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Chapter 366: Chapter 366: This Spirit Stone Vein is Mine!

The next morning, a line of armored vehicles entered the city and arrived outside the ruins.

Inside one of the armored vehicles, Cheng Dongliang, dressed in military uniform, asked, “Have the scanning results come out yet?”

A man sat in front of a computer, his ten fingers deftly typing on the keyboard, while something similar to radar was scanning on the screen.

“It will need a few more minutes.”

After ten minutes, the man stopped his actions and, looking at the screen, said, “No life forms were detected thirty kilometers underground.”

“What?”

Cheng Dongliang quickly walked over and stared at the screen for a while, his brows furrowing tightly.

“Nothing?”

The man pointed at a spot at the bottom of the screen and said, “There is indeed a space underground, but no life forms were detected inside the space.”

“How far is that underground space from the surface?”

“Seventeen kilometers.” The man’s fingers slid across the screen and he continued, “There’s a huge passage here, which must be what that giant snake used to move through.”

“Is the passage vertical?”

“Vertical,” he confirmed.

Cheng Dongliang gave a broad wave of his hand, “Send people to drop the explosives down immediately.”

“Yes, sir!”

The soldiers received the orders and, each holding a pack of explosives, walked to the edge of the pit and threw the packs of explosives down.

The depth of seventeen kilometers meant that the explosives took several minutes to fall before the echo of them hitting the bottom came from within.

After about twenty packs of explosives had been thrown, Cheng Dongliang ordered, “All personnel withdraw ten kilometers, then detonate the explosives.”

Half an hour later, the military withdrew ten kilometers and Cheng Dongliang gave the order to detonate the explosives.

With the press of the detonator, the sounds of “bang!” “bang!” explosions and the shaking of the ground traveled up from beneath their feet.

Fortunately, the tremors were limited to a few hundred meters around Fang Yuan and did not affect other buildings.

Meanwhile, in Li Xiaoyao’s home, Xiaoqing suddenly opened her eyes from her cultivation.

While Li Xiaoyao was healing Zhang Meng’s bones, the voice of Xiaoqing echoed in his mind. He helplessly shook his head and said to the ladies, “You continue to use spiritual power to nourish Meng Meng’s body. I’ll be right back after going upstairs.”

“Oh.” Although they were puzzled why Li Xiaoyao chose this moment to leave, the ladies did not ask any further.

“Thump thump thump.”

“Come in.”

Li Xiaoyao opened the door and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Someone has intruded underground.”

“What!” Li Xiaoyao was suddenly alarmed.

There was a spirit stone vein underground, which belonged to Li Xiaoyao, but now Xiaoqing was saying that someone had intruded into the spirit stone vein.

“Who are they? What is their cultivation level?”

Xiaoqing replied, “Just a bunch of ordinary people. The Taoist leading them has some minor cultivation. They threw a series of packages into the ground, and then for some reason, they exploded.”

“Explosive packs!” Li Xiaoyao immediately deduced that it must have been the military’s doing.

“I’ll go out for a bit.”

Li Xiaoyao turned away and after going downstairs, he said to the ladies, “I’m stepping out for a bit. I’ll be back tonight to continue the nourishment.”

Seeing him so anxious, the ladies knew that something must have happened.

…

Upon learning that demon beasts had appeared, powerful cultivators from all around the world had rushed to Ling City today.

However, when they arrived in Ling City, they discovered that the army had taken action.

This was not good news.

There was an agreement between cultivators and the nation: cultivators were not to display their formidable abilities in front of ordinary people, nor could they directly oppose the state.

If they violated this, the nation could execute them on the spot.

Even those cultivators standing at the pinnacle of this world dared not antagonize a nation. To do so was foolish, and the consequences would be tragic.

Outside the ruins, numerous cultivators who had arrived from various places stood gathered. The weaker ones among them were at the Condensation Realm, while the powerful reached the Golden Core Realm, and there were even some whose auras were elusive, inscrutable.

As the ground trembled beneath their feet, a cultivator let out a sigh.

The ground outside the pit began to collapse, and what was originally a pit of only ten meters turned into a gigantic crater spanning several hundred meters in an instant. A rich surge of Spiritual Energy suddenly emerged from beneath the pit.

“This is…” someone’s eyes widened, looking at the green light faintly appearing above the pit, and exclaimed in shock, “A Spirit Stone Vein! There’s a Spirit Stone Vein below us!”

The cultivators were initially regretful because the military had acted to kill the demon beasts, but upon discovering the Spirit Stone Vein, they immediately became excited, “To think that deep beneath the ground here lies a Spirit Stone Vein!”

Just as these cultivators were growing restless, a series of armored vehicles drove by, and Cheng Dongliang stepped down from one of them, his gaze coldly sweeping over the cultivators, saying, “This is Ling City. The Spirit Stone Vein underground belongs to the nation. Everyone, disperse.”

Powerful cultivators weren’t particularly interested in the Spirit Stone Vein itself, but generally, the formation of a Spirit Stone Vein would be accompanied by various rare treasures or powerful demon beasts and genius earth essences.

Such things were dearly loved by powerful cultivators.

“Presumably this must be Fellow Daoist Cheng.” one of the cultivators said with a slight smile.

“Hmm.” Cheng Dongliang nodded lightly and said, “Everyone disperse. The Spirit Stone Vein belongs to the nation, so please refrain from harboring any ideas about it.”

A Spirit Stone Vein uncovered during the extermination of demon beasts automatically became the property of the nation, an agreement that had long since been established between the nation and cultivators, and it had never changed over the years.

At that moment, a figure swiftly approached. It was Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao arrived there with an expressionless face, taking a quick glance around, and noticing Cheng Dongliang wasn’t unexpected.

If the military was involved, apart from Cheng Dongliang, there was no one else it could be.

Compared to Li Xiaoyao, Cheng Dongliang was much more surprised. In such a situation, Li Xiaoyao actually dared to come forward proactively. Put nicely, he had a lot of nerve; to put it crudely, he was brainless.

“Everyone leave immediately. This Spirit Stone Vein belongs to me, Li Xiaoyao,” declared Li Xiaoyao upon his arrival. @@novelbin@@

Under the influence of powerful intent, the auras of all the cultivators present were encompassed, and to Li Xiaoyao’s surprise, he felt many discreet yet powerful auras emanating from them.

These auras gave Li Xiaoyao a sense of extreme danger.

Li Xiaoyao knew that keeping the Spirit Stone Vein would not be easy.

“Li Xiaoyao!”

“You are Li Xiaoyao!”

“Just like the rumors, indeed a reckless young man!”

“Fellow Daoist Cheng, it seems someone doesn’t respect you.”

Cheng Dongliang’s eyebrows knitted slightly and he said, “Xiaoyao, this Spirit Stone Vein belongs to the nation. Leave this place now!”

“Belongs to the nation?” Li Xiaoyao laughed coldly twice and said, “It seems I haven’t made myself clear. This Spirit Stone Vein is mine!”

“Fellow Daoist Cheng, you heard him. This kid says the Spirit Stone Vein is his. Since that’s the case, I won’t be polite any longer,” another spoke up.

Under the influence of immense interests, everyone cast aside their hypocritical masks to reveal their true nature.

[If the daily recommendation tickets exceed five hundred, everyone, please give a push, there’ll be one extra update today, making a total of four. Let the recommendation tickets and rewards come more vigorously.]

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