Blood for blood? A crystal glass sphere in the deep sea!

These dozen or so players from Coconut Country were mostly thin and lean in build.

They had cautiously, stealthily crossed the ocean, traveling thousands of miles to the vicinity of Hai City, not without purpose, of course.

"Heh, infiltrating Great Xia was too easy. Seems their strength isn't much,"

"Exactly. If it weren't for that Shadow guy in Great Xia, our Coconut Country would've already taken them down."

"Sigh, our Four Vajras in Coconut Country only know how to fight among themselves. If they united, they'd definitely be able to take down a Legendary BOSS like Shadow did."

"If the Four Vajras united, the whole world would be ours, not to mention Great Xia. What a pity…"

"Don't say that. Starting a war is easy, but what if Great Xia surrenders? Do we have enough food to feed them all?"

Hearing his teammates all expressing disdain for Great Xia,

a thin young man in the team, codenamed 'Little Monkey', timidly spoke up, "But… we were able to infiltrate smoothly because we got equipment from the Great Xia people…"

Instantly, the group glared angrily at Little Monkey. "If you didn't speak, no one would think you were mute!"

After a brief silence in the team channel,

a pale-skinned, long-armed player coughed. "Everyone, let's focus on finding where Black Eye Volcano is. It's said to be in the sea, but the coordinates the Great Xia people gave… I can't understand them. Can any of you?"

This pale-skinned, long-armed player, nicknamed 'Gibbon', was the overall commander of this operation.

A bespectacled player in the team sighed. "We need to enter the game first to look… Luckily, that Great Xia person covered our forced game region transfer fees."

"Our target this time is to find the level 45 Epic-grade BOSS at Black Eye Volcano—a Double-headed Phoenix!"

"What we need to do is, after finding the BOSS, have Little Monkey go die."

"Little Monkey, you're recognized as the son by that old fisherman NPC. As long as you die by that Phoenix's hand, the old fisherman will avenge you, driving it into a state of irrational Whispers and Stripping all its Upper Affixes…"

"Little Monkey, sacrifice yourself, die a few more times, and we can grind that BOSS to Death!"

Hearing this, everyone nodded in understanding, their fighting spirit soaring!

Only 'Little Monkey' wore a bitter expression.

Because, although he was recognized as the son by that old fisherman NPC, each time he died, the old fisherman would only 'avenge' him for one minute…

This was also a limitation set by the God Forsaken Game system.

How many times would he have to die to grind that level 45 Epic-grade BOSS to Death?

Die a few more times?

More like 'die a few hundred million more times'!

…

At the same time,

within a certain officially controlled area in Great Xia, a team was tackling a Diamond-level BOSS.

Among the crowd, a female mage in a red robe, wielding a flame staff, continuously cast fire skills at the Diamond BOSS.

She was enveloped in a flame shield, already stacked to ten times her health, capable of blocking nearly two million damage.

And each of her skills could deal tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of damage to the BOSS.

She was 'Yunjianyue'!

Suddenly,

the crocodile-like Diamond BOSS burrowed underground and, the next moment, erupted from the ground beneath Yunjianyue, biting down on her body!

-115,000!

-127,000!

…

Damage numbers kept popping up above Yunjianyue's head as she was bitten, depleting her flame shield.

An official healer not far away raised a hand, casting a shield skill directly on Yunjianyue.

At first, it managed to maintain Yunjianyue's shield, but soon, the damage from the BOSS's bite kept increasing…

"No good, can't heal through it!"

"The damage keeps stacking higher and higher!"

"Once bitten, CC break, super armor, and dispels are useless!"

In just over ten seconds, Yunjianyue's shield was completely shattered, and her body was bitten in half!

Not far away, official players were recording the situation.

"Burrow kill, tail swipe, ground slam attack…"

"Skills are mostly scouted. We can send in the main force now."

"This record: Yunjianyue died 13 times, Dream Fox Fish died 9 times, Dinosaur Yields Pear died 8 times… BOSS prioritizes targeting long-range magic classes."

Strangely,

where Yunjianyue died on the field, no lifespan was dropped, not even a single point!

That was because…

Yunjianyue's lifespan was already zero!

After her life soul was taken by a Soul Reaper, she wouldn't die even without lifespan.

Thus, Great Xia Official utilized these players to probe and preliminarily tackle BOSSes, significantly reducing losses during BOSS raids.

By now, Diamond-level BOSSes were basically within easy grasp, able to be taken down in just two hours.

Even Great Xia's top-tier teams had officially begun tackling Epic-grade BOSSes and weren't far from killing one…

Whoosh.

Yunjianyue calmly resurrected at a temporary teleportation array built not far away.

Then she received a private message.

"Although those Coconut Country guys are weak, according to intel, that old fisherman NPC is quite interesting."

"Shadow… are you planning to find that Double-headed Phoenix and tame it as a mount?"

