91: Chapter 91 An Unexpected Joy: The Stalactite Mine

Starry Sky Group Headquarters Building, Supervision Department.

After helping Fang Zhuo handle the matter with Ding Xu, Sister Lan breathed a small sigh of relief. Her throat was dry, and she was sipping water from her cup.

“Sister Lan, the manager has an urgent matter and is calling for you,” a man wearing glasses walked up and said.

“Okay.”

Sister Lan immediately put down her water cup, turned, and entered the manager's office.

“Manager, what is it?”

“Did Fang Zhuo go out today?” Manager Jiang Zhou's expression was somewhat solemn.

Fang Zhuo had excellent talent. Once he joined the department, he could be groomed as his right-hand man, but his temperament still needed to be tempered.

“Yes...” Sister Lan reported everything in detail, also introducing the grudge between the Ding Family and Fang Zhuo, and finally added:

“Are you worried that Fang Zhuo went to find Ding Nan?”

“Don't worry, Manager. He was very calm when he left, and didn't seem like someone who had let power go to his head after becoming a Transcendent. Killing Ding Xu was actually a coincidence; the guy was mentally unstable, happened to be waiting outside the building, and practically delivered himself to his doorstep.”

“No, see for yourself.”

Manager Jiang Zhou threw down a photo.

In the photo, set against the backdrop of the C09 Wilderness Area, was a young man wearing an ss-grade combat suit with a masculine profile.

“Fang Zhuo?”

Sister Lan recognized Fang Zhuo and also recognized that it was the C09 Wilderness Area. Her expression changed instantly. “He really went to find Ding Nan...”

“He's too impulsive! Manager, what do we do now?”

“Right now, there are no Transcendent Martial Artists above Level 45 free in our department. Notify Wang Jinhua; their Operations Department won't try to steal our recruit.”

Manager Jiang Zhou glanced at his combat band, sighed, and then said, “Forget it, I'll go myself.”

Fang Zhuo had a unique Martial Aspect, and breaking through to the Transcendent level after obtaining the phoenix essence blood was indeed a pleasant surprise. However, he was only a newly minted Transcendent. The gap between Life Level 40 and Level 44 was not something that could be bridged by Body Control and secret manuals.

He feared that if he delayed any longer, Fang Zhuo would die at the hands of Ding Nan.

Hearing this, Sister Lan quickly opened the cabinet to take out Manager Jiang Zhou's combat suit.

“No need,” Manager Jiang Zhou shook his head.

It was only a C-grade Wilderness Area; no Transcendent-level life, whether human or exotic beast, could pose a threat to him.

Just as Manager Jiang Zhou pushed open the window and was about to leap into the air,

Sister Lan suddenly cried out, “Fang Zhuo?”

Her tactical band had popped up a call.

“Hello? Fang Zhuo, are you alright? If there's danger, hide immediately! If not, hurry back to the group!”

“Share your coordinates first!”

Sister Lan rattled off her words like pouring beans, only to see a faint, noncommittal smile on Fang Zhuo's face.

“Sister Lan, are you finished...?”

Hearing this, Fang Zhuo knew that the Supervision Department had likely found out his whereabouts and guessed his actions. Honestly, Sister Lan was truly worthy of being the secretary to the manager of a top group's core department; she was incredibly fast-talking.

“I'm fine. Ding Nan is already dead.”

“What?”

“Ding Nan is dead?”

Sister Lan's voice pitched higher and higher as she quickly asked, “Who killed him? Did you ask Wang Jinhua for help?”

That wasn't right... Wang Jinhua was off today and was clearly still wandering around the group, trying to trick the new geniuses out of their High-Civilization Gravity Chamber usage time.

“I killed him,”

Fang Zhuo said succinctly.

“Impossible.”

Sister Lan was dumbfounded.

By the window, Manager Jiang Zhou also paused, then strode over to look at Fang Zhuo on the video call, his eyes filled with doubt.

“He was fighting with another Transcendent Martial Artist over some 'stone milk crystals' and had a bloody battle with a Transcendent Exotic Beast. He was heavily injured... with only a breath left.”

Fang Zhuo smiled.

It wasn't that he wanted to hide his Life Level, but he was just too lazy to explain. If he really said he had solo-killed Ding Nan, it would require a lot of talking.

