In the forest, Liu Lan was startled when she heard Lu An's words. She asked, "What's the problem?"
Lu An glanced at Liu Lan and said, "Purple gold is rare, and purple gold ore is also hard to come by, so its value is very high. However, purple gold ore mostly grows in very high and wide mountains, and it doesn't appear in the mountains, but underground. "
"Although the mine just now wasn't shallow, it developed towards the center of the mountain, and the density increased slightly, but not underground. Just this point alone doesn't conform to the rules of purple gold ore. "
"There's also a problem with the shape of the purple gold ore." Lu An said seriously, "The purple gold that has just been mined is very irregular in shape, with different sizes and shapes, and there will never be a clear cut. However, the purple gold that I saw just now was about the same size, and there was no difference in size and shape. It still doesn't conform to the shape of an ordinary purple gold ore. "
"Therefore, I don't think this is an ordinary purple gold ore. I'm afraid there's a secret, and the secret lies in the core area." Lu An thought for a while and said, "But I don't know whether it's good or bad, but we have to be careful."
Listening to Lu An's long speech, Liu Lan's expression was obviously a little stunned. The two continued walking. Lu An was deep in thought, and Liu Lan kept looking at Lu An.
"These … How do you know?" Liu Lan recovered and asked the question in her heart, "Have you seen a purple gold ore before?"
Lu An was startled, then nodded slightly and said, "I've seen it elsewhere."
Lu An had indeed seen it when he was a slave. Slaves were the absolute main force in all mining areas, because the mountain was very stable, and the Taoist masters couldn't strengthen the mountain for safety, which would also cause trouble for mining. It didn't matter if the slaves died or not, Lu An and his parents had worked in the same purple gold ore. It was also because he had worked in the purple gold ore for a long time that Lu An knew so many things.
"The people in the mine just now were all slaves, right?" Lu An looked at Liu Lan and asked softly.
"Ah, yes!" Liu Lan quickly nodded and said, "What's wrong?"
"Let the Wood Celestial Masters support some pillars in the walls of the mine and add more protective measures to ensure the safety of the people inside." Lu An said, "Also, there must be a Celestial Master guarding the mine at all times. If anything happens, inform me immediately, no matter what time it is."
Hearing this, Liu Lan was stunned again. She looked at Lu An in astonishment, thinking that he had a fever and couldn't think straight. She asked, "Why?"
"There's no reason. Just do it," Lu An said calmly without explaining.
Liu Lan looked at Lu An and didn't understand. But since it was Lu An's order, she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back and find someone to do it."
"Right, there's one more thing." Lu An thought for a moment and said, "Let all the slaves rest tonight. Don't mine again until I give the order tomorrow morning."
"Why is that?" Liu Lan was completely confused by Lu An's decision. Wasn't this purely a waste of time?
Lu An stopped and looked at Liu Lan. He said, "I can't tell you now. I'll tell you tomorrow morning."
"…"
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At night, the mountain forest was silent.
The sky was dark, and the moon hung high in the sky. The trees in the mountain forest were very ordinary and not very dense. In the mountain forest, a black shadow flew past quickly.
This black shadow was extremely fast. If it was an ordinary person, they would definitely not see any shadow. At most, they would feel a gust of wind blowing past. The black shadow moved forward quickly and soon arrived at the edge of the purple gold mine core.
This person was none other than Lu An.
The reason why he let the mining workers rest tonight was because he wanted to personally come to the core area to investigate. He was afraid that if he entered the mountain, it would cause tremors or collapse and harm the workers.
Under the scorching sun, Lu An felt that there were many enemy Celestial Masters guarding the edge of the core area. However, these Celestial Masters were not very strong. At most, they were Level 3 Celestial Masters. Lu An didn't need to enter the Realm of the Demon Gods to perfectly avoid everyone and enter the core area.
Bypassing everyone's line of sight, Lu An quickly arrived at the core area. As expected, there were no traces of development in the core area. There were also no traces of investigation. It was obvious that the people of Guang Yi City didn't suspect anything strange here. He was the first.
