Chapter 1 The Hell-Grade Dungeon

"Look, it's a Hell-grade teleportation gate!"

"No way, Zero Wing is actually challenging the Hell-grade Ou Shen Ruins? Are they crazy?"

"I heard that in the Hell-grade Ou Shen Ruins, you have to face Great Lord-ranked Bosses, which are several times more powerful than High Lord-ranked Bosses. For the current guilds, that's just invincible. Could it be that Zero Wing's leader chose the wrong difficulty?"

The people outside the Ou Shen Ruins saw the pitch-black teleportation gate, faintly revealing a skull, and their eyes almost popped out.

A fifty-man large team dungeon was already difficult to conquer. Just being able to reach the final Boss in the Hard-mode was already something to look up to. No one had ever even thought about Hell-mode.

Not long after Shi Feng and the others entered the dungeon, the news spread throughout White River City.

Everyone couldn't believe it was true.

The most shocked were the major guilds in White River City.

After long-term development, more than a hundred guilds, large and small, were stationed in White River City, and Zero Wing Guild was the overlord of White River City, and had been receiving attention from all sides.

"They haven't even cleared the Hard-mode Ou Shen Ruins, yet they dare to challenge Hell-mode. I didn't expect Hei Yan to have moments of hot-headedness." Feng Xuanyang looked at the latest news he received, and a sneer couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

The Underworld's information network covered more than a dozen kingdoms and several empires, and Feng Xuanyang, who was in the middle level of the Underworld, was very clear about what Hell-mode in a fifty-man team dungeon represented.

It was despair!

In these kingdoms and empires, there were several top-tier guilds that had cleared the Hard-mode fifty-man team dungeon, but when faced with Hell-mode, they couldn't even defeat the first Boss. They couldn't even drop the Boss's health below 90%. It was an instant kill for any MT, and no amount of healing was useful, forcing these top-tier guilds to give up on conquering Hell-mode and switch to hundred-man team dungeons.

Zero Wing Guild had only reached the third stage of the final Boss before. Now, they were challenging Hell-mode. Don't even mention having Shi Feng as the leader, even if there were three or four Shi Fengs, it would be impossible to clear it.

Meanwhile, inside the Ou Shen Ruins.

The Hell-mode Ou Shen Ruins was no different from Hard-mode, with collapsed temples and towering statues everywhere.

However, Fire Dance and the others were unusually nervous, each of them on full alert.

"Didn't you guys already reach the final Boss, the Azurefire Crow King? Why are you so nervous now?" Shi Feng couldn't help but laugh when he saw everyone's stance of already taking out their weapons.

Team dungeons were different from six-person small dungeons. They only refreshed once every three days. Whether it was Normal-mode, Hard-mode, or Hell-mode, you could only play it once every three days. Moreover, the Bosses you had previously defeated wouldn't be fought again when the difficulty changed. Whichever Boss you reached before, changing the difficulty would still start from that Boss. Only the strength changed.

And one thing that God's Domain differed from other virtual game dungeons was that the difficulty could only be increased, not decreased. In other words, if you previously played on Hard-mode and defeated the first Boss, but couldn't defeat the second Boss, it was impossible to switch to Normal-mode to clear it. If you wanted to change the difficulty, you could only increase it to Hell-mode.

Fire Dance and the others had already reached the final Boss, so choosing Hell-mode difficulty now meant that going all the way to the final Boss was very safe.

Everyone was embarrassed when they heard Shi Feng say this.

They were still instinctively in awe of Hell-mode.

"Alright, let's go take a look at the Azurefire Crow King first." Shi Feng said with a smile.

Then, Fire Dance led the way, heading towards the Azurefire Crow King's lair.

Shi Feng followed behind, bringing up the system interface.

He was currently level 34, far beyond the level requirement for the first clear of a level 30 dungeon. He had to lower his level a bit.

Moreover, the Hell-mode Azurefire Crow King was no small matter. Just relying on the stats of being four levels higher was useless. It was better to convert it into combat power.

Shi Feng directly selected the skill bar and clicked on Flame Burst, directly increasing the skill level of Flame Burst.

The level nine Flame Burst was already very terrifying. After flashing several times, Flame Burst advanced to Tier 1 Level 4, and the data directly increased by a large margin.

Flame Burst, channeling time 1 second, accumulates all flame power at one point, dealing 900% damage to the target, attacking fifteen times, cooldown time 3 minutes, current level Tier 1 Level 5 (experience value required to advance to Tier 1 Level 6 is 480 million).

The original number of attacks was twelve times, and each attack dealt 750% damage. Now, not only were there three more attacks, but the damage had also increased a lot. The total damage dealt far exceeded the level nine Flame Burst.

However, Shi Feng's level was also dropping rapidly, immediately dropping to level 30, which just met the level requirements for the first clear.

"As expected of a super skill, if I want to improve Flame Burst again in the future, I have to wait until after level 40 at least," Shi Feng secretly estimated.

A full 480 million experience points. If he upgraded it by one more level, his level would probably drop below level 25 immediately. If it were other players, the drop would be even more terrifying.

However, it was still very worthwhile to spend four levels to upgrade Flame Burst to Tier 1 Level 5.

With just this one move, Shi Feng was confident that he could seriously injure a full-health Lord monster.

It would be much easier to kill Lord monsters in the future.

Half an hour later, Shi Feng and the others finally arrived at the Ou Shen Temple, where the Azurefire Crow King lived.

"So big!" Hei Zi looked at the Azurefire Crow King in the distance, his mouth wide open.

In Hard-mode, the Azurefire Crow King was a full thirty meters tall, which was already terrifying, but the current Azurefire Crow King was more than fifty meters tall. The Hard-mode Azurefire Crow King was just a cub.

Azurefire Crow King, Great Lord, Level 30, HP 27 million.

"How are we supposed to fight this? The health alone is more than double that of the High Lord-ranked Azurefire Crow King." Cola swallowed hard, the previous full of enthusiasm had disappeared.

Although they could activate the Power of Darkness to increase their attributes by 30%, the Azurefire Crow King's attributes had increased by more than 30%. The gap was even greater than the difference between them when they were fighting Hard-mode without using the Power of Darkness.

Fire Dance frowned. Even she didn't have the confidence to face such a powerful Boss.

"Guild Leader, are we still fighting?" Aqua Rose turned to look at Shi Feng and asked.

Everyone had a little confidence at first because they had Shi Feng leading them, but they still underestimated the horror of Hell-mode. Even with Shi Feng as the leader, it was impossible to defeat such a powerful Boss.

"Of course we're fighting! Why wouldn't we fight? What else would we be here for?" Shi Feng rolled his eyes at everyone.

Shi Feng had seen the terror of Hell-mode more than once.

Facing a full 27 million health points, even if Shi Feng went all out, it would take a considerable amount of time, not to mention combat recovery, which recovered 1% of health every five seconds. This alone was a terrifying weapon.

So, in team dungeons, the power of an individual was really limited. Even if Shi Feng could withstand the Azurefire Crow King for a short time, the team couldn't possibly deplete such a thick health bar in such a short time.

Of course, he dared to come because he had a certain degree of confidence, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen Hell-mode difficulty.

"It's time to use you." Shi Feng opened his backpack, looking at the Book of Darkness with a sly smile.