Chapter 1 Leaving the Dark Moon Valley

Leaving Dark Moon Valley, Shi Feng, to save time, directly activated Gravity Liberation and sprinted towards Scarletwater Lake to the southeast.

Along the way, players heading to Dark Moon Valley could see Shi Feng rushing past like a gust of wind, his speed so astonishingly fast that they couldn't even make out his features.

"Who is that guy? Which assassin is that? So fast!"

"No, look, he has a sword hanging from his waist, not a dagger. He must be a swordsman."

"Damn, are swordsmen so awesome now? It's rumored online that the mayor of Red Leaf Town was killed by a mysterious swordsman, and there's also a powerful swordsman in the Silent Forest who was invited by the Ice Goddess. I wish I had played as a swordsman too."

"Do you think it could be the same person?"

"He's not the one. I saw the swordsman who killed the mayor with my own eyes. That male swordsman was tall and burly, as strong as a black bear, with arms thicker than my thighs. He just took down the level 15 mayor."

The passing players discussed Shi Feng as he left, feeling deeply speechless about the swordsman class. If they had known there was such a powerful class, they would have played as swordsmen, but now it was too late.

If Shi Feng knew, he would probably just laugh it off. In God's Domain, there is no strongest class, only the strongest player.

On the vast plain, Shi Feng sprinted for more than two hours, activating Gravity Liberation more than ten times, shaking off the pursuit of high-level monsters. He crossed the level 6 Gnoll Ruins and the level 8 Oru Stronghold before arriving at the level 10 area, Scarletwater Lake.

Scarletwater Lake is a paradise for level 10 water elementals and murlocs. From a high vantage point, you can see groups of murlocs patrolling everywhere. The closer you get to Scarletwater Lake, the more murlocs there are. The center of Scarletwater Lake is the murloc nest, and the water is inhabited by annoying water elementals.

Because there are so many monsters in Scarletwater Lake and they are so concentrated, and the murlocs' curse skills are super disgusting, able to absorb players' attributes and convert them into their own, becoming stronger the more they fight, they are very difficult to kill. Plus, there are no quests here, so very few players in the previous life were willing to level up here.

However, Shi Feng had to venture deep into Scarletwater Lake.

The metal box dropped by Akhess Madol was extremely precious. If Akhess Madol knew, he would probably be so angry he would bleed from all seven orifices, because it contained a treasure map, and the treasure on the treasure map was located in Scarletwater Lake.

Shi Feng had been playing for ten years, after all, and had a considerable understanding of the history of God's Domain.

He really didn't expect that Akhess Madol would have this treasure map. This treasure map was not simple, as it recorded a huge secret.

Nine hundred years ago, the alchemic giant Morodo painstakingly created something. Because of this thing, it caused wars between many great powers in God's Domain, and more than a dozen heroic figures fought for it, but this thing eventually disappeared and became one of the unsolved mysteries of God's Domain.

And the treasure map in Shi Feng's hand happened to record the location of this thing.

This thing was the Philosopher's Stone.

The sacred object of alchemy, if an alchemist obtains the Philosopher's Stone, they would have the ability to turn stone into gold, gather endless wealth, and even revive the dead, able to perfectly break the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy.

Who would have thought that this sacred object would be placed in this unremarkable Scarletwater Lake.

However, the threat of Scarletwater Lake was very dangerous for Shi Feng. After all, there was a level difference of 8 levels. With an 8-level suppression, Shi Feng was no match for the level 10 monsters, not to mention the attribute-stealing murlocs.

However, Shi Feng had to take the risk. The sooner he obtained the Philosopher's Stone, the sooner he would be at peace. If he waited until level seven or eight to come, it might be taken away by someone else, and then he would have no place to cry.

Shi Feng took out the metal box from his backpack, carefully took out the treasure map, and began to study it carefully.

The treasure map was marked very clearly, right below the murloc nest. But how to bypass these murlocs was a problem. At the same time, he had to solve the problem of the water elementals. Although water elementals have low health, they are immune to 60% of physical attacks, plus they have a slowing skill, which is a headache for melee combat.

After observing for half an hour, Shi Feng discovered that these murlocs were not patrolling all the time, they would always rest for a while, and the murlocs only moved on the shore, hardly going into the water. Once they went into the water, their movement speed would be drastically reduced by 60%. He could take advantage of this time to rush into the lake, so that the murlocs would not be able to catch up with him.

As for the water elementals underwater, he could use Phantom Kill's clones to lure them away, while he entered the cave under the murloc nest alone.

If this series of plans wasn't executed well, Shi Feng would definitely die. If he died once, the loss would be significant. However, with his advantage of rebirth, the lost experience could be quickly made up, but dying once would mean returning to the city, and running back would take too much time.

"Ten seconds left." Shi Feng watched the patrolling murlocs, calculating the time for his sprint.

Time passed second by second. A group of patrolling murlocs looked around and, finding nothing, went into the small wooden house by the lake to rest, leaving an area by the lake empty.

Shi Feng suddenly exerted force, and a sprint brought him to the shore.

Seeing that he was only 30 yards away from the lake, another team of patrolling murlocs spotted Shi Feng and immediately sounded the alarm, rushing towards Shi Feng with short knives in their hands.

Facing four level 10 murlocs, even if Shi Feng was powerful, he was no match. Only by jumping into the water would he have a glimmer of hope.

However, the murlocs were extremely fast and quickly caught up with Shi Feng, swinging their short knives at Shi Feng's back.

Knowing that he couldn't outrun the murlocs, Shi Feng turned around, using Abyssal Shackles to bind one, and using Abyssal Blade to parry one, blocking the murlocs behind.

Borrowing the murlocs' strength, Shi Feng opened up a distance of more than 3 yards and activated Gravity Liberation, jumping into the lake.

However, the other murlocs quickly chased up and also jumped into the lake.

With a splash.

Four murlocs fell into the water, while Shi Feng was running wildly on the surface of the lake.

The Water Walking skill requires 80 Agility to activate, but Shi Feng had the Ring of Gravity, making his body almost weightless, plus 30+ Agility, he could still walk on water without being slowed down by the water.

Before long, Shi Feng shook off the relentless murlocs and dived into the water not far from the murloc nest.

As soon as he entered the water, he found a large number of water elementals circling around a large cave underwater, as if guarding something.

Water Elemental, Common Monster, Level 10, HP 750/750.

Shi Feng used Phantom Kill, and a clone swam over to lure the water elementals.

As Shi Feng had planned, a group of water elementals discovered the clone and rushed towards the clone. The clone turned around and swam upwards. The water elementals moved very quickly in the water, but they were very slow on the shore, the opposite of the murlocs.

Watching the clone lure away the water elementals in front of the cave entrance, Shi Feng swam over quickly.

Before he could swim to the cave entrance, the system notified him that the clone had been killed, only buying Shi Feng 20+ seconds.

After killing the clone, the water elementals discovered an intruder and hurriedly swam back to the cave entrance.

After these water elementals discovered Shi Feng, their speed increased significantly, and they rushed towards Shi Feng.