51: Chapter 51 I'll beat anyone I see!!!

"I used a secret technique to probe from afar just now. This formation is covered in the most vicious backlash restrictions from the ancient divine kingdom!"

"The interior of this stone gate has accumulated earth-vein baleful qi for tens of thousands of years. If you continue to forcibly bombard it, once the stone gate shatters, the baleful qi inside will explode instantly!"

Lin Yunfei deliberately paused, lowering his voice to create a spine-chilling atmosphere.

"By then, not only will your dependents be reduced to ashes, but even your Creator cores will be completely polluted by this baleful qi, never able to turn things around for all eternity!"

"What? Backlash restrictions?"

Zhang Hao was stunned, subconsciously looking at the stone gate before him with a trace of suspicion flashing in his eyes.

As a Creator of mage-type dependents, he could indeed vaguely sense some lingering ancient laws attached to the stone gate. Coupled with how seriously Lin Yunfei spoke, he couldn't help but harbor a tiny bit of doubt.

However, Lian Zhan spat fiercely and cursed angrily,

"Bullsh*t! Last time in the medicinal garden, you were also acting like a ghost playing tricks, and what was the result?! The territory we worked so hard to conquer all turned into empty pits! You're just an unlucky Saobaxing, wanting to deliberately delay time and swallow the fortuitous encounter all by yourself!"

"Young Master Lian, you're wronging an innocent person here."

Lin Yunfei sighed, his tone filled with helplessness.

"The collapse of the medicinal garden last time was caused by the erosion of time, what does it have to do with me? This time, I'm risking my life to remind you. If you don't believe me, carefully sense the energy fluctuations around the stone gate; aren't they extremely violent?"

Being hoodwinked by Lin Yunfei like this, the three of them tacitly slowed down their attack rhythm, and Zhang Hao even truly closed his eyes to perceive the energy around the stone gate.

Meanwhile, deep underground where they couldn't see,

countless thick tree roots emitting a star-blue light had long since resembled countless greedy giant pythons, quietly piercing through the rock layer and plunging into the [Star Mineral Vein] behind the stone gate.

Inside the divine kingdom,

by Lin Yunfei's black lake, a grand spectacle of "heaven-sent meteors" was unfolding.

Large chunks of [Star Ores] flashing with brilliant starlight, and even many incomparably precious [Star Marrows], were continuously crashing down onto the open space of the divine kingdom along the root channels of the Starry Sky Ancient Tree, quickly piling up into a glowing hill.

"What pure power of the stars! With this batch of ores, if I want to cultivate metal-type or artifact-type dependents in the future, it's simply a divine weapon!"

While outwardly putting on an earnest appearance and chatting nonsense with Lian Zhan and the other two, Lin Yunfei was blooming with joy in his heart.

Time passed minute by minute.

Although the more Lian Zhan and the other two listened, the more wrong it felt, constrained by the terrifying defense Yushi had displayed earlier, they didn't dare to act rashly and could only engage in a fierce "war of words" with Lin Yunfei from a distance.

Finally,

the time of an incense stick burning had arrived.

The Starry Sky Ancient Tree's voice, carrying satisfaction and exhaustion, sounded in his mind: "Great Creator, the vein essence and over ninety percent of the high-grade ores have all been completely transferred. What remains is only some worthless abandoned stone slag."

"Well done."

Lin Yunfei praised inwardly, immediately stopping his lengthy "teachings".

He reined in the banter on his face, put on a disappointed expression of "the youth cannot be taught," and sighed heavily.

"So be it, so be it."

"Since the three of you are obsessed and refuse to repent, insisting on turning kind advice into deaf ears and being dead set on throwing your lives away, then I won't force it either."

As he spoke, Lin Yunfei turned around, and Yushi behind him turned into a blue light that merged into his body.

"Let go of the complex of helping others, and respect the fate of others. Enjoy the 'big crisis' in this mine slowly by yourselves, farewell!"

As soon as his voice fell, Lin Yunfei's figure abruptly turned into a streak of black lightning, completely disappearing into the rolling miasma in just a few leaps. He left so crisply and neatly, without the slightest bit of attachment.

"Ran? He ran just like that?"

Zhang Hao raised his staff, his face full of bewilderment.

"Damn it! I knew this grandson was running his mouth off! He's just a coward who doesn't dare to fight!" Lian Zhan was furious to the point of smoke coming out of his seven orifices, waving his fists and roaring, "What kind of dogsh*t backlash restrictions, it's all utter bullshit!"

"Forget about him! The formation is about to break, let's quickly blast open the stone gate and get the Star Ores, that's what matters!" Liu Ting also reacted, a desire for treasure reigniting in her eyes.

"Blast it apart! ! !"

Accompanied by Lian Zhan's hysterical roar, all the dependents assembled once more, erupting with their strongest strike.

"Boom—Crack!"

The thick sealed stone gate finally let out a wail, completely shattering into countless pieces of rock and revealing the deep, gloomy mine entrance behind it.

"Charge! We're getting rich!"

Lian Zhan's eyes shone brightly as he rushed into the mine first.

Zhang Hao and Liu Ting were also trembling with excitement, following closely behind.

However,

the moment they rushed into the mine, lit up their illumination spells, and saw the scene inside clearly,

the three of them once again froze in place as if hit by a body-immobilization spell.

Inside the spacious underground mine,

there were no brilliant Star Ores, nor the legendary Star Marrows.

The rock walls of the entire mine were as smooth as a mirror, as if countless starry sky behemoths had licked them back and forth with their tongues ten thousand times! Not only had all the ores vanished into thin air, but even bottomless pits had been dug out one after another on the walls.

What was even more outrageous was that even the paved abandoned stone crusts on the ground had been forcibly scraped away by a layer by some terrifying force. On the ground, besides a few ordinary stone bits without any spiritual energy, not even a single strand of hair was left.

Was this a Star Mineral Vein? This was simply a hundred times cleaner than a plate licked by a dog! It was even more despairing than the medicinal garden they had just dug through!

There was a pin-drop silence!

The illumination fireball bounced in mid-air, reflecting three paper-white, gradually twisting faces.

"Where... where is the mine? Where are our Star Ores?" Zhang Hao's hand trembled, and his staff dropped to the ground with a "pa" sound.

"Gone, everything is gone. We fought for so long, and in the end, there is nothing?" Liu Ting muttered to herself, her voice carrying a sobbing tone.

Lian Zhan stared dead at the bare rock wall, his entire body's blood seeming to coagulate, followed by a mad surge of reverse blood.

An unprecedented sense of grievance, humiliation, and anger rushed straight to his primordial spirit like an active volcano suppressed for tens of millions of years.

"Puff! ! !"

Driven to fury by distress, Lian Zhan spat a mouthful of crimson blood directly onto the bare stone wall, a shocking sight.

"Ahhhhhh! ! !"

Lian Zhan abruptly knelt on the ground, his fists frantically pounding the ground like a pile driver, feeling nothing even if his knuckles shattered and bled profusely.

Raising his head, his eyes crimson as blood, he let out a wail akin to mourning one's deceased parents:

"Saobaxing! That masked bastard, he is simply a pure Saobaxing! ! !"

"Whenever you encounter him, even the topsoil will be stripped bare by three chi! ! !"

If you let me see him again next time, I'll beat whoever I see!