As Luo Feng stepped into the Demon Sound Mountain, thousands of native powerhouses were still queuing up to receive their identity tokens. Once obtained, they would either proceed toward the Demon Sound Mountain or the Frostpeak Mountain.
Each one had to enter through one of the designated ten thousand cave passages.
“Whoosh!”
A lavender spaceship, shaped like a flying saucer, descended into the canyon depression of Demon Mountain. The hatch slid open, and six figures soared out, swiftly recalling the vessel behind them. These were none other than the elite envoys dispatched by Poyu Hou from the Thousand Star Sect. After all, the Supreme Patriarch of their order was an immortal—a core member of the Virtual Universe Company who had traversed the boundless cosmos. Thus, it came as no surprise that certain Domain Lords and World Lords within the sect commanded their own starships.
Ordinary spaceships were quite inexpensive.
Of course, Domain Lords lacked sufficiently large space rings to store spaceships, whereas World Lords could store them within their ‘Body Worlds.’
“Bayan, look, so many people are still queuing, each receiving an identity token, one per second. It will take one or two hours for thousands of them.”
“Don’t be careless. We must hurry and not miss this opportunity. If we miss it, we’ll have to wait until another ten thousand people gather before we can enter again.”
The six immediately flew toward the distant palace.
Poyu Hou’s journey to the Thousand Star Sect had merely taken a few moments, as did the issuing of commands. Their voyage aboard the starship lasted scarcely ten minutes more. At present, only a mere handful among the thousands of native powerhouses had been granted their identity sigils. As for the distribution of these tokens, the Virtual Universe Company’s attendants showed little haste when dealing with the indigenous folk.
An hour later.
“Go! To the Mountain of Demon Sounds!”
“According to the God’s command, we six should separate. This makes it easier to encounter our targets.”
“Alright, let’s part ways here.”
After entering through the same cave passage and reaching a fork in the road, the six immediately separated, each taking a different path forward.
In fact, those who ventured into the Demon Mountain were primarily Cosmic-level warriors, with very few Domain Lords and even fewer World Lords.
Thus, the weakest among these six were all at the ‘Ninth Stage Domain Lord’ level. Within the Demon Sound Mountain, the true perils lay in the ‘Demon Sounds’ and ‘Illusion Beasts,’ while threats from other native powerhouses were negligible—unless one was exceedingly unfortunate to cross paths with one of the rare World Lords scattered across the vast expanse of the Demon Sound Mountain.
…
A young warrior with long black horns was cautiously moving through the vast and deep cave passages, countless tunnels intertwining.
“Ang!”
“Yang!”
“Wu!”
Every time Luo Feng heard some demon sound, he immediately slowed down and stopped, not daring to accelerate recklessly, fearing he might enter an area with extremely strong illusionary sounds. Although confident, he dared not be reckless.
“Luofeng, there is a Domain Lord Third Stage warrior 18.2 kilometers ahead on the path you are taking,” Babata’s voice entered Luo Feng’s consciousness.
“Right on the path I’m taking?” Luo Feng slightly furrowed his brow.
While in the Mountain of Demon Sounds, apart from his three avatars and reliance on the Mo Yun Vine, another critical advantage was Babata! Babata was equipped with highly advanced detection instruments, which had a detection range of only 20 kilometers. Although the range was small, the effectiveness was extremely strong. Even World Lords couldn’t detect it.
This detection device was an expensive instrument purchased by Hu Yanbo, the master of the Yimo Star, long ago. Even now, Luo Feng couldn’t afford enough cash to buy such a high-end instrument.
Of course…
The range was only 20 kilometers, suitable for special areas like cosmic secret realms. The Mountain of Demon Sounds was quite suitable.
“Approaching rapidly, 12.8 kilometers… 9.9 kilometers…” Babata continued to report.
“I see him now.” Luo Feng looked ahead.
The passage wasn’t entirely straight, so Luo Feng only spotted the stealthy, short warrior when they were about ten kilometers apart. He could even clearly see the black hairs on the short warrior’s skin. The warrior’s eyes were cold and cautious as he advanced carefully. When he saw Luo Feng, he paused slightly, then sneered and charged forward rapidly!
“Stellar Ninth Stage! Haha…” The short warrior sneered, his body flashing twice and appearing before Luo Feng, holding a dark red axe with complex secret patterns on the blade.
Luo Feng slightly shook his head.
“Clang!”
He instantly drew his blade!
Swung and slashed!
The Mo Yun Vine attached to his body simultaneously unleashed part of the strength of a Domain Lord Ninth Stage Mo Yun Vine. Just this partial strength was more exaggerated than that of a normal human Domain Lord Ninth Stage warrior! The air violently shook and was compressed directly. The Blood Shadow Blade moved at an incredible speed, directly striking the short warrior’s axe.
Boom!
It was as if using a sledgehammer to crush an ant. The short warrior’s eyes widened in terror. His axe was directly split and rebounded onto himself. The thick back of the axe instantly crushed his body with a ‘puchi~~~’ sound, bones and flesh bursting out from his armor, blood splattering.
Boom~~~
The entire ground violently shook. The icy layer on the surface of the rocks exploded outward, spreading ‘kaka’ for dozens of kilometers. The cracks in the ice extended over ten kilometers.
“Actually, I didn’t want to kill you at all.” Luo Feng quickly collected two black tokens from the dead warrior’s space belt. This was already the 19th black token Luo Feng had obtained. “You just blocked my way and came to kill me. If I didn’t kill you, who else should I kill?”
Luo Feng put away the black token and quickly advanced again.
It was true that collecting 10,000 black tokens would bring an additional reward.
But?
