691: The cunning little flame! It has mistaken the person for someone else!

"I didn't expect that while the outside is full of demonic energy, the inside is illuminated by golden light and burning with the fire of the sun!"

Su Lie walked to the depths of the mine, which was already in a sea of molten lava.

In the center of the sea of fire, a pile of sun god crystal crystals, burning with the fire of the sun, was accumulated.

Upon arriving here,

Su Lie realized that the gestation of sun god crystal was not like other mineral resources, which grow continuously into massive minerals by the core of a god-grade ore vein converting other resources.

The sun god crystal is a mineral resource that grows by itself, using the lava core fire as fertilizer, the sun god crystal as a tree, and gathering immeasurable fire elements as nourishment.

Its biggest difference from other mineral resources is that

once the sun god crystal becomes a "tree," it gains a spirit.

This spirit possesses Wisdom, can communicate and interact, and, like life, can manipulate the sun god crystal tree to devour and refine surrounding fire element resources, growing transparent sun god crystal after sun god crystal.

These newly formed sun god crystal do not need to be mined with a pickaxe; they can simply be carried away.

This rendered the pickaxe's enhancement effect useless.

It also rendered many miners' enhancement Skills and Talents useless.

"So, you've come to turn the tide and help my Golden Crow City escape its predicament?"

The sun god crystal tree spirit stood on a pile of sun god crystal, hands on hips, asking haughtily.

Its tone was full of disdain.

Although it genuinely looked down on weak humans like Su Lie,

since Su Lie had reached this point, it signified that he had passed the trial of the checkpoint, naturally making him a disciple of Golden Crow City.

And these secrets of its were basic, so there was no harm in telling its own disciples.

Su Lie looked at the tree spirit, which resembled a Little Flame: "Yes and no! The world is changing now, with the mist rule governing all heavens! I came here because of a mission! And you are my spoils of war!"

"Hmph! So you came to gain benefits from your grandpa!"

The Little Flame jumped up, its benevolent eyes now filled with killing intent, and it pointed at Su Lie, saying, "Kid! Although you are immune to the damage of the sun god fire, don't expect to get a single benefit from your grandpa!"

"If you don't believe me, you can try!"

"Since Golden Crow City fell into misfortune, whether it was demon gods or evil gods, or lives that came to take advantage along the way, no one who entered here has ever gained any benefits from your grandpa!"

"Nor has anyone ever taken a single piece of sun god crystal!"

"You should go somewhere else and pick up some trash!"

"The resources here at grandpa's are only for the disciples of my Golden Crow City!"

It proudly held its head high, its tone full of disdain.

It had encountered countless lives over the years.

Any existence that dared to forcibly seize resources from it had never gained any benefit.

This was why it had developed such arrogance.

Su Lie became even more interested in this little fellow after hearing this, and he said with a smile, "Then how about I give it a try?"

"Come on! Come on! If you can take away a piece of sun god crystal, I'll call you grandpa! Following you won't be a problem either!"

The Little Flame said generously.

Su Lie's heart sank upon hearing this: "Does this sun god crystal mine have other powers?"

Thinking,

he stepped forward, and when he grabbed a piece of sun god crystal to pick it up,

he was astonished to find that although he had clearly grasped the sun god crystal, it magically vanished from his hand when he tried to lift it.

"Glorious Sealing!"

Su Lie immediately used the Glorious Sealing Skill.

When the Skill's power acted upon the sun god crystal, it didn't even cause the slightest change.

The Little Flame sat cross-legged on the pile of sun god crystal, its eyes full of mockery. It didn't speak, but boredly grabbed two balls of flame and stuffed them into its mouth to eat: "I advise you not to waste your energy!"

Su Lie smiled, and he used the I Am the Exception Talent.

Even so,

he still couldn't take the sun god crystal.

After a series of attempts,

Su Lie's eyes darted: "Let's try that..."

He had two final methods; if they didn't work, he could only leave.

As he spoke,

Su Lie placed his hand on the sun god crystal, his spirit locking onto the Little Flame and the entire sun god crystal mine.

"Enhance!"

He used the Enhancement Talent.

Buzz!

In a blink of an eye, a golden light flashed across the entire sun god crystal mine.

The large amount of turbid energy that had eroded the divine crystals instantly vanished into thin air.

The Little Flame's color became more translucent and pure.

It suddenly stood up, looked at Su Lie in surprise, and asked, "What power did you use? How could it affect me? How is this possible?"

Immediately after,

it laughed again: "Haha! I've become even purer now! I've returned to my original state. Since you're not a disciple of Golden Crow City, and you don't have a mining permit, you can't even dream of taking a single shred of resources now!"

