52: Chapter 52 Target: The Central Hall! The Utterly Frenzied Alliance of Aristocratic Families!

In a hidden canyon far away from the wasteland's mineral veins.

The dark red miasma blanketing the sky was slightly thinner here.

With his back against a huge weathered rock and confirming that there were no traces of pursuit around, Lin Yunfei slowly let out a long breath and sank his consciousness into his own Divine Kingdom.

Inside the Divine Kingdom, it was now completely a scene of a nouveau riche.

Beside the black lake, on the previously empty black ground, a glowing small mountain was now piled up.

That was a mountain of [Star Ores]!

The deep blue starlight halos intertwined together, as if forcibly moving a brilliant starry sky into this space, illuminating the entire originally slightly gloomy Divine Kingdom magnificently.

What made one's heartbeat even faster was that at the very top of the ore hill, a dozen crystal-clear [Star Marrows] exuding an intoxicating aura were suspended!

Just by gazing at these Star Marrows, Lin Yunfei could feel a surge of pure energy fluctuating.

Weapons forged with Star Marrows were indestructible, and the power contained within the Star Marrows could also be used to temper the body.

This meant that even a palm-sized Star Marrow could be exchanged for over 100,000 Faith Points outside.

"I've struck it rich, this wave really stuffed me full."

Making a fortune in silence—this feeling was simply too satisfying.

He reined in his focus and slowly opened his right hand.

That mysterious starry branch lay quietly in his palm, the patterns on the branch flickering as if breathing.

Immediately afterwards, a blue cursor, brighter and more dazzling than any time before, suddenly lit up, resembling a sharp sword pointing straight at the most core area of this wasteland.

"The central area, huh..."

"You shouldn't casually go there, it seals a Blood Fiend! But then again, isn't the Blood Fiend sealed? What is there to fear?"

Having made up his mind, Lin Yunfei flashed, turning into a black afterimage, and galloped towards the core area of the wasteland.

At the same time.

The scene turned back to the Star ore cave that had been plundered cleaner than a dog licking it.

"I don't believe it! I absolutely don't believe our luck would be this wretched!"

Zhang Hao gritted his teeth, suppressing the grievance in his heart, and pulled out a quaintly shaped bronze compass from his embrace.

This was a high-grade probing magical artifact bestowed upon him by the Zhang family, specially used to search for spiritual objects with high-energy reactions.

He injected his remaining magic power into the compass.

"Hum!!!"

The pointer on the compass began to spin wildly, and finally, with a crisp snap, it pointed dead-on toward the central direction of the wasteland.

The magnitude of the pointer's tremor even caused a tiny crack to burst open on the compass's surface.

Zhang Hao drew a sharp breath and abruptly raised his head to look at Lian Zhan: "Young Master Lian! There really is nothing left in the outer perimeter! But the compass shows that the best treasures in this space are probably all concentrated in the central area!"

Hearing this, Lian Zhan's originally ashen eyes instantly lit up with a trace of excitement.

"The central area... Yes! It must be in the central area!"

Lian Zhan abruptly stood up from the ground. Because he stood up too fiercely, his figure staggered for a moment, but he didn't care at all, instead letting out a burst of wild laughter.

"Hahaha! I understand! I understand everything!"

"Whether it's the herb garden or the mineral veins, they are merely appetizers to this ancient Divine Kingdom! The true supreme fortuitous encounter is definitely hidden in the central area!"

"That faceless man deliberately jumped out again and again to disgust us just to stall our time, so that he could arrive first and monopolize that greatest treasure in the central area!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Hao and Liu Ting trembled all over, suddenly enlightened.

"So despicable! How can this person be shameless to such a degree!"

Liu Ting trembled with anger, anger reigniting in her eyes.

"Want to monopolize the final inheritance? In his dreams!"

Lian Zhan grabbed the heavy battle-axe on the ground, his eyes so red they seemed like they could drip blood, and the whole person fell into a completely frenzied gambler state.

Two consecutive failures to harvest anything had forced this aristocratic young master to the edge of a cliff.

If he didn't snatch the fortuitous encounter in the central area, he would inevitably become the laughingstock of the entire circle after going out!

"Assemble all the thralls that can still move! At all costs, sprint to the central area for me at the fastest speed!"

