In a long and narrow cave of more than 20 zhang.

The top is inlaid with several pieces of glowing cyan glowstone, which reflects everything here quite clearly, and the ground and four walls are all pitted and uneven, and at first glance there are traces of artificial drilling.

Judging from the newness of the traces, it should not be too far away, and it was directly chiseled with a sharp knife.

On one side of the cave wall, there is a square passage several zhang high that has been opened, but the entrance of the passage is directly blocked by a large monster skeleton that is nearly half mutilated.

At this moment, in front of the passage, a young man in ragged clothes and a slightly pale face who looked like a mine slave stopped and stood, looking at the monster skeleton with a thoughtful expression.

This young man is naturally Liu Ming.

After nearly a day of continuous penetration, this place is no longer far from the deep passage marked in the second half of the map.

In the past time, he could see the corpses of some miners who were in a miserable state from time to time. It's the first time I've seen a monster skeleton like this.

On this half of the rather large skeleton, there is not a trace of flesh and blood left on it, and there is no trace of spiritual power fluctuations coming out, so it should have been dead for a long time.

Judging from the remaining skeleton remains, it can be vaguely seen that when its body is complete, it should be three or four zhang in size, and its appearance roughly resembles a giant dog, and although the skeleton of the remaining forelimbs and hind limbs has been broken, the claws are all sharp and abnormal, and there are some fangs several inches long scattered on the ground near its head, which glows with the cold light of Aomori under the dim light.

"This should be the evil beast?"

After Liu Ming pondered for a while, he muttered a few words in an inaudible voice.

Suddenly, with a thought, he took the bone knife from his waist. I got to the side of the skeleton and found it after a little comparison. In addition to the degree of newness and oldness, the materials of the two are really similar. But the subtleties are a little different.

But the next moment, his arm suddenly moved, and the bone knife in his hand turned into a cold light and slashed down.

"Poof".

A thick bone on the skeleton in front of him was easily cut off by it.

"Sure enough!" Liu Ming nodded, and after putting away the bone knife, there was a look of understanding on his face.

Although the half of the skeleton in front of him was undoubtedly the remains of a beast, the quality of its bones was obviously inferior to the material of the bone knife in his hand. It seems that there are also different types of evil beasts, and the disparity in strength is huge.

Otherwise, this half skeleton would not have been abandoned so easily, and no one would have cared about it.

But even so. If the corpse of such an evil beast equivalent to the Condensation Realm was placed in the outside world, its fur and bone remains would still be a good material for refining spiritual weapons.

But here, even the best beast bones can only be easily processed into sharp weapons, fur is made into map clothing, and flesh and blood are only used to satisfy hunger.

However, seeing that although the mining slaves here have yellow muscles and thin muscles, their physical bodies are much stronger than the ordinary monks of the same level in the outside world, it seems that the flesh and blood of this evil beast seems to have some effects on strengthening the system, which should be of great benefit to the cultivation of the Dragon and Tiger Hell Gong.

A hint of thought flashed in Liu Ming's eyes, but then he touched his chin. When he put the bone knife back on his waist, he bypassed the skeleton of the evil beast and continued to go deeper.

......

An hour later.

Liu Ming held the map in his hand and walked out of a small cave. Came to a fork in the road, his face full of helplessness.

Ever since he saw the skeleton of the beast, it had been difficult to find a matching route according to the route indicated on the map. After trying several times, I couldn't help but recall the words of the strange young man I met at the three-way entrance earlier.

"It seems that this place is already deep in the vein. From time to time, people open up new passages, and the map in hand will not be so useful. Liu Ming couldn't help but secretly think.

He sighed softly. As soon as he put away the map in his hand, he took out another blank animal skin from his body, and after drawing it at random according to the current terrain, he found another fork in the road, and walked in with a flash.

Half a day later.

The new animal skin in Liu Ming's hand had been marked by the route of many passages, and most of them had a cross drawn on the route.

Since he was already in the depths of the ore vein, he had indeed found a lot of caves in the past time, after repeated attempts.

But what made him feel a little depressed was that most of these places were ordinary ores of little value, or abandoned mines that had been mined by people.

At this moment, he was holding a piece of jerky in his hand, and while gnawing on it, he continued to search carefully in a narrow passage.

This kind of jerky made from the flesh and blood of evil beasts is quite tough, almost impossible to chew, and once you eat it, you can still feel a pungent smell of blood coming to your nose, which makes people smell disgusting and extremely unpalatable!

Having said that, since he stepped into the Immortal Cultivation Realm, this was the second time that he had directly eaten beast flesh and blood.

After all, the effect of demon beast flesh and blood refining into an elixir will be much better, and there will be fewer impurities and side effects.

Liu Ming was also a little unaccustomed at first, but after feeling its special effect, he couldn't stop it.

