"Then let's hurry! After all, we're partners. If we let the monsters from the South Mine flood in, we'll really lose our credibility!" Qian Kai urged.

"Let's go into the mine and see just how strong this fifth-tier lord is!" Xiong Yong said confidently.

"Be careful, everyone. Only by surviving can we have a future!" Although Zhu Penghai agreed, he still instinctively reminded everyone.

Since the black-horned boars outside had already been cleared out, the group, led by Xiong Yong, went straight into the mine.

At this moment, the black-horned boars began to stir, charging towards the group one by one.

"Night Cloud, activate the aura boost!"

Even without Zhu Penghai's prompting, Xiang Yeyun had already shared her Resilience Aura with everyone. Her current talent had reached its limit after supplying seven people; if there were more, the aura's power would be insufficient to cover them all.

"Xiong Yong, you go up and hold the line, everyone else flank and kill the black-horned pigs!" Zhu Penghai said again.

"Find a position that's easy to defend and difficult to attack, and take down the Lord-level Black Horned Boar as soon as possible!" Ning Yanlan said in a deep voice. She wasn't there to restrain the fifth-tier lord, but to kill it. Her attack power was sufficient.

"Aren't we going to defend it?" Yang Wenlin asked in surprise.

"Defend, but also kill!" Jiang Yuan smiled as he drew his folding iron sword. "Regardless of whether the other side has bad intentions, we must seize the initiative."

"There's a three-pronged mine shaft ahead, about three meters wide. That location has a geographical advantage, making it impregnable. We'll wait for the fifth-tier lord there!" Ning Yanlan pointed ahead. Her Eye of Insight was extremely helpful in the battle, granting her the ability to foresee the future.

"Advance!"

...

Inside another mine, a huge black-horned boar was fighting with a man and a woman.

Ji Jinghui wore a long robe that emitted a light blue aura, and held a spirit energy ball in his hand, bombarding the black-horned boar with beams of light.

Zheng Shuang, on the other hand, kept using her control skills on the Black Horned Boar, rendering it unable to move.

"You're all curious about why we're looking for them, aren't you?" Ji Jinghui said to the eight people behind him who hadn't made a move yet.

“Young Master, you have your reasons for doing this!” one of them said respectfully, bowing his head.

“Fifth-tier lords are too weak,” Ji Jinghui mocked as he attacked. “My target is sixth-tier lords, and those guys are the perfect bait!”

"That sixth-tier pig king?" Zheng Shuang's eyes narrowed.

"I'm really looking forward to them fighting the Pig King to the death!" Ji Jinghui sneered, while speeding up his movements. "Come on, let's kill it together!"

Once the others joined in, the fifth-tier lord monster quickly fell down. Ji Jinghui and the others did not go deeper; they simply bled the half-dead monster and poured the blood onto the entrance of the cave where Jiang Yuan and the others had entered.

The last few people killed the half-dead fifth-tier lord-level black-horned boar as they left the mine. With a golden light appearing, Ji Jinghui took the core with a cold smile. The group did not agree to go back to help, but instead lurked around the area.

There are indeed only two Lord-level monsters among the Black Horned Boars, Ji Jinghui was not lying, but he hadn't mentioned that there was also a Tier 6 elite monster here.

The two lord-level black-horned boars were born to the sixth-tier elite monster's black-horned boar. However, due to their recent mating season, the two black-horned boars fought fiercely for the right to mate with the sixth-tier black-horned boar, so the sixth-tier elite monster, who was both a mother and a wife, left.

As for why Ji Jinghui and the others wanted to kill this sixth-tier elite monster, it was because of the treasure in this mine that ordinary people did not know about, which was also the reason why he had to slaughter the Black Horned Boar family.

The blood of the fifth-tier lord monster, the Black Horned Boar, emitted a foul odor. A V-shaped cry from the Iron Ridge Mountains startled a flock of birds into flight. The sixth-tier elite monster discovered that its son and husband had been murdered and was rushing back in a rage.

"Can you smell a strong stench of blood?" Ning Yanlan frowned; she was particularly sensitive to smells.

Jiang Yuan sniffed. Although he had the Heavenly Eye, his nose was still not as good as Ning Yanlan's. "It's normal to smell blood after killing so many black-horned boars!"

“No!” Ning Yanlan shook her head, puzzled. “This bloody smell is mixed with powerful spiritual energy. The second and third-tier black-horned boars we killed didn’t have blood full of spiritual energy like this.”

"Brother, I can smell a really pungent odor too!" Xiao Xin, who was being held by Ning Yanlan, said.

"Wait, a Tier 5 Lord monster has appeared!"