Chapter 1 The Beginning

As Shi Feng clicked on the crystal, the clear, translucent crystal quickly displayed a short description.

Shi Feng couldn't help but be stunned the moment he read the description.

"This is the Source of Elements?" Shi Feng looked at the crystal in his bag, somewhat disbelieving.

Source of Extreme Ice: Possesses the purest power of ice.

Although the description was short, in his previous life, the Source of Elements was a household name in God's Domain. The value of any single Source of Elements exceeded that of an Epic item. Some people were even willing to trade two Epic items for it, but almost no player who obtained a Source of Elements would ever sell it.

This was because the energy value of the Source of Elements was even purer than that of Seven Luminaries Crystals, and its uses were extremely wide.

Forging, Alchemy, Engineering, Magic Arrays, and so on, in all aspects.

If the Source of Elements was used to forge weapons and equipment, the weapons and equipment would be imbued with the power of the source. Not only would the attributes of the forged weapons and equipment be stronger, but they would also be imbued with powerful Source Skills.

If one could forge Epic weapons and equipment with the power of the source, their market value would be second only to fragments of Legendary items.

Fragments of Legendary items in God's Domain were extremely rare. Even first-rate guilds didn't have many, let alone second- and third-rate guilds. So, Epic Source weapons and equipment became the best divine equipment that the major guilds could obtain.

In his previous life, the Epic weapon in his hand was forged by a Forging Grandmaster using the Source of Elements. At that time, in order to obtain that weapon, he had used up most of the wealth he had accumulated in God's Domain. Although hiring a Forging Master could also forge it and would be much cheaper, the Forging Grandmaster's forging was more reliable.

He never expected that he would be able to obtain a Source of Elements now.

Only now did Shi Feng suddenly understand why the new expansion would be launched, and even require an offline update lasting four hours.

The emergence of the Source of Elements had ushered in a new era for Lifestyle classes in his previous life. Because it could be applied to all aspects and could fundamentally improve Lifestyle classes, the data that needed to be modified was quite large.

And with the first Source of Elements appearing, the number of Sources of Elements appearing throughout God's Domain would gradually increase. If one was lucky, one could even open a Source of Elements from a Dark-Gold treasure chest.

"Now that everyone is still unaware of the true value of the Source of Elements, I can have Youyu Weixiao secretly purchase some," Shi Feng thought, feeling that now was a good opportunity to buy a large amount of Sources of Elements.

In the early stages, everyone was unaware of the value of the Source of Elements and treated it as a rare material to sell. The most expensive price was only a few hundred gold coins per piece. It wasn't until everyone realized the value of the Source of Elements that the players who had sold it cheaply regretted it immensely, while many large guilds made a lot of money.

At that time, many guilds also regretted why they hadn't purchased more Sources of Elements. Even if they had only stockpiled dozens of Sources of Elements, they could have greatly increased the overall strength of the guild's experts. If they could have stockpiled four or five hundred pieces, it was simply unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Shi Feng found a safe place and directly chose to log off to rest.

Because the new expansion had come so suddenly, when Shi Feng opened his eyes from the virtual reality pod, the sun outside the window was just about to set.

Before Shi Feng could even get out of the virtual reality pod, he heard the virtual reality pod constantly making message notification sounds, which only stopped after ringing dozens of times.

However, Shi Feng wasn't in a hurry to look at them. Instead, he first went to the refrigerator to get some food and drinks, and then clicked on the messages to read while eating.

He couldn't contact the outside world in the Ice Crystal World, so he had Youyu Weixiao and Bai Qingxue send him what had happened during this time so he could check it when he logged off. However, in order to obtain the Eternal Ice Crystal as soon as possible, he hadn't logged off for three days in a row.

"They're finally willing to budge," Shi Feng said with a smile as he looked at the message from Bai Qingxue.

Nothing major had happened in God's Domain. The main thing was that Bai Qingxue had finally captured Hidden Mist Town, and the Zero Wing branch in the Black Dragon Empire had recruited another 70,000 members in one go. This number was insignificant for a first-rate guild, but it was different for Zero Wing.

Because Zero Wing's recruitment standards were very strict, not many players could pass the test. Being able to recruit 70,000 people in such a short period of time was already very impressive.

However, this didn't make Shi Feng feel surprised. What really made Shi Feng happy was that the large companies that supported Serpent Spine had finally relented and were preparing to sell all of Serpent Spine's training base shares to Bai Qingxue. The two sides were currently discussing the price.

As long as the two sides signed the contract, Serpent Spine's original training base would become Zero Wing's headquarters. In the future, Zero Wing could start recruiting internal members at will without worrying about the lack of space.

Just as Shi Feng was continuing to read other messages, the virtual reality pod's offline communication rang, showing the contact person as Feng Qianyu.

Shi Feng then clicked to accept the communication. Immediately, a virtual screen displayed Feng Qianyu wearing an exquisite dark blue mage robe, and her level was as high as 48. At this level, apart from Zero Wing, she was definitely the number one on the Black Dragon Empire's level ranking.

"Pavilion Master Feng is looking for me so urgently, is there something urgent?" Shi Feng asked curiously.

"It is indeed a very urgent matter. I was competing with Jiu Longhuang for a mission before, but I don't know why, Jiu Longhuang's side suddenly changed, and they quickly completed the mission. Now, many of the elders in the guild have turned to Jiu Longhuang's side. Now that the ancient ruins are opening, I hope Guild Leader Black Flame can lend me a few experts to help me conquer the ancient ruins." Feng Qianyu nodded and didn't hide anything. "As for the fees for hiring these experts, how about I sell you a potential shop in Apocalypse Empire's capital at the market price?"

She already had a clear understanding of Zero Wing's experts, especially Zhao Yueru from the Stormwind Tournament, and Shuise蔷薇 (Shuise Qiangwei, Water Rose) who had performed amazingly in the siege battle.

If these people joined, her chances of conquering the ancient ruins would be much greater.

And Shi Feng was slightly surprised to hear this.

He didn't expect Feng Qianyu to be so generous, directly willing to sell a potential shop in the capital. This kind of thing was something that money couldn't buy, and some people were even willing to spend two or three times the market price to buy it, but no one was stupid enough to sell it so early.

"Ancient ruins? Can I know what ancient ruins they are?" Shi Feng calmed down and asked slowly.

"The opening ancient ruins are the Twilight Forest of the Apocalypse Empire." Feng Qianyu didn't understand why Shi Feng was asking this, but she still explained it.

"So that's how it is." Shi Feng suddenly understood, thought for a moment, and said, "If Pavilion Master Feng wants to borrow people, of course there is no problem, but I have a better proposal. I will help you take down the ancient ruins, and I will take 20% of the resources inside."

There were many ancient ruins in God's Domain, and they also possessed various rare items and resources left over from before the Great Destruction. These things could not be found on the market. The Twilight Forest of the Apocalypse Empire was quite famous, and the Ancient Wood produced inside was a top-quality material for manufacturing boats.

Feng Qianyu frowned slightly at Shi Feng's offer, but seeing Shi Feng's confidence, she couldn't help but ask, "That's a level 50 to 60 level one ancient ruin, are you really confident?"

"Would you believe me if I said I have a 60% chance of success?" Shi Feng knew that Feng Qianyu had many questions, but it was not easy for him to explain here. He couldn't tell Feng Qianyu that he had read the ancient ruins information of the Twilight Forest before, knew some of the conquest methods, and that taking down the ancient ruins was not a big problem, right?