500: Capture the spiritual vein!

Along the way, Li Chengyou introduced Guo Feng to a lot of information about the Chaotic Empire.

The Chaotic Empire, in reality, doesn't have a large population; it's comparable to the imperial capital of the Yan Yang Empire.

Just a mere hundred million.

But these hundred million people occupy high-tier resources covering an area of one hundred thousand li.

And out of these hundred million, ninety percent are slaves.

Only tens of millions are the true masters here.

The Spiritual Vein Mining Area is an asset belonging to the Imperial Family, capable of producing a vast amount of spirit stones annually for the Imperial Family's cultivation and use.

Spirit stones have a great many uses.

They can be directly absorbed for cultivation, used as energy to fuel alchemy furnaces, or to activate formations, and so on.

They are the most fundamental cultivation resource.

Before long, the Royal Spiritual Vein Mining Area was reached.

"This is the place."

Li Chengyou led Guo Feng to the sky above a large mountainous area, where the spiritual energy was terrifyingly abundant; a slight movement could trigger a spiritual energy storm.

Below, the sounds of digging for spirit ores, along with shouts, could be heard from time to time.

"There are so many spiritual veins here; it's quite an eye-opener for me."

Guo Feng's Immortal Sense swept over, and he found that Li Chengyou had not lied; there were more than a dozen supreme-grade spiritual veins!

Within his Immortal Sense, these supreme-grade spiritual veins resembled raging dragons formed of spiritual energy, embedded deep within the mountains.

Inside each supreme-grade spiritual vein, there were naturally formed spirit-gathering array symbols, absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, then gathering and crystallizing it into spirit stones usable by cultivators.

"Who is lingering in the Royal Spiritual Vein Mining Area? This place is off-limits to idlers. Quickly state your name! If you have no identification, I'll directly arrest you to serve as a hard-labor miner!"

As soon as they paused for a moment, a rude shout came, and at the same time, a team of people rushed over at an extremely fast speed.

Upon closer inspection, it was a team of eleven!

The leader was a peak Tenth Rank expert.

The rest were all newly ascended Tenth Rank cultivators.

Outside, these people would be high-ranking officials, highly regarded by emperors.

However, these individuals were merely enforcers in the Spiritual Vein Mining Area!

"I am Li Chengyou. Do you think I have the right to linger here?"

Li Chengyou frowned and reported his identity.

"Ah? It's the Royal Grand Elder, an Immortal Rank expert, Immortal Chengyou? This humble one, Zhu Zhao, is the captain of the Royal Spiritual Vein Mining Area's Third Patrol Team. This humble one was blind and offended Immortal Chengyou; please punish this humble one."

Upon hearing Li Chengyou's identity, the leader instantly turned pale with fright, plopped down to his knees in mid-air, and repeatedly kowtowed for mercy.

This also showed the strict hierarchy of the Chaotic Empire.

The superiors seemed to control the lives and deaths of their subordinates.

"Please show mercy, Immortal!"

"We were wrong!"

Zhu Zhao's companions also knelt down one by one, looking even more nervous than Zhu Zhao.

"Originally, for your insubordination, the minor penalty would be sealing your cultivation and demoting you to a miner for ten years, while the severe penalty would be direct execution."

Li Chengyou said indifferently, making those people tremble all over, "However, this is also your duty. I'm in a good mood today, so I won't punish you."

"Yes, thank you, Immortal!"

"Immortal is benevolent!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and quickly kowtowed to them.

Li Chengyou then looked at Guo Feng: "Wind Emperor, shall we go in? How do you plan to extract them?"

"Let's try it first."

Guo Feng didn't say much; he also realized that the Chaotic Empire's hierarchy was extremely strict.

A Tenth Rank expert, here, without status, was nothing more than a dog!

No wonder Zhao Xing would rather die than come here.

Hua Shangyue also planned for a long time, obscuring the heavenly secrets, and did not come directly to this Chaotic Empire.

Ascension was a scam!

Coming to this Chaotic Empire was most likely also a scam!

Being a big shot outside, here, they were just slaves of the Chaotic Empire's Imperial Family.

