsing?!"

Behind him, Yao Ji and the others also sensed the abnormality in the Secret Realm Portal, and their faces immediately turned uncertain and wary.

It wasn't as if they hadn't entered other Secret Realm Portals before.

But they were seeing something as bizarre as this Tianditan Secret Realm Portal for the first time.

In Su Yue's cold eyes, a flash of trepidation flickered.

Portal collapses—even before she was reborn, twelve years into the spiritual energy revival, she had never heard of such an event occurring.

If such a situation had occurred, the Dragon Kingdom could not have failed to announce it.

"Could it be..." Su Yue didn't know what she had thought of, but her face suddenly turned incredibly ugly, "Was the fall of the Tianditan Secret Realm back then caused by this anomaly in the portal?"

Clearly, with Su Yue and the others in the rear at some distance from Xu Yan, and with many exotic beasts blocking their view, they did not know that the cause of all this was Xu Yan.

Just as everyone and the exotic beasts were filled with uncertainty and restlessness.

A hum echoed into the ears of all the humans and beasts.

Immediately after, a scene that left everyone dumbfounded occurred.

The spatial rifts outside the original safe path, which had become active, were now seemingly smoothed out by some invisible force.

From being active, they gradually became calm, until they finally disappeared completely.

And after the spatial rifts vanished, the safe path, which had originally been only four or five meters wide, suddenly jumped to over ten meters!

"What... on earth just happened?!"

At this moment, whether it was Su Yue and the others, or those exotic beasts trying to rush out of the portal, all were stunned by this bizarre scene.

One by one, they all stopped their actions, staring blankly at the spatial rifts that had completely disappeared from their surroundings.

Xu Yan was also stunned, because behind him, the vortex entrance, which had originally been only ten meters in size, had now expanded to twenty meters and showed signs of slowly continuing to grow.

Xu Yan lowered his head and looked at his own fist.

He could be one hundred percent certain that all these changes were due to the punch he had struck against the vortex portal.

But why?

Why did the portal, which had looked like it was about to collapse just a moment ago, now strangely stabilize again, with the safe path even expanding?

Even the vortex entrance behind him was continuously expanding?

Was all of this good or bad?

Xu Yan had no way of knowing.

But now was not the time to overthink these things.

Because Lin Feng was still outside the Secret Realm Portal!

"You guys clear out the remaining exotic beasts; I'm going to help Lin Feng!"

Xu Yan shouted at the stunned group behind him, then immediately turned around and walked straight through the vortex.

The moment he rushed out of the portal, Xu Yan's field of vision suddenly opened up.

But when he saw the surrounding environment clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Because what he saw around him was completely different from the Secret Realm World he had imagined.