As night falls, the night in the North Ward is exceptionally quiet due to the fact that it is mostly watery.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Huang Chuyang sneaked into the mining area of Tianci Stone Workshop, and took advantage of the convenience of one of the patrol guards to use hypnotism that he hadn't used for a long time, and finally learned some basic information about the mining area.

On the surface, this mining area is controlled by the Tianci Stone Workshop, but in fact, it is controlled by the Zhao family and the Sima family of the five major families, otherwise how can the Tianci Stone Workshop have the strength to come and go freely in this northern area where demonic beasts are rampant.

A god-given stone workshop is so deep, and if you can't do it, you have to plant a big heel.

When Huang Chuyang thought of this, he was even more careful, and he must not reveal his whereabouts unless he had to.

Dodge and dive into the mine.

Inside the mine, the artificially chiseled passages criss-crossed the mine, and Huang Chuyang chose a new-looking passage to walk into.

It's just that the deeper he goes, the more frightened he becomes, because he feels that he has gone at least a few hundred kilometers underground, but there is still no shadow of any miner, according to his estimate, this place should be close to the horizontal level.

It's hard to imagine that it is actually mining underwater.

This cave is also magical, above the water level are ordinary ores, but the texture is very hard, at most it may contain a higher proportion of metals, but once you come to the area below the water level, the composition of the ore can be seen with the naked eye.

Xiao Shi opened his mouth and said: "This was once a spirit stone mine, but later the spiritual energy was lost, causing the spirit stone mine to be abandoned. ”

Xiao Jin's eyes lit up and he continued, "Isn't that a spiritual vein?" ”

It is now very concerned about the spiritual vein, and now the environment in the mountain and sea pearls has been improved because of the lowest spiritual vein, although it is only an area, but Xiao Shi said that another hundred and ten mountain and sea pearls should be completely restored.

"What doesn't exist, otherwise it wouldn't be a deserted vein." Koishi explained.

Sure enough, as they continued down, they found a lot of excavation marks, and the passage was surrounded by potholes, which seemed to be the area where they quarried rough stones.

After a while, there was the sound of footsteps in the distance, and then, I heard the voice of a man speaking, which meant that another worker had died today, and this was the eleventh person who had died in a row, and it was not sure when it would be their turn.

didn't understand why people died, Huang Chuyang could only listen slowly.

At this time, I heard other people's voices coming, "Since the last time I dug up a strange rough stone, strange things have happened frequently, and I will apply to go back after this month." ”

"yes, I'm almost up to work," another voice said.

Then the two of them walked while talking, and entered another passage not far in front of Huang Chuyang, listening to their intention to go back to the rest area.

Huang Chuyang thought for a while, he guessed that the group of people who were in a hurry during the day should have sent those new miners to make up for the shortage of miners here.

Huang Chuyang followed the two miners, he wanted to know more about the other situations, since there were immortal cultivators in the foundation building period, they couldn't solve the problem, it seemed that the incident was more troublesome, and he couldn't jump into it in a daze.

After seven turns and eight rounds, I finally came to a relatively flat area, where the space is also relatively large, 14500 square meters, many miners stayed there to rest, and the two people who led the way for Huang Chuyang before were among them.

I saw a person who looked like a steward, and his breath was the third stage of the innate martial artist, who was also a master in the ancient martial arts world, and he was actually in charge of these hundred miners here.

"Hurry up and eat, and continue mining when you're done," the steward shouted.

These miners are all acquired martial artists, from one to three stages, in addition to cultivating for three hours a day, they only have one meal time to rest, and the rest of the time they have to mine.

Not long after, Huang Chuyang, who was hiding in the distance to spread his divine sense, found that some people were walking down one after another, until the last worker left, and the innate martial artist who looked like a steward also left here.

Huang Chuyang followed the steward, and he walked in the opposite direction of the miners, and went straight to the end of a parallel passage, where was a small enclosed space.

Through his divine sense, he found that there were five or six immortal cultivators inside, and they were the few immortal cultivators who came down from the boat during the day, and Xiao Zhenkun was also among them.

"My lord, those people have been assigned to the mining team according to your orders." The steward was reporting the situation of the miners to the immortal cultivator who was the leader.

"Very well, let's go see the rough next." After speaking, the group walked out, and it was the steward who took the lead, obviously leading the way.

It seems that those immortal cultivators should have been sent by the five major families to investigate the situation.

This time it went all the way down, and soon came to a position below the water level, but did not stop and continued downward.

During this time, it seems to pass through the area where the miners are mining the rough stones, but the group of people directly crosses over and enters another parallel mining area.

There is actually a door here, a door blocked by a formation to be exact.

The steward came to the door: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is it." ”

Seeing the immortal cultivator in the foundation building period, he spoke directly: "Open."

The steward hesitated, took out a formation flag, inserted it into a groove on the edge of the formation, and the formation door was opened.

There are a lot of rough stones piled up inside, and it's obviously a warehouse.

The warehouse is not big, it should be about 200 square meters, large and small rough stones are piled up on the ground, and there is a table-sized black rough stone in the middle, but there are many small holes in the middle, like a beehive.

