In the World Within a World.
The vast sky stretched endlessly, with a huge glowing sphere suspended high in the distant sky, illuminating the entire World Within a World.
“Boom, boom, boom!”
A waterfall over a hundred metres high crashed down violently, landing in the deep pool below. The water in the pool released waves of icy cold air. Suddenly, five figures broke through the water and landed on the shore.
Under the light, their alloy battle suits reflected a cold glow. These five people were Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, Tie Nanhe, and Ao Gu.
“We finally got a big haul.” Thunder God sighed. “I was getting anxious these past few days.”
“The universe crystals scattered throughout this World Within a World are random and have no pattern. Sometimes we can find several crystal deposits in a row, while sometimes we cannot find a single one for a long time. That is completely normal.” Luo Feng looked around. The surrounding forests were silent, and there were no other creatures.
“Third brother, how many universe crystals have we collected in total?” Hong asked.
“31000 units of universe crystals in three days.” Luo Feng smiled.
This was an exciting number.
From the moment they entered the World Within a World, Luo Feng and his group had started searching the surrounding areas like a carpet sweep. However, this World Within a World was simply too large. Its length and width were both close to one million kilometres. To truly search the entire world, they would have to travel back and forth tens of thousands of times.
No.
Even travelling back and forth tens of thousands of times would only allow them to search the surface 20 kilometres deep.
The depth underground in this World Within a World exceeded 20 kilometres.
Just searching the first 20 kilometres of the surface would take thousands of years. Because it was simply too vast, searching truly depended on luck.
During the first ten hours of the first day, their group continuously found six universe crystal deposits, obtaining a total of 15000 units of universe crystals.
However, until noon on the second day, after nearly 20 hours, they had only found one location, and it contained merely 300 units of universe crystals.
From noon on the second day until now, their luck had improved.
They continuously found five more locations, especially the one they had just discovered in the deep pool, which contained 6000 units of universe crystals.
Adding everything together, they had obtained 31000 units of universe crystals in three days.
“31000 units of universe crystals means 31 million universe coins, worth nearly 1000 billion Qianwu coins. The first sum of money my teacher left me was only 10 billion Qianwu coins. Discovering a new world really is profitable…” Luo Feng thought happily.
Their small team had left Earth and entered the vast universe.
During their first universe apprentice mercenary examination, they had encountered such an incredible opportunity.
“Luo Feng, logically speaking, there should already be universe-level experts entering the World Within a World and forcing us away.” Hong frowned. “Why has there still been no news?”
“It is indeed strange.” Luo Feng slightly shook his head. “The Thunder World is huge, but with universe-level strength and no fear of the beasts, it only takes one day to travel from the edge to the Wind Thunder Canyon. Three days have already passed, yet we have not encountered even a single universe-level expert inside the World Within a World, let alone domain lords or world lords.”
“Why think so much? Since they have not entered yet, we should continue mining universe crystals. Once this opportunity is gone, it will not come again!” Thunder God urged.
“Haha, that makes sense.” Hong was also filled with anticipation.
In the universe.
Planets could be bought and sold. Even the “Mu Ya Crystal” used to feed the Cloud Contact Vine could be traded on a large scale. In short, as long as one had enough wealth, even universe-level enslaved warriors could be purchased.
As the first three humans from Earth to step into the universe, Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng naturally wanted to mine as many universe crystals as possible.
With enough wealth, Earth could develop better with their help in the future.
They were the pioneers of humanity on Earth.
“Let’s go!” Luo Feng’s eyes shone brightly, filled with desire.
“Haha, let’s go!” Thunder God and Hong responded in the same way.
The five-man team transformed into five streaks of light. Under the guidance of their detection equipment, they continued the process of searching and mining inside the World Within a World.
Canglan Star.
At the entrance to the Thunder World, inside the historic villa garden, the bald, gigantic man stood there like a mountain. His eyes were closed, but the flame mark between his eyebrows carried an aura that made people tremble and instinctively submit.
Looking at the flame mark was like an ant looking at a towering mountain.
He stood there, and the surrounding space faintly trembled. Occasionally, flames burst out around his body.
Standing in front of him was the silver-haired woman, Chiniya. The other domain lords and universe-level experts remained outside the villa garden. Inside the garden, only Anmondz and Chiniya stood.
“Anmondz, why have you not entered?” A majestic voice echoed throughout the garden.
A man wearing dark blue battle armour and a helmet appeared suddenly. He was even more massive than Anmondz, resembling a god. He stepped through the air, and every step caused the surrounding world to tremble.
When he stepped into the garden, the entire garden disappeared instantly. The surroundings transformed into a vast open land with a towering mountain beside them.
