The cave was damp and dark. As an outsider, Han Shuo, who was supposed to be led by someone else, walked forward as if he was very familiar with the cave.
In the beginning, Delia had thought that Han Shuo would take the initiative to retreat to the back after entering. Who would've thought that Han Shuo hadn't taken a single step back from start to finish? He was actually very familiar with the area and acted as a guide, heading straight into the depths of the mine without making any mistakes.
After a while, Delia couldn't restrain her own curiosity under the puzzled gazes of the miners and quickly caught up to Han Shuo. She looked at Han Shuo with her large, bright eyes and asked, "City Lord, you've been to Mount Silk before?"
Shaking his head, Han Shuo replied, "No, this is my first time here. What about it?"
"Then why are you so familiar with the terrain of the mine? I can tell that you didn't even consider which path to take when you came in. You just went straight in and didn't make a single mistake. If you haven't been to Mount Silk before, how can you be so familiar with the detours in the mine?" Delia's doubts grew stronger and stronger as she asked the relaxed Han Shuo.
In Han Shuo's eyes, the strength of this group of people, including Delia, was very low. Since there were stone people in the depths of the cave who didn't fear magic and had hard bodies, Han Shuo didn't want them to be suddenly killed. With a yin demon leading the way, according to Han Shuo's description of the miners, Han Shuo naturally didn't slow down in the slightest. He didn't expect to arouse Delia's doubts.
Han Shuo chuckled and said, "When I came in, didn't I hear you talking about the situation inside? Hehe, I have a very sensitive intuition about the terrain inside the cave. From your description, I can accurately find the place you mentioned. Do you believe me? "
Delia had a face of astonishment after hearing Han Shuo's explanation. She then asked doubtfully, "Really?"
"Of course!" Han Shuo smiled and said, "I've never been to Mount Silk before, and I certainly wouldn't have had the chance to explore this mine. If I didn't have a keen intuition for the cave's terrain, how could I be so familiar with it?"
Delia thought about it carefully. With Han Shuo's status as the city lord of Brettel City and his status as a count, he definitely wouldn't come to this mine for no reason. Now that she heard Han Shuo's explanation, she actually believed 80% of Han Shuo's words. When she looked at Han Shuo again, there was a bit more admiration in her eyes. She thought to herself, The City Lord is indeed as the rumors say, a truly amazing man!
Seeing that Delia didn't ask any more questions, Han Shuo continued on his way. With Han Shuo's control over the yin demons, he truly played the role of a guide, turning from guest to host as he led the way. The miners and Delia in the mines of Mount Silk had instead become his attendants.
Han Shuo's remaining yin demon slowly penetrated deep into the belly of Mount Silk. According to the miners' description of Delia, the yin demon had arrived at a narrow and dry area. There were three cave entrances around this area that led deeper into the mountain. The rock overhead was very low, so if one wanted to pass through it, they would have to crawl.
According to the miners, the last time they'd been mining here, they'd encountered some stone men. From the traces in the surroundings, there were indeed traces of mining here. However, the yin demon was invisible and formless. Even if the stone men were hiding in the dark, they wouldn't be able to discover the yin demon's existence.
After finding the correct location, Han Shuo's speed increased a bit. Delia and the miners behind him were all astonished when they saw Han Shuo's extremely nimble body shuttling through the cave. Delia truly believed what Han Shuo had just said. She believed that he had an innate intuition for caves and could find the correct location in the intricate and complicated paths.
"City Lord, be careful. The area in front of us is where the stone men have appeared before!" Suddenly, a panting miner reminded Han Shuo, who was still flying ahead.
Seeing Han Shuo slowly slow down after this reminder, Delia panted a few times to calm her chest. Only then did she say to Han Shuo, "My Lord, be careful. Those stone men shouldn't be easy to deal with. It's better for us to advance slowly."
