Chapter 934: Leo

The gravity on the seventh level of the Breakthrough Tower is three times that of Blue Star.

Correspondingly, the soil density is much higher than that of Blue Star.

Not to mention that the seventh level of the Breakthrough Tower is an icy world, its surface covered by a thick layer of ice.

This makes the ground even harder and more solid.

A typical second-rank adept cannot even break through the ground.

But for these nine-rank experts, it is no problem at all.

In just a few minutes, more than half of the hundred-square-kilometer area had already been excavated.

Some of the excavated pits were even dozens of meters deep.

“Warren, how many Void Stones have you dug up?”

Swish—

Leo collected the nearby Void Stones into his space ring and flew up from underground, asking via mental transmission.

“Sixty thousand.” Warren replied.

“Demi, how about you?”

“Seventy thousand,” replied Demi, the only middle-aged woman among the three.

“I have one hundred thousand. Together, the three of us have only two hundred and thirty thousand.”

Leo frowned, “Warren, what’s going on? Is there really a million Void Stones in this area?”

Two hundred and thirty thousand Void Stones in a few minutes.

In the past, this would have been an incredibly terrifying efficiency.

But this area originally contained a massive amount of Void Stones, and we’ve already excavated over half the area.

There should be at least five hundred thousand Void Stones here—now we’re short by half!

“Maybe my mental perception is faulty.”

Warren, the only Law Saint among the three, replied hesitantly: “Some areas we dug up didn’t contain nearly as many Void Stones as I sensed.”

“Your mental perception is faulty?”

Leo raised his eyelids, staring at Warren: “You’re a ninth-rank Law Saint—the strongest mental adept among us three.

Now you tell me your mental perception is faulty? Then tell me, how are we supposed to trust you from now on?”

Leo did not unleash his ninth-rank peak aura, yet facing Leo’s gaze,

Warren’s forehead was drenched in sweat, his whole body soaked in cold sweat, and he hurriedly explained:

“I don’t know what’s going on.

The underground areas I sensed clearly should have contained Void Stones.

But when we dug there, we found nothing but glacial soil...”

“You don’t know what’s going on?”

Leo’s face was filled with disappointment.

This time, the Lei Ding family sent six ninth-rank experts into this place.

Besides our three, there was another three-man ninth-rank squad.

Their leader was only a ninth-rank upper-tier Martial Saint.

So I assigned the slightly stronger ninth-rank mid-tier Law Saint to their team and kept Warren with me.

But I never expected Warren to be this unreliable.

“Forget it. Just be more careful next time.

If you make another such low-level mistake, I’ll report your performance truthfully to the clan chief when we return.”

Since they still needed to cooperate further, Leo didn’t press further, only giving him a simple warning.

“Understood!” Warren wiped the sweat from his brow and nodded quickly.

Yet he felt a flicker of doubt inside.

As a ninth-rank Law Saint, his mental perception should never fail.

Especially when sensing inanimate objects.

For it to be inaccurate was indeed a low-level error.

Of course, there was another possibility.

That a stronger mental adept was manipulating things, creating a false illusion of faulty perception.

In reality, he hadn’t sensed wrong—the Void Stones had simply been taken away.

But Lord Leo was a ninth-rank peak expert.

Which adept would dare play tricks under their noses?

Thinking this, Warren still suspected his own perception was at fault.

But to be safe, he activated a perception-based combat technique, preparing to scan again.

Whoosh—

Vast mental energy surged out from Warren, plunging deep below the ground, over a hundred meters.

This time, he was even more careful—but still found nothing unusual.

Suddenly—

A patch of Void Stones he had previously sensed vanished abruptly!

“Wrong!”

Warren’s pupils shrank, and he shouted loudly, “Lord Leo! There’s someone underground!”

“Stealing Void Stones right under my nose? You’re asking for death!”

Leo paused, then erupted in furious rage.

Boom!!

The aura of a ninth-rank peak Martial Saint exploded violently as he activated his ability.

His body suddenly transformed, turning in an instant into a five-meter-tall humanoid giant ape!

“Die! Rage Slash!”

Crimson blood condensed into a six-meter-long great blade, which Leo slashed down toward the direction locked by Warren’s mental perception!

Boom boom boom~~~

The hard ice plain was split open by a chasm-like trench, plunging deep underground!

Pfft—

Green sap splattered everywhere; a vine of the Iron-Thread Lotus was severed!

“Master, they’ve spotted me!”

The Iron-Thread Lotus’s voice echoed in Xu Jingming’s mind.

“Good. Retract all your vines immediately and flee.”

Xu Jingming ordered quickly.

The Iron-Thread Lotus had created over a dozen fake outposts using its vines.

Even a ninth-rank peak Martial Saint would have to check each one individually to tell real from fake.

“Understood, Master.”

As soon as the words ended, the Iron-Thread Lotus retracted all its vines.

Instantly, the entire ice plain trembled.

“It’s a plant lifeform!”

Leo’s face darkened with fury as he roared, “Warren, come with me! Demi, stay here!”

Without delay, Leo’s crimson blood surged like a streak of light, carrying Warren toward the direction from which the Iron-Thread Lotus’s vines had retracted.

The entire area was now left with only Demi, the ninth-rank mid-tier Martial Saint.

“Plant lifeform. From its aura, it’s around ninth-rank.

With such weak power, how dare it provoke Lord Leo? It has no idea how it will die.”

Shaking her head, Demi turned her gaze away and prepared to resume collecting Void Stones.

Without Warren, she couldn’t precisely sense the locations of the underground Void Stones.

But she could still vaguely sense them—just with slightly lower efficiency.

Meanwhile, a hundred meters underground, about five kilometers from this area,

Xu Jingming and Su Qingli were hidden in a cramped underground chamber.

“Jingming, Leo has gone after the Iron-Thread Lotus. What do we do now?”

Su Qingli asked curiously.

Long before the Iron-Thread Lotus moved, they had already concealed themselves here.

But Xu Jingming had never revealed his purpose, so she had simply waited.

At this distance, her mental perception had already identified the ninth-rank peak as Leo of the Lei Ding family.

“Don’t rush. Wait until he flies farther away.”

Xu Jingming whispered.

To avoid detection by Leo and the others,

the underground chamber he dug was small—the two of them standing together felt slightly cramped.

He could even clearly smell the faint, pure fragrance emanating from Su Qingli.

His goal was simple: after Leo left, he and Su Qingli would continue stealing Void Stones together!

After all, they had come this far; it would be unreasonable not to take more.