The predicament of the united city-states forced Chen Tianci to start preparing to return.

But before he can return, he needs to finish his promise to help the merfolk leader.

He asked Ye Feng to send a small fleet that could be called upon and rushed to his area.

After hanging up the communication, Chen Tianci met with the head of the mermaid and told the other party that the operation should continue as soon as possible.

The other party didn't know why Chen Tianci was so anxious, but he didn't ask too much, but immediately dispatched the forces in the mercenary group to continue the investigation inside the Cold Rift.

A few days later, the detailed route was sorted out.

The route into the deepest part of the rift is fully delineated.

On this safe route, it is the route with the fewest high-level sea beasts and a relatively safe underwater environment.

In other areas, there are high-level sea beasts of varying degrees.

Although those sea beasts were not a big problem in Chen Tianci's eyes, they were a big problem for the entire mercenary group.

Moreover, Chen Tianci was in a hurry to complete the promised things and return to Heping City to preside over the overall situation, so he did not take any further action to solve the interests of those high-level sea beasts.

A few days later, the ready-to-go team, led by Chen Tianci, embarked on the road to the unknown metastone vein.

Everyone was very excited.

It is a great opportunity to be able to discover a metastone mine and find a suitable metastone for your own use.

Most of the mercenaries present who participated in the operation had obtained the approval of the mermaid leader, and as long as they could enter the Yuanshi mine, they would let the participants choose the Yuanshi suitable for their own cultivation.

This kind of heavy profit makes the mercenaries full of fighting spirit.

They even ignored the many king crabs they saw on the road and headed straight for the depths of the rift.

The mercenaries marched towards the depths of the rift valley with enthusiasm, but Chen Tianci became more and more frightened. As they gradually deepened, he gradually discovered that the concentration of free vitality in this place was surprisingly high.

Yuan Qi is a miraculous energy that is naturally dispersed in nature. This energy has been discovered by humans since ancient times, which has given rise to the martial arts system for physical cultivation.

The ancients called it Qi, and later generations wrote it as Qi in simplified characters, in fact, both refer to the same substance, and both refer to the most basic energy that sustains life activities.

And the distribution of this energy in nature is very different.

But no matter what, Chen Tianci didn't find that there was a place that could be compared to the one he felt now.

Because the intensity of the vitality here far exceeded the intensity of any place he knew.

Later, after annexing the eastern city-state, there was no place where such a rich vitality gathered in the Yuan Qi Mine obtained.

Yuanshi Mine is really extraordinary. Chen Tianci thought to himself in his heart.

It's a shame that this place is abandoned like this.

Chen Tianci really wanted to occupy this place. But after all, this place was first discovered by the mermaid leader, and if it was so openly occupied, what difference would it have from a robber?

After thinking about it again, Chen Tianci gave up his plan to occupy this Yuan Stone Mine. He can't do the kind of thing that forcibly robs the Yuanshi Mine.

There should be principles in life. This is the principle that Chen Tianci has always pursued.

As a result, he just walked with his head bored and did not show any signs of the anomaly he noticed.

However, he does not perform, and the others are different.

Many people secretly had the idea of occupying this place in their hearts, but they looked at Chen Tianci who was following beside them, and they all hid that thought deeply.

At this point, they can only think about it.

After going thousands of meters deep into the rift valley, Chen Tianci and the others finally saw a cave.

Before they could enter the cave, some of them saw the scattered stones scattered on the ground.

"Oh my God! It turned out to be a third-order Yuan Stone! Someone exclaimed, and ran straight to the almost bare Yuan Stone on the ground.

There was a hint of murder in the air.

Chen Tianci keenly caught the source of this murderous aura, which turned out to be near the bare Yuan Stone. He was suddenly startled in his heart, and hurriedly spoke out to stop the man.

But that person's eyes at this time only had Yuanshi not far away, where could he listen to Chen Tianci's persuasion.

"If you want to get rich, Lao Tzu also wants to drink soup." The man replied to Chen Tianci, ignoring Chen Tianci's warning, and went straight to Yuanshi.

Chen Tianci's eyes narrowed slightly, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Stupid." He said lightly, deciding to sit on the sidelines.

At the same moment, the man ran to the bare stone on the ground.

It was a third-order primordial stone the size of a human head, half-bare on the ground. The vitality flowing inside it was so dense that it had already begun to overflow.

The man was overjoyed, and bent down to pick up this rare huge yuan stone.

But he pulled the trigger, and he couldn't lift the Yuanshi from under the ground.

Just as the man was puzzled, the ground suddenly cracked, and a huge crab claw suddenly came up from under the ground, and clamped the man firmly.

"Gollum"

A burst of blood bubbled up in the sea.

Thick blood spurted out of the man's body.

The crab claws clamped him together and snapped him in two.

The look of excitement in the man's eyes because of the sight of Yuanshi had not completely faded, and he had already become a dead soul in two.

The crowd was horrified.

"You, you already knew?" One person suddenly asked Chen Tianci.

Chen Tianci glanced at the man coldly and asked, "Didn't I already remind him?" But did he listen to me? ”

The man's throat twitched, and he couldn't speak.

Chen Tianci said to stop that person before, everyone heard it with their own ears, and naturally knew that that person was innocent. The greed in his heart devoured his vigilance, which is why it caused such a tragedy.

The rest of the people, you look at me, I look at you, and finally they all look at Chen Tianci.

In the distance, it was a king crab hidden at the bottom of the sea.

It was a sea beast that had reached the fifth order.

Sea beasts of this strength, except for Chen Tianci, may not be able to deal with the strength of the rest of the people.

Chen Tianci carefully glanced at the mercenaries beside him.

Mercenaries speak on money, and among them there is no loyalty to speak of. There may be comradeship, but in front of money and treasures, everything is nonsense.

And the head of the mermaid mercenary group, the head of the mermaid group, gave Chen Tianci a very good impression. He rarely encountered such figures, and the few people he did have become members of his united city-state. Of course, Qian Dazhuang and others, who are now following him, are also one of them.

Out of consideration for talents, Chen Tianci decided to beat these mercenaries well, lest they finally choose to betray the mercenary group because of money.

"If you want me to do it, you can, but you have to make three chapters of the law." Chen Tianci said lightly to everyone.