Delia wasn't as carefree as she appeared, but she was quite attentive at critical moments. Han Shuo couldn't help but look at Delia in surprise. Delia only stopped when he looked at her. Her slightly swaying twin peaks attracted more of Han Shuo's attention. Han Shuo's heart fluttered, and he couldn't help but look at her chest a few more times.
It was said that any woman could sense the gazes of the surrounding men on a certain part of her body. No matter how stealthily those men peeped, the woman being stared at would be able to sense if that man had ever secretly glanced at her chest.
This saying did make some sense. Although they were in a dark cave, Delia was still able to sense Han Shuo's gaze. Han Shuo's gaze lingered on her towering chest for a while, making Delia a little shy. Her originally straight back instinctively bent a little, as if she wanted to hide the fullness of her chest through the curve of her waist.
"Alright, I think we're about to reach there. You guys come closer so that I can take care of you if there's any danger." Han Shuo slowed down his footsteps, looked ahead, and instructed the few people behind him.
The miners quickly followed. However, Delia, who was supposed to be the first to lean towards Han Shuo, was instead the last. Fortunately, the light in the mine was dim, and the miners didn't have eyes as good as Han Shuo's. Because of the distance between them, they naturally couldn't see the bright red on Delia's pretty face.
Along the way, they took turns to drill through three tunnels. After walking for a few hundred meters, the rocks above their heads slowly became much lower, and the tunnel became narrower and narrower. It could only accommodate two people walking side by side. At this time, everyone had to bend down to prevent their heads from hitting the rocks.
After everyone passed through this narrow tunnel, they appeared in the area where the yin demons stayed. This area was quite large, but the rocks above their heads were very low. There were three caves around it, and the three caves were flat. If one wanted to pass through, they had to lie down.
This was the place where the miners had encountered the stone men last time. The stone men had suddenly appeared and immediately attacked the miners, causing a lot of casualties among the miners.
Han Shuo was more than 1.9 meters tall, but he couldn't walk normally even if he bent down. He had to squat down to look around. The miners who had been here before all looked extremely nervous and cautious. They were holding crude mining tools in their hands, as if they were ready to deal with the stone men at any time.
Even Delia was a little nervous. She pulled out the dagger tied to her left leg and looked around vigilantly. Han Shuo and Delia were relatively close. Because they would have to face the stone men's attacks at any time, Delia's shyness had long been thrown out the window.
It was because of Han Shuo's ferocious reputation that these miners and Delia felt that they had something to rely on. Otherwise, they wouldn't be nervous but fearful just by being in this area.
Han Shuo, who was squatting down, looked around and asked the miners beside him, "How tall are the stone men? What do they look like?"
"They are only 1.5 meters tall, but their bodies are very wide. They can move freely in this area and aren't restricted by the low walls," one of the miners replied.
After hearing this, Han Shuo looked around at the three caves that were even lower. He discovered that the three caves that could only be entered by lying down were only one meter tall. According to the miner, the stone men that were 1.5 meters tall and had very wide bodies shouldn't be able to enter from these three caves.
Apart from the three caves that were even lower, the only cave that Han Shuo's group came from was the cave that they came from. Since the stone men didn't come from the other three caves, could they have come from the cave that Han Shuo's group came from?
Han Shuo's heart was filled with doubts. He didn't continue to squat down and look around. Instead, he squatted down in the middle. After thinking for a moment, Han Shuo suddenly let out a soft whistle. The whistle started out soft, but it gradually became louder and louder. In the end, it was as if a giant dragon was roaring.
"Alright, if the stone men are nearby, they will definitely come after hearing the news. We just need to wait," Han Shuo said to the miners who looked nervous.
On Han Shuo's left, Delia was still looking around with her waist bent over. When she bent over, the curves of her perfectly round buttocks were outlined in an extremely enchanting manner. Delia was only wearing a short leather skirt, but her perfectly round buttocks and bare legs were very alluring. When Han Shuo was giving instructions to the miners, he accidentally glanced at her and couldn't help but stare a few more times at her perfectly round buttocks that stuck out from her bent over.