Lu An stood in the middle of the mountain and looked around at his surroundings. Along the way, he realized that the trees in the mountain forest were getting fewer and fewer. Moreover, they didn't grow as tall as the ones in the periphery. Even the soil under his feet was very soft. There were almost no stones.
Lu An felt even more strange. Since he came here in the middle of the night to investigate, he didn't hesitate and directly rushed into the ground under his feet.
Although Lu An wasn't an Earth Celestial Master and his Earth Burrowing Technique wasn't fast, the ground was not hard. After a full twenty feet, he encountered a rock. Moreover, what bothered Lu An was that the rock was very brittle. It almost cracked when he touched it. Lu An's speed was not affected at all. He quickly advanced into the mountain.
Along the way, other than the brittle rock, there were no other strange things. The only thing that bothered Lu An was that the closer he got to the bottom, the more purple gold ores there were, and the bigger the ores were.
Lu An knew that with his speed, he definitely hadn't reached the bottom yet. He was still in the mountain. However, the amount of purple gold around him was so high that it made one's hair stand on end. The amount of purple gold ores was several times more than what Lu An had seen before. It was definitely not something that ordinary purple gold ores should have.
It seemed that his guess was right. Lu An was more and more convinced of his idea. Therefore, he quickly went down.
The mountain was no more than a hundred feet high. Lu An left a tunnel that was a hundred feet high from top to bottom. In the process of moving forward, he used ice to freeze the places he walked past, forming an ice tunnel so that it would be more convenient for him the next time he came.
After half an hour of hard work, Lu An finally reached the bottom of the mountain's core. Further down was the ground and not the mountain. However, Lu An was in the mountain. Even if he was sensitive to distance, he wouldn't know that he had just reached the horizon.
However, he just stopped at the horizon because he suddenly felt a huge resistance on his way forward.
Hard.
Really hard like iron.
Lu An stood on the ground and bent down to touch the surface with his hand. He found that the surface was very flat. After sweeping away the soil, it could even be considered smooth, like a huge iron plate. Lu An's eyes narrowed. An ice dagger appeared in his hand, and he cut open the rock under his feet.
Even if it was real iron, with Lu An's current strength and the strength of the Deep Ice, he would be able to cut it like mud. Moreover, these were still just rocks. However, this did indeed waste a lot of Lu An's strength. His speed was also greatly reduced. The further he went, the harder the rock became. After two hundred feet, Lu An even had to use a lot of strength to break open the rock, and only then could he slowly move forward.
Finally, when he was about three hundred feet underground, Lu An stopped. After advancing for a long time in the mountain and underground, he was also panting. There was very little air in the ground, and he also felt dizzy. Of course, he didn't stop because of this, but because there was no longer rock under his feet.
Instead, it was a real purple-gold wall.
That's right, it was a purple-gold wall, a genuine purple-gold wall. Although the purple-gold wall's exterior was obviously damaged and missing a lot, but when Lu An looked at the purple-gold wall under his feet, he discovered that it was definitely a huge purple-gold wall. Most likely, the purple-gold that spread out was from the purple-gold wall over the years.
There were so many purple-gold mines outside, it was enough to imagine how huge this purple-gold wall was.
However, Lu An didn't have much interest in money, so he wasn't too happy. Instead, he was more concerned about why there was such a huge purple-gold wall here. Was there only one purple-gold wall, or was there something hidden under this wall?
After Lu An calmly pondered for a moment, he once again sealed the surrounding walls with ice. However, he didn't seal the purple-gold wall under his feet. Then, he quickly went back up the same way he came, all the way to the surface of the mountain.
Under the moonlight, there wasn't even a shadow in the entire mountain forest. Only Lu An stood above the cave entrance. After using [Scorching Sun 9 Suns] to confirm that there wasn't anyone within a mile radius, he aimed his palms at the bottomless cave entrance, and took a deep breath.
In an instant, two incomparably huge and majestic flames surged out from his hands, straight into the deep cave!
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