"Hee-haw!"
Xiao Bailong nodded.
If it were a head-on fight, it would definitely not be a match for the half-beasts. But if it was just about escaping, it was absolutely confident!
Yang Chufeng bid farewell to everyone and set off with Xiao Bailong and a group of people.
This would probably be the farthest they had left the base in years.
"Hee-haw!!!"
On the city wall,
The Horse King watched Xiao Bailong follow the departing team with great concern.
Even though several years had passed and Xiao Bailong still hadn't accepted it, the Horse King still fed it.
Even though it was kicked and covered in bumps, it remained unyielding!
Hard work pays off,
Once, the Horse King actually managed to lick it. Although Xiao Bailong beat it up and covered it in bumps afterward, the Horse King was very happy and even said it tasted good!
Seeing Yang Chufeng and the others leave,
Wang Luo also took out the "Spirit Guiding Orb" and began searching for celestial and earthly treasures.
However, he would not go too far from the base. If anything unexpected happened here, he would return immediately!
Following the guidance of the Spirit Guiding Orb, Wang Luo soon arrived beside a mist rift. Looking at the still-gushing gray mist, Wang Luo became uncharacteristically nervous.
He clearly remembered,
In his previous life, the first time he entered the gray mist, he was reborn several years ago. Therefore, he had a nameless fear of the gray mist.
In this life, he had someone he liked and the system to help him. He did not want to start over again.
"This place is not where I was reborn in my previous life. Nothing should happen, right?"
Wang Luo finally stepped into the mist.
Inside the mist was a downward rift, leading directly to the underground world.
If one fell in, who knew how long it would take to reach the underground world.
Everything here was gray, and visibility was only a few meters.
"This is amazing. Those underground mutated beasts wouldn't really climb up from here, would they!"
Wang Luo thought it was unlikely.
If they really crawled out step by step from here, how long would it take?
So he believed they must have some special method!
Hours later,
Wang Luo crawled out of the mist again.
This time, his luck was good. He obtained a celestial and earthly treasure, and what's more, no one competed with him. The process was very smooth!
So he returned to the base early.
By evening,
Yang Chufeng and the others also returned. Their luck was even better. At their destination, they happened to encounter two mutated beasts fighting over a celestial and earthly treasure. As a result, when both sides were mutually injured, they reaped the benefits.
Just as they were preparing to return,
The Spirit Guiding Orb reacted again, and they discovered another celestial and earthly treasure in a rift not far away.
On their first day out,
They obtained two celestial and earthly treasures. More importantly, they suffered no casualties!
This was undoubtedly a good omen for the base.
Afterward,
Wang Luo took out the Spirit Guiding Orbs from all the underground mutated beasts that had appeared during this period and began distributing them to the teams that wanted to go out and search for celestial and earthly treasures.
This was an inevitable stage for the base to grow, and casualties would definitely occur. This was unavoidable.
Seeing that humans were gradually appearing in the base, the zombies also began to become active, launching attacks on the humans and the base who were going out.
"Damn it, that human is so powerful. I'm worried that even our clan's demigods won't be a match for that human!"
At the volcano,
The zombies looked at Wang Luo, who was roaming the battlefield, and couldn't help but worry.
This human could even kill the demigod's divine son, so killing their zombie clan's demigod would be no problem.
"But there's no other way. Our demigods will take some time to appear, so there's no use in rushing!"
"But what's going on? We heard in the underground world that it was difficult to comprehend laws, and some people might not comprehend them in their lifetime. Why could this person become a demigod so quickly?"
A group of zombies was perplexed.
They couldn't understand why the iron rules prevalent in the underground world seemed to have no effect on this man!
Even if he was a genius, he shouldn't be this fast!
In the battlefield, Wang Luo used his hand as a blade, emitting a blue light, and rampaged through the battlefield. Corpses of zombies fell from the rift, filling it to an unknown depth...
As time went on,
The base began to suffer casualties, all of them awakened ones who went out to search for celestial and earthly treasures.
Even two SS-class awakened ones perished.
All of them were killed by underground half-beasts!
But Wang Luo and the others couldn't stop the awakened ones from going out to search for celestial and earthly treasures just because they feared death.
If they didn't do so,
When would the base ever produce demigods?
After some time,
Wang Luo began to comprehend laws again.
Under the effect of his SSS-class mental ability, Wang Luo felt that his comprehension of wind-elemental laws was increasing day by day. The law fragments, like pictographs, were becoming brighter and more dazzling. Wang Luo even discovered that the laws seemed to be on the verge of some kind of combination.
According to Wang Luo's guess,
Once those law fragments completed their combination, he would have completed one of the conditions for advancing to the god level.
However, after multiple attempts, Wang Luo also understood.
Mental abilities had a strong boost to the comprehension of any ability laws other than one's own, and this effect was far more powerful than that of celestial and earthly treasures!
...
The rift had stabilized and was no longer expanding.
This was the last change Wang Luo knew of. He didn't know if there would be any more in the future.
However, for now, the base could expand to some safer locations and continue to increase the area of the planting zone.
This infuriated the zombies.
These humans simply didn't take them seriously, expanding their base one after another. If it weren't for the barrier of the rift, would these humans annex the volcanoes into their base?
Unfortunately, the zombies could only watch, as they lacked the strength to destroy it.
As for meat, there was no shortage.
Mutated beasts appeared near the base every few days, actively attacking the base.
Facing these mutated beasts,
The people in the base showed no mercy!
Mutated beasts eat humans, and humans eat mutated beasts. The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest!
As for the celestial and earthly treasures harvested from every outing, they were naturally given to the high-ranking officials first. All the awakened ones knew that only by making the high-ranking officials powerful could they truly protect the base.
Otherwise, even if an F-class awakened one became a demigod, they would be the weakest demigod, completely vulnerable to the demigod powerhouses from underground!
Whether below the god level or above the god level,
Ability levels always determined one's strength at that level.
Inside the rift,
The number of demigod powerhouses and half-beasts was not large. Sometimes only one or two would appear in over a month, so the base was usually not in any danger.
However, the most tiring job in the base fell to Yang Shu and Shen Muling, the two light-elemental awakened ones.
At this stage, the drinking water that Wang Luo had previously collected had long been depleted. The daily water needs of hundreds of thousands of people required these two to use their purification ability to process the water.