Chapter 1 Bottomless Abyss

Bottomless abyss, shattered cave.

"The gravity here is close to where the Dark Wyrms last appeared. If I dig any further, those Dark Wyrms will likely sense my life force." After killing an Outer God Guardian Puppet, Shi Feng's gaze couldn't help but turn to the bottomless abyss beyond the rock wall.

After nine days of effort, he had finally reached the point where he was about to make initial contact with the Dark Wyrms.

Although Dark Wyrms were only Tier 3 Great Lords, as the pinnacle species of the dragon race, it was a fool's dream for a single Tier 3 player to fight them, let alone three Dark Wyrms.

Currently, the best way to advance to a Tier 4 class was to kill Outer God Guardian Puppets, steadily increasing the Inheritance Power to 85%, and then activate the Tier 4 Inheritance.

However, as he continued to open up the rock wall, the number of Outer God Guardian Puppets appearing became less and less. Just now, he had to open up the rock wall for nearly an hour before he finally managed to find an Outer God Guardian Puppet.

It was foreseeable that if he wanted to blast out another Outer God Guardian Puppet, the three Dark Wyrms in the abyss would probably notice him and launch a joint attack.

"As expected, the Main God System won't easily let players advance so easily. In the end, do I still need to get one of the Inheritance Fragments?" Shi Feng looked at his Inheritance Value and couldn't help but sigh.

With his current level, as long as he activated burst skills, he should be able to quickly kill an Outer God Guardian Puppet in front of the three Dark Wyrms. However, he still needed three more Outer God Guardian Puppets to reach the minimum standard of 85%, and the possibility of finding three Outer God Guardian Puppets within this limited burst time was probably very low.

After all, he had blasted the rock wall for nearly an hour before an Outer God Guardian Puppet appeared. If he continued down, he would at most dig out one before being discovered by the Dark Wyrms. It was impossible to dig while fighting the Dark Wyrms.

The only way was to get an Inheritance Fragment below.

The Inheritance Fragments contained varying amounts of Inheritance Power, as little as ten points or as much as thirty or forty points. With his current Inheritance Value, he only needed one fragment to reach the minimum standard of 85% and activate his own Tier 4 Inheritance.

In God's Domain, although activating the Tier 4 Inheritance with the minimum standard had a certain impact on the success rate of the player's advancement, it was not absolute.

Because this Inheritance Power only activated one's own Tier 4 Inheritance, the more Inheritance Power one had, the more of one's own Inheritance that could be activated. However, how much one could obtain from one's own Tier 4 Inheritance depended on the player. If one gained nothing from it, then the Tier 4 advancement would mean failure.

In his previous life, too many Tier 3 experts were unable to advance to Tier 4 classes because they did not obtain anything from their own Tier 4 Inheritance, and not because they were unable to collect the minimum standard of Inheritance Power.

This was also why the stronger the Inheritance, the more difficult it was to advance.

The stronger the Inheritance, the more difficult it was to learn the Inheritance inside. For example, the Inheritance of the Giant Race or the Elf Race was even more obscure and difficult to understand, so the difficulty of advancement was also greater. The powerful weapons and equipment that players acquired were only to obtain more Inheritance Power as much as possible, activating more Inheritance for players to learn.

Speaking of activating with 85% Inheritance, it was actually quite enough and it wasn't necessary to reach 100% to advance to Tier 4.

However, getting the Inheritance Fragment below was not an easy task, after all, he had to face three Dark Wyrms. In the limited burst time, there was very little he could do, especially in terms of acquiring the Inheritance Fragment.

If it were a player who didn't understand Inheritance Fragments, this alone would probably kill the player.

Because getting the Inheritance Fragment didn't directly grant Inheritance Power, it also required a considerable amount of time to absorb the Inheritance Power inside. If one left too far away or interrupted the absorption, the Inheritance Fragment would automatically dissipate, and the absorption time of the Inheritance Power ranged from ten to twenty minutes. Generally, a relatively safe environment was required.

It was obviously impossible to do that now. What he could do was to forcibly absorb the Inheritance Power, but his burst skills couldn't last that long…

"No! It's not like there's no chance. If I can hold on for a considerable amount of time in a normal state, it's not impossible to get the Inheritance Power." Shi Feng thought for a moment and decided to take a risk. After all, he was a little different from when he first came in.

That was, he had mastered a simplified version of Holy Devour, which, although not as powerful as the real Holy Devour, had a single point concentration of power far beyond Light and Shadow, and might not be able to compete with the Dark Wyrms.

Immediately, Shi Feng took a deep breath, took out the Gospel Ring from his backpack, and activated the Miniature World and Halo of Radiance in advance, not planning to hold back any longer.

Now that the advancement quest had reached this point, it could be said that he had to face the three Dark Wyrms no matter what, so naturally, there was no need for him to keep any trump cards.

With the activation of the Miniature World and Halo of Radiance, the magic power in the surrounding space also began to rise slightly, and Shi Feng's basic attributes increased by 5%. Although the effect was much worse than using it outside, it was better to increase it a little.

After dealing with the Gospel Ring, Shi Feng also jumped into the bottomless abyss, directly jumping down.

Suddenly, Shi Feng was seen falling like a shooting star, and the powerful wind pressure could even affect Shi Feng's movements.

In just a few seconds, he heard a sudden dragon roar from a distance. As expected, the three Dark Wyrms flew out of the abyss and rushed straight towards Shi Feng.

Seeing a Dark Wyrm appear in front of Shi Feng, its huge dragon claw slammed towards Shi Feng, its power unaffected by the Miniature World, tearing the space apart and directly sweeping towards Shi Feng.

