Chapter 1 A Major Event

Surrounded by mountain walls, a guild town bustled with activity. Players filled the streets, many of them architects frantically constructing buildings.

In an open-air restaurant on the top floor of the town, a middle-aged man in deep gray armor, a flame-shaped shield on his back, quietly observed the players.

A young man suddenly rushed over, his expression excited.

"Uncle Yuan, something big has happened!" the young man exclaimed to the seated middle-aged man. "We just received news that the leader of the Seven Sins Flowers, Tianying, has been killed!"

The middle-aged man was none other than Yuan Tiexin of the Tianji Pavilion. Yuan Tiexin had already reached level 50 and wore the Avalanche Set, a set of level 50 Fine-Gold equipment for shield warriors that could only be obtained from hundred-man team dungeons.

"Tianying is dead?" Yuan Tiexin turned his head in surprise to look at the young man. "How is that possible? Was he ambushed by a team of experts? That can't be right. He's the leader of the Seven Sins Flowers. The Seven Sins Flowers won't let this go easily."

As one of the Seven Sins Flowers' only seven leaders, Tianying was a powerhouse, ranking among the top experts in the guild.

It was hard to imagine such an expert being killed. The only possibility was that a large group of experts, combined with powerful items, prevented Tianying from escaping.

"No... that's not it. I heard Tianying and two others tried to rob a player, but they were killed instead," the young man stammered.

"Tianying led a team to intercept a player and was killed instead? How is that possible?" Yuan Tiexin was even more astonished.

To be killed was one thing, but to be killed by a single player?

It sounded like a joke.

Tianying was a formidable expert, not to mention he had companions with him. It was unrealistic for one person to kill Tianying and two others.

"It's true. Here's the video of the fight." The young man quickly sent the video to Yuan Tiexin.

The video was shot from a distance, so the details of the battle were not clear, but the Duanshen Sword (Severing Demon Sword) in Tianying's hand was unmistakable, confirming it was Tianying himself.

"What powerful skills!" Although Yuan Tiexin couldn't see the entire battle, he could tell why Tianying and the others had lost. "Who is this person?"

"We're investigating desperately, but we can't get much information from the video. The Seven Sins Flowers should have more details, but our spies in the Seven Sins Flowers are too low-level to access that information. The Guild Leader wants us to find this expert as soon as possible, and we can't let the Seven Sins Flowers get to him first."

"I understand. I'll do everything I can to investigate."

Yuan Tiexin watched the battle video, intrigued by the mysterious expert who had killed Tianying and the others. He nodded and immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate using the video.

At the same time, the major super-guilds in God's Domain were also ordering investigations into the mysterious expert who killed Tianying.

Shi Feng, however, was completely unaware of this. He had just arrived at the epic-level Shrine area of World Peak.

Compared to the Dark-Gold and Fine-Gold areas, the epic-level Shrine area was completely devoid of players. Towering shrines stood all around, so there was no need to worry about other players competing for resources.

"God Crystals are worth even less than epic-level items. The higher you go in the shrines, the greater the difficulty and the value of the treasures you obtain, so I should only need to explore the lowest level." Shi Feng glanced at the epic-level shrines towering on the mountain and began to move.

There were twenty-one epic-level shrines on the lowest level of the epic-level area. Shi Feng didn't think too much and simply walked along the lowest level.

He arrived at the gate of an epic-level shrine and touched it.

System: A sub-legendary Shrine Key has been detected. You are qualified to open the epic-level Shrine gate. Would you like to spend 1000 minutes to open it?

Without hesitation, Shi Feng clicked "Yes."

The Shrine gate opened with a loud rumble, and Shi Feng walked straight in.

The moment he entered the Shrine, he felt as if he had entered another world.

It was a terrace floating in the clouds. Birds and beasts flew by in the sky from time to time, all incredibly powerful. The weakest were level 150 Great Lords, and the strongest were even level 180 Legendary monsters...

Any one of them could easily take Shi Feng's life.

In the center of the terrace stood rows of humanoid statues. Under these statues were pieces of golden, radiant items. Just looking at them from a distance, he knew they were valuable.

As Shi Feng stepped forward to investigate, the system notification rang out again.

System: Players can choose one of the many statues. As long as the requirements are met, you can obtain the item under the statue. If you fail to meet the requirements within the specified time, you will be teleported out of the Shrine.

"As expected, they won't make it easy to get the items." Shi Feng wasn't surprised.

Each Shrine on World Peak was a reward, but not every Shrine, once opened, guaranteed a reward. Some had trials, just like the Shrine of the Destroyer he visited last time.

If he didn't choose a difficulty appropriate for his strength, he might end up with nothing.

There were twelve statues on the entire terrace, including four damaged items, five complete epic-level equipment pieces, two complete epic-level weapons, and one complete epic-level item.

Based on the difficulty of acquisition in God's Domain, the epic-level item was undoubtedly the most difficult, while the damaged items were certainly the least valuable, so the difficulty was easy to distinguish.

But this didn't matter to Shi Feng, because he wasn't after any specific item. His only goal was the God Crystal.

"Hopefully, it's a God Crystal." Shi Feng went to a statue with a damaged item and chose it.

The moment he chose, the originally motionless statue suddenly began to shatter. A stalwart man in golden armor, holding twin swords, appeared before Shi Feng.

Shrine Knight, Ancient Human, Tier 4 Sword Emperor, Level 100, HP 20,000,000.

The moment the Shrine Knight appeared, Shi Feng felt an unprecedented sense of oppression, because he sensed an intense killing intent from the Shrine Knight.

NPCs were different from monsters. Under the same Tier, an NPC's combat skills far surpassed those of monsters of the same level. Moreover, this Shrine Knight was an Ancient Human...

The Ancient Humans were unlike the humans of today and had long been extinct in God's Domain.

These Ancient Humans were different from the humans of today, they were humans blessed by the gods. Their life level was much higher than that of modern humans, they were genuine humanoid monsters. Those humans in legends who could slay dragons were not modern humans, but Ancient Humans. After all, the life level of modern humans was too different from that of dragons. Even three or five NPCs of the same Tier were no match for a Tier 5 dragon.

But the Ancient Humans could fight dragons.

Compared to the Legendary monsters he had killed before, the Shrine Knight of the same Tier in front of him was an ant that could be easily crushed.