Xu Anran took out a spatial button specifically for storing these stones, and soon all the stones that had been pried off were stored in it.

But looking at the stones on the wall that hadn't been pried off, she couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. It would be such a waste if she couldn't take these stones with her, but what could she do?

Luo Xi suggested from the side, "Why don't we just blow this place up? Maybe the rocks will just come out."

That's fine. These rocks aren't easy to pry open, and they contain energy. Explosives should only damage the mountain rocks, and these special rocks should be fine.

Xu Anran agreed with Luo Xi's suggestion. They planned to check the cave, tie everyone up, throw them out, and then blow it up.

Xu Anran, Luo Xi, and Xu Liang began searching everywhere. Xu Liang came to a corner and saw a large hole. He turned around and met a pair of blue eyes. Xu Liang couldn't help but shout, "Oh my god! Run—"

He turned and ran, with a huge white wolf chasing after him.

Luo Xi and Xu Anran rushed over immediately, took out their weapons, and fought with the wolf.

Xu Anran even called out the ghost bride to help. The ghost bride first used her yin energy to blind the wolf, making it unable to find its target.

Xu Anran took out a long knife covered in golden light and slashed at the wolf's neck. The wolf seemed to sense the danger and moved to the side, dodging the fatal blow, but it was still injured and let out a howl.

Luo Xi also drew her sword and, finding an opportunity, stabbed the wolf in the heart from below; Xu Liang, meanwhile, used his energy gun from a distance to distract the wolf.

Finally, as it grew increasingly agitated, Xu Anran jumped onto it and slashed down hard from above, killing it instantly.

The wolf's carcass lay sprawled on the ground, raising clouds of dust. Everyone was exhausted and collapsed onto the ground to catch their breath.

At this moment, the ghost bride looked around the wolf's corpse, then floated over and pulled Xu Anran to the wolf's belly: "Use your knife to gently cut it open, there should be something inside."

Xu Anran gently sliced ​​open the wolf's belly with a knife. Through the shallow incision, several small, wriggling pink creatures were visible inside. Luo Xi and Xu Liang also came closer to look. Xu Liang said, "This is... a wolf cub?"

Luo Xi looked at Xu Anran and asked, "What should we do?"

"Hmm... let's take them out first." After Xu Anran finished speaking, she took out scissors and a lighter. The group took out the wolf cubs from the womb, and Xu Anran used the lighter to heat the scissors before cutting the umbilical cord.

By this time, everything outside had been taken care of, and when they came in, they saw that Xu Anran and the others were carrying something in their arms.

Approaching, Xiao Feng looked at the little things curiously and asked, "Sister Anran, what are these?"

"Wolf cubs, I don't know if they can survive, there are five in total." Xu Anran showed them to him.

Everyone gathered around, curiously watching the little creatures still wriggling in their hands. Xiaoyue asked, "Are we going to keep them?"

"Do you want to raise them?" Xu Anran looked at Xiaoyue and Xiaofeng, whose eyes were sparkling, and they nodded busily like chickens pecking at rice.

Xu Anran handed the five wolf cubs to them: "Then you must take good care of them. Go find Mai Sui and Mo Mo and take care of these little guys together."

The two happily accepted the five little things, then turned around to find Mai Sui and Mo Mo.

After they left, Uncle Li told Xu Anran about the situation outside: "Currently, everyone outside has been tied up and divided into two groups. Some of them with long tails, who should be demons, have been tied up separately and locked in a cave."

Also, after the workers were tied up, they were first placed on the steep slope where we had previously hidden.

"All the stones outside have been put into this spatial button. You can take it and study it." After saying that, he handed the item to Xu Anran.

Xu Anran didn't stand on ceremony, took the package and put it away, saying, "That's about enough. Let's take the people inside out."

The stones are all embedded in the walls, making them difficult to remove. We're planning to blast this place up in a bit.

They moved everyone out, then planted explosives in the cave. "Boom boom boom—" The earth shook violently, and those who had fainted were jolted awake.

When these people saw that they were tied up, they tried to break free of the ropes. Zhao Chang'an, who had been guarding them, saw this and immediately administered a dose of sleeping pills, causing them all to pass out.

Seeing that the cave had collapsed and the area was full of rubble, Xu Liang grew larger and moved the large rocks away, while the others picked up shovels to clear the area.

The area was quickly cleared up, revealing many of those glowing stones underneath. Everyone gathered the stones together, and Xu Anran collected them all.

Afterwards, they found one of the bound people and asked him about the situation there.

After the man woke up, he told the story of what had happened: the wolf demons had a gathering place nearby, and they discovered this kind of stone here. Later, they captured nearby villagers to dig up the stone and transport it to the gathering place.

They didn't know what the stones were used for.

Afterwards, Xu Anran and the others released these people, and then found a werewolf who seemed to be the leader, and splashed him with water to wake him up.

"What is this?" Luo Xi pressed a knife against his neck.

The werewolf remained unmoved, so Xu Anran spoke up: "Whether you tell us or not, we will take this thing. But if you tell us what you know, we can spare your lives."

"If you don't speak, not only will you die, but all your people here will die."

The werewolf struggled, and Uncle Li added fuel to the fire: "If you talk now, we'll leave after we know. If you don't, we'll kill you all and then ambush your settlement. You can think about the consequences."

In the end, the werewolf compromised.

He said, "You had better keep your word."

According to him, they call these stones crystals. By meditating and breathing exercises next to these crystals, one's magical power can increase faster, and the demon core will become more solid.

So they began to hoard these crystals in large quantities.

Xu Anran took out a crystal and had the werewolf sit in front of her to observe it.

She saw that when the werewolf was meditating, he absorbed the blue energy from the crystal, while the golden energy remained unchanged. The red energy, after being inhaled, was exhaled and dissipated into the air.

After a while, Xu Anran asked the werewolf, "What is the air you inhale? And what do you exhale?"

The werewolf hadn't expected Xu Anran to ask this question. It hadn't wanted to answer, but seeing the certainty in Xu Anran's eyes, it still spoke up: "I'm not too sure about that either. I only know that each time I meditate, the energy I inhale from the crystal is of two kinds: one is very comfortable, and the other is very turbulent."

This violent energy, which we call "evil energy," must be expelled each time.

If you absorb them all, you'll go crazy over time. There was a clansman who, when he first discovered the crystals, didn't know what they were and absorbed them all into his demon core. One day, he suddenly went mad and killed many of his clansmen.

Only after that did we realize that this kind of malevolent energy could not be absorbed.