"Whether I can succeed depends on this strike!"

Shi Feng, looking at the swinging giant claw, had also prepared himself, and the Abyssal Blade in his hand took the initiative to meet it.

In an instant, the Abyssal Blade burning with true red flames directly slashed at the huge dragon claw.

Boom!

The sound of metal colliding echoed throughout the abyss, and the splashing sparks illuminated the sky. The giant claw that tore the space was actually shaken off its original attack trajectory and landed directly on the rock wall, digging out a large piece of the rock wall. On the other hand, Shi Feng was not injured, but the impact of the collision made his falling speed faster.

"Good! There's a chance!" Shi Feng was overjoyed as he looked at the Dark Wyrm that had been slightly repelled.

What he was most worried about before was that he wouldn't be able to block the Dark Wyrm's attack. After all, he didn't activate the Power of the Heavenly Dragon like before. Under the suppression of the bottomless abyss and the home advantage of the Dark Wyrms, even with the suppression of the Holy Dragon's Sigh, it would be difficult to do so.

Fortunately, the simplified version of Holy Devour was powerful enough, and he could now fight the Dark Wyrms in a normal state. The next thing to do would be much simpler.

Then, Shi Feng fought off the attacks of the three Dark Wyrms while falling madly.

Seeing that he had arrived at the place where the Inheritance Fragment was located, Shi Feng suddenly used Wind Domain, and a Skywalk forced him to fly towards the Inheritance Fragment.

"Break for me!"

Looking at the rock wall where the Inheritance Fragment was located, Shi Feng didn't say a word and activated the Power of Darkness to double all his attributes, and slashed at the rock wall with his sword.

Holy Devour!

In an instant, the滔天(tāo tiān, overwhelming) flames not only burned a hole with a radius of twenty or thirty yards in the entire rock wall, but also a broken stone statue as tall as a person fell into the hole, emitting a faint light and a palpitating divine might.

System: Inheritance Fragment detected. Do you want to absorb the Inheritance Power of that fragment?

"Absorb!" Shi Feng said without hesitation.

As Shi Feng finished speaking, the broken stone statue also showed colorful divine runes, which flowed out of the stone statue and窜(cuàn, darted) into Shi Feng's body one by one.

"Damn! How much Inheritance Power is this?" Shi Feng was stunned as he looked at the guidance progress bar.

The guidance absorption time was a full thirty-three minutes, which was longer than all the guidance absorption times he knew. It could be said that it far exceeded the total time of all his burst skills.

However, the guidance had already begun, and if he gave up halfway, everything would be in vain.

The three Dark Wyrms in mid-air seemed to have noticed this and used Dragon Breath on Shi Feng one after another.

"Damn it!"

Looking at the three Dragon Breaths that completely sealed the entire cave, Shi Feng's expression sank, and he instinctively turned the Seven Luminaries Ring and used Absolute Defense to block the three Dragon Breaths.

After the three Dragon Breaths, the space of the entire cave was also much larger, giving Shi Feng a considerable amount of space to move and dodge.

In an instant, time passed by little by little, and Shi Feng was desperately resisting the attacks of the three Dark Wyrms.

Ten minutes... fifteen minutes... twenty minutes...

It wasn't until the thirtieth minute that the last burst skill Shi Feng used, the Power of Destruction, completely dissipated, and the rock wall space where the Inheritance Fragment was located was also in a mess, becoming the size of more than half a football field.

Without the support of burst skills, Shi Feng could only rely on a single simplified version of Holy Devour to resist the attacks of the three Dark Wyrms, and his face became more and more pale.

Although the simplified version of Holy Devour consumed far less mental energy than the real Holy Devour, and was not even better than normal Light and Shadow, he couldn't withstand using it too many times.

After the burst skills ended before, he didn't immediately use burst skills, but resisted for a period of time in a normal state before using burst skills, trying to reduce the use of burst skills as much as possible.

But even so, facing the frantic attacks of the three Dark Wyrms, he used up his last burst skill in the thirtieth minute, and now he could only rely on a normal state to resist.

"Human, you are dead! How dare you step into the forbidden area of our Dark Dragons, don't think you can leave alive! You don't have much mental energy and physical strength left to hold on, but our dragon race can keep fighting!"

The leading Dark Wyrm looked at Shi Feng's face as white as paper, and suddenly uttered an ancient language. This language was clearly incomprehensible, but the brain could understand its meaning.

As the Dark Wyrm finished speaking, the other two Dark Wyrms also began to speed up their attack rhythm, not giving Shi Feng any chance to breathe.

One second... two seconds... three seconds...

As time passed, the attacks of the three Dark Wyrms became faster and faster, forcing Shi Feng to use various life-saving methods.

Dark Domain!

Thunder God Descends!

Shadow Steps!

Void Shield!

The use of one magical skill after another caused Shi Feng's trump cards to be constantly reduced, and his face became even paler. The stinging pain in his brain made Shi Feng feel as if his body was no longer his own.

"Is this the end?"

Shi Feng felt that his spirit had broken through the limit of consumption. At this time, the control of his body had begun to detach, and even the simplified version of Holy Devour could no longer be used. He was completely relying on his body skills to dodge the attacks of the three Dark Wyrms, and the duration of the Void Shield was running out. As long as the duration of the Void Shield ended, he would definitely be killed by the three Dark Wyrms.

Just as the duration of the Void Shield was about to end, a system prompt sounded in Shi Feng's ear.

System: Congratulations to player for reaching 102% Inheritance Value. Do you want to activate the Tier 4 Inheritance?