After these days of exploration in the mineral vein, Liu Ming had discovered that these ores, which were rare in the outside world, were not everywhere even in the depths of the mineral vein.
Even if he found a mining area where the ores were more concentrated, it was a very time-consuming and laborious task to split open these hard stone walls when his spiritual power was suppressed.
The reason why this mine tunnel was abandoned by the original slave miners was that they dug here and found that the quality of the ores they could find was average, or the quantity was not satisfactory, so they simply gave up.
However, this was a rare place for Liu Ming.
Firstly, this place was far from the main mineral vein, and its location was relatively remote in the entire mineral vein. Secondly, the abandoned mine cave would not attract much attention.
Therefore, as soon as he discovered this place, he immediately opened up his own temporary residence here, but he did not immediately start mining any ores after that.
Instead, he immediately released Bone Scorpion. After giving a few instructions through the mind connection, he turned to the center of the stone cave and sat cross-legged.
He had consumed a lot of physical and spiritual power in the previous exploration and excavation. Naturally, he had to recover first before making the next plan.
At the next moment, Liu Ming took out two intermediate grade spirit stones from Sumeru Snail, and he held one in each hand to activate the talent of multitasking. He began to absorb the aura in the spirit stone while recovering his physical strength through breathing.
As the spirit stone in Liu Ming's hand began to shine with a circle of soft light, he also began to slowly close his eyes, preparing to enter meditation.
… …
An hour later.
Liu Ming slowly opened his eyes, and his pupils were as clear as water. Although his spiritual power and physical strength had not recovered to the best state, it was much better than before.
After thinking for a while, he immediately took out a few detoxification elixirs collected from the outside market from the Sumeru Snail and consumed them. He then prepared to cast some mystic arts to try to force out the poison of the Sea Emperor Pill and the small cluster of strange blood light near the Spiritual Sea.
Since Qing Qin cast a spell to plant these two strange enchantments in his body, although Liu Ming did not show anything on the surface, his heart had been a little anxious.
He would never allow his life to be in the hands of others at all times.
When he was on the Siren King's Giant Boat previously, although Liu Ming had tried to expel the thing in his body, because he had been under the surveillance array set by the other party in advance, he naturally didn't dare to go all out. Otherwise, it would be self-defeating if he was discovered. He just tried it a little.
After that, he still hadn't found a suitable opportunity from the time he left the giant boat until he came to this deep sea mineral vein.
Now, he was finally alone and had found a rather secluded place. Naturally, he had to use all his means. He was ready to use the power of the array and elixirs at the same time to try to break the restriction in his body.
After a while, Liu Ming chanted, made a gesture with one hand, and then pointed at the surroundings.
More than a dozen colorful formation flags nearby disappeared without a trace after a flash.
Then countless white runes emerged from the place where the formation flags disappeared. As they connected with each other, a milky white pattern array of ten meters immediately appeared on the ground.
Liu Ming raised one hand again, and several intermediate grade crystal stones flew out of his sleeve. They steadily sank into a few grooves at the edge of the pattern array, revealing only half of the crystal.
After doing this, his expression condensed. He flicked his ten fingers repeatedly and began to make a series of complex gestures. He launched countless symbols that went into the pattern array.
As a result, the pattern array that absorbed the symbols slowly rotated, and it burst out a white light. It was intertwined in the air like a substance. It formed a white silk net above Liu Ming's head in a few seconds.
Although the silk net was only ten meters in size, it covered the top into a white mist.
Because of this Sumeru Conch, Liu Ming still had some elixirs and spirit stones with him, but the space was very limited after all. In addition, he still had to put a few important spiritual weapons and other important items that couldn't be abandoned. Therefore, in addition to a dozen upper grade spirit stones, the rest were only a few intermediate grade spirit stones.
As for the other spirit stones, some of them were used to replenish some formation flags, spiritual talismans, and elixirs when he was in Ironfire Valley. The rest that couldn't be put into the Sumeru Conch was put into the storage Sumeru crystal ball. It had been taken away by the mine guards to confuse outsiders.
Now, although this array had been set up successfully, once it was activated, it couldn't get much vitality from the outside world. The consumption of spirit stones was far more than the outside world.
Therefore, Liu Ming understood that once the array was activated, it couldn't last for too long.
At this moment, the white silk net floating above Liu Ming began to expand and shrink regularly under the change of gestures in his hands. Then, it suddenly fell on top of his head. It quickly spread at the moment of contact, wrapping Liu Ming's whole body.
