Chapter 1 The Main Hall

The main hall of the Thunder Palace was like a bustling shopping mall. Rare items and top-tier equipment were displayed everywhere, including even Bronze Mounts that were extremely rare outside. The sight dazzled all the players who entered.

"This is the main hall? Amazing, they even sell Dark-Gold Sets for levels 80 to 100!" Yi Yun looked at the equipment displayed in the cabinet, unable to contain her surprise.

It wasn't just Yi Yun who was surprised; even Lunhui and Wei Yangqianhen couldn't help but breathe faster.

For experts like them, level 80 Dark-Gold equipment was definitely what they wanted most right now. However, obtaining level 80 Dark-Gold equipment was too difficult. It usually only dropped in level 80 Hell-ranked hundred-man team dungeons, not to mention Dark-Gold Sets.

But in the main hall of the Thunder Palace, Dark-Gold Sets were clearly priced.

Three hundred Thunder Source Crystals could buy a set of level 80 Dark-Gold six-piece Illusory Thunder, and the set effect of this Illusory Thunder six-piece set was amazing. As long as you collected all six pieces, you could increase the player's physique and stamina by 30%.

Whether it was physique or stamina, these things might not be very useful on low-level maps, but on high-level maps, these attributes were much more important than basic attributes. However, there were very few pieces of equipment on the market that improved these aspects.

But now, the Thunder Palace was selling them directly...

Compared to Lunhui and Wei Yangqianhen, the experts of the various super forces present were green with envy, wishing they could just snatch them.

"Vice Hall Master, if we can get dozens of these Illusory Thunder sets, then our stronghold battle in the Earth Core Mountains will be secure," Bi Luo Wuqing said excitedly, looking at the Illusory Thunder set.

Epic equipment certainly greatly improved a player's combat power, but there was simply too little Epic equipment. Moreover, most Epic equipment didn't increase a player's physique and stamina, only their attributes were stronger. The effect of a set like Illusory Thunder was definitely better than players wearing six pieces of Epic equipment for exploring maps.

And the Earth Core Mountains were a very dangerous forbidden zone they had discovered. If this Earth Core Mountains were only rich in resources, that would be one thing, but they discovered that this Earth Core Mountains was a very special map.

This map was very free, so free that even the kingdoms and empires couldn't control it. It could be completely controlled by players, just like a completely free territory.

This made all the super forces go crazy.

Normally, owning a city would be enough to make a first-rate guild extremely wealthy, and even super forces would be tempted. But now, they could control an entire map, and a map with very rich resources. The wealth and resources were simply unimaginable.

It was equivalent to saying that whoever controlled this map would have a super-small kingdom, and this place was connected to level 100 maps, which was very important to the future development of their various super forces.

That was also why even though Zero Wing occupied Stone Forest City, many super forces didn't bother with Zero Wing, because compared to some God-ranked regional副本 (fùběn, instances/dungeons), this forbidden zone of life was much more important.

However, the Earth Core Mountains were, after all, a forbidden zone of life, and simply couldn't be compared to regional 副本 (fùběn, instances/dungeons) and秘境 (mìjìng, secret realms). The stamina consumption of players there was extremely high and magic power was scarce. So even though the monsters inside were much weaker than those in the Bottomless Abyss, the teams of the various super forces found it very difficult to deal with them, let alone explore the ancient strongholds inside and turn them into gathering places.

"I understand, but what exactly are these Thunder Source Crystals?" Xuan Jing naturally understood what Bi Luo Wuqing meant. This was also why they came to the Thunder God Secret Realm.

Currently, there was no progress at all on the Earth Core Mountains side, so the guild's focus also began to shift, trying to improve the strength of the guild's exploration team. The Thunder God Secret Realm was a good place, after all, it was a divine秘境 (mìjìng, secret realm), so there must be many good things.

However, all the items in the main hall of the Thunder Palace used Thunder Source Crystals as currency. Without Thunder Source Crystals, you couldn't buy anything and could only watch with envy.

Just as the members of the various super forces were trying to figure out what Thunder Source Crystals were, Lunhui and the others looked at the name and felt it was very familiar.

"Isn't this Thunder Source Crystal one of the items dropped by the Boss we killed?" Zhuo Hai said quietly.

