194: Familiar dimensional crystal mines, familiar crystal lizardmen

Time passed by in the discussions, and the sun rose twice in the east.

Two days later, everyone, whose inspiration had finally dried up, stood up.

“This discussion of the Dao has greatly benefited this Old Daoist. After I return, I will seclude myself and see if I can comprehend anything.”

Yue Shan nodded in agreement:

“I have also gained a great deal.”

“I’ll try to take another step forward after I return this time.”

Lei Ming rubbed his temples:

“We still need to be careful not to fall into a cultivation deviation while practicing martial arts. There are many important matters waiting for us to participate in.”

Yang Dian looked towards the east:

“Speaking of matters, shouldn’t we go and see the Lizardmen Sacred Mountain in this dimensionally folded area?”

“What if we defeated the big boss, and someone else picked up the spoils?”

Old Daoist Qingfeng smiled:

“That Lizardman God, who has one foot in the Undying Martial Realm, is our best trophy. Even if there are other spoils, they are only minor ones.”

“Even minor spoils shouldn’t be wasted.” Yang Dian lightly leaped, transforming into a streak of light and flying back into the sky:

“I still have a three-hundred-million loan from the Wen Organization that I haven’t repaid!”

After returning to the spatial node and using its power, he ‘parachuted’ to the highest peak of this spatially folded and encroached area.

Then Yang Dian confirmed that Yue Shan had been right before.

This place was the Lizardmen Sacred Mountain.

Because the white jade steps leading to the mountain peak were exactly the same as the steps on the sacred mountain in the spatially folded and encroached area of Chengdu.

Lei Ming, following Yang Dian, landed on the peak of the Sacred Mountain.

He looked at the gigantic, winding cave on the peak, with a diameter of 150 meters, and couldn’t help but laugh:

“That Lizardman God hasn’t had much good food either.”

“He has the title of a God for nothing, doesn’t even build a palace. His ‘temple’ is actually a giant pit in the ground.”

“Cognition determines behavioral habits.” Yue Shan, the third to land, was the first to step into the cave:

“We Earthlings’ cognition of dwellings is to live in buildings and build palaces.”

“When we become rich and powerful, we want to decorate them luxuriously, or with a minimalist style that reveals luxury, or with a sense of historical vicissitude.”

“But Lizardmen are different.”

“The habit of Lizardmen is to dig holes and live in underground caves.”

“So even for the Lizardman God, his cognition of a dwelling is nothing more than digging a deeper and larger hole.”

“Unless they encounter other civilizations, otherwise, under the influence of countless years of cognitive habits, they will find it very difficult to break out of their original cognitive framework…”

As they chatted and walked into the cave, Yang Dian immediately noticed the red gems embedded in the cave’s ceiling, radiating a scorching aura.

“A wondrous item?” With a surprised sound, Yang Dian jumped up and plucked a red gem embedded in the cave ceiling.

He squeezed the warm gem and, noticing the curious gazes of Yue Shan and the others, shook his head:

“It doesn’t seem like a wondrous item; the energy intensity inside is much lower than a wondrous item.”

“It’s more like…”

After a moment of contemplation, Yang Dian continued:

“It’s more like a special Ore with fire attributes, like those in novels.”

Yue Shan looked up at the gems densely scattered across the ceiling like stars and couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows:

“So, there’s probably a gem mine here? Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many Ores with the same attribute.”

Thinking of the wondrous item he had pried from the Four-Armed Lizardmen King’s crown, Yang Dian added:

“The gem mine might also have wondrous items coexisting with it.”

The few of them exchanged glances, their expressions unreadable.

Finally, Lei Ming said:

“After I go back, I’ll talk to the Wen Organization and have them ask Xiao Sa Leiman to buy the development rights for this dimensionally folded space, striving for win-win cooperation…”

The conversation stopped there, and the group delved deeper into the underground cave.

As they continued into the cave, the surrounding temperature grew higher and higher.

After walking down for about ten kilometers, the ambient temperature reached nearly 60 degrees Celsius.

Just as Yang Dian was about to suggest speeding up, they finally arrived.

Turning a corner, a huge underground cavern appeared before his eyes.

The cavern was about 800 meters high, hemispherical in shape, and approximately 3000 meters in diameter.

Walking into the cavern and looking around, Yang Dian couldn’t help but marvel at the Lizardman God’s extravagance.

Under his feet was a floor paved with polished aquamarine gems.

Just standing on the floor, Yang Dian felt a warm aura transmit from his feet to his body.

This aura slowly but steadily nourished his body, soothing his agitated state of mind caused by the hot environment.

Embedded in the cavern walls and dome were countless golden gems.

Under the golden light, Yang Dian felt his Soul grow incredibly weary, wanting to sleep a long, deep sleep.

He walked to the golden throne, which was a hundred meters tall and seemed to be carved from a single golden gem, and sat down. Yang Dian then let out a deep breath:

“Hoo~”

“No wonder the Lizardmen civilization hasn’t developed much over countless years.”

“The Lizardman God sleeps all day in the underground cave, the Lizardmen below imitate him, and with the lowest-level Four-Armed Lizardmen being enslaved, how could civilization possibly develop?”

Shaking his head to dispel the drowsiness, Yang Dian, now re-energized, jumped off the throne and went to the other side of the cave, joining Yue Shan and the others who were standing before a giant red Crystal.

Only after getting closer did Yang Dian notice that the red Crystal wasn't just a red Crystal.

Inside it, an oval-shaped giant egg, five meters tall, was hidden.

“Is this the Lizardman God’s egg, or a Lizardman Divine Bird’s egg?”

Yue Shan shook his head:

“I don’t know. High-tech instruments, like before, were all interfered with and damaged by a special magnetic field after entering the spatial node.”

“We’ll have to take it back for examination.”

As he spoke, he first used his storage equipment to collect the red Crystal and the giant egg within it, then turned to look at Lei Ming, who was darting around the cave like lightning:

“Did you find anything?”

Lei Ming pointed to the dome:

“There’s a three-meter-diameter black shadowy area on the cave’s dome that you can only see when you get close.”

“But no matter what I tried, I couldn’t touch it.”

“There were also 13 wondrous item gems on the throne, which I’ve pried off.”

“Other than that, no other discoveries.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Dian flew towards the dome without a word. “I’ll go see what’s going on.”

Yue Shan and the others exchanged glances and followed.

“Eh?”

As they approached, they heard Yang Dian let out a light gasp.

“What is it? Did you find something?”

Yang Dian looked at Lei Ming, then pointed to the black area and said:

“Uncle Lei, do you still remember the unknown creature’s egg I brought out from the Dimension Crystal Mine?”

Lei Ming nodded, then looked in surprise at the gradually shrinking dark area:

“That thing ran in here?”

No sooner had he spoken than the black substance, whether energy or matter, suddenly contracted, disappearing from everyone’s sight in the blink of an eye.

The moment the black area vanished, Yang Dian vaguely saw a Crystal-filled Ore tunnel flicker before his eyes, then disappear.

Within the Crystal, there was also a pair of somewhat familiar white vertical pupils, staring at him with endless rage.

“Uh?”

“Did we dig into a Crystal Lizardman lair again?”