Zhou Hao and Hong (Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Until the early hours of the morning.

Global forces such as the Limit Martial Hall, Thunderclap Martial Hall, and HR Alliance had discovered and obtained a total of eleven Wood Essence Crystals. Two Councilor-level powerhouses had fallen for those eleven crystals.

"This is insane. They're all risking their lives for Wood Essence Crystals!" Zhou Hao secretly shook his head in the spacious underground river. Half an hour earlier, he and the Limit Martial Hall and America, two major factions, had successively discovered two Wood Essence Crystals.

Given his strength in killing the shrimp Beast Emperor, he had originally thought they would not dare come forward to compete for them.

Who would have thought...

The two factions had actually joined forces to besiege him, intending to seize the two Wood Essence Crystals and split them evenly.

The result was naturally his overwhelming victory. If he had not held back, Inspector Liu and Ice Mountain from the Limit Martial Hall, along with Ice Snow Emperor from America, would definitely have died here.

After this battle for the crystals,

his reputation had completely surpassed that of the Third Speaker and was even faintly comparable to Thor, the Second Speaker.

"Hm?" Suddenly, a rich fragrance of rice drifted over from the distance.

Zhou Hao almost instinctively rushed toward it.

When he arrived at an even wider underground river passage, his gaze immediately fell upon eight Wood Essence Crystals floating above the river, circling one another.

Zhou Hao's eyes instantly lit up.

The location where these eight Wood Essence Crystals had appeared was separated from the place where he had first obtained seven Wood Essence Crystals by only a fork in the underground river passage.

Could the Meteorite Star Ship be deep underground nearby? he pondered.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Almost at the same time, dozens of Councilors flashed over from the other underground river passages.

"Wood Essence Crystals! There are actually eight of them!!!" Scorching gazes shot toward the crystals, as though they wanted to swallow them whole.

But they soon noticed Zhou Hao, and their excitement was instantly doused as if by a basin of cold water.

This unfamiliar powerhouse, Swordlight Speaker, had killed a Beast Emperor and crushed Ice Snow Emperor, Ice Mountain, and several other Councilor-level powerhouses.

His strength was terrifying.

Moreover, he was a Mental Power Master unafraid of being besieged.

Zhou Hao, with only his eyes exposed, swept his gaze around and said calmly, "The eight Wood Essence Crystals are mine. Any objections?"

A Councilor from the HR Alliance said gravely, "Swordlight Speaker, although you killed the Beast Emperor and allowed us to enter beneath the lake, isn't it a bit excessive for you to monopolize all eight Wood Essence Crystals alone?"

"That's right, Swordlight Speaker. You entered underground first, so you must have gained more than anyone present. You can take half of these eight Wood Essence Crystals!" the other Councilors chimed in.

Zhou Hao froze. "Me? Swordlight Speaker?"

"Ahem, we don't know your name, so we call you that because of the sword light you unleashed when killing the Beast Emperor!" one Councilor said with an awkward laugh.

Zhou Hao shook his head. "That sounds awful. You can try to be friendly if you want, but I won't yield these eight Wood Essence Crystals. Whoever wants to take them can come try!"

The Councilors from the major factions all hesitated and struggled inwardly.

If the Third or Fourth Speaker had dared say such a thing, they would have already swarmed forward to fight for them.

But Zhou Hao was too powerful, and he was a Mental Power Master. None of them dared act rashly.

"Since no one is making a move, then I won't stand on ceremony!" Zhou Hao smiled faintly and flashed to the side of the Wood Essence Crystals.

However, at that moment.

The surrounding space suddenly trembled, as if time had frozen.

A stream of dark energy rapidly spread out, shrouding everything within several hundred meters of the Wood Essence Crystals. Like the domain of a god, it made every Councilor-level powerhouse present, Zhou Hao included, struggle to breathe, as though a ten-thousand-pound weight pressed down on them.

"It's Hong!"

"The First Speaker of the Limit Martial Hall is here!"

The Councilors all looked toward the black figure appearing above the underground river.

