I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

"No need, just open the door," Luo Yuan said.

Squeak!

One of the women in black pushed open the villa door and said, "The Realm Lord's World is on the second floor of the villa."

Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions filed into the hall and then went up the stairs to the second floor. All the other rooms on the second floor were normal, except for one room where a woman with purple markings on her face stood at the door. Upon seeing Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions, the woman opened the door, and a stream of light immediately flowed out from inside.

"Is this a teleportation portal?" Luo Yuan and his fourteen companions stared in disbelief.

The shimmering light, like bubbles, made it impossible for Luo Yuan and the others to see inside the room.

"Go inside, and you'll enter the world of thunder," the woman said coldly.

"Ah."

The fourteen members of Luo Yuan looked at each other, and then each extended their hands, one holding the other's. Because if they didn't hold hands, they would be scattered in different places once they entered the Thunder World.

"Thunder World!"

"Let's go inside."

Without a sound, the fourteen people entered the stream of light and completely disappeared.

"Bang!" The woman at the door slammed the door shut again.

Shifting stars.

What was once a sunny, bustling base of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance has suddenly turned into darkness!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ...

As soon as Luo Yuan, Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and the other fourteen people arrived in the Thunder World, they immediately plummeted at an alarming speed. The fourteen people hurriedly tried to control the miniature planets inside their bodies to change the surrounding gravity, but it was too late! With fourteen low thuds, Luo Yuan and the other fourteen people crashed onto the ground below.

Luo Yuan managed to regain his balance upon contact with the ground, avoiding a disheveled state, while the other thirteen men lay sprawled on the ground like frogs.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, that really hurts." Luo Feng quickly stood up, spitting out the mud and sand in his mouth.

"Is the ground covered in nails?" Thor stood up and said with a frustrated look.

Fourteen people stood and looked around.

The world was pitch black, with only faint glimmers of light in the distant sky preventing it from being completely shrouded in darkness. And beneath their feet stretched an endless expanse of black… desert!

"Desert?" Hong was surprised and squatted down.

"This is the 'Death Desert' we were talking about in our purchase guide?" Thor was also incredibly surprised. "We plummeted down at such a high speed, and all we got was this shallow crater? This is supposed to be a desert?"

"It's a desert."

Luo Yuan picked up a handful of sand from the ground. The sand was dark blue, almost black at first glance! Each grain of sand was very heavy, with a density hundreds of times higher than that of iron on Earth. The sand also had a faint magnetism, causing all the grains to stick together.

“The Thunder World has a gravity approximately 3900 times that of Earth,” Hong said solemnly. “This is because the entire world was created by a World Lord using ‘Cosmic Origin Energy.’ The foundation of the entire World Lord World is ‘Cosmic Crystal.’ The land, sand, rocks, and so on are all influenced by the Cosmic Origin Energy, making them far more special than external materials.”

“It’s special; every grain of sand is very heavy.” Luo Yuan nodded.

"That's incredibly extravagant. How much primordial energy of the universe must have been used to build such a vast world?" Luo Feng couldn't help but ask.

The fundamental energy of the universe.

This is an energy with incredible power that can only be unleashed by those who reach the Realm Lord level. Once this energy condenses, it becomes a "Cosmic Crystal." Cosmic Crystals are a form of hard currency in the universe. This isn't like national currencies such as Silver Blue Coins, Black Dragon Coins, or Qianwu Coins; it's formed from the condensation of the universe's primordial energy!

Therefore, it is applicable to any country in the universe and to any race!

"The gravity is too strong, and my mental power is also affected." Luo Yuan frowned.

"What is the range of the dispersion?" Thor asked.

"Less than one-thousandth of what it was on Earth," Luo Yuan said.

On Earth, an ordinary planetary-level first-tier mentalist can project their mental energy within a radius of 1 kilometer. A stellar-level first-tier mentalist can project it within a radius of 100 kilometers. However, Luo Yuan is a stellar-level ninth-tier mentalist, and with the system's assistance, he can expand his mental energy a hundredfold. Yet, in this world where the gravity is 3900 times that of Earth, his projection range is less than 10,000 meters.

“The Death Desert is one of the most dangerous areas in the Thunder World,” Hong Lian said. “And it’s the dead of night here, so we can’t determine our exact direction. The longer we stay in the Death Desert, the more dangerous it will be! We have to set off immediately, choose a direction at random, and move forward as fast as we can.”

The Death Desert is one of the forbidden areas in the Thunder World, where even ferocious beasts dare not live.

"Yes, let's get going." Thor added.

"Let's go in this direction, forward." Luo Yuan pointed in a random direction.

Suddenly—

Luo Yuan and the other fourteen took to the air. Although the gravity here was strong, it wasn't enough to prevent even stellar-level experts from flying. Of course... because of the astonishing gravity, their flight speed was much slower than before. However, after Luo Yuan attached a few strands of spatial laws to himself, he immediately felt much more relaxed, and his speed was much faster than the others.

The flight lasts about five minutes.

Luo Yuan and his group of fourteen continued to fly swiftly over the Death Desert when suddenly Luo Yuan frowned: "Something feels off. Look behind us!"

"later?"

Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and their ten servants all turned to look, only to see a vast, black sandstorm rushing towards Luo Yuan and his group at an astonishing speed. Beneath the sandstorm, a group of young men and women were desperately flying away to escape.

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Chapter 80 Exploration

"A death dust storm!" Luo Yuan exclaimed.

"It's a death dust storm, run!" Thor shouted.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Hong was also anxious.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ...

