76: Chapter 76 Instant Death

"Bang..." Wei Bing pressed one hand against the rock wall in front of him.

The rock wall gradually softened, turning into sand and falling away, opening a path for them.

Seeing this, Zhao Hong nodded slightly. An earth-element technique.

Lin Ming looked at Wei Bing; this person was quite accomplished in earth-element techniques.

But upon second thought, the person before him was a Disciple of the Yongzhen Sect, so it might not necessarily be an earth-element technique.

The group continued forward. The indicator on the disk never changed position, and they pushed on, breaking through the rock walls one by one.

"Boom..." Suddenly, a slight tremor came from the ground.

"Careful!" Wei Bing's expression changed, and he turned to shout at everyone.

The next second, a series of explosions rang out, instantly covering their location. The rock wall collapsed, burying this mine tunnel.

"I will hold them off; the rest is up to you. Be quick," Tian Hen said coldly.

A single explosion wouldn't hold them for too long. The other side had an Elder from the Yongzhen Sect, so they wouldn't be easy to stall.

He would have to act personally to buy time. They had basically locked onto the location of the glazed heart liquid, and now they just needed to hold off the people from the Yongzhen Sect.

"Leave it to us."

"Are you all okay?" In the dim tunnel, a wisp of firelight appeared, illuminating the area.

"We're fine." Lin Ming looked at Su Lianxue and said.

The moment the tunnel collapsed, Zhao Hong had acted, protecting everyone present, so no one had suffered any injuries.

"Someone is here," City Lord Ji Ze said with a grave expression.

The explosion just now was clearly deliberate. This meant someone had set their sights on the items inside the mine vein and intentionally triggered the explosion to block them with the collapsing mine, or even to eliminate them.

This made City Lord Ji Ze's face look quite ugly. For something like this to happen in the mine, with outside cultivators sneaking in without anyone knowing, was a huge dereliction of duty for Tianyuan City.

This was a slap in his face, especially in front of people from Yuanxu Mountain and the Yongzhen Sect.

"I want to see who dares to touch the property of my Yongzhen Sect." Zhao Hong's expression gradually turned cold.

The glazed heart liquid was already property of their Yongzhen Sect, and the other party's goal was most likely the glazed heart liquid. Touching their Yongzhen Sect's property was something he absolutely would not allow.

Three people. Lin Ming's Divine Thought covered the entire mine vein directly. Apart from them, there were three people in the mine; one was in the Bitter Sea Realm, and two were in the Spirit Treasury Realm.

Lin Ming's expression also became strange. Since when did cultivators in the Bitter Sea Realm become so common?

One had to know that the entire Tianyuan City only had one cultivator in the Bitter Sea Realm, which was the Tianyuan Swordsman who had been in seclusion.

Now, a Bitter Sea Realm cultivator had suddenly appeared in this mine. Was it a Loose Cultivator, or someone from some faction?

Moreover, these Bitter Sea Realm cultivators were already very close to their position, waiting for them on the path ahead. Were they buying time for those two guys behind?

"Wei Bing," Zhao Hong said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Revered Master," Wei Bing nodded.

He stepped forward, walked up to the collapsed sand and rocks, and brown elemental energy manifested from his body, pouring into the earth.

A tunnel gradually appeared in their line of sight. The sand and rocks surged outward, opening up a passage while simultaneously forming a hard barrier that supported the tunnel.

Before long, they walked out of the tunnel and arrived in a slightly spacious area, a region formed by the excavation of glow-brilliance Ore.

"Who are you?" A Black-robed Man appeared in their line of sight. Zhao Hong stepped forward and demanded.

"Who I am is not important," Tian Hen said coldly.

"This road is blocked."

The strength belonging to a Bitter Sea Realm cultivator was thoroughly displayed. However, there was still a gap between this person's strength and Zhao Hong's; he was only at the first level of the Bitter Sea Realm.

"Leave this person to me; you go and get the glazed heart liquid," Zhao Hong said, stepping forward. He pointed a finger, and an invisible force blasted toward Tian Hen along with that gesture.

"Junior Brother, Junior Sister, let's go. City Lord Ji Ze, please stay and protect the two of them," Wei Bing immediately made a decision and took his Junior Brother and Junior Sister to detour.

Revered Master had given him the disk; through it, he could quickly locate the glazed heart liquid. And since the opponent was blocking the way here, it meant they likely had accomplices, so they couldn't waste time here.

As for Lin Ming and Su Lianxue, their strength was still insufficient, and their identities were truly unusual; he couldn't let anything happen to them, so he had City Lord Ji Ze protect the two. City Lord Ji Ze agreed upon seeing this.

"Junior Sister, let's just stay here," Lin Ming said to Su Lianxue as the three of them retreated to the position of the mine tunnel.

"Mm," Su Lianxue replied. She watched the battle between the two Bitter Sea Realm cultivators in front of them.

The two of them were clearly in a very restrained state while fighting in this area. With their strength, if they were to go all out, the entire mine vein would collapse, which was something neither of them wanted to see.

After all, the mine vein could not collapse before the item was obtained. This was a consensus between Zhao Hong and Tian Hen; otherwise, given the gap in strength between the two, Zhao Hong believed that taking down Tian Hen would not be a difficult task.

But now, the two were in a state of mutual restraint. Everything depended on who could obtain the glazed heart liquid.

Lin Ming's attention was not here; his Divine Thought had already spread out.

At a location with glow-brilliance Ore, the walls were full of shining glow-brilliance Ore, and in the center of these Ores, a wisp of silvery-white liquid existed within a crystal-clear Ore. This item was the glazed heart liquid.

The rock wall shattered. Two people were seen walking out from the rock wall.

"Finally found it," one of them said coldly. The glazed heart liquid had finally been found.

"Don't waste time," the other person said. Take the glazed heart liquid quickly and leave this place to avoid complications.

"Mm." The two immediately walked toward the location of the glazed heart liquid. But the next second, both of them fell. These two fell to the ground almost at the same time, losing their breath.

Before long, another rock wall broke open. Wei Bing appeared here with his Junior Brother and Junior Sister.

They saw the glazed heart liquid immediately. After seeing where the glazed heart liquid was, one of them immediately wanted to go and collect it.

"Wait," Wei Bing called out to the person.

"The people on the ground." At this moment, the other two finally noticed the two people lying on the ground.