Mist Island Blood Battle

It was beyond the expectations of Shi Fen.

In early March 2057, the first execution test of the ultra-high-temperature furnace prototype ended in a hasty conclusion due to a terrifying explosion of the experimental unit.

Had it not been for the presence of dozens of powerhouses like Hong, Thor, Shi Fen, and Elder Qian on the day of the test, the casualties would have been catastrophic. Under Hong's early warning, the vast majority of the staff were able to escape safely.

While the people were saved, the ultra-high-temperature furnace prototype left behind a massive "crater" where it had once stood.

Humanity's first attempt to utilize ultra-high-temperature plasma from nuclear fusion was a complete failure.

Fortunately, the data and research personnel were preserved. After summarizing the lessons learned, they began manufacturing a new ultra-high-temperature furnace prototype, with the next test expected to take place in a few months.

Unable to manufacture high-tier weapons, Shi Fen could only devote himself entirely to the study of Basic Secret Patterns. After consuming the Spirit of Vegetation harvested from Mist Island, his strength surged, his physical fitness reaching the limit of a War God, and the golden liquid ocean within his consciousness sea completely occupied every corner.

Although he failed to break through to the Planet level, the growth of the golden ocean within his consciousness sea caused Shi Fen's conscious calculation ability to skyrocket once again.

In late May of the same year, all 10,081 Basic Secret Patterns were successfully analyzed and comprehended.

The progress far exceeded expectations.

With the Basic Secret Patterns fully understood, Shi Fen dared not rest and immediately threw himself into the process of comprehending the Secret Pattern Diagrams.

One by one, the Secret Pattern Diagrams were rapidly deciphered. Passing through them one after another, Shi Fen was so delighted that he temporarily set aside all other work to focus entirely on the Secret Pattern Diagrams.

Inside his Inner World, Shi Fen frowned, thinking bitterly as he attempted to analyze the final Secret Pattern Diagram. Around him lay piles of discarded draft paper, covered in the calculation processes of his various attempts to decipher the diagram.

Just as he was struggling, unsure of what to do, his Communication Bracelet, left in the outside world, suddenly rang.

Shi Fen hurriedly stood up and exited his Inner World.

As soon as he answered the call, Luo Feng's anxious voice came through the Communication Bracelet.

"Brother, do you know what the Spirit of Vegetation is?"

Shi Fen was startled. He glanced at the date; it was August, the time when Luo Feng first entered Mist Island.

So, this day has finally come, Shi Fen thought.

"I do. The medicinal wine I used to boost the strength of our three families, as well as the bottle I gave your squad, were all infused with the Spirit of Vegetation," Shi Fen replied.

Luo Feng's spirit was jolted. He had just checked the Home of Extremes forum, and with his War God-level clearance, he had just learned of the precious nature of the Spirit of Vegetation.

"You really are a big spender," Luo Feng said with a bitter laugh.

"Haha, there's no need to be so formal between brothers. Why do you ask?" Shi Fen continued.

"It's like this: I've been chased by Li Yao all the way across the Australian Continent, and I accidentally stumbled upon a strange little island. I learned from Li Yao that there are many Spirits of Vegetation here, so I immediately came to ask you."

"Li Yao? The Li Yao with the astronomical bounty on his head?"

"Yes," Luo Feng confirmed.

"In that case, are you also a Spiritual Force master?" Shi Fen feigned shock.

"Haha, I am indeed a Spiritual Force master. But never mind that for now. Don't you have a fighter jet? I'll send you the coordinates. Hurry over here to help. If we join forces, we can make a killing. This Li Yao is truly my lucky star; if he knew I could call you, he'd be furious to death. If we still can't finish him off, you can just call the Dojo Master to help—that alone would be enough to anger him to death!"

"Alright, I'm on my way." Shi Fen did not end the call immediately; even after boarding the Qiankun-class Fighter Jet, he continued to nag Luo Feng.

Luo Feng apologized repeatedly, saying he shouldn't have kept it a secret and that he would treat Shi Fen to a good meal later to make up for his mental distress.

