Chapter 166 Anubis's Gatekeeper

A silver-like flame blazed on a stone pillar, completely engulfing the massive structure. The ground within a 10-yard radius of the fire was burned to a gray-white ash.

"Guild Leader, the secret door is inside the flame," Fire Dance said, pointing to the silver-white fire.

Just as Shi Feng was about to walk over for a closer look, Fire Dance immediately stopped him, saying, "Guild Leader, be careful. The temperature of that silver flame is extremely high. I only stepped into the white area and lost 2,000 HP."

"Such high flame damage?" Although Shi Feng had already seen that the silver flame was not simple, he hadn't expected it to be so powerful.

If it could deal 2,000 damage per second to players, even with his 70 points of fire resistance, he would still take a significant amount of damage, and would eventually die if exposed for too long.

"Purple Smoke, heal me. I'll go take a closer look." As Shi Feng spoke, he stepped into the 10-yard radius of the silver flame.

Immediately, a flame damage number of nearly 500 popped up above Shi Feng's head.

"It's really hot." Shi Feng felt as if his feet were soaking in a hot spring as he stood on the gray-white ground.

And that was with him wearing the Flame Boots. If he were wearing other shoes, he would probably be hopping around…

Subsequently, Shi Feng approached the burning stone pillar. The closer he got, the higher the temperature and the greater the damage. Within a yard or two of the pillar, Shi Feng was losing more than 1,000 HP per second. Even though he had long since recovered from his weakened state and had over 8,400 HP, he wouldn't last nine seconds.

However, with a powerful healer like Purple Smoke Flowing Cloud, a simple heal plus a Prayer Shield could barely sustain him.

"There's really a secret door." Shi Feng noticed a tightly closed stone door on the burning pillar, and not far from the door was a water-blue chain.

Shi Feng grabbed the water-blue chain, wanting to test whether it could open the secret door.

However, the moment he grabbed the chain, Shi Feng didn't feel any heat from it. On the contrary, a chill spread throughout his body, and the flame damage he was taking drastically reduced, from over 1,000 damage to just over 600.

"This chain is really special. I wonder what it's made of. It would be great if I could take it away." Shi Feng looked at the water-blue chain with some longing.

If he could take this chain with him, it would make flame-related dungeons or bosses much easier. Just holding it would increase fire resistance by about forty or fifty points, even better than an Intermediate Fire Resistance Potion. Intermediate Fire Resistance Potions only lasted for one hour, while this chain could be held indefinitely, saving him a lot of money on potions.

As the blue chain was pulled, the stone door in the massive pillar slowly opened, revealing a dark passage, completely obscuring where it led.

After the stone door opened, the silver-white flames slowly extinguished, eventually disappearing completely. The scorching earth gradually cooled down, allowing players to pass freely.

"Guild Leader, you're amazing. You actually have that much fire resistance. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't be able to open it even if they knew there was a secret door," Blackie said with a smile.

Although they had gained a lot in this Starfall Land, it wouldn't be good if they couldn't get out. Being able to leave was the best thing, so they could go outside and improve their skill completion.

"Let's go." Shi Feng drew the Abyssal Blade and Hellfire Shadow from his waist and slowly walked into the secret door.

The passage inside the secret door was very narrow. The walls on both sides were covered with ancient writings and patterns, dating back a very long time. Even Shi Feng, who was very familiar with God's Domain, couldn't recognize what the writing was.

At most three people could walk side by side in the passage, making it inconvenient for combat. Fortunately, they didn't encounter any monsters along the way.

After walking along the passage for half an hour, the group arrived at a magnificent altar.

On both sides of the altar stood two giant wolf-headed human statues. The altar was burning with silver flames, the same flames that Shi Feng and the others had seen at the secret door.

Not far to the right of the silver flames was a teleportation magic array, and not far to the left was a stone disc radiating golden light, covered with divine runes and patterns, obviously not an ordinary object.

When the group walked to the front of the altar, they suddenly felt an unusual pressure in their hearts, as if someone was hammering their chests with a large iron hammer.

"Guild Leader, look... there..." Blackie said, pointing to the altar's sky, his body trembling.

The others followed his gaze.

In the sky above the altar floated a figure. However, because the light on the altar was poor, it was difficult to see clearly. But from the figure, everyone felt a huge threat of death.

Shi Feng also couldn't see the figure clearly, but he could feel that it was looking down at them.

Shi Feng immediately activated Omniscient Eyes to investigate.

Immediately, he obtained a shocking piece of data.

Anubis's Gatekeeper, Grand Lord, Level 30, HP 10,000,000.

"Grand Lord?" Shi Feng muttered.

Others in God's Domain didn't know how powerful a Grand Lord was, but Shi Feng was very clear. These people weren't even enough for this wolf to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Especially this kind of wild Grand Lord. Although the HP was much less than that of a Grand Lord in a dungeon, the wild Grand Lord was stronger than the dungeon boss. Even a 30th-level thousand-man group would only be scratching an itch in the face of the Grand Lord before them.

"It's not going to attack, is it?" Aqua Rose looked at Anubis's Gatekeeper, somewhat nervously.

In fact, it wasn't just Aqua Rose who was nervous; even Shi Feng was a little uneasy.

"Hopefully not," Shi Feng said uncertainly. "But since we've come this far and it hasn't made a move, I'll just stay put."

If Anubis's Gatekeeper took the initiative to attack, there was nothing Shi Feng could do. All he could do was run. A frontal battle was suicide. As for trying to use some special methods to deal with the Grand Lord, that was also suicide, because this kind of monster would never give players such an opportunity.

According to God's Domain's tiers, the Grand Lord was a Tier 3 class.

What was the concept of a Tier 3 class? It was equivalent to the city lord of an ordinary city, who could be stationed in a city.

After Shi Feng and the others quietly observed for a while, everyone vaguely understood what was going on.

"It seems that Anubis's Gatekeeper is the monster guarding the golden stone disc. As long as we don't touch the golden stone disc, Anubis's Gatekeeper won't move against us."

Shi Feng had previously tested Anubis's Gatekeeper. As long as he got close to the golden stone disc, Anubis's Gatekeeper's killing intent would become heavier and heavier. Shi Feng didn't dare get too close to the golden stone disc. As for the teleportation magic array on the other side, Anubis's Gatekeeper didn't react at all.

"Aqua Rose, you guys go to the teleportation array and activate it," Shi Feng said after thinking for a moment. "I'll go get the golden stone disc."

"Guild Leader, that's a Grand Lord!" Fire Dance said in alarm.

Although they hadn't seen how powerful a Grand Lord was, just the penetrating eyes and the extremely strong killing intent made the Crimson Shadow Direwolf a joke in front of this Grand Lord. If Shi Feng really took action, he would likely be instantly killed.