80: Chapter 80: Luck caused all three to break through their defenses!

This dilapidated ruin of a city was still quite a long distance from the central hinterland of the Seventh-Tier Continent.

Unexpectedly, having just landed and started reclamation, they had already successfully dug up an Elemental Crystal.

Their luck was truly off the charts.

However, to safely tuck this treasure into their pockets, they had to conduct a thorough clearing of the area first.

Lin Feng had only sent out a dozen or so Fourth-Tier Chieftains to lead the vanguard.

Yet, at this moment, there were over a hundred Venomous Giant Scorpions crawling out from underground.

Fortunately, they were playing the most shameless human-wave tactic!

Behind every Chieftain, there followed a massive legion of tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand, low-level warriors.

As the saying goes, many ants can bite an elephant to death; they could simply pile on the bodies to crush these venomous bugs.

Moreover, these Venomous Giant Scorpions only possessed single-target piercing attacks and were incapable of unleashing large-scale area-of-effect skills.

After paying the price of tens of thousands of Second and Third-Tier cannon fodder, the tribal army under Lin Feng's command finally slaughtered every single indigenous monster in the entire city.

The sweep officially began.

Lin Feng issued a divine decree.

The hundreds of thousands of Orcish troops turned into a demolition squad, launching a frantic, carpet-style looting spree throughout the ruins.

They kicked open countless dilapidated doors, turning every nook and cranny where something might be hidden upside down.

Yet, after struggling for over an hour, they had found absolutely nothing.

They hadn't even managed to get their hands on a single useful thing.

"What the hell."

Lin Feng frowned. Could the system radar have malfunctioned?

Wait! It's underground!

A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Lin Feng, and he instantly remembered the secret underground base of the Imperial Capital United Front Zone.

Such strategic-level treasures were nine times out of ten buried deep underground!

Sure enough.

After changing their approach, the tribal warriors dug three feet deep for over an hour and finally pried open an extremely concealed underground air-raid shelter.

In the innermost secret chamber of the shelter, they successfully found this Elemental Crystal that was emitting a powerful aura.

A few minutes later.

A Fourth-Tier Minotaur Lord scrambled out of the ground, holding a dazzling mass of earthy-yellow light in his rough hands.

"Great Master! I have found the item you requested!"

The Minotaur Lord knelt devoutly in the mud, holding the crystal high above his head with both hands.

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Sixth-Tier Earth Elemental Source Core (1)!"

Lin Feng stowed it into his system inventory, the crisp electronic voice reporting the good news right on time.

The moment the crystal was unearthed, the intense Law fluctuations it erupted with could not be hidden.

Zhao Tianao, Zhou Rui, and Wu Ke immediately turned their heads to look.

"Junior, your luck is truly excellent; you managed to get a Sixth-Tier Basic Core not long after entering."

"Congratulations, congratulations! It seems we need to step up our efforts as well!"

"Heh, in any case, the rules were set long ago; we will split the final loot among the four of us equally."

The three of them offered congratulations with smiling faces on the surface.

But the envy and jealousy leaking through their words were practically overflowing from their eyes.

...

Lin Feng couldn't be bothered to pay attention to these three schemers.

The crystal was already in his pocket; they wanted him to spit it out and split it? Keep dreaming.

He directly commanded the tribal army to continue advancing at full speed toward the hinterland of the continent.

As the four people's vanguard troops pushed deeper and deeper, the indigenous monsters they encountered became increasingly monstrous.

Fifth-Tier Armored Crawler Bugs.

Fifth-Tier Venomous Burrowing Spiders.

Fifth-Tier Carrion Filth-Form Bugs.

...

Facing the exponentially increasing defensive pressure, Zhao Tianao and the other two could no longer hold out and successively released all their high-tier trump cards that they had been keeping in reserve.

Fifth-Tier Fire-Breathing Dragons and Sixth-Tier Frost Giants were deployed together.

If they kept hiding their strength, they wouldn't be able to move forward even a single step.

