I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

"You hiding scum, we've found you! Come out and face your death! We're waiting to get to the core area!" Thor shouted in his loud voice, though he was actually a little panicked inside.

Luo Yuan frowned slightly; this Thor had stolen his lines.

Swoosh~ Swoosh~ Swoosh...

Thirty figures suddenly appeared around Luo Yuan and his group, forming a circle around them. Each of them had a strange appearance, looked fierce and menacing, and seemed not to be trifled with.

"If you obediently surrender and leave behind the treasures you've obtained, perhaps this prince will allow you to leave with a whole corpse!" shouted a slick-haired young man who was leading the group.

"call out!"

A streak of blue light flashed, moving at incredible speed. It merely arced through the thirty figures rushing towards it, severing the heads of twenty-nine ninth-tier Stellar-level beings. Blood and brains splattered everywhere. The blue light then slightly changed direction, sweeping across the ground and shooting towards the clamoring youth. The youth's eyes widened in terror, clearly not expecting that a few fragile sheep would suddenly transform into ferocious wolves.

"No, no, don't kill me! I am a prince of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, I want to go home..." The young man pleaded for mercy as his body was severed from his head.

"Tsk tsk tsk, so weak, yet they dare to come out and rob people like this?" Luo Yuan put away the packaged fragments of the Red Mixed Copper Mother, his eyes coldly sweeping over the thirty mutilated corpses on the ground.

"Third Brother acted so quickly. Before we could even react, these people were dead," Luo Feng praised with a smile.

"I didn't know the third brother was already this strong." Hong and Lei Shen, who were standing to the side, were also surprised. They had never seen Luo Yuan cultivate seriously before, and they couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

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Chapter 86 Treasure

A boundary within a boundary, in a patch of grass.

Thirty mutilated corpses lay on the ground, their rolled heads still bearing the expressions of their deaths, but their eyes had long since lost their light.

Luo Feng and the others were squatting there looting the corpse, while Luo Yuan stood calmly, looking up at the ball of light in the distant sky, somewhat lost in thought.

"Hey, not bad. This team of thirty actually has nearly 18000 cubic cosmic crystals." Luo Feng smiled and tossed the two spatial rings he had just acquired to Hong and Thor. "Big brother, second brother, you two keep these for now."

Hong reached out and grabbed it, laughing, "The more times we encounter these kinds of squads, the better."

"Haha, you're right." Thor also chuckled, touching the spatial ring in his hand.

"A world within a world, what a treasure trove!" Luo Feng couldn't help but exclaim.

“Creating a world within a world is ten times more difficult than creating a normal world.” Luo Yuan smiled as he came back to his senses. “It needs to be more stable, which naturally requires more cosmic crystals! Building a world within a world is a huge price to pay even for a peak world lord! For a world lord, joining any empire can grant them a star system territory. Some star systems have hundreds of thousands of inhabited planets, while others have millions. The wealth of a world within a world is no less than that of a star system.”

"The opportunity within a realm is a once-in-a-millennium event. How can we not make a killing now?" Hong said sarcastically.

"Then let's continue!" Luo Yuan waved his hand, pointing towards the core direction.

Under the sunlight, Luo Yuan's dark gold armor gleamed.

"Sanzi, your posture is quite stylish."

"Can't I be a little smug?"

"Ha ha……"

The Luo Yuan team was in high spirits, laughed and joked for a while, and then quietly continued their advance towards the core area.

Several days later, Luo Yuan and his group finally arrived at the core area. By then, their wealth from plundering the assassins had already exceeded 19 cubic cosmic crystals. This achievement was due to two factors: first, Babata's surveillance and vigilance, which prevented it from alerting them when they encountered assassin teams weaker than Luo Yuan's; and second, the powerful combination of Luo Yuan and the fragment of the Crimson Copper Mother.

……

The core area of ​​the boundary within a boundary is a beautiful plain covered with strange, low-lying flowers and grasses, all about ten centimeters tall and perfectly flat, as if someone had trimmed them.

The terrain is flat with very little undulation.

