"So many?" Luo Feng was shocked, surveying his surroundings, he could barely make out the silhouettes of two to three small teams.
"Most of the teams are close to the canyon, and all of them are hidden. Hence if you don't look carefully, it'll be hard to spot a few teams." Babata's voice resounded.
"Understood." Luo Feng said.
… …
It was completely bare, the rocks on this mountain range were almost all black, with only a few silver mixed in. Luo Feng's team carefully advanced, in the center of the mountain range, it was as though it had been chopped down by a god's blade, splitting the entire mountain range apart, forming a canyon.
This huge canyon that seemed to have been formed by a blade, was the Canyon of Wind and Thunder.
With the universe energy as the source, the raging winds howled, mixed with large amounts of broken rocks, there were even some wind corner stones that danced in the wind. On both sides of the canyon, in various places, there were many families and powers from the Black Dragon Mountain star field, the younger generation from many planets.
They were the younger generation, and had yet to become true universe warriors. This time, was their first test on the path to becoming strong!
"Luo Feng, this is a map, the location marked out on it is an extremely good location. It's best for your team to hide there. "Babata communicated mentally.
Luo Feng lowered his head to look at the screen on his arm.
"Follow me." Luo Feng said softly.
Hong, Thunder God and the other two followed quietly, the closer they got to the canyon, the stronger the winds became. Luo Feng came to a boulder, fiercely lifting it up, revealing a cave, communicating mentally, "Everyone go in, there's a cave inside, it connects directly to the canyon walls."
"You can even find such a place?" Thunder God couldn't help but praise.
"Go in." Hong led the way in.
In this World of Thunder, the range of a Spirit Reader's Spirit Force was very small. That was because the range of the Spirit Reader's Spirit Force was very small in the air, and for the Spirit Reader's Spirit Force to pass through these giant rocks mixed with Universe Origin Energy, it was absolutely impossible for someone at least at the Star level to do so. Spirit energy couldn't scan, hence such a place was very hard to find.
And to dig it himself? With the Canyon of Wind and Thunder having been tempered by the strong winds for a long time, it would take at least one to two years of work to completely dig it out.
"Luckily I had Babata's reminder." Luo Feng jumped into the cave, covering the boulder.
The cave was within the mountain range.
He walked along the cave until he reached one of the mountain walls leading to the Wind and Thunder Canyon. There was a hole about thirty centimeters wide on the mountain wall.
"What is this?" Thunder God's eyes lit up.
"Eh?" Hong Lian picked up a small, smooth stone near the entrance of the cave. The stone was mainly black, but the surface of the stone was coated with a strange blue film. The ordinary stones here were all black, or black stones with a hint of silver mixed in. Only the Wind Corner Stone had a layer of dark blue light. It was said that the Wind Corner Stone had been struck by lightning, but it didn't turn into powder. It just so happened that it had absorbed a trace of the power of lightning to form this strange stone.
"Wind Corner Stone, it's the Wind Corner Stone." Thunder God said.
"I didn't expect to be able to pick up a Wind Corner Stone." Luo Feng smiled as he walked to the entrance of the cave. Outside the cave, the wind howled like ghosts and howled like wolves, turning the entire sky dark. As one side of the cave was blocked, the wind was very weak. Luo Feng turned and said to the other four in the cave, "The wind outside is very terrifying, it's very hard to find another Wind Corner Stone."
Previously, there was a Wind Corner Stone on the ground of the cave. It was probably one of the Wind Corner Stones that flew into the cave.
However this was purely a matter of luck, otherwise there wouldn't only be one within the cave.
"Second brother, third brother, according to the books, we have three methods." Hong said softly, "The first method is to go to the top of the canyon and risk your life to collect the Wind Corner Stones. Because the wind gets stronger the deeper you go, the stronger it gets towards the center. Hence the wind at the top of the canyon is much weaker, at least a Star level 7 or 8 would be able to withstand it. The only danger is … as it's at the highest point, it's easy to attract the lightning! That lightning in the cumulus cloud, any one of them would definitely have no chance of survival. "
"The second method is to get close to the canyon and use spirit energy or genetic energy to pull one or two of the Wind Corner Stones that were swept away by the wind over! This is difficult to do, but the danger is very low. It requires patience. "
"The third method, is to kill the other teams that have the Wind Corner Stones and steal them!"
"Everybody, which method do you think we should use?" Hong looked at Thunder God and Luo Feng.
Luo Feng creased his eyebrows and pondered.
Going to the top of the canyon to collect the Wind Corner Stones was the fastest, if one didn't get struck by lightning, it would be like picking a stone. However … according to the experiences of the seniors, when going to the top of the canyon to collect the Wind Corner Stones, one had to keep all the metals on one's body. It was said that the more metal one had, the more it would attract the lightning to strike.
If one arranged for a metal robot to go, there was a 100% chance of being struck by lightning!
