Chapter 20

Book 10 Chapter 20 – Treasure Hunting At Night

The group landed near Lei Xinfeng and saw the ground full of holes . Each of them frozen . Lei Xinfeng smiled . “I’m just seeing if there’s anything below . Maybe I’ll find something . ”

“If you meet an enemy, send a signal . That way, we won’t make the same mistake again,” Feng Chenzong said .

“Senior Brother, I’m going to search at night from now on . It’s too hot in the day; it makes me lazy,” Lei Xinfeng said .

Feng Chenzong nodded . “That’s not a problem . Day or night, you pick . ”

“Alright, let’s all go back,” Xin Zhaolun said . “Do what you have to . ”

“Do you want us to stay with you?” Jin Daya asked .

Lei Xinfeng waved his hands . “No need, go back and rest . ” This matter was too important . He didn’t want anyone else participating .

Jin Daya nodded . “Alright, let’s go back then . ”

Lei Xinfeng stayed there for the entire night, working all the way until day before he returned to the stone slab to rest . He set up a tent of beast pelts before settling in the sleep . The previous night, he’d found a total of three stone eggs that emitted the silver light .

Feng Chenzong didn’t bother Lei Xinfeng . He led the rest of the group out to continue searching .

Fengying didn’t go along but guarded Lei Xinfeng instead . No matter what, Lei Xinfeng was still a master . Posting a guard while he slept was a must .

Lei Xinfeng slept until dusk . He quickly filled his stomach before asking, “Uncle Ying, what do you think about this search for this sky crystal?”

Fengying grimaced . “I’ve given up after the first day . It’s impossible . ”

Lei Xinfeng nodded . “On matters of pure luck, it always seems that way . However, this is too important to Senior Brother, so we must do our best . ” He already knew what he was going to do . When the time came to leave, he will crack one open . If there was something inside, then he will give Feng Chenzong one . He believed that he won’t be cheated .

When Feng Chenzong’s group returned, he set out again . Fengying left with him but split up after .

This time, Lei Xinfeng flew a bit further out so that he didn’t disturb the others’ rest . A few miles out, he stopped and patrolled to see if there were any abnormalities before settling in his rhythm of destruction and searching .

Since he already had experience, he only used five percent of his power . After every strike, he stared at the debris that flew out, looking for that silver flash .

After every strike, he’d observe for a dozen minutes before continuing .

That night, his luck wasn’t good . He only found a single silver stone egg . Still, he was quite satisfied .

“One last strike!”

Lei Xinfeng sent out one last blow with his Chaos Wheel .

Boom!

The stone flew out in a fan . In that instant, Lei Xinfeng saw a flash of gold, scaring him out of his wits . Gold light? Before he even realized what he was doing, his body already moved . The stone with the gold was in his hands .

It was a rare black rock . Upon closer examination, the rock was covered with minuscule gold specks, forming a layer of gold . Lei Xinfeng stood, stunned . He didn’t break open the stone, so he had no idea what was in it . He didn’t dare crush the silver light stone, much less the gold equivalent .

As for why he didn’t dare, that was because sky crystals had a special feature . When the stone egg was broken, revealing the sky crystals, a shock wave will appear . High level practitioners tens of miles around will all detect it . This was one reason why Feng Chenzong was willing to bring helpers .

It was impossible to put all the stone eggs into your Hidden Lun space . The chance of there being a stone egg in the mass that you stored was zero point zero zero zero zero, an infinite number of zeroes, percent . Infinitely close to zero . Looking for sky crystals here was a pure test of luck .

In the end, Lei Xinfeng put the stone egg into his Hidden Lun space . As long as he didn’t open the rock, there wouldn’t be a problem . No one knew that he was gathering these special stone eggs .

Through this loophole, Lei Xinfeng could find as many sky crystals as he wished and everyone will be none the wiser . In just two days, he’d already found four silver stone eggs and one gold stone egg . According to his experiences, there was definitely something inside . The only uncertainty was what . However, there was no way that he’ll check .

After another round, Lei Xinfeng returned to rest .

Ten days passed just like that . Lei Xinfeng obtained something every night . In the worst nights, he still found one silver egg, and in lucky nights, he’d obtain three . In total, he found close to thirty stone eggs, out of which five are gold . Most of it was from underground . Almost none of it was found on the surface .

Feng Chenzong and the others only looked on the surface since there were just too many stone eggs . If they had to look underground as well, it was probably better to crush everything they found . The success rate would probably be the same anyway . However, one they didn’t realize was that the stone eggs with sky crystals are heavier, and so will be found further underground .

Even if they did look, they probably wouldn’t find anything though . In one night, Lei Xinfeng opened several hundred pits with only one to three sky crystals to show for it . With them blindly searching, it was just too difficult .

