Chapter 490 - 191: You Old Six!! A Direct Backdoor

Looking at the information on the buy-request channel, Shen Fei understood the situation perfectly. At the moment, only human players possessed Bloodline Gemstones. He didn’t know yet if monster tides appeared in the special regions, but he was certain of one thing: even if they did, killing them wouldn’t drop any Bloodline Gemstones...

Secret Realm Refresh Scroll! It looks like after the 4.7 update, everyone wants to level up quickly!

After considering the Bloodline Gemstones, Shen Fei also considered the Secret Realm Refresh Scrolls and items like [Monster Nests]. He quickly understood why their buy-request prices had also skyrocketed by dozens of times.

I won’t bother with them! Let them post their buy requests!

From the soaring prices for special items on the Ninth World, Shen Fei understood that the 4.6 and 4.7 updates had also "mobilized" the NPCs and bosses in the special regions.

WHOOSH.

He quickly sent a reply to Sun Yu, then closed the Ninth World interface.

As it happened, Shen Fei held most of the items that the NPCs and Intelligent Bosses were trying to buy, but he had no intention of selling any of them. Most of these buyers were just making noise anyway. As for the [Bloodline Gemstones] that other Neutral Cities also possessed, no one was selling them, even though the buy-request price had soared by dozens of times.

People like Huang Yi and Zhao Li all had access to the [Ninth World]. The two of them definitely had [Bloodline Gemstones] as well. Unfortunately, these people were all clever. Especially since Version 4.6 had already made it obvious this was an update about "bloodlines." Therefore, even though the acquisition price had increased dozens of times, not a single person was selling [Bloodline Gemstones].

WHOOSH.

He closed the [Ninth World] interface and stopped paying attention to the situation "outside." Shen Fei immediately focused his attention on the world before him—a world blanketed in ice and swirling snow. The 4.6 and 4.7 updates would inevitably cause all sorts of ripple effects in the outside world, but for him, the most important thing right now was to explore the special region and find the ultimate secret that made NPCs’ heads explode.

WHOOSH.

Dismissing the thought, Shen Fei waved his hand and summoned his Detection Tower again. His vision followed the tower as it began to probe the entire special region.

Before him was nothing but ice and snow, visible to the naked eye. On the distant, dark, cold mountain peaks and everywhere else within his line of sight, he didn’t spot a single living creature. His first task was to survey the environment.

WHOOSH. WHOOSH. WHOOSH.

This frozen special region, the one closest to Qing City, was nearly ten thousand kilometers long and wide. Although the area was immense, it was still within the range of Shen Fei’s Detection Tower. So, he easily and quickly scanned the entire special region.

Hm?

A little over ten minutes later, he made a new discovery. Amidst the ice-covered, wind-swept world, Shen Fei discovered a Neutral City that had been transformed into an Ice City. And, after the first Neutral City appeared, he discovered even more of them.

After a quick scan of the entire area, he roughly estimated that there were fifty or sixty Neutral Cities in this frozen region. That number was more than all the Neutral Cities in the entire Great Xia empire combined. Among them were not only small Neutral Cities but large and medium-sized ones as well.

In the Neutral Cities? Why are there so few people?

Despite discovering dozens of Neutral Cities, Shen Fei was surprised to find that the number of Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses he "saw" within these equally vast, ice-covered metropolises was surprisingly low.

WHOOSH. WHOOSH. WHOOSH.

After his vision swept past the Neutral Cities and confirmed the low population, Shen Fei’s gaze continued to scan the area. Soon, he discovered why there were so few NPCs and bosses in the cities. He saw that for the fifty-or-so Neutral Cities in this special region, there were also over fifty massive gatherings of countless NPCs and bosses, looking just like giant rallies. At the center of each of these gatherings was a huge, slowly rotating vortex.

The moment he saw the giant vortex, Shen Fei understood. It was a Secret Realm! A special Secret Realm! Most of the NPCs and bosses who had left the cities were gathered around the entrances to these special Secret Realms.

FLASH!

As Shen Fei’s gaze scanned the area, he saw a sudden flash next to one of the Secret Realm’s monster-spawning vortexes. Countless monsters instantly spawned right next to the NPCs and bosses who were surrounding the entrance. The gathered NPCs and bosses then excitedly began to attack at once. In no time at all, they wiped the massive wave of suddenly spawned monsters out completely.

Shen Fei even saw one NPC, after all the monsters were killed, fly into a rage, pointing at the other NPCs and bosses and furiously berating them.

What the fuck?! Are they all exploiting a bug? Are they exploiting the bug where monsters spawn in ten-thousand-fold numbers if you don’t clear a special Secret Realm? Monsters in the wild are too scattered and hard to farm, so for the sake of experience, they’re directly exploiting a bug to farm a massive monster spawn?

Seeing their behavior, Shen Fei instantly figured out what these creatures were up to. He also instantly deduced that since Version 4.7 had unlocked the Experience Bar, all these creatures wanted to level up quickly. They were camping the Secret Realm entrances, waiting for someone else’s monsters to spawn, and then immediately swooping in to steal the kills.

How interesting!