Shi Fen felt very happy that Luo Feng had taken the initiative to invite him to excavate the Spirit of Vegetation on Mist Island.

The feeling of being completely trusted was excellent!

The Qiankun-class Fighter Jet flew toward Mist Island at full speed. Shi Fen sat quietly in the cabin, thinking about what to do once he arrived. Beside him sat a package containing the custom-made armor, battle blade, and throwing knives he had prepared for Luo Feng.

This set of equipment was an SSS-grade set that Luo Feng had requested after making a name for himself at the Elite Training Camp.

Shi Fen had originally intended to wait until Luo Feng returned from Mist Island to give it to him.

Given the current situation, however, Shi Fen decided to bring it along.

Less than an hour later.

Shi Fen arrived in the skies above Mist Island.

He chose to land in the area he had cleared of monsters during his last visit.

Shi Fen wore a set of black, archaic SSS-grade armor. In the blade sheath on the outer layer of the armor were 36 exquisite SSS-grade throwing knives. Beneath the armor, he wore the Black God Set gifted by Hong. Carrying his battle blade and shield, and holding Luo Feng's equipment, he jumped as the fighter jet's hatch opened.

As he leaped out, the wind howled in his ears. Shi Fen used his Spiritual Force to control his armor, allowing himself to descend steadily and slowly. His feet touched the ground lightly as he landed by the lake.

"Luo Feng, where are you? I've arrived," Shi Fen asked, calling Luo Feng.

"Great! You're just in time; Li Yao's reinforcements haven't arrived yet. I'm sending you my location. Let's join forces to take care of the nine willow trees first. I heard from Li Yao that there are nine Willow Wood Hearts inside that are over a thousand years old."

"Alright, I've brought your SSS-grade equipment. Put it on first, then we'll go fight."

While Shi Fen was on the phone with Luo Feng, a monster head as large as a room slowly surfaced from the water. The monster opened two strange, vat-sized vertical pupils and sized Shi Fen up.

Just as Shi Fen was about to move to rendezvous with Luo Feng, he caught a glimpse of something moving in the lake water out of the corner of his eye and immediately turned to look.

Man and beast locked eyes.

As Shi Fen saw the monster's head, he immediately recognized it as a King-level monster. His scalp went numb instantly. Without even ending the call, he grabbed the bag and took off from the ground, fleeing frantically toward the interior of the island!

When the monster saw Shi Fen's face, its strange vertical pupils instantly turned blood-red, and it let out a shrill, furious roar. Following this piercing roar, many more monster heads surfaced in the lake. On the land by the lake and on the surrounding peaks, numerous massive monsters all opened their eyes at the sound of that roar.

The monster lifted its front legs, quickly wrenching them free from the water, and extended its sharp claws to launch a furious attack at Shi Fen.

As the monster swung its claws, it surged out of the water, revealing its full form.

This monster was a King-Level Crocodile Dragon, over 200 meters in length, its entire body covered in ferocious, deep-red scales, each one the size of a door panel. It had two curved, sharp horns on its head, and its legs were incredibly thick, with claws sharp enough to easily pierce through S-grade battle armor.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The monster's first strike did not land on Shi Fen. Seeing that its attack had missed, the monster let out another roar, its massive body transforming into a streak of light as it chased after Shi Fen in a wild, roaring frenzy.

The other powerful monsters in the vicinity, hearing the King-Level Crocodile Dragon's successive roars, seemed to receive an order and began to converge in the direction of the King-Level Crocodile Dragon.

Sea, land, and air monsters quickly joined forces with the King-Level Crocodile Dragon, surrounding and intercepting Shi Fen in a joint hunt.

Damn it, I killed the small ones, and now the big one is here for revenge. Shi Fen grumbled inwardly while fleeing for his life.

Fortunately, Shi Fen was usually diligent, often honing his movement techniques and the Basics of Spiritual Reader in his spare time; otherwise, he would have been done for during the first wave of attacks from the flying monster swarm.

It wasn't that Shi Fen hadn't considered hiding inside the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror.

