Chapter 579 - 224: Tree Stump

"Pyramids?"

On the bank of the great river, Xiaohong’s answer left both Shen Fei and Number Zero stunned. Right now, they were in the Dinosaur Era, a time hundreds of millions of years removed from modern society. In this era, the creatures that ruled Blue Star were dinosaurs. No matter how one thought about it, dinosaurs couldn’t possibly have built so-called pyramids. Even though this Dinosaur Era now had gamified level displays because of them, for a pyramid-like structure to suddenly appear somewhere... that was completely wrong.

"It’s definitely a pyramid!" Xiaohong declared. "I’m sure of it! It looks almost exactly like the pyramids in Egypt on Blue Star, but it’s much larger! It’s located just over 3,000 kilometers to the southwest! And there isn’t just one of those giant pyramids, but two!"

Seeing the confusion on Shen Fei and Number Zero’s faces, Xiaohong didn’t waste a second and quickly explained in detail what she had encountered.

"There are only two?" Number Zero asked, even more confused. "Don’t the pyramids in Egypt on Blue Star number in the dozens?"

"Just two!" Xiaohong nodded with great certainty. "Inside one of the pyramids, I used Devouring on an LV999 creature and finally reached LV1000!"

"Alright!" Shen Fei spoke up, cutting off their conversation just as Number Zero and Xiaohong were about to say more. "Let’s cross the river first! We’ll go deal with that high-level Thorns!"

Although Xiaohong had spoken of mysterious pyramids existing over 3,000 kilometers to the southwest—pyramids that somehow existed in the Dinosaur Era—Shen Fei still felt that raising his level was the priority. Now that he had reached LV999, he understood very clearly. All I have to do is raise my level to LV1000, and I’ll have pretty much completed Mission Two.

Through nearly a week of using [Devouring], he had confirmed that in this Dinosaur Era, on a Blue Star that hadn’t increased in size, the highest-level creature should be LV1000. In any case, he hadn’t seen any creature appear with a level higher than LV1000.

"Okay!"

"Okay!"

At the sound of Shen Fei’s voice, Number Zero and Xiaohong paused their conversation.

Then, with two splashes, Black Tortoise and Number Zero leaped directly into the water at Shen Fei’s nod.

SWOOSH!

At the same time, Xiaohong instantly spread her wings and flew forward.

SPLASH!

Seeing his teammates already in motion, Shen Fei also jumped into the water without a second thought. He quickly grabbed onto Black Tortoise, letting it carry him and Number Zero swiftly forward.

Now at LV999, they no longer feared any creature in sight and would use Devouring on anything they came across. Soon, with Black Tortoise’s help, they crossed the great river once more, standing on the spot where they had first appeared after arriving.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

Without a word, he led Number Zero and Black Tortoise toward their destination. Before he had even reached the attack range of the LV1000 Thorns, Shen Fei heard a violent rumbling erupt.

Looking up, he saw countless thick Thorns bursting from the ground in the distance, stabbing toward the sky. And the creature in the sky that had provoked the powerful Thorns into rocketing upward was none other than Shen Fei’s teammate, Xiaohong.

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

Shen Fei watched as Xiaohong, having drawn the Thorns’ attack, desperately dodged them. The Thorns could launch their branches hundreds of meters into the air from the ground. He could also see the LV1000 displayed on the thick thorny branches rising in the distance.

Shen Fei saw that although Xiaohong had attracted the Thorns’ attention, she was also desperately dodging and evading. She was moving quickly to prevent the Thorns from touching her.

Of course, the reason Xiaohong was doing this was not that she was afraid of the Thorns. On the contrary, she was worried that, being LV1000 herself, touching the LV1000 Thorns would cause her to instantly use [Devouring] on them. That would waste a "material" for Shen Fei’s level-up. She wanted to leave this massive LV1000 Thorns for him.

Therefore, Xiaohong had merely enraged the LV1000 Thorns and had no intention of making contact with them whatsoever. Instead, she was doing her utmost to dodge, preventing any contact at all.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

Shen Fei saw that in addition to Xiaohong flying through the air and the Thorns shooting up in the distance, the Thorns on the ground suddenly erupted again, causing the surrounding dinosaurs to stampede once more. Although a beast tide had erupted a few days ago, quite a few dinosaurs had wandered back into this area in the time that had passed. As the Thorns erupted once more, the dinosaur stampede erupted again!

ROAR!

Facing this stampede, however, Shen Fei’s team had no intention of stopping this time. Unlike the last time they faced a stampede, when they could only resign themselves to fate and luckily hitched a ride on an adult Triceratops, this time, watching the panicked dinosaur stampede charge toward them, Shen Fei let out a furious roar and charged straight into it.

Now at LV999, his body stood a full fifty to sixty meters tall. Facing a dinosaur stampede whose highest-level members were merely LV700+, Shen Fei didn’t even need to pick a direction. He just started a mindless charge.

ROAR! ROAR!

Beside him, seeing Shen Fei’s action, Number Zero and Black Tortoise let out long roars to the heavens without a second thought and followed his lead, charging forward.

A few seconds later, Shen Fei’s team collided with the vanguard of the stampede.