Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 361: Freedom of Dawn

Ye Zhongming knew many ways to raise mental energy, like learning jobs like using mental potions from higher-level wheels—for example, some potions from alchemists or potion makers and even Brain bug powder.

But there wasn’t a method to allow humans to use their cultivation to increase mental energy.

Maybe there was, but Ye Zhongming didn’t know about it.

Like the wheel, humans needed to use potions to get stronger. They couldn’t use other methods to break through.

Jobs were good, and so were bloodlines. There were even other things in higher-level wheels that gave humans strength, but all of them didn't allow one to break free from the wheels’ restrictions.

Everyone in the apocalypse knew that the wheel was both hope and chains.

It was the power that allowed humans to live, but also a curse hanging over their heads.

Anyone, including Ye Zhongming, felt like they were being controlled. Others played around their lives. Even if they were strong, they feared those who had created the wheel.

This feeling was like a parasite that troubled them when they were awake.

The higher the level the evolved got, the stronger one felt that way. That was because they would reach the end of the path of the gachapon, and they didn’t know what was waiting for them.

Ye Zhongming had such thoughts in the past, which was why he had such a strong urge to find the answer when he saw those golden saint ships.

Ye Zhongming knew that even if he became a nine-star evolved, he was still a slave being controlled. Although the creator of the wheels had never revealed themselves to anyone on Earth, no one felt happy to be controlled. Ye Zhongming was the same.

He wanted to solve all this, so he worked hard for it. But he could only follow what he knew from his last life. He could only evolve much quicker and become stronger to reduce the time he needed to get close to the answer.

But he had no better solution, which affected his confidence.

But his entire soul shook when he saw the Soul Refining Technique and the contents. He knew that he found a way to break free from the wheel!

This was the secret technique that Ah Tao had!

Maybe there were demon crystals here and monsters with those crystals. Maybe the creator of the wheel purposely tossed the key to open this place known as the Secret Realm; maybe the shadows existed here…

But didn’t hope appear in the end?

How long had humans searched for this hope?!

In the last life, some people had control of the secret realm. Those experts might have found some hope like himself, but the calmness in the past told him that they didn’t get any results. They didn’t break free from fate and probably struggled with other things in the Secret Realm.

Now that he had entered, he was confident he was here much sooner than the other experts in his last life. He had more time to search and solve the problem from this angle alone.

Since that was the case, then… Bring it on.

No matter what it was!

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No matter who it was!

Ye Zhongming closed his eyes, and chants appeared in his mind. He entered a surreal state, and his mind and body followed the chants.

Ah Tao wanted to speak with Ye Zhongming but noticed what was happening. At first, he didn’t think about it and felt like Ye Zhongming was doing his things. But immediately, a familiar fluctuation appeared on his body that nearly caused his eyes to drop out.

Wouldn’t this only happen when he was cultivating the technique? How could this young kid…

Impossible!

This was his first reaction. When he cultivated this with his father, even the quickest person took three days to enter this state. But what about this young man?

Half the time it took to eat a bowl of rice? It's even shorter than that. It felt as if he had entered such a state almost instantly.

Such a state was the basic condition to cultivate this technique. The quicker one got into such a state meant that one was more talented. This also meant how strong one would get in the future.

How long did he take? Forget it; he decided not to think about it. If he compared with Ye, he would just be humiliated.

Ah Tao looked at Ye Zhongming, whose body gave off a gentle but enormous mental energy fluctuation. Vengefulness appeared in his eyes, but it disappeared.

This young man might be their hope. So what if he was talented? So what if he was strong? Based on what Miya said, Ye could wipe them out. Although he was cunning and didn’t want to back down, he was kind to them, so he had no reason to hurt him.

If he could train the secret technique to a level that his ancestors and he couldn’t react, wouldn’t that be good? At least when this world was wiped out and the Posthumous race went extinct, their legacy would continue elsewhere.

One old man and one young man were a few meters apart. One was cultivating, and one was thinking. This scene was recorded in many future history books and was described in three words.

Freedom of Dawn.

Who knew how long had passed when Ye Zhongming opened his eyes? He realized that the world was different. Clear, bright, miniscule…

He felt like he had grasped some secrets.

He knew he had successfully learned the technique and had taken his first step.

He sensed that his mental energy was much stronger. If he was to describe it in numbers, he had around a tenth more.

One cultivation and it added over a hundred points. That was magical.

Ye Zhongming even noticed that his mental energy amount had increased, as did the quality. He used the Summoning Technique, and the mental energy needed reduced. The being summoned got stronger, too, meaning his mental energy was purer.

One didn’t need to think and knew that one was much stronger.

Apart from all of this, he realized another matter.

A new thing had appeared around him!