And humans wearing normal clothes, the chances of being struck by lightning were about 50%. If one wore alloy armor, the chances of being struck by lightning would rise to about 2/3. This was the experience of the generations of seniors that fought in the World of Thunder.
"The first method is very dangerous, and it's purely based on luck, it's not for us."
"The third method, robbing and killing the other teams?" Luo Feng shook his head, "The cave we're in right now is extremely good, the cave entrance is right on the mountain wall of the canyon, we'll temporarily use the second method. At the same time, we'll see how the other teams acquire the Wind Corner Stones, let's observe first before deciding. "
"Alright." Hong nodded.
Thunder God agreed too, hence Luo Feng and the others temporarily began their days of waiting.
Catching the 'Wind Corner Stones' that were flying close to the entrance of the cave, one needed luck, and the other needed strength! As the raging winds made it hard for one's naked eye to see clearly, with large amounts of stones mixed within, there would occasionally be one or two Wind Corner Stones, hence it required luck. And the moment the Wind Corner Stones flew past the cave entrance!
One had to grab them in an instant! If they missed it, they would have to wait a long time for the next time.
However … the raging winds contained the universe energies, the moment the spirit energy was about to reach in, it would be destroyed and dissipated.
Luo Feng's spirit energy hand could only extend about 20cm out of the cave entrance, maintaining the spirit energy hand without dissipating. And the Star level 9 Ao Gu's spirit energy hand could only extend 1m out without dissipating! Exceeding 1m, Ao Gu couldn't maintain the stability of his spirit energy.
On the contrary …
What made Luo Feng pleasantly surprised was, the cloud contact vine that was currently a Star level 4, after shrinking, it formed a vine that was extremely sturdy, able to reach about 2m deep into the wind with lightning speed and swiftly retract. Even though the vine was covered in wounds, its recovery speed was indeed able to maintain the 2m deep result!
This indeed made Luo Feng surprised, pleasantly surprised!
He reckoned that this raging wind infused with the universe energies was even more destructive to spirit energy like existences, but to plants like the vine, it probably had less of a destructive effect.
… …
In the Canyon of Wind and Thunder, the majority of the teams relied on this method of waiting to grab the Wind Corner Stones, occasionally forcing the slave bodyguards to risk their lives at the top of the canyon to grab the Wind Corner Stones. However such teams were very rare, after all the slave bodyguards were also a part of their battle strength, losing one or two would have a huge impact on the team.
On the 3rd day in the Canyon of Wind and Thunder, Luo Feng and the others acquired their 2nd Wind Corner Stone.
On the 5th day in the Canyon of Wind and Thunder, Luo Feng and the others acquired their 3rd Wind Corner Stone.
On the 9th day, they acquired their 4th Wind Corner Stone.
… …
And this was still because of their good location, a normal team, just passing through half of the World of Thunder would require a year and a half, collecting the Wind Corner Stones would require another year and a half. Hence spending a few years of effort was normal. Luo Feng and his team were already considered to be an extremely efficient team.
On the 32nd day in the Canyon of Wind and Thunder.
"This cave's location is really good, if this goes on, in another month, we'll definitely be able to collect all the Wind Corner Stones." Thunder God laughed.
Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, Tie Nan He and Ao Gu, the five of them sat cross legged.
One of the vines extended from Luo Feng's arm and stopped at the entrance of the cave, ready to attack at any time.
And in front of the five of them was a projection screen on the mountain wall, it was created by Luo Feng's living AI Babata, on the screen were four images, depicting the scenery within a 20km radius.
"Even though we're in the cave, we can clearly see the situation within the 20km radius." Luo Feng laughed.
"How refreshing." Thunder God complimented.
"Look, there's another two teams rushing over, dodging really quickly, this spirit reader is not bad too." Thunder God's eyes gleamed, evaluating one of the images that suddenly appeared two teams, however his expression froze, saying, "It's Heruo!"
"Heruo?"
Luo Feng's expression changed.
Back when he, his big brother and second brother were in the Virtual Universe Killing Fields, they made quite a few friends, amongst them were Heruo and Buleimu, before Heruo and Buleimu said they wanted to participate in the Universe Mercenary trainee exam. The entire Black Dragon Mountain star field was in this place, Heruo and the others being here was very normal.
"Let's go." Hong was the first to rush out, Ao Gu and Tie Nan He looked at Luo Feng.
"Quickly."
Luo Feng didn't hesitate, immediately the five man team swiftly followed the other end of the cave and rushed out, using their spirit energy to sweep away the unremarkable rocks, after the five of them came out, they put the rocks down again.
In the distance.
Heruo's team was currently being pressured and attacked by another team. Heruo's team only had two Star level 9s, while the opponent had five Star level 9s, however both sides were mostly injured, obviously they were fighting crazily.
"Hm?"
Both teams swiftly noticed another team rushing over from the distance.
