Chapter 609: Temporary Pause

"Finally finished collecting them." Three months later, Luo Feng and the others looked at the Wind-Horn Stones in their hands with exhausted expressions. Since all eight of them had entered the Thunder World for the training assessment, they naturally needed eight stones.

Fortunately, over these past few months, they had worked almost without sleep or rest, and finally managed to get their hands on eight Wind-Horn Stones. In fact, they had obtained a total of ten.

The two extra ones could be sold in the virtual mall.

A single Wind-Horn Stone was worth nearly several billion Ganwu coins.

This was a higher net worth than many Star-level 9 warriors, as these Wind-Horn Stones could only be produced in specific locations.

For instance, this Thunder World, which the Universe Mercenary Alliance used as a place to assess trainee mercenaries; others were not permitted to enter.

Thus, the value of Wind-Horn Stones had always been extremely high, far exceeding that of Yin Jade.

In the *Swallowing Star* world, the function of Yin Jade was only to provide a decent boost for Planet-level beings; as for Star-level beings, the effect was minimal.

However, placed in the Main World, Yin Jade could protect the divine soul. Whether it was for opening the Purple Mansion, crossing the Golden Core tribulation, or even the Nascent Soul tribulation, it was an excellent treasure.

Using Yin Jade to open the Purple Mansion even had a better effect than Profound Yang Warm Jade.

Of course, using Yin Jade solely to open the Purple Mansion was truly a waste of a heavenly treasure, as even Nascent Soul stage cultivators could make use of it.

In the Main World, it would almost never be given to Foundation Establishment cultivators to open their Purple Mansions. Of course, whether Yin Jade even existed in the Main World was another matter.

But for Su Fan, Yin Jade was the best treasure for opening the Purple Mansion, and the Su Family had no Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

Conversely, there were more and more Foundation Establishment cultivators, and in the future, more and more treasures would be needed to open the Purple Mansion.

Of course, because they had the backing of the Tai Nan Chamber of Commerce, the Su Family was not lacking in those treasures, but since Yin Jade had the best effect, Su Fan did not mind taking out a batch and placing them in the Su Family's treasury.

It was just that only the most core batch of family disciples would be able to use the Yin Jade.

Su Fan was not afraid, but he also did not want to expose this item and cause unnecessary trouble. In any case, the Su Family was not lacking in other treasures for opening the Purple Mansion.

As long as he needed them, the Tai Nan Chamber of Commerce would help collect them.

However, Yin Jade could indeed quickly and significantly increase the number of Purple Mansion cultivators in the Su Family. If Profound Yang Warm Jade could increase a cultivator's chance of opening the Purple Mansion by thirty percent, then Yin Jade could reach over fifty percent, plus the cultivator's own accumulation.

If Su Family disciples utilized Yin Jade, they would have at least a seventy percent chance of successfully opening the Purple Mansion on their first attempt. Such an effect was absolutely more powerful than that of those Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivators.

In this way, a large batch of Purple Mansion cultivators would certainly be born in the Su Family's future, and at that time, there would be no need to worry about Golden Cores and Nascent Souls.

Therefore, the accidental discovery of Yin Jade could be considered quite good.

The price of Yin Jade was not low; even if it could not compare to Wind-Horn Stones, if one were to purchase it in large quantities, let alone Star-level warriors, even Universe-level beings might not necessarily be able to afford it.

But they were about to enter the world-within-a-world in the Thunder World, so naturally, they would no longer be short of money.

For three months, they had hidden in this cave, continuously collecting the Wind-Horn Stones that flew down from the mountaintop.

The process was quite painful. Sometimes they would clearly spot one, yet be unable to collect it because of the thunder above their heads and the fierce winds at the bottom of the valley; one careless move would result in death and the dissipation of their cultivation.

Thus, everyone was extremely alert, their mental focus extremely concentrated, which naturally led to a heavy consumption of their mental energy.

However, now that they had finally gathered ten Wind-Horn Stones, their mission in the Wind-Thunder Canyon area was about to be completed.

"Everyone, we have finished with these Wind-Horn Stones; next, we should go look for the One-Horned Iron Rhinoceros."

Luo Feng stood up and said slowly. Their mercenary trainee assessment was now missing the horns of the Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros.

"Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros."

Everyone began to recall where the Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros might be; they hadn't encountered any when they first arrived.

For them, the Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros was actually simpler to deal with than this Wind-Thunder Canyon.

The Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros was a Fierce Beast. Fierce Beasts had relatively low intelligence. In the universe, monsters were mainly divided into two types: "Demon Beasts" and "Fierce Beasts."

The Demon Beast race referred to those that had relatively high intelligence when they were at the equivalent of the human "Apprentice level." Like the monsters on Earth, they belonged to the Demon Beast type; slightly more mature Demon Beasts had intelligence no worse than humans! Because they possessed intelligence, the Demon Beast race was also one of the extremely powerful races in the vast universe.

Fierce Beasts had strength but low intelligence. They did not know how to learn, and were either ferocious or gentle; their common point was low intelligence.

Therefore, Fierce Beasts were often easier to deal with than Demon Beasts because they lacked intelligence; humans often preferred dealing with Fierce Beasts.

The Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros was even easier to deal with; the only thing to be wary of was that Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceroses were often found in groups.

This required them to be a bit cautious, but the danger was greatly reduced, as they had four Star-level 9 experts this time.

So everyone was not afraid, which was also the reason why everyone had come to the Wind-Thunder Canyon first.

Because the Wind-Horn Stones were a tougher nut to crack.

"Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros, let's wait a bit."

"We have been in the Wind-Thunder Canyon for three consecutive months, and our mental energy is exhausted. Although the horns of the Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceros are relatively easy to obtain, don't forget that in this Thunder World, we don't just have Fierce Beasts and various dangerous locations."

"Our greater enemies are the various teams from the Thunder World assessment."

Su Fan's reminder made everyone's expressions turn solemn. They had not forgotten that they had encountered quite a few teams over these past few months.

Some left each other alone upon meeting, but there were also teams that had clashed with them.

It could be said that these past few months had also been quite dangerous.

Now, everyone's condition was not good. In the Wind-Thunder Canyon, they might have occupied a slight geographical advantage, but once they left, that might not be the case.

"Then let's wait a while."

Hong and Thor also agreed with Su Fan's idea.

The two of them also understood that the Thunder World was extremely dangerous. This was not a virtual world; in reality, they only had one life, and one careless move would mean losing everything.

In any case, they had plenty of time. The mercenary assessment had no time limit; they could take it slow.

They had already stayed in the Wind-Thunder Canyon for over three months, so there was no need to rush for anything else.

In any case, the Single-Horned Iron Rhinoceroses would not be killed off.

As the trial world of the Universe Mercenary Alliance, the Fierce Beasts inside would be quickly replenished from the outside even if they were all killed.

Moreover, this world was uniquely endowed; those Fierce Beasts reproduced extremely quickly and simply could not be killed off.

So they had nothing to be anxious about.

Seeing this, Luo Feng did not refute, so everyone began to meditate and recover in the cave.

Only Su Fan knew that the black hole would open before long. ===== CHAPTER 610 =====