Three of the other miners who had nervous expressions also accidentally saw this beautiful scene. The three hot-blooded youths secretly swallowed their saliva and bent their waists even more. It was unknown if they were trying to lower a certain part of their body.
Delia, who had been looking around, suddenly turned her head. Her bright eyes stared at Han Shuo, who was still staring at her buttocks. Caught off guard, Han Shuo coughed awkwardly and consciously turned his head away.
Delia glared at the embarrassed Han Shuo with a red face. She snorted at Han Shuo, who had turned his head away. Then, she fiercely glared at the other miners and said, "What are you guys looking at? I've only left Mount Silk for a few days, and you want to die?"
After saying this, Delia cursed in an extremely low voice, "There really isn't a single good man!" It was unknown if the last sentence was purposely said for Han Shuo to hear. In any case, Han Shuo had indeed heard it. He thought to himself, Women are meant for men to look at. But how did you know that we were peeking at you?
You bent over and outlined the beautiful curves of your buttocks. Could it be that you did it on purpose?
Just as Han Shuo was thinking this, a few faintly discernible auras slowly drifted in from the three narrow caves. Han Shuo looked around but didn't find any traces of them. However, as a necromancer and a practitioner of magic, Han Shuo immediately felt the auras that had suddenly surged in. They should be existences similar to some kind of soul wraiths.
Han Shuo quietly released a soul exploration spell. Eight dusky balls of air were slowly spinning in a corner that the miners couldn't see. The eight dusky balls of air gradually separated and entrenched themselves on top of the large rocks. A strange power overflowed from their auras.
The originally hard rocks seemed to soften after being soaked in that aura. Like a sculpture that had been cut, eight stone men, just like what the miners had described earlier, split from the intact rocks. Han Shuo, who was well-versed in magical arts and necromancy magic, was able to clearly see the process of the eight auras entrenching themselves on the rocks and then using the rocks to shape them.
After the eight stone men slowly walked out from the corner, Han Shuo finally understood why a group of stone men had suddenly appeared in this area last time. So this was what was going on! It looked like they had only come out of the three narrow caves as souls, and then used the rocks in this area to reconstruct their stone bodies.
"You eight, you've recovered. Are you ready to attack?" Crouching here, Han Shuo took out the skeletal staff and casually summoned a few dozen skeletal warriors and zombie warriors, surrounding Delia and the miners. He looked at the eight stone men in the dark corner as he spoke.
The rock walls in this area were too low, making it difficult for high level hate warriors and evil knights to display their might. Only the shorter skeletal warriors and zombie warriors would be able to move freely in this area.
Delia was startled at first when she was suddenly surrounded by a group of skeletal warriors and zombie warriors. Those undead creatures naturally didn't look that good, and when she was suddenly surrounded by a large group of dark creatures filled with a gloomy aura of death, she naturally panicked.
But when she heard Han Shuo's words and saw that the undead creatures were only surrounding her in the center without any intention of attacking, she finally realized that Han Shuo had summoned them to protect them. She immediately relaxed.
"City Lord, have those stone men appeared?" Having calmed down, Delia reacted to Han Shuo's words and gripped the dagger in her hand as she called out.
The lighting here was too dim, and the eight stone men were even darker in the shadows. Delia and the others had no way of seeing any traces of the stone men.
Nodding, Han Shuo smiled faintly and said, "That's right, eight stone men."
While Han Shuo and Delia were talking, the eight stone men scattered in the corners suddenly started attacking Han Shuo, abruptly walking out from the eight corners. Their bodies were all formed from the ready-made iron ore here. Ordinary magical attacks naturally wouldn't have much effect on these stone men, and even ordinary weapons wouldn't pose much of a threat to their bodies. No wonder so many miners had died here last time.
