Chapter 1 The Forest of Monsters

In a mountain range filled with towering peaks, the area teemed with incredibly powerful monsters, all level 100 or higher, with even some Mythic ranked behemoths among them. Yet, not a single one dared to approach a particular forest deep within the mountains.

A figure suddenly appeared at the edge of this forest, silent and unnoticed. This figure was Yanxue, covered head-to-toe in bandages.

At the same time Yanxue appeared, several massive figures also manifested before him, exuding the terrifying aura only Fourth-Order Mythic creatures possessed.

"Impressive. They've developed this much in just a short time?" Yanxue glanced at the humanoid, one-horned monster standing behind the six Mythic Evil Beasts, his heart filled with shock.

A Mythic ranked Fiend!

Compared to Evil Beasts, Fiends were much harder to cultivate. Previously, Beast Emperor had only managed to cultivate High Great Lord ranked Fiends at best. The appearance of a Mythic ranked Fiend was a huge leap forward.

Fiends were different from Evil Beasts. They were more intelligent, and could unleash greater combat power. Most importantly, they could be summoned at any time, unlike Evil Beasts, which could only move on foot, making everything troublesome.

Having a Mythic ranked Fiend was like having a Mythic ranked pet and bodyguard.

Although High Great Lord ranked Fiends were also very powerful, they hadn't reached the point of being unstoppable. Many experts working together could still kill a High Great Lord ranked Fiend.

But having a Mythic ranked Fiend was a completely different story.

Mythic ranked monsters were something that all the major forces were having a hard time contending with right now. Otherwise, the Super-scale Team Dungeons wouldn't still be unconquered by any of the Super Guilds.

Having such a Mythic ranked Fiend undoubtedly greatly increased the safety and survivability of their controller, allowing them to act openly without hiding, and better control the Fiend and Evil Beast army.

Yanxue also deeply desired this.

As a member of the Evil God's Temple, he was constantly hunted down by the myriad races. Survival was extremely difficult. If he was captured by players or NPCs and handed over to the War God's Temple, that would be a true death sentence, forcing him to start over from scratch. So he had to be careful and didn't dare to appear in public easily.

But if he had a Mythic ranked Fiend, he wouldn't have to worry even if he encountered NPCs. Even if he wasn't a match, he could at least escape. After all, Fifth-Order NPCs were the apex powerhouses in the entire God's Domain and weren't so easy to encounter. The strongest NPCs they usually met were Fourth-Order.

With Mythic ranked Fiends, they wouldn't have to live in the shadows anymore. They could appear in public freely. This was why the members of the Evil God's Temple wanted to unseal the Evil God's Temple.

After the Evil Beasts and Fiends scrutinized Yanxue, they immediately dispersed, as if they had never appeared at all. Yanxue also strode into the forest.

At the center of the forest was a sinkhole, and from this sinkhole emanated an intense evil aura that even Yanxue, a member of the Evil God's Temple, marveled at. If Yanxue hadn't already transformed into a member of the Evil God's Temple, ordinary players who came here would probably be instantly corrupted by the dense evil aura.

This was the location of the Evil God's Temple within the Star-Moon Kingdom. As long as one was within a certain range of the Evil God's Temple, it was completely self-contained, unable to contact the outside world, and vice versa.

"Yanxue?" Within the heavily damaged temple, a middle-aged man with many black magic纹 carved on his body glanced at Yanxue as he walked in, and asked softly, "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be controlling the Fiend army to guard Gu Rock City?"

Yanxue looked at the man in front of him. Although the man didn't show any emotion and only spoke plainly, it made him feel involuntarily afraid, not only because this man was the Evil God's Envoy, Beast Emperor, but also because of the terrifying evil aura surrounding Beast Emperor.

Compared to the last time they met, the current Beast Emperor had become even more terrifying. The evil aura he exuded was no weaker than the evil aura emitted by the Evil God's Temple. Ordinary players would probably be killed by the evil aura before they could even approach Beast Emperor.

Moreover, looking at the Beast Emperor in front of him, Yanxue had a feeling that he wasn't human, as if he was facing a terrifying behemoth that had just awakened.

