Chapter 1 Asura Difficulty

The majestic and profound dragon's roar echoed throughout the corridor, even giving the feeling that the earth was shaking. Only after the dragon's roar ended could Shi Feng move again.

Following the dragon's威 (wēi, power/majesty), Shi Feng and Fire Spirit both gained a Deterrence status.

Reaction speed decreased by 20%, movement speed decreased by 30%, constitution decreased by 15%, and they were unable to use any beneficial skills or magic.

"Is this the difficulty of Asura rank?"

Shi Feng looked at himself and Fire Spirit, whose stats had decreased due to the effects of the Dragon威, and couldn't help but click his tongue.

The decrease in constitution and speed was secondary. Being unable to use burst skills was fatal for expert players, especially when surviving in the wild. Burst skills could save lives at critical moments, deal with situations that were originally impossible, and even turn the tide. Without burst skills, this possibility disappeared. If you encountered an emergency, you would definitely die.

Shi Feng didn't dare to be careless and used the Dark Book to summon an Level 85 Tier 3 demon.

Although the Tier 3 demon would still be suppressed by the Dragon威 after entering the corridor, and its combat power would not be as good as Fire Spirit, it was always good to have an additional Level 85 Tier 3 combat force. It could also serve as a meat shield in critical moments.

Then Shi Feng had the Tier 3 Battle Axe Demon lead the way, with Fire Spirit behind it. He himself maintained a distance of about 50 yards from Fire Spirit. At this distance, even if the Battle Axe Demon and Fire Spirit fell into a trap, it wouldn't affect him, and he could escape at the first sign of trouble.

After advancing for more than ten minutes, the corridor was not as dangerous as imagined. Not to mention monsters, there wasn't even a simple physical trap. He easily arrived at a dark hall.

The entire hall was larger than a football field, and stone pillars stood everywhere. The divine runes lit up on these stone pillars made the entire hall extremely cold. Even Shi Feng, who had extremely high ice resistance, couldn't help but shiver. Fortunately, his health points didn't decrease, and it only slightly affected his movement.

As soon as the Battle Axe Demon and Fire Spirit reached the center of the hall, the surrounding stone pillars suddenly flashed with divine light. Both the Battle Axe Demon and Fire Spirit began to disintegrate instantly. Their bodies, originally composed of magical elements, returned to being magical elements. Then, the entire hall suddenly lit up, and giants made of various elements, each holding weapons, emerged from the ground.

Element Guardians, Element Creatures, Grand Lord, Level 72, HP 32,000,000.

Among these elemental giants, there was also a giant holding a staff, surrounded by the four elements, affecting the magic power of the entire hall with every move, as if it were the elemental ruler of the entire hall.

Element Prayer (Domain Lord), Element Creature, High Grand Lord, Level 73, HP 65,000,000.

At the same time as these elemental creatures appeared, a transparent stone pillar made of magic crystals also appeared in the center of the hall. The stone pillar contained a shining crystal bottle, emitting a palpitating威压 (wēi yā, imposing aura).

"Bloodline?!" Shi Feng looked at the crystal bottle in the magic crystal stone pillar, with a trace of shock in his eyes.

Although he already knew that the items in the Asura rank were definitely very good, he didn't expect them to be this good.

At his level, he felt that even epic items, which would make expert players excited, were very ordinary. Only those top-quality epic items could move him.

However, the value of a bloodline, even an ordinary bloodline, was no less than a fragment of a legendary item. It could even be said that it was more helpful to expert players than a fragment of a legendary item.

However, the first item he encountered in the Asura rank Ancient God's Maze was a bloodline. How could this not be surprising?

Of course, as good as it was, Shi Feng quickly calmed down.

It was true that bloodlines were extremely precious, but dealing with the monsters in front of him was not easy. Summoned creatures could not be used inside the hall. If he wanted to deal with these monsters, he had to rely entirely on himself.

But looking around, there were more than two hundred Element Guardians at the Grand Lord level alone. The Element Prayer guarding the center was even stronger than Domain Lords of the same level. Not to mention a Level 70 twenty-man team, even a Level 70 hundred-man expert team would not be a match.

Without being able to use burst skills and summon magic, even he himself would have to run away when he saw the Element Prayer. It wasn't that he couldn't fight in terms of combat power. After all, the weapons and equipment he had now were extraordinary. It wasn't impossible to contend against a High Grand Lord of the same level, but the Element Prayer's health points were simply too thick. Before he could exhaust the Element Prayer to death, the Element Prayer would exhaust him to death first.

"I can only try it first." Shi Feng glanced at the bloodline in the central stone pillar and decided to try it first.

The Ancient God Key's test was different from other tests. Even if you couldn't pass, you could go to other places with treasures. And the difficulty of each place was different. Only the player's death represented the end of the test.

But leaving the bloodline in front of him untouched and looking for other places would be too wasteful. After all, not every place would have treasures comparable to fragments of legendary items. Perhaps other places were all epic treasures, and there were no treasures comparable to fragments of legendary items.

Then, Shi Feng came to a corner of the hall and began to attract the Element Guardians over one by one, preparing to clear out the Element Guardians in the hall first, and then deal with the Element Prayer. Otherwise, facing the Element Prayer while also facing the Element Guardians would definitely lead to death.

Facing the Grand Lord-level Element Guardians, which were fully four meters tall, ordinary Tier 2 experts might have already run away. But for Shi Feng, it wasn't difficult to deal with them. After all, his own Strength attribute already slightly exceeded that of Grand Lords of the same level.

Upon discovering Shi Feng, the Level 72 Element Guardian rushed directly towards Shi Feng without saying a word. The battle blade in its hand turned into several afterimages, slashing at Shi Feng's head.

Tier 3 Skill, Chaotic Shadow Blade!

Each blade shadow possessed 120% of its original power. A total of seven blade shadows fell from all directions. Even Tier 2 experts would be instantly killed if they were careless. But in front of Shi Feng, it was useless. The magic weapon Abyssal Blade and the holy sword Thunderer intertwined, only colliding with two blade shadows, causing the blade shadows to collide with each other, unable to harm Shi Feng himself. Then, Shi Feng followed up with a sword thrust into the Element Guardian's elemental core.

-43574!

The critical hit damage that pierced the core directly caused the Element Guardian's health points to drop visibly. Then, Shi Feng flipped his hand and struck again with a sword, once again hitting the elemental core.

In a series of battles, even though the Element Guardian's combat recovery was not weak, its health points were constantly dropping. It was only a matter of time before it was killed.

If a Tier 2 expert were here, they would definitely be extremely surprised.

Because a Level 72 Grand Lord was actually being soloed by a Tier 2 professional player without using magic skills. Even top experts of the same level could not do this.

Although he could kill it, a Grand Lord was still a Grand Lord. Even with Shi Feng constantly using skills afterward, it still took seven or eight minutes to kill an Element Guardian.

As the Element Guardian fell, several items dropped. Shi Feng also looked at his experience bar and couldn't help but frown slightly. The experience points given for painstakingly killing a Grand Lord were surprisingly meager. It could even be said that they were only at the level of a lord of the same level.

However, Shi Feng thought that this was the Ancient God's test, so it was understandable. Grand Lord-level monsters were not common in normal times. Now, they were all here. If he really got the normal experience points, then the leveling speed would be awesome.

Then, Shi Feng picked up the items that had dropped on the ground. When he was about to deal with the next Element Guardian, Shi Feng looked at the items in his hand and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Epic Armor Fragment?!"