However, to Han Shuo, his own body was probably even sturdier than iron and stone. He didn't even need to take out the Demonslayer Edge to deal with these eight stone golems. He squatted down and started fighting with the stone golems.
"Interesting, what kind of creatures are you?" Han Shuo was surrounded by the eight stone men. His body was fighting with the eight stone men, but he still had the leisure to ask the eight stone men questions.
Delia, who was surrounded by undead creatures, saw that the crouching Han Shuo wasn't afraid of the stone men's attacks. Even when the stone men's rock-solid fists and feet bombarded Han Shuo's body, he didn't react at all. It was as if his body was even sturdier than these stone men made of iron and stone.
Unarmed, Han Shuo bombarded the stone men with his fists, but instead, the stone men were forced to retreat step by step. When those steel-hard stones collided with Han Shuo's huge fists, the sound of metal clashing rang out, causing Delia and the others to be dumbstruck.
On the Profound Continent, swordsmen and knights were the most adept at close combat. However, even swordsmen and knights used fighting aura to increase their physical defenses. They had never heard of a person who could contend against iron and stone without using any fighting aura.
In fact, Han Shuo really didn't use demonic yuan to defend himself. He was indeed only using the sturdiness of his body to withstand the stone men's attacks. Having reached the separate demonic realm, Han Shuo's body was as sturdy as iron and stone. Even if he didn't use demonic yuan to defend himself, he could completely withstand the damage from ordinary blades and swords.
After fighting for a while, Han Shuo discovered that the eight stone men didn't show any signs of communicating. He gradually grew impatient and began to gather some fighting aura in his hands. In this way, the stone men's bodies also began to be unable to withstand Han Shuo's punches. Grabbing the neck of a stone man, Han Shuo disregarded the stone man's hammering on his chest and forcefully twisted it. The stone man's iron head was directly pulled off.
The crouching Han Shuo's speed suddenly increased. His punches were imbued with demonic yuan. The stone men, as hard as iron and stone, couldn't bear the heavy burden and one by one shattered into stone fragments. In just the blink of an eye, the eight stone men had become stone fragments on the ground. In the eyes of Delia and the others, there was no longer a complete stone.
"City Lord, you're so strong!" A miner couldn't help but murmur, his face full of worship.
Delia's beautiful eyes sparkled as she stared fixedly at Han Shuo. Han Shuo's actions of crushing the eight stone golems into dust with his fists with the force of a thunderbolt was simply captivating to the extreme in the eyes of this wild woman who believed in tough men. Her heart couldn't help but become excited.
"Want to run? Heh heh, it won't be that easy!" After the eight stone men's bodies were destroyed by Han Shuo, the eight gray auras that drifted out from the three caves seemed to know that Han Shuo wasn't someone they could deal with and were preparing to return the way they came.
Whether it was his identity as a demonic practitioner or a necromancer, Han Shuo had ways to deal with these strange soul auras. Han Shuo stretched out his left hand and a miniature vortex filled with killing intent formed in his palm. This vortex didn't have any effect on the physical body, but it made the eight auras feel an irresistible suction force.
Not only were the eight souls unable to take a step away from Han Shuo, but under the suction force of the vortex in Han Shuo's palm, one by one, they slowly fell into the vortex in Han Shuo's palm. When the eight souls fell into Han Shuo's palm, they were tightly sucked in by the vortex, not a single one able to leave.
"Speak, what the hell are you?" This time, Han Shuo didn't speak. Instead, he used his consciousness to transmit the message.
The originally gray aura of the eight souls slowly dissipated under the high rotation of the vortex, turning into eight little dots that sparkled with green light. Within the vortex in Han Shuo's palm, the eight little dots that sparkled with green light were like eight bright and beautiful stars. The vortex in Han Shuo's palm was like the deep Milky Way.