With a conversation, he changed the world and controlled an area of space.
“Who are you? Are you the one stopping Anmondz?” The giant man looked at the silver-haired woman, his eyes shining like the sun, illuminating the entire world.
“Chiniya, special envoy of the Qianwu branch of the Universe Mercenary Alliance.” The silver-haired woman looked at him. “You should be Balsha, the World Lord from the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land.”
“Special envoy?”
The giant man looked at the silver-haired woman with some confusion. He turned towards Anmondz.
A voice directly sounded in Anmondz’s mind.
“Anmondz, who is she? She seems to have quite a background. She can even directly call out my name. What exactly is her identity?”
“I do not know.” Anmondz replied indifferently.
“If you do not know, why did you stop just because a domain lord blocked your way?” Balsha frowned.
“I do not know who she is, but I know there is an undying being behind her.” Anmondz said.
“Undying?”
Balsha’s heart was shaken, but his expression remained calm like a rock. He then looked at Chiniya. His world power quietly flowed around the silver-haired woman, and he could indeed sense a frightening aura.
“Lord Balsha.”
Chiniya’s eyes were calm.
“This Thunder World is a recognised examination world of the Universe Mercenary Alliance. Unless the Alliance removes its status as an examination world, it remains an examination world. Only star-level adventurers participating in the apprentice mercenary examination may enter. Everyone else is forbidden from entering.”
“If you force your way in, you will violate Alliance regulations!” Chiniya looked at Balsha.
Balsha immediately felt troubled.
He, Balsha, had an extremely respected status. Within one of the two sacred lands of the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region, Black Dragon Mountain, he held a very high position. Even the emperor of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire had to show him respect.
Yet now, facing this silver-haired woman, he found himself helpless.
Killing this woman? He could eliminate her with a single move.
However…
First, this silver-haired woman clearly had a powerful background.
Second, she had made the rules very clear. Forcefully entering meant violating Alliance regulations. Who would dare act recklessly?
Offending the Universe Mercenary Alliance would truly be seeking death.
Rules were rules, but normally, those in charge would overlook small matters. Who would deliberately escalate things and offend a group of powerful experts?
However, this silver-haired woman clearly had a strong background and was not afraid of offending them.
“Anmondz, where did this woman come from?” Balsha asked through mental communication, feeling annoyed.
“I do not know.” Anmondz replied.
One day later.
The third World Lord arrived.
A handsome man wearing a dark red battle suit and a black cloak appeared in the villa garden as if he had teleported. A flash of lightning crossed the sky, and he appeared instantly.
The unbelievably handsome man had a lightning mark between his eyebrows, and lightning flickered whenever his eyes opened and closed.
“Chiniya, why are you here?” The handsome man frowned while looking at her.
“Three Axe Mountain, Jiang Tianchen!”
Anmondz and Balsha were both shocked.
In terms of strength, Anmondz was much stronger than Balsha. However, compared with Jiang Tianchen, he was still far inferior.
Jiang Tianchen was absolutely one of the top five super experts in the entire Black Dragon Mountain Star Region.
He was a representative super expert of Three Axe Mountain, and he also held an important position in the Black Dragon Mountain branch of Virtual Universe Company’s Martial Department.
“I came to inspect the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region on behalf of my teacher and happened to discover this matter. Naturally, I must handle it.” Chiniya looked at Jiang Tianchen. “I represent my teacher now, so I naturally cannot allow anything that violates Alliance regulations to happen.”
Jiang Tianchen frowned.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Lightning flashed around him.
“This is ridiculous.” Jiang Tianchen said angrily.
“What is ridiculous?”
Chiniya became angry.
“Jiang Tianchen, these are regulations established by the Universe Mercenary Alliance. It is not your place to interfere! I cannot stop you, but I have recorded everything happening here and will send it to my teacher. Anyone who openly violates Alliance regulations will be reported to the enforcement team. If they are killed and their souls are destroyed completely, do not blame me for not warning you.”
“And everyone else, listen carefully.”
Chiniya stepped aside and pointed at the villa.
“If you want to die, then enter.”
For a moment.
The six domain lords and 21 universe-level experts became silent. Even the World Lord Anmondz looked thoughtfully at the silver-haired woman and did not force his way inside.
Time passed day by day.
More and more experts gathered on Canglan Star, but not a single powerful expert could enter the Thunder World.
It seemed that the words, “If you want to die, then enter,” carried astonishing deterrence.
Meanwhile, inside the World Within a World, those star-level cannon fodder adventurers were all excited and crazed. Luo Feng and his group were also desperately making use of every moment of time.