"The things here are indeed not so easy to obtain." Lunhui nodded, somewhat regretfully, "It seems we can only start with the guiding quests."

Thunder Source Crystals were one of the items dropped by the Half-Serpent General, and were obtained from a crystal treasure chest. Only a dozen Thunder Source Crystals came out of a crystal treasure chest, and only two crystal treasure chests dropped in total. After dividing them among ten people, they couldn't even get three each. If they wanted to exchange for a set of Illusory Thunder, they would have to刷 (shuā, grind) all the Bosses in the side hall more than a dozen times to collect enough.

However, the side hall副本 (fùběn, instance/dungeon) only refreshed once every three days, and the Bosses in the side hall were so strong that current players simply couldn't deal with them. It was equivalent to saying that the many top-tier equipment in front of them could only be admired from a distance and not touched.

Shi Feng was not surprised by this.

The Thunder Palace was indeed the core place in the Thunder God Secret Realm, with countless treasures. Not to mention second-tier职业 (zhíyè, classes) players, even fifth-tier职业 (zhíyè, classes) players were very eager for many things in the Thunder God Secret Realm. However, obtaining these things was not something that could be done overnight.

After browsing for a while, Lunhui took Wei Yangqianhen, Zhuo Hai, and Bing Ying to the second floor of the main hall to return the Epic guiding quest of the Thunder God Secret Realm. The hired Shi Feng and others could also disband freely.

As for wanting to leave the Thunder God Secret Realm, it was very simple, because there was a magic array in the Thunder Palace that could teleport people out. You could leave at any time if you wanted to.

"Guild Leader Black Flame, thanks to your help this time, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to enter this main hall. We would have been wiped out by the Seven Sins Flower." Lunhui looked at Shi Feng with great admiration and said, "As a reward for this time, I'm willing to offer ten more bottles of S-grade nutrient potions, I hope you can accept them."

"Brother Lunhui is too kind. This was originally our agreement, I was just doing my part." Shi Feng didn't know what to say when he heard that Lunhui was going to offer ten more bottles of S-grade nutrient potions.

Even though Zero Wing had a lot of money now, it was still as difficult as ascending to heaven to get a bottle of S-grade nutrient potion. But Lunhui said he could get it and he got it, and he even offered ten more bottles...

"Guild Leader Black Flame, don't be polite. With your strength, Guild Leader Black Flame, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you in the future. Consider these S-grade nutrient potions as a deposit." Lunhui shook his head and said.

Zhuo Hai and Bing Ying also nodded, very much agreeing with what Lunhui said.

For experts like them, Shi Feng's personal value was far higher than those of the super forces.

They didn't understand Shi Feng's strength before, but seeing the various methods Shi Feng showed, they were simply astonished. It would be a great pity if they didn't get to know him well.

Seeing that Lunhui intended to befriend him, Shi Feng naturally didn't refuse. After all, such a powerful expert would be treated with courtesy even by the super guilds. Even if they couldn't join, they could at least be asked to help in the future. After all, God's Domain was never a one-person game, and there were too many places where experts were needed.

Moreover, Lunhui was so generous, such a gold主 (zhǔ, backer/patron) was rare, especially one who offered dozens of bottles of S-grade nutrient potions at once, it was simply terrifying.

Afterwards, Shi Feng and Lunhui and others all added each other as friends, so they could contact each other at any time if anything happened in the future.

After disbanding, Shi Feng planned to leave the Thunder God Secret Realm directly and return to the Zero Wing Guild as soon as possible. After all, he had spent a lot of time in the Thunder God Secret Realm, and he should deal with some of Zero Wing's affairs. Although he didn't get the design blueprint for the Advanced Alchemy Workshop this time, he got the Ancient God's Fragment, so it could be considered that he didn't come for nothing, and even made a big profit.

Just as Shi Feng was walking towards the teleportation hall, Yi Yun suddenly came over.

"Big Brother Black Flame, do you have anything urgent?" Yi Yun asked.

"Not really." Shi Feng shook his head.

"Then would you like to meet someone with me?" Yi Yun said mysteriously.

"Meet someone? I wonder who?" Shi Feng looked at Yi Yun's serious expression and couldn't help but be curious.

"Our Thirteenth Royal Court's Guild Leader!" Yi Yun said.