Chen Tian walked out of the room. It had served no further purpose. Chen Tian had passed the trial of fire, and was now more powerful than before. A thought struck him, and he said softly, "System, can I use fire elemental powers now?"
"Responding to the host, no. The time has not come for the use of fire elemental powers."
"Damn."
What was the point of passing this trial then? If fire elemental powers couldn't be used and he had to wait months, it was agonizing. Ah well, at least when the time came, he would have divine fire plus his absolute mastery, and his flame attacks would reach an even higher level.
Chen Tian stepped off the boat and walked over to Ming Tian. Ming Tian smiled and said, "Is it done?"
"I've finished. I passed a trial, but this trial is divided into five elemental trials. This is only the fire trial; the other four elements are not here."
"I know. The official website mentioned in this update that the locations are randomly placed. This place was found by players and then posted on the information network. You'll need to search for the other elements yourself."
"However, my disciple is truly powerful. You actually passed a trial that others couldn't. Impressive, impressive. You haven't disgraced your master."
Chen Tian's expression immediately darkened. *Master, is it really okay to praise yourself so shamelessly?*
Chen Tian spoke, "Master, several days have passed. I was in there undergoing trials for eighty-one days."
"Only a little over a hundred seconds have passed."
"Oh, so the time flow inside is one day to one second. One day inside, one second outside. Good, at least it hasn't delayed my search for the fragments."
"Let's go. We should head to the next area."
Chen Tian and Ming Tian left. Just as they were about to depart, the boat behind them turned to dust and slowly dissipated. Chen Tian and Ming Tian knew that once the trial was passed, its purpose here was gone.
"Big brother, big brother, look quickly! The boat is collapsing."
"Do you think I'm blind? I can see."
"Captain, look, from which direction did those two come?"
"Men, surround them!"
As the words fell, hundreds of people moved to encircle Chen Tian and Ming Tian. Chen Tian's face turned cold. "What do you want?"
"Kid, tell me, did you just come out of that boat?"
A young voice rang out. The young man met Chen Tian's gaze. Chen Tian's expression remained impassive. "So what if we did, and so what if we didn't?"
"Kid, I won't waste my breath with you. Hand over what you obtained from passing the trial, or I won't mind taking it myself."
"You don't want to die, do you? After all, dying once means losing levels, right?"
Chen Tian listened to the young man's threat without a ripple of emotion, his expression calm. Ming Tian chuckled, "It seems there's killing and looting everywhere you go."
"Indeed!"
"But in my opinion, you only have numbers. Dealing with you will just be a waste of time."
Chen Tian's indifferent demeanor made it seem as though the players who had surrounded him were the ones in peril. Chen Tian looked at their names; they all started with "Chi Tian," indicating they were from the Chi Tian Guild.
"Kid, no matter how strong you are, how can two people stand against our hundred? Our Chi Tian Guild is a subsidiary of the Chi Long Guild. Be sensible and hand over the items."
Chi Tian Lie Yun, the young man, spoke with arrogant confidence.
In Chi Tian Lie Yun's eyes, Chen Tian and Ming Tian were only two people. Their guild had brought a hundred people on this trip. Their levels were not significantly different, and with him as the leader, killing the two would be easy.
"What if I don't give it to you?"
"Then die. Attack!"
Seeing that the other party showed him no respect, Chi Tian Lie Yun became enraged. The Chi Tian Guild had some reputation. When had they ever been treated like this? Someone not giving him face was seeking death.
With a command, five or six players nearby, armed with spears, swords, and sabers, charged at Chen Tian. Chen Tian lowered his head and sighed. His figure split into eight or nine, instantly incapacitating the attacking players.
Chi Tian Lie Yun took a step back, his voice tinged with fear. "You, you, you created a clone skill."
"Then get out of the way. Are you looking for death?"
"Heh, no matter how many clones you can make, with over a hundred of us here, if we attack together, you'll have no power to resist."
Chi Tian Lie Yun crossed his arms, looking confident and arrogant, as if he were a lord looking down from above.
Chen Tian scoffed at Chi Tian Lie Yun, "Are you so sure I can only make this many clones?"
Instantly, thousands of clones appeared behind Chen Tian. Thousands of Chen Tian attacked simultaneously, overwhelming the Chi Tian Guild players, who began to fall in droves.
Chi Tian Lie Yun rubbed his eyes and exclaimed, "Holy hell! What kind of clone skill can make thousands of clones?"
"Kid, after using a self-created skill like this, do you have any trump cards left? I don't believe your clones have no time limit."
"Sorry, I actually don't."
The slaughter continued for several hours. Chi Tian Lie Yun watched as the last player fell, his mouth twitching.
It was true, there was no time limit!
"Big brother, I was wrong, can you spare my life? I was wrong."
Chi Tian Lie Yun prostrated himself, begging. This time, it was Chen Tian's turn to have a twitching mouth. *What is this? The change from fierce to a meek lamb is too rapid. What's the meaning of this?*
"I'll send you on your way."
Chen Tian calmly fired a beam of light. Chi Tian Lie Yun cried out in panic, "You can't kill me. If you kill me, you'll be wanted by the Chi Tian Guild, and you won't have anywhere to hide on the entire fourth floor."