However, Shi Fen hadn't had time to scout Mist Island yet, and he didn't know if Babata, Li Yao, and the others could see him.

To be cautious, Shi Fen dared not act rashly.

Shi Fen twisted and turned within the frenzied monster swarm, dodging flexibly through the gaps between the beasts like a slippery loach, yet not a single monster managed to touch even the corner of his clothes.

The King-Level Crocodile Dragon, furious to the extreme, watched as Shi Fen carried his bag, dodging with ease as if he were taking a leisurely stroll through the monster swarm. The King-Level Crocodile Dragon flew into a rage, roaring and ordering its subordinates to surround this human from all sides.

The Crocodile Dragon itself transformed into a meteorite, charging toward Shi Fen, determined to crush him into a meat patty.

In Shi Fen's eyes, he had killed two small Crocodile Dragons. In the eyes of the King-Level Crocodile Dragon, those were its mate and offspring.

This was a blood feud for the killing of its kin!

The Crocodile Dragon had been waiting here for Shi Fen for a long time, so how could it not be crazed upon seeing him now?

"Not good."

Shi Fen realized things were taking a turn for the worse and exclaimed, the Black God Set immediately covering his entire body. A large number of throwing knives emerged one after another from all over his body, a total of 33 knives circling and flying around him. Many monsters attempting to close in on Shi Fen instantly became ghosts under his blades.

Shi Fen's control limit was 33 throwing knives.

Yes, after the golden ocean filled his consciousness, his control limit and Spiritual Force amplitude had reached a staggering 33 times.

"Xiu, xiu, xiu!"

Under Shi Fen's limit control, each meticulously crafted throwing knife pierced into the monsters' brains at various tricky angles and terrifying speeds. The knives would rotate a few times inside the monsters' brains, completely destroying them, before drilling back out to return to Shi Fen's side to continue the battle.

The monster swarm surrounding Shi Fen consisted of at least Lord-Level monsters at their weakest, but their defenses were non-existent in Shi Fen's eyes, unable to block the throwing knives in the slightest.

"Thud, thud, thud..."

In just over ten seconds, six Lord-Level monsters collapsed completely, their life force rapidly vanishing.

Seeing his subordinates being slaughtered one after another, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon grew even more enraged. Driven to the limit of its fury, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon's speed surged sharply. Now less than ten meters from Shi Fen, it extended its sharp claws once more to attack.

Seeing the situation was dire, Shi Fen did not hesitate. He dropped the bag in his hand, ignored the throwing knives already buried in the monsters' heads, retracted the knives around him, and hugged his head with both hands, taking the full force of the Lord-Level monster's attack.

Shi Fen let out a muffled groan as blood surged in his chest. Forcing himself to stay focused, he used the momentum of the monster's strike to escape the range of the King-Level Crocodile Dragon's claws, his Spiritual Force accelerating sharply as he bolted into the distance.

Seeing that its subordinate's attack had helped Shi Fen escape, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon, in its anger, changed its claw strike into a horizontal swipe, directly swatting the Lord-Level monster away.

"Boom!"

The Lord-Level monster was massive, and many other Lord-Level monsters were caught in the aftermath, all tumbling together like bowling pins.

They dared not harbor any resentment and immediately scrambled up to continue surrounding Shi Fen.

Taking the hit, Shi Fen had surged forward several hundred meters. Under extreme tension, he completely ignored the injuries he had just sustained, his brain calculating the interception trajectories of the monsters frantically to find a way out.

Most of the consciousness within the Image World returned to his body during the battle, and Shi Fen was using his full strength!

Under extreme pressure, his kidneys secreted adrenaline frantically, and various hormones in his body were stimulated to secrete wildly, helping his body break through its limits. His heart hammered violently, its rate exceeding 1,000 beats per minute—surpassing the limit of a War God powerhouse—as a massive amount of blood surged into his brain. Shi Fen's mental consciousness was focused as never before, his brain's calculation speed breaking through its limits time and time again.

