Luo Feng and the Others' Growing Urgency

Master Wu's alert range covered ten thousand kilometers around him. Within that area, most things could not escape his notice.

He simply could not investigate them with precision. Even so, when Luo Feng and the others deployed their intelligent robots, they had fallen within his sight.

But he had not expected their excavation speed to be so fast.

"There are three layers of passwords for the complete set of secret technique Crystal balls. Each layer costs ten million Thunder Stones, while the complete set costs thirty million Thunder Stones."

Master Wu stared at Luo Feng as he spoke. He wanted to see whether Luo Feng could truly produce so many Thunder Stones.

With a wave of Luo Feng's hand, an enormous mountain-like pile of Thunder Stones appeared.

"These are the passwords."

A Space Ring appeared in Master Wu's hand, and he tossed it to Luo Feng.

After catching the ring, Luo Feng looked at Master Wu somewhat strangely.

"The three Auxiliary optical computers inside each contain one layer of the password. Just go back and check them."

After giving that explanation, Master Wu vanished from where he stood.

After exchanging their items, Luo Feng and his group walked out of the ancient castle.

"Why do I feel like Master Wu seemed unhappy that we exchanged for treasures so quickly?"

Luo Feng asked Babata through his consciousness.

"An Intelligent life that has been stuck in this World within a World for tens of millions of years must have had its personality twisted by now."

Babata's voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind.

Hearing this, Luo Feng inwardly nodded in agreement.

A light screen was projected from Jiang Ming's Personal Light Brain, displaying a vast number of red dots.

Those red dots marked the locations of the intelligent robots.

Jiang Ming held the terminals for those robots, allowing him to pinpoint their locations.

"Five hundred thousand intelligent robots equipped with detectors are more efficient at searching than five million Stellar Warriors. Luo Feng and the others should have only recently reached the ancient castle, but they must have already gained quite a bit."

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

The World within a World was not much smaller than Thunder World, but with these five hundred thousand intelligent robots, searching for Thunder Stones was still very fast.

A little over a day later, Jiang Ming successfully met up with Luo Feng and the others.

"This is the treasure list for the World within a World, as well as the treasures we exchanged for."

Luo Feng handed Jiang Ming a Space Ring and projected the treasure list along with their exchange values.

"Mm."

Jiang Ming examined Luo Feng and the others' gains and found that their progress was considerably faster than he had expected.

"I'll take ninety-five percent of the treasures in this World within a World. The remaining five percent is yours."

Jiang Ming said to Luo Feng and the others.

The opening of the World within a World had been rather sudden, so they had not discussed how to divide the spoils beforehand.

"Mm, no problem."

Luo Feng and the others nodded at the same time. On this trip, Jiang Ming had done nearly all the work. Even if he took ninety-nine percent, it would have been perfectly reasonable.

Giving them five percent was already extremely generous.

After all, even between blood brothers, accounts had to be settled clearly.

"Jiang Ming, what's the situation outside now?"

Thor asked. They had gained quite a lot during this period, but they were also under immense pressure. Tens of thousands of Stellar-level warriors had watched them enter the World within a World first.

So even though there were no ferocious beasts or other warriors within this World within a World, they still felt a pressing sense of urgency.

"The situation outside has already been settled. Unless something unexpected happens, no one should dare enter anymore."

Hearing Jiang Ming say this, they sighed in relief, though they were also curious about how he had managed it.

"I beat them until they were afraid. Naturally, they no longer dared to come in."

As Jiang Ming spoke, he signaled to Li Yue with his eyes. Li Yue's Auxiliary optical computer immediately projected an image.

It showed the great battle at the entrance to the World within a World outside. The footage had been recorded by the Intelligent program inside the safe house.

As the footage continued, the shock in Luo Feng and the others' eyes grew ever stronger.

"Th-this... what a freak! An absolute freak!"

Babata's voice rang out in Luo Feng's ears.

"Awesome! That's insanely awesome!"

Thor stared at Jiang Ming on the screen, looking like a god, his radiance illuminating all around him as he burned away everything in every direction. His voice was filled with uncontrollable shock.

Jiang Ming was stronger than them; that was an indisputable fact. But no one knew just how strong he truly was.

They only knew that the White-Clad Asuras capable of instantly killing them had themselves been slain by Jiang Ming in a single slash. Yet they had never had a clear grasp of what that meant.

Now, after seeing the footage, they did.

"Their injuries won't heal anytime soon without treasures, so we don't need to worry about people from Thunder World getting in for the time being."

Hearing Jiang Ming's words, everyone nodded. Never mind their injuries—even if they were unharmed, no one would be able to gather those people together again.

"So many people died. Could this cause trouble?"

Hong's expression was grim. Jiang Ming had killed so many people that retaliation was very likely.

At Hong's words, Luo Feng and Thor also looked toward Jiang Ming.

"There won't be any trouble at all. But now that the treasures of the World within a World are in my hands, most of the attention will be on me. Still, you need to be careful too."

Jiang Ming was not worried about other experts coveting him, but Luo Feng and the others could not afford to be so unconcerned.

His words filled everyone with a sense of urgency.

"That's true. How much does a Stellar-level slave cost? Just ten million to over ten billion Black Dragon Coins.

Any one of the treasures in this World within a World could buy hundreds of millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions or tens of billions of Stellar-level slaves."

Thor spoke up. At his words, Babata appeared from Luo Feng's intelligent optical brain.

"In the eyes of those major powers, even if tens of thousands or millions of these Stellar-level people died, they still wouldn't be as important as any one of the 312 treasures in the World within a World."

Everyone fell silent. Once again, the cruelty of the universe revealed a corner of itself before them.

"But there's no need to worry too much. No one knows how many treasures are in the World within a World. Even if they suspect something, suspicion isn't fact. Besides, I have my Teacher backing me. As long as you're a little careful, it'll be fine."

Jiang Ming's words put them much more at ease. He had told them before that he had taken an Immortal Expert as his Teacher.

With Jiang Ming's talent, he would certainly be highly valued.

They could benefit from that a little as well. As long as they did not draw too much attention to themselves, they would not have to worry excessively about being targeted.

"But there's one person we need to watch out for."

Babata suddenly said.

"Who?"

"More accurately, it isn't a person. It's an Intelligent life—the Intelligent life inside the World within a World, Master Wu."

Hearing Babata say this, Jiang Ming also recalled that Intelligent life.

As an Intelligent life that had developed emotions, spending tens of millions of years inside this World within a World had twisted and warped its mind.

There was nothing strange about a mentally warped Intelligent life doing anything at all.

"It's fine. It's only an Intelligent life. It has to act according to its programming. We'll deal with it after we exchange for the treasures."

Although, in the original timeline, Master Wu had chosen Thor as the successor of the Thunder World Lord, whether that would still be the case now was hard to say.