The higher the reward, the greater the difficulty. If he could survive in the Mountain of Demon Sounds for three years, he would complete both the first task of ‘surviving three months’ and the second task of ‘surviving three years.’ At that time, he would receive 400,000 points! The reward for 10,000 black tokens was even better than 400,000 points.
The difficulty was unimaginable!
“Each batch only has 10,000 people, and they kill each other. Some don’t know where they die in dangerous areas, while others might escape early. The tokens mostly end up in the hands of World Lords. To collect 10,000 black tokens, with my current strength, it’s indeed an impossible task.” Luo Feng was very clear-headed.
He looked down at the dead short warrior on the ground and slightly shook his head.
“My task is to survive for three years.”
“I don’t want to kill.”
“But whoever blocks my way, I can only kill him.” Luo Feng continued forward, leaving behind the corpse in the shattered icy layer.
The ultra-low temperature had already frozen the blood into ice blocks. The shattered icy layers began to freeze together under the low temperature, and soon everything would return to normal.
…
The Mountain of Demon Sounds was enormous, occupying about half of the Demon Mountain’s range.
The base width of the Demon Mountain was an astonishing 320 million kilometers, and its height was an astonishing 180 million kilometers. With countless cave passages crisscrossing like a maze, Luo Feng cautiously advanced only 100,000 kilometers per day. Even after three years, he would probably only explore part of the Mountain of Demon Sounds.
Carefully.
One day, two days, three days…
Nine days passed in a flash. During these nine days, Luo Feng detected a World Lord in advance through Babata and immediately turned around and quietly fled. This was the only time he had closely approached a World Lord. Other times, he encountered some Domain Lords and many Cosmic-level warriors. Since everyone was distrustful of each other, Luo Feng didn’t want to be chased after if he turned to flee, so he could only kill those who came to kill him.
In nine days, he collected 112 black tokens.
“My luck is really good. In nine days, I haven’t encountered any of the terrifying illusion beasts in the Demon Mountain.” Luo Feng walked through a wide, spiraling passage, while Babata maintained a detection state at all times.
“Luofeng, based on the demon sounds you’ve encountered in the past two days, you should now be entering a relatively dangerous area. The demon sounds’ illusions are clearly stronger. I predict there will be an extremely dangerous zone nearby!”
“Barbara, the data provided by the Virtual Universe Company indicated that the dangers in the Demon Sound area are completely unpredictable. It might seem perfectly safe, but suddenly there could be an extremely dangerous spot. There’s no need to predict.” Luo Feng communicated through his thoughts while carefully observing the distant area, not fully relying on the detection instruments.
Because some passages had visible distances far exceeding 20 kilometers, the instrument’s detection range was only 20 kilometers, so it was possible that the instrument hadn’t detected someone, but they could already see him.
“Luofeng, there are three Domain Lords 3.6 kilometers to your left.”
“3.6 kilometers?” Luo Feng was startled.
He looked to the left.
Not far to the left was a rocky wall, and Luo Feng relaxed slightly.
“That means they’re in another passage.” Babata said.
“Another passage, no danger, and you still notify me?” Luo Feng shook his head.
“From their conversation, I judge it to be important to you.” Babata said.
“Oh?” Luo Feng’s heart stirred.
He flipped his hand, and a small screen appeared in his palm.
“Send me the scenes you’ve detected as video.” Luo Feng said.
“Transmission complete.”
Ding.
The small screen in Luo Feng’s palm immediately displayed an image. It was also on the cold rocky ice layer, where an old man, a middle-aged man, and a young man were excitedly staring at eight thick books in front of them.
“It’s the secret technique of the Luan Ming Sect! The one who died must be a high-ranking member of the Luan Ming Sect.”
“Master, someone actually killed him and didn’t even take the secret treasures. Haha.”
“You’re wrong. It wasn’t a human who killed him. It was an illusion beast! Look, the indentation marks on the armor of the corpse were obviously formed by a huge claw strike.”
“Master, Master.” The young man smiled. “If we obtain the secret technique of the Luan Ming Sect here, can we consider it another form of inheritance?”
“Don’t compare this technique with inheritance.”
The old man scolded, “The secret technique of the Luan Ming Sect is very precious. However, this inheritance forbidden area, which the Virtual Universe Company calls ‘Demon Mountain,’ has many noble beings sent into the Demon Mountain. Moreover, I heard that the Virtual Universe Company occasionally dispatches some Immortal Spirits into the Demon Mountain to explore, just to obtain the inheritance of the ‘inheritance forbidden area!’
“Ahh!”
“Immortal Spirits coming to receive inheritance?” The two beside him were shocked.
Luo Feng, watching the screen, was also surprised.
“You don’t know this, this is a secret of our Nine Star Sea.” The old man said, “Why is it called the inheritance forbidden area? Because this ancient divine mountain exists solely for inheritance! Its existence is extremely long, dating back to when the Nine Star Sea had historical records. It can be traced back to before the Virtual Universe Company controlled the Demon Mountain! In short, this inheritance forbidden area… possesses inheritances that even the Virtual Universe Company envies!”
“How powerful is the Virtual Universe Company?”
“That’s not possible.” The two disciples couldn’t believe it.
“Cough.” The old man coughed twice, snorted lowly, “The Virtual Universe Company is a superpower in the universe, very powerful. However, they often arrange noble beings and Immortal Spirits to enter, trying to obtain the inheritance. This is also a fact. This is the oldest inheritance in our Nine Star Sea. If anyone obtains it, they can really… soar to the heavens.”
…
Luo Feng watched the dialogue among the master and apprentices in the video. Soon, the video ended.
Luo Feng slightly furrowed his brow: “Inheritance? Demon Mountain? Inheritance Forbidden Area?”
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