Chapter 1 The Sage's Hand

The moment Shi Feng took out the Sage's Hand from his backpack, the surrounding space seemed to become heavy, as if the entire space could barely withstand the pure energy of the Sage's Hand.

Previously, because of the Flame Demon King, he hadn't been able to carefully sense it, but now, just taking out the Sage's Hand, in addition to feeling the pure energy, there was also an unspeakable ethereal sensation.

It was as if, at this moment, the world had become quiet, and everything had become so plain and simple.

"Is this the real Sage's Hand?" Shi Feng looked at the blood-red gem in his hand, unable to suppress the excitement in his heart.

The Sage's Hand, a legendary item, one of the alchemic treasures passed down in the Divine Domain Continent, a special gem refined by the sage Ulhart, possessed the incredible power to change souls.

It came with a passive effect: all auxiliary class levels increased by one as long as you held the Sage's Hand.

It came with skill one, Sage's Soul, which could help players when crafting items by providing guidance, lasting for ten hours with a twelve-hour cooldown.

It came with skill two, Soul Fantasy, which allowed players to immerse themselves in an imaginary world, simulating the unlimited use of materials known to the player to create items, lasting for eight hours with a fifteen-hour cooldown.

Although the Sage's Hand, as a legendary item, had very few skills, each of these three skills was heaven-defying.

Previously, Shi Feng knew of the epic-level necklace Icarus's Heart, which could temporarily turn players into auxiliary class masters, and it was already considered heaven-defying. Now, it seemed that the two were simply not comparable.

Forcibly increasing all auxiliary class levels by one meant that a beginner master could immediately become an intermediate master, and an intermediate master could immediately become a high-level master…

As for Sage's Soul, it went without saying that the system's guidance went straight to the essence, which could greatly help players craft items. Originally, it was only one hour, and this amount of time could not accomplish anything. After all, crafting items took a lot of time. How much could be crafted in one hour?

Now that it was increased to ten hours, players could do many things.

In addition, the Soul Fantasy skill was simply opening the system's resource vault, allowing players to take it for experimentation…

Seeing these two major active skills, Shi Feng deeply understood why the Sage's Hand could create a large number of auxiliary class masters, because for any auxiliary class, no matter what they crafted, they needed materials.

Although some props could also be simulated, the materials themselves could not be simulated. All players could do was observe the simulation of their crafting process. If they truly wanted to try, they still needed genuine materials.

And if you wanted to advance to master, the items created were generally of a very high level, so the required materials were also high. However, these materials were not something you could obtain just by wanting to, and even if you obtained eight or ten portions, it would not mean much.

It could be said that every auxiliary class master was created by a sea of materials. Even geniuses with extraordinary talent were the same, just using relatively fewer materials.

Now, through Soul Fantasy, players could freely try all materials without worrying about material problems. It was naturally much easier to create new things.

"Now, after going back, I'm going to have a headache." Shi Feng looked at the Sage's Hand and smiled wryly.

He had obtained the item, but how to use it was a big problem.

There was only one Sage's Hand, but there were a lot of high-level professional players in the Candlelight Trading Firm. Only Melancholy Smile, who was very familiar with the Candlelight Trading Firm's high-level professional players, could be competent.

For example, who would use it first and who would use it later. The biggest problem was the possibility of these players leaking information about the Sage's Hand. Therefore, it was not easy to select people, and he had to be very careful.

In his previous life, it was because the people of the Guild of Kingdom's Sword leaked information that the Guild of Kingdom's Sword was targeted by major super forces and eventually disappeared completely from the Divine Domain.

Although the current Zero Wing Guild was very powerful, if it was targeted by all the major super forces, the result would probably be the same as the Guild of Kingdom's Sword.

Therefore, he had to think carefully about how to use the Sage's Hand.

Afterward, Shi Feng put away the Sage's Hand and left this scorched mountain range. Outside the mountain range, the crowd resurrected by Purple Smoke and Flowing Clouds looked at Shi Feng walking out, and each of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Because of the sudden eruption of the Flame Demon King, they were instantly wiped out, and they didn't buy much time for Shi Feng at all.

"Guild Leader, did anything go wrong with the quest?" Aqua Rose asked with some concern.

Generally, high-level quests were not only dangerous, but they also didn't give players many opportunities. There were not a few quests in the Divine Domain that could not be completed if they failed once. Now that such a situation had occurred, this quest was likely to have failed. He just didn't know if there was a second chance.

If there was no second chance, these high-level quests would have system penalties. These system penalties didn't mean much to the guild's experts. At worst, they could delete their accounts and start over, but Shi Feng was different. Shi Feng was the guild leader. If he really suffered severe system penalties, it would definitely cause turmoil throughout the entire guild.

"Don't worry, the quest has been completed." Shi Feng saw Aqua Rose's worries and smiled.

"That's great. I was worried that your quest would fail and you would be punished by the system. Now that the quest is completed, we can be considered to have not come here for nothing." Aqua Rose breathed a deep sigh of relief and looked at Shi Feng with some curiosity. "But you are really amazing, Guild Leader. You were actually able to complete the quest in front of the Flame Demon King and escape. I have seen the map of this area. There should only be one road in the mountain range. How did you avoid the Flame Demon King?"

She had a deep understanding of the Flame Demon King's terror.

It could no longer be described with fear. It was completely a god on land. It was hard to imagine a player team being able to defeat the Flame Demon King at level 80. Even for a player team at level 100, there would probably be a big question mark.

Hearing Aqua Rose's question, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads and look at Shi Feng curiously.

The Flame Demon King could kill a Tier 2 MT with two or three attacks, but Shi Feng was able to return safely from inside. This was indeed incredible.

"Avoid? I wanted to avoid it, but the mountain range is so big. Where could I hide?" Shi Feng shook his head.

"You didn't avoid it, Guild Leader? Then how did you get out? Didn't the Flame Demon King discover you?" Aqua Rose was even more curious. After being killed by the Flame Demon King, she personally watched the Flame Demon King turn around and rush into the mountain range through the final death perspective. Shi Feng didn't come out from inside at that time.

"Of course, it discovered me." Shi Feng said with a faint smile, "So I took the initiative and directly killed it."

"Then how did you… get out?" Melancholy Smile looked at Shi Feng with her beautiful eyes, and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Could it be that you have some kind of automatic resurrection item?"

Although automatic resurrection items were very precious in the Divine Domain, they were not new. Besides that, she really couldn't think of any other way to escape the Flame Demon King's pursuit.

"Look at what this is?" Shi Feng smiled and took out a huge crimson crystal ball from his backpack. The rich fire element inside caused the surrounding fire elements to gather involuntarily.

"Isn't this… the Flame Core? But the fire element of this Flame Core is so rich, much richer than the Flame Core of the Great Lord-ranked Flame Demons we killed before." Aqua Rose felt the increasing fire elements and looked at the huge Flame Core in Shi Feng's hand. Suddenly, she thought of a possibility and asked in a low voice with some disbelief, "Could it be that you… killed… the Flame Demon King?"