"The Guild Leader sent me here." Yanxue steadied his mind and said quickly, "Our Guild Leader has already said that you still need 400,000 elite players' souls, right? Our Guild Leader can give them to you."

"Has he finally seen reason?" Beast Emperor said with a faint smile, "Then go and tell him, when the people are gathered, that will be the time when Zero Wing is destroyed."

Although the power in his hands was very strong, and he could hunt players at will, the Immortal Souls he needed now had to be voluntarily offered by the players. He was still short 400,000 Immortal Souls from elite players, otherwise he would have already turned Star-Moon Kingdom into a domain of the Evil God's Temple.

Yanxue nodded, without the slightest doubt about Beast Emperor's words.

Perhaps others didn't know the power Beast Emperor wielded after opening the Evil God's Temple, but as a member of the Evil God's Temple, he was very clear.

On the other side, in the third layer of the Ancient God's Ruins, the Super Guilds had already left to enter the fourth layer. At this time, only the first-rate Guilds and top-tier adventurer teams who still couldn't defeat the third layer's Boss, and Zero Wing Guild who was frantically killing High Great Lord ranked Thunder Elementals and Thunder Beasts remained.

"Damn, how many High Great Lords does Zero Wing Guild want to kill before they're satisfied?"

"Maybe Zero Wing wants to farm some Level 50 Epic equipment on this layer, after all, opportunities like this are rare."

"They've probably gotten more Teleportation Stones than they have members by now from killing so many High Great Lords. It's such a waste to keep them, can't they give us some?"

"How could they give them to us easily? First of all, the number of people who can enter the Ancient City is uncertain. Naturally, the fewer players who enter the fourth and fifth layers, the better. Moreover, Teleportation Stones are team-bound, and members outside of a team can't use them. If a team suddenly increases its members, all the Teleportation Stones obtained before will be invalidated. It's even more impossible for them to bring us along."

The first-rate Guilds and top-tier adventurer teams who stayed in the third layer to hunt for treasure drooled as they watched Zero Wing Guild fighting. Especially when they saw the Teleportation Stones scattered on the ground like they were worthless, their eyes turned red.

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get a single one, but Zero Wing was throwing them on the ground and not even bothering to pick them up. They clearly didn't want to take up backpack space with these Teleportation Stones. After all, Zero Wing Guild already had enough Teleportation Stones, and any more would be useless.

Just as Shi Feng activated Divine Grace and killed another Level 55 High Great Lord ranked Thunder Beast, he picked up the dropped items and raised an eyebrow.

"Great! I've finally collected them all!" Shi Feng looked at the last Lightning Flash Fragment in his hand, his expression slightly excited.

After nearly two hours of frantic killing, even luring two or three High Great Lords to kill at the same time, he finally caught up at the last moment.

He had collected all thirteen fragments of Lightning Flash.

System: Lightning Flash Fragments have been collected. Do you want to combine them into a complete version? If you want to combine them into a complete version, you need to pay 1,000 Magic Crystals.

"1,000? Why so many?" Shi Feng looked at the system prompt, surprised.

Normally, to combine an Advanced Combat Technique, depending on the number of pages, it would only cost 50 to 100 Magic Crystals.

But now it was asking for 1,000. This system was clearly ripping him off.

"I want to see what kind of Combat Technique you can synthesize." Shi Feng couldn't care less. He immediately paid 1,000 Magic Crystals and clicked Combine.

Whether it was 100 or 1,000, it didn't make much difference to Shi Feng now. Moreover, he had finally managed to collect them all, so he couldn't just not combine them because the system was ripping him off.

Instantly, a black magic array appeared under Shi Feng's feet, attracting the endless magic power around him. Even the originally clear sky was no longer affected by the Tome of the Weather, and large patches of thunderclouds appeared, sending down terrifying lightning that directly struck the thirteen fragments floating above Shi Feng's head.

With flashes of lightning and hundreds of booming sounds, a thick ancient book appeared before Shi Feng, and the ancient book itself even had faint arcs of azure electricity swirling around it.