217: Chapter 217 You Come Out Here

Cultivation Breakthrough, then mining to earn experience points, then another Breakthrough—

this was Zhao Yi's daily routine,

monotonous and boring.

But this was Zhao Yi's cultivation.

Just as he emerged from Fuyu Palace, Zhao Yi saw Miao Hua with his buttocks in the air, mining.

He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

When the Great Awakening Sect was being tormented by Heavenly Net, Miao Hua hadn't appeared.

When the plague broke out, Miao Hua hadn't appeared either.

Yet, as soon as the Divine Stone Mine appeared, Miao Hua followed suit.

Zhao Yi couldn't help but overthink this.

"Elder Brother?"

"Hmm?"

Miao Hua turned around abruptly.

"Virtuous Younger Brother, so you were at the Divine Stone Mine?"

"I say, how could you not show up in a place like this?"

Zhao Yi looked at Miao Hua and felt that his aura was a bit abnormal.

"Are you injured?"

Miao Hua looked rather embarrassed.

"I felt the Divine Stone Mine coming into existence and got excited."

"I forced myself out of seclusion and suffered a heavy injury."

Zhao Yi...

"Oh!"

Only then did he dismiss the doubts in his heart, feeling a bit ashamed at the same time. Miao Hua wasn't that kind of person after all.

"What do you mean, 'oh'?"

"Do you know what's going on with this Divine Stone Mine?"

As Miao Hua spoke, he pointed at the Immortals on the Divine Stone Mine who were scratching their heads in frustration and cursed, "Don't be like those bastards."

"Damn it, they don't know a thing when asked,"

"yet they shamelessly insist on mining the Divine Stone Mine. In the end, they've all come to dig holes."

Miao Hua was probably anxious as well, his speech full of profanities.

Zhao Yi looked and almost burst out laughing.

It turned out those Immortals couldn't break the rocks of the Divine Stone Mine, so they tried to be clever by shrinking various Immortal Artifacts to dig bit by bit.

Surprisingly, they really did manage to dig many small holes in the mineral vein.

However, those holes were only the size of a pinky finger. Let alone mining Immortal Stones, they couldn't even see them.

Suppressing his laughter, Zhao Yi explained the matter of the Netherworld Hall and the ten hall masters like Guixu.

"What?"

"Using a plague to harm billions of living beings?"

"How is that possible?"

"How come I didn't feel a single bit of resentment?"

"Oh, the resentment was used."

"Then it's fine."

As Zhao Yi recounted the story, Miao Hua and Venerable Deng chimed in from time to time.

When they heard that Zhao Yi had raided the Netherworld Hall, Miao Hua and Venerable Deng's eyes were filled with admiration.

When they heard about Zhao Yi facing Heavenly Net, they were filled with worry.

When he mentioned the Taiyi Purple Extreme Thunder,

Venerable Deng could no longer hold back. She stood up and gave Zhao Yi a slight bow.

"Thank you, Brother Zhao, for avenging the thousands of Cultivators of my Great Awakening Sect."

Miao Hua had a completely different expression.

"Virtuous Younger Brother, you..."

"The power behind the Netherworld Hall is the Myriad Manifestations Divine System; that's a colossus among the Three Thousand Worlds."

"It's not something Loose Cultivators like us can afford to provoke."

"Last time, your sister-in-law only broke their mountain gate, and it brought down a calamity from the Divine Envoy."

"Afterward, you know what happened."

"It took me nine thousand years to save her."

"And now..."

Miao Hua's eyes were full of worry.

"Your situation is much more serious than Venerable Deng's. Not only was the Netherworld Hall destroyed, but even the ten hall masters like Guixu have fallen."

"One could say that the Myriad Manifestations Divine System's plans for tens of thousands of years have all been ruined by your hands."

"Hey, hey~"

"What are you doing?"

"I haven't finished speaking yet!"

Zhao Yi held the great sumeru treasure hoe in his hand.

"Mining!"

As for what Miao Hua said,

about Divine Systems or Divine Envoys, Zhao Yi didn't want to know and didn't want to ask.

He was just a Miner now; what was the use of knowing so much?

As the saying goes, the ignorant are fearless.

