The icy caverns were deep and cold, and the ice bear was walking alone through the caves, yet his mood was joyful.
“No matter what, I’ve finally left the range of the Abyssal World,” for the ice bear Luo Feng, aside from the Abyssal World, no other place in the Demon Melody Mountains posed a threat to him. He advanced swiftly along the way, and soon reached the end of this deep cave.
The end was a junction where a total of 395 cave passages converged.
“Uh—”
The ice bear looked around foolishly.
“Big trouble!”
“This time, it’s really big trouble.” Ice bear Luo Feng suddenly realized a problem, “My mind only remembers the route taken to come forward, but now I can’t return the way I came…”
In this magical mountain, one cave connected to hundreds of caves, and each cave connected to many other caves.
The paths were astonishingly intricate, truly a labyrinth of epic proportions.
Even those powerful beings who entered the Demon Melody Mountains usually returned the way they came. If they didn’t retrace their steps but wandered off instead… it might take countless years to escape this maze.
“What should I do?”
“This place is unfamiliar to me! Among the other 394 caves before me, which one should I enter?” The ice bear looked at the giant caves one by one, some twisted upward, some went straight ahead, some meandered and turned. For a moment, he was completely at a loss.
Unknown paths.
Returning wasn’t an option.
Luo Feng quickly pondered in his mind: “There’s no other way, only one way… find other humans!”
Other humans should know the way out! After all, under normal circumstances, if one can come in, one can go back out! What Luo Feng experienced was extremely rare.
…
The ice bear Luo Feng randomly chose a cave and advanced carelessly. After half a day.
“What bad luck! I actually encountered a phantom beast blocking the way. Well, at least it’s just a stupid cosmic-level phantom beast.” A man with an extremely lean build, wearing a yellow robe, with two silvery-white curved horns on his forehead, was scrutinizing the ice bear phantom beast before him, then casually took out two large hammers from behind.
Two crimson hammers!
“Stupid phantom beast, fall down for your master!” The lean man instantly dashed forward like a ghostly shadow, charging toward the ice bear phantom beast.
Whoosh!
The ice bear swung its icy bear paw, fast as lightning.
“How is this possible? How can a cosmic-level phantom beast be so fast?” The lean man stared in terror, as the bear paw struck his body at a terrifying speed he couldn’t dodge, smashing him into pulp and sending him flying to crash against the nearby rock wall.
The tattered corpse fell to the ground.
The ice bear looked at the corpse, then walked over to start collecting any items on it.
“No intelligent light brain? What bad luck.”
The ice bear’s body instantly transformed into Luo Feng’s Earthling form.
Luo Feng looked at the corpse in front of him, frowning: “I need to find a map to exit the Demon Melody Mountains, and such maps… are usually memorized by powerful individuals. Also, the intelligent light brains they carry close to their bodies usually record them automatically. But this guy doesn’t even have an intelligent light brain.”
“That makes sense. In the Nine-Star Sea, although some high-level individuals have intelligent light brains, that place is still a native region, and those who possess intelligent light brains are a minority!”
Luo Feng felt troubled.
The recollections of those native powerhouses did indeed hold maps, yet “delving into memories” was an exceedingly intricate endeavor.
Generally, ‘soul mesmerizing and hypnotizing’ was the easiest, followed by forcibly destroying and erasing parts of memories, while the hardest was analyzing and searching through memories… even soul masters could easily erase someone’s memories, but extracting all the secrets from a person’s memory was extremely difficult.
And these natives were at least Cosmic-level.
The spiritual power of a Cosmic-level powerhouse was already formidable.
Luo Feng could effortlessly mesmerize them, yet erasing their memories was already an immense challenge—directly delving into another’s recollections was utterly unthinkable! Perhaps only a ‘Celestial Deity’ could freely peruse the entirety of a Cosmic-level warrior’s memories.
“Mesmerize and hypnotize the person, making them describe the map?” Luo Feng shook his head, “This super maze-like Demon Melody Mountains, with its incredibly complex map, can’t possibly be explained clearly just by verbal description.”
“Capture a Cosmic-level native and have them guide me?” Luo Feng shook his head again, “Still no good! I move quickly and don’t need to worry about the demon sounds… but these Cosmic-level natives must be cautious of the demon sounds, because if they accidentally encounter a stronger demon sound, they’ll become walking corpses.”
After thinking it through, Luo Feng felt that searching for an ‘intelligent light brain’ was still the better option.
Anyone who dared to venture into the Demon Melody Mountains could undoubtedly be counted among the elite powerhouses of the Nine-Star Sea. Roughly half of them would likely possess an advanced intelligent light-brain system.
…
Luo Feng disguised himself as a native and advanced along the way.
Indeed, the Demon Melody Mountains were quite chaotic. Anyone in the caves who encountered Luo Feng and thought they were stronger than him would actively attack and try to kill him.
…
Luo Feng spent more than four days, killing nine natives. When he killed the ninth native, he finally obtained the intelligent light brain on the native’s arm.
“Barbara! Hack into this intelligent light brain and find the map.” Luo Feng ordered immediately.
“Understood!”