Just like that, relying on the four of them pushing forward with combined force, ruinous city after ruinous city was uprooted.

Tracts of wilderness were ruthlessly trampled flat by the army.

Unfortunately, their luck afterward was average, and they never unearthed a second Elemental Crystal.

Pushing along the way, Lin Feng figured out a pattern.

The indigenous monsters in this Seventh-Tier Continent were basically all related to the underground soil.

They were either bugs that could burrow or venomous scorpions lying in sand pits.

From this, he deduced that the Ancient True God who had fallen here likely specialized in Earth-type Laws.

But who cared what Law he specialized in?

Lin Feng's only goal now was to plunder as many Source Cores as possible.

These were hard currency used for upgrading Divine Beasts and breaking through to the Divine Tier.

...

Several days of Divine Domain time passed in a continuous blur.

The outer rim of the entire Seventh-Tier Continent had basically been swept clean by the four of them working together.

Currently, the only places not yet taken were the four or five central main cities in the core area, as well as some unknown black ancient forests.

In the core area, you couldn't even find a Fourth-Tier living creature.

The ground was crawling with terrifying overlords starting at Fifth-Tier.

It was time to switch to the main forces.

Lin Feng knew this.

Letting the Fourth-Tier Minotaurs continue to lead the charge would simply be feeding them to the enemy.

"Phoenix! Capture the enemy territory!"

The order was issued.

Inside the crater of the Chaos Plane, the Phoenix received the Master's divine decree.

It soared directly into the sky from the scorching magma!

"This subordinate obeys!"

It circled gracefully in mid-air twice, then transformed directly into a crimson meteor, smashing fiercely into the airspace of the Seventh-Tier Continent.

There were only five main cities left that hadn't been reclaimed.

The four of them very tacitly divided them up, one for each.

They left the central-most main city for last, for everyone to tackle together.

"System, scan the distribution of monsters in this city ahead," Lin Feng asked.

"Ding! Analyzing intelligence..."

[Wasteland Sand Worms: 867,000 (Fifth-Tier)]

[Burrowing Demon Cockroaches: 176,000 (Fifth-Tier)]

[Venomous Widow Spiders: 73,000 (Fifth-Tier)]

[Venomous Giant Scorpions: 2 (Sixth-Tier)]

...

The city ahead had practically become a happy valley for arthropods.

The entire city was in a state of utter ruin.

God knows what kind of tragic divine war this place had experienced in the past.

"Phoenix, burn this place to the ground for me!"

Lin Feng decisively issued the order to clear the area.

The Phoenix swept low over the ruins, and with a flap of its wings, a sky full of flowing fire poured down.

In the blink of an eye, the entire city turned into a sea of flames.

Under the terrifying high temperature of the Undying Karma Fire, all the Fifth-Tier bugs didn't even make a peep before being instantly burned to charcoal.

High-temperature flames were the natural nemesis for these kinds of carbon-based insects.

Only a very small number of Sand Worms that had burrowed hundreds of meters underground barely escaped disaster.

But as long as the Phoenix was still flying in the sky, they wouldn't dare to show their heads even if they were given a hundred times the courage.

Only the two Sixth-Tier Venomous Giant Scorpions managed to withstand the first wave of fire rain.

However, that was only to the extent that they weren't killed instantly on the spot.

The Undying Karma Fire clung to their shiny black carapaces, burning furiously and sizzling loudly.

The two giant scorpions, in agony, fell into a state of madness, raised their tail hooks high, and violently spewed two streams of highly corrosive poison.

The Phoenix did not dodge or evade, instead opening its mouth to spit out an even more violent Law fireball.

The poison and the fireball collided fiercely in mid-air, instantly evaporating into a sky full of white mist.

Steam billowed wildly.

After blocking the poison, the Phoenix dived at high speed.

Like cutting tofu, it used its sharp auspicious beast claws to tear the two Sixth-Tier giant scorpions into pieces all over the ground.