Chapter 197: Unexpected Harvest

Thinking of the high-quality Yin Evil Energy underneath, Jie Ming was full of motivation.

His figure soared into the sky again, flying directly to an altitude of several hundred meters.

Looking down at the city ruins that had been razed to the ground by him, the "Great Light Aspect" behind him unfolded once again in this area!

This time, his goal was no longer to clear out Snow Monsters, but... to dig.

"Maximum power output! Focus on one point, blast it open for me!"

As Jie Ming's will issued the order, thousands of rune wizarding tools behind him instantly adjusted their angles, all aiming at the area where the Yin Evil Energy was dissipating most intensely.

Jie Ming even used the move he used when fighting the Tier 3 Lava Giant, letting the Five Elements Transforming Rainbow Mirror assist to focus all attacks on one point.

Thousands of rune wizarding tools erupted simultaneously, no longer dispersing their bombardment, but focusing on one point, forming thick energy light pillars capable of destroying mountains, like divine punishment from heaven, fiercely bombarding the frozen earth below!

A destructive light pillar, more condensed and thicker than any previous one, carrying terrifying power capable of piercing through mountain ranges, bombarded the ruins below fiercely.

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

The city was trembling; no, the entire ice crater, and even the further ice field, were trembling violently under Jie Ming's terrifying saturation bombing!

Violent energy tore through the hard permafrost and bedrock at the speed of light, glaciers split into huge gullies, thick ice layers instantly vaporized under the impact of high temperature, emitting deafening roars.

Countless shattered rocks and ice chips were thrown to an altitude of several hundred meters, flying like a rainstorm.

The earth was wailing, and the ice river was forcibly blasted into bottomless cracks.

Jie Ming hovered in the air, his eyes calm.

His "Great Light Aspect" was running at full power, and every energy bomb hit the predetermined area accurately without any waste.

As the bombing continued, a huge deep pit with a diameter of several hundred meters was visibly extending downward at an astonishing speed!

The shockwave formed almost completely evacuated the surrounding air, forming a huge energy vortex.

He bombed continuously for nearly ten minutes, consuming most of the energy stored in one "metal disk."

When Jie Ming finally felt that the rock layer below was no longer so solid and the energy beam encountered a resistance similar to a "void," he slowly retracted the fire tongue of the "Great Light Aspect."

A bottomless, irregular columnar hole now appeared before his eyes; its depth was immeasurable, and the lower end was obscured by overturned rubble and permeating dust.

Jie Ming took a deep breath, first turned off his Magic Net terminal, and then stuffed it into his internal space, ensuring that this thing absolutely could not detect things outside.

After finishing all this, he raised his hands, his fingertips nimbly twisting magic formulas, and he silently recited incantations in his mouth.

The pure True Essence of the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage in his body was mobilized by him in large quantities like a flood, pouring into the magic formulas continuously, making every hand seal exude a faint white light.

These True Essences finally condensed into a profound "Evil-Drawing" medium talisman, which slowly formed at his fingertips.

"Go!"

With a light shout, Jie Ming fiercely shot the talisman condensing True Essence into the deep pit!

The talisman dragged a white trail, flashed and disappeared, quickly falling into the cold and deep darkness.

This magic formula was a type of Evil-Gathering Method, specifically for dealing with "primary conceptual materials" like Yin Evil Energy.

The "primary" in this name was not a level, but a "sequence," corresponding to "secondary conceptual materials."

If spiritual power was "electricity," then "secondary conceptual materials" like refined gold, Red Dust Qi, and Hundred Flower Dew were "light" or "mechanical energy" produced by "electricity."

The production process of these secondary conceptual materials must involve the participation of spiritual energy; although they could increase the types of resources to a certain extent, they indeed could not leave the existence of spiritual energy.

And "primary conceptual materials" were roughly similar to coal and solar energy.

Essentially, these things were not spiritual energy, but they could be converted into spiritual energy through various methods.

This type of conceptual material was born to solve the problem of insufficient spiritual energy, so its biggest characteristic was that it could self-derive and create something out of nothing.

These things did not necessarily require the participation of spiritual energy in the process of generation, as long as there was a "lead."

For example, this Yin Evil Energy, as long as various conceptual conditions were met, normally a cultivator only needed to send out a wisp of the same Yin Evil Energy as a lead to allow the remaining Yin Evil Energy meeting the conditions to automatically condense.

Of course, if there was no lead, one could also "edit" spiritual energy into the required lead—which was the so-called Evil-Drawing magic formula.

In the deep pit, a moment of dead silence...

Immediately, a chilling aura of Yin Evil suddenly erupted from the bottomless pit!

Sss!!!

A Yin Evil Energy so rich that it was almost about to condense into substance, like a breached black torrent, carrying bone-chilling cold and an indescribable fishy stench, gushed up from the bottom of the deep pit like a fountain!

They moved extremely fast, instantly filling the entire giant pit, and even rushed out of the pit mouth, forming a piece of permeating grey mist on the surrounding ice field.

