In a long and narrow cave of more than two hundred meters.
Several luminous green fluorite stones were inlaid on the top, illuminating everything here clearly. The ground and the walls were all bumpy and extremely uneven. At first glance, it was obvious that it was man-made.
Judging from the age of the traces, it shouldn't be too long ago, and it was directly cut by someone with a sharp knife.
On one side of the cave wall, there was a square passage of several ten meters high, but the entrance of the passage was directly blocked by a large monster skeleton that was nearly half broken.
At this moment, in front of the passage, a young man who looked like a slave miner with ragged clothes and a slightly pale face stopped and looked at the monster skeleton thoughtfully.
This young man was naturally Liu Ming.
After more than a day of continuous exploration, this place was not far from the deep passage marked in the second half of the map.
In the past period of time, he could see some miserable corpses of slave miners from time to time. It was the first time he saw a monster skeleton like this.
On this half of the huge skeleton, there was no trace of flesh and blood left on it, and there was no trace of spiritual power fluctuations. It should be dead for a long time.
Judging from the remains of the skeleton, it could be vaguely seen that when its body was complete, it should be thirty to forty meters in size. The shape was generally like a giant dog. Although the bones of the remaining forelimbs and hind limbs were broken, the claws were extremely sharp. There were also some fangs of several inches scattered on the ground near its head. Under the dim light, it glowed a green cold light.
"This should be the evil beast?"
After Liu Ming hesitated for a while, he muttered a few words to himself in a low voice.
Suddenly, his mind moved. He took the bone blade from his waist and put it next to the skeleton. After a slight comparison, he found that except for the degree of age, the materials of the two were very similar, but there were some subtle differences.
But at the next moment, his arm suddenly moved, and the bone blade in his hand turned into a cold light and slashed down.
"Poof".
A thick bone on the skeleton in front of him was immediately cut off easily.
"As expected!" Liu Ming nodded and put away the machete with a look of understanding on his face.
Although the half skeleton in front of him was undoubtedly the remains of the evil beast, the quality of the bones was obviously not as good as the bone blade in his hand. It seemed that there were different types of evil beasts, and the disparity in strength was huge.
Otherwise, this half-skeleton wouldn't have been abandoned here so easily and left unattended for so long.
But even so, if this evil beast's corpse which was equivalent to the Condensation State was placed in the outside world, its fur and bones were still good materials for forging spiritual weapons.
But here, even the better evil beast bones could only be simply processed into sharp weapons, the fur was made into clothes, and the flesh was only used to satisfy hunger.
However, seeing that although the slave miners here were all emaciated, their physical bodies were much stronger than the cultivators of the same rank in the outside world. It seemed that this evil beast's flesh and blood seemed to have some effect of strengthening the body, which was beneficial to the cultivation of Tiger Dragon Hell Prison.
A hint of thought flashed in Liu Ming's eyes, but after touching his chin, he immediately put the bone blade back to his waist. He bypassed the evil beast skeleton and continued to go deeper.
…
An hour later.
Liu Ming walked out of a small cave with a map in his hand and came to a fork. His face was full of helplessness.
Since he saw the evil beast skeleton, it was difficult to find a matching intersection according to the route indicated on the map. After trying several times, he couldn't help but recall the words of the strange young man he met at the fork previously.
"It seems that this place should be regarded as the depths of the mineral vein. People often open up new tunnels, so the map in my hand is not very useful." Liu Ming couldn't help thinking secretly.
After he sighed slightly, he put away the map in his hand and took out another blank animal skin. According to the current terrain, he casually drew it, then he found another fork and flashed into it.
Half a day later.
The new animal skin in Liu Ming's hand had been drawn with a lot of route marks, and most of the routes had been marked with a cross.
Because he was already in the depths of the mineral vein, he did find a lot of caves under repeated attempts in the past.
But what made him a little depressed was that most of these places were ordinary ores with little value, or the waste ores that had been mined out.
At this moment, he was holding a piece of jerky in his hand. He was chewing it while continuing to search carefully in a narrow and long passage.
This kind of jerky made from the evil beast's flesh and blood was quite tough. It was almost impossible to chew. Once it entered the mouth, although there was still a pungent bloody smell that made people want to vomit, it was extremely disgusting!
Having said that, since he stepped into the Immortal Cultivation World, this was the second time he ate the flesh of beasts directly.
After all, the effect of refining the beastkin flesh into elixir would be much better, and there would be fewer impurities and side effects.
Liu Ming was not used to it at first, but after feeling its special effect, he couldn't help but want to eat it.
It turned out that not long after this type of jerky entered the throat, it transformed into a wisp of heat that flowed throughout the meridians, causing his limbs and bones to vaguely feel an indescribable sense of comfort. Even his mind seemed to have become a little more clear-headed.
