In their place was a new set of missions. The list was hundreds of times shorter, but every single task radiated a heart-pounding, blood-red glow.
[Hell-Level Mission List]
Every mission here represented extreme danger and extreme rewards.
Qin Feng’s gaze swept quickly across the titles of these missions.
[Mission: Hunt the "Void Throat"—an adult Level 6 Cosmic Giant Beast capable of devouring starships]
[Mission: Infiltrate the forbidden forge world of the "Mechanical God Sect" and steal the construction blueprints for the "Immortal" legion]
[Mission: Survive for one hundred days in the "Wailing Abyss" and bring back a sample of the "Heart of the Abyss"]
...
His gaze finally landed on one mission that made his breath catch.
[Mission Name: The Purification of the Blood God’s Nest]
[Mission Objective: Completely eliminate the "Blood Saber" Believers of Khorne gang entrenched on the "Abandoned World" of Planet K-13.]
[Mission Type: Team Mission (Required Personnel: 4)]
[Mission Difficulty: Hell Level]
[Mission Rewards: 80,000 Contribution Points, 240,000 Warband Reputation, 5,000 Competition Points]
Believers of Khorne!
Believers of Khorne again!
An icy, bone-chilling glint flashed through Qin Feng’s eyes.
And when he saw the mission rewards, so generous they were terrifying, Qin Feng began to calculate.
’One mission, and I can get 240,000 Warband Reputation!’
’And right now, to finish refining all my acupoints, I’m still short on resources equivalent to over a million reputation points.’
’In other words...’
’As long as I can successfully complete four or five of these ’Hell-level’ missions, I’ll have enough to gather all the resources I need!’
He immediately submitted a team-up application.
However, just as he thought his application would be quickly approved like countless times before...
A cold, red system notification popped up.
[Your application to join the team has been rejected by the leader.]
Not only that, but below the rejection notice was a short message from the team leader.
[Message - "Dragon Jade": Too weak. This mission is too dangerous. Application denied.]
’Too weak?’
Qin Feng froze.
He subconsciously opened his personal profile panel.
Only then did he discover that it was still displaying his old information from before his last secluded cultivation session.
[Name: Qin Feng]
[Level: Fifth-level Martial Artist]
[Life Force Index: 4,800 points]
[Enrollment Year: 58]
[...]
No wonder the other party had rejected him without hesitation.
After all, "Hell-level" missions were benchmarked against floors 61-90 of the Canaan Tower, meant for Martial Artists with a Life Force Index of 5,000 or more.
A Martial Artist with a Life Force Index below five thousand wanting to join a mission of this level would seem to others like they were either courting death or just some freeloader with delusions of grandeur, hoping to leech off the rewards.
What’s more, his enrollment year was 58.
Qin Feng immediately went into his profile’s back-end settings.
He updated his information to its most current state.
[Name: Qin Feng]
[Level: Fifth-level Martial Artist]
[Life Force Index: 5,560 points]
[Slaughter Realm: First-level Killing Technique (Control over 10), Second-level Killing Technique (Control over 11), Third-level Killing Skill (1 at Perfection, Killing Move Comprehended)]
[Enrollment Year: 62]
After displaying his strength in the most direct way possible...
Qin Feng submitted his team-up application once more.
This time, his application wasn’t instantly rejected.
After waiting for about ten seconds, the system finally sent a new notification.
[Your application to join the team has been approved.]
Immediately following that was a second message from the team leader, "Dragon Jade."
[Message - from "Dragon Jade": Please proceed immediately to the "Dauntless" Warband’s A-1 Teleportation Zone to assemble for a strength verification. This is a matter of life and death and cannot be taken lightly. Please understand.]
Qin Feng immediately understood what the other person meant.
He had just been rejected one moment, and in the next, he had "updated" his strength data with a massive boost.
To anyone, such an action would be full of suspicion.
It was only natural for the leader to suspect he had deliberately falsified his stats just to leech off the mission.
Far from being offended by this caution, Qin Feng actually approved of the captain he had yet to meet even more.
Because it meant he was someone who took extreme responsibility for his own life, as well as the lives of his teammates.
Without delay, Qin Feng activated the Teleportation Array and headed to the designated meeting point.
...
"Dauntless" Warband, A-1 Teleportation Zone.
This was the highest-spec assembly point, prepared specifically for top-tier squads undertaking "Hell-level" and "Nightmare-level" missions.
The space here was far more vast and solemn than any other teleportation zone Qin Feng had visited before.
The entire hall had a cold, dark-gold metallic texture, giving off an incredibly solemn and oppressive feeling.
Qin Feng’s figure appeared on the Teleportation Platform.
As soon as he stepped off, he saw three figures standing quietly in the distance.
Two of them seemed to have just finished a sparring match in a "private combat space."
While the one in the lead watched them quietly.
He was a young man with a posture as straight as a pine tree, a handsome face like carved jade, and a gentle, humble temperament, like an ancient scholar who had read countless books.
But from the depths of those seemingly peaceful eyes, Qin Feng could sense a terrifying, unfathomable power as vast as an abyss.