Barbara quickly infiltrated the rather ordinary intelligent light brain.
“The map has been located.” Barbara said excitedly, “We’ll be out soon.”
“Oh?” A hint of joy appeared on Luo Feng’s face.
Finally!
He was finally able to leave the Demon Melody Mountains. It had indeed been quite difficult.
“Boom~~~” A mighty, unseen force instantly rippled through the surroundings. Luo Feng himself remained oblivious, but Barbara’s sharp cry pierced the air, “Luo Feng, beware! That’s a world-force scan. A Monarch-level powerhouse must be nearby!”
“A Monarch?” Luo Feng frowned.
He showed little fear in the face of a Monarch-level powerhouse.
“19.3 kilometers away! 10 kilometers away, he’s here!” Barbara screamed.
Luo Feng, however, frowned as he looked into the distance of the wide, deep, cold cave. A ghostly figure rapidly appeared. This was a being with silver-gray skin, no hair at all, with two menacing black curved horns on his forehead. His eyes scrutinized Luo Feng as if a lion examining prey, exuding a natural aura of evil.
“You, a mere Cosmic-level 9th-order brat, actually managed to kill a Domain-level 3rd-order warrior!” The silver-gray-skinned Monarch said coldly, “It seems you have some treasures on you.”
Luo Feng, however, looked at him coldly and suddenly turned his head and ran.
Swoosh!
Luo Feng ran extremely fast.
“Trying to escape?” The silver-gray-skinned Monarch quickly gave chase.
“Barbara, what’s this guy’s strength level?” As Luo Feng ran, he rapidly switched to his Mosha Clan clone. The Mosha Clan clone’s appearance was identical to the native disguise Luo Feng was currently using.
“Monarch 5th-order!” Barbara said.
“Oh, just a Monarch 5th-order?” A slight smile appeared on Luo Feng’s Mosha Clan clone’s face.
“Little brat, you can’t escape!” That cold voice echoed in Luo Feng’s ears, and the figure almost simultaneously appeared in front of Luo Feng. However, the Mosha Clan clone strangely shifted his body, dodging and turning back to continue running. At the same time, a seemingly simple ray gun appeared in his hand.
An E9-class ray gun!
This ray gun had the distinctive style of the Mechanical Race—simple!
“That’s the weapon you used to kill the Domain-level 3rd-order warrior? Looks like a ray gun, huh. Ha ha, this is a rare item!” The silver-gray-skinned Monarch’s voice echoed as he lunged directly at Luo Feng, his speed astonishingly fast.
Swoosh!
The Mosha Clan clone’s figure sharply twisted and easily dodged the lunge.
“What!” The silver-gray-skinned Monarch’s face changed dramatically.
Just now, the evasive maneuver displayed by Luo Feng of the Mosha Clan unleashed an explosive burst of speed… unbelievably swift! Even he, a proud fifth-order Monarch powerhouse, couldn’t keep up.
“Beep!”
The warning light on the E9-class ray gun turned from red to green.
0.1 seconds had passed!
Charging completed!
“Pop!” Luo Feng lightly pressed the button, looking coldly at the Monarch with a furious expression. His lips moved slightly, silently uttering three words, “Die!”
An extremely dazzling white beam instantly pierced through the Monarch, then through the rock wall and ice layer behind him. The ice instantly melted and boiled into vapor, and even the black rock cracked directly. At the same time, the temperature in the deep cave, which had been extremely cold before, instantly rose to an extremely high level.
The drastic temperature change caused cold air from other areas to spread over.
Soon, the surroundings cooled down completely again.
Crack! Crack!
Luo Feng stepped on some broken ice, walking up to the corpse that had almost completely vaporized. The corpse now only had some remnants of armor left.
“Hell has no door, yet you came knocking. You brought death upon yourself—who can you blame?” Luo Feng squatted down, quickly finding the space ring left behind by the Monarch, and his mental power directly entered it. Upon seeing its contents, his face lit up with joy.
“Haha!”
“You not only came to die but also brought treasures! A Monarch is indeed a Monarch. There are so many black tokens.” Luo Feng joyfully gathered a pile of black tokens into his space ring, “With this batch of black tokens, the total I’ve collected has already exceeded nine thousand eight hundred. Just a little more and I’ll reach ten thousand!”
Before undergoing the Demon Melody General’s inheritance, Luo Feng had already obtained a large number of black tokens, nearly 8,000.
Adding this new haul, the total was now close to ten thousand. Just over a hundred more to go!
“Collecting over a hundred black tokens should be easy. I might even gather enough just by encountering a Domain-level 8th or 9th-order warrior.” Luo Feng’s mood was cheerful as he began to leave following the map.
On his way out, he encountered more than ten others.
With Luo Feng’s Earthling form displaying the strength of a Cosmic-level 9th-order warrior, many Domain-level natives came to kill him, naturally all being easily dealt with by Luo Feng, which also naturally increased his total number of black tokens to exactly ten thousand.
“Haha, finally out! I’ve left the super maze of the Demon Melody Mountains!” Luo Feng laughed loudly as he flew directly out of the outermost cave entrance of the Demon Melody Mountains.
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