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Countless figures constantly moved about, and from time to time, rough shouts could be heard. Occasionally, there were even cries and screams mixed in.

Ling Xiao walked closer. In the undulating stone forest, there was a wide valley. Looking from top to bottom, it looked like the bottom of a bowl. The sound came from the valley.

Ling Xiao finally remembered where they were.

Outside of Kata City, there were dozens of other small towns. This was one of them, because there were a lot of phosphorous rock mines nearby that were famous, and the whole town's people lived off of them. There were also many ordinary people and low leveled Martial Cultivator who could not live through Kata City and came to the mines built by the various great powers to work.

Martha often cared about these lower class people and introduced them to Levi Family's mine. The original owner almost came here, but the mine's management was extremely strict. It was difficult for one to even enter or leave the mine, so the original owner rejected after hesitating for a while.

At this moment, what was supposed to be a dark valley was filled with flames that soared into the sky, staining the entire valley red. Ling Xiao broke out in a cold sweat as he looked carefully.

Those in gray were driving a group of living creatures into the furnace at the bottom of the valley!

The furnace that took up more than half of the valley swallowed its flames like a bloody mouth. In the blink of an eye, it had devoured all the crying creatures, leaving not a single scrap behind.

What were these people doing?

The situation below was very strange. Gayaro also saw the same scene and immediately stopped talking. Powerful inner strength silently surged out, concealing the aura around Ling Xiao even more thoroughly.

Ling Xiao thanked him in silence and slowly approