Chapter 1 In-Depth Exploration

Inside the Blazing God Cave, as bright as day, Shi Feng continued to delve deeper.

He had practiced by killing a Lava Hound earlier, which boosted his skill proficiency quite a bit. However, compared to the skill proficiency, the experience points given by the Level 25 Lava Hound were much less.

But this was not surprising.

Because all the monsters in the Blazing God Cave had high attack, high health, and low experience. Ordinary players would never come here to grind for levels. But with the Blazing Sun Codex, it was different. Dealing with the monsters here was simple. In addition, there were the Flame Crystals dropped by these monsters.

Flame Crystals were the main material for making basic fire resistance potions.

When everyone reached Levels 20 to 30, many small and team dungeons required high fire resistance, otherwise they couldn't be cleared. One of these was the Level 25 team dungeon, Blazing Nest. Without basic fire resistance potions, it was impossible to pass. However, this team dungeon dropped a lot of good equipment and items, and gave the most guild honor points. Most importantly, it had a very small chance of dropping Guild Herb Garden Vouchers and Guild Mine Vouchers.

With these two items, the guild could develop even further.

Generally, a guild was considered a true guild only after it had a guild residence. Furthermore, you could build structures in the guild residence to help the guild develop. Among them, the two most important buildings were the herb garden and the mine. These two places could provide the guild with a fixed amount of herb and ore resources every day, which could reduce a lot of guild expenses and allow alchemists and blacksmiths to have enough resources to improve their life skill proficiency.

It was completely a win-win situation.

Therefore, as long as there was a guild residence, guilds would try to clear the Blazing Nest at all costs, just for these two vouchers, to build herb gardens and mines in the guild residence.

Because of this, there were many guilds going to clear the Blazing Nest at that time, and basic fire resistance potions became the best-selling product.

Shi Feng still clearly remembered that at that time, a bottle of basic fire resistance potion was 50 silver coins, and a Flame Crystal was 15 silver coins. Therefore, many people would spend three or four gold coins to buy the Blazing Sun Codex, because they could earn it back in just two hours by farming 25 to 30 Flame Crystals.

In the Blazing God Cave, an ordinary Lava Hound had a 3% chance of dropping a Flame Crystal, which was three times higher than fire monsters outside. And a Level 25 Elite had a 100% chance of dropping a Flame Crystal, and a 10% chance of dropping two Flame Crystals, not to mention the equipment dropped.

If it was a Level 25 Special Elite, then there were even more. They had a 100% chance of dropping two Flame Crystals, a 20% chance of dropping four, and a 10% chance of dropping five to seven Flame Crystals.

The Level 25 Leader Boss was even better, with a 100% chance of dropping ten, a 30% chance of dropping thirteen to nineteen, and a 20% chance of dropping twenty to twenty-five. Killing a Leader Boss would earn about two gold coins just from the Flame Crystals, not to mention the other equipment and items dropped.

Shi Feng cleared out the lone Level 25 Lava Hounds along the way. Even if he faced two at the same time, Shi Feng could easily deal with them.

It just took longer to kill them.

The Lava Hound's Flame Breath was easy to dodge. As long as you saw the Lava Hound's throat knot shining brightly and emitting fire, it was about to spit out flames. However, this move's damage was a piece of cake for Shi Feng, dealing less than a hundred points of damage in total.

But the Lava Hound's other move, Flame Burst, dealt extremely high fire damage to enemies within an 8-yard radius.

Without 120 fire resistance and 90% fire damage reduction, one move would take away three-quarters of the health of a same-level MT. Although the Lava Hound's movement when launching this skill was very obvious, that is, suddenly raising its paws and slamming them hard on the ground, bursting out a pile of flames, the range was too large and very difficult to dodge. It was almost a must-eat damage skill.

Fortunately, Shi Feng's fire resistance was extremely high, only causing more than a hundred points of damage, which was nothing to Shi Feng, who had more than eighteen hundred health points.

After more than an hour, Shi Feng finally arrived at the core area of the Blazing God Cave. Along the way, he killed a lot of Lava Hounds. Because he wore the Shadow Blessing, Luck +3, the Flame Crystal drop effect was very significant. Almost every five or six kills dropped a Flame Crystal.

Along the way, Shi Feng killed more than forty of them in total, and obtained a total of 8 Flame Crystals. His experience also rose to Level 14, 37%. The leveling speed can be said to be flying. Chop, Thunder Flame Flash, and Yan Lei Bao also rose to Level 7, Level 5, and Level 3. With the Abyss Blade's boost, they were Level 10, Level 8, and Level 6, which further increased Shi Feng's output. It was a pity that no equipment was dropped, let alone the blacksmithing design drawings that Shi Feng wanted most.

The core area was a spacious lava field, surrounded by flowing, scalding lava. At the very top of the open space were many glittering crystals, which reflected the light of the lava around, illuminating the entire wide open space as if it were daytime. And the land here was formed by the accumulation of cooled lava, more like a swamp, not as solid as a stone road, making it difficult to walk. A little carelessness would cause one to fall and get trapped. If one did not have a certain amount of control over their body, fighting here would be very disadvantageous.

Not far from the open space, Shi Feng saw many Level 25 Elite Flame Serpentmen quietly waiting, and occasionally there were patrolling Level 25 Special Elite Flame Serpentman Warriors. Compared to the Lava Hounds, these monsters were more intelligent. In addition to fire attacks, they also had considerable physical damage, and their reactions were also very fast. Especially the Flame Serpentman Warriors. They wore armor and held shields, almost like shield warriors, and were very difficult to deal with.

Flame Serpentman, Elite, Level 25, Health Points 20,000.

Flame Serpentman Warrior, Special Elite, Level 25, Health Points 50,000.

Then Shi Feng looked up and gazed at the center of the core area.

Because it was very far away, Shi Feng stared for a long time. After opening his Extraordinary Vision, he found a beautiful figure on a stone platform in the center.

It was a Snake Woman. Unlike other Serpentmen who had snake heads and snake faces, this Snake Woman had a human body and a snake tail. Not only did she have a charming appearance that would make even women envious, but her eyes also radiated a dazzling light like rubies. Her thick, alluring, shiny black hair was tied into pigtails, and her delicate, fair skin shone like sparkling suet jade under the light of the fire, appearing watery and flawless.

The most attractive thing was her elegant temperament and her exotic beauty.

It was hard to imagine that such a delicate Snake Woman was the only Level 25 Lord-ranked Boss in the Blazing God Cave, Scorching Serpentwoman Sela.

"Sure enough, the benefit of pioneering is great. A Lord-ranked Boss right from the start."

In his previous life, Shi Feng mostly encountered Leader-ranked Bosses in the Blazing God Cave. He only encountered Lord-ranked Bosses in very few cases. Being able to encounter one was definitely good luck.

Shi Feng looked at Scorching Serpentwoman Sela's charming appearance, his eyes lit up, his breathing became a little rapid, and his expression was excited. A brilliant smile that he had never shown before appeared on his calm face.

Of course, Shi Feng was not fascinated by Sela, but a Lord-ranked Boss represented a huge fortune, especially a Lord in the Blazing God Cave. If he killed it, he wondered how much experience points and high-level items and equipment he would get.

If Hei Zi and the others saw it, they would definitely scold Shi Feng for being inhumane, for not even letting go of a delicate Snake Woman. He was simply a beast...