Chapter 186: The Boss Actually Ran Away?

Seven-colored light, this is a symbol surpassing mythic quality!

Xiao Feng hurried forward to pick it up.

He took a close look.

"【Dark Magic Heart】: Life crystal left behind after the death of the Dark Magic God's son; giving it to the Dark Magic God may cause something unexpected to happen."

"This should be a quest item that needs to be given to the Dark Magic God to trigger."

"The Dark Magic God is one of the Three Great Magic Gods of Shen Yuan Shijie, jointly governing Shen Yuan Shijie with the Bloodthirsty Magic God and the Purgatory Magic God, possessing immense strength."

"A life crystal of the Dark Magic God's son unexpectedly burst forth from the Sea God's daughter's body; this situation feels somewhat unreasonable."

"It should be related to the backstory; her appearance in the Lost Land likely also has something to do with this!"

Xiao Feng picked up everything, and the items automatically entered the team's shared pack.

"\"Boss 6 is already dead by me; I need an item, so I took it first. \" Xiao Feng said in the team channel, directly allocating the Dark Magic Heart to himself."

"Others hadn't even reacted yet when he had already finished allocating it; he didn't even know what quality the item was, only seeing its name as Dark Magic Heart."

"\"Old Xiao, are you alright? What just happened? \" Zhang Fan asked in the team, showing concern."

Xiao Feng replied: "\"Nothing much, just fought underwater. Come back, let's go find Boss 7. \""

"What just happened was actually agonizing, but after it passed, it felt like nothing."

Xiao Feng didn't pay much attention to the process, merely silently memorizing how to sense the water element.

While waiting for teammates to gather, he crouched by the lake and tried a few more times.

The water element could still be summoned by him; once he found the way, everything was no longer difficult.

He gathered water balls that flew around his body, then shot them out with a whoosh.

"But the damage… it's actually a bit weak; hitting himself only dealt over 200 damage, not counting magic defense and elemental resistance, roughly equivalent to a normal skill without the Ten Thousand Times amplification effect."

"However, Xiao Feng felt he was mainly \"unskilled\"; once he got used to manipulating the elements, he should gradually become stronger!"

Not long after, the teammates returned.

"\"Let's go, keep moving forward! \"

They bypassed the azure lake, and everyone ventured deeper.

Behind the lake lay a forest, filled with many level 180 minor monsters blocking the way.

Xiao Feng cleared the path with Gale Technique and Sea of Fire Technique, encountering no resistance, and instead helped many teammates level up by one.

This forest is quite vast; as they walked, an extremely tall tree appeared ahead.

"【Ten-Thousand-Year Banyan Tree Spirit (Mythic Leader)】"

Level: 190

HP: 785,000,000/785,000,000

Attack: 124,300

Physical Defense: 18,000

Magic Defense: 18,000

Skills: Myriad Tendrils, Parasitic Seeds, Deadly Entanglement, Vitality Burst, Forest's Wrath, Summon Tree Spirits

This boss is actually a plant lifeform; its size is so huge it can be called the greatest in The Heavens!

"\"This boss looks tough, almost 800 million HP! \" Li Li and the others, being low level, couldn't see the boss's detailed info; just seeing the HP left them stunned."

This great banyan tree is at least 80 meters tall, its canopy covers a radius of 300 meters, the trunk is over 3 meters thick; a single tree is itself a forest.

Even Xiao Feng's Flame Monarch seems tiny in comparison.

"\"Looks easy to handle. \" Xiao Feng looked at the skill list and felt there was no difficulty.

If nothing unexpected happens, this boss should be extremely strong in group combat, able to use many tendrils simultaneously to deal with team members as a nightmare-level monster.

It can not only attack and tank, but also heal and summon.

Usually, even a level 200 elite team would find it hard to kill him.

But Xiao Feng wasn't worried.

The boss has hardly any defensive skills and cannot move; as long as he stays put and attacks, he can quickly finish it off.