At this moment, Xiao Shi on his shoulder suddenly said uneasily, "Xiao Yoko, I feel a bad breath, as if there is danger. ”

Hearing this, Huang Chuyang paused for a moment, he believed that Xiao Shi would not talk nonsense, and at the same time, he also had a bad premonition, so he slowly retreated, found a safe area of the fork in the road, and looked at this side from a distance.

In the warehouse, those people were still looking around the rough stone, and no matter how they looked at it, they didn't see anything wrong.

At this moment, the immortal cultivator in the foundation building period did something that he didn't understand how he died, only to see him exude his divine sense, extending along the hole in the original stone, and he wanted to explore the inside.

However, at this moment, the anomaly protruded.

The immortal cultivator in the foundation building period screamed miserably, then held his head in his hands and fell to the ground, the painful look, who knows who hurts.

This is not the end, after a while, he foams at the mouth, and then he swallows.

'Nani, is this still an immortal cultivator in the foundation building period? ’

The people on the side suddenly lost their proportions, several people were so frightened that they retreated, Xiao Zhenkun even escaped from the warehouse, accompanied by the steward of the innate martial artist, but the steward pulled out the formation flag inserted in the groove before escaping, I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional.

Due to the closure of the formation gate, the immortal cultivators inside had not yet come out, and several of their immortal cultivators in the Qi cultivation period could not break the formation at all, and after a while, there were uneven screams from inside.

Obviously, those people are more than lucky.

Huang Chuyang could see it clearly from a distance, and at this moment, he suddenly felt a wave of unkind evil thoughts swept over, Huang Chuyang was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and without the slightest hesitation, he hurriedly ran away.

It wasn't until he reached the entrance of the cave that he stopped and took a few quick breaths.

"Xiao Shi, do you know what that thing was just now?"

Just now, not only Huang Chuyang felt that evil thought, but also Xiao Jin and Xiao Shi.

At this time, where are they still divine beasts and stone spirits, and they look overly frightened.

Xiao Shi replied with great difficulty: "If you guess correctly, it should be the natural enemy of the spirit stone, the spirit devouring leech." ”

"Soul eater, what's that?" Huang Chuyang was puzzled and continued to ask.

"I know, it's also a kind of divine beast, a divine beast that everyone shouted and beat in ancient times." Xiao Jin explained, and did not forget to disdain it after speaking.

"It's only because of the strong vitality of that thing that it was named a divine beast, strictly speaking, it is the weakest divine beast, also called a pseudo-divine beast." After Xiao Jin finished speaking, Xiao Shi continued to add.

Next, under Xiao Jin and Xiao Shi's words and my words, Huang Chuyang finally understood that this spirit devouring leech would not be devoured without a spirit stone, and in the absence of a spirit stone to devour, it would turn to devour carriers containing spiritual energy, such as elixirs, spiritual objects, demonic beasts, and even immortal cultivators.

This is not the main thing, the most important thing is that this thing has extremely strong vitality and poison, just like the previous foundation building period cultivator, when the divine sense was exploring, he was bitten by the spirit devouring leech, and as a result, he was poisoned and died, and it was instantaneous.

Fortunately, Huang Chuyang retracted his divine sense in time, if it wasn't for Xiao Shi's reminder, he would have followed in the footsteps of the immortal cultivator in the foundation building period.

It's too dangerous to think about it for a while.

Huang Chuyang proposed: "Then let's leave quickly, we originally came to this mining area to have a look, and there is no purpose." ”

It's just that Xiao Shi sighed and said, "I can't leave."

"Well, why?"

"As I said earlier, it is the natural enemy of the spirit stone, and I am the stone spirit, the stone spirit born in the spirit stone" Xiao Shi looked at Huang Chuyang and explained solemnly.

Seriously, after so long, they really don't know the origin of Xiao Shi, and at this moment, after listening to his own account, they understand that Xiao Shi is actually a stone spirit, no wonder it has never lacked spirit stones.

Seeing that Huang Chuyang and Xiao Jin continued to look at it, Xiao Shi continued: "Because that Spirit Devouring Leech has already remembered my breath just now, no matter where I am at the end of the earth, it can find me and devour me. ”

It turned out that it could be like this.

Huang Chuyang found that they really couldn't go, and it was impossible for him to give up Xiao Shi and ignore it.

Xiao Jin exploded directly: "Instead of waiting for it to come to the door, it's better to scrap it now." ”

"Yes, Xiao Shi, let's kill it first" Huang Chuyang also agreed with Xiao Jin's proposal.

Xiao Shi showed his solemn eyes and glanced at Huang Chuyang and Xiao Jin.

In their sincere pupils, they saw an emotion that did not belong to the stone, that is, the love between friends, the affection between brothers.

Xiao Shi, who pondered for a while, spoke: "But depending on the situation, it shouldn't be something we can deal with now, I feel that it is more powerful than the foundation building peak array soul beast in the Sky Watching Camp." ”

"Don't worry, there are always weaknesses"

"That's it, besides, it's just a pseudo-divine beast, Jin Ye, I'm a real divine beast, and I'm afraid that it won't work."