Chapter 879: Impenetrable Fortress【7 More】

This round, the stage dropped one more treasure chest than the previous small monsters.

Besides the 10 regular chests, there is also a huge chest over 3 meters tall, like a house!

Several teammates stepped forward and opened all the small chests, taking out the rewards.

These 10 chests are similar to the items dropped before; they are basically medium- and high-grade divine artifacts.

"Who will open the big chest?" Xiao Feng asked.

Dun Dun, who had already opened several small chests, was honest and didn't come up to touch it.

This is the first boss-level treasure chest of this dungeon; everyone feels a bit embarrassed, afraid that if they open junk they'll be scolded by everyone.

Seeing nobody move, Xiao Feng had to say: "Then I'll open it; if I get something bad, don't blame me!"

"It's fine, we're all civilized people; we won't scold to your face." Li Li laughed.

Opening chests is a skill; posture is very important!

Xiao Feng put away his weapons, walked up to the chest that was much taller than him, and muttered: "Creator God bless me, give me a main divine artifact!"

Then he pressed on the chest and flipped it hard!

Clatter~

A burst of golden light shot out!

After the golden light faded, the chest disappeared, and a huge pile of stuff appeared on the ground!

Equipment, divine stones, materials, scrolls—everything you could want!

The total number is no less than over a hundred items!

"Holy crap, Old Xiao, what luck?!?" Li Li shouted in disbelief, stunned on the spot.

Everyone was also dumbfounded, never expecting a single big chest to give so much stuff.

"So strong, the earlier chests should have been yours to open!" Qing Feng Yan Yu wore an expression of admiring resignation.

Xiao Feng scratched his head, not knowing whether this counted as good luck.

Picking up the ground items and looking, the equipment quality was mainly medium-grade divine artifacts, mixed with 10 high-grade and 1 top-grade divine artifacts.

This quality, added together, isn't even one-fifth of a main divine artifact!

"Ah, truly dark!" he sighed.

Everyone rolled their eyes and laughed, scolding him for being shameless.

The regiment rested on the spot for 5 minutes, waiting for teammates to sweep the small town.

A few minutes later, the teammates returned disappointed, shaking their heads to indicate they had gained nothing.

On the spectators' interface of external players, the number of "discovered treasures" remained 0.

"What should we do next? Keep advancing or adjust a bit?" Chu Long asked.

Xiao Feng opened the big map and saw that the currently explored area was very small; if they proceeded toward the 12 o'clock direction, there would still be a huge area.

And those areas no longer had map fragments to introduce them to them.

"Let's keep going; just now those small monsters kept saying the name 'General Rachel', and mentioned there's a camp, likely the next stage. Let's advance there first and then decide."

Behind the small town there is a road that can lead further inward.

Everyone didn't rest, and set out again to continue forward.

In about an hour, the dungeon progress reached 10%; this efficiency is still high, and external area players who saw it thought the difficulty seemed low, believing they could easily clear it.

However, in the following period, the battle situation became very quiet.

Xiao Feng and the others explored ahead with a regiment of 4000 people; aside from occasionally discovering one or two villages, there were no major findings.

After walking about 50 kilometers, the scenery within the field of view finally began to change.

The plain had reached its end; ahead lay a continuous undulating mountain range, with a fortress appearing amid the towering peaks, blocking the way.

Looking at the surrounding peak heights, there seems to be no walkable road; given the dungeon's "height limit" situation, it's likely that we must breach the fortress to continue forward.

"This fortress looks tough to crack—high ground, with defensive equipment; getting within about 1 kilometer will likely draw fire." Shen Di, versed in territorial warfare tactics, analyzed.

Overseas god Wula said: "The surrounding mountains are 400–500 meters high, the fortress is nearly 300 meters, slope about 45 degrees, hard to climb. Our flight height is restricted; charging up would come at a great cost."

"Let me test the firepower first." Xiao Feng, the strongest, voluntarily took on the role of pathfinder.

He took out Feather's Song, and also drew the Sword of Civilization.

With dual-wield weapons, his own attack power is 1.9 billion, already exceeding the attack power value under the Heavenly Path Slaughter form.

After his teammates buffed him with several buffs, it surged to 3.1 billion attack!

Then adding Heavenly Path Protection gives him several trillion defense!

With unmatched mighty defense, Xiao Feng flew low to the ground toward the mountain fortress.

When he entered within 1.5 kilometers of the fortress, a beam from a magic crystal cannon shot directly from the summit.

Boom!

The magic crystal cannon's rate of fire is extremely fast; without preparation, he couldn't dodge at all and was hit by a single shot.

Xiao Feng's figure was blown backward over 200 meters, with a -10 billion integer damage appearing above his head, without any fraction.

"Damn, is this true damage that ignores defense?" Xiao Feng was instantly dazed.

After stacking such high defense for nothing, I never expected the opponent to be so shameless as to outright ignore it!

10 billion—any normal player would die; only he could withstand it.

"Again!"

He moved forward again, flying toward the mountain.

This time he was prepared; when the magic crystal cannon bombarded again, he sidestepped to dodge directly.

Immediately after, he activated the instant-transport effect of his artifact shoes, appearing directly at the fortress gate.

He originally wanted to teleport straight inside, but was blocked by the Spiritual Barrier air wall, unable to advance.

This fortress is 200 meters wide, with upper, middle, and lower three layers, distributed in a step-like manner, each layer being 30 meters high.

Three magic crystal cannons are distributed on the fortress, firing in rotation; the cooldown time is actually quite long, and when there are many people it's impossible to cover all of them.

"This fortress is impregnable……"

Xiao Feng investigated for a while and couldn't help frowning.

The air wall is different from the spiritual barrier; the spiritual barrier can still be broken, but the air wall is a limit forcibly added by the system, equivalent to an impenetrable copper wall and iron wall—if it doesn't let you through, it simply doesn't let you through.

He flew around the perimeter and found that no direction allowed entry into the fortress, so he had to turn back.

Xiao Feng retreated in flight, and the magic crystal cannon behind him fired again, directly hitting him with 10 billion damage and sending him flying back to the mountain base.

Although he looked a bit embarrassed, the damage was actually nothing.

"How is it, any ideas?" everyone immediately asked.

Xiao Feng shook his head: "You can't go in head-on; you're directly blocked by the air wall. This fortress should have another entrance, or the mountain range may have another route to cross; let's search in other directions."

Such a solid fortress defense is essentially a "forbidden zone," not allowing anyone to set foot.

Zhan Tian frowned and said: "Usually, places that need defense are those with the weakest natural defenses. A fortress is a military structure built to choke terrain; if the front is blocked, it would be better to simply raise the mountain higher to completely seal this direction. In my opinion, the fortress should be penetrable; we just haven't found the way yet."

"Hmm, that makes sense!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"What about Brother Zhan Tian's idea?" Xiao Feng asked.

Zhan Tian looked around and said: "This place is huge; let's first split up to find a way to break the fortress's invincible state."

The mountain range stretches ahead, yet the surroundings are still very vast. Perhaps besides the front, there are other directions to explore.

Moreover, the "discover treasure" setting is likely in the wilderness area, not the boss battle zone.

"Then let's form groups of ten squads each and spread out to search. Keep in mind not to get within 1.5 kilometers of the fortress, otherwise your health won't hold up." Xiao Feng said.

Afterwards, the entire legion split into eight groups and moved out separately.