"Oh my god."

"How many people died?" Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions were utterly shocked on the dark plain.

In the darkness, faint white light occasionally drifted down from the sky, allowing Luo Feng to barely see within a few hundred meters. At a glance, there were more than thirty corpses lying within that few hundred meters, some male and some female, some resembling beastmen and others resembling Earthlings, but all of them were dead, and some of their bodies were even broken apart.

"Crack!" Luo Yuan's alloy combat boots, with their hard soles made of pure alloy, made a sound as they stepped on a piece of white bone.

“This…” Luo Yuan frowned slightly.

“Third Son, you were right. The fighting in this core area is indeed brutal.” Thor’s voice was deep. “We’ve only been in the core area for a short time, and we’ve already seen over a hundred corpses! The entire core area is so large, just how many people have died?”

“The core area contains 99% of the universe crystals of the entire Realm Within a Realm, so naturally the fighting is most intense here,” Luo Feng sighed.

"Birds die for food, and people die for wealth. It's just human nature!" Luo Yuan sighed. "Let's go."

Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions cautiously made their way towards the very center of the core area. Along the way, they occasionally saw deep pits in the plains, clearly from the excavation of cosmic crystals. Around these pits, they often found the corpses of stellar-level adventurers, their blood long since dried.

"Hmm? There are people ahead, and quite a few of them," Luo Yuan said.

The fourteen people arrived at lightning speed, their figures gradually solidifying as they appeared on a high ground. Looking down, they saw thousands of people gathered on a vast plain below, with many of them talking. Their voices were very loud, carrying for hundreds of kilometers, and Luo Yuan and the others could hear them clearly; they were obviously shouting on purpose.

"No matter how many cosmic crystals you obtain, or even some special treasures, it's useless! Unless you're from one of our two holy lands, four major organizations, or sixteen families, you'll all be arrested. You've wasted your time!"

"And now, you have an opportunity."

"As long as you join our North Dragon City and temporarily become external members, North Dragon City guarantees..."

"As long as you join our Hundred Tigers Tower, even just temporarily, you will have no safety concerns!..."

…………

A series of powerful, universally understood phrases spread across the vast plains.

The fourteen people from Luoyuan looked at each other in bewilderment.

After listening for a while, they understood that all the various forces were frantically trying to win over some 'free adventurers', guaranteeing in the name of their organizations that they would never plunder the adventurers' 'cosmic crystals'. This was a carrot-and-stick approach, and it was quite effective.

"What do we do?" Hong asked, frowning.

"Why isn't there Three Axe Mountain?" Thor suddenly asked.

Luo Feng was also taken aback. There were five voices shouting, namely Baihulou, Beilongcheng, Heiyunhui, the Holy Land 'Heilongshan' and the Holy Land 'Binghaishenguo', but Sanfushan was not among them.

“That’s not surprising. Three Axe Mountain is different from the other three organizations. Three Axe Mountain is known as the head of the four major organizations! They don’t train young people. The minimum requirement to join Three Axe Mountain is ‘cosmic level.’ Because they don’t train new people, there are only a few disciples of Three Axe Mountain’s experts in this Realm Within a Realm. There are very few people, and they can’t form a force. Let’s just find a force to join and fish in troubled waters. Anyway, it’s all a temporary team.” Luo Yuan explained.

Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and the others suddenly realized what was going on.

……

A world within a world, the next day dawned.

Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions have temporarily joined the North Dragon City faction. The core area of ​​the entire plain is mainly divided into five major factions.

The 18th formation of the North Dragon City camp is where Luo Yuan and his group are currently located.

After chatting with other members of the formation late into the night, Luo Yuan and his group learned quite a bit of information.

"So, the treasure was right there!" The group looked towards the center of the area where the five factions were gathered. There stood a castle built on the plain, a deep blue castle.

"The five factions' guesses make a lot of sense." Thor nodded. "The entire realm within a realm is filled with natural environments: swamps, deserts, lakes, plains, mountains, grasslands, and so on. Only this one building! And it's built in the very core of the realm within a realm. Above it is the sphere of light! A castle in this location is indeed very likely a treasure trove."