Who would want that?

"Then please, come inside."

Li Chengyou smiled, and likewise, with a tear of his hand, immediately ripped open an opening in the Spiritual Vein Mining Area's barrier.

Guo Feng entered the barrier with him.

Zhu Zhao and the others looked puzzled but followed along.

"Such dense spiritual energy!"

Guo Feng entered this barrier and only then realized that the spiritual energy outside was already extremely dense.

Within this barrier, the spiritual energy concentration was actually ten times that of the outside!

However, people generally do not cultivate in spiritual energy of such concentration.

The spiritual energy is too violent; a slight oversight could lead to qi deviation and death by explosion.

His Immortal Sense swept over, and he already knew the distribution of these spiritual veins, crisscrossing, nearly a thousand spiritual veins.

Each spiritual vein was like a dragon pulse; in ancient times, they would be true dragon veins, capable of suppressing national fortune.

He thought for a moment and said with a smile, "I'll start with the sub-grade spirit vein to practice. Come, sub-grade spirit vein, rise!"

As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed into the void below, and the Great Five Elements Qi immediately transformed into a gigantic palm.

This palm covered the sky and obscured the sun, spanning dozens of kilometers.

Each finger was condensed from the Great Five Elements Qi, crystal clear, containing thunder and lightning, and possessing a divine power within.

As soon as he made his move, Zhu Zhao and the others turned pale and trembled all over with fright.

"What's going on?"

"Is someone attacking our Spiritual Vein Mining Area?"

"Assemble, assemble!"

And there was clearly more than just Zhu Zhao's team in the Spiritual Vein Mining Area; there were many others.

Guo Feng's massive Immortal power hand covered dozens of kilometers; as it grabbed down, five enormous fingers dug into the mountain rock, penetrating hundreds of meters underground.

He grasped the spiritual vein and pulled it upwards.

That section of the mountainous area began to shake violently, dust flew everywhere, and the momentum was extremely grand.

If this didn't attract the Royal Guards stationed here, it would be strange!

Thousands of figures flew in from all directions.

They were noisy and chaotic.

But they were all completely stunned.

This was the first time they had seen someone extract a spiritual vein like this!

This was truly boundless magical power!

"Stop, stop! This is a Royal Spiritual Vein! Senior, what you are doing is tantamount to directly declaring war on our Royal Family! Let's talk things over!"

At this moment, a noble-looking young man, wearing a seven-colored cloud robe and a purple-gold crown, flew over with a group of late-Tenth Rank and peak-Tenth Rank experts.

He also looked at Guo Feng with a wary expression.

He did not dare to easily provoke someone with such immense magical power.

"Li Chengyou, tell them I'm busy!"

Guo Feng had no intention of bothering with these people. He had seen spiritual veins before, but this was his first time extracting one.

Previously, Li Chi had theoretical research on transferring spiritual veins.

However, Guo Feng only now understood that transferring spiritual veins was an extremely complex matter.

Although Li Chi's academic talent was astonishing and his words made sense, the execution still lacked some power.

And at this moment, he was also fully focused on extracting the spiritual vein.

One hand grabbed, while the other formed hand seals, creating runes that blasted into the spiritual vein, intending to seal the entire spiritual vein; otherwise, if it broke even a little, the spiritual vein would be ruined.

More importantly, the spiritual vein contained violent spiritual energy, even more ferocious than natural gas.

If it exploded, he might not suffer major problems, but this entire spiritual vein area would be completely destroyed.

In the case of a chain explosion, whether the Chaos Continent's tectonic plates would be blown through was also a question.

Therefore, he did not want to be distracted.

At this moment, Li Chengyou said, "Li Shangyun, do you see who I am? What's with all the fuss?"

"Ah? It's Ancestor?"

Li Shangyun was startled, quickly bowed in present, and then looked at the scene with a puzzled expression, "Ancestor, this is..."

"Don't speak, just observe."

Li Chengyou couldn't even be bothered to explain.

Li Shangyun raised an eyebrow, finding himself in a dilemma for a moment.

Just then, Guo Feng suddenly shouted, "Spiritual Vein, out!"