"Everyone's here?"
Huan Yu and Bumie Zhanxin couldn't help but turn to look at Shi Feng, their eyes full of astonishment.
"Could it be them?"
The Shura Adventure Team had quite a reputation on the Divine Realm's Eastern Continent. Rumor had it that they controlled over half of the Ice Crystal World, and every core member was shrouded in mystery. Exceptional geniuses would periodically emerge from their ranks — geniuses who had been completely unknown before that.
There were also whispers of an incredibly powerful team leader within the Shura Adventure Team, someone who never showed their face. His strength was said to be so formidable that even Jing Wuming himself admitted he couldn't withstand a single blow. The reason Jing Wuming had been frantically challenging the experts of every major superpower was so that one day he could face his team leader in battle.
This had given every major superpower an additional reason to tread carefully.
Every major superpower in the Divine Realm suspected that some enormously powerful mysterious force was backing the Shura Adventure Team. Some even speculated it came from above the Upper Zone.
On top of that, the Shura Adventure Team was incredibly arrogant, turning away most factions that tried to make contact. This had led to quite a few large-scale battles, which only made the Shura Adventure Team more famous.
And now, it seemed the Shura Adventure Team had quite a good relationship with Zero Wing...
"Mm, they'll be moving with us." Shi Feng looked at Jing Wuming and the others, nodding. Inwardly, he was rather surprised himself.
He hadn't expected that in such a short time, Jing Wuming and the others had improved so dramatically. Their levels actually surpassed even Fire Dance and the others. From the look of Jing Wuming's bearing, he was only half a step away from Domain mastery — truly a battle maniac. Frantically challenging the Divine Realm's top experts had certainly made him enemies, but fighting the strongest was also the fastest way to improve.
As for Gu Jiuji, Yan Ya, Mu Xiaoxiao, and the rest, they had all made significant progress as well. They had clearly reached the Flowing Water Realm and were not far from the Void Realm at all — just a sliver of enlightenment away from a potential breakthrough.
As for Shi Feng's introduction, Jing Wuming and his team were momentarily speechless before turning to nod at Huan Yu and Bumie Zhanxin, showing no inclination to say a word.
Gu Jiuji, on the other hand, looked delighted and quietly sent Shi Feng a voice transmission: "Team Leader, what do you think? The people we brought this time — every one of them has combat power on par with top-tier experts. We didn't embarrass you, did we?"
"Indeed impressive. I didn't expect you'd actually be able to recruit so many talented people." Shi Feng swept his gaze across the group, genuinely astonished.
Quite a few of these people were unfamiliar to him, but he recognized some of their names. In his previous life, they had been well-known solo experts, and two of them had even reached Tier 5 classes — just a hair below half-step god-tier like Jing Wuming.
He hadn't imagined Jing Wuming could recruit all of them into the Shura Adventure Team.
Gu Jiuji then gave Shi Feng a rundown of their recent situation. Apparently, they had accidentally wandered into a wondrous place where time flowed at a completely different rate. The players there were extraordinarily strong — individuals at the Expert Realm were treated as third-rate fighters and considered nothing special.
Those players had universally high levels, with some even reaching level 130. The sight had left them all dumbstruck.
While there, they had fought many battles against the local experts, gaining tremendous insight and improvement. Unfortunately, they hadn't stayed long before they were somehow sent back — yet their levels had quietly surged far beyond those of the top-tier experts from the Divine Realm's major superpowers.
Shi Feng listened with growing amazement. He hadn't known there were such extraordinary regions within the Divine Realm.
Still, when he thought about Bai Qingxue and Watercolor fighting in an alternate world for eighty years, what Jing Wuming and the others had encountered seemed far less shocking.
After chatting for a while, Huan Yu, Bumie Zhanxin, and the rest had finished all their preparations. One by one, they mounted their flying mounts and headed directly toward the Destruction Mountain Range.
The Destruction Mountain Range occupied a vast territory within the Divine Realm.
By the estimates of the Divine Realm's players, the entire range was roughly five or six times the size of an empire's territory, connecting numerous regions. The level-120 zone was merely the outermost fringe — to enter the interior, one needed to be at least level 150 or above.
As for the legendary core zone of the Destruction Mountain Range, only level-180-plus Tier 5 experts had ventured there. Tier 4 players at level 200 would be dead on arrival.
After more than seven hours of flight, Shi Feng and the others finally spotted a sprawling, majestic mountain range in the distance.
The outer mountains alone rose over thirty kilometers high. The entire sky above the range was blanketed by thunderclouds, and streaks of purple-blue lightning serpents raged ceaselessly against the peaks, shrouding the sky in their fury — as if the Destruction Mountain Range were perpetually venting its wrath.
For Huan Yu, Bumie Zhanxin, Jing Wuming, and the others seeing the Destruction Mountain Range for the first time, this spectacular and devastating panorama left them completely stunned.
"Let's go down!" Shi Feng took one look and gave the order to everyone.
Flying mounts could not enter the Destruction Mountain Range. The only way for players to get inside was on foot.
That was because even Tier 5 experts couldn't withstand the purple-blue lightning's assault — three to five strikes and even a level-200 Tier 5 Guardian Knight would be brought to their knees.
That was right. Flying was impossible throughout the entire Destruction Mountain Range; one could only walk in. The only way to fly above the Destruction Mountain Range was to reach Tier 6 and power through the purple-blue lightning by sheer force.
Soon after, Shi Feng and the others landed in a wooded area not far from the Destruction Mountain Range and stowed their flying mounts.
"Once we enter the Destruction Mountain Range, everyone must stick with the team at all times. Leaving the formation is absolutely prohibited, and anyone who does so bears the consequences alone." Shi Feng waited until everyone had finished tidying up and then spoke. "Remember — even if someone right beside you is crying for help, or if I tell you to run for your lives, you ignore all of it. Stay with the team and keep moving forward! And the pace must be fast — the faster, the better!"
Shi Feng's orders left everyone present both surprised and puzzled.