"The castle holds the treasure, but none of the five factions dare to touch it," Luo Feng said, shaking his head.

Luo Yuan laughed and said, "That's normal. At the beginning, there weren't many people from the five factions in the core area. They were worried that if they started fighting, a large number of free adventurers would 'profit from the chaos,' so they began to constantly recruit people. One faction recruited, and all five factions recruited! Then they looked for an opportunity to start robbing each other."

"I wonder when they'll finally make their move," Thor muttered.

“They’re not in a hurry. The vanguard of the 200 million-strong army outside has probably only just entered the inner realm.” Luo Yuan smiled. “It takes about seven days to fly from the edge of the inner realm to the core area, so the battle will likely break out within seven days!”

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Chapter 87 begins

Within a realm, a white sphere of light floats in the air, scattering its radiance.

call out!call out!call out!

A dense array of dark shadows suddenly flew from afar towards the five major factions in the sky.

"So many people?"

"How come so many people suddenly appeared?" There was some commotion within the five major factions.

Luo Yuan mingled in the crowd, silently collecting attributes. He looked up at the sky and quickly confirmed the number: "There are about six hundred people? And judging from the looks of it, they should be from the same force. More than six hundred people would completely disrupt the balance of the five major factions."

The five factions and tens of thousands of adventurers were all whispering among themselves.

"Black Dragon Mountain, Sachisen pays respects to His Highness the Ninth Prince!" A loud voice resounded through the sky.

"Greetings, Your Highness the Ninth Prince!"

In perfect unison, as if the heavens and earth were roaring, a large group from the Black Dragon Mountain Holy Land simultaneously bowed respectfully. Meanwhile, high in the sky, over six hundred people surrounded a fair-skinned youth. The youth stood in mid-air, his eyes like lightning, surveying the crowd below, his voice resounding in the ears of everyone below: "I, the Ninth Prince of the Empire, 'Brolin,' seek to seize this treasure. Those who stand in my way, die!!!"

Quiet!

The five major factions quieted down. The Black Dragon Mountain faction naturally supported the royal family because the sacred Black Dragon Mountain was the foundation of the royal family!

Fourteen people from Luoyuan stood in an inconspicuous corner of the crowd.

"This guy is so arrogant!" Thor and Luo Yuan said telepathically.

Looking at the arrogant Ninth Prince high in the sky, Luo Yuan couldn't help but laugh and transmit his voice, "This Ninth Prince didn't appear at first, but kept gathering troops in the surrounding area, and then suddenly appeared at the critical moment! This greatly increased the strength of Black Dragon Mountain and caught the other four sides off guard."

…………

"Your Highness, Ninth Prince!" A loud and powerful voice suddenly rang out from the Hundred Tigers Tower camp. A burly young man with two long, curved black horns on his forehead looked up at the Ninth Prince in the sky and declared loudly, "This treasure of the Realm within a Realm, you think you can devour it all by yourself? Isn't that a bit too much—"

"laugh!"

A blinding white light pierced through the burly young man, instantly turning his head into nothingness.

Quiet!

All five factions were stunned.

The faint visual remnant of that white light still lingered in their field of vision. Everyone was somewhat dazed, but they all understood what had happened! Just now, a laser beam had killed the leader of the Hundred Tigers Tower.

In the sky.

Nine bodyguards stood behind the Ninth Prince, each holding a weapon about three meters long and thirty centimeters in diameter, resembling an enlarged version of a 'manual rocket launcher reflector' on Earth.

"Let me introduce myself to you."

"Nine C2-level laser guns! These are the latest models, just got them." The Ninth Prince glanced down and noticed that the leaders of the other factions were all pale. He couldn't help but laugh. "As for the power, one shot is enough to kill a second-tier universe-level expert. I came to the Thunder World for the apprenticeship assessment this time, and for safety, I brought a few with me. I didn't expect to encounter something like a 'world within a world'."

"I'm sure no one will stop me, right?"