"The Divine Blood Stone is just three meters ahead. Be careful!"

Jiang Yuan received a message through the communication stone in his hand: he was no longer on the outskirts. At this moment, he was with the queen ant and her dozen or so ant soldiers, seventy meters underground, just one step away from a seventh-tier small mineral vein.

As soon as Ning Yanlan finished her instructions, Leng Yue called out again through the communication stone: "Don't hurt my little ant, or you'll have to take responsibility for me!"

"Don't worry, I'll personally handle the last meter of breaking through the barrier. The ants and ant soldiers will be safely inside the storage ring!" Jiang Yuan replied.

“That has to be the case. After all, I treat Little Ant like my own daughter. If anything goes wrong with her, you’ll have to give birth to my daughter yourself!” Leng Yue said earnestly.

Jiang Yuan chuckled helplessly. Leng Yue's personality had changed a lot, especially after killing so many monsters last night. She seemed to have become much more cheerful. He even thought that Leng Yue was a psychopath. Otherwise, why would she be happier the more she killed?

Jiang Yuan carefully dug the last three meters. The soil seventy meters underground was already very hard, and even these fourth or fifth-order cave ants had to put in a lot of effort to dig it out.

Finally, the soil within a two-meter distance was cleared, and Jiang Yuan, as Leng Yue had requested, collected all the ants and ant soldiers into his storage ring.

The corrosive gases in the ore vein are so potent that even ninth-tier spirit beasts can be harmed. A seventh-tier spirit beast like the little ant simply cannot withstand it, let alone the ant soldiers of even lower tiers.

When everything was ready, Jiang Yuan lifted his foot and stared at the last meter.

"Phew, I hope he's alright!" Jiang Yuan was still quite uneasy. He wasn't sure if the seventh-level Great Wilderness Body Tempering Technique could withstand it for even a minute, but he still had to try it first.

As for using the Divine Battle buff, he planned to test it for a few seconds first, and if he really couldn't withstand it, he would immediately activate the Divine Battle buff to escape.

After all, no matter how precious the Divine Bloodstone is, it's not as valuable as one's life; this is a choice that doesn't even need to be considered.

"open!"

Jiang Yuan kicked out, because Ning Yanlan's Stone Breath was monitoring the whole process, and he was absolutely certain that the mineral vein was behind this layer of soil.

Despite the hard soil here, Jiang Yuan's kick, with its power exceeding one hundred, was simply too much for the soil to withstand, and thus created a large hole.

Just as the last meter of the wall broke through, a desolate and deathly aura wafted out.

"Hiss!" Jiang Yuan felt as if all 100,000 pores on his body were being attacked at once. He shivered uncontrollably and then felt an icy chill.

"This is a deadly thing!" Fear surged in Jiang Yuan's heart. It was an instinctive fear of the unknown, unrelated to strength, simply because it threatened his life.

"No, we can't back out!"

In just a moment, another voice appeared in Jiang Yuan's mind.

In this world, strength is everything. You can choose to be weak, but as a weak person, you cannot choose life or death!

He absolutely needs the Divine Bloodstone!

rush!

Jiang Yuan lunged through the wall and entered the mine.

However, the moment Jiang Yuan entered the mine, he felt an even clearer and more direct sense of death.

"Desolate spirit energy detected!"

"Investigation in progress, investigation complete!"

"Desolate Spirit Aura: A cursed stone stained with the blood of gods. It appears carrying the resentment of the gods, polluting the originally pure mineral gas and forming the Desolate Spirit Aura that living beings fear."

The Heavenly Eye actually identified the aura in the mineral vein, and the name of this aura was just like the feeling it gave Jiang Yuan: it was full of evil and threat, the Desolate Spirit Aura, which was truly both desolate and malevolent.

"God's Blood Stone, God's Blood Stone!"

Where is the Divine Blood Stone?

Jiang Yuan began frantically searching, and his voice was transmitted to Ning Yanlan and Leng Yue via the sound transmission stone.