Lian Zhan roared hysterically, "Today, if gods block I kill gods, if Buddhas block I kill Buddhas, I must never let him take the lead again!!!"

The three of them, leading the surviving elite thralls like a group of red-eyed gamblers, aggressively and overwhelmingly killed their way out of the mine cave, heading straight for the wasteland's core.

The wasteland's core.

The environment here was completely different from the outer perimeter.

The dark red miasma blanketing the sky was so thick here it was almost impossible to disperse, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood and a sickening stench of rot.

The land beneath their feet was no longer barren sand and rocks, but presented a bizarre dark purple, as if it were the dried color after being soaked by countless blood for years.

Lin Yunfei, like a ghost, shuttled silently through the thick fog.

The closer he got to the center, the stronger his inner unease became.

It was too quiet around, so quiet that even the sound of the wind disappeared, leaving only the sound of his own heartbeat echoing in his ears.

Finally, the thick fog ahead suddenly cleared up.

An incomparably vast ancient ruined square abruptly appeared in Lin Yunfei's field of vision.

Hiding behind a fallen huge stone pillar and peering out with his gaze, Lin Yunfei instantly drew a sharp breath.

In the center of the square, there was neither the kind of resplendent inheritance palace they had imagined, nor the mountains of heavenly treasures.

What existed was merely a huge blood-colored altar dozens of zhang high!

This altar was entirely crafted from some unknown dark red crystal, and it was engraved with dense, twisted, and bizarre black runes.

What made one's scalp even more numb was that nine black iron chains as thick as water vats extended from the underground around the square, tightly wrapping around the top of the altar, as if suppressing some peerless ferocious entity.

Around the altar, there was no spiritual energy fluctuation at all, only a towering, suffocatingly dense fiendish aura!

"The fuck is this a treasure land? Anyone with discerning eyes can tell this is a place of great ominousness."

Just as Lin Yunfei was getting cold feet and preparing to oil the soles of his feet and slip away...

"Rumble!"

A flurry of messy and violent footsteps, mixed with the roaring of magic power, came overwhelmingly from another entrance of the square.

Lin Yunfei's movements paused, and he turned his head to look.

He saw Lian Zhan, Zhang Hao, and Liu Ting, leading a group of dirt-covered thralls whose eyes flashed with fanatical light, rushing into the square like starving wolves pouncing on food!

When they saw the magnificent blood-colored altar in the center of the square, not only did they not feel the slightest fear, but instead they collectively burst into cheers!

"Found it! Finally found it!"

Lian Zhan looked at the altar heavily locked by the black iron chains, shaking all over with excitement, the muscles on his face distorted due to extreme exhilaration.

"Such a terrifying sealing array, such thick suppressing iron chains! What's hidden inside is definitely the most core treasure of the ancient Divine Kingdom!"

"Young Master Lian, our luck is finally turning!"

Zhang Hao was also so excited his face turned red, holding up his staff high, even his breathing becoming heavy.

"Quick! While that masked Saobaxing hasn't arrived yet, let's quickly break this damn chain and take out the inheritance!"

Liu Ting urged impatiently, afraid that a step later, this altar would vanish into thin air like the herb garden and mineral veins.

"All thralls, listen up! Concentrate all your firepower for me and blast apart the seal of this altar!!!"

Lian Zhan raised his battle-axe and issued a frantic general attack command.

Lin Yunfei, hiding behind the stone pillar, watched this group of aristocratic scions rushing to throw their lives away like moths to a flame, plunging into a long period of speechlessness.

He had seen people courting death, but he had never seen anyone rush so eagerly to court death.

The aura emanating from that altar even made the Starry Sky Ancient Tree tremble; these three idiots actually regarded it as an inheritance treasure?!

Seeing that Lian Zhan's heavy armor thralls and Zhang Hao's mage thralls had already begun to condense their strongest strike, preparing to bombard the nine suppressing iron chains.

Lin Yunfei sighed. He knew that once this thing was released, the entire wasteland space would probably suffer, and by then he might not even be able to run if he wanted to.

"Damn it, a bunch of morons."

Lin Yunfei cursed inwardly, took a deep breath, and abruptly stepped out from behind the huge stone pillar.

"Stop!!!"