Changing Equipment

Soon, Elder Li treated the unconscious guest retainers of the Xu Family.

Afterward, he briefly bandaged the War God-level captain who had crashed onto the 22nd floor, then quickly led his squad out of City No. 031.

What Luo Feng did not know was that the Xu Family's retainers had transmitted his information to the highest echelons of the Xu Family shortly after returning to the base city.

After bidding farewell to Elder Li and the Fire Hammer Squad, Luo Feng began preparing to kill the Space-Splitting Dragon Lizard.

That Space-Splitting Dragon Lizard could force even a Planetary Level powerhouse to return in defeat; it was likely a monster infinitely close to the King Rank, far stronger than an average Advanced Lord.

First, Luo Feng naturally needed to prepare by accumulating a large amount of points.

Only with enough points could he remain calm regardless of what enemy he encountered.

Second, Luo Feng was now an Advanced War God, and his current equipment and weapons were no longer keeping pace with his rapid growth; he planned to hunt a wave of high-level monsters to upgrade his gear.

In terms of melee, his Grade 7 Battle Blade, Grade 7 leather armor, and Grade 6 Shield were fine for dealing with ordinary monsters.

However, these pieces of equipment would be completely useless if he had to face an Advanced Lord.

As an Advanced Lord with extremely strong defenses, the Space-Splitting Dragon Lizard would likely be too much for even the six S-Rank Flying Daggers gifted by the system.

It would be best if he could upgrade all his flying daggers to SS-Rank.

After all, he didn't even have a Black God Set yet; he was clearly an assassin with high attack power but weak defense.

His equipment had to be updated, and his own defenses needed a boost as well.

Thus, Luo Feng began setting his sights on various Advanced Lords.

After summarizing his experiences over the past few days, Luo Feng had discovered that the equipment dropped by the system was always exactly one grade higher than the monster.

Advanced Lord-rank monsters dropped SS-Rank equipment.

On the second day after arriving in City No. 031, Luo Feng encountered an Advanced Lord "Thunder-Striding Leopard," a rare, solitary Advanced Lord.

To temper himself, Luo Feng fought it using only his strength as a Martial Artist.

Of course, relying solely on his Martial Artist strength, Luo Feng—at the level of an Initial War God—could not possibly be a match for the Advanced Lord Thunder-Striding Leopard.

Luo Feng directly used Gravity Art to restrict the Thunder-Striding Leopard's greatest advantage: its speed.

Then, relying on the 2.1-fold force output of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade Second Layer, he used the strength of an Intermediate War God to wear the Thunder-Striding Leopard to death.

This Advanced Lord-rank Thunder-Striding Leopard lived up to expectations and dropped a flashy, purple SS-Rank battle blade.

On the fifth day, Luo Feng encountered a herd of "Iron-Armored Rhinos," most of which were Beast General-rank, led by an Advanced Lord-rank Iron-Armored Rhino King.

Because there were too many Beast General-rank Iron-Armored Rhinos, Luo Feng did not want to waste too much time; without hesitation, he unleashed an eighth-level magic spell: "Rain of Crushing Stones."

Nearly a thousand giant boulders, six to seven meters in diameter and imbued with Earth Elements, suddenly plummeted from the sky, covering a range of several hundred meters below like a meteor shower, instantly annihilating the ordinary Beast General-rank Iron-Armored Rhinos.

Luo Feng had wanted to repeat his previous tactic and kill the Iron-Armored Rhino King using his strength as a Warrior, but the Iron-Armored Rhino King's defense was too strong; even with his SS-Rank battle blade, Luo Feng's raw power was still lacking.

In the end, Luo Feng used his Spiritual Telekinesis to control the SS-Rank battle blade and laboriously killed the Iron-Armored Rhino King.

The Iron-Armored Rhino King dropped an earth-yellow SS-Grade Shield.

On the ninth day, Luo Feng encountered a pride of "Flame Lions," and ultimately, the Advanced Lord-rank "Flame Lion King" dropped a fire-red SS-Rank combat suit.

On the fourteenth day, Luo Feng finally encountered a solitary Advanced Lord-rank "Black-Crowned Golden Eagle," and after killing it, he obtained two dark-gold SS-Rank flying daggers.

With this, Luo Feng had finally collected all his equipment.

His points had also accumulated enough.

After resting for a night to recharge, he set off outside the city, his target the Space-Splitting Dragon Lizard.

Of course, during his time hunting monsters, Luo Feng would self-study the Flat Blade Carving Technique whenever he had spare time; although the improvement to his mental power was not obvious in the early stages.

But after half a month, Luo Feng had slowly mastered some of the essence of stone carving.

What Luo Feng did not know was that his frantic battles hunting Advanced Lords in City No. 031 during this period had been recorded from afar by some people and uploaded to the internet.

The terrifying, large-scale magic of the eighth-level spell "Rain of Crushing Stones."

And his battle with the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle, which took place high in the air, had naturally been noticed by many.

Therefore, not long after, not only the Li Family and Xu Family in the Jiangnan Base City, but also "interested parties" from various families and factions across the globe, after carefully studying the footage, all sensed the "special" nature of this Advanced War God, Luo Feng.

Jiangnan Base City, Jiangnan Landscape Residential Area, inside a villa on the peak of Huayao Peak.

A man covered in a murderous aura with tattoos on his face was watching a video on his phone.

"Hmm? This young man should only have the strength of an Advanced War God, yet he can project Earth Elements in such a way? And the power is so great, the range so wide?"

"He must have had a fortuitous encounter in some ruin. I've been stuck at the peak of the War God level for too long; if I could..."

Europe.

Inside a room in a massive manor.

A burly middle-aged man with long, fiery red hair, having inadvertently seen the video of Luo Feng casting Earth Magic and killing the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle, muttered.

"Such a young Advanced War God, and so special at that; there must be secrets on him..."

The military of various countries felt their eyes light up after seeing Luo Feng's magic.

"If every Warrior could learn such magic, what would there be to fear from monster tides? Wouldn't it be a case of 'the more they come, the more they die'?"

Many ambitious powerhouses felt a stir in their hearts after watching the video of Luo Feng.

Because Luo Feng was simply too young, such strength was far too abnormal.

The militaries of various countries were even more covetous of Luo Feng's magic.

In the blink of an eye, it had been 15 days since Luo Feng arrived at City No. 031.

Barefoot, Luo Feng stood atop a large mountain.

What came into view was a long-abandoned mine.

It was an open-pit mine, its surface covered in light gray rocks, surrounded by dilapidated mining equipment; some rusted iron frames were twisted and deformed, with parts already collapsed.

Looking down, the mine pit opened its massive maw like the bloodthirsty jaws of a monster, dark and deep within, permeated by a mysterious and eerie aura.

At the very bottom of the pit, there were still some old, large mining vehicles, though viewed from the mountaintop, those vehicles looked as small as toys.

The sky was overcast with thick, gloomy clouds, and sunlight struggled to pierce through the gaps in a few faint rays, casting light upon this abandoned land; Luo Feng looked down into the pit, where there were two mine shafts at the very bottom.

With Luo Feng's keen eyesight, he could vaguely see five or six-meter-long Space-Splitting Lizards occasionally appearing at the entrances of those mine shafts.

"This should be the lair of the Space-Splitting Dragon Lizard."

Before entering, Luo Feng decided to play it safe and add some points.

After all, this was a monster that even a Planetary Level powerhouse couldn't kill, and it was also related to his own Dragonblood Warrior transformation, so it was better to be cautious.