ACSP: Chapter 148: The Unfulfilled Wish from Years Ago!
Meanwhile, outside the [Cloud Thunder Canyon] secret realm.
The moment Jiang Chen's team cleared the realm, the stone tablet standing near the entrance, which had been silent for a long time, erupted with a dazzling light!
"Holy crap, the secret realm stone tablet is reacting."
"Did someone break the secret realm record again?"
"Such intense light, could it be that the record for the Hell Difficulty secret realm has been broken?"
"You don't even have to guess, it must have been Jiang Chen..."
"No way, right? How long has he been in there? How could he possibly clear the Hell Difficulty Cloud Thunder Canyon?"
The commotion at the stone tablet quickly caused an uproar near the secret realm.
Everyone was discussing it heatedly.
Some guessed that this record must have been broken by Jiang Chen.
After all, not everyone can clear a Hell Difficulty secret realm; only those Kage-level Contractors with immense potential have that qualification.
And before this, the record holder for this secret realm was the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Cai Kun.
However, some people felt it wasn't Jiang Chen, because the time Jiang Chen had spent entering the secret realm was too short.
Even if he were a Super-Kage Level Contractor, it would be impossible to clear the Hell Difficulty [Cloud Thunder Canyon] in such a short amount of time!
With curiosity, everyone crowded forward, wanting to see who exactly had broken the Hell Difficulty secret realm record.
A while later, as the light on the stone tablet faded, a line of golden secret realm information appeared before everyone's eyes.
[Cloud Thunder Canyon (Hell): Speedrun Team—Jiang Chen! (Time: 2 minutes 38 seconds)]
In an instant, the originally noisy scene became incomparably quiet.
Looking at that clearance record appearing on the stone tablet, everyone involuntarily widened their eyes.
"This... clearing a Hell Difficulty secret realm in two minutes, is he cheating?"
"Damn, even if he were cheating, it couldn't be this outrageous!"
"I remember when Cai Kun broke the record back then, it was over 2 hours, right? How many times did he shorten it by?"
"Unbelievable..."
—Whoosh! Just as everyone was shocked, Jiang Chen and Luo Yuqing's group were teleported out of the secret realm.
When the people around saw them, they immediately surrounded them excitedly.
"Big Brother Jiang Chen, how did you guys clear it just now? Can you reveal it to us?"
A girl with twin tails squeezed through the crowd and asked, looking at Jiang Chen with eyes full of admiration.
Hearing this, the others also cast looks of longing.
"You guys are going too far. How could they just tell you their clearance method? Hurry up and get away, get away..."
Worried that these people would offend Jiang Chen, Luo Yuqing immediately led Chu Xuan and the other two to push them away.
What a joke. A good secret realm clearance method is a precious intelligence resource. Sometimes you can't even buy it with money; who would just reveal it casually?
However, just then, a calm voice suddenly sounded behind her:
"Actually, it's nothing. I just utilized the conductivity of seawater and used Lightning Release to kill all those sea beasts."
Luo Yuqing turned her head and looked at Jiang Chen in disbelief.
Oh my god! This guy is too generous! He actually told others his clearance method just like that.
So, I was just being small-minded and misjudging him?
Jiang Chen's words made the scene, which had quieted down, boil over once again:
"Use Lightning Release to kill sea beasts? Is that really possible?"
"Although seawater can conduct electricity, there are at least several thousand sea beasts in a Hell Difficulty secret realm, right? How strong would a Lightning Release have to be to achieve that?"
"An S-rank Lightning Release skill might be able to do it..."
"That would also have to be an area-of-effect S-rank Lightning Release."
"Is there really a group-attack type Lightning Release skill in this world?"
"Anyway, I've never seen one..."
"As expected, the Great God's clearing method is different from ours. Even if he told us, we couldn't imitate it."
The discussion was intense, but no one dared to try it in the secret realm.
Because most Lightning Release skills are primarily single-target piercing types.
Just like Jiang Chen's [Chidori] and Lei Li's [Ippon Nukite].
No one had ever seen a group-attack type Lightning Release skill.
Actually, Jiang Chen's ability to clear the Hell-level [Cloud Thunder Canyon] so quickly this time also involved a significant element of luck.
First, the cumulonimbus clouds that had accumulated over Cloud Thunder Canyon for decades provided him with the convenient conditions to continuously cast [Lightning Style: Kirin].
Second was the terrain of Cloud Thunder Gorge.
You know, seawater's conductivity is stronger than freshwater!
That magnificent sea area was simply the best amplification tool for Lightning Release skills.
Of course.
The most important thing, however, was that his Lightning Release skill itself was an extremely rare area-of-effect S-rank Lightning Release.
And its power was the ultimate manifestation among Lightning Release techniques.
Otherwise.
Even with over a hundred [Shadow Clones] cooperating, he wouldn't have been able to instantly kill the sea beasts in the entire sea area.
It was no exaggeration to say.
This [Cloud Thunder Canyon] was a secret realm tailor-made for him.
Because inside this secret realm.
Timing, terrain, and people were all in his hands.
He was an invincible existence.
Even gods were nothing more than this!
"Hurry up, let's continue into the secret realm..."
Jiang Chen ignored those who were discussing him.
He spoke to Luo Yuqing and the others, then reconnected to the secret realm and began the second hunting operation...
...
However, while Jiang Chen was frantically hunting sea beasts to level up.
Jinghai City had already fallen into dire straits.
Matsushita Goshige and his group, who had previously landed on the coastline, first launched a lightning-fast sneak attack on the [Land of Waves] secret realm, killing all the Great Xia Contractors there.
Afterward, they used coercion and bribery to force several cowardly Great Xia Contractors to work for them.
Led by those people, they immediately found Jinghai City's Power Station and destroyed the power supply equipment there.
Losing signal and power, Jinghai City instantly fell into paralysis.
Not only did it lose contact with the outside world.
Even the others in the city became like fish and frogs in a pond, left to be slaughtered at will.
At this moment, most of Jinghai City had already fallen.
A large number of Dongdao Contractors were rampaging through the city, killing anyone they saw without mercy.
Currently, only the City Lord's Mansion was still struggling to hold on.
But looking at the situation, its fall was only a matter of time.
And near the coastline where the Dongdao Contractors had landed.
More ships flying the Red Sun flag were docking one after another.
On one of the ships.
An old man leaning on a cane, with a withered face and an eyepatch over one eye, was staring intently at the nearby land with longing.
"It's been decades; I have finally set foot on this land again..."
"With the Emperor's protection, this time, I will surely fulfill my unfinished wish from back then, offering this land to His Majesty the Emperor..."
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