"Heruo!" Spirit energy transmission resounded in his ears.
Heruo turned his head to look, within the five lightning silhouettes rushing over were Luo Feng, Hong and Thunder God, his three good friends, he immediately revealed a look of glee, and the two rushing at the front were Tie Nan He and Ao Gu, especially Ao Gu who had released his spirit weapon from afar, becoming a golden beam of light.
"Two Star level 9s?" The enemy team looked, the quantum computer had long since determined the opponent's strength.
"Retreat!"
"Quickly retreat!"
The captain ordered, without any hesitation, the team swiftly retreated.
Even though they had five Star level 9s, three of them were injured … one had to know, there were strong and weak Star level 9s, the strong ones could fight ten of the same level and level. Heruo's team had a rather strong Star level 9, this was also the reason why they were able to hold on for so long even though they were at a disadvantage. And the two rushing over right now … daring to rush over meant they had confidence!
The two teams converged, the enemy team thought they wouldn't be able to hold on.
Even if they could, with both sides heavily injured, the enemy team wouldn't be willing, hence they decided to retreat!
… …
Luo Feng's team and Heruo's team converged.
"Thank you."
"You are?" Immediately a bald youth with green markings on both sides of his face walked over to thank them.
"They are my friends." Heruo said, simultaneously walking forward.
"Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God." Heruo said.
"What happened, how did it end up like this?" Luo Feng and the other two looked at Heruo, Thunder God said, "Heruo, aren't you from the North Dragon City organization? How did you end up like this? " Thunder God and Hong knew the importance of the universe language the first time they came into contact with the virtual universe, naturally they began to learn it.
With their brain expansiveness, learning was indeed very fast, even though they weren't proficient, communicating wasn't a problem.
"Speaking of which, it was really tragic this time." Heruo shook his head, "Our team had five elites and five bodyguards. When we were dealing with the single horned iron rhino horn, we were surrounded by ferocious beasts, one of our bodyguards died. "
"Later, on our way to the Wind and Thunder Canyon, we were ambushed six times in a row by other squads. In the process, we lost another two bodyguards and three elite companions." Heruo's expression was bitter. "Now, our squad only has two elites and two bodyguards left."
Luo Feng felt his heart go cold as he heard.
My god!
Even though his team had experienced over ten life and death situations, most of them were from the ferocious beasts, as for the ambushes? With Ao Gu and the hybrid copper essence shard, it was really a clean sweep! Plus with Babata's vigilance, Luo Feng's team's journey was tough, there were people injured, but no one died.
However Heruo's team actually lost more than half of them!
"Where's Buleimu?" Thunder God asked, "In the other teams?"
"He's dead." Heruo shook his head.
Luo Feng was stunned, that rough looking black bear like youth, was dead? Luo Feng could still clearly remember the scene of him, Hong and Thunder God wishing them safe return. Who would've thought that in the blink of an eye … Buleimu was already dead.
How could this happen?
"There's no use in being sad." Heruo shook his head and laughed bitterly, "Many of the brothers and sisters that I've lived with for so many years have died. This is the first test for us elites, only after going through life and death situations and finally breaking through to the universe level, can we be called strong and become important members of the organization. "
"Selection!"
The bald green marked youth beside shook his head, "This is the selection, large amounts of so called geniuses and elites, after going through life and death situations, are eliminated and die! Only at the very end do a few universe levels emerge! Our training camp has over ten thousand geniuses and elites, but if ten of them can become universe levels, that's already not bad. "
Luo Feng, Hong and Thunder God exchanged glances.
Cruel …
Very cruel!
These are the rules of the universe organizations, they take in large amounts of geniuses and elites, give them the best education, provide them with the best conditions, and then give them the cruelest elimination rules, finally giving birth to a few strong warriors! It can be said … those who participate in the universe level mercenary trainee exam, aren't even considered strong.
They're all just trainees, after going through one in a thousand, no, that's the probability of the big organizations' elites, precisely speaking, after going through one in ten million chance, maybe a universe level will emerge.
"Rumble ~ ~ ~"
The entire World of Thunder suddenly shook violently, without any warning whatsoever!
All the teams were shocked.
"What's going on?"
"Is this world about to collapse?"
"My god!"
The entire Valley of Wind and Thunder spanned over a thousand km, the tens of thousands of Star level explorers who came to take the exam, all looked up in shock at their surroundings, at the world. And Luo Feng's team and Heruo's team naturally looked up in shock at their surroundings, the entire world was shaking, even the mountains were shaking.
"What's going on?" Luo Feng looked around.
"Over there!!!" Someone shouted.
Tens of thousands of Stellar-level adventurers, as long as they were on the mountain range, saw the mountain range not far away crack open, and a pitch-black hole that seemed to have been torn open appeared. This black hole was half on the mountain range, and the other half was in the mountain range. The surrounding space was torn open, and it was extremely strange.
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