Reincarnation of the strongest sword god 2695+

2745 Challenging Asura

Shi Feng finally understood why such a dimension existed. Only something like the philosopher's stone can create such ridiculous mana and this piece is the biggest one Shi Feng had found so far. Now with it candlelight can grow to all new heights.
"Should I just look for the rest of missing pieces?"
With the complete philosopher's stone Shi Feng won't have to worry about many things like mass producing high ranking equipment, he also has two ancient documents he could use to find the whereabouts of the last two stones, but he wanted to save those documents for potential divine artifacts and the seven treasures if the need arises.
"Forget it I don't even have time right now, let's just focus on things that can be done immediately."
Right now he needs his experts to train, the time for the expedition dungeon with the Secret Pavilion and Thirteen Thrones is in four days, he needs to prepare.
Shi Feng then set up a teleportation point and transferred more members here. Almost 4,000 guild members started their training for the few weeks the dimension would be opened. Every person chosen went through a strict screening and signed confidentiality contracts so no information about the training should leak. Shi Feng knew that some superpowers would still find out about this place but wasn't so worried. At most these superpowers will be jealous that Zero Wing found such a dense mana environment, if they knew that this dimension was the perfect place to train refinement realm experts they will do everything in their power to take it from him. And Shi Feng isn't expecting everyone who trains here to enter the refinement realm only hoping that a thousand people can reach the half step refinement realm and some people in the main force can enter the void realm.
Shi Feng then went back to stone forest city and fused the philosophers stone he had found with the other

[Philosopher's Stone] (56% Completed)

Fragmented legendary Rank Special Item (Dropped upon death)

A sacred item for Alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone can be used to turn stone into gold, revive the dead, and more. However, the Sword Emperor, Knight, shattered the Philosopher's Stone into five pieces. However, the Philosopher's Stone possesses immense strength. As long as one gathers the five pieces, it will recover to its full strength.

Active Effect: Due to being damaged, the Philosopher's Stone possesses around a half of its original strength. It can only be used for Alchemical Conversion, Elemental Refinement, Alchemical Synthesis, Elemental Strengthening, Alchemical Cloning, Elemental Strengthening.

Shi Feng was amazed at the improved stone not only does he require less magic crystals to make mana stones now due to the elemental strengthening effects, he can now make copies of certain materials. He then checked to see the limitations on the alchemical cloning.

Alchemical Cloning- Sacrifice magic crystals or mana stones to make one exact copy of a material. Cannot create copies from a copy and original item can only be copied once. No Cooldown
Elemental Strengthening- Increase the density, quality, and quantity of energy in a material. No Cooldown
Shi Feng understood the use of it now. And seeing as how he needs magic crystals to do this, he can't make copies of things like mana stones and seven luminaries crystals which is unfortunate, but this is already plenty amazing.
Shi Feng then went to work creating a bunch of mana stones for the moon strider set, and even though he required less magic crystals to do so he was still very conservative with it. The guild did make a lot of magic crystals in profit thanks to the Shining fortress but he is saving those for the dungeon raid in a few days and the Undead World expedition. The ring of gospel is going to be integral to both. Shi Feng then spent the next four days making 20 tier 4 and 50 tier 3 moonstrider sets and 14 secret silver combat puppets with the other lifestyle workers in the guild. He didn't have enough materials to make the shooting light airship but he was able to create the most important parts of it thanks to cloning a bunch of rare materials. Shi Feng also helped the guilds forgers craft a bunch of dark gold and epic equipment as well. Zero Wings stock of epic equipment might be the highest of all guilds in the game thanks to eradicating some superpowers but those weapons weren't enough for their needs. Throughout these four days Shi Feng's experience bar grew a sizable chunk, now he is only 14% away from level 140. Time flew by and the day of the dungeon raid finally arrived.

