Chapter 610: Chapter 334: Crushing With One Hand

"Indeed, the energy concentration here is much better than we imagined. If we could set up a Basic Cultivation Tower here, the energy concentration of the town would definitely surpass Red Moon Town by a wide margin," Lu Fanchen, who walked over, said with a smile. "Moreover, we also roughly investigated the situation here—there’s a cave less than a kilometer from the Restricted Area with signs of mining. Inside, there’s an abandoned medium-sized Energy Ore Vein. If we build a town over there, we won’t run out of Energy Ore for quite some time."

"A medium-sized Energy Ore Vein less than a kilometer from the Restricted Area?" Fang Zhen’s eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he couldn’t help but breathe a little faster.

A medium-sized Energy Ore Vein has at least fifty million tons of Energy Ore, usually over a hundred million tons. Even if the entire town were built with Energy Ore, it wouldn’t be a problem.

However, Fang Zhen quickly regained his composure.

When the major teams arrived, they discovered that everyone wanted to establish a stronghold near the Restricted Area, which would eventually upgrade to a town. But considering the town’s economic returns, each team decided to build a stronghold together and jointly manage this town adjacent to the Restricted Area. Otherwise, each team building a town next to the Restricted Area meant that no one could guarantee the development of their own town, let alone avoid wasting the hard-earned Town Construction Order from the event.

The team that wins the event can claim the largest share, which is 30% of the equity, while also providing the Town Construction Order.

As for the remaining three teams, along with the newly emerging Free Alliance led by Dark Judgment, which has the most Bone Forging Realm players, the four groups would equally split the remaining 70% of the equity, meaning each would get 14%. They would jointly invest in and maintain the new town.

The competition is indeed fierce. Each group has its advantages, and snatching the ownership and 30% stake in the new town is no easy task.

Yet, as players engaged in large-scale construction outside the Restricted Area, the people at the Smiling Skull’s temporary stronghold stood in shock.

"What are they doing? Are they planning to establish a stronghold near the Restricted Area?"

A four-winged woman from the Feather Race of Mist Mountain Domain City looked on astonished at the busy members of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

"Xie Feina, what on earth is the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall thinking? Building a stronghold in territory controlled by Smiling Skull—they must be crazy!" Meng De couldn’t help asking Xie Feina, who was familiar with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, as he observed the nearly 20,000 people conducting massive infrastructure projects next to the Restricted Area.

Xie Feina was silent, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Although the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall didn’t directly attack Smiling Skull, which was somewhat reassuring since they seemed to heed the City Lord’s warning, building a stronghold in Smiling Skull’s territory was akin to slapping the face of a Heavenly Human Grandmaster of the Smiling Skull.

"Forget it, this isn’t something we can handle. Send this information back to the Domain City; the rest doesn’t concern us," Meng De sighed.

Despite Mist Mountain Domain City’s efforts to protect the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they couldn’t stop them if they sought self-destruction.

After sending a courier back to Mist Mountain Domain City with the news, Meng De and others carried supplies into the Restricted Area of the Wraith Mountain Range. Meanwhile, the core disciples of the five major teams bound their Resurrection Devices. Leaving behind a necessary force to protect the ongoing construction of the stronghold, they gradually entered the Restricted Area.

Inside the Wraith Mountain Range’s Restricted Area.

Meng De led experts from Mist Mountain Domain City in the Blood Coagulation Realm, threading carefully through the mountains. Usually, these Blood Coagulation Realm experts could run faster than sound on land, but under Meng De’s leadership, they moved at only twenty to thirty meters per second, their forward progress exceptionally slow.

As for those like Xie Feina visiting the Restricted Area for the first time, each was awestruck by the scenes within.

In the eyes of the general populace, the Restricted Area should be a death zone, a hellacious landscape. But what unfolded before Xie Feina instead was a world teeming with life.

Not only were the trees inside the Restricted Area exceptionally massive—generally several hundred meters tall and requiring several people to encircle—they were awe-inspiring. Even insects in the area stood four to five meters tall, and gravity was three to four times that of the outside world. The density of everything within the Restricted Area was stunningly high, and even a falling leaf could crater the ground, as hard as B6-level Alloy, like a missile.

In the presence of the rampant and dense energy, even Xie Feina and others in the Blood Coagulation Realm could feel their blood increasing slowly, unable to imagine the speed of improvement if they were cultivating.

This gave Xie Feina some understanding of why Meng De said that bringing her into the Restricted Area would help her reach the high-tier limit of the Blood Coagulation Realm more quickly.

"The teams I invited should be just ahead. Once we arrive, the energy concentration there will give you a day to cultivate, after which we will head to a relic we discovered last time." Meng De cautiously addressed the awe-struck Xie Feina and others, "Although I’ve mentioned this many times, I must remind you once more: maintain at least two meters’ distance between each other at all times, and be constantly vigilant about any unusual movements. At the slightest sign of anything amiss, notify us half-step Celestial Humans immediately. If anyone corrupted becomes infiltrated into the group, fewer than ten percent of you might return, so exercise utmost caution."

Instantly, those like Xie Feina, visiting for the first time, adopted solemn expressions on their faces.