With a spear on his back, he took a slow step and instantly crossed over to the Wood Essence Crystals.

Zhou Hao stared at Hong and murmured inwardly, So this is a domain...

Even he found his body severely restrained when he tried to move. Even controlling the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle with his Mental Power encountered tremendous resistance.

Screech, screech~

But he was, after all, a fourth-stage Planetary-level Mental Power Master. Coupled with his formidable talent and Mental Power amplification, he activated his full strength.

Curved blades rapidly gathered, forming the Magic Dragon Form.

Hong did not touch the Wood Essence Crystals. Instead, he looked at Zhou Hao with a smile. "Interesting. It seems you want to fight me?"

Ding! Special check-in mission activated: Fight Hong, a Planetary-level domain powerhouse. Hold out for two minutes to receive the first level of Flame Domain!

Defeat Hong to receive Flame Law talent!

Zhou Hao had already wanted to fight, and hearing the system's voice in his mind made him even more excited. Another special check-in mission had arrived. He no longer hesitated and declared, "The Wood Essence Crystals belong to the capable!"

Hong burst into laughter. "Well said. Good, I also want to see just how strong you are, someone capable of killing a Beast Emperor!"

Boom!!

Ignoring the eight Wood Essence Crystals beside them, the two immediately moved.

The other Councilor-level powerhouses hurriedly retreated into the distance. After all, even the aftershocks of a battle between two Speakers were terrifying.

Buzz, buzz~

As the Magic Dragon Form spun wildly, Zhou Hao immediately felt the domain's suppression weaken somewhat. Yet moving still felt like wading through mud. However, he was a controller; as long as he could control his Mental Power Weapon, that was enough.

Hong was not slow in the slightest. Especially with the domain's enhancement, he almost instantly flashed before Zhou Hao. He thrust out his spear like a dazzling sun, and the entire underground river passage seemed to contain nothing but that spear.

If it were any other Mental Power Master, they could only have desperately used the Magic Dragon Form to clash head-on with the spear.

But Zhou Hao was different. His control over the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle was too practiced. A second before Hong thrust out his spear, he had already controlled the Magic Dragon Form to break apart, then swiftly condensed it into a Sword Shield before him.

Bang!!

The immense impact surged from the spear tip and directly shattered the Sword Shield. Yet at the same time, the Sword Shield had deflected ninety-nine percent of the attack's force.

Zhou Hao only felt his sea of consciousness roar as his body flew backward wildly, smashing into the rock wall of the underground river passage.

For the first time, he experienced the strength of a domain powerhouse!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The scattered curved blades gathered again in the blink of an eye, forming the Magic Dragon Form. As it spun madly, it tore toward the charging Hong.

Although Hong had not witnessed the power of this Mental Power Weapon when Zhou Hao used it before, he could now sense the dangerous aura emanating from the spinning magic dragon.

He immediately controlled his domain to block it layer by layer, while the spear in his hand shifted between attack and defense.

Boom!

The Wind-Rolling Magic Dragon Drill slammed into the rotating spear in Hong's hand like lightning.

Even after being weakened layer upon layer by the domain, Hong was still sent flying back over a hundred meters before barely steadying himself.

Zhou Hao burst out of the rock wall and hovered above the underground river passage. Looking at Hong a hundred meters away, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips. "Under the restraints of your domain, I truly am no match for you. But I'm a Mental Power Master. Once I leave the range of your domain, it becomes my home ground!"

Boom, boom, boom!

Vast Mental Power surged forth.

The golden light of the Magic Dragon Form attacked Hong without pause, while Zhou Hao himself rapidly retreated, always keeping himself outside the domain's range.

However, Hong was, after all, a Planetary-level genius. After exchanging blows with the Magic Dragon Form and the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle several times, he gradually adapted, immediately changing his defensive stance.

His spear shot forth like lightning, colliding with the Wind-Rolling Magic Dragon Drill attacking once more.

The Magic Dragon Form immediately broke apart.

Hong seized the opening while Zhou Hao was reforming the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle, and his figure rapidly darted toward Zhou Hao.