The Ghost Mist Plains — a neutral map outside the Black Dragon Empire.
The entire plains were perpetually shrouded in death energy, locked in eternal night. Undead creatures with extraordinarily high physical resistance roamed freely, and with monster levels ranging from 70 to 80, even elite players found the place perilous. One wrong step could mean death, which was why almost no players were willing to venture here.
Yet at this moment, on a patch of elevated grassland somewhere in the plains, a twenty-person team was battling over a hundred level 70-plus Corpse Earth Dragons. The dragons ranged from special elite to lord-tier, their bodies wreathed in dense death energy. Even approaching them made players feel an intense chill creep through their bodies, slowing their movements — not to mention the Corpse Earth Dragons' terrifyingly high defense and their corrosive attacks.
But these players were methodically taking down the Corpse Earth Dragons one after another.
The assassin leading the charge was single-handedly drawing the aggro of a full seventy or eighty dragons, weaving among them like a butterfly dancing through a field of flowers — never once getting clipped.
Once the Corpse Earth Dragons were fully fixated on the assassin, a slender young woman in the team unleashed spell after spell, pounding into the dragons for twenty to thirty thousand damage each. These attacks not only dealt massive damage to the dragons but also significantly disrupted their venomous projectile trajectories, deflecting them wide and easing the assassin's burden considerably.
In less than thirty minutes, every last Corpse Earth Dragons had been eliminated, materials and items scattered across the ground.
"The guild leader and vice-guild leader are incredible! Without them, those Corpse Earth Dragons would've ground us down bit by bit."
"Seriously. The stamina drain out here is insane — I barely fought at all, and I've already burned through over a quarter of my stamina. No wonder other adventure teams never come here to level."
"If I had even half the skill of our guild leader and vice-guild leader, I could stroll through the Black Dragon Empire like I owned the place."
"With their abilities and reputation, they could easily establish a major guild in the Black Dragon Empire. A superpower even came recruiting before, hoping our team would join, but the guild leader turned them down flat."
The members of the FFF Adventure Team gazed at Yan Tianxing and Yi Luofei as they sat recovering their stamina, their eyes filled with reverence and admiration — especially the newer recruits.
The Corpse Earth Dragons had absurdly high physical defense, and the death energy they emitted could cut a player's combat power by an entire tier. On top of that, their poison attacks stacked continuously. Even main tanks decked out in top-tier gear wouldn't dare pull more than five or six at a time — that was already the limit. But the Corpse Earth Dragons always moved in groups of a hundred or more. A twenty-person team couldn't even farm them; even a fifty-person team would struggle.
Yet now, with Guild Leader Yan Tianxing drawing the vast majority of the dragons on his own, combined with Yi Luofei's magic bombardment, the entire team could farm Corpse Earth Dragons without a shred of pressure. It was practically a cheat.
The Ghost Mist Plains didn't offer much in the way of perks, but the monster experience gain here was astronomically high — no other map even came close. After just this one wave, their experience bars had visibly jumped, a testament to how incredibly rich the EXP was.
Just then, a figure materialized out of thin air before Yan Tianxing and Yi Luofei.
The woman wore dark gray leather armor that concealed an impressive figure beneath its bulk. Her aura was cold as the full moon hanging in the night sky, and her refined beauty was ethereal — like a fairy descended from the moon itself, untouched by mortal dust.
Upon closer inspection, one would find that her level was a staggering 67 — an absolute first in the entire Black Dragon Empire. And before this woman appeared, not even Yan Tianxing or Yi Luofei had sensed her presence.
Her sudden arrival instantly put every member of the FFF Adventure Team on edge.
Every person present was an elite, their ability to detect auras absolutely top-tier — yet they hadn't picked up even a trace of this woman. Worse still, once she revealed herself, the terrifyingly cold pressure she radiated was unlike anything they had ever encountered. It felt as though they were standing in the depths of the underworld itself.
"Lian, what do you want?" Yan Tianxing glanced at this extraordinary woman and asked evenly.