"System prompt: Please players confirm the teleportation destination 'Mount Shou'. Note: Your current level entering this map carries significant danger. Please proceed with caution."
"Confirm!"
In the game now, strength can no longer be measured by levels. As players' talents, professions, and investments differ, the higher the level, the greater the gap becomes.
As the teleportation initiated, when Ye Yun's vision cleared again, he found himself in a clump of bushes.
Teleporting from Fengle City to Mount Shou, just like going to the New Mortal Continent for the first time, meant appearing randomly within Mount Shou.
Once inside Mount Shou, there were only two ways to return to Fengle City: either be killed by the demonic beasts within the Mount Shou mountain range, or find the 'Wilderness Merchant' who appeared at unpredictable times and locations in the wild, purchase various building materials, construct a city yourself, and then build a teleportation array!
As of now, no player had constructed any city here. According to Yue Xia, Mount Shou was simply too vast, and the Wilderness Merchant only appeared once every half month, for a mere five minutes each time!
His appearance location could be anywhere within the vast Mount Shou mountain range, and players currently ventured only in the first and second zones. No player dared to stay in the deeper third zone for an extended period.
Ye Yun had once asked Yue Xia why Yao Die, after entering this place for four years, hadn't established a city. Yue Xia's answer was that he had also been here for four years without ever encountering the Wilderness Merchant. If the cost of death wasn't so high now, he would have wanted to commit suicide and return to the city.
As for information about the Wilderness Merchant, it all came from players who had encountered him and uploaded their findings. Rumor had it that he could procure anything you could imagine, but the price was a bit staggering.
Yue Xia had once shown Ye Yun a screenshot. A single cubic meter of stone cost a million gold coins! A cubic meter of wood required fifty thousand gold coins!
The funds required for players to build a city could be imagined.
What was even more fatal was not this, but that on the seventh day after each city was completed, it would inevitably be attacked by a beast tide. And this beast tide wasn't something that could be defended against simply by having more people; its initial number was one hundred thousand, and then the system would generate a corresponding number of beasts based on the number of players within a three-kilometer radius of the city.
It was said that the number of these beast tides could reach a terrifying one to thirty thousand ratio! That is to say, for every player within a three-kilometer radius of the city, the number of beasts in the beast tide would increase by thirty thousand. If there were two players, the number of demonic beasts would be one hundred and thirty thousand.
The most terrifying aspect was that these beast tides were not confined to the first and second zones; one-third came from the third zone, and a quarter from the fourth zone. Such terrifying beast tides made it almost impossible for players in the Ten Directions Universe to successfully establish cities in this map.
Ye Yun surveyed his surroundings. He was unsure of his current location. The division into zones was something players had figured out themselves over the years; there were no obvious divisions on the game map.
"System prompt: Please players set the range and duration of the skill 'Fire Refines the World'."
Ye Yun looked at the skill's range value and finally entered the game's maximum value, fifty million meters! That is, fifty thousand kilometers. If this were on the New Mortal Continent, it would be a radius of five million kilometers!
As for the skill's duration, Ye Yun set it to sixty seconds. Anyway, Ye Yun's current True Qi in his Dantian was practically negligible for the skill consumption.
Ye Yun had set the skill's coverage range three years ago, and he had been using this skill like this ever since.
Unfortunately, this was not the New Mortal Continent. Without the hundredfold amplification, the skill's coverage area was only fifty thousand kilometers. Compared to the vast Mount Shou mountain range, a radius of one hundred thousand kilometers was merely equivalent to a municipal administrative area within a country on Earth.
"Your Majesty? Have you arrived at Mount Shou?" Just as Ye Yun was looking around confusedly, Old Man Yue Xia sent a message.
Mount Shou, like the New Mortal Continent, lost contact with players from other maps upon entry.
"Yes, I don't even know where I've landed right now." Ye Yun ignored Yue Xia's previous instructions and activated his Flowing Wind Wings, soaring into the sky.
Compared to the trees on the New Mortal Continent that could reach thousands of meters high, this place seemed much more normal, with most not exceeding a hundred meters.
"Your Majesty, please report your coordinates. I'll see our approximate distance."
"6561841, 97948486, s-100." Glancing at the coordinates, Ye Yun was startled. For the former, eight and nine-digit numbers were normal, just like on the New Mortal Continent. But this last number was a bit intimidating, because the last digit represented a ratio.
This was like drawing a blueprint; there would always be a scale. In terms of the actual scale here, it meant that the horizontal span of this map was at least nearly nine.8 billion meters, or nine.8 million kilometers! And this was just an estimation based on Ye Yun's coordinates. In terms of area, it was unknown how many Blue Stars it surpassed.
"Your Majesty, I am too far away from you. Your location is slightly east of due north. If I were to rush there purely by travel, it would probably take over three hours." Yue Xia was also speechless.
"How can this map be so large?" Ye Yun was also speechless. Even with Jin Wu's flight speed of nearly five thousand meters per second, it would take nearly twenty days to fly at full speed.
"Your Majesty, I will arrange for people to start moving towards your location. However, we have quite a few people here, so it might take longer."
"It's fine, take your time. I have time to get familiar with it," Ye Yun said indifferently. With Ye Yun's strength, it wouldn't be difficult to look after these people.
Yue Xia began arranging for people on his end to head towards Ye Yun's location. Because they dared not venture into the third zone or beyond, they had to take a detour, which would only increase the travel time.
According to the information provided by Yue Xia, the demonic beasts in zones one and two were mostly gregarious creatures numbering in the hundreds. Furthermore, the strength of beasts in zone one was generally not high, with most having attributes between one trillion and two trillion. These creatures had a certain territorial awareness, but their territories were mostly within a radius of one kilometer.
It was worth noting that the most terrifying Dire Beasts on the New Mortal Continent only had attributes in the trillions, while here, any random beast already surpassed the strongest monsters on the New Mortal Continent.
Of course, the attributes of demonic beasts in the second zone were even more terrifying. Their total attributes were about five times that of the beasts in the first zone, and the smallest groups numbered over five hundred. This was no wonder Yue Xia and the others had never dared to enter the third zone. After all, the demonic beasts in the second zone were already frightening enough. Entering the third zone, the strength and numbers of the demonic beasts would increase exponentially.
"Damn it, this map design is flawed!" Ye Yun complained.
This kind of design was unreasonable. Logically, the closer to the central area, the stronger the demonic beasts should be, but their numbers should also decrease correspondingly. But here, the stronger they were, the more numerous they became! The density of demonic beasts was also higher.
"I wonder if Yao Die, that woman, has entered the third zone yet." Ye Yun looked at the green expanse beneath his feet, sighing at the appearance of this primeval forest.
Roar...
Screech...
Suddenly, roars of demonic beasts came from below, and at the same time, hundreds of black dots converged from all directions.