Chapter 467 - 184: The Forum Premiere Watched by All, Inheriting the Super Divine Artifact Again

"I... I don’t know..."

The NPC being interrogated didn’t know the answer.

CRACK!

One "I don’t know" was all it took for his head to be lopped off...

"I know! I know!"

"The last time I left, I overheard something else. They seemed to be asking for information about Brother Kaipan..."

As Shen Fei went down the line, preparing to execute them one by one, another of the kidnapped NPCs finally screamed out.

Unfortunately, after that shout, the dozen or so remaining NPCs offered no new information. And so, what awaited them was the inevitable CRACK of their heads being severed...

Brother Kaipan? After I killed that ancient emperor NPC, it looks like this group of super-Intelligent NPCs from the ocean still hasn’t given up! There are others searching for news about Yu, too. They’re after the [Heroic Mark]... What other objectives could they have?

Having finished off all the captured Intelligent NPCs, Shen Fei pondered what he had learned from the interrogation. Based on what he’d just learned—that they were capturing humans to ask about "Brother Kaipan"—his suspicions about the masterminds behind it all were pretty much confirmed. He also deduced that these persistent super-NPCs’ need for the [Heroic Mark] had become even more urgent.

Looks like I haven’t put enough pressure on you guys!

Having clearly assessed the situation, Shen Fei muttered to himself, then directly opened the [Ninth World] interface. He changed the refresh rate for the connection nodes in the special region of the Pacific Ocean, shortening it to just 12 hours.

Previously, he had seen that ancient emperor use the [Ninth World] to sell resources and then use the proceeds to increase his power. Ultimately, the emperor used that increased power to invade the lands of Great Xia. In response, Shen Fei had directly severed all the [Ninth World] connection nodes in that region and assigned them to a completely new group of individuals. Moreover, he had set a rule to rotate the users with access every single day. He would no longer allow any single NPC within the special region to hold onto [Ninth World] access for an extended period. He made the access permissions completely random, rapidly updated, and utterly unpredictable. This way, he could introduce more variables into the special region.

And now, seeing that some super-Intelligent NPCs were still secretly pursuing the [Heroic Mark] and other items, he adjusted the access rules for the [Ninth World] once again. He reduced the access time for each random NPC from 24 hours to 12. By doing this, the probability of "turmoil" within the special region would increase as they vied to take advantage of the even shorter access windows...

WHOOSH.

After quickly dealing with the [Ninth World] access issue, Shen Fei’s attention returned to the real world.

I have to get into that special region, and fast! These guys actually dare to start kidnapping humans! You’ve got some serious nerve!

Mulling over the matter of the ocean NPCs, Shen Fei’s resolve to enter the special region grew even more urgent.

Had you gained intelligence and just stayed quietly in your special region, I wouldn’t have bothered with you. But to take the initiative and even dare to kidnap humans... you’re truly digging your own graves.

WHOOSH.

Having dealt with the captured NPCs, Shen Fei flickered and appeared beside Zhao Li, who was floating in mid-air to provide support from a central position.

"I’ll leave 50 Defense Towers here! Defending Songhai from the monster tide will be absolutely no problem! You, gather a group and help search the entire coastline of Great Xia! If you find any NPCs kidnapping humans, eliminate them on sight! Keep killing them until they no longer dare to set foot in Great Xia!"

Swiftly, Shen Fei gave Zhao Li his new assignment. Defending against the monster tide, for a Shen Fei who could now freely summon 500 Defense Towers, was the simplest thing in the world. He focused his main efforts on what he considered the most important matter.

"Alright!"

Hearing Shen Fei’s orders, Zhao Li acted at once without a word. This time, having inherited an Eight-winged Lion Immortal Beast pet, Zhao Li’s own movement speed was incredibly fast. Tasking him with leading a team to slaughter the sea creatures that set foot on Great Xia’s soil was no problem for him at all.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Zhao Li instantly mounted his Eight-winged Lion and flew off to recruit people to guard the coastline, while the 50 Defense Towers Shen Fei deployed easily held off the major monster tides near Songhai.

WHOOSH.

After settling matters in Songhai, Shen Fei continued to use the city Teleportation Arrays to travel to several other cities and help with their defenses as well. However, he didn’t deploy many Defense Towers in these other cities. This was because, just recently, some of the human players in these Neutral Cities had also received mandatory monster-slaying quests. This meant Shen Fei’s Defense Towers could only serve as a defensive baseline, as he didn’t dare to farm the monsters indiscriminately...

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

He had to leave monsters for the players with mandatory quests, so after quickly placing Defense Towers—each socketed with three Gemstones, their Combat Power now far beyond what it once was—in every city with a Teleportation Array, he used his Teleportation Gate Tower to start zipping all over the world. Using the six Neutral Cities with Teleportation Arrays as his anchor points, his footsteps once again covered the entirety of Great Xia.

This time, he was still clearing out monsters. The monsters he was clearing were those from Secret Realms, which had manifested in reality at ten-thousand times their original number.

In the three days leading up to the fourth inheritance of game abilities, Shen Fei had single-handedly used Secret Realm Refresh Scrolls to enter dozens of special Secret Realms.