The originally somewhat gloomy scene was filled with an intoxicating beauty in Delia's eyes. It was as if the deep starry sky was in Han Shuo's palm, and the faint green starlight was so resplendent and gorgeous. At this moment, if someone asked her if there was a man who could pluck the stars in the sky for her, she wouldn't hesitate to answer that the man was right in front of her, and that he already had the entire starry sky in his hands.
After Han Shuo's consciousness transmitted the message, Han Shuo sensed a weak response. These eight souls were too weak compared to Han Shuo's powerful consciousness, so the message they transmitted was also very weak. "Please let us go. We are miners who died after the mine collapsed. Our souls didn't dissipate, but drifted to a strange place, and absorbed a strange power to become like this."
As Han Shuo listened with rapt attention, he gradually understood the message. He stared blankly for a moment and asked, "What's so special about it?"
"We don't know either. In any case, there is a strange power everywhere. We don't know why, after we absorbed some of that power, our souls gradually became stronger. We can also use that power to manipulate stones, giving ourselves a stone body. We don't want the place that can make us strong to be destroyed, so we attacked the miners who were about to mine there. Please let us go, we won't dare to do it again. " In the palm of Han Shuo, the eight souls seemed to have united, and the message transmitted gradually became clear.
After listening for a while, Han Shuo frowned in doubt at first, then his mind flashed, and he suddenly became ecstatic, "Haha, I know, so that's how it is!"
This ecstatic shout was not transmitted through consciousness, but a real high-pitched cheer. Delia and the others, who were surrounded by the undead, were startled by Han Shuo's sudden shout. They looked at Han Shuo somewhat inexplicably, not knowing why Han Shuo was suddenly so happy.
"City Lord, what's wrong?" At this time, Delia looked at Han Shuo again. She didn't know why she always felt that Han Shuo was full of bewitching attraction, so she asked tenderly.
"It's nothing." Han Shuo took out the skeletal staff and sent the undead that surrounded Delia and the others back to the other plane. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You don't have to mine this area anymore, otherwise you will encounter danger. In the future, you only need to come once a month to get the ore. En, the stone men won't attack you again, so don't worry. Alright, you should leave first, I'll take care of the matters here. "
After hearing Han Shuo's words, Delia and the others were full of doubts. They only saw Han Shuo easily destroy the stone men, but they didn't know why Han Shuo would say such a thing.
"Sir, can you tell us what's going on?" Delia thought for a moment, and then asked Han Shuo.
"Oh, the stone men have pledged allegiance to me. In the future, they will mine a portion of the ore every month, and I guarantee that it will be more than what you mine. You only need to come once a month to get it. I promised them that the area inside the three caves will be their living place, and the condition is that they help you mine the ore. "Han Shuo explained to Delia with a smile.
"But, didn't the stone men already die?" Delia still asked doubtfully.
"No, their souls are on me. You can leave without worry, I will take care of the matters in this area. In the future, you only need to come once a month to get the ore. This is the best of both worlds. "Han Shuo said to Delia.
Delia had originally intended to settle scores with those stone men. But now that she saw that Han Shuo had destroyed the stone men's bodies and captured their souls, as well as offered such generous conditions, she did not ask for much and gladly agreed to Han Shuo's request.
"Alright, I'll take them and leave first. I'll wait for you at the cave entrance." Delia didn't ask why Han Shuo was staying here. She gave a few instructions to the miners and led them back the way they came.
After Delia and the others left, Han Shuo followed the instructions of the stone men's souls and crawled into a narrow cave. After walking for about seven or eight hundred meters, he suddenly arrived at a huge area.
This area was filled with colorful jagged rocks. At a glance, the rock walls above his head were all silver-white and even shone with a silver luster. Purple, red, white, and all sorts of rare ores that Han Shuo recognized or didn't recognize were nurtured everywhere in this mysterious area.
Rich metal elemental energy filled the entire area. In the center, there was a huge rock that looked like an iron pillar that was filled with thick metal elemental energy.
The last of the five extreme places, the place of metal extreme, finally appeared in front of Han Shuo!
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