Chapter 205

Casius just died like that; speaking of it, it really is rather abrupt.

Even Ariel doesn't know when he was possessed by the Wild Dog God, and his death was obscure.

Now everything is over, leaving a mess that Ariel still has to clean up.

"Xiao Feng warrior, please return to the city and inform the high-ranking officials of the Storm God Temple about what happened here; I'll take Casius back first." Ariel said with a sorrowful tone.

Afterwards, he picked up Casius's corpse, used a teleport scroll, and left the scene.

Xiao Feng didn't rush to leave; he specifically ran over to inspect the scene where the four major NPCs of the Storm God Temple had fallen.

All four knew the Wind Soaring Technique, were killed in midair, and after death fell into a remote corner of the mountains.

Xiao Feng had expected them to drop a lot of good stuff, but after finding the bodies, he saw nothing at all.

He picked up the NPC's scepter, but it was also in an unusable state.

【Scepter of the Storm God's Son】: Token of the Storm God Temple's Archbishop.

The item's description is very simple, with no visible attributes, indicating that they don't want players to obtain it.

Although he knew it was a transcendent mythic weapon, Xiao Feng couldn't claim it for himself and had to give it up.

He crushed the return-to-city scroll and returned to Storm City.

Afterwards, he ran to the Storm God Temple and told one of the temple's bishops about this.

The Storm God Temple has a total of twelve mythic bosses above level 200; the four that died were relatively strong, while the remaining ones are of level 200–210 strength.

After receiving Xiao Feng's message, several people felt incredulous, unwilling to believe it, or were simply frightened stupid.

After being stunned for a long while, they finally sent personnel to investigate and confirm the truth.

Then everything was confirmed: the archbishop and the judge had died, leaving the Storm God Temple leaderless; they could only communicate with the Divine Realm, letting the Storm God of the Divine Realm decide how to handle this.

After that, Xiao Feng didn't know what happened; he only knew that the temple's high-ranking officials had all disappeared from players' sight, seemingly brewing a major upheaval.

At this moment, the clash between Storm City and the Abyss had just begun, and the first day's war on the Coldwind Mountain Range battlefield had not yet ended.

Yet in the rear of Storm City, such a major accident occurred, with the city lord and the temple's high-ranking officials dying one after another under unnatural circumstances.

This is certainly not good news for the front lines.

However, Xiao Feng couldn't decide anything either; there was nothing he could do.

After delivering the message, he left Storm City and returned to his Xiao residence.

Earlier, during the challenge in the Myriad Heavens Tower, several dozen reward items were directly mailed to the warehouse.

He took them out one by one and brought them home.

After spending some time organizing all the items, he now has several pieces of transcendent mythic quality gear and equipment, and the number of mythic-quality items is countless.

"I need to sell some stuff…"

Xiao Feng thought to himself.

For now, having fewer items is still okay, but after a few hours, once the garrison defense battle is over, it could become absurd.

By then, millions of items will enter the guild warehouse, and who knows how long it will take to process them!

By then, most likely a portion will be given away for free to the members of the three major guilds, to share some benefits with the players who fight and help defend the garrison.

But the truly high-value items, he will certainly keep them to sell himself.

After all, it's still a large sum of money; he can't just throw it away for nothing.

"Let's make a trip to the Treasure Merchant Association."

Xiao Feng took the useless items and headed to the headquarters of the Treasure Merchant Association in Long Xue Cheng.

The various mythic equipment and mythic items dropped from earlier dungeons and boss fights.

Including the Legendary gear and mythic scrolls given for each layer challenge of the Myriad Heavens Tower, he took them all out, packed them together, and sold them in one go to the Treasure Merchant Association for consignment.

Together, the large quantity of high-value items prompted the association to directly offer a high price of 50 million, another huge sum added to the account.

After the cleanup, Xiao Feng felt much lighter.

He returned to the Xiao residence and organized things again.

