616: The secret of the Chaotic Soul Stone, the Pure Glass Pagoda!

"Demonic Thought, just wait for now. After I finish what I need to do, I'll go settle the score with those guys!"

Upon hearing this, Demonic Thought conveyed a sense of excitement:

"Master, are you going to make a move?! Behind these people is the Cycle Reincarnation Holy Domain! Does Master have the confidence to capture them all in one fell swoop?!"

"No."

"Uh..."

... "Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The monotonous sound of hammering echoed in the enclosed space, making people's eardrums ache.

Lu Hao scanned the area and found that the condition of these mining Cultivators was very poor.

Some had pale faces, large beads of sweat dripping from their foreheads, and their arms trembled violently, yet they were still gritting their teeth and persisting.

Others simply slumped on the ground, gasping for breath, their eyes filled with despair.

There were also a few people gathered together, quietly arguing about something.

"... I was just a little short of digging it out yesterday. Give me another half day, and I can definitely... definitely dig it out..."

"Then why aren't you hurrying up and working? At least you still have hope of surviving."

"Sigh... Even if I'm lucky enough to survive tomorrow, what am I supposed to do after that... The concentration of filth is so high, and if I can't get enough pure filth pills, my body will only get worse and worse, and I'll be less and less able to complete the task..."

As soon as these words were spoken, several people sighed deeply and fell silent, lost in thought.

On the other side, a Cultivator who looked relatively well maintained, watched the emaciated man in front of him with an indifferent expression.

"You haven't completed your task for two days and have been whipped twice! If you can't dig anything out today... for this third time... your life will be forfeit..."

When the emaciated man heard this, his body immediately began to tremble slightly in fear, and he stammered to the people beside him:

"Please, I beg you, lend me one chaotic soul stone, just one... I promise I'll return it tomorrow..."

The people nearby showed expressions of disdain and said fiercely:

"Get lost! Who has extra to give you? Figure it out yourself! If you die, don't blame anyone else!"

The pleading Cultivator was pushed away, stumbled, and fell to the ground, letting out a bitter laugh.

Lu Hao watched him slowly get up, pick up the pickaxe beside him, and walk toward the deeper part of the tunnel.

If there were no accidents, given his current state, he would not be able to successfully excavate a chaotic soul stone before the end of the day.

This meant that his life had already reached its end.

But in a place like this, no one would pity him; everyone was desperately trying to survive.

Lu Hao retracted his gaze, found a corner, and symbolically swung his pickaxe, lightly striking the rock wall twice.

"Clang! Clang!"

Sparks flew everywhere, leaving two deep white marks on the rock wall.

Following Lu Hao's two strikes, two chaotic soul stones quickly loosened from the wall. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Lu Hao carefully pried out the two chaotic soul stones without letting anyone notice.

However, while digging, he could clearly feel the hardness of the stones in the Chaotic Soul Mountain. It was no wonder that most Cultivators found it extremely difficult to complete the daily task of excavating even one stone.

Lu Hao estimated that perhaps only those who reached the Yuán Xū Realm could relatively easily complete the daily task of one stone, and maybe, by gritting their teeth, collect two stones per day. As for three stones, that was unlikely.

As for the Undergoing Tribulation Realm, one stone per day already required exhausting all their strength.

As for those in lower Realms, it was basically impossible for them to gather enough resources to take the large-scale teleportation formation.

Afterward, Lu Hao focused his attention on the chaotic soul stone in his hand. This was the first time he had seen such a thing, and naturally, he found it quite novel.

The chaotic soul stone was pitch black, felt slightly cold to the touch, and its texture was indeed extremely hard. Inside, it seemed to contain a slowly circulating Chaos nebula.

Lu Hao exerted a slight force, and cracks quickly began to appear on the chaotic soul stone, looking as if it would shatter in the next instant.

"Hmm, not bad. It's roughly equivalent to the Physical Body strength of a Supreme Expert. I wonder if this thing has any effect on the Divine Soul."

Subsequently, Lu Hao extended his Divine Thought into it and slightly activated his cultivation. In just an instant, an extremely pure Divine Soul energy surged forth, invigorating his spirit.

Huh?! Good stuff!

This Divine Soul energy was quickly about to rush into Lu Hao's Divine Soul, but Lu Hao remembered what the System had said earlier: do not casually absorb any energy in this world.

Therefore, Lu Hao blocked this energy outside his Divine Soul and began to study it carefully.

Initially, Lu Hao did not find anything amiss; the Divine Soul energy seemed perfectly pure. But as time passed, Lu Hao finally noticed something strange!

"What is this?!"

He frowned slightly.

Within his Divine Sense, deep inside this pure energy, was hidden a trace of extremely dark, viscous matter, clinging firmly to the energy core like maggots attached to bone.

"Is this... filth?"

Lu Hao muttered in his mind... That thing looked like filth, but not quite.

How could filth have taken Lu Hao so long to detect?

This bizarre energy seemed a hundred times more troublesome than the filth he had encountered before.

It was like... concentrated filth?

Lu Hao was somewhat surprised.

If that were the case, if an ordinary Cultivator directly absorbed this chaotic soul stone, their Divine Soul energy would certainly increase, but this trace of dark matter would also invade the depths of their soul. Over time, they would likely go insane and eventually turn into killing machines, mere walking corpses.

No wonder this thing was called a chaotic soul stone.

The "Chaos" lay right here.

Lu Hao expelled this pure Divine Soul energy from his Divine Soul. Looking at the energy, Lu Hao did not want to give up on it.

Perhaps others had no way to deal with this concentrated filth, but for him, it was nothing.

Lu Hao's mind stirred, and a nine-story pagoda, shimmering with radiance and inscribed with countless purification Divine Runes, appeared in his palm.

An emperor-grade magical treasure, the world purifying glazed pagoda!

It purified all evil in the world! It was the nemesis of all wicked things under heaven!

He casually tossed the remaining chaotic soul stone inside.

"Buzz..."

The moment the chaotic soul stone entered, the pagoda trembled slightly, and ten thousand beams of golden light instantly erupted from within, releasing an extremely majestic and righteous aura!

This aura was like the scorching sun melting ice and snow. The trace of dark matter let out a silent wail in the golden light, yet despite this, the concentrated filth was still struggling to persist and was not being rapidly refined.

This sight caught Lu Hao's attention. One must know that the world purifying glazed pagoda was an emperor-grade magical treasure, yet it couldn't quickly purify this concentrated filth?

What exactly was the origin of this thing?