Chapter 159 Sage's Hand

The instant Shi Feng finished clicking to remove the curse, the crystal hand bone suddenly bloomed with a purplish-golden light, illuminating the entire room.

The concentration of magic power in the surroundings began to condense at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Amazing! Is this really the power of the Sage's Hand?" Shi Feng watched as the magic power formed a mist around him, his mind becoming clearer than ever before, giving him an illusion of omnipotence.

As the misty magic power gradually formed a liquid, it quickly formed a magic water ball in front of Shi Feng.

An image appeared within the magic water ball.

The image showed a world shrouded in flames, the sky covered by heavy dark clouds. The burning flames caused explosions in the air from time to time, and in the center flowed lava, which was white-hot, rising with white-hot flames. The temperature of the flames seemed to warp space itself.

However, one could vaguely see a massive door standing in the center of the white-hot flames.

Within the white-hot flames, a huge crimson figure moved, holding a trident, with the surrounding scorching flames seeming to submit to this trident.

After lasting for a minute, the image suddenly disappeared, and the entire room gradually returned to its original state. Only the Sage's Hand hovered quietly in mid-air, with some newly engraved divine runes on it.

The attributes displayed by the Sage's Hand had also undergone significant changes.

Cursed Sage's Hand, a legendary item. Because the creator's last wish was not fulfilled before his death, it became attached to the item, causing the Sage's Hand to be cursed. All its power was lost, and only by removing the curse could it regain its original abilities. Because the Soul Fusion Flower was offered, a soul guide was obtained, and the curse was weakened somewhat.

It possesses the skill Sage's Soul, which can assist players by providing guidance when crafting items, lasting for one hour with a three-hour cooldown.

"What an awesome skill! This is only the initial curse removal, and it already has such a heaven-defying skill. No wonder it's called an alchemy treasure," Shi Feng said, slightly clicking his tongue as he looked at the Sage's Hand's latest attributes.

The effect of the Sage's Soul was probably no less than that of the incredibly precious Meditation Potion, but the materials for the Meditation Potion were extremely rare, and the number that could be produced was very limited. However, the Sage's Soul was a skill that could be used indefinitely. Although this effect only targeted lifestyle players crafting items, if the outside world knew about it, they would definitely fight to the death to obtain it.

In God's Domain, players who wanted to become lifestyle masters relied on creating items, but creating items was like tossing stones to cross a river, and progress would be very slow. But if there could be some degree of guidance, then creating items would become much easier, allowing players who were just a little short of becoming masters to become masters directly.

Now, it had only unlocked some of the Sage's Hand's abilities, and it already had such an effect. If it could be completely unlocked, it was no wonder that the Sword of the Kingdom's merchant firm in his previous life could rise to the forefront of the Dark Night Empire in such a short time. After all, master-level players were a merchant firm's core competitiveness.

This made Shi Feng want to complete this epic main quest and obtain the complete Sage's Hand even sooner.

"But the location of the World Tree Forest is a big problem." Shi Feng recalled the image that had been played, his brow furrowing involuntarily.

The fiery world in the picture might be unfamiliar to many players, requiring a long time to explore. However, for Shi Feng, who was familiar with God's Domain, seeing the fiery world, coupled with the giant monster and trident in the flames, he immediately knew what place it was.

The Valley of the Fire Demons!

It was a neutral map where the Fire Demons lived, a completely fiery world. The giant monster in the picture was the Fire Demon King of the Valley of the Fire Demons, the final Boss that ruled the entire Valley of the Fire Demons.

Because the Valley of the Fire Demons was rich in Sourcefire Ore and Magic Crystals, it was highly valued by the major guilds. Especially the Fire Demon King, as one of the few world-class Bosses at the time, its first kill could obtain a fragment of a legendary item and a guild promotion order. The major superpowers sent out large armies to conquer it, but unfortunately, the final results were all in vain.

At that time, the Fire Demon King was only level 83, and the average level of the major superpowers' teams was above level 80, all Tier 2 classes, but they could not withstand the Fire Demon King's powerful strength. Without exception, they were all annihilated. It wasn't until after reaching level 100 and advancing to Tier 3 that they finally killed the Fire Demon King at that time.

The main reason was not that players at level 80 or so could not defeat the Fire Demon King, but because of the harsh environment they were in. Especially in the area where the Fire Demon King was located, the scorching high temperature made it impossible for players to approach. Even wearing a full set of fire resistance equipment, plus advanced fire resistance potions, their health would drop rapidly while fighting there, requiring healers to constantly heal the entire team. The situation was imaginable.

After players reached Tier 3, not only would their attributes and physiques be greatly improved, but more importantly, the resistance of Tier 3 players would also undergo a qualitative change. This was the biggest difference between Tier 3 and Tier 2 classes.

That was why they were able to kill the Fire Demon King at that time.

Although he was only going to the World Tree Forest to open the World Gate and did not need to defeat the Fire Demon King, dealing with the flames there was no joke. Even if he drank advanced fire resistance potions, he would not survive for more than twenty seconds without continuous healing. Not to mention there was a lively Fire Demon King.

In that case, he probably wouldn't even survive for seven or eight seconds, so how could he possibly open any World Gate?

"It seems the only way is to increase fire resistance."

After thinking it over, Shi Feng realized that the only way to open the World Gate as soon as possible was to find a way to increase fire resistance. Moreover, it wasn't enough to increase his own fire resistance, he had to increase the fire resistance of at least a twenty-man team. Otherwise, with the Fire Demon King causing trouble, he couldn't do anything at all. He needed someone to be able to hold off the Fire Demon King for a moment while he opened the World Gate.

There were only three ways to greatly increase the fire resistance of players.

One was fire resistance equipment, one was fire resistance potions, and the last was to increase tier. Obviously, the last one was not realistic, leaving only the first two.

Advanced fire resistance potions were not a problem for the Candlelight Trading Firm. The problem was how to get a large amount of fire resistance equipment, and it had to be equipment that could increase a lot of fire resistance, otherwise, it would be impossible to complete the task.

It was unrealistic to get a large amount of good fire resistance equipment in a short period of time, because players were just entering level 50, and there were extremely few team dungeons that dropped resistance equipment. This led to resistance equipment being very rare at this level. Not to mention good resistance equipment, which was scarce even for the major guilds.

Only when mainstream players reached level 70 or higher would resistance equipment truly become more common.

"There's no other way. I can only go back and have Aqua Rose and Bai Qingsnow focus on clearing team dungeons that drop resistance equipment," Shi Feng sighed.

Immediately, Shi Feng put away the Sage's Hand, called back Yan Ya, and began to arrange Yan Ya and the others' work in Icewind City after he left. Then, taking the ice resistance +6 ice resistance gems for sale, the more than 60,000 magic crystals he obtained, and a large number of rare materials collected from Icewind City and Cold Wind City, filling an entire epic-grade space backpack, he used a guild return scroll to directly return to God's Domain Continent.