Jiang Yuan turned and left decisively, disappearing from Lin Siyin's sight in just a moment.

The eruption of the divine vein is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it allows Jiang Yuan to more clearly grasp the source of the divine vein. He needs to know where the source of this divine vein is and whether it is related to the remains of Zhu Yan.

Advancing against the evil tide, Jiang Yuan's Yin-Yang Shield was almost unable to keep up. The Yin-Yang Shield had a five-minute cooldown, but the shield value it provided was only ten times the current energy. Now, the evil tide within five minutes had exceeded the range of his ten times energy, so he had to support the Ultimate Armor to withstand the invasion of the Hellish Evil Tide.

This divine vein is not a deep, longitudinal vein; its shape is more like the veins of a leaf, extending from a main vein to other locations, and the place he is currently at is the end of this vein.

"This divine vein is no ordinary thing!"

Based on the information he currently possesses, this divine vein is merely a branch of the main vein. Although its range is large enough, the divine blood energy it possesses has long been absorbed by the main vein. The divine vein under the New Alliance is just an empty shell of a branch.

However, even if the divine vein is empty, the divine bloodstones that were once hidden will not completely disappear. For example, he has now found the first divine bloodstone in this divine vein.

Jiang Yuan used his sword to cut open a rock, scraping away a full thirty centimeters of stone skin before discovering the Divine Blood Stone hidden inside.

"Insight!"

The results showed that this piece of divine bloodstone contained four hundred points of divine blood energy, which is a very good gain.

"Divine Blood Energy is the best choice for cultivating a divine body!" Jiang Yuan put the Divine Blood Stone into his storage ring. His Nine Spirits Demon Body also needed Divine Blood Energy, but his Divine Blood Energy had always been scarce. Not to mention routine operations like replacing talents, he would need a lot of Divine Blood Energy to cultivate his intent and rules in the future, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to enter the Apocalypse World.

"keep going!"

Although this divine vein is abandoned, it still contains a considerable amount of divine bloodstone. With patience, he can easily find several thousand divine bloodstones. In any case, the gathering of the New Alliance has not yet started, so he has plenty of time to wait.

As they continued their exploration, Jiang Yuan used his stone sense to check on Lin Siyin's condition. She was still wearing protective clothing and wandering around the mine tunnel, and it was unclear what she was thinking.

He didn't intend to pay attention to Lin Siyin, but instead focused on heading towards the source of the divine vein.

When he had walked three-quarters of the way, his ultimate armor couldn't hold up any longer, and the Yin-Yang Shield could only last for ten seconds. So he simply turned off the Yin-Yang Shield. After all, the five-minute cooldown of the Yin-Yang Shield was quite long. If there was an emergency here, losing a few seconds of invincibility from the Yin-Yang Shield would be a big loss.

However, just as this thought crossed his mind, the unexpected situation came faster than he had imagined.

With a whoosh, swarms of black insects swooped down on him. These black insects perfectly avoided his sense of stone, launching a surprise attack at close range, so fast that he didn't even have time to react.

"Squeak, squeak!"

In an instant, the first two insects had already bitten his skin, while the rest were swiftly slashed off by him using the Round Table Stance of the Thirteen Tai Chi Swords.

With a snap, he crushed the two insects to death, but their mouthparts had already pierced deep into his skin.

The insight landed on the insect's corpse, revealing that it was a stone-eating insect, of low rank, but capable of devouring anything.

"I remember there was information about the Stone-Eating Worm in the memories of the Sun and Moon Saint King!"

Jiang Yuan began searching through his long-forgotten memories, and after spending five minutes recalling them, he finally found the relevant records about the Stone-Eating Worm.

The Stone-Eating Worm is a unique creature within a primordial divine vein. Whether it is a low-level or high-level divine vein, the Stone-Eating Worm must exist within it. It is a creature whose physical body is almost eternally indestructible. Even after it is killed, a particle will still remain. This is the essence obtained by the Stone-Eating Worm from refining the blood of gods. I have secluded myself for a hundred years to try to collect the essence from the Stone-Eating Worm's body and forge it into a weapon, but I still failed.

This is the Sun and Moon Saint King's introduction to the Stone-Eating Insect. He highly praised the essence within the Stone-Eating Insect, but even he, the Saint King who was known as invincible below the gods, could not find a way to use the Stone-Eating Insect.

"Can this thing be used to forge weapons?"

Jiang Yuan used his divine power to transform into fire, burning the two insect corpses to ashes. He squinted and finally found two tiny, almost invisible, pure particles in the lines between his fingers.

"Damn, it's so small!"

Jiang Yuan was speechless. These really were particles. To gather such tiny things into a weapon forging material, it would probably take hundreds of millions of Stone-Eating Worms.

"It's so small, it can only be added to weapons to enhance them!"

Jiang Yuan blurted it out, but when he talked about strengthening, a flash of inspiration appeared in his eyes.

What is enhancement magic? It's the ability to enhance various skills and weapons using materials. If you use enhancement magic to enhance this thing, will there be any unexpected gains?

Without hesitation, he picked up all thirty corpses of the Stone-Eating Insects on the ground, then burned them all, leaving only thirty-eight essence particles in his palm. Afterward, he searched through his weapons and finally chose the bow that Yan Yixuan had forged for him.

However, the bowstring has broken, and now only the bow body remains, but this does not affect his enhancement.

"Give it a try!"

Jiang Yuan activated the intermediate enhancement technique, and the technique quickly revealed the requirements and conditions for enhancement.

"Enhancement item - True Spirit Bow, enhancement materials - Essence Particles, Divine Blood Energy. The Intermediate Enhancement Technique can only fuse a maximum of one thousand Essence Particles in a single enhancement."

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