Chapter 846

When he stepped out of Iceflame Mansion, Gu Ding realized that Mi Ke and Neptune had already come out.

"Ninth-rank True God, Neptune, you've improved a lot this time. You've advanced to ninth-rank in one go." Gu Ding gave Neptune a thumbs-up.

"If you hadn't asked Bing Huo to send me those substandard divine crystals, I'm afraid it would've been difficult for me to break through to seventh-rank True God." Neptune shook his head and smiled.

After Gu Ding obtained the substandard divine crystals, he asked Bing Huo to send some to Mi Ke and Neptune who were in closed-door cultivation for them to cultivate.

This also allowed Neptune to break through the seventh-rank bottleneck in one fell swoop and directly advanced to ninth-rank.

"Mi Ke is doing well too. She's broken through to sixth-rank True God. She's improved a lot!" Gu Ding also noticed the change in Mi Ke.

"Gu Ding, your martial arts realm …" After some observation, Neptune quickly realized that Gu Ding's improvement was not just in cultivation and combat effectiveness.

"I had an epiphany during my closed-door cultivation, and my martial arts realm has greatly improved. I'm now complete Shattering Void Level." Gu Ding did not hide this.

"Epiphany! You're so lucky! " Neptune could not help but say, "Although there's a certain chance of epiphany using these substandard divine crystals, the chance is many times smaller than the chance of winning the first prize in the interstellar lottery."

"Your combat effectiveness should be at tenth-rank Heavenly God now, right?" Neptune asked.

"Tenth-rank Heavenly God Minor Mastery." Gu Ding nodded.

"Tenth-rank Heavenly God Minor Mastery … In these ruins, you might not be invincible, but at least you have the ability to protect yourself and won't be easily killed." Neptune did not expect Gu Ding to improve so much. He thought that after this closed-door cultivation, his combat effectiveness would surpass Gu Ding's, but now it seemed that he was still far from it.

"How long until Biggie and the others arrive?"

"Biggie should be here tomorrow. Melissa should arrive tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow." Neptune quickly calculated the time.

"There's no rush. We'll wait."

…

The next day at noon, Biggie finally appeared in front of everyone.

The moment he appeared, his eyes fell on Gu Ding. "Captain, your martial arts realm …"

Gu Ding smiled and explained.

"Melissa should be here tomorrow morning. There's still half a day left. Biggie should enter Iceflame Mansion to improve his cultivation," Neptune suggested.

After taking a bunch of substandard divine crystals from Gu Ding, Biggie quickly entered the Cultivation Tower.

On the morning of the third day, Melissa finally arrived. Gu Ding and the others were surprised to find that Melissa had used some unknown method to elevate her cultivation to the level of a tenth-rank True God. In terms of combat effectiveness, he should not be inferior to Gu Ding.

"What have you been eating for the past few days?" Gu Ding could not help teasing.

"It's nothing, I just used some training resources to raise my cultivation." Melissa said casually. "Just us? Aren't your other partners going to join? "

"There's also Biggie. He's in seclusion to improve his cultivation."

"Don't Lilliath and the others need to come?" Melissa asked.

"This is only the initial exploration. There's no need to gather everyone. Moreover, with Lily and the rest's current strength, it was not enough to explore these foggy areas. After we meet up, we'll have to let them go into closed-door training for a while, "Gu Ding explained.

"How long until Biggie is ready?" Melissa continued to ask.

"Tomorrow morning at the latest." Neptune gave the result of his calculation.

"Let's wait a little longer. There's no hurry." Gu Ding said and turned to look at Melissa. "How much do you know about these ruins?"

"I don't know much more about these ruins than you do." Melissa smiled and shook her head. After a moment of silence, she continued, "However, I do know a little about Heinoas."

"You know Heinoas? From the books and allusions? "Gu Ding could not help but ask.

Melissa did not answer his question. Instead, she said to herself, "Heinoas was the richest man in the entire Grand Cosmic Sea during the Middle Ages. However, Heinoas was born with a special physique. His natural divine ability was called Libra. This divine ability gave him the ability to exchange all kinds of material and non-material things with equivalent value. Heinoas was able to become the richest man in the Grand Cosmic Sea because he used a lot of his lifespan in exchange for his first bucket of gold. As a result, his lifespan was less than one percent of an ordinary Heavenly God's. Before he died, he had been buying all kinds of life-prolonging medicinal herbs at a high price. However, in the end, he did not make it. "

"I didn't know there was such a story." It was the first time Gu Ding had heard of such a thing.

"Heinoas was a very cunning merchant when he was alive. He liked to make arrangements in the dark so that his opponents would not be able to guard against him. At a glance, you can tell that many areas of the ruins have been artificially modified. Moreover, from the looks of it, many of the suggestions must have come from him. According to my guess, based on Heinoas's temperament when he was alive, there must be a lot of secrets hidden in this burial ground of his, "Melissa continued. "All of you better be careful. Don't get tricked by a dead man."

Gu Ding and the others did not refute her.

The next morning, Biggie finally came out of the Cultivation Tower. With the time acceleration of a thousand times, one day was equivalent to nearly three years.

As soon as Biggie came out, Gu Ding and Melissa noticed that his aura was much stronger than the day before.

Gu Ding even felt that Biggie's cultivation level had increased to the level of a ninth-rank True God, and his combat effectiveness was no weaker than Gu Ding's.

"You're very strong. No wonder you're the chief combat officer of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew," Melissa praised.

"I'm just a cook. Combat is my secondary job." What Biggie said was the truth.

"That's enough with the small talk." Neptune interrupted their conversation and took out a few specially made wristwatches. "Robert and I designed this together. It's a pure mechanical communicator. In order to prevent it from being affected by the magnetic field, we used artificial insulators. Everyone, put it on. In case the intelligent communicator can't be contacted, we can use this to contact each other. "

"I've done some calculations just now. This fog has a very strong blocking effect. Our visibility is only about three meters. As for other detection abilities, they will be completely blocked in the fog and cannot be used. Therefore, everyone must be very careful when we go in because we have no idea what's in this fog. "

"Now, let's assign the tasks. Gu Ding will be responsible for opening the way. Biggie will guard the end. Melissa and I will be on the left and right. Michael will stand in the middle and move with us, "Neptune continued. "After we go in, everyone should stick close to each other. Don't get separated."

Once the tasks were assigned, Gu Ding and the others slowly stepped into the fog …