48: Chapter 48 Pills!

[You mined a High-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points +100.]

"Oh my god."

Zhao Mo pulled the fist-sized Spirit Stone out from the mountain rocks and laughed loudly, "Haha~"

"I finally mined another High-Grade Spirit Stone."

He laughed until he started to cry.

What kind of life was he living?

He relied entirely on Spirit Stones to sustain his life; his life was even more bitter than the legendary ascetic Cultivators.

"Zhou Yan..."

"Bai Miyao..."

"I hope you two never fall into my hands."

His hatred for the two women was bone-deep, often causing a piercing pain in his heart.

"System,"

[Miner: Zhao Yi]

[Cultivation: Late Golden Core stage (Insufficient experience points, cannot level up)]

[experience points: 304/400]

[Rewards: None]

"One more High-Grade Spirit Stone and I'll go up there and beat those bastards to death."

As for whether he could survive the Nascent Soul Tribulation, Zhao Yi didn't want to think about it, nor was he willing to. If things were truly impossible, at worst, he would just take Ye Qingyang and the Bai Family down with him.

In any case, he never wanted to be a rat in a mine tunnel ever again.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!~

With his Late Golden Core stage cultivation, Zhao Yi's mining rhythm became even faster.

Outside the mine tunnel.

Ye Qingyang's face was grim; he hadn't expected that the mine tunnel he had sealed would actually cause him trouble.

"How long will it take to dig through?"

"True Person, we have no idea how much this tunnel has collapsed. It's impossible to estimate!"

Ye Qingyang...

If it were before, anyone who dared to speak to him like that would have been slapped to death immediately.

But it wouldn't work now. Nearly a hundred thousand Cultivators had been sacrificed by him; these were all newcomers, and he absolutely couldn't scare them away.

"Come here!"

Ye Qingyang reached out and grabbed. Bai Yunping, who was shirtless and clutching his pants, was sucked over by him.

"As a Golden Core True Person, instead of working hard on your cultivation, you spend all day thinking about that bit of business in your crotch. No wonder your cultivation hasn't progressed an inch in all these years."

Bai Yunping...

He was almost scared into impotence.

"Hurry up and find people to dig out this mine tunnel for me."

"It must be dug through within three days."

"Otherwise..."

For some reason, Ye Qingyang felt increasingly irritable, as if some great disaster was about to strike.

This made him exceptionally violent, and everything he looked at was an eyesore.

After giving Bai Yunping his orders, he returned to the station at the Lesser Strange Spirit Stone Mine.

"Strange?"

"Could something have gone wrong at the Immortal Dynasty?"

"Is the Zhou Family causing trouble?"

A sudden premonition of disaster was definitely not without reason; something bad must have happened.

"No, I need to ask the Main Family."

Unlike Ye Qingyang, who was anxiously asking around for news,

Zhao Yi was staring blankly at the rocks in front of him.

Since mining that High-Grade Spirit Stone, this entire branch tunnel had been emptied. Forget a High-Grade Spirit Stone, he hadn't even found a single Low-Grade Spirit Stone.

"This is truly strange."

"Is this the last branch tunnel?"

"How odd."

"Why is there a chilly feeling?"

"Holy crap!"

Zhao Yi rubbed his eyes. What was he seeing?

The entire mine wall was like jade, and inside were dark shadows with wolf heads and monkey bodies.

"Lesser Strange Demons."

Zhao Yi felt his mouth go dry.

This might be the actual nest of the Lesser Strange Demons.

In the gaps between those Lesser Strange Demons, countless Spirit Stones were interspersed.

Although most of the Spirit Stones here were Low-Grade Spirit Stones, there were also quite a few Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Until Zhao Yi saw a fist-sized Spirit Stone, and he couldn't move his feet.

"A High-Grade Spirit Stone!?"

"If I mine it, I can Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage..."

Zhao Yi held his breath and slowly approached,

Estimating the distance.

"I only need to dig about thirty centimeters."

It was just that the two dark shadows next to that High-Grade Spirit Stone were particularly large; they clearly weren't ordinary Lesser Strange Demons.

"To dig or not to dig?"

