Chapter 1769: Traps and Spies

Its digging and transportation speed was at least ten times faster than humans working at full capacity! And because of the special talent of the essence of earth, it was exceptionally sensitive to Profound Crystals, easily finding treasures hidden deep within the rock walls.

But extreme cloning also placed a huge burden on the essence of earth's main body, which was why the dwarf fed it high-quality Profound Crystals.

At thirty-five yards underground, the mine tunnel was pitch black, without a trace of light, but this environment couldn't stump the essence of earth.

This was a place where human miners didn't often come, and the ore was large and beautiful, with good water quality.

The essence of earth was digging happily when it suddenly smelled a fresh fragrance.

The smell of the underground karst cave was always the same, but this scent was refreshing, and closing one's eyes felt like standing in a garden where hundreds of flowers were in full bloom.

The essence of earth knew that this was the scent of Di Liujiang, or to put it more bluntly, this was an extremely rich fragrance of spiritual energy!

Dozens of earth mole crickets gathered immediately and ran toward the source of the scent.

That was a long tunnel, the entrance was small, only allowing human children or dogs to pass through, adults couldn't drill in. The ground was also scattered with many broken stones, obviously, this road had just been opened by miners not long ago, and it was likely that they hadn't had time to survey it.

This couldn't stump the essence of earth.

There were no Profound Crystals on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel. The earth mole crickets ran for another hundred yards, and ahead was a dead end—a thick stone wall.

But on this stone wall, there was embedded the largest Profound Crystal the essence of earth had ever seen! Just the part exposed outside the rock wall was over three yards high and nearly two yards wide! Who knew if this was just the tip of the iceberg? At the moment, Qian Huan's escape technique prohibition was still in effect in the Upside-Down Sea, and as an outsider, the essence of earth had no way to directly detect its reserves.

Its color was also a gradient from deep red to purple.

There is a saying, red to the point of purple. Among all ranks, purple Profound Crystals are of the highest quality.

Such a perfect, such a huge Profound Crystal, the essence of earth was also stunned, unable to speak for a long time.

Then, it reported to Jieshui True Person and the dwarf.

Jieshui True Person's thought was only one word:

Dig! Dig it out quickly.

The Tiangong team at the moment needed such pure and huge energy the most!

The dwarf hesitated: "Is there such a coincidence, someone sending a pillow just when I'm sleepy?"

When resources were desperately needed, this mine pit suddenly appeared with a Profound Crystal so large it was outrageous, the earth mole crickets didn't need to go elsewhere to find or dig, just focus on attacking it.

Could there be such a good thing in the world? But the earth mole crickets brought up the fragments of Profound Crystals cut down to show him, and he dispelled his last trace of doubt: it was genuine, no deception.

"Dig, dig quickly!"

Such a large Profound Crystal, with just one or two, ten or eight earth mole crickets, wouldn't it take ten days to dig? So the essence of earth gave an order, and the earth mole crickets exploring everywhere in the mine cave suddenly turned around and ran here in unison!

That vast expanse, everywhere was the rustling sound of six legs paddling on the ground, even more terrifying than a locust plague.

If He Lingchuan and the others were there, they would find that the giant Profound Crystal on the stone wall was completely covered, its surface densely packed with large insects! They clung to the Profound Crystal, trying hard to cut it with sharp mouthparts and front claws, and as soon as they chipped off a bit of scrap, they rushed to transport it out.

Other earth mole crickets were trying hard to dig the stone wall, trying to open up the hidden part of the Profound Crystal.

More of their companions were rushing over from other parts of the mine cave.

"Almost there." Elder Liu said to He Lingchuan in a low voice, "The mole crickets passing outside are already fewer."

The main wave had passed, meaning most of the mole crickets had rushed into the tunnel.

He Lingchuan nodded, signaling him to wait a little longer, while secretly listening to Zhu Xiuer's voice transmission:

"Hey, the eyeball spider discovered that there are always a few bird demons flying around over the Kidney Lake, always glowing."

Glowing?

Although he could also borrow the eyeball spider's field of vision, it wasn't as high-definition and far-reaching as the original.

Now the eyeball spider was hiding in the tallest tree crown by the mine cave. This tree protruded from the cliff and echoed with the Kidney Lake not far away.

Like Zhu Xiuer, the eyeball spider's dozen eyes were arranged around its head, almost with no visual blind spots of three hundred and sixty degrees. It had long seen the bird demons flying back and forth in the sky.

"They flew over from the direction of the Upside-Down Lake, and threw the light spots down when they reached the Kidney Lake, repeating this several times." Zhu Xiuer added, "I watched for a long time, what do those light spots look like? Do you remember those glowing Silver Pearl Fruit by the Upside-Down Lake?"

They stood on Stone Dragon Peak to watch the live broadcast of the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, but whenever the scene switched to the shore of the Upside-Down Lake, they could always see countless stars. Xiao Wencheng had long explained that those were the fruits of the Silver Pearl Tree, which only absorbed moonlight and glowed all night on the night of the fifteenth.

He Lingchuan nodded.

Which family's bird demon would specially bring Silver Pearl Fruit from the Upside-Down Lake and insist on throwing it into the Kidney Lake to hear a splash?