"Is that so?"

Su Lie smiled faintly.

He said to the Little Flame, "Let me see your panel!"

Because the sun god crystal mine had a spirit, he hadn't been able to see its panel earlier.

Now, after his Enhancement,

he had gained the qualification to view the panel.

The Little Flame said without hesitation, "Alright!"

As it spoke,

it had already displayed its panel to Su Lie.

[Sun God Crystal Mine Tree]

[Quality: Red God-level Quality concept-grade resource

[Category: Mineral Resource]

[Mine Spirit: Sun True Fire]

[Owner: Master]

[Current Output: 100,000 units per day]

[sun god crystal: Divine crystal containing sun god fire, usable as energy supply material, array energy, and treasure refining material, with wide-ranging uses.]

[Rule Mine Spirit: The mine spirit is immortal and immune to all damage.

Rule sun god fire: The energy element in the sun god crystal is sun god fire. This divine fire must be refined from a large quantity of sun god crystal and cannot be obtained by breaking the divine crystal.

Rule Self-Growth: The Sun True Fire can grow by itself by devouring sun god crystal, fire elements in the void, and fire elements in the current environment as food. It can also absorb various resources and slowly convert them into suitable resources to increase its own output.

Rule Loyalty: The Sun True Fire will be permanently loyal to Su Lie.]

[Dao Integration Sole Control: The Sun True Fire has sole control over the sun god crystal. No power, no rule, no item can extract any sun god crystal without the permission of the Sun True Fire.]

[Note: This resource is a Dao Integration Level mineral resource.

Note: You were able to make the sun god crystal mine recognize you as its owner because your Enhancement Talent improved the quality of the sun god crystal mine, clearing away the power of evil spirits that had long eroded the sun god crystal internally.

Note: If the sun god crystal mine were in a perfect and flawless state, you would not have been able to Enhance it successfully.

Note: If you do not Enhance the sun god crystal mine, it will transform into Taiyin Demon Crystal in one billion years due to the erosion of evil demonic power.]

Su Lie looked at the sun god crystal mine's panel, and a fiery glow burst forth in his eyes: "Haha! So I was able to Enhance it successfully thanks to the erosion of the demonic power! If not for that, I really might not have been able to make it suffer such a huge loss!"

"Also! Is the yin-attribute mineral resource corresponding to the sun god crystal the Taiyin Demon Crystal? I wonder what use this resource has!"

Su Lie's mind was filled with countless thoughts.

The next second,

the Little Flame was stunned on the spot.

It was horrified to discover that it, which had originally been loyal to Golden Crow City,

had actually become Su Lie's exclusive resource after Su Lie used some kind of energy to purify it.

This made it difficult for it to accept for a moment.

The Little Flame was like it had swallowed a fly, completely frozen on the spot.

"No! No! No! This isn't what I meant! This isn't my intention!"

The Little Flame directly rolled onto the sun god crystal, wailing like a child throwing a tantrum.

Su Lie looked at the Little Flame with interest and asked, "How about it? Who's grandpa now?"

Whoosh!

The Little Flame stood up, looking at Su Lie angrily and shouting, "You're a cheat! If you have the guts, release me, and let's start over! If I don't keep my word, I'm your grandson!"

"You know that's impossible!"

Su Lie shrugged.

He had already obtained the sun god crystal mine, so how could he let it escape from his grasp?

Moreover,

he only had one chance to Enhance.

The next time it wouldn't work.

The Little Flame's momentum softened, and it directly knelt on the ground: "Grandpa! Take me with you! I've understood! Rather than being trapped here eating coarse food, it's better to follow Grandpa and enjoy delicious food and drinks!"

"To be honest!"

"Your grandson has been tired of this broken place for a long time!"

"It's good to leave now!"

"Lest I be transformed into other trash!"

"Grandpa!"

"Please take me out of here!"

"Your grandson is kowtowing to you!"

Its appearance was very much like a wily old man, as it directly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Su Lie was somewhat speechless.

He had originally thought this fellow had a childlike personality.

He didn't expect to be deceived.

How could this be a child?

It was clearly an old fox who had lived for countless years.

Su Lie then instructed the Little Flame: "Since that's the case, reveal your true form, and I will refine you into a resource and take you out of here!"

"As Grandpa commands!"

The Little Flame zipped into the sun god crystal.

Rumble!

In an instant, a sun god crystal tree actually grew out of the pile of sun god crystal by itself.

Those sun god crystal, which had been placed and stacked together, suddenly flew to the branches of the divine crystal tree, transforming into transparent flame fruits.

Su Lie marveled at this.