In the end, only a handful of truly priceless treasures remained: the City Construction Order, the Wild Beast Battle Armor, the Soul Spirit Pearl, the Wind Elemental Divinity, the Thunder Elemental Divinity, La Luo Na Er's Divinity Embryo, the Fire God's Wrath, and the Dark Demonic Heart.

Besides that, there were also some relatively practical medicines.

None of the potions that Xiao Feng kept are ordinary.

【Great Restoration Pill】: Restores 50% + 3000 HP

【Great Spirit-Replenishing Pill】: Restores 50% + 1500 MP

【Swift Potion】: Temporarily increases movement speed by 50%

【Fierce Holy Medicine】: Temporarily increases crit rate by 40%

【Invisibility Medicine】: Grants invisibility for 30 seconds, cannot attack

【Stone Magic Medicine】: Temporarily gains 70% damage reduction

【Revival Potion】: Restores 20% HP; if death occurs within 10 seconds, immediately revives without loss and restores 20% HP

As for this series of potions, aside from the first three, which are consumables for Xiao Feng, the rest are strategically valuable goods, produced in the Myriad Heavens Tower, all of mythic quality, and will not be used lightly unless necessary!

These top-tier potions are few in number, only about ten.

The revival potions amount to just three bottles in total!

With these top-tier potions on him, Xiao Feng's confidence grows; even if he were to bluff in front of a demon god, he'd have a fair chance!

"There are still four hours until the garrison defense battle; first I'll absorb the Soul Spirit Pearl to see if I can achieve fourth transformation…"

Xiao Feng thought to himself.

What he most desires now is to achieve the fourth and fifth transformations, then claim the Fire God's Wrath for himself, boosting his attributes to an entirely new height.

Then, after defeating a wave of welfare bosses to break through level 250 in experience, he'll accumulate some willpower attribute points to break through the demigod realm.

Afterward, he'll be able to enter the Myriad Heavens Battlefield and start fighting aliens!

Speaking of which, after coming into contact with Shen Chuo and the Myriad Heavens Tower, Xiao Feng no longer has much interest in the minor skirmishes in the native Blue Star War Zone.

International servers, foreigners, and such — they're all just smelly fish and rotten shrimp; he simply didn't even glance at them.

Only by clashing with the top-tier experts from various civilizations in the Myriad Heavens Battlefield can his blood boil!

In the Xiao Zhai, Xiao Feng took out a transcendent mythic quality item, the Divine Soul Pearl, and began to absorb it.

This item is somewhat special; its use is not to directly consume it via the system function.

Rather, like cultivation, one needs to hold it in hand, use one's consciousness to sense it, and then draw energy from it.

Xiao Feng has experience cultivating elements, so he picks this up relatively quickly; holding the Divine Soul Pearl left by the Wild Dog God in his hand, he soon feels a response.

Looking with the mind's eye, the Divine Soul Pearl is like a tub of water filled with clean water.

These 'waters' are actually pure Soul Power; as long as one absorbs it, it can be made one's own.

Xiao Feng tried to draw a strand.

Upon contact, he immediately felt his consciousness become much clearer, like a drowsy summer afternoon suddenly drinking a sip of ice-cold cola; his whole body shivered, and every cell relaxed!

This feeling is quite refreshing!

High-end gameplay, living up to its reputation!

【You drew Soul Power from the Divine Soul Pearl, Will +5!】

The system popped up a reminder, and Xiao Feng wore a satisfied smile.

Just 'taking a sip' added this many Will points; it looks like breaking through the 4th transformation today will be easily attained.

He didn't stop, continuing to repeat the same action.

【You drew Soul Power from the Divine Soul Pearl, Will +6!】

【You drew Soul Power from the Divine Soul Pearl, Will +5!】

【You drew Soul Power from the Divine Soul Pearl, Will +7!】

Willpower points began to increase steadily, popping up a reminder roughly every three minutes.

His Will attribute went from initially ten-something points to several tens.

After more than half an hour, accompanied by a pleasant prompt, he finally broke through the 100th major checkpoint.

At this point, only about an eighth of the Soul Power contained in the Divine Soul Pearl has been consumed.