Zhao Yi was afraid that if he knew too much, his mental state would collapse.

"You, you~"

"I'm doing this for your own good!"

Zhao Yi didn't care about him.

With one swing of the hoe,

twenty or thirty Immortal Stones were unearthed.

[You have mined twenty-four low-grade immortal stones, experience points +24.]

"Huh?"

"Why are they all low-grade immortal stones?"

"Da—"

Before he could shout the character "Yue", Zhao Yi remembered that after the Taiyi Purple Extreme Thunder, he hadn't heard Approximate's nagging.

The space between his brows was empty.

Zhao Yi was startled.

Only when he saw the familiar golden runes in his Sea of Consciousness did Zhao Yi breathe a slight sigh of relief.

"Approximation Technique!"

"Dead Dragon, why don't you come out for me!"

The golden runes appeared outside as usual, forming a dragon's body. Only then did Zhao Yi completely relax.

It seemed that Approximate, like him, was now nearly Immortal and indestructible.

"Eh!"

"I'm not dead?"

"Hahaha, Lord Dragon isn't dead!"

As soon as Approximate came out, he swayed and soared into the air.

He was very happy that he hadn't died.

"Huh?"

"My cultivation!"

Approximate, in mid-air, suddenly expanded, his dragon body more than twice as thick as before.

"Early Stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm?"

Approximate was completely confused. How did his cultivation break through?

He had no memory of it at all.

"Eh!"

"Could it be that I, Old Dragon, am no longer pure?"

His dragon eyes looked around.

"Halt!"

"You thief, put down the Immortal Stones in your hand!"

Even with his eyes closed, Approximate knew that pit definitely came from the great sumeru treasure hoe.

The Immortal Stones the Master mined were being taken by someone else.

How could Approximate tolerate this?

As for the matter of cultivation, with Immortal Stones around, who cared about cultivation?

Approximate was just such a realistic dragon.

Bang!

A huge dragon claw flattened Miao Hua in an instant.

"Dead Dragon, it's me!"

Approximate...

"So it's the Great Great Master."

"Look at this, isn't this just a misunderstanding?"

Miao Hua was at the Heavenly Immortal Realm and was the Great Great Master.

Li Yingzhen used to be the Great Master; Approximate distinguished between them very clearly.

There was no helping it; after all, those Zhao Yi acknowledged were all "brothers."

"You bastard."

"Shrink down a bit. I called you out to help, not to cause trouble."

"Quickly, see where the good stuff is."

Zhao Yi glared at Approximate.

This Dead Dragon, practicing the Nonsense Sutra, was becoming more and more nonsensical.

"Alright!"

"Master, leave it to me."

"Dragon Eye Clairvoyance Technique!"

Two beams of purplish-red light shot out from Approximate's eyes, scanning the entire thousand-mile-long Divine Stone mineral vein.

With one look, Approximate couldn't hold back anymore.

Without caring whether Zhao Yi agreed, he grabbed him.

He bolted directly north for over a hundred miles.

"It's right here."

"Master, hurry and dig."

Zhao Yi was thrust head-first by Approximate.

He almost turned into pulp on the spot.

"Damn it, Dead Dragon—"

"You have no respect for your superiors,"

"come here and die!"

Zhao Yi raised the great sumeru treasure hoe, about to strike.

"Ouch!"

"Master~"

"Don't waste time."

"If you miss this chance, you won't get another."

"Hurry up and dig~"

Approximate was so anxious that he started scratching the rocks with his dragon claws.

However, he was helpless against the mountain rocks.

The sound of dragon claws scraping against the rocks gave Zhao Yi goosebumps.

Approximate's urgent manner made Zhao Yi suspicious.

Could there really be something good down there?

"I'll let you off this time. If I don't dig up anything good, we'll settle all our scores together."

Zhao Yi swung the hoe that was originally aimed at Approximate, turning the blade downward.

Boom!

A huge tremor came, and Zhao Yi's heart vibrated along with it.

As an experienced veteran Miner, this piece of ground was truly different from the one just now.

"Come out for me!"

Zhao Yi bared his teeth and pulled out the mountain rock from under the hoe.

Hearing the System notification in his ear, Zhao Yi was stunned.