[The resource collection site covers an area of ​​approximately 35,000 acres. ]

[Next to it is a military base with 1,500 soldiers stationed there.]

…

Standing on a mountain that is several hundred meters high and looks very bare with hardly any weeds growing on the outside, I looked out for a while at the large mining machines operating inside the mine in the distance.

Xi Shenlian handed the map in his hand to Tian Yuanli next to him.

The map was a gift from the military base.

It marks the general situation of an area of ​​200 kilometers in radius.

In particular, the differences in gravity between various regions are marked in the most obvious places.

There is no way around it. If you run around randomly, you will easily run into an area with excessive gravity.

Being crushed to death by excessive gravity while exploring unknown areas is the accident with the highest mortality rate in the [underground world].

In the days when mechanical equipment was not well developed, the gravity conditions in each area were often valuable information obtained at the cost of the lives of explorers.

In various ancient books, the guy walking next to you would turn into a pile of meat paste with a smack, and it was just a common thing for everyone.

After handing the map in his hand to Tian Yuanli, Xi Shenlian turned his gaze to look above his head.

The sky here has a top layer of rocky barriers of unknown thickness, and the white clouds are beneath the rock layers.

The thing that provides light and heat to the entire [underground world] is something similar to the sun.

When Xi Shenlian was in elementary school, he learned about the general origin of that thing from books.

It is said that the thing is a ball of semi-solid high-temperature plasma cut from the sun by an awakened being in the ultra-ancient times, that is, the Atlantis period. It has a diameter of about 500 kilometers, a surface temperature of 17 million degrees Celsius, and an internal temperature estimated to be 2.2 billion to 3.6 billion degrees Celsius.

Although it is not known what the awakened person did to transport this thing from 5.5 billion kilometers away to the earth and use it as a big light bulb in the [underground world], the textbook records that although this thing seems to exist directly above the head, it actually exists in the internal space-time layer of the [underground world]. Light and heat can be transmitted out, but outsiders can hardly touch that thing.

According to estimates, the energy contained in it is enough to burn the earth's surface in an instant.

Noticing that Xi Shenlian was looking at the big fireball above his head, Tian Yuanli put the map away and said with a look of envy:

"Great power, isn't it?"

"According to the secret information collected by our family, the artificial star known as the 'Underground Sun' was actually the masterpiece of a supreme ruler of Atlantis about 300,000 years ago. Although no one knows his specific name, the name of that powerful man is still passed down in ancient books - 'Sun King'."

"Even among all the known [Awakeners in the Sublimation Stage], [Sun King] is ranked extremely high. In the history of the entire planet, there are probably only about ten people who can compete with him."

After watching quietly for a while, Xi Shenlian withdrew his gaze and said with a smile:

"It is indeed great..."

"However, in the near future, I will be more powerful than the Sun King, so I can be respected but not feared."

While talking.

He walked a few more steps forward and came to the highest point of the mountain. He turned his back to Tian Yuanli and slowly opened his hands, saying with some emotion:

“The environment here is really nice, it makes me feel relaxed…”

"Finally, I don't have to restrain my own strength anymore. I feel relaxed and want to move around..."

This moment.

Tian Yuanli seemed to hear a scream, a scream that came from instinct.

She was instantly shocked.

In her perception, a huge aura was overflowing from Xi Shenlian and spreading in all directions.

It's like an out-of-control torrent!

For a moment, even the battle-hardened soldiers stationed in the military base more than ten kilometers away immediately felt it and broke out in cold sweats.

Then, before Tian Yuanli could respond, Xi Shenlian, who had his back to her, said:

"I'm going to stretch my body a bit."

"Come back to me when the noise is over."

After saying that, his figure soared into the sky from the spot and flew towards the distance.

The speed was so fast that it directly created a howling hurricane and tore through the surrounding clouds.

The momentum caused Tianyuan Lidu's pupils to dilate slightly:

"At least ten times the speed of sound..."

Ten times the speed of sound is nothing for the mature stage, but this is the [underground world].

Even though Qi and skills can reduce some of the effects of gravity, some of that effect will still remain.

Therefore, she understood that Xi Shenlian, who was able to reach such a flying speed here, could at least reach a hundred times the speed of sound on the surface.

That's a speed that would wipe out most of human civilization in just a few hundred laps around the earth!

Then, not long after, she saw a huge dust waterfall rising slowly from bottom to top hundreds of kilometers away, and then a mountain hundreds of meters high rose from the ground surrounded by countless dust.

That means it was thrown high into the sky by some huge force!

Before the mountain fell.

Xi Shenlian’s figure has already caught up.

Then, Tian Yuanli couldn’t see clearly what was happening.

She only saw fist marks appearing one after another on the surface of the mountain, smashing the metal-like hard mountain into millions of pieces, causing the pieces of rubble to fall as fast as meteors, like a rainstorm formed by artillery shells, leaving clear craters on the ground one after another...

One of the large pieces flew farther and even landed more than ten kilometers away from her, forcibly penetrating one of the mountains and breaking it in half!

…

An hour later.

The noise from Xi Shenlian's side finally gradually subsided.

When Tian Yuanli approached, he saw only wounds all over the ground.

The ground is full of twisted cracks.

They are often more than ten kilometers long, like the open mouth of a monster.

In addition, there are several large holes. Those places were originally mountains, but now they have all been demolished by Xi Shenlian.

After searching for a while in this dilapidated scene.

Tian Yuanli soon saw Xi Shenlian.

He was standing on top of a pile of rubble more than ten meters high.

He was also holding a creature in his hand that looked like a lion, but was several times larger than a lion and had a layer of black scales on its body.

With just one glance, Tian Yuanli recognized that it was a creature called an armored lion.

They are special man-made creatures with extremely ferocious personalities. They usually appear in groups in the [underground world]. Their agility is no less than that of high-level warriors, and their shells are strong enough to withstand large-caliber conventional firearms. Even a head-on hit from a howitzer would only barely injure them. In addition, their special body structure allows them to adapt to high-gravity environments much better than humans... making these extremely ferocious and dangerous creatures cause casualties to the garrison troops from time to time.

But at this moment, the armored lion in Xi Shenlian's hand was full of fear in its eyes until death came, without any cruelty at all.

In addition to the one that still retained its intact body, there were also the corpses of a dozen armored lions not far from Xi Shenlian.

However, rather than corpses, they are now more like meat paste or meat strips.

That feeling...

It was like being torn into small strips of meat bit by bit.

After Tian Yuanli approached.

Xi Shenlian, who had his back to her, threw the small toy in his hand away.

“Ba…”

It was stuck on a rock.

It's a bit like a fly being squashed.

Xi Shenlian covered her face with her hands, leaned back slightly, and her strange mumbling and sighing reached Tian Yuanli's ears:

"Hmm~"

"Sure enough, it's very relaxing to move your body occasionally."

It was the exhilarating feeling of letting out some of the madness.

A few seconds later.

He loosened his hands that were covering his face, straightened his back again, and spoke to Tian Yuanli with a smile as if nothing had happened:

"We've had enough fun, let's go back."