Following the passage of time, a practitioner will occasionally fly by . In other words, news of this area has spread .

Feng Chenzong and the others are starting to get nervous as well .

No matter who find a sky crystal, the battlefield will be bathed in blood . Even if you hide it in your Hidden Lun space, then you will be caught and tortured until you cough it up . Only strength can stop your crystal from being stolen .

Feng Chenzong gathered the group . “There are too many outsiders now . Soon, there will be a slaughter, even if there aren’t any sky crystals to be fought over . Fights will start for no reason here . We can split up . Ah Feng, don’t go off by yourself anymore . Stay with us during the day . ”

Lei Xinfeng couldn’t say that he could only find things in the dark, so he could only comply . “Okay . ” At this time, he couldn’t show a hint of the fact he had found something .

On the third day, the slaughter began . As there are more outsiders, the slaughter spread .

Most of the outsiders came in groups around five or six . The smallest group they encountered number three, while the most numbered then . Since Feng Chenzong’s group had so many people, most outsiders didn’t bother them . Except for Lei Xinfeng, everyone else were Ninth Ring Sages .

As for the outsiders, the weakest were Sixth Rings, but the majority were Eighth or Ninth Ring masters . Lei Xinfeng couldn’t even have imagined that so many high leveled practitioners existed .

Soon, their entire view was filled with practitioners fighting in groups .

Feng Chenzong finally had everyone stop their search . “Let us wait . As the numbers increase, there the chance of a sky crystal appearing increases . At that moment, we’ll steal it!” He’d already totally given up on finding one by himself .

“Let’s go back to the stone slab and prepare ourselves,” Xin Zhaolun suggested .

Feng Chenzong nodded . “Alright, let’s return . ”

The group flew toward the stone slab, but as they neared, they found that there was already a group camping there .

A blind rage welled up within Lei Xinfeng . This was their spot! When that thought appeared in his mind, it also warped his companions’ expressions . He suddenly itched for a fight .

Feng Chenzong and Xin Zhaolun landed first, planting their feet . “Scram!” Feng Chenzong hollered .

The powerful aura appeared and surged toward the group camping on the slab, suppressing them .

It was the first time that Lei Xinfeng felt Feng Chenzong’s full strength . Even standing behind him, he could feel that overwhelming aura . It was definitely the strength of one nearing Monarch .

There was no explanation, only one word: scram .

It was tyrannical to the extreme, stunning the entire group .

It took until the rest of Feng Chenzong’s group to land before the intruders managed to react .

Lei Xinfeng took one look and went into a rage . Each of them wore a mask! The masked men! They were his enemy . Back then, they couldn’t stop chasing him, and now they met here . These masked men probably had a Monarch supporting them, but who cares? Lei Xinfeng had a Monarch too .

Without waiting for a reply, Lei Xinfeng already attacked with his Chaos Wheel .

Feng Chenzong and Xin Zhaolun would’ve never thought that Lei Xinfeng would be the first to attack . Feng Chenzong’s eyes flashed with approval and followed with an order . “Kill!”

Boom!

In the first strike, a few masked men were thrown back and off balance . However, that was it . His strength was still incomparable to that of a true Ninth Ring Sage . When his companions started their attack, Lei Xinfeng found that there was no room for him to help, so he could only retreat and watch .

Lei Xinfeng opened his eyes wide and looked, realizing that the strength of two sides was utterly imbalanced . Feng Chenzong’s group crushed the other . The masked men had a total of seven people with only five Ninth Ring Sages and two Eighth Ring Sages . Although this kind of firepower was top notch back in the original world, it was a speck of dust in this one . His side included eleven Ninth Ring Sages . It took only an instant for the eleven Sages to pierce through the masked men’s defenses .

Blood and flesh filled the air .

If he broke several hundred holes (less then a 1000), and each hole was some eight meters deep, then we can probably assume a hemisphere with a radius of eight meters . Since he found thirty crystals in around a dozen nights (less than twenty), he broken at most 18981 holes . An eight meter radius hemisphere is around 1100 cubic meters . With the size of the stone egg, the lower limit is maybe a one centimeter radius sphere, or 4 cubic centimeters . Therefore, we can assume that the absolute upper limit of the number of eggs in a cubic meter is 250000 . (18981*1100*250000)/25 = 208,791,000,000 . In other words, there is around one sky crystal egg in any give two hundred billion stone eggs, or more .

It was in this arc that I started disliking Lei Xinfeng to be honest . He makes a lot of excuses about why he couldn’t reveal his crystals and power to his companions, but none of them really makes sense to me, considering how favored he was .