After leaving the Tower of Four Gods, the next time Shi Feng appeared, he was standing on an island shrouded in death energy. The death energy swirling around him was not only bone-chilling cold, but it also noticeably slowed his reaction speed. Moreover, the undead creatures wandering everywhere were all Level 90+ lords.
"The Bone Burial Ruins?" Shi Feng glanced at his surroundings and quickly figured out where he was. "They sure know how to teleport people—sending me straight to a place this dangerous."
The Bone Burial Ruins were located in the core region of the Sea of Death. While the danger level couldn't compare to the Tidal Vortex, any Level 90 expert who came here would face a fate of certain death. Not only was flight forbidden within the ruins, but all forms of teleportation were rendered useless as well. Entry and exit relied entirely on one's own two feet, so when a player encountered danger, escape was nearly impossible. Typically, one had to form a team of at least twenty people just to move around here.
However, for him in his current state, a place like this was nothing more than a walk in the park.
Shi Feng immediately set off running toward the exit of the Bone Burial Ruins.
Though the entire Bone Burial Ruins was merely an isolated island, it held vast spaces within—stepping inside was like entering a pocket dimension, no smaller at all than the large-scale grinding maps found on the mainland.
After running for over twenty minutes, when the canyon exit of the Bone Burial Ruins finally came into view, Shi Feng saw that the canyon's entrance was already packed with players—well over a thousand of them.
The thousand-plus players were clearly split into two groups. One group numbered only about a hundred, while the other group—the one blocking the canyon entrance—consisted of over a thousand.
The levels of these players were remarkably high. Every single one was at least Level 86, with the highest reaching Level 87. The worst equipment on any of them was Level 85 Mithril-grade gear—a level of equipment that even the elite teams of top-tier guilds would struggle to assemble. After all, many top-tier guilds currently had experts who had only just barely reached Level 85, let alone attempted to clear an 85-level Dungeon.
What surprised Shi Feng even more than their levels, however, was the identity of the two groups.
The hundred-person group all bore the guild emblem of the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion, and leading them was Qing Huang, one of Feng Qianyu's trusted subordinates. The thousand-person group, on the other hand, were not guild members but free players. Their capes, however, all bore the same adventuring party insignia, suggesting they all belonged to a single party.
"How interesting—an adventuring party actually daring to go up against the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion."
Shi Feng was quite intrigued. The Dragon Phoenix Pavilion was an ultra-top-tier guild. No matter where they went, aside from the great superpowers, who would dare provoke them?
Yet here was a single adventuring party bold enough to lay siege to Dragon Phoenix Pavilion members. If word of this got out, most people wouldn't believe it.
While Shi Feng was still puzzling over this, a man stepped forward from the thousand-person group on the adventuring party's side. The moment he appeared, the atmosphere on the scene grew heavy.
The man was a Level 87 half-elf Elementalist. The worst equipment he wore was Level 85 Gold-grade, and three of his pieces radiated the unmistakable glow of Epic-grade gear. The ice-blue staff in his hand also shimmered with an Epic-grade aura. His equipment was every bit as impressive as Qing Huang's.
The moment this man appeared, Qing Huang's previously calm expression shifted abruptly.
"So to deal with us, even the famous Battle Blood vice-commander Cao Mu Yi Qiu himself has come all the way here. You really do us too much honor." Qing Huang looked at the half-elf man and said with biting sarcasm.
The Battle Blood adventuring party was universally acknowledged as one of the top three parties on Dragonheart Island. While the party's total membership couldn't compare to the major guilds, their overall strength at sea and the caliber of their experts rivaled that of a superpower. Among them, Battle Blood's four vice-commanders were known by everyone on Dragonheart Island—each one a monstrous powerhouse in their own right. Cao Mu Yi Qiu, in particular, was known as the Blood Mage, having single-handedly destroyed an entire fleet at sea. He was widely regarded as one of the top ten Elementalists on all of Dragonheart Island.
"You only have yourselves to blame for failing to appreciate a good thing when it was offered," Cao Mu Yi Qiu said dismissively. "Did you really think you could come out here to level up and things would be fine? Now that Star Ring and the Thirteen Royal Courts have already successfully captured the fortress in the Earthcore Mountains and gained access to unimaginable resources, Guild Master Lu Xingluo was kind enough to invite you to develop together on Dragonheart Island and deal with Zero Wing. But you refused. So now, just like Zero Wing, you can forget about setting foot in the Sea of Death ever again."