While Shi Fen racked his brain to escape, the 27 remaining throwing knives outside his body combined with the 3 spare knives to counterattack the monsters surrounding him. 10 knives rotated around him to protect his body, while 20 knives split into several groups to attack the Lord-Level monsters.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft..."

A large number of Lord-Level monsters fell one after another, and Shi Fen finally broke out of the encirclement. To protect Luo Feng and prevent the monster swarm from accidentally harming him, Shi Fen didn't dare go too deep into the island, instead using the momentum from that Lord-Level monster's attack to lead the beasts in circles around the island's perimeter.

Under this high tension and high pressure, Shi Fen entered a miraculous state of "epiphany."

In this state, fighting became an instinctive behavior. All the information calculated by his brain became data for Shi Fen's combat, and his body would subconsciously apply this data directly into the fight.

A large number of Lord-Level monsters were easily slaughtered by Shi Fen.

Relying on this state, Shi Fen successfully broke out of the monster encirclement. After breaking out and noticing the number of monsters around him had decreased, he actually turned back into the encirclement, single-handedly taking on all the monsters with his 30 throwing knives.

Seeing Shi Fen turn back, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon immediately let out a joyful roar, joining its monster minions to gang up on this foolish human.

Soon, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon realized something was wrong.

As a King-Level monster, leading a group of Lord-Level monster minions, they were ganging up on him with such a large swarm, yet they couldn't even touch the corner of Shi Fen's clothes, while the minions were falling one after another in the battle.

Extreme rage and an irreconcilable blood feud blinded the Crocodile Dragon's wisdom; although it felt something was wrong, it did not dampen its desire for revenge.

Over half an hour later.

The 100-plus Lord-Level monster minions had all been killed, leaving it as the sole commander.

When it was left all alone, the Crocodile Dragon finally regained its senses and immediately considered retreating, planning to join forces with its King-Level monster brothers later to deal with this freakish human.

The Crocodile Dragon realized it too late.

Shi Fen, completely immersed in a miraculous state, would never grant the Crocodile Dragon such an opportunity; the 30 flying blades transformed into a long rainbow, striking toward the beast's eyes.

The Crocodile Dragon hurriedly slammed its eyelids shut, and the flying blades collided with the tiny scales on its lids, sending sparks flying and creating a rhythmic "ding-ding-dang-dang" clatter. The Crocodile Dragon swung its thick, sturdy foreclaws repeatedly, attempting to swat away these annoying flies so it could make its escape.

"Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!"

Under Shi Fen's control, the flying blades became incredibly precise; even when swatted away, they traced perfect arcs to continue their assault on the beast's eyelids.

Realizing the Crocodile Dragon's eyelid defense was astonishing, Shi Fen immediately altered his combat strategy.

A large number of flying blades circled near the King-Level Crocodile Dragon's head, blocking its retreat while individual blades launched irregular sneak attacks, all targeting the exact same spot on its eyelids.

It's over.

The Crocodile Dragon knew it had been thoroughly defeated, but it did not give up; a fierce desire for revenge drove it to attack Shi Fen frantically. No longer attempting to flee, the King-Level Crocodile Dragon exhausted its lifelong potential, dodging the pestering blades to strike at this detestable human.

How could the King-Level Crocodile Dragon possibly be a match for Shi Fen in this state?

At this moment, it was as if Shi Fen had "divine assistance."

Ten-odd minutes later, Shi Fen finally pierced through the King-Level Crocodile Dragon's eyelid, and a swarm of flying blades followed the opening, filing in one after another to charge into the beast's brain and shred it to pieces.

The King-Level Crocodile Dragon let out a howl of unwillingness, filled with deep-seated hatred; even after collapsing to the ground, it struggled frantically until its life force gradually faded away.

The King-Level Crocodile Dragon was dead.

After nearly an hour of intense combat, Shi Fen had single-handedly taken on over a hundred terrifying monsters.

Shi Fen had achieved a total victory.

Throughout the entire battle, Shi Fen had only sustained a minor injury. Even that was a wound he had intentionally taken to avoid a lethal strike.