Following the tunnel dug by the cave ants, the two women were not bothered by the evil spirits and entered the mine smoothly.

Upon seeing Jiang Yuan, who was full of energy and vitality, Ning Yanlan excitedly rushed over to him.

"You stinky Jiang Yuan, you scared me to death!"

With a warm fragrance in his arms, Jiang Yuan revealed a gentle smile from the bottom of his heart, "I'm sorry, things happened so suddenly, I didn't have a chance to explain to you!"

Leng Yue surveyed the surroundings, and only after confirming that the little ants and other beasts were unharmed did she cheerfully say, "It's not too late to explain now!"

"Let's go back and talk about it! Time is of the essence. Both humans and beastmen may discover that the mineral gas here has dissipated. We should hurry up and mine out the Holy Spirit Stones here!" Jiang Yuan released Ning Yanlan and continued to have the cave ants dig out the Holy Spirit Stones.

The two women were brought in simply to broaden their horizons. After all, this kind of mineral vein was not something that could be found in the world before. Everything here is a masterpiece of nature and is worth seeing.

"So, you want us to do the hard labor?" Leng Yue didn't move, still teasingly asking.

"I'll give you ten percent!" Jiang Yuan held up one finger.

Seeing this, Leng Yue smiled smugly and said knowingly, "Alright, money talks. This young lady will serve you right away!"

After saying that, Leng Yue naturally threw herself into the work of digging and transporting the Holy Spirit Stones. With human intelligence, she was far more efficient at this task than cave ants. It could be said that she was equivalent to dozens of cave ants by herself.

"Xiaobai, you rest, I'll go dig!" Jiang Yuan didn't feel any favoritism at all. Ning Yanlan was already injured, and resting well was the most important task.

"No, I'm not the team bully, how can I slack off!"

Ning Yanlan smiled and stopped Jiang Yuan, then walked towards the mineral containing the Holy Spirit Stone.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan did not stop him any further, and simply said, "Alright then, there aren't many Holy Spirit Stones left anyway, it'll be done in a bit!"

This vein is a small, seventh-tier vein with less than 10,000 Holy Spirit Stones. It's already quite good that 5,000 have been mined so far; there won't be much more if we continue mining.

Just as Jiang Yuan had guessed, seventeen minutes later, the entire vein was breached, and all the Holy Spirit Stones were swept away.

"That's a wrap!" Leng Yue was exhausted.

"The total number of raw minerals is 8,361. We can't be sure exactly how many Holy Spirit Stones we can get, but we're pretty sure we'll get at least 8,000!" Jiang Yuan estimated.

Not all raw minerals can yield Holy Spirit Stones; a very small number will also yield useless stones.

"Why don't we dig up the outermost Holy Spirit Stones too? That way I can get dozens more seventh-tier Holy Spirit Stones!" Leng Yue suggested.

"No, if we dig at the outermost edge, the theft of this vein will definitely be discovered immediately!"

Jiang Yuan rejected Leng Yue's suggestion, saying with a faint smile, "Besides, we're not just after these Holy Spirit Stones!"

"Someone's approaching, we need to hurry!" Ning Yanlan suddenly said.

"Which side?" Jiang Yuan asked instead of leaving in a hurry.

"The South City human race, led by Grandpa Li, along with the leaders of several other forces!" Ning Yanlan closed her eyes and recounted in detail.

Leng Yue stepped forward and said, "It must be a plan to assassinate a ninth-tier spirit beast!"

"Wait, I sensed hatred again!" Ning Yanlan opened her eyes and said in surprise.

Where?

“On the Seventh Street, the blood energy is too strong there. My Stone Breath will be interfered with when it extends there. In addition, with the methods of Hatred, I can only sense a vague location!” Ning Yanlan continued.

"It's definitely swallowing corpses. That guy is disgusting. He's clearly a human, but he does things that are not human!" Leng Yue said disdainfully.

"Let's kill the abominations first, and we'll clean up the mess here after the show starts!" Jiang Yuan smiled wickedly, then calmly led the two women out of the mine.

Amidst the piles of corpses covering the mountain, a hideous worm-like monster wriggled about. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the monster had a human face, but apart from that face, the rest of its body was composed of rotten bits of flesh and organs.

"Faceless masked man, once I have successfully transformed, I will skin you alive, tear out your tendons, and then sew your head back onto the filthiest part of my body!"

The writhing monster roared furiously, but despite its roars, it did not stop devouring other corpses. Piles of monster and human corpses were cruelly absorbed by it and became part of its body.

"Disgust, long time no see!"

Just as the wriggling monster was feeding frantically, three pairs of hiking boots appeared in front of it.

"You..." The flesh-worm monster sensed something was wrong and tried to escape, but was firmly pinned to the ground.

"Abomination, oh abomination! You possess the most powerful and advanced talents, so why are you a vermin in this pile of corpses? Wouldn't it be better to be a human being!"

The shoe on the worm-like monster's head kept pressing down, and the deep sound made it increasingly terrified. It was the owner of this sound who had smashed it to pieces a day earlier and then flown into the sky to look down on it.

"I don't know you, you've mistaken me for someone else!" the flesh worm explained as it concealed the human face within the rotting flesh.

"What? Do you want me to knock off all that rotten flesh from your body before you'll give up?" Jiang Yuan squatted down, looking at the loathsome figure before him without the slightest fear.

The Heavenly Eye had already detected the strength of the Abomination when he approached it. After a day of recovery, the Abomination was only at the fifth level and posed no threat to them at all.

The worm didn't speak, it just wriggled and tried to struggle away.

"Spirit Bomb!" Jiang Yuan threw out a ball of light, targeting the combined body of the Abomination.

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