It seemed that as he had guessed before, this evil beast's flesh was really beneficial to the physical body.
But what made Liu Ming a little strange was that this evil beast's flesh had little spiritual power recovery in the body. It was very different from ordinary beastkin flesh.
It seemed that this evil beast could not be regarded as a real beastkin, and its origin was worth investigating.
When he walked along the passage for no less than a few hundred meters, he saw a new passage that seemed to have just been opened at the end of the passage not far ahead.
As he was delighted, he quickly quickened his pace and walked over. When he came to the entrance of the cave, he frowned immediately after looking at the small sword mark drawn with black and red blood at the entrance.
After a little hesitation, he shook his head and left to find another mine tunnel.
Although there should be a lot of rare mineral resources in this tunnel, since there was a mark left, it was obviously occupied by someone.
When Liu Ming walked along the way, he could see some abandoned mine tunnels that had been excavated from time to time. There were various marks at the entrance of quite a few tunnels.
In his current situation, there was naturally no need to take the initiative to provoke other forces.
… …
At the same time.
Another cave not far from the mine trading area.
The cave was relatively spacious. It was about three hundred meters in size. There were several simple stone houses made of boulders on the side.
The stone house was completely closed without a window. There were only a few holes on the top of the four stone walls.
In the open space in front of the house, there were two rather burly slave miners patrolling back and forth. Each of them was equipped with a weapon made of the evil beast's bone. Their eyes glanced at the only entrance here from time to time with a vigilant look.
In one of the largest stone houses, there was a huge bonfire at the moment.
Several pieces of barbecued meat were set up above the bonfire. A burst of meat fragrance mixed with a strong bloody smell was drifting out, filling the entire stone house.
Beside the campfire, a muscular man with a ferocious face and a height of 20 meters was pacing back and forth. He was looking at a green-skinned short slave miner who looked uncomfortable with a ferocious gaze.
"So, it was a newcomer who killed my brother. But where did you get this news? " Suddenly, the burly man opened his mouth coldly. His two thick palms clenched lightly, and a burst of crackling and popping sounds of joints immediately rang out.
"Reporting to Boss Sha, I recently cast mystic arts on Tie Lin and others with the help of the beastkin insect. I wanted to explore their movements to see if there are any new resource points, but I didn't expect to hear the news of your brother from their conversation, so I immediately came to inform you." The short slave miner hurriedly replied with a smile.
"Hmph, I will verify this news personally. As long as it is confirmed to be true, you will naturally get benefits. But if you dare to lie to me, I will break your bones inch by inch. "
When the burly man heard this, his body came to a halt, and the cracking sounds of his joints came to an abrupt stop. The muscles on his chest and arms bulged up, and a layer of crystal clear color could be faintly seen, as if they were cast from steel.
"Boss Sha, how dare I lie to you? I swear by my inner demon that there will be no falsehood. " The short slave miner couldn't help but be startled under the aura of the muscular man, then he said confidently while patting his chest.
"Very well, you release the news for me. Just say that I offer a reward of two thousand spirit stones to find the whereabouts of this newcomer. A mere newcomer dares to attack my people. Although my brother is just a good-for-nothing, if I don't take revenge for this, I don't know how others will look at me. As long as this newcomer is found, I will definitely make him regret coming to this world. "The muscular man ordered the short slave miner with a hideous face.
The short slave miner naturally said yes, then he left the room obediently after the muscular man waved his hand.
The stone house regained its tranquility again.
…
Liu Ming naturally didn't know that his life was only worth a mere two thousand spirit stones in the eyes of some people.
At this moment, he was already in a self-opened stone cave deep in a mineral vein tunnel. He was taking out array flags from his sleeve to arrange a temporary array.
At the entrance of the stone cave, the White Bone Scorpion with crimson scales lay quietly on the ground, carefully watching everything around it.
This tunnel was an abandoned place that he finally found after a lot of time. He used the inferior grade iron sword spiritual weapon obtained from the mineral vein guard to spend a lot of time to barely open up this shelter in front of him.
Although the stone cave on the wall of the mine was not big, it was only 30 meters in size, but this place might be in the rare mineral vein area, even the ordinary stones were as hard as iron. Even if he now had a body far beyond the cultivators of the same rank and a body of brute force, under the situation where he didn't dare to easily consume his spiritual power to channel the Tiger Dragon Hell Prison, he could only cut off a few inches of the stone wall with each slash.
At this time, Liu Ming finally understood why those slave miners would work so hard for some rare ores.
If all the ores in the tunnel were so difficult to mine, it was really not an easy task to collect enough for a month. It was even more difficult to get more rare ores.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
