Chapter 545: Your Snow Dragon Mountain—is more arrogant than Taiyi Gate?

High above, Fang Yu and his second Primordial Spirit stood quietly.

Underground, several Purple Mansion realm cultivators—old and young, male and female—were all members of the Ji clan.

The Ji clan was a small faction on the vast territory of the Great Xia Dynasty, divided into the Central, East, West, South, and North Mansions. Just one of these, the West Mansion, governed a region stretching over three thousand li north to south and more than five thousand li east to west. The countless tribes living on this great land were all under the Ji clan's rule.

Yet this seemingly enormous Ji clan tribe was, when measured against the entire Great Xia Dynasty, utterly insignificant.

The Great Xia Dynasty was an ancient dynasty born in the age of gods and demons, existing for tens of millions of years.

A dynasty that could endure for tens of millions of years—one could well imagine how terrifying it was. Beings at the level of Return-to-Void Earth Immortals or Heavenly Immortals were not lacking in the Great Xia Dynasty.

Postnatal, Innate, Purple Mansion, Ten Thousand Phenomena, Primordial Spirit, Return-to-Void Earth Immortal, Jin Dan Heavenly Immortal.

For a tribe like the Ji clan, having a Purple Mansion cultivator in the clan was already exceedingly rare; to produce a Ten Thousand Phenomena True Person would require an enormous stroke of fortune.

"Ji Ning, have you finished your investigation? How deep is this ore vein?"

Just then, after a youth had burrowed underground to explore for a while, a middle-aged man spoke up to ask.

That middle-aged man was also at the Purple Mansion realm, and carried an air of steadiness and authority, clearly very likely the patriarch of the Ji clan.

In fact, he was indeed the patriarch of the Ji clan—Ji Jiuhuo.

"Mm."

The youth named Ji Ning nodded. "Patriarch, I've already finished my investigation. This ore vein is a full three hundred li deep."

"What, three hundred li deep?"

Ji clan patriarch Ji Jiuhuo's expression instantly grew solemn. "This primordial stone ore vein covers an area of over four thousand li across. If it's also three hundred li deep, then it's a true large-scale primordial stone ore vein. Such an enormous primordial stone ore vein, for the Ji clan, would be not a great blessing but a great calamity!"

Hearing this, the faces of all the Ji clan members present changed.

Indeed, one must eat according to the size of one's stomach. If this primordial stone ore vein were small, the Ji clan could still swallow it and develop faster. But now this primordial stone ore vein was a super-rich mine, its value many times greater than the Ji clan itself—the Ji clan simply could not bear it.

In fact, the ore vein formed over a hundred years by the spiritual energy absorbed by a cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Primordial Spirit Daoist realm in order to break through to the Earth Immortal realm is worth more than half the net worth of a Primordial Spirit Daoist. If mining it weren't so time-consuming, even Primordial Spirit Daoists would come to seize it upon learning of it.

But if a Ten Thousand Phenomena True Person learned of it, they would certainly go mad for it.