294: Found a treasure

Zhu Nan snorted, "Alright, let's just keep this secret to ourselves. Always remember that we are a unit that has disappeared from the eyes of the world. All information must be contained within our ranks. Unless the Young Lord and Your Highness give permission, we cannot reappear before the world! Do you understand?!"

"Understood!"

"Now, back to work. The pay is doubled!!!"

"Yes!!!"

The Personal Guard quickly threw themselves into their new excavation task...

Three days later...

Long Yuan finished clearing away all the garbage and waste. He stood alone on a large rock, gazing at the surging underground river in the distance and the countless Spirit Stone deposits, momentarily lost in thought!

He had never expected that beneath the sinkhole, a massive Spiritual Vein had already formed. It was of a very high level, a rare First-Rank Spiritual Vein!

The one he obtained last time at the bottom of the West Lake in Fengyang was a Heaven Rank Spiritual Vein, which was naturally much more Advanced than this First-Rank Spiritual Vein. However, a First-Rank Spiritual Vein was equally precious. One could even say that on this Blue Star, a First-Rank Spiritual Vein was likely the limit of what could currently be formed. After all, the Spiritual Qi tide had only erupted a few hundred years ago. It was absolutely impossible to form Heaven Rank, Saint Rank, or even God Rank Spiritual Veins; such top-tier Spiritual Veins basically required a vast amount of time to potentially form.

Long Yuan had examined it with his Divine Sense. This First-Rank Spiritual Vein before him had utilized a unique geographical advantage to absorb Spiritual Qi from a vast surrounding area, which allowed such an Advanced Spiritual Vein to form at the bottom of the sinkhole!

It could be said that the Spiritual Qi of the entire Southern Yue city and parts of the wilderness had gathered here. This was a creation of nature's uncanny workmanship. If one wanted to artificially create such a treasure, it would be basically impossible with the current capabilities of the Human Race.

Long Yuan hadn't expected to strike gold by accident. With this First-Rank Spiritual Vein as a foundation, it would be impossible for his military-industrial base not to flourish!

He had found quite a few Top-Grade Spirit Stones alone, and even the underground river was filled with Spirit Stones. Many of the fish within had already transformed into spiritual fish, each one full of spirituality!

Because this place was hidden deep at the bottom of the sinkhole, it formed a world of its own. Even without the massive amount of garbage pressing down, the Spiritual Qi here would not dissipate, so the outside world could not detect it at all. If he hadn't come down after clearing away the garbage and waste, he definitely wouldn't have discovered it.

"It seems that when luck comes, no one can stop it! From now on, this will be my military-industrial base!" Long Yuan declared heroically.

To ensure safety, he carefully examined the surroundings. He discovered that these spiritual fish were relatively low-level fish and posed no major threat. The flow of the underground river was not large, and after flowing out, it would slowly drain into a huge lake on the periphery. Generally, the exotic beasts in the lake would not enter the underground river in reverse, so it would be very safe with just a little bit of protection.

The entire sinkhole floor area had a radius of about three hundred li, and it narrowed as it went up. The internal space was vast, making it a natural ring-shaped base!

The Spiritual Vein was right beneath the entire base. As long as he set up a Spirit Gathering Formation, he could build very Advanced cultivation rooms; it was definitely a Holy Land for cultivation!

This was also necessary, because although those in the Personal Guard were all ordinary Xuan Practitioners whose Physiques could not adapt to the high pressure of Spiritual Qi, they would be able to adapt slowly after being implanted with Yu Mu Chips and gradually transform. Cultivating in such a Spiritual Qi environment in the future would be extremely beneficial for their transformation into Soul Warriors.

Therefore, he could fully utilize Formations to gather Spiritual Qi, serving both his own cultivation needs and creating Spiritual Qi cultivation rooms and environments for the Personal Guard, making it a place for the Personal Guard to Cultivate, work, and live. In this way, the military-industrial base would soon be able to operate.

Thinking, he acted. After Long Yuan made a plan for this base, he set up a Spirit Gathering Formation at the main vein of the Spiritual Vein, cordoned off an area for his own use, and built a massive farm. He simply planned out the other areas and waited for Zhu Huan and the others to come and build them.

After finishing all this, he quickly returned to the top of the cliff, found Zhu Huan, and brought him all the way down from the cliff top to the bottom...

Along the way down, Zhu Huan was completely bewildered!

He felt that the world today was a bit unreal. Where had that massive amount of garbage gone?

Could the bottom of the sinkhole actually be such a magical world?

What an earth-shattering thing had the Young Lord done?!

It took him a long time to accept reality. Now, his heart was filled with wild joy. So, the base the Young Lord spoke of wasn't something dug out by his own Personal Guard, but was at the bottom of this sinkhole!

He had misunderstood too deeply before. He thought Prince Fus Mansion wanted to build an underground base, and everything had to be dug out by the ten thousand men under his command. He hadn't expected that the Young Lord was playing a big game, directly choosing to make the garbage in the sinkhole disappear and building a large-scale base at the bottom!

This level of courage was unprecedented, simply earth-shattering and heaven-shaking, but I like it!

Zhu Huan came back to his senses and asked with some confusion, "Young Lord, do we still need to continue digging the underground passage?"

"Yes! I will use an illusion Formation at the top of the cliff to make it look similar to its original appearance. Material transport and personnel movement will still need to be conducted through the passage; this is the only way to better conceal our actions and keep them unknown to outsiders. Only when our strength has increased can we enter and exit directly from the cliff top," Long Yuan said.

"I see! Then we shall continue digging according to the mountain's terrain!" Zhu Huan nodded.

"Actually, there is an even more convenient method. Look, this cliff gradually narrows as it goes up. This means that if you dig vertically downwards for a certain distance, a lower opening will appear. By the time we reach here, we will have avoided the prying eyes of the outside world and can act freely. So, we only need to build a space port at this opening to receive supplies and personnel. This is not only more convenient, but the transport capacity can also be increased exponentially!" Long Yuan suggested.

Zhu Huan's eyes lit up, and he nodded, "That makes sense! This way, we will reduce a lot of the workload, and we can also dig the upper passage to be even wider to ensure sufficient transport capacity!"

"Exactly!"

Long Yuan then introduced his planning and construction details for the base to Zhu Huan. The two quickly reached an agreement and arranged the project schedule in detail.

The most important step was to implant Yu Mu Chips into these ten thousand Personal Guards, allowing them to quickly mature in the short term. However, Long Yuan did not reveal this in advance because making so many chips would take quite a bit of time. Furthermore, there would be another one hundred thousand teenage Personal Guards later. This task volume was immense, and Long Yuan could only give it his all, striving to complete it as soon as possible!

Additionally, he thought of another matter: Duan Hu, who was currently researching Artifact Refining at the West Lake in Fengyang, should also be transferred here early to keep up with the development progress here.

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