Jie Ming couldn't care about the emptiness and slight dizziness coming from the loss of most of his True Essence at once.

A joy erupted in his eyes, and he immediately sacrificed the "Evil-Gathering Gourd," a magic treasure specifically for collecting Yin Evil, from his internal space.

He pinched the seal, turned the gourd upside down, and blocked it vertically at the hole.

The gourd mouth seemed to turn into a bottomless black hole, emitting a "buzzing" suction, collecting all the Yin Evil Energy gushing up without missing a single wisp.

At the beginning of the collection, seeing the constantly increasing storage of the Evil-Gathering Gourd, which was almost visible to the naked eye, Jie Ming's heart was full of joy.

He knew he had dug up a treasure!

As time passed, he became happier and happier, even ecstatic, because the absorption speed of the Evil-Gathering Gourd almost didn't slow down!

But when he discovered that the amount of Yin Evil Energy not only didn't decrease in the slightest but, accompanied by a low pulsation coming from the depths of the earth, the speed of gushing was gradually accelerating, and even more and more was coming out, Jie Ming's face changed from ecstatic to horrified!

He was shocked to find that as the collection time passed, the quantity of Yin Evil Energy not only didn't decrease, but accompanied by a low pulsation from the depths of the earth, the speed of gushing was gradually accelerating, and even more and more was coming out!

Moreover, what truly made his scalp tingle was that the quality of these Yin Evil Energies was still rising at a terrifying speed!

They gradually transformed from their original grey color into a bottomless pure black, as if they had condensed all the resentment and death in the world.

In the end, they were even approaching mysterious black, which meant their quality had reached the top level!

The Evil-Gathering Gourd, which theoretically almost didn't need to worry about capacity, was now emitting an unbearable buzzing sound, and the runes on its surface even showed signs of overload!

"Full... full?!" Jie Ming whispered in disbelief.

According to the information given by the Great Dao Book Pavilion, this Evil-Gathering Gourd could collect the total amount of evil energy produced when an entire continent's ecosystem was completely destroyed!

He had to take time to mobilize raw materials from his internal space and hurriedly pinched another temporary Evil-Gathering Gourd in his other hand!

Although this temporary gourd was crude, it could temporarily receive the constantly gushing evil energy.

However, even with two gourds plus his own "Mysterious Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier" instinctively devouring the surrounding Yin Evil Energy, the quantity gushing out still showed no signs of weakening!

"The amount now is no longer a problem of an ancient battlefield..." In Jie Ming's mind, intelligence from the Wizard Legion's database flashed rapidly.

According to the situation mastered by wizards through two years of investigation and archaeology, the known history of the two races, Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, was only a little over ten thousand years!

With this level of Yin Evil Energy, even if all the ancient battlefields of the entire Flame-Frost Plane were concentrated in this one area, it was absolutely impossible to produce such a terrifying effect!

"So! Underneath this... there must be an even bigger problem!" Jie Ming's heart surged with uncontrollable curiosity!

Looking at the two Evil-Gathering Gourds in his hands whose storage was again approaching the limit, and the mysterious black evil energy still gushing upward continuously.

Jie Ming had no choice but to mobilize the little True Essence he had left and cast a sealing magic formula.

Since he couldn't collect it all, he could only temporarily seal the source first.

Otherwise, if this thing spread out, let alone the Snow Monster side, even the Wizard's forward outpost would be affected.

He hadn't covered his tracks when he came, so if someone came to investigate after discovering something wrong, it would be a big trouble!

Fortunately, Yin Evil Energy itself was relatively "inert."

Although it was terrifying when it erupted, its speed of spreading and expanding was relatively slow without anyone driving it.

Therefore, an ordinary sealing magic formula was enough to seal it.

As the rune restrictions lit up around the hole, the surging Yin Evil Energy was finally suppressed, temporarily stopping the gushing, leaving only strands of dissipation.

This level of dissipation was completely acceptable, and the natural ecosystem was enough to resolve it before it caused greater negative impacts.

However, keeping it sealed like this was not a solution; he still had to solve the source.

Jie Ming didn't venture down rashly, but sat cross-legged to adjust his aura, allowing his state, which was slightly withered due to consuming most of his True Essence at once, to fully recover.

He supplemented with some magic elixirs to make the spiritual power in his body full again.

Afterward, his eyes froze, he leaped, and without hesitation, he jumped into the bottomless giant pit filled with chilling cold!

Jie Ming's intuition told him that a huge secret capable of shocking the entire plane was hidden underneath!

Just after entering the deep pit, the rich Yin Evil Energy entangled him like an evil ghost.

With the "Mysterious Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier" protecting him, Jie Ming wasn't too worried that these wandering Yin Evil Energies would cause any substantial impact on himself.

Even in a sense, these scattered high-quality Yin Evil Energies would only become the best nutrients for the "Mysterious Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier," nourishing the Gang Sha at its core and further strengthening its defensive power.

(Added chapter, one more chapter to go.)

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