Dong Rui stood behind Elder Liu and made several hand signs to He Lingchuan: "Is the Tiangong testing something?"

When he did experiments himself, didn't he have to try repeatedly like this?

The battle was intense, and the Illusion Sect certainly didn't have the leisure to do this. So these bird demons were mostly from the Tiangong camp.

Associating it with the abnormality of the Kidney Lake and the heat of the divine bone necklace, He Lingchuan stroked his chin. Did Bai Ziqi also discover some clues? This mostly happened after he and Elder Liu led the team to Yu Village. Did Xiao Wencheng also see the abnormality of these bird demons through the Haoyuan Golden Mirror?

Earlier, He Lingchuan asked him about the enemy's movements, but he didn't mention it at all.

Did he not notice, or did he not want to say?

At this time, Elder Liu reminded again: "No mole crickets have passed for a long time."

This "long time" was only ten breaths, he was a bit anxious.

Only then did He Lingchuan softly read a name: "Auntie!"

Above the tunnel entrance, a black shadow suddenly moved.

Wu Shidao rushed out of the edge of the lighthouse barrier before summoning the Haoyuan Golden Mirror and stepping back to Stone Dragon Peak.

He could only return to the square.

On the way to the Wenhui Pavilion, he brushed past several young Illusion Sect disciples and heard them call him "Uncle-Master Wu".

They were too young, had learned too few divine abilities, and couldn't go to the battlefield, so they stayed in the sect to do logistics.

One of them was a junior from Wu Shidao's village, and even made two jokes with his companion.

He still didn't know that his village had been destroyed by Sect Master Xiao.

Wu Shidao looked at them with mixed feelings. He had lived for decades and thought he had seen through everything, but in fact, he had always lived in the lies woven by the Illusion Sect, always being deceived and used. How much difference was there between him and these innocent children? He shook his head, threw away the distracting thoughts, and hurried into the Wenhui Pavilion.

Only Xiao Wencheng stood in front of the mirror here, and the other Elders were not there.

He stepped forward to salute. Xiao Wencheng knew he had come, but didn't turn his head: "How is the battle inside the lighthouse barrier?"

With the barrier blocking it, Xiao Wencheng couldn't see the battlefield from the Haoyuan Golden Mirror and could only ask the eyewitnesses for intelligence.

In the past, Wu Shidao saw Sect Master Xiao as a high-ranking style, as unreachable as the bright moon, but now he only felt that he was hypocritical.

It was this person who lightly harmed his relatives, drove the Yakshas to abuse the residents of Silver Pearl Island, and placed his own statue in the Wind God Temple, wanting everyone to worship him wholeheartedly!

Seeing Xiao Wencheng, Wu Shidao couldn't help but feel boundless hatred in his heart!

He quickly bent down and lowered his head, lest he be discovered by Xiao Wencheng.

Since Xiao Wencheng asked about the war situation, he concealed the fact that he had been captured and told everything else truthfully.

Only with more truth and more details could he cover up his misconduct.

He was an old man of the Illusion Sect and frequently entered and exited various important sect locations on Stone Dragon Peak. Today he also returned twice to report news and take things. Xiao Wencheng saw him covered in blood and with a firm expression, and with the fierce battle by the lake, Xiao Wencheng only thought about how to respond after listening to his description.

Therefore, when he mentioned that Elder Jin was asking for eight hundred jin of top-grade Profound Crystals, Xiao Wencheng didn't think much and wrote a handwritten order for him.

The three Elders on the front line had already sent people back to ask for help many times, and Xiao Wencheng also knew that once the battle started, the materials accumulated over many years would be consumed like flowing water.

But what could be done? This battle had to be fought until the other side showed their trump cards first.

Wu Shidao took the handwritten order, saluted Xiao Wencheng quickly, and walked out of the Wenhui Pavilion.

This step went more smoothly than expected, and the next was the main event—

Immortal Light Cave.

When he arrived, another group of disciples also came to withdraw materials.

These people greeted him: "Uncle-Master Wu, you first!"

"No need, you go." Wu Shidao followed behind them and walked into the Immortal Light Cave unhurriedly.

The beast head sculpture on the door had once scared away the brain-eating insect demon, making it unable to sneak in, but Wu Shidao was "one of their own", and it only looked twice before letting him pass.

There were guards all the way. Wu Shidao showed the Sect Master's handwritten order and passed easily; he also met two managers, both acquaintances, and even smiled and greeted them: "Is Manager Lu there?"

"Manager Lu went to coordinate the intake of medicines, and will be back soon." The two managers sighed, "The battle is on the front line, and the expenditure of medicines is too great."

This Immortal Light Cave almost hollowed out the mountain belly, with thirty-six caves dug inside, and treasures were dazzling, showing the Illusion Sect's wealth.

Newcomers would feel that this was a maze for the first three times, with tunnels crisscrossing, not to mention finding what they wanted, even finding the exit was difficult.

Wu Shidao naturally didn't have this trouble. He walked to the second to last layer with ease, wading through many hidden mechanisms along the way.

If outsiders broke in rashly, they would die without a burial place in an instant.

In front was another stone room, which was empty, except for a sleeping giant beast.

This monster looked like a tiger, also yellow with black patterns, but its face was narrow and short, and it had a pair of wild boar-like tusks.

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