"None of my business."
Chen Tian had no intention of staying on the fourth floor long-term. If he killed the other party, so be it. The Chi Tian Guild was nothing; if they provoked Chen Tian, he wouldn't mind destroying them.
Chen Tian's beam passed through Chi Tian Lie Yun, and his health rapidly depleted. Chen Tian's current attack, infused with various primordial energies, was no longer just game power. Only players above level thirty could contend with him, even for a few moves.
In game mode, only game abilities could be used, but Chen Tian's primordial chaos energy was unrestricted. With a single thought, his internal energies merged, making killing enemies effortless.
"Let's go, disciple. This is boring."
Ming Tian remained calm throughout. She was accustomed to such situations. Having experienced war, dying a few times was not real death; they would revive.
There was no need to hold back, just teach them a lesson.
"By the way, Master, there's something I need to tell you."
Chen Tian explained the matter of the Evil Spirit race and the human traitors to Ming Tian. Ming Tian's face turned angry. "Scum of humanity, a disgrace! To actually help the Evil Spirit race break the seal. But disciple, what grudge do they have against you?"
"I don't know. In my memory, I haven't made any enemies over the years. I don't know where this enemy came from."
Chen Tian was puzzled. When did this enemy appear? Chen Tian searched his memories meticulously but found nothing. Earth was such a small place; Chen Tian couldn't figure out who he had wronged.
"Alright, let's go to the next area. When I return to the fifth floor, I'll dispatch my guild to guard the seal's location."
"Thank you, Master."
Two streams of light shot north. This was Chen Tian's last region. This area was entirely composed of reefs, with a deep abyss canyon formed by reefs standing tall. Chen Tian and Ming Tian hovered above the abyss. Ming Tian looked worried. "Disciple, are you sure you can defeat this race?"
"Not entirely sure, but at least fifty-fifty. I'll kill as many as I can."
Chen Tian was cautious in this last region. The monsters here belonged to the Flood Dragon race, a type of sub-dragon. Players often gathered here, and the experience gained from hunting flood dragons was higher than from monsters in other areas.
The rewards were better, as they belonged to a divine beast race. The Flood Dragon race had double the attributes of normal bosses, and the flood dragons in this area were gregarious. If one appeared, hundreds, even thousands, would emerge. Players hunting them paid a heavy price.
Currently, three teams were gathered here, representing three guilds. Chen Tian and Ming Tian hovered above the abyss, concealing their aura so no players detected them.
"With the three guilds combined, there are over a thousand people. I wonder if they are a match for the Flood Dragon pack."
Chen Tian murmured to himself, visions flashing through his mind. Just as Chen Tian was about to move, his mind flickered, and he froze in place.
"Disciple, what's wrong?"
Ming Tian looked at Chen Tian curiously. Why had her disciple suddenly stopped moving?
The reason Chen Tian stopped was that he had triggered a system mission. This mission surprised him, and he was communicating with the system.
"System, are you serious? You're not tricking me."
"This system will not trick the host. Host, will you accept this mission?"
"Accept. If I don't, I'll regret it for life."
Chen Tian snapped back to reality and said calmly, "Master, let's wait until they start fighting and then quietly descend into the bottom of the abyss."
"Hmm?"
"There's a bottom to the abyss? How come I didn't know?"
According to their guild's intelligence, the abyss had no bottom. What her disciple was saying was completely contrary to the intelligence.
"Just watch."
Chen Tian waited quietly. Below, the leaders of the three guilds were discussing. "Mo Yang, this abyss race belongs to our Blood Forest Guild today. You step aside, let us go first."
"On what grounds? I was here first, Blood Forest. Don't think I'm afraid of your Blood Forest Guild."
"Can't we all just get along amicably?"
"Shut up."
Both of them roared at the other leader. Yang Ming looked at the two, speechless. They were still arguing. Blood Forest and Mo Yang, these two guilds, had always been antagonistic; they wouldn't stop fighting for long.
"Yang Ming, tell us, who among our three guilds goes first."
Blood Forest and Mo Yang stopped arguing and turned to ask Yang Ming. Yang Ming pushed up his glasses and said, "According to my calculations, the Flood Dragon race below numbers in the thousands. Our three guilds combined have only seventeen hundred people. Our individual guild's win rate is only 0.05%. I believe both of you are aware of this."
"If we were here just to level up, we wouldn't care, but all three of us know our objective. If we cooperate, our win rate will increase to 30%. If we use all our trump cards, our win rate will reach 70%."
"The attributes of the flood dragons below are approximately..."
Chen Tian stood above the abyss, listening to the conversation below. Chen Tian felt a sense of admiration for the young man with glasses. His analysis was not wrong at all. The attributes were similar, even the skills were similar.
How monstrous is this person! He calculated the number, attributes, skills, abilities, and characteristics of the Flood Dragon race, even down to the win rate without any decimal point discrepancies.
"Genius."
Chen Tian could only describe him as such. A thought appeared in Chen Tian's mind, but he was not in a hurry. He remembered this young man.