Chapter 708: Chapter 475 Flip the Table_2
However, when Dong Tianyu looked back at the Realm of the Undead, he noticed there were no traces of undead activity on the dark land of the realm.
Of course, as the controller of the Realm of the Undead, Dong Tianyu could control everything within it if he wished, and the undead hiding within the soil held no secrets from him.
If the undead that had survived within the Realm of the Undead lived like gu (legendary venomous insects), where only the strongest would survive, then Dong Tianyu wouldn’t have been too surprised.
After all, when those undead were in the outside world, they also showed examples of devouring one another to evolve.
But now, it was the exact opposite; the undead that were living in the Realm of the Undead no longer devoured each other and were coexisting peacefully, which surprised Dong Tianyu.
After Dong Tianyu carefully observed the current situation of the surviving undead within the realm, he finally understood the reason behind it.
It turned out that among those surviving undead, one had emerged, similar to a lord, with absolutely overwhelming power over the other undead. It was because of its presence that the remaining undead in the realm could live together without incident.
Having learned of this situation, although Dong Tianyu could confirm that this undead lord was not as strong as himself, he also abandoned the idea of releasing it for testing.
Since this lord-like undead stopped the others from devouring each other, it meant that the undead had likely begun to develop some form of primitive consciousness.
Among the undead, be they skeletons or zombies, or even vampires or other types of undead, as long as they did not awaken any consciousness, even a Bone Dragon would still be considered only slightly more valuable cannon fodder.
However, once they awakened consciousness, even if the entity was just a skeleton, it would no longer be treated as cannon fodder.
Just like when a sentient being acquires wisdom; applying the context of a game, even if one’s combat ability is weak, they are considered a hero, not cannon fodder.
Just like an ordinary person who finds the Imperial Jade Seal might be killed immediately after declaring themselves emperor, in the history books, they would be recorded as having ’passed away’.
For that skull that had struggled to awaken its consciousness, although not yet truly wise, Dong Tianyu did not want to risk it.
If Dong Tianyu had been proficient in the hundred arts of Cultivation, be it the Yellow Turban warriors conjured from scattered beans, the Paper Puppets folded into soldiers, or the Mechanical Puppets crafted by Lu Ban...
Such mindless puppets, without any consciousness, could be quite effective in this Mysterious Realm, but it was a pity that Dong Tianyu had learned none of these arts. Maintaining his basic Cultivation routine day-to-day was already commendable, let alone mastering a hundred other arts.
With no other options, Dong Tianyu could only choose his original plan, but this time, facing such a vast area of the Mysterious Realm, he wondered how much fuel would be sufficient.
As for the notion of going back in person to wreak havoc, Dong Tianyu, having confirmed that entering the Mysterious Realm in person would subconsciously make him believe his Cultivation Level was sealed by the realm, hence unable to use Spirit Power, he did not wish to attempt it again.
After all, Dong Tianyu’s Storage Space contained a considerable amount of barrelled fuel, and deep within the earth’s veins, not only was there a large reserve of fuel, but new fuel was also generated each year like bank interest.
So even if he used up all the fuel in the Storage Space in one go, Dong Tianyu would feel just a twinge of regret, without much remorse.
Having made up his mind, Dong Tianyu hesitated no longer, opened a spatial passage, and plunged one-tenth of the fuel stored in his Storage Space into the Secret Realm.
As the barrels of fuel were contained within metal drums, after releasing the drums, Dong Tianyu chose a Hand Grenade to ignite them.
Although at the beginning, only one-tenth of the fuel from the Storage Space was released, which did not seem like much, it’s important to note that these were supplies Dong Tianyu had been accumulating since before the catastrophe, in addition to what he had looted from various places after it struck.
Although the vast majority of fuel had been sent into the earth’s veins by Dong Tianyu and stored in the Storage Space, the crude oil there was just a small part with independent packaging. Still, this small portion—without any exaggeration—was already comparable to the fuel consumption of a provincial capital city for one month before the disaster struck.
Therefore, even if it were just one-tenth, it was still a significant quantity when Dong Tianyu sent these barrels of fuel into the Mysterious Realm.
At first, the Mysterious Realm showed no reaction. After all, to it, even barrels full of fuel wouldn’t attract any attention as long as they carried no scent of the living.
But as the number of fuel barrels grew, they not only filled up the open space in the central courtyard of the manor, but the excess barrels also started spilling over into the front and the back courtyards.
Because of this, even though these fuel barrels bore no trace of living beings, they began to affect the normal operation of the Mysterious Realm.
If it were not for the rules of the Mysterious Realm itself, where living people hid inside at night, with only a few Paper Puppets moving around the manor, then the release of those fuel barrels would have definitely been obstructed when Dong Tianyu spread them.
But now, it was night within the Mysterious Realm, so only those few Paper Puppets could move around within the manor. These puppets, when facing living beings, could rely on various bizarre methods to achieve impressive effects.
However, when dealing with inanimate objects like fuel barrels, even though they could handle them with ease, they had no better way of dealing with them.
Right when the Mysterious Realm shamelessly prepared to forcibly change the manor’s time to daytime, Dong Tianyu had already deployed one-tenth of the fuel barrels from the Storage Space according to his plan.
As the spatial portal gradually closed, in the moment before it shrank away completely, a Hand Grenade with its safety pin already pulled was tossed out.
When the Hand Grenade naturally fell and came into contact with a fuel barrel, it exploded instantly, and the fierce blast tore open the barrel’s metal casing and ignited the fuel inside.
As the Hand Grenade ignited several fuel barrels in its vicinity, the rest of the barrels lit up like dominoes, detonating one after another without interruption.
An explosion of a single fuel barrel might not affect the Mysterious Realm much, but aside from the central courtyard already filled with barrels, the front and back courtyards also accumulated a considerable number of fuel barrels.
The collective explosion of so many fuel barrels, not even to mention the scorching flames that followed, just the force of the blast alone was enough to be daunting.
If this manor were not within the Mysterious Realm, forget the fact that Dong Tianyu used up so much fuel at once, even if the number was reduced a hundredfold, it could have completely destroyed buildings of the same scale and size as the manor.
Unfortunately, this was the Mysterious Realm. The shockwaves produced by the exploding barrels did indeed destroy the buildings within the manor in an instant, but as the dark energy repaired them, the buildings gradually began to recover after the impact dissipated.
If Dong Tianyu could observe the manor at that time, he would have noticed that the destructive power of the explosion, while instantly eradicating the buildings within the manor, caused little damage to the outer walls of the manor,
Even when many fuel barrels exploded against the walls, the damage to the outer walls of the manor was negligible.
Once the force of the blast from the exploding fuel barrels disappeared, the fuel that splattered around during the explosion ignited, creating fierce flames in the courtyard. Although it seemed like the fire was only burning the buildings that were being restored and nothing else,
But, as the flames burned, if anyone were to witness the dark vapors appearing out of nowhere above the manor, they might realize that these flames indeed caused considerable damage to the Mysterious Realm.
As the black fog gradually suppressed the flames on the ground and the damaged environment of the manor was again restored by the fog, it didn’t take long for the manor to return to how it looked when Dong Tianyu first entered.
At this point, the explosion of the fuel barrels hadn’t caused any physical destruction to the manor, but if anyone knew that the time of day, which was supposed to have been turned to daylight, remained night, they could guess the heavy blow the Mysterious Realm suffered.
