Chapter 130 - CHAPTER 129 – THE SECOND CLUE (1)

Black god Solanky placed his axe behind him and deliberately unleashed his life aura to serve as a deterrent to other troublesome elites who wished to attack him later. The moment he unleashed his life aura, the surrounding elites all had their hearts tremble, and their bodies unconsciously turned away from Solanky. This was a natural reflex they all had, as if they were predators who had met another predator reintroduced into their ecosystem, but this new predator belonged to the apex, a level even they had to watch their backs for.The burly devil fiend man, a special lifeform, quickly understood that this revered elder of the forsaken realm belonged to a legendary class of lifeform only a few could achieve. Within the beyond realm, the knowledge of a source-defying lifeform wasn't known by any ordinary being beneath the true peak-turns, and most ancestors dared not speak of it because most of them hadn't verified lifeforms of that caliber yet. So within the beyond realm, calamitous lifeforms were at the summits of lifeforms and life auras. The burly devil fiend man now began to understand why he lost miserably to this figure before him, as the life aura coming from him indicated that he was a calamitous lifeform with 700 billion times the power of an ISG. A full surplus of 200 billion power units made the gap between them like heaven and earth; the other elites, sensing this, were all terrified, not of Solanky but of Goldie, whose power was said to be a full 730 billion times that of an ISG.Solanky walked towards Elisa and Goldie in the distance and signaled them to move towards the second pyramid to analyze its mysteries. The harvester, the first on the elite rankings, seemed to have deduced the secrets of the second clue, while Solanky and his group looked for clues near the pyramid. She walked towards the river flowing through the ruins. Without hesitation, she dived into the river and went straight to the riverbed. The moment she made contact with the riverbed, several glowing engravings flew out of it to the surface. The engravings were too intricate for those elites without true peak-turns spiritual bodies to discern their mysteries. Among true peak-turns spiritual bodies, there were divisions, namely the early, mid, and late stages. Each progressive stage was a quality leap over the previous stages. For beings with their physical bodies beneath the ancestor (true peak-turns) level, spiritual bodies at this level enabled them to have a chance to ascend to this level even if they didn't have a vouch from ancestor-level beings.The harvester flew out of the river and landed on the banks to sit and comprehend the engravings. Being the foremost on the elite rankings, her spiritual body and awareness were at the mid-stage of the first peak-turn, which was way above the other elites of the rankings. Which was why she could stand as the strongest for a long time but now she felt her position as the strongest was very shaky as she could sense Elisa, Goldie and Solanky were all at her level in terms of spiritual awareness or above her. She couldn't accept this, as being at the top for billions of years had made her arrogant and relaxed, looking down on anyone beneath the true peak-turns level.Solanky turned to see the engravings and also sat down in the distance, telling Elisa and Goldie to guard him while he discerned the secrets of these engravings. Solanky opened the third eye on his forehead and shut his two eyes, and began comprehending and discerning the secrets. The other elites with true peak-turns spiritual awareness, seeing this, all sat down to give it a try in discerning the engravings. Within the forsaken realm, the true body of Solanky, aided by the time acceleration, had discerned 3105 secret engravings out of 9000 secret engravings, and he was still trying to comprehend the fifth golden statue. The harvester, having discerned 4000 secrets, was delighted, as she could see the others not noticing the message hidden within that 4000th engraving knew she had a comfortable lead. After a few decades, the highest to be discerned was 4101 secrets out of the 9000, and it was the harvester; the second was the burly man who had overtaken Solanky with just two secrets, clocking in with 3902 secret engravings.After Solanky saw that the fifth golden statue required his spiritual awareness and body to have another major breakthrough, he stopped comprehending it and focused on the engravings suspended on the river. He began deducing the secrets and when he reached the 4000th secret a message transmitted into his consciousness saying, "you are the second to reach this threshold, this second clue associated with the second pyramid is where all my ancestor-level treasures are stored and there a some regular weapons suitable for beings at the guardian level in the last pyramid which requires who to verify with a token you will obtain in the second pyramid. I believe only one person is required to obtain that. And when you eliminate your opponent." Solanky, hearing this, was shocked because he knew the harvester was the one being referred to as an opponent. Focusing all his two bodies on discerning the secrets of the engravings, his chances rose above the others. He was able to deduce 6050 secrets, 2050 secrets more than his previous, and the harvester had only discerned 5200 secrets. Solanky and the harvester, after bypassing the 5000 secrets mark, were both teleported into the second pyramid.Inside the pyramid were seven sections dividing the pyramid into floors; each floor had several treasures and artifacts at the true peak-turn. The first floor had first-turn peak-turn treasures and artifacts; the second floor had second-peak-turn treasures. The higher the floor, the higher the grade and quality the weapons and treasures became. Solanky and the harvester stood across from each other; sound resounded within the pyramid space, saying, "You need to pick a weapon and create three techniques at the true peak-turn level with it. The techniques need to be new, different from your old ones. I know all your old techniques."Solanky walked of into the distance and starting to find a weapon, he came across a heavy hammer weighing more than three million infinite source worlds compressed into a single tool. This heavy hammer required a special lifeform, true peak-turns beings to wield and fully unleash its might. The harvester also walked towards a whip-like treasure and picked it up; the two walked to the second floor with opposite stairs leading up to it. On the second floor, instead of treasures at the second turn of the true peak-turns level, there were only raw materials to help them elevate the grade of the weapons they had already taken. Solanky, seeing this, was a little disappointed because his true body was the best when it came to refining and crafting because of the source-defying flames.Solanky spread out his spiritual sense to find the best materials to help him pass the test to the third floor, where several treasures and maps of the entire beyond realm and its secret regions existed. The second floor was several tens of kilometers wide with materials scattered all about; at its center were five huge cauldrons. Within each cauldron was an engraving of an element used in crafting and refining; the voice resounded throughout the space, telling them to choose a cauldron each.The harvester chose a cauldron that had the engraving of a flame etched on its surface, while Solanky chose a charred black cauldron. He got closer to the cauldron and wiped its surface to discover its hidden engraving and the element it belonged to; he found out that the cauldron he had selected had a lightning bolt etched on its surface.