At the moment when he was wrapped, Liu Ming looked inside through Divine Thought. He found that the bloody light cluster near the Spiritual Sea was still flickering and rotating slowly, but under the effect of the elixir and the white cloud, it seemed to be a little slower than before. At the same time, the erosion of the black mist on the surface of his internal organs also seemed to slow down.
Seeing this situation, Liu Ming's heart was slightly relieved, but then he quickly stuffed a green elixir into his mouth. After he closed his eyes slightly again, he channeled the spiritual power in his body to guide the elixir.
This green elixir was called "Spirit Cleansing Elixir". It was a kind of detoxification elixir that Liu Ming spent a lot of spirit stones in the market of Iron Valley City. There were only three of them, and they specialized in detoxifying some strange poisons. Therefore, they had been hidden in the Sumeru Snail for emergencies.
As soon as this elixir entered his mouth, it immediately became extremely smooth. It directly dissolved into liquid and flowed into his abdomen. Then, a strange feeling of coolness immediately rose in his body. Under the guidance of spiritual power, it slowly gathered in the Spiritual Sea.
After a few breaths, there was another green light cluster in Liu Ming's Spiritual Sea. Then, under the channeling of spiritual power, it carefully approached the bloody light cluster.
The bloody light cluster near the Spiritual Sea seemed to be aware of it. The flickering speed suddenly accelerated, and it emitted a circle of bloody light. The green energy cluster trembled, and it couldn't move forward at all.
Seeing this, Liu Ming was surprised. As he gritted his teeth, he couldn't help but increase the injection of spiritual power. The originally dim green light cluster suddenly shone with green light. It broke through the bloody light barrier and hit the bloody light cluster.
But the next moment, Liu Ming's face suddenly changed. At the moment when the two light clusters touched, there was a severe pain like being stirred by countless sharp knives at the same time.
This caught Liu Ming off guard. His face became pale and bloodless. There were dense beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. His whole body also curled up in an instant, and he actually bowed like a bow!
This kind of soul-deep pain only lasted for a short while. Suddenly, there was a burning feeling in his Spirit Sea, but it immediately changed into a cool feeling. This repeated several times, torturing Liu Ming to the point where he wished he was dead.
As time passed, the cool feeling was gradually replaced by a scorching feeling. The dark green energy in his Spirit Sea also gradually became smaller and finally dissipated. The Fa Li that was used to activate the energy block was also devoured by the blood-red light without a doubt.
At this moment, the overwhelming pain in his dantian also disappeared without a trace. Liu Ming sat up straight again, but his face became more and more ugly.
He sighed in his heart. After hesitating for a while, he took out another elixir and consumed it. He made a gesture and continued to channel his spiritual power.
… …
After an hour, when the "buzzing" sound in the array under Liu Ming stopped abruptly, the crystal stones in the surrounding grooves immediately made a crisp sound and shattered.
Liu Ming opened his eyes, revealing a helpless expression.
At this moment, he had exhausted all kinds of means and consumed a lot of intermediate grade spirit stones, but he still couldn't lift the two enchantments in his body.
The two enchantments were used by Siren King to control the slave miners on such a large scale. Sure enough, he could lift them with his current ability, so he must find another way.
So in the remaining time, Liu Ming was not willing to consume the limited spirit stones anymore. He put away the formation flag, and after a short rest, he got up and walked out of the stone cave. He began to walk to the end of the tunnel of the abandoned mine pit.
It had been a while since he entered the mining area. For now, he could only follow the "rules" of the underground world. He would first gather a month's worth of ore to exchange for this month's antidote, then he would make a long-term plan.
Although on the surface, the corrosion of the black mist transformed by the Sea Emperor Pill could still be resisted by his tyrannical physical body, he couldn't guarantee what kind of amazing change would occur when it really activated.
Otherwise, there would be many slave miners with strong physical bodies and unruly ones here. How could they be willing to use ore to exchange for the antidote?
After a while, Liu Ming came to a stone wall at the end of the tunnel. Through the previous exploration, although there were a few qualified rare ores here, there was still some value in mining.
After Liu Ming glanced faintly at the bumpy surface on the stone wall, he suddenly grabbed in the air with one hand, and he took a bone oar that was abandoned by someone into his hand. He waved it a few times to test its weight, then he began to dig hard.
In the process, Liu Ming did not put Bone Scorpion into the leather bag, but he kept it nearby to be on guard.
He was now alone here. In the situation where mental power couldn't be released out of his body for a long time, he naturally needed a powerful assistant to stay outside to prevent being ambushed.
This ghost creature was still only at the Condensation Period early stage, but after mutation, not only it had a layer of scales with amazing defensive power, but the "snake head" on its back was also extremely poisonous. The general Condensation Period slave miners were definitely not its opponent.
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