Chapter 336: Diligent Luo Feng

Inside the World Within Worlds.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Tens of thousands of star-level adventurers poured out from the black hole, scattering in all directions in small squads, creating a vast and overwhelming sight.

“Brother Three, which way do we go?” Hong asked Luo Feng.

“We can’t waste any time,” Leishen said with urgency in his voice.

Luo Feng looked around, and at that moment, He Ruo, who had been connected to the virtual universe network receiving updates, opened his eyes. He glanced apologetically at Luo Feng and the others. “Luo Feng, Hong, Leishen, sorry, I must follow my organization’s orders to rendezvous with them.” Then their squad quickly flew away.

“Follow me,” Luo Feng said, rising into the air.

Hong, Leishen, Tie Nanhe, and Ao Gu followed, and the five-member squad swiftly flew low to the ground.

Earlier, the adventurers had been countless and densely packed, but after dispersing, within just a few minutes of flight, Luo Feng’s squad could no longer see anyone else. This World Within Worlds was simply too vast; tens of thousands of people entering it were like a drop of water falling into the ocean.

“Brother Three, are we just going to keep flying like this?” Hong asked Luo Feng.

“That’s the only way,” Luo Feng explained. “The World Within Worlds is a world, extremely vast. Who knows where treasures might be hidden? We can only search aimlessly like fishing for a needle in the sea. Fortunately, we can detect a twenty-kilometer radius. If there’s any treasure within that range, we’ll discover it immediately!”

Luo Feng clearly understood that, given the vastness of this world, this was the best method for him.

Flying low to the ground, he had Babata scan a twenty-kilometer radius, and would immediately inform him if any treasures were detected.

“Brothers One and Two,” Luo Feng smiled. “Earlier when He Ruo went to meet up with the people from North Long City, you probably noticed something, right?”

Leishen nodded. “The major forces are organizing their people to regroup and join forces.”

In this treasure-hunting mission within the World Within Worlds, strength in numbers was crucial. The four major organizations and sixteen major families had many people inside, and once gathered, they could form teams of hundreds. As for someone like Luo Feng, who was independent and lacked a major backing, competing against such large groups would be pure suicide.

“So, for now, we’ll keep a low profile,” Luo Feng said with a smile. “We’ll search for treasures if we can find them, and if not, we’ll mine for cosmic crystals!”

Every world contained “cosmic crystals.”

In undeveloped worlds, cosmic crystals were even more abundant! They were the universal currency of the cosmos!

…

Inside the World Within Worlds, there were no ferocious beasts, making it a quiet and silent world.

“How quiet it is,” Luo Feng mused.

“This silence is normal,” Leishen muttered. “The ferocious beasts in the Thunder World were specially transported there by the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance to test and select apprentice mercenaries. Without any ferocious beasts, this flying journey feels pretty dull.”

“Stop!” A voice suddenly rang out in Luo Feng’s mind.

“Stop!” Luo Feng immediately transmitted mentally, shouting loudly, the sound exploding in the ears of the other four.

“Damn it,” Leishen said, covering his ears and glaring, “Luo Feng, could you be a little quieter?”

Luo Feng had no time to waste words with his second brother and quickly communicated with Babata. Then he looked around and ordered in a low voice, “Everyone be careful. Let’s find a place and start digging underground!”

“Dig underground?”

Hong and Leishen were stunned.

“Yeah, there are cosmic crystals 3200 meters underground,” Luo Feng said softly.

“Cosmic crystals?”

“Damn it, cosmic crystals?” Leishen’s eyes widened immediately.

“This soil is mainly dirt, and around 1900 meters down it turns to rock. However, the rocks here shouldn’t be too hard, unlike those in the Wind Thunder Canyon, which have been worn down by constant wind and thunder. We should be able to dig through it in a day,” Luo Feng explained.

Cosmic crystals meant wealth! They were the absolute universal currency, far more valuable than Qianwu coins.

And right now, Luo Feng was in dire need of money!

To be precise, once the Golden Horned Beast broke through to the ‘Cosmic Level,’ Luo Feng would be extremely short on funds. The first account his teacher left him had 10 billion Qianwu coins, and Luo Feng now had less than 5 billion left. However, once the Golden Horned Beast broke through, advancing from Cosmic Level 1 to Domain Lord Level 1, it would take 1000 years!

To evolve faster, he would need to purchase many precious metal combinations!

The metal combinations required for the Cosmic Level were far more expensive than those at the Star Level, and the quantities needed were also much greater! This meant that Luo Feng’s 5 billion Qianwu coins wouldn’t even be enough to feed the Cosmic Level Golden Horned Beast for a single month if he used the best metal combinations. Of course, if he fed it common alloy debris, it would be cheaper, but the evolution speed would be slow.

Luo Feng couldn’t afford to waste time!

The forces of the Norlanshan family wouldn’t be long before they arrived at Earth. Therefore, he had to acquire enough money as quickly as possible to let the Golden Horned Beast evolve at the fastest possible speed!

“Shshsh~~”

Ao Gu used the ‘Red Chaos Copper Mother Fragment’ to dig down as quickly as possible, with Luo Feng closely following. Hong and Leishen also followed down, while Tie Nanhe was responsible for concealing the surface to prevent other star-level adventurers from discovering them. The 1900-meter layer of soil was dug through in just half an hour.

However, the speed dropped significantly once they hit the rock layer below.

“Too slow,” Luo Feng said anxiously. “Looks like it’s going to take a whole day.”

