In the silent storage room, the moment Shi Feng clicked "confirm" and converted ten thousand Evil Energy Crystals, the Evil God Stone Tablet immediately began to grow. What had originally been no larger than a washbasin gradually swelled to a height of two or three meters, and the blurry divine inscriptions and patterns carved on its surface gradually became clearer and more defined.
As the inscriptions and patterns on the tablet grew ever sharper, the divine might it radiated became increasingly powerful. Even Shi Feng, who held a second-tier class, found himself completely immobilized—as though time itself had been frozen. Only his thoughts continued to function.
After persisting for more than ten seconds, the divine might dissipated, and the entire tablet underwent a dramatic transformation.
The originally dark gray tablet had turned a brilliant silvery white. The surrounding mana involuntarily condensed toward the Evil God Stone Tablet, concentrating to such a degree that it formed a faint white mist. This mist gradually spread outward, eventually enveloping the entire storage room.
"What's going on with this mana?" Shi Feng stood in the midst of the white mist, overwhelmed with shock.
Normally, when mana density reached the point of forming visible mist, it would fill any player with an indescribable sense of comfort, their mind becoming sharper and calmer than ever before.
But this mist was entirely different. Far from granting clarity, merely standing within it produced an unprecedented sense of heaviness—as though something immense was pressing down on his entire body. His spirit grew inexplicably fatigued, like a balloon suddenly filled with mercury, utterly unable to withstand such crushing energy, on the verge of mental collapse at any moment.
Nevertheless, Shi Feng forced himself to stay focused, determined to examine what had happened to the Evil God Stone Tablet.
Evil God Stone Tablet — Fragment Three Legendary Item (Damaged) Illusory Space: Upon activation, creates an Illusory Space within a 200-yard radius. Any player who enters the Illusory Space will be confronted by an illusory copy of themselves for combat. Copies can reach up to Dark Gold-grade. Duration: 50 minutes. Cooldown: 60 minutes. (Evolvable—requires one Evil Energy Crystal.)
Evil God Domain: Generates a self-contained domain around the stone tablet. When activated, it creates a miniature space completely isolated from the outside world. Time within flows at half the exterior speed, and the mana density is three times higher. Illusory creatures periodically appear within the space, and each wave of creatures defeated raises the mana density further. If an illusory creature kills the player, their soul takes damage, and the player will be unable to log into the Divine Realm for six hours. (Evolvable—requires three Evil Energy Crystals.)
An artifact crafted by the Evil God. Internal inscriptions can be restored by absorbing the power of Evil Energy. Advancement requires 200,000 Evil Energy Crystals.
"This Evil God Stone Tablet is insane! Even other Legendary Items don't have power like this." Shi Feng stared at the tablet's new attributes, his eyes brimming with astonishment.
This upgrade had far exceeded his expectations.
Setting aside the fact that the Illusory Space could now expand to a 200-yard radius—allowing for the creation of more advanced combat rooms—the Evil God Domain alone was a god-tier ability.
In the Divine Realm, major factions and players were always pursuing high-mana environments, because such surroundings allowed players to practice combat techniques more effectively, preventing them from becoming completely exhausted after just a dozen rounds of high-level practice.
The Evil God Domain not only created an extremely high-mana environment, but could even slow the flow of time to half speed. In other words, for every hour that passed outside, only half an hour passed within—saving an enormous amount of time. For players who were short on time and wanted to rapidly improve their combat proficiency, what would require ten hours of training outside could be accomplished in just five hours inside the Evil God Domain. It was nothing short of a training paradise.
If the major superpowers found out about this, they would undoubtedly band together to seize it.
After all, the current advanced combat rooms were already enough to make many superpowers envious, let alone a paradise dedicated to training combat techniques.
The only drawback was the illusory creatures that appeared inside. From the description, it was clear that the creatures would grow progressively stronger, meaning the time a player could spend training was limited. Once they could no longer hold out, they would have to leave the Evil God Domain—otherwise, being killed would mean devastating losses.
"It looks like I can't let the guild's experts use this freely for the time being." Shi Feng studied the Evil God Domain's description and quietly deliberated.
Zero Wing had indeed made a name for itself in the Divine Realm, but that didn't mean they could afford to ignore a joint assault from the major superpowers. The moment any expert members entered the Evil God Domain, the news would inevitably reach them. After all, Zero Wing was now powerful enough to draw serious attention from every major guild, and having expert players infiltrate the guild was entirely expected.
If the major superpowers found out, the guild—having only recently enjoyed a period of peace—would be plunged back into the maelstrom of guild warfare.
The best he could do was limit access to core leadership like Huo Wu and Hei Zi. Any more than that would invite trouble.
Expanding access further would require Zero Wing's strength to advance to a point where the major superpowers deemed the guild worthy of possessing the Evil God Stone Tablet. But that would be a long process.
Still, Shi Feng wasn't too disappointed. Even if he couldn't let more guild members into the Evil God Domain, building additional advanced training rooms was entirely feasible.
Now that the Evil God Tablet's advancement had already expanded its range to a 200-yard radius, a further upgrade might cover an even larger area—potentially the entire floor.
At that point, he could openly boost the skill completion rates and combat power of guild members. The other superpowers would be jealous at most, but wouldn't unite to seize it. After all, the major superpowers had extraordinary resources of their own and possessed other means to enhance their experts' skill completion rates—though perhaps not as effective as advanced training rooms.
"The next advancement requires 200,000 Evil Energy Crystals?" Shi Feng frowned slightly at the advancement conditions. "The requirements really are getting more and more demanding."
Obtaining even 10,000 Evil Energy Crystals had required Zero Wing to hunt nearly 100,000 Evil Demons—and that was because Evil Demons had a higher drop rate for Evil Energy Crystals than Evil Beasts. Opportunities like that didn't come along easily, let alone collecting 200,000 crystals.
"Wait—that's not impossible." Shi Feng suddenly thought of the Evil God's sub-temple in Ancient Rock City.
Elsewhere, gathering that many Evil Energy Crystals might be nearly impossible, but the Evil God's sub-temple could make it happen. After all, Ancient Rock City housed over three million Evil Demons and Evil Beasts. If he could eliminate all of them, he would be close to gathering the 200,000 Evil Energy Crystals needed.
If the outside factions and the Beast Emperor knew that Shi Feng was actually targeting the Evil God's sub-temple in Ancient Rock City, they would probably choke on their own blood. Everyone else was doing everything they could to stay away from it, and yet here he was, deliberately seeking it out.
Just as Shi Feng was contemplating how to deal with the sub-temple, the small text inside the parentheses in the tablet's description suddenly caught his eye.
"Both of these skills can be upgraded further?" Seeing that advancing the skills required Evil Energy Crystals, Shi Feng felt a surge of excitement. Evil Energy Crystals were incredibly precious, but he had no other cities that needed the crystals to strengthen their defensive magic formations anymore. Without hesitation, he clicked to have the Evil God Stone Tablet absorb more Evil Energy Crystals.
Instantly, the Evil Energy Crystals in Shi Feng's inventory transformed into a stream of light that plunged into the silvery white tablet.
Suddenly, the first of the six blurry patterns on the Evil God Stone Tablet became crystal clear. The image depicted an ancient deity locked in battle with a nine-headed demon serpent—the more Shi Feng looked, the more vivid the scene became, as though he were right there, saturated with an almost hypnotic demonic allure.
"Practice of Principles?" Shi Feng gazed at the endlessly evolving pattern, his mind surging like a tidal wave.