It turned out that this kind of jerky, soon after swallowing into the throat, turned into a wisp of fine heat in the body meridians, making the limbs and bones vaguely have an indescribable feeling of comfort, and even the mind seemed to be more sober.

It seemed that as he had guessed earlier, the flesh of this evil beast really had some benefits for the physical body.

But what made Liu Ming a little strange was that the recovery of the mana in the body of this evil beast was very small, and it was very different from the flesh and blood of ordinary demon beasts......

It seems that this evil beast cannot be regarded as a real demon beast, and its origin can be investigated.

When he walked down the passage for hundreds of meters, he saw a new passage at the end of the passage not far ahead, which seemed to have just been opened.

He was overjoyed, and hurriedly quickened his pace and walked over, and before and after coming to the entrance of the cave, he looked at the small sword marked with black and red blood stains at the entrance, and immediately frowned.

After a moment's hesitation, he shook his head and turned to leave. Find another mine.

Although there should be a lot of extremely rare ore resources in this passage, there are marks left. Apparently occupied.

When Liu Ming walked along the way, he could see some abandoned mine roads that had been dug out from time to time. A considerable number of the entrances to the passages are marked with various markings.

With his current situation, there is naturally no need to take the initiative to provoke other forces.

......

Meanwhile.

Another cave not far from the mining trading area.

The cave is relatively spacious, about 30 zhang in size, and there are several simple stone houses made of huge stones on its side.

The stone house was completely enclosed, with no windows and only a few holes left above the stone walls on all sides.

In the open space in front of the house, there were two burly miner men, patrolling back and forth. Each of them was equipped with a weapon made of the bones of evil beasts at his waist, and his eyes swept to the only passage here from time to time, with a look of vigilance.

In one of the largest stone houses, there is a large bonfire at the moment.

Several pieces of barbecued meat were erected above the campfire, and the smell of meat mixed with the strong smell of blood was wafting out of the stone house.

Around the campfire, a big man with a fleshy face and a hideous face and a two-foot figure was pacing back and forth. And looked at a small miner in front of him with green skin and an uncomfortable face.

"So, it was a newcomer who killed my brother. But where did you hear this out?" Suddenly, the big man said coldly, and the palms of his two thick hands were just lightly shaken. There was a crackling sound of joints.

"Back to Boss Sha, I recently used demon insects to cast secret techniques on Iron Scale and others. I wanted to check them out and see if there were any new resource points. But I didn't expect to hear the news of Brother Ling from their conversation, so I rushed to inform you as soon as possible. The dwarf miner hurriedly replied with a smile.

"Hmph. I'll verify this message myself. As long as it is confirmed to be true, you will naturally benefit from it. But if you dare to deceive me, I will break your bones inch by inch. ”

After hearing this, the big man stopped suddenly, and the sound of the joints in his hands stopped abruptly at the same time, only to see the muscles on his chest and arms bulging high, and a layer of crystal color appeared, as if it was made of steel......

"Boss Sha, how dare I deceive you. Under the oath of the demons, there will never be half a falsehood. The dwarf miner couldn't help but be stunned under the momentum of the big man, and then patted his chest and said.

"Very good, if you release the news to me, it will be said that Sha has offered a reward of 2,000 spirit stones to find the whereabouts of this newcomer. A mere newcomer dared to attack my people, although my brother is just a wreck, but if I don't take revenge, others don't know what to think of me. As long as this newcomer is found, I will definitely make him regret coming to this world. The big man commanded the dwarf miner with a hideous face.

The dwarf miner naturally said yes again and again, and then after the big man waved his hand, he reluctantly withdrew from the room.

Tranquility was restored inside the stone house.

......

Liu Ming naturally didn't know about his life, and now in the eyes of some people, it was only worth two thousand spirit stones.

At this moment, he was already in a self-carved stone cave in the depths of a certain vein passage, and he was taking out a pole array flag from his sleeve and arranging a temporary magic circle.

At the entrance of the stone cave, a white bone scorpion with red scales lay quietly on the ground, carefully watching everything nearby.

This passage was a deserted place that he had spent a lot of time finally finding, and with the low-grade iron sword spirit weapon he had obtained from the ore vein guard, it took him a long time to barely open the place in front of him.

Although the stone cave on the wall of the mine tunnel is not large, it is only two or three zhang in size, but this place may be because it belongs to the area of rare ore veins, even ordinary stones are as hard as iron, even if he now has a body far beyond the body of a monk of the same level and a body of infinite brute strength, in the case of not daring to easily consume mana to urge the Dragon and Tiger Hell Skill, each sword can only cut a few inches thick on the stone wall.

At this time, Liu Ming finally understood why those mining slaves were so desperate for some rare ores.

If all the ores in the channel are so difficult to mine, it is really not easy to make up for a month's amount, and it is even more difficult to obtain a larger amount of rare ore. (To be continued......)