Detection

When Luo Feng entered Demonic Sound Mountain, the thousands of native powerhouses were still queuing to receive their identity tokens, then heading either to Demonic Sound Mountain or Ice Mountain.

Each of them had to enter through one of the fixed tens of thousands of cave passages.

“Whoosh!”

A pale purple saucer-shaped spaceship flew into the canyon hollow of the Demonic Mountain. The hatch then opened, and six figures flew out directly, retracting the spaceship. These six individuals were the six experts from the Thousand Star Sect arranged by Po Yu Marquis. After all, the Grand Elder of the Thousand Star Sect was an Undying existence, considered a core member of the Virtual Universe Company, and had ventured through the vast cosmos. Therefore, some of the Thousand Star Sect's Domain Lords and Sector Lords possessed spaceships.

Ordinary spaceships are quite affordable.

Of course, Domain Lords don't have spatial rings large enough to store spaceships, but Sector Lords can store them within their 'inner worlds'.

“Ba Yan, look, so many people are still queuing, each receiving an identity token. One second per person, so thousands will still take one or two hours.”

“Don't be careless, we must hurry. We can't miss this opportunity. If we miss it, we'll have to wait until another ten thousand people gather before we can enter.”

The six immediately flew towards the distant palace.

Po Yu Marquis had only taken a few minutes to reach the Thousand Star Sect and a few more to issue his orders. Their spaceship journey took over ten minutes. At this moment, only a little over half of the thousands of native powerhouses had received their identity tokens. As for distributing the tokens? The Virtual Universe Company's personnel weren't particularly efficient with these natives.

An hour later.

“Let's go! To Demonic Sound Mountain!”

“According to the God's command, the six of us will split up. This makes it easier to encounter the target.”

“Understood, let's separate here.”

After entering through the same cave passage and reaching a fork, the six immediately split, each taking one of the six paths and advancing.

In truth, those venturing into Demonic Mountain were primarily Universe Level, with very few Domain Lords and even fewer Sector Lords.

So, the weakest among these six were all at Domain Lord Level 9. Within Demonic Sound Mountain, the real dangers were the 'demonic sounds' and 'Illusory Beasts'. Other native powerhouses posed very little threat to them, unless they were incredibly unlucky and encountered the extremely rare Sector Lords in the vast Demonic Sound Mountain.

...

A black-horned young warrior was cautiously moving through the vast, deep, intertwining cave passages.

“Roar!”

“Swoosh!”

“Wail!”

Each time he heard a demonic sound, Luo Feng immediately slowed down and stopped, not daring to rush forward, fearing he might enter an area with extremely potent demonic sound illusions. Although he was confident, he couldn't be reckless.

“Luo Feng, there's a Domain Lord Level 3 warrior 18.2 kilometers ahead in the passage you're currently in,” Babata's voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind.

“In the very passage I'm walking through?” Luo Feng frowned slightly.

In Demonic Sound Mountain, besides relying on his three main bodies and the Moyun Vine, another crucial asset was Babata! Babata possessed an extremely high-end detection device, though its range was only 20 kilometers. Despite the small range, its effectiveness was extremely powerful. Even a Sector Lord wouldn't be able to detect it.

This detection device was an expensive instrument purchased by Yunmo Star Master Huyan Bo back then. Even Luo Feng now couldn't afford enough cash to buy such a high-end device.

Of course...

A range of only 20 kilometers was suitable for special areas like cosmic secret realms. Demonic Sound Mountain, for instance, was quite suitable.

“Rapidly approaching, 12.8 kilometers... 9.9 kilometers...” Babata continuously updated him.

“I see him,” Luo Feng said, looking ahead.

The passage wasn't perfectly straight, so Luo Feng only saw the stealthy, short warrior when he was about 10 kilometers away. He could even clearly see the black fur on the short warrior's skin. The warrior's eyes were cold and eerie as he cautiously advanced. Upon seeing Luo Feng, he paused slightly, but then immediately rushed forward with a sinister grin!

“Universe Level 9! Haha...” The short warrior grinned menacingly, his body flickering twice before he charged in front of Luo Feng, holding a dark red axe with complex secret patterns on its blade.

Luo Feng shook his head slightly.

“Clang!”

He instantly drew his blade!

And swung!

The Moyun Vine attached to him naturally burst forth with a portion of its 'Domain Lord Level 9 Moyun Vine' power. Even just a portion of its power was more exaggerated than that of a normal Domain Lord Level 9 human warrior! The air violently vibrated, directly compressing, and the Blood Shadow Blade, with incredible speed, directly struck the short warrior's battle-axe.

Boom!

It was like smashing an ant with a sledgehammer. The short warrior's eyes widened in terror. His battle-axe was directly cleaved, rebounding back onto his own body. The thick back of the axe instantly 'splattered' him, crushing his body to explode. Bones and flesh burst out from his armor, and blood splattered everywhere.

Booming sound~~~

The entire ground violently shook, and the icy layer on the surface of the rock exploded, extending 'crack, crack, crack' outwards. The cracks in the ice layer stretched for over ten kilometers.

“Actually, I didn't want to kill you at all.” Luo Feng quickly retrieved the two black tokens stored in the spatial belt from the dead warrior. This was already Luo Feng's 19th black token. “You just happened to block my path and even tried to kill me. If I don't kill you, who should I kill?”

Luo Feng put away the black tokens and swiftly continued forward.

There was an extra reward for 10,000 black tokens, that was true.

But?

The higher the reward, the greater the difficulty. If he merely survived in Demonic Sound Mountain for three years, he would simultaneously complete the first mission 'survive for three months' and the second mission 'survive for three years', earning 400,000 points! The reward for 10,000 black tokens was even better than 400,000 points.