Once the sun god crystal tree was ready,

Su Lie then used the Permanent Treasure Refining Skill, found the Resource Refining Blueprint in the blueprints, and, according to his needs, placed a god-grade glass bottle into it.

He also simultaneously locked onto the sun god crystal tree.

Buzz!

A flash of light was seen in the illusory Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace.

In an instant,

the sun god crystal tree was absorbed into the treasure furnace.

Su Lie secretly breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this; he had thought it would prompt a requirement to input massive amounts of monster crystal and life: "Now it seems that only Grade 9 resources like Sun Spring have such requirements!"

"However!"

"This sun god crystal mine has a Dao Integration Rule!"

"Could it be that having only one Dao Integration Rule doesn't make it a Grade 9 resource?"

He pondered some questions.

Time passed bit by bit.

Five minutes later.

Buzz!

When a vein sphere flew out of the treasure furnace, Su Lie finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Good! Good! Good! Future resources can be refined according to this formula!"

At this moment,

a Little Flame emerged from the vein sphere, looking at Su Lie with a grin and asking, "Grandpa! Is your family poor? Can you afford to raise your grandson? I have a huge appetite! I can eat 1 million fire element crystals in one go!"

"Oh right! Oh right!"

"fire element crystal is not fire elemental stone; these are two different resources! fire element crystal is a crystal containing fire elements, while fire elemental stone is a fire-attribute elemental stone material used for refining glass and glass products!"

"I don't eat glass; I eat fire elements and all flames!"

Its eyes sparkled with a dazzling light, making it look quite cute.

After witnessing this fellow's sly and cunning nature, Su Lie no longer found it cute; instead, he thought this fellow was cunning and insidious: "There are plenty of resources! But if you only eat and don't contribute, I don't mind refining you into a weapon and selling you!"

"Don't! Grandpa! Your grandson isn't good at anything else, but I'm great at gestating sun god crystal! The more resources you provide, the more divine crystals your grandson will refine! I swear! I promise... I can swear on the mist rule!"

It cried out anxiously.

Su Lie was speechless upon hearing this.

From this response, it could be seen that

the mine spirit of this fire element crystal mine knew more about the information regarding the mist rule than he had guessed.

Su Lie asked some questions.

The Little Flame answered each one.

Su Lie then discovered that this unknown city was not the first time Professionals had come to carry out missions.

Some Professionals had also visited here.

"After they learned of my power, they no longer insisted, but rather, under the guise of trade, exchanged large amounts of fire and fire element resources with your grandson for a large quantity of sun god crystal!"

The Little Flame said enthusiastically.

Su Lie's mind stirred after hearing this, and he asked again, "Then do you know the sun god crystal?"

"I know! Before, someone just like you came here, and he exchanged about 3 extreme units of sun god crystal with my other brothers, and also obtained a blueprint for the construction of the sun god tower from the Inner Gate Zone!"

The Little Flame replied without thinking: "It's been about 10,912 hours since that guy came compared to your visit!"

"Damn!"

Su Lie's eyelids twitched. He thought of Xu Yang, who had sold him the sun god crystal and sun god tower, and immediately condensed an image through his spirit, showing it to the Little Flame: "Is it him?"

"No! That person looked like this..."

The Little Flame used the same method to display a person's face to Su Lie.

Su Lie sighed after seeing it; he didn't recognize this person.

From this, it was clear that

the resources in Xu Yang's hands should have come from this Survivor.

"The mist rule must have arranged for many Professionals to come here, but none of them succeeded!"

A sense of pride involuntarily rose in Su Lie's heart: "And this time, I will complete this mission!"

Subsequently,

he entered the other mines.

With the cooperation of the Little Flame,

Su Lie successively Strengthened the remaining 11 Sun God Crystal Mine Trees and refined them all into vein pearls.

After completing this plan,

Su Lie met up with Su Luo at the foot of the mountain.

Su Luo had been left at the foot of the mountain by Su Lie because she disliked the aura on the mountain.

When she saw Su Lie return, she was overjoyed: "Master! You're finally back!"

"What's the situation outside?"

Su Lie turned his head to look in the direction of the True Inheritance Zone.

Although that area was separated from this one by three Secret Realm Gates, and could not be reached by normal walking, flying, or climbing walls,

some parts of the scenery there could still be seen.

When Su Lie looked, the True Inheritance Zone was still shrouded in demonic clouds, with continuous rumbling sounds.

Su Luo glanced at the True Inheritance Zone, then looked at the Secret Realm Gate: "Master! A low hum came from inside the Secret Realm, as if calling me! But I am not the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net! I think It recognized the wrong person!..."