"Could this be a first-clear bonus?"
Shi Feng thought it over and felt this was the only possibility.
In his previous life, not a single treasure chest had ever appeared in the entire Tomb of Stars. After all, back then many teams had come to farm resources, and any chest that was opened would cause considerable commotion in the surrounding area—impossible to keep secret. Yet no team had ever laid eyes on a treasure chest inside the Tomb of Stars.
So the Tomb of Stars had always been tacitly regarded as a dungeon zone with no treasure chests at all, where one could only grind mobs and defeat bosses to earn resources and treasures.
Still, Shi Feng didn't dwell on it—after all, that was a Sub-Legendary chest, an opportunity too rare to come by. He immediately headed toward Fire Dance's position with Ke Le and the others.
The moment Fire Dance announced the Sub-Legendary chest in party chat, everyone exploded.
"Holy crap! There's actually a Sub-Legendary chest here?"
"Now Zero Wing is set for life—a Sub-Legendary chest! They might even pull out a Legendary item fragment."
"A Legendary item fragment? Our guild leader only has one. Zero Wing's luck is insane!"
The several vice guild leaders of the Hell Legion burned with envy over the Sub-Legendary chest. Had they not been temporarily allied with Zero Wing, they would have seized it at any cost.
Among all the known weapons and equipment in the Divine Realm, the highest quality any player had obtained was merely a Legendary item fragment.
For the experts of ordinary factions, the top-tier gear they knew of was only Epic grade. Anything above that—Legendary item fragments—was treated as pure legend, because on the open market, and even among the great superpowers, there was simply no information about Legendary item fragments.
According to intelligence gathered by their Netherworld Empire, fewer than ten factions in the entire Divine Realm currently possessed Legendary item fragments, and only a handful of high-ranking guild officials knew this.
The power of a single Legendary item fragment was something these guild leaders had witnessed firsthand—it was incomparable to Epic-grade weapons and equipment, capable of elevating a player's strength to a qualitative transformation.
If they could obtain even one, they would instantly ascend to the very pinnacle of the Divine Realm's top-tier experts.
Most importantly, a Legendary item fragment could be used for a lifetime, growing stronger as the player's level increased. Calling it a god-tier artifact would be no exaggeration.
So the guild had been frantically investigating every lead related to Legendary item fragments. At the slightest clue, the guild would mobilize all its resources to pursue it—even if it meant sending the entire Hell Legion to their doom.
Epic-grade chests already had a certain chance of producing Legendary item fragments, and the higher-grade Sub-Legendary chests had a remarkably high chance of yielding one.
"The first-clear rewards for this Tomb of Stars are really this generous?" Hell Roar couldn't help but feel a twinge of envy. "Looks like once we get back, we'll need to have headquarters launch a full-scale clearing of this place."
Previously, all the major superpowers had known that God-tier dungeons would surely be rich in resources, surpassing even the hundred-level-plus ultra-large-scale team dungeons.
But no one had expected things to be this impressive.
This was only the second layer of the Tomb of Stars, and they had already encountered a Sub-Legendary chest. If they could clear down to the fifth or sixth layers, it was simply unimaginable how many good things they might obtain.
After the Hell Legion members finished discussing among themselves, they all followed Shi Feng and the others toward Fire Dance's position.
The entire second layer of the Tomb of Stars resembled a tropical rainforest, except the trees were abnormally tall. Players here looked as if they had entered a land of giants, appearing incredibly small—only the Earth Giants, standing seven or eight meters tall, could be considered normal-sized.
After roughly twenty minutes of walking, Shi Feng and his group passed through a stretch of jungle and arrived at an open hilly area.
In this open hilly region, aside from the Earth Giants roaming everywhere, an ancient and massive temple stood at the center, shrouded in a layer of faint black mist that gave off an indescribable sense of eeriness.