The difficulty was imaginable!

“Only 10,000 people enter in each batch, and they kill each other. Some die in unknown dangerous areas. Some might escape early. And most tokens end up in the hands of Sector Lords. To collect 10,000 black tokens, with my current strength, is indeed an impossible task.” Luo Feng was clear-headed.

He looked down at the dead short warrior on the ground and shook his head slightly.

“My mission is to survive for three years.”

“I don't want to kill.”

“But if anyone blocks my way, I can only kill them.” Luo Feng continued forward, leaving behind only the corpse in the shattered ice layer.

The ultra-low temperature had already frozen the blood into ice, and the exploded ice layers quickly began to re-freeze in the low temperature. Before long, everything would return to normal.

...

Demonic Sound Mountain is enormous, occupying about half the area of Demonic Mountain.

The base of Demonic Mountain is an astonishing 320 million kilometers wide, and its height is an equally astonishing 180 million kilometers. Coupled with the countless intertwining and winding cave passages, like a labyrinth, Luo Feng cautiously advanced only 100,000 kilometers a day. Even after three years of advancement, he would likely only cover a portion of Demonic Sound Mountain.

Cautiously.

One day, two days, three days...

Nine days passed in a flash. During these nine days, Luo Feng used Babata's detector to discover a Sector Lord in advance, immediately turning around and quietly slipping away. This was the only time he had approached a Sector Lord at close range. Other times, he encountered some Domain Lords and many Universe Level warriors. Because everyone distrusted each other, Luo Feng didn't want to turn and flee only to be pursued, so he could only kill those who came to kill him.

In nine days, he collected 112 black tokens.

“My luck is really good. In nine days, I haven't encountered any terrifying Illusory Beasts in Demonic Mountain.” Luo Feng walked through a wide, winding passage, while Babata continuously maintained its detection state.

“Luo Feng, based on the demonic sounds you've encountered in the past two days, you should now be in a relatively dangerous area. The demonic sound illusions are noticeably stronger. I suspect there's an extremely dangerous zone nearby!”

“Babata, the information the Virtual Universe Company gave me states that the danger in these demonic sound areas is completely unpredictable. What seems incredibly safe can suddenly become extremely dangerous. No need to predict.” Luo Feng communicated mentally, while also cautiously observing the distant surroundings. He couldn't rely entirely on the detection device.

Because some passages had visible distances far exceeding 20 kilometers, and the device's detection range was only 20 kilometers, it was very possible that the device hadn't detected the opponent, but the opponent had already seen him.

“Luo Feng, there are three Domain Lords 3.6 kilometers to your left.”

“3.6 kilometers?” Luo Feng jumped in surprise.

He looked to his left.

Not far to his left was a rocky mountain wall, and Luo Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“That's in another passage,” Babata said.

“Another passage, no danger, and you still notify me?” Luo Feng shook his head.

“I judged their conversation to be quite important to you,” Babata said.

“Oh?” Luo Feng's heart stirred.

He flipped his hand, and a small screen appeared in his palm.

“Send me a video of what you detected,” Luo Feng said.

“Already sent.”

Beep.

The small screen in Luo Feng's palm immediately displayed an image: on a similar cold rock and ice surface, an old man, a middle-aged man, and a young man. These three were excitedly staring at eight thick books in front of them.

“It's the Luanming Sect's sect-founding secret technique! The deceased must have been a high-ranking member of the Luanming Sect.”

“Master, someone killed him and didn't even take this secret technique treasure. Haha.”

“You're wrong, it wasn't a human who killed him. It was an Illusory Beast! Look at the indentations on the corpse's armor; such large marks could only be made by a giant claw.”

“Master, Master,” the young man chuckled, “Does obtaining the Luanming Sect's sect-founding secret technique here count as receiving a legacy in another form?”

“Don't compare this secret technique to the legacy.”

The old man admonished, “The Luanming Sect's secret technique is very valuable. However, this Legacy Forbidden Zone is called 'Demonic Mountain' by the Virtual Universe Company, and they even send many noble existences into it. And I heard that the Virtual Universe Company occasionally dispatches some Undying Gods into Demonic Mountain to venture, just to obtain the legacy of the 'Legacy Forbidden Zone'!”

“Ah!”

“Undying Gods come to receive the legacy?” The two disciples were startled.

Luo Feng, watching the screen, was also startled.

“You wouldn't know this, it's a secret of our Nine Star Sea,” the old man said. “Legacy Forbidden Zone, why is it called a Legacy Forbidden Zone? Because this ancient divine mountain exists solely for the purpose of a legacy! Its existence is incredibly ancient, traceable back to the beginning of recorded history in Nine Star Sea. Traceable back to before the Virtual Universe Company controlled Demonic Mountain! In short, this Legacy Forbidden Zone... holds a legacy that even the Virtual Universe Company covets!”

“How powerful is the Virtual Universe Company?”

“That's impossible, right?” The two disciples couldn't believe it.

“Cough.” The old man coughed twice, then grunted, “The Virtual Universe Company, a super-giant power in the cosmos, is indeed very strong. However, they frequently arrange for noble existences and Undying Gods to enter, attempting to obtain the legacy. This is also a fact. This is the most ancient legacy of our Nine Star Sea. If anyone obtains it, they could truly... soar to the heavens.”

...

Luo Feng watched the conversation between the master and disciples in the video. Soon, the video ended.

Luo Feng frowned slightly: “Legacy? Demonic Mountain? Legacy Forbidden Zone?”