"My apologies."

"That Phoenix killed my brother, killed someone I loved. I will definitely… make it pay. Blood for blood!"

After reading, Yunjianyue expressionlessly continued forward, rejoining the BOSS raid team, preparing to officially kill that Diamond-Level crocodile BOSS…

…

A few days later.

At this time, Qin Feng was in the Atlantic Ocean, searching everywhere for the last initial Legendary BOSS, Abyssal Demon Eye.

He used Shadow Incarnation, darting through the pitch-black depths of the sea.

Sometimes, encountering large groups of deep-sea monsters gathered, he would cancel his shadow state and eliminate those level 30-40 monsters…

Along the way, Qin Feng's experience bar continued to accumulate rapidly.

With full-leveling efforts and puppets helping farm monsters, Qin Feng's level was quickly approaching 40!

"Once I hit level 40, find an NPC to buy a mount bell, and go tame Grey Chicken's mom as a mount."

Qin Feng wasn't particularly worried about the Double-headed Phoenix's safety.

After all, currently, other players killing a level 45 Epic-grade BOSS was pretty much impossible.

Even with some cult-like strategies, they couldn't instantly kill a level 45 Epic-grade BOSS…

And Grey Chicken had said,

if its mom was attacked, it could sense it.

If anyone dared provoke 'Lutil', Qin Feng would go rescue her in time.

At depths of several thousand meters in the Atlantic Ocean, Qin Feng searched and killed along the way, even encountering an environmental disaster of erupting subterranean fire… The fire erupting from the seabed came extremely suddenly.

It almost burned Qin Feng to Death. Fortunately, seeing the damage was too high, Qin Feng immediately used Shadow Incarnation and, relying on the invincible state, quickly distanced himself from the tens of kilometers range of the fire eruption.

"This kind of environmental disaster… if it were me before, I might have died inside, needing to rely on Death Eulogy's resurrection charges to get out alive."

This was precisely why players generally didn't venture too far from City Ruins.

Environmental disasters were more terrifying than any BOSS or monster!

They had a chance of appearing in areas far from ruins.

If trying to travel directly from one City Ruins to another, one might die on the way. Even if not, the high-multiplier lifespan drain zones along the route would cause players to lose massive amounts of lifespan.

Compared to that, teleporting directly was better…

After the fifth job advancement,

Qin Feng had been searching in the depths of this part of the Atlantic Ocean for a week.

Still, he hadn't found any clues related to the Abyssal Demon Eye.

He had killed a massive number of high-level monsters, though. Not only was his experience close to level 40, but his evolution points had also accumulated to just over 100,000. He was only one Legendary BOSS away from evolving Thieving Hand of the Saint.

At this very moment,

Qin Feng was searching in the super deep sea, over ten kilometers from the surface.

He drank an underwater breathing potion and continued sensing his surroundings… Suddenly, he sensed something rather peculiar.

"A glass sphere?"

Through Original Shadow Perception, Qin Feng sensed that, buried within the seabed coral reefs in this deep sea area, was a light blue crystal glass sphere, about the size of a basketball.

A crystal glass sphere alone wasn't strange.

But the key was…

Qin Feng felt that inside the glass sphere, there seemed to be intelligent life forms!

The evidence was that the interior of the crystal glass sphere was fashioned like a palace, and within the palace, many small creatures were bustling about, somewhat resembling mermaids in shape, just exceptionally tiny.

And two of those mermaids seemed to be holding god-given books, crafting something.

"A monster community?"

"A BOSS?"

"Unlikely. Monsters and BOSSes shouldn't be able to use god-given books…"

"Could it be an NPC?"

Qin Feng was quite interested, especially since there were still a few NPC slots left in Evil Spirit Academy.

If there really was an NPC in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, its function should be quite rare!

In short, whether it was a BOSS or an NPC, Qin Feng planned to go check it out. There might be a pleasant surprise.

As Qin Feng approached the crystal glass sphere hidden deep within the coral reefs, he couldn't help but think this location was outrageous!

"If I didn't have Original Shadow Perception, there's no way I'd know there's a crystal glass sphere deep inside this pile of coral reefs, with super tiny mermaids inside…"

"And also, I probably can't even get in, right?"

Before Qin Feng was a chaotic pile of seabed coral reefs, completely blocking the crystal glass sphere.

No choice.

Qin Feng could only release, Shadow Incarnation!

His entire body became a pitch-black shadow. In this state, he had no collision volume. He canceled stealth and passed directly through the pile of coral reefs!

"If it really is an NPC, meeting face-to-face is fine too."

Qin Feng thought to himself.

And so…

His pitch-black, featureless face, like a ghost, appeared directly outside the crystal glass sphere.

"Ahhh!"

"A ghost!!"

Instantly, the mermaids inside the crystal glass sphere screamed in terror at this 'ghost face'!