Chapter 1 The White River City

Star-Moon Kingdom, White River City.

Beams of teleportation light descended in the Teleportation Hall, and Shi Feng and the others emerged from them. After the battle with the Ice Lord, everyone's stamina and mental strength were greatly depleted. Even after resting for a while in the Purple Crystal Ice Plains, they still looked exhausted.

"It's really strange. We've been resting for a while, but why do I still feel like my stamina hasn't recovered much, even after arriving in the city?" Aqua Rose noticed the changes in her body and couldn't help but wonder.

It wasn't just Aqua Rose who noticed it. Fire Dance, Yan Tianxing, and other experts at the Refinement Realm or above also felt it.

After reaching the Refinement Realm, one could minutely control their body. The decline in a player's stamina would subtly affect their body, so even though stamina and mental strength were hidden stats that couldn't be seen, Refinement Realm experts could still judge their own stamina state based on their body's condition.

Normally, entering a town would rapidly restore stamina, but right now, their stamina remained stagnant, or rather, was recovering extremely slowly. How could this not make everyone feel strange?

"It's nothing. This is just because the power of frost from high-level maps like the Purple Crystal Ice Plains has invaded your bodies. It will naturally get better as the power of frost slowly dissipates," Shi Feng explained.

The higher the level of a place, the more dangerous it was, and it also came with other subsequent troubles.

The Purple Crystal Ice Plains was a special place that repelled all forces except the power of frost. Players who stayed there for too long would not only consume stamina quickly but also affect their stamina recovery. Especially after fighting a World-class Boss like the Ice Lord, the power of frost would erode their bodies even more severely. Without more than ten hours of recovery in the city, it would be impossible to return to a perfect state.

"Doesn't that mean we have to rest for a long time and can't do anything?" Bai Qingxue frowned slightly.

She had just obtained an Ice Bone Dragon flying mount, and she originally wanted to lead a team to high-level maps to farm wild Bosses, making a fortune in equipment. After all, although their levels were high now, most of the team's equipment hadn't kept up. Otherwise, they wouldn't have struggled so much to win against Star Ring in the competition.

"Yeah, there's no way around it. After all, those high-level resource treasure troves can't allow players to be the same as before," Shi Feng said, spreading his hands.

In God's Domain, leveling up after reaching level 100 wasn't difficult. The difficulty lay in obtaining top-quality weapons and equipment corresponding to the level.

Special places like the Purple Crystal Ice Plains were the most abundant in good equipment. For example, the level 90 World Boss was there, and there were also several level 90 or higher Legendary wild Bosses. These were all Bosses for farming level 90 Dark-Gold weapons and equipment.

However, such maps were usually covered by some special energy. Farming top-quality weapons and equipment wasn't so easy. Places like the Purple Crystal Ice Plains were already good. Some places, if you went there, would affect not only the player's stamina and mental strength but even their physique and basic attributes in the long term.

It was precisely because of this that the roads for some teams who relied on their strength and skills to farm monsters and Bosses in those resource treasure troves, or for large forces who wanted to monopolize these map Bosses, were blocked for the most part, allowing many free adventurer teams and small forces to survive in God's Domain. It was becoming increasingly difficult for one family to dominate. More and more powerful teams were needed to develop better.

In this regard, the various super forces could be said to have taken full advantage.

Although Zero Wing now had a powerful main force, the other teams were several levels behind the main force. This was also the reason why he wanted to develop adventure teams to attract more experts.

Bai Qingxue and Aqua Rose frowned even more tightly upon hearing what Shi Feng said.

This meant that the level and mount advantages they had worked so hard to obtain couldn't easily widen the gap with those super forces as they had imagined.

"You can forget about farming a large number of high-level, top-quality equipment, but you can first take some people to improve their levels. Wait until the power of frost is removed, and then organize the guild's teams to run dungeons to catch up with our guild's dungeon progress," Shi Feng said with a smile.

How easy would it be to obtain a large number of high-level, top-quality equipment? Otherwise, those small forces and teams in the previous life would have been out of business long ago, and the major super forces wouldn't have had to shift their focus to life occupations, trying to find various resources.

"Then I'll go now." Bai Qingxue had no choice but to follow Shi Feng's method.

Immediately, Bai Qingxue and Aqua Rose led people away from the Teleportation Hall, preparing to take a wave of people to high-level maps to improve everyone's levels. Shi Feng led the members of the Asura adventurer team to the Candlelight Trading Firm to exchange for some high-level magic energy armor plates and magic equipment, as well as internal consumables. At the same time, he asked Melancholic Smile and the others to make some resistance equipment so that the members of the Asura adventurer team could improve faster afterward.

Shi Feng found a special forging room and directly used the Abyssal Pendant, which had already bound its coordinates to Dragonheart City, to teleport.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Shi Feng appeared in an alley in an outer area of Dragonheart City.

For some reason, Dragonheart City was even more lively than when Shi Feng had come before. Even in the outer area where usually no one came, there were still many players gathered on the streets, and many of them were not human players but neutral race players.

"Why are there so many neutral race players?" Shi Feng looked at the neutral race players on the street, feeling slightly surprised.

These neutral race players were all very high level, mostly players above level 76, and even some players at level 78. For the current mainstream players who were all at level 72 or 73, this level was definitely very high. Even the top experts of ordinary guilds were only at this level. Dragonheart City was located in the inner area of the Sea of Death, far away from the surrounding neutral race cities. Few players from the neutral maps could come here.

Moreover, not only were there a large number of neutral race experts, but also a large number of experts from various forces gathered here. These experts included first-rate guild experts, and even many second- and third-rate guild experts.

Just as Shi Feng was looking at one player after another passing by on the street, he suddenly spotted some familiar faces.

It was Si Yu Qingxuan and Qing Zhu, who always loved to disappear, and Qin Yin and others from Ninth Heaven. At this time, Shi Feng was still disguised as Hei Yan, and he was quickly recognized by Si Yu Qingxuan and Qin Yin.

"Brother Hei Yan, you're here too." Qing Zhu saw Shi Feng and couldn't help but walk over.

"Guild Leader Hei Yan," the half-elf Qin Yin also greeted.

"Why are you here?" Shi Feng asked in surprise.

The Fairy Country where Qin Yin was located was not close to here, and it was very difficult to come over.

"Well, Guild Leader Hei Yan, don't you know?" Qin Yin looked at Shi Feng strangely.

"Know what?" Shi Feng was a little puzzled.

"Of course, it's because I heard that there's a passage to the Western Continent in Dragonheart City. Now, the major forces are rushing over here, all wanting to try and see if they can go to the Western Continent of God's Domain," Qin Yin said strangely.