"\"Priest, buff up; Warrior, activate an aura; I'm going in! \" Xiao Feng barked lowly.

"\"Understood! \"

Xing Yun Miao, Li Li, and the others immediately applied all beneficial buffs to him.

Warrior Zhang Fan and the others also activated aura skills like Sword Shock Myriad Troops, giving Xiao Feng more output.

A glance at his status showed his attack had broken through 7,200, ferociously strong.

He dashed forward and in the blink of an eye entered the area covered by the boss's canopy.

Around him came whistling sounds; the banyan tree's hanging roots split off a portion to wrap toward him.

Xiao Feng nimbly dodged a few times to avoid them quickly, closing the distance between himself and the tree's main trunk.

Then, in an instant of electric light flashing to the closest distance, two Transcendent Ice Arrows were fired in succession.

Whoosh~

-682,990,000

-666,910,000

Two hundred-million-plus damage appeared; the Ten-Thousand-Year Banyan Tree Spirit was slashed to death before it could even begin to act.

Splash~

The boss was instantly killed, bursting out a large amount of gold coins and items.

But that massive tree trunk did not collapse; it remained standing on the ground.

A voice sounded in Xiao Feng's ear; it was the Guardian Xiong conversing with him remotely.

I didn't expect the toughest ten-thousand-year banyan tree to be taken down by you so easily. Looks like you're really powerful.

Xiao Feng smiled and replied, "Get ready to become experience points and gold coins."

Afterwards, he picked up the items on the ground, went around the big tree, and continued forward.

Boss #7 is dead; only one monster remains ahead.

The team members all followed him.

Little Knife-Butt kept gathering stuff on the huge banyan tree's body, who knows how many good things he got.

Beyond the forest there was nothing but a cliff; behind the cliff lay a deep, gloomy mountain range.

But that place is inaccessible, because there's simply no path.

Before the cliff, a humanoid creature stood with its back to Xiao Feng and the others, facing the distance, its figure thin and wilted.

This person differed from other bosses, having no huge build, standing only about 1.7 meters tall—not even tall by normal standards.

He wore plain cloth clothes and carried a sword, his style somewhat resembling that of the ancient sword immortal profession "Sword Slaying the Heavens."

Except his long hair was disheveled, his whole body exuding a sense of vicissitude—something no young player of the Sword Slaying the Heavens could match.

Xiao Feng took a few steps forward and checked his information.

【Shen Chuo】

Level: 277

HP: 5,453,685/5,453,685

(Target level too high, unable to obtain more data)

Seeing this, Xiao Feng froze.

An Eastern-style name?

Level 277, not a round number?

No quality label?

The HP isn't a round number either, and it's only over 5.4 million?

How weird is this boss!

It looks exactly like a player's info!

"Hey..."

He shouted that, then stepped forward a few paces.

For safety, he put an earth-elemental shield on himself.

The boss named Shen Chuo continued gazing into the distance, not turning around, as if he hadn't noticed their arrival.

"Putting on an act of profundity..."

Xiao Feng muttered inwardly, lacking patience to slowly play mood with the boss.

He threw a peak-state ice arrow, intending to reap this mere 5.4 million HP.

However, unexpectedly, as the ice arrow was about to hit the boss, the boss named Shen Chuo suddenly vanished into thin air!

His body was like an illusory shadow; after being touched by the ice arrow, it slowly dissipated.

The ice arrow flew off into the distance and plunged into the cliff's abyss.

A voice echoed in the air, saying: "A boring world, fragile beings—I should have known not to come."

And then he was completely gone!

【You gained team-shared experience 1,000,000!】

The system popped up a prompt.

The utter absurdity left Xiao Feng and the others speechless.

This counts as a boss?

No need to fight, nothing drops, and each person just gets a token 1 million experience?

"Damn! Wasted feelings!" Xiao Feng rolled his eyes, turned and said: "Let's go, back to fight boss #9!"