Leng Yue couldn't offer any help, while Ning Yanlan anxiously transmitted her voice: "How could the Divine Blood Stone move? It was clearly right where you are now!"

"Report the location directly!" Leng Yue was also anxious.

"Move forward fifteen meters at the ten o'clock position!" Ning Yanlan didn't need to be taught; she gave the exact location almost at the same time as Leng Yue urged her.

Jiang Yuan rushed forward, but still couldn't find the Divine Blood Stone. However, this time he vaguely sensed its aura.

"Disappeared again! Now you're ten meters behind!" Ning Yanlan reported again.

Jiang Yuan tried again, but still couldn't catch the Divine Blood Stone. "It's no use. The Divine Blood Stone seems to move with the Desolate Spirit Qi. The Qi here hasn't completely dissipated, so it's very difficult for the Divine Blood Stone to appear!"

Only ten seconds had passed since he entered, but his body was already unable to withstand it. Even he himself did not expect that the seventh-level Great Wilderness Body Tempering Technique would be so weak and ineffective.

No, it's not that the Great Wilderness Body Tempering Technique is useless, it's just that the Wilderness Spirit Aura is too terrifying, even a ninth-tier spirit beast couldn't withstand it.

"Jiang Yuan, come out quickly!" Ning Yanlan had stopped reporting the time; she just wanted Jiang Yuan to come back safely.

"Try again!"

Jiang Yuan refused to believe it. This time, he didn't rely on Ning Yanlan's Stone Breath, but instead used his naked eyes to detect it.

After tireless efforts, the location of the Divine Bloodstone reappeared five seconds later. He gathered his energy and activated the Wind Walk technique, but still missed the Divine Bloodstone.

"Jiang Yuan, grab some Holy Spirit Stones and leave! It looks like we won't be able to get the Divine Blood Stone!" Leng Yue remained relatively calm.

Jiang Yuan ignored him. He hadn't reached his limit yet, and his divine battle hadn't even begun. He still had time to try.

Fourth attempt to capture the Divine Bloodstone, failed!

Fifth attempt! Failure!

Sixth attempt! Still a failure!

Twelve times in total, each time failing, and a minute had passed.

In that minute, Jiang Yuan didn't use Divine Battle; he simply relied on the Great Wilderness Body Tempering Technique and the Divine Wood Canon to withstand the attack. However, he reached his limit, and his physical body was on the verge of collapse.

"Godly War!" Jiang Yuan was unwilling to give up and directly activated Godly War to make a final stand.

In this state, his combat power was enhanced across the board. His speed and reaction were no weaker than those of an eighth-rank person, but he still failed to capture the Divine Blood Stone.

"Jiang Yuan, come out now, or I'll get angry!" Ning Yanlan had no choice but to use her trump card after he had been waiting for more than a minute without coming out.

"Gods still won't work!"

Jiang Yuan narrowed his eyes, and he suddenly remembered the physical technique he had used before—the Wild Spirit.

After obtaining the Void Spirit Chapter, the Great Wilderness Body Tempering Technique unlocks its first physical technique, the Wilderness Spirit. This technique absorbs the wild energy between heaven and earth for one's own use, indirectly enhancing one's combat power.

Of course, the aftereffects are still huge, because the wild spirit will damage the physical body. At best, it will make you weak for several days, and at worst, it will make you weak for several months. However, unlike those internal injuries, the backlash of the wild spirit will only cause weakness. After all, it is a physical technique and has physical limitations.

“Desolate Spirit Aura! Desolate Spirit?” Jiang Yuan seemed to be deep in thought.

"You stinky Jiang Yuan, are you going to listen to me? If you don't come out now, you can sleep with stray cats and dogs and don't bother me anymore!" Ning Yanlan was so angry she was about to curse, but Jiang Yuan inside remained silent.

"Honey, wait for me for just half a minute! If it fails, I'll definitely come back; if it succeeds!"

Jiang Yuan smiled wickedly, "Then we'll be rich!"