“Brother Luo, why don’t you use the Cloudvine with the blade fragment to dig down? It might be faster,” Hong suggested.

“That’s right!”

Luo Feng’s eyes lit up. It was difficult to dig a tunnel large enough for people to pass through underground, but it was easy for a vine to penetrate.

“Ao Gu, step back,” Luo Feng said quickly.

“Okay,” Ao Gu quickly moved aside.

Luo Feng then moved to the very bottom. With a thought, the Cloudvine armor against his skin extended a vine. At the same time, the ‘bracelet’ worn on his wrist quickly fitted onto the long vine and shrank. This bracelet was where Babata stayed and also Babata’s storage space.

This long vine was thin yet tough, with leaves at the tip. The leaves wrapped around the Red Chaos Copper Mother Fragment and rapidly extended downward! The Red Chaos Copper Mother Fragment dug into the earth, and the thin vine kept growing longer, going down much faster!

Back on Earth, those fifth and sixth-stage star-level Cloudvines had astonishing lengths.

Now, at the fourth-stage star-level, the Cloudvine could easily extend for ten thousand meters. Therefore, in about twenty minutes, a vine tipped with the Red Chaos Copper Mother Fragment as a ‘cone’ had already reached 3200 meters underground.

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3200 meters underground.

A massive chunk of deep blue, a huge crystal resembling the color of the starry sky was embedded in the rock. A vine wrapped around the Red Chaos Copper Mother Fragment extended over a kilometer, finally reaching this point. On the vine was a bracelet.

“Wahahaha! Come to me!”

Babata shouted triumphantly.

The massive deep blue crystal immediately vanished, being absorbed into the storage space.

…

Inside the storage space.

This was an incredibly vast storage space, with the Yintuoxing parked at one side.

The massive deep blue crystal appeared out of nowhere, and immediately a metal robot flew over. The robot’s red eyes flickered, and it spoke aloud, “That idiot Luo Feng actually followed the rules of Earth’s warrior teams to divide the spoils. He got this cosmic crystal himself but is planning to give Hong and Leishen forty percent of it. What an idiot!”

“This crystal is pretty big, about 9000 cubic units! Alright, let’s cut it up!”

Immediately, some small robots appeared.

They quickly began to decompose the massive cosmic crystal. Although cosmic crystals were incredibly powerful, they were not difficult to break down. In the universe, they were usually cut into coin shapes. The universal standard was that one cubic unit of cosmic crystal would be cut into one thousand cosmic coins.

…

Underground.

The vine extended from Luo Feng’s Cloudvine armor quickly retracted, and the bracelet flew back to Luo Feng’s wrist, merging into it.

“Babata, how much cosmic crystal did you get?” Luo Feng immediately asked mentally.

“Haha, we had good luck. Cosmic crystals scattered around a world are generally not much, only in the central areas are there large amounts. Unexpectedly, you managed to get 3000 cubic units of cosmic crystal this time. That’s pretty lucky,” Babata’s voice echoed in Luo Feng’s mind.

Luo Feng nodded slightly.

“Brothers One and Two, let’s go up,” Luo Feng said.

The five of them quickly flew back to the surface and soon broke through to the top.

“How was it?” Leishen asked Luo Feng.

“How much cosmic crystal did you get?” Hong also asked.

“Decent luck,” Luo Feng looked around. The surroundings were pitch black and silent, with only the faintly visible desolate land. “The cosmic crystals scattered around the World Within Worlds aren’t usually much. We managed to get 3000 cubic units this time, which is pretty good.”

“3000 cubic units?”

Leishen’s eyes lit up.

“3000 cubic units equal 300,000 cosmic coins. One cosmic coin, if exchanged now, can be converted into over 3000 Qianwu coins. That means approximately 10 billion Qianwu coins.”

“10 billion Qianwu coins?” Hong was also amazed by the magnitude of the number.

“When Brother Two and I first went to the battlefield, we heard a Cosmic-level expert talking about discovering a new world. They said they got 10,000 cubic units of cosmic crystal. Getting 3000 cubic units at once is pretty good,” Hong remarked.

“Truly a World Lord’s world, getting this much on the first try,” Luo Feng couldn’t help but exclaim. “In the legends of cosmic adventurers, discovering a new world means striking it rich! But these first explorations of new worlds are usually seized first by Cosmic-level experts or even Domain Lords.”

“Let’s hurry up!” Luo Feng said. “We’ll continue!”

Getting 3000 cubic units on the first try, equaling the wealth from his teacher’s first account, made Luo Feng even more excited.

The World Lord’s world was indeed a great treasure!

Even the cosmic crystals, the most unremarkable items, were great wealth.

“However, once the Golden Horned Beast reaches the Cosmic Level, the consumption will be enormous. This amount is still far from enough. Let’s continue!” Luo Feng’s heart was filled with anticipation.

At this moment, Luo Feng had no idea that the cosmic crystal he had actually obtained was 9000 cubic units. A certain wicked Babata had deliberately hidden away 6000 cubic units.

…

Perhaps other squads had energy detectors, but how many instruments could match Babata’s detection abilities? Under Babata’s guidance, Luo Feng soon discovered another location underground with cosmic crystals.

“Perhaps with this World Lord’s world, I can actually gather all the money needed for the Golden Horned Beast’s Cosmic Level stage,” Luo Feng’s eyes gleamed with excitement. He controlled the vine and bracelet to drill underground. “Dig!”