In stone forest city 400 tier 4 players stood in a plaza. It's rare to see so many tier 4 players together at this stage of the game and their combined might awed anyone who saw them. These people were from the Secret Pavilion and Thirteen Thrones.
"Look that's the the Secret Pavilions Sleepless Star, I heard he reached the top ten on the Fire Wings empire level rankings list. He is already level 135!"
"Who cares about him look that's Empress Purple Jade, she actually defeated the 128th expert on the expert ranking list, her strength is constantly rising and I heard she may become an honorary elder of the Secret Pavilion."
"Look at Thirteen Thrones, their new city in the Crying Ridges Neutral map ranks amongst some of the best."
"They've also dispatched Silver Sun. I've been a huge fan of him, I think he's going to enter the top 50 of the Gods Domain expert list after defeating the 47th rank player."
The many guilds and independent players discussed heavily the two top ranking super guilds in the plaza.
The Gods Domains Expert list has gone through a few changes. Before in order to rank in the top 400 a player had to be in the refinement realm, top 200 players consisted of flowing water realm experts, top 100 void realm experts, and top 30 had the domain realm experts.
But now in order to be in the top 800 you need to have entered the refinement realm, top 500 the flowing water realm, top 200 the void realm and the top 50 consist of domain realm experts.
"Uncle Yuan I see that Thirteen Thrones actually dispatched some of their old monsters. Even Elder Wu had showed up." A youth said to Yuan Tiexin.
"Of course, this is their way of showing their good will to Zero Wing. Zero Wing has an outstanding dungeon clearing record. If all goes well the guild might even sell some of the items that drop and help to raid other expedition dungeons as well."
Yuan Tiexin said. The Secret Pavilion has the same idea as well and even dispatched some of their old monsters. He even saw Crazed Sword among the crowd. Crazed Sword is one of Thirteen Thrones strongest experts and is close to becoming a peerless monster as well. The Secret Pavilion suspects he might even have a legendary item. Rumors are that Thirteen Thrones discovered and obtained a legendary item from the gravity mountain range, but the guild has kept a tight lid on it, not even the Secret Pavilion knows if this is true.
After waiting a few minutes more commotion was heard in the plaza as 600 tier 4 players entered.
"Look it's Zero Wing!"
"Netherworld Empire is also here, are these guilds going to capture a city!"
Even though the employment of the hell legion was long finished, Netherworld Empire didn't mind them helping Zero Wing raid a dungeon in exchange for some magic crystals.
When the Secret Pavilion and Thirteen Thrones members saw this their eyes almost went to the back of their heads. It wasn't because of the hell legion accompanying them, but it's because of the number of tier 4 experts Zero Wing has. The guild brought 400 tier 4 experts and they should have left quite a few to protect the guild while they were away. This means Zero Wing can rival top ranking superpowers in  number of tier 4 experts. Not to mention everyone one of these players the guild brought was high quality. Nearly 100 of them were in the void realm and the rest had reached the flowing water realm or at the peak of the refinement realm. Zero Wings' main force is now as strong as some top superpowers main force.
The guilds strength is rising rapidly and that's a good thing for its allies.
"I hope I didn't make you guys wait long." Shi Feng said as he scanned the people present. While expedition dungeons are difficult he didn't expect these two guilds to send so much man power. He can feel over ten domain realm experts each from the two guilds.
"Nonsense guild leader Black Flame we haven't waited long." Melancholy said.
"That's good. Let's go then."
With that said everyone teleported to a neutral map and got on their airships and flying mounts as they soared towards the dungeon.
The thousand men team made it to the entry of the Chaos Storms dungeon and just the gate alone released a frightening aura.
"Guild leader Black Flame, what difficulty do you plan to choose?" Melancholy asked.
Expedition dungeons are very different from other dungeons. These dungeons start at hard, hell, and asura, and some even have God mode difficulties. They can also last a week or more and teams are only allowed to challenge it once a week, aside from that the rules are pretty much the same as other dungeons.
"We will challenge the asura level." Shi Feng said.
Everyone sucked in cold air when they heard that. The Secret Pavilion, Thirteen Thrones, and Netherworld Empire had all challenged expedition dungeons recently just to get a feel and prepare for them in the future but these dungeons had destroyed them and that was only hard mode.
"Guild leader Black Flame why not try the hell mode at least. We have enough experts to have a 40% chance of success." Yuan Tiexin added and everyone agreed in hell mode they can make decent progress even if they fail, but in asura they won't even last an hour. This is mainly due to knowing nothing about this specific dungeon. When attempting an expedition dungeon players can find some information about it in libraries or hidden places in the Gods Domain. This is the game's way of helping players since they only have one attempt a week.
"Don't worry as long as you all listen to my orders we'll be fine." After saying that Shi Feng picked the asura mode difficulty and everyone disappeared with a flash of light into the dungeon.