Sister Lan would probably ask endless questions.

“Damn, you really do have some luck on your side, but you can't be so reckless in the future! No wonder Wang Jinhua's evaluation of you back then was...”

Sister Lan didn't say the word 'reckless fool' out loud. She let out a long breath and changed the subject, “So, are you calling now just to let us know you're safe?”

Manager Jiang Zhou was also amused and exasperated at the side. What was this supposed to be?

Ding Nan's luck was too bad?

Or was Fang Zhuo's luck too good?

“Hmm... something's not right. Where are you right now?” Manager Jiang Zhou suddenly chimed in and asked.

He could tell that Fang Zhuo seemed to be... at the entrance of a cave?

The light was a bit dim, but the purple bamboo next to him was unusually dense and bursting with overly vibrant vitality. This place seemed to be a treasure land!

Or... was there some top-tier natural treasure brewing?!

“Manager Jiang, it's great that you're here. I've discovered a treasure land. See for yourself.”

Fang Zhuo had basically made up his mind to join the Supervision Department after his training period ended, so he naturally recognized the department manager, Manager Jiang.

As he spoke, he flipped the camera and aimed it at the cave entrance ahead.

This small cave was not deep, and the space inside was not large, but the stone walls were full of hollows. Pure white stone mounds grew within the hollows, with tiny, milky-white tips competing to sprout outward.

They were all growing 'stone milk crystals'.

After killing Ding Nan, Fang Zhuo had searched deeper into the bamboo forest for a short while, hoping to see if there were any more 'stone milk crystals' growing.

And that was when he discovered this treasure land.

He was also shocked at first. On the stone walls inside the cave, the number of hollows was initially estimated to be no less than a hundred!

This was an immense fortune!

If these 'stone milk crystals' were already mature, Fang Zhuo naturally wouldn't have reported it. He would have just pocketed them and made a fortune in silence.

But they weren't mature yet, so he could only wait.

He couldn't stay here forever, and he didn't know how long they would take to mature. The growth rate in different hollows was also different.

After thinking it over, Fang Zhuo decided it would be better to report it to the group. After taking his share, he could leave the subsequent guarding and harvesting to the group.

He could then return to his cultivation with peace of mind.

“A Stone Milk Crystal Cave...!”

A rare smile appeared on Manager Jiang Zhou's face as he said, “Excellent, Fang Zhuo. You've done a great service this time! Since you discovered this Stone Milk Crystal Cave, a fifty percent share belongs to you.”

“Keep a close eye on it for now. Don't let anyone near. Just declare our group's name, and I'll head over right away!”

Before his voice could even fade, he had already leaped out of the window and soared into the sky.

...

In the Purple Bamboo Forest, in front of the cave.

“A fifty percent share...”

Fang Zhuo waited with his hands behind his back. He was quite satisfied with this distribution; getting half just for discovering it was definitely generous.

After all, the stone milk crystals inside were not yet mature. In the future, experts would need to be stationed here, and harvesting them periodically would also take a lot of effort.

This cave's location wasn't particularly hidden. In the past, was it only because that Level 45 exotic beast was here that no Transcendent Martial Artists ventured into this Purple Bamboo Forest?

If news of this place really leaked out,

with its value of hundreds of billions or even trillions of federation currency, let alone a Transcendent Martial Artist like him, even a Flying Sky-level martial artist might not be able to hold onto it.

This was not something an individual could swallow.

When that time came, the Three Great Warrior Groups would inevitably step in, and individual power would simply be too insignificant.

Unless it was an elusive Cosmic Martial Artist?

As he was thinking, a black dot suddenly appeared in the sky. It grew larger in the blink of an eye, turning into a figure that descended.

Boom!

The ground shook, and the Purple Bamboo Forest rustled loudly.

Manager Jiang Zhou bent his knees slightly, then stood up straight, smiling. “Fang Zhuo.”

“Manager Jiang,”

Fang Zhuo said respectfully.

Descending from the sky and flying through the air, Manager Jiang was a Flying Sky-level martial artist!

With a Flying Sky-level martial artist personally arriving and standing face-to-face with him, the slight excitement he felt from killing Ding Nan earlier quickly settled down.