96: Found an SSS-grade crystal mine

"Holy crap, teleportation?!"

Su Yan was still a bit dazed when he arrived at the entrance of the Nightmare Space via teleportation, muttering to himself in surprise.

Just now,

he had simply had a thought,

and used the Sky Riding Technique according to the map coordinates provided on the forum.

Then, he felt a sudden shift in the stars.

The next second, he was already here.

"Impressive, my demigod self!"

Joy appeared on his face,

and Su Yan could only say.

The Sky Riding Technique under the demigod buff was simply mind-blowing.

Couldn't he just go wherever he wanted now?

After being excited for a while, Su Yan looked up at the Nightmare Space in front of him.

Nightmare Space,

was actually the name used in textbooks.

As for its specific name, the Divine Punishment System didn't give any hints.

Because it was shrouded in thick fog all year round, players couldn't enter, and it only appeared on maps above Rank 1000.

So for two hundred years, the Nightmare Space had been considered a wasteland in the perception of the Human Race.

No one had ever entered, and no one knew what was hidden inside.

"It wasn't easy for me to break through all those barriers to get here; now I can finally go inside and explore."

Standing before the pitch-black cave entrance, Su Yan gave a bittersweet smile.

—It really wasn't easy!

Thinking about how he had been constantly switching maps with sparks and lightning,

a large part of the reason was precisely for this Nightmare Space!

Su Yan didn't hesitate.

He stepped forward and walked into the pitch-black cave entrance.

"Unknown area, unable to enter!"

As expected,

as soon as he approached the entrance, Su Yan was bounced back.

"You little... you won't let me in through the front door when I'm polite, so you're forcing me to take the side door, huh?"

Su Yan grinned.

He was about to use the skill [Purification],

intending to directly overturn this Nightmare Space.

But he quickly gave up after thinking of something.

The reason was simple!

Once he released the Purification skill,

this Nightmare Space would be purified into an explorable area.

In that case.

Who knows if this purified area would be an open map or a dungeon-style one.

If it was an open map,

then all players above Rank 1000 would swarm into this map to explore.

Then what would Su Yan get?

A Tu-160?

"As a provider of benefits, I naturally have to be the first one to try it!"

With that thought in mind,

Su Yan decisively took out the token given by the Goddess of Dawn from his Void Realm package safe.

—The ring of dawn!

As a genuine divine artifact,

the ring of dawn also happened to have the effect of dispersing mist.

Didn't expect that, did you?

A mere Nightmare Space, I, Su Yan, have ten thousand ways to deal with you!

He put the ring of dawn on his index finger.

Su Yan's expression became focused.

He stepped toward the entrance of the Nightmare Space again.

Whoosh!

This time,

there was no resistance.

Su Yan passed directly through the black light of the cave entrance, his figure disappearing from the spot... The next moment.

Su Yan entered a place filled with mist.

It was so dark he couldn't see his hand in front of his face, and he couldn't see anything around him.

Buzz!

The ring of dawn on his index finger suddenly emitted a milky-white light.

The light continuously flowed out from the embedded gemstone,

wrapping Su Yan's entire body in an instant.

And the mist that filled the world,

quickly fled from his side after the ring's light appeared.

Not daring to come close at all.

"Eh, is there something under my feet?"

As the mist receded about half a zhang, Su Yan could finally see the ground.

He found his right foot stepping on a hard stone.

The stone was deep blue and emitted a sparkling glow; it clearly wasn't an ordinary stone.

Su Yan's eyes widened, unsure as he said:

"Holy crap, could it be a crystal stone?"

crystal stones,

are an important resource on Blue Star.

They are used very widely among the Human Race.

The most common uses are for crafting weapons and equipment, building and repairing the nation-protecting barrier,

and as a secondary energy source for Teleportation Arrays.

So one can imagine how important crystal stones are to the current Human Race.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them the most relied-upon resource.

However, here's the problem!

There is no production of crystal stones within the Human Race's territory!

They are only found in the Nine Netherworld!

This makes the price of crystal stones extraordinarily expensive.

Taking the C-Rank crystal stones, which have the highest consumption rate on the market, as an example.

Each one (1kg) often costs over ten thousand gold coins.

Higher up,

such as A-Rank and S-Rank, which are extremely rare crystal stones,

ordinary people can't even buy them if they want to.

They are generally monopolized by large crystal stone mining companies.

The price once soared to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Their target groups are the Divine Strategy Legion, Demon Slaying Institute, zaibatsus, institutions, organizations, and so on.

Unless the buyer is a high-level forging Great Master.

Otherwise, they generally won't sell to individuals.

Of course, as the overlord of Blue Star, the Demon Slaying Institute.

Naturally, they have also arranged for a large number of miners to mine crystal stones in the Nine Netherworld.

But because the miners' strength is low, they can only mine crystal stones below B-Rank.

At this moment.

With a bit of expectation, Su Yan picked up the stone at his feet.

But once he picked it up, he realized something was very wrong!

This damn thing isn't just a crystal stone!

It's... a crystal ore!

That's right, a crystal ore!

[What are you standing there for? The crystal ore is right under your feet, hurry up and dig!]

The reason Su Yan was so sure was precisely because the Eye of the Gods gave him a hint.

"Holy shit, awesome!"

This made him overjoyed, and he quickly took out his asura sword to start digging.

Although this was the Land of Divine Punishment and he didn't have to dig bit by bit like in reality.

Su Yan still put in a tremendous effort,

taking over an hour to finally dig out the hill-like crystal ore from the ground.

"Congratulations, you have obtained SSS-Rank Small crystal ore (500 tons) *1!"

After putting the crystal ore into his Void Realm package.

Seeing the System prompt, Su Yan was stunned.

SSS-Rank!

500 tons!

As far as Su Yan knew, crystal ores all had quality Ranks.

From low to high, they were also F to SSS-Rank.

And the SSS-Rank crystal ore he just obtained.

Meant that after the crystal stones were mined.

The minimum Rank of the crystal stones would be S-Rank!

And the price of a single S-Rank crystal stone had already reached hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Then 500 tons would be 50 trillion!

"Hiss!"

Su Yan immediately gasped,

a deep look of joy appearing in his eyes.

This is definitely a sign that his gold coins are about to catch up to his damage!

Think about it, even if there was some loss during the mining process.

It wouldn't be much different.

Not to mention.

From these 500 tons of SSS-Rank crystal ore, SS-Rank or even SSS-Rank crystal stones could be mined!

This value was completely immeasurable.

"I'm definitely going to strike it rich this time!"

Su Yan quickly transferred the crystal ore from his package to the safe.

Here, he had to praise the benefits of the Void Realm package.

Endless space, it could even fit the whole Blue Star!

If it were any other player,

even if they were lucky enough to encounter this crystal ore, they wouldn't have enough package space to carry it out.

Right now,

after organizing the crystal ore, Su Yan felt very reassured.

"I'm afraid those big shots of the Human Race would never imagine that crystal stones are actually produced in the Land of Divine Punishment as well."

Thinking this,

Su Yan couldn't help but look forward to this Nightmare Space immensely.

Just after entering, he picked up a 500-ton SSS-Rank crystal ore.

These two hundred years of being sealed away really weren't in vain.

Looking at the surrounding mist, Su Yan was full of energy and shouted loudly:

"Heavenly Eye, open! Mist, disperse!"

After this shout.

The Talent Eye of the Gods acknowledged.

It immediately acted upon Su Yan's eyes.

In an instant.

Su Yan's eyes emitted two beams of shifting golden light,

everywhere the beams hit, the mist completely vanished.

Suddenly, he could see the entire Nightmare Space clearly!