As Shi Feng and the others entered the side hall of the Thunder Temple and vanished from sight, the entire area fell silent.
"Damn it! They actually got away!" Qi Huang snarled in fury.
To ambush Reincarnation and seize the Thunder God's Key, the Seven Sin Flowers had spent enormous amounts of time and resources to set their trap within the Thunder Temple. With their level of preparation, even the leaders of the great superpowers wouldn't have been able to escape today. Yet Shi Feng's arrival had carved out a bloody path right through them.
If word of this got out, they'd be the laughingstock of the entire organization.
"Got away? That assumes they actually can!" Di Tian's gaze turned cold as he ordered, "Send for a squad of Blood God Guards from headquarters immediately. Qi Huang, you and Sha Gu bring people and hold the side hall. This is the Thunder God's Secret Realm — even if they die, they won't be able to leave. The only way out is through those teleportation arrays. Let's see if they have the guts to stay inside the side hall forever!"
Whenever a player died inside a Dungeon, unless someone inside could resurrect them, they would automatically revive at the Dungeon's entrance. But this was the Thunder God's Secret Realm — players couldn't use any items here, not even Return Scrolls. As long as they held the entrance, Shi Feng's group would have no way out but death.
As for the side hall of the Thunder Temple, he had been inside before. It simply wasn't a place current players could set foot in.
It appeared to be nothing more than a Level 90 team Dungeon, but this one was special — it offered no selectable difficulty tiers. In other words, it had only one difficulty level, equivalent to a Level 90 Hell Difficulty team Dungeon.
If a hundred-player team hadn't reached Level 90 and wasn't decked out in peak Level 90 equipment, going in meant instant death. And Shi Feng's group had fewer than ten people in total. Trying to survive in a hundred-player Dungeon was practically suicide.
"Yes!" Qi Huang and Sha Gu acknowledged with nods.
Inside the Thunder Temple's side hall, Shi Feng and his companions felt the world flicker before their eyes, as though they had stepped into an entirely different realm.
The great hall was filled with towering divine statues standing thirty or forty meters tall. These colossal statues had long since fallen into ruin under the ravages of time, yet they still emanated a faint divine pressure.
There were twenty-two statues in all, and beside each one stood an enormous passageway leading to unknown depths. The entire place felt like an underground labyrinth.
"Is this really a hundred-player team Dungeon?" Zhuo Hai stared at the vast palace, his heart filled with dread.
The instant he had appeared within the central magic circle, he had felt the crisis of death bearing down on him. Those twenty-two passageways especially — they felt like the gaping maws of enormous beasts, just waiting for them to walk in and die.
Although he had known beforehand that this Dungeon was far beyond their level, actually stepping inside filled him with a sense of utter helplessness.
Forget about entering those twenty-two passageways — just the fully armed serpentfolk guards stationed at each entrance were enough to crush any hope.
Serpentfolk Guard (Favored of the Thunder God), Bloodline Creature, Lord, Level 87, HP 45 million.
Serpentfolk Guard Captain (Favored of the Thunder God), Bloodline Creature, Great Lord, Level 88, HP 96 million.
These monsters were organized into twenty-man guard units, each protecting a single passageway.
If they were ordinary Level 87 Lord-rank monsters, their gear and combat skill would have made them manageable despite the level suppression. But fighting an entire squad of Level 87 Lords was pure fantasy — and there was also a Level 88 Great Lord to contend with.
But none of that was the most important thing.
The critical issue was that these were Bloodline Creatures — and Favored of the Thunder God, no less.
Ordinary expert players might not understand the significance, but for top-tier players like them, deep study of the Divine Realm's history and lore was second nature. They knew exactly how formidable Bloodline Creatures were.
Bloodline Creatures typically referred to beings that inherited their bloodline from some incredibly powerful entity. They were born with inherently potent bloodlines — not quite on the level of Primordial Species, but easily the closest thing beneath them. As Favored, they generally possessed unique abilities, and as the Favored of the Thunder God, those abilities would be anything but ordinary.
Outside the Thunder God's Secret Realm, they might have found some way to deal with them. But inside the Secret Realm, all ten of them were zeroth-tier Classes. Combined, all ten of them together probably wouldn't stand a chance against even a single Serpentfolk Guard…
"These monsters are far too strong — way beyond what we can handle right now. I guess we're stuck here waiting." Yi Yun said with a bitter smile.