Zhao Yi only hesitated for a moment before immediately becoming determined.

"I'm not afraid of any damn ghosts!"

"Screw it!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Zhao Yi swung his hoe, his speed reaching the extreme.

[You mined a High-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points +100.]

He quickly picked up the High-Grade Spirit Stone with sharp eyes and agile hands,

"The Great Void is silent, formless and traceless. The heart is like still water, the body transforms into the netherworld. Heaven and earth reverse, hidden in invisibility. The world does not perceive, all sounds are hushed."

"Immovable Void!"

"Damn it."

"Using a Spell almost cost me my life."

What Zhao Yi had startled was indeed the nest of the Lesser Strange Demons.

Countless Lesser Strange Demons swarmed out, endless and inexhaustible.

Among them were many Lesser Strange Demons with Golden Core cultivation.

To maintain the Immovable Void Technique, Zhao Yi couldn't move at all, not even to blink. Fortunately, he was already a Golden Core Cultivator and could control his eyes.

Watching the Lesser Strange Demons constantly passing through his body, Zhao Yi originally thought that no matter how many there were, there would eventually be an end.

Who would have known that the mine wall seemed to contain infinite Lesser Strange Demons, flowing incessantly toward the main tunnel.

"Is this never-ending?"

With nothing else to do, Zhao Yi called up the System.

[Miner: Zhao Yi]

[Cultivation: Late Golden Core stage (Can level up)]

[experience points: 404/400]

[Rewards: None]

The experience points to Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage were finally enough.

At the same time, he took stock of his gains since being forced into the mine,

Three High-Grade Spirit Stones, one gold flame stone, one hundred and ninety Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. As for Low-Grade Spirit Stones, Zhao Yi hadn't counted them, but he expected there were several hundred.

"I'm finally rich again."

Zhao Yi looked at the pink Storage Pouch at his waist and couldn't help but touch it,

With that touch, the Immovable Void Technique immediately failed.

The originally flowing stream of Lesser Strange Demons was cut off by Zhao Yi, and countless Lesser Strange Demons crashed into him.

With his Late Golden Core stage cultivation, most of the Lesser Strange Demons were shaken to death by Zhao Yi.

But these Lesser Strange Demons seemed to not know what death was, charging forward one after another in a continuous assault that Zhao Yi couldn't withstand.

He wanted to use the Immovable Void Technique again, but with his body being constantly bombarded by the Lesser Strange Demons, Zhao Yi couldn't find a moment to be 'immovable.'

"Die, die, die!"

Zhao Yi brandished the great sumeru treasure hoe, fighting while retreating.

Any Lesser Strange Demon hit by the hoe was either killed or injured, but he couldn't hold up against their sheer numbers.

The space in front of Zhao Yi was quickly filled with the corpses of Lesser Strange Demons.

"No, if this continues, I'll be worn to death by these beasts."

"Damn it."

"I'm going for it."

"System, level up cultivation."

The four hundred experience points rapidly decreased.

A massive amount of Spiritual Qi appeared in Zhao Yi's Dantian, constantly compressing his Golden Core.

Zhao Yi multi-tasked, killing Lesser Strange Demons while monitoring the situation in his Dantian.

He saw the Golden Core that originally occupied his Dantian being compressed by the infinite Spiritual Qi, getting smaller bit by bit.

Zhao Yi even had the heart to complain,

"Is this a damn cotton candy Golden Core?"

But soon, Zhao Yi couldn't laugh anymore.

Outside, more and more Lesser Strange Demons appeared, and the great sumeru treasure hoe was running out of space to swing.

Inside, the Golden Core was being compressed smaller and smaller, until it was only the size of a needle's eye.

Zhao Yi was dumbfounded,

"System, this isn't right. I'm supposed to shatter the core to form the nascent soul. Why are you compressing my Golden Core?"

"It's almost compressed into nothing."

"How does the Azure Spirit Scripture say to Breakthrough to Nascent Soul?"

"Oh crap, the Nascent Soul Stage is too high-level, I haven't learned it yet."

At this moment, Zhao Yi completely panicked.

"I'm finished!"