The fourteen people instantly reached their maximum speed, and in his anxiety, Luo Yuan grabbed Hong and Lei Shen, who were flying the slowest. Luo Feng, relying on the Sky Shuttle under his feet, flew at a similar speed to Luo Yuan, who was carrying two people. The other ten servants guarded behind them.

The Death Dust Storm was one of the many dangers recorded in the guidebooks Luo Yuan and his group had purchased. It was one of the three major dangers of the Death Desert; its appearance was completely unpredictable, sudden, and overwhelming… leaving no room for hiding. The experience of generations of predecessors had taught their successors—

Faced with a death dust storm, diving beneath the desert is suicide! Flying into the sky is also suicide!

The only way is to outrun the death dust storm!

If the death dust storm hasn't caught up with you by the time it dissipates, it means you're alive.

"We just entered this Thunder World and we've already encountered a death dust storm. What the hell is this?" Thor cursed. "Look, the ones behind us seem to be a small team that entered the Thunder World before us."

"Hmm?" Luo Yuan turned his head to look behind him.

Indeed, there was a small team of young men and women being relentlessly pursued by a sandstorm! Judging from their attire, they were likely one of the four teams from the Black Cloud Society that had entered the Thunder World slightly earlier than Luo Yuan and his group. The team running for their lives consisted of six people: four men and two women.

Run! Run for your life!

The death dust storm continued to approach the Black Cloud Society squad, and the burly man with a single horn at the back of the group roared in anger and resentment.

"Hiss~~" The death dust storm finally hit the man and swept him up.

As the sand, imbued with the primordial energy of the universe, swept over the man, it was as if he had been ground into a meat grinder. His battle armor was ripped apart, and large amounts of blood, flesh, and bone fragments were thrown into the air.

"what!"

"Run away."

"quick."

The other five members of the Black Cloud Society squad all had ferocious expressions, and in the face of death, they all unleashed their fastest speed.

……

The Luoyuan squad, several kilometers ahead of this squad, was so frightened that they ran even faster.

"Quick, quick, quick, run away!"

"Don't let the death dust storm catch up with you."

"Damn, this death dust storm is terrifying. It generates such a powerful dust storm that I'm sure even underground in the desert, you'd be affected by its terrifying churning force. No wonder the book says that anyone who tries to burrow underground will surely die." Although Thor was tense, he had nothing else to do because he and Hong were being carried by Luo Yuan.

Luo Feng, riding the Sky Shuttle, and his ten other ninth-tier Stellar-level servants were also moving very fast.

……

After two more members of the Black Cloud Society squad who were slower to run died, the speed of the death dust storm began to decrease, and its overwhelming momentum also began to decline, clearly indicating that this death dust storm was coming to an end.

"Phew, we finally escaped a disaster." Luo Yuan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

The flight lasted about half an hour.

“There are continuous mountain ranges ahead,” Luo Yuan said. With his spiritual perception, he could see the inconspicuous mountain range in the distance at a glance.

"Have you discovered a mountain range?"

Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and the others accelerated, and sure enough, a mountain range stretching to the horizon appeared in front of them. This mountain range was covered with a large number of trees and plants, and compared with the Death Desert, this mountain range was obviously full of life.

“It really is a mountain range.” Hong Lian looked down at the smart computer screen and said, “According to the map, I think we should have arrived at the ‘Longsuo Mountains’.”

"The Ronso Mountains?" Thor soared into the sky, flew to a high place, carefully observed the outline of the mountains, and looked at some special places. Then he looked down at the auxiliary computer screen. "Hmm, this should be the middle part of the border between the Ronso Mountains and the Death Desert. It is 1.6 kilometers away from one of our destinations - Demon Moon Lake."

Yaoyue Lake is located inside the Longsuo Mountains.

There is a lake that is hundreds of kilometers wide. Because of the abundant water resources, several herds of ferocious beasts have gathered around the lake, including the 'One-Horned Iron Rhinoceros Herd'.

The horn of the Iron Rhinoceros is one of the items needed to pass this test.

"You have to be much more careful in the Longsuo Mountains than in the Death Desert. The Death Desert is generally threatened by nature, but in the Longsuo Mountains, there are many forests and plants, and ferocious beasts roam around. Many humans participating in the assessment will be there! There are plenty of battles with ferocious beasts and killings among humans," Luo Yuan warned.

"Understood." Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen all nodded.

In terms of danger, the Longsuo Mountains are truly dangerous.

"Be careful of humans, be careful of the natural threats of this world, especially lightning! If there are signs of thunder, immediately move away from places where you might be struck by lightning." Luo Yuan frowned as he recalled the experience introduction in the guide he bought. He had a nine-fold lightning domain and a few strands of lightning laws, but he still dared not directly face the lightning power of this small world.

The most terrifying natural force in the entire Thunder World is—thunder!

This world was named 'Thunder World'.

The reason is that the lightning in this world is so terrifying, far surpassing the power of other natural forces! Once struck, even a weaker domain lord would instantly turn to ashes. A stellar-level lightning strike? Absolutely no chance of survival.

The Longsuo Mountains are fraught with danger, and the forests are extremely difficult to traverse. There are countless ferocious beasts inside, including quite a few at the ninth level of the Stellar Realm.

After nearly two days, Luo Yuan and his group finally arrived at Yaoyue Lake.

Demon Moon Lake.

The lake stretched as far as the eye could see, surrounded by large open spaces. Some trees had long been trampled and broken, indicating that large numbers of ferocious beasts frequently came to the area around the lake.

“There are no ferocious beasts around,” Luo Feng said, frowning.