Chapter 720: The So-Called Treasures of Great Value

Ye Feng, Luo Yan, and Jin Wen separated and quickly scanned the caves around.
He originally wanted to take Nian Cangsheng and Wu Kuang with him, but they refused. Both knew they would be a burden, and Ye Feng could act faster alone. Moreover, their cultivation levels were only at the Break Truth Realm. They also wanted to challenge monsters at the first-tier strongman level on their own to test their strength.
Ye Feng and his companions swiftly cleared those monster caves. With just a sweep of their soul power, they could locate the nearest cave, rush in, eliminate all the monsters inside, claim the treasures, and leave.
Each cave was cleared in less than three minutes. With their strength, Ye Feng and his team could almost instantly kill all the monsters they encountered.
In fact, this method of clearing caves was only suitable for them three. Each cave contained at least a dozen monsters, sometimes hundreds. Almost every cave was guarded by monsters at the second-tier strongman level. Even second-tier strongmen would be doomed if they entered. As for ordinary third-tier strongmen, facing a swarm of hundreds of monsters, especially if there were a few second-tier strongman monsters among them, they too would be at risk of death. Many monsters had higher attack power than humans of the same level. Some second-tier strongman monsters even matched the strength of some third-tier human strongmen.
Most importantly, those third-tier strongmen disdained taking these treasures of great value, thus leaving them to Ye Feng and his team.
In just one day, Ye Feng alone cleared over 200 caves. Luo Yan and Jin Wen were also as fast as him.
As for the first-tier strongmen in teams, the fastest team cleared only three caves in a day, losing two members in the process.
Nian Cangsheng and Wu Kuang joined the only team composed of those at the Break Truth Realm and cleared a small nest with only twelve monsters. No one died, but several were seriously injured.
Ye Feng and his team continued clearing the area. It took them six days to completely wipe out all caves housing more than thirty monsters.
Watching the three of them constantly entering and exiting various nests, the other first-tier strongmen were envious but dared not say anything. Some felt that Ye Feng and his team were stealing their sources of wealth.
On the seventh day, Ye Feng and his team finally prepared to leave the area.

“During these six days, to be honest, quite a few people have complaints about the three of us,” Ye Feng said to the crowd. “In fact, there’s no need for that at all, because the caves we’ve cleared were all those with over thirty monsters gathered inside. I’ve also seen the composition of your teams—entering such caves would basically result in total annihilation. However, caves with over thirty monsters account for less than one-fifth of all the caves, so you definitely don’t need to worry about a shortage of resources…”

After saying this, Ye Feng and the other two finally left, as expected by everyone. With just a sweep of their soul power, Ye Feng and the others knew where the second-tier strongmen were. The three of them took off into the air and soon landed on the slope of a large mountain.

“This must be the perimeter of the secret realm?” Luo Yan sniffed. “There’s a strong smell of blood.”

“There’s also a lot more intense aura,” Jin Wen nodded from the side.

“Even gravity has changed—almost ten times higher than before, right?” Ye Feng noticed other issues as well. “Moreover, these gusts of cool wind carry water attribute sealing techniques that keep attacking our souls. Not to mention second-tier strongmen, even third-tier strongmen would see their strength greatly reduced here.”

“I just realized how strange these cool winds are…” Luo Yan frowned slightly, his expression turning more serious.

“Let’s use the same method as before—each of us searches separately for better efficiency.” Ye Feng wasn’t worried about Luo Yan and Jin Wen’s strength. The two possessed combined techniques at level 54, enough to fight even fifth-tier strongmen. There was no need to mention that the strongest beings in this area were only at the third-tier level.

The three of them swept their soul power again, found their respective nests, and rushed off.

For Ye Feng, the pressure wasn’t much. His single attribute technique now had a strength of at least level 36, comparable to the power of combined techniques from ordinary third-tier or even fourth-tier strongmen. Wherever he went, he still wiped out enemies instantly. His speed hadn’t slowed much either—it took him about five minutes to clear one cave.

As for Luo Yan and Jin Wen, their speed had significantly decreased. Their single attribute divine techniques were only at level 24. With full output, it wasn’t difficult for them to kill second-tier strongmen-level monsters. But to kill third-tier strongmen-level monsters, they needed to use combined techniques. It took them about fifteen minutes to clear one cave.

Over the course of a day, Ye Feng cleared more than 150 caves, while Luo Yan and Jin Wen each cleared over 50 caves. Even so, their speed was still much faster than that of those second-level experts working in teams. Those people could manage to clear at most four caves per day.

As for the loot here, Ye Feng was somewhat puzzled. Although most of the loot was still from human storage rings, the items inside the rings were quite different. One type of storage ring contained no finished weapons or armor, while the other had many magical abilities. In contrast, the storage rings he had obtained before mostly contained finished weapons and armor, with almost no magical abilities.

“Magical abilities are indeed useful. If they’re useful, I can learn them too and continue to integrate them,” Ye Feng said with a smile, but then he showed a puzzled expression. “But why isn’t there a single finished treasure?”

At that moment, the Sky-Piercing Tower suddenly spoke up, “After their master perishes, treasures have two possible fates. One is to follow the master into reincarnation, and the other is to find a new master. They won’t remain in the storage ring.”

“I see. So, after these people die, the treasures in their rings automatically escape… That’s why there aren’t any treasures in the storage rings at all.” Ye Feng finally understood the reason.

In this area, Ye Feng and the others stayed for 18 days, clearing all the caves where more than 30 monsters gathered before leaving.

“The core area requires the strength of a third-level expert even for ordinary monsters, and each cave is guarded by a fourth-level expert monster. The environment there might be even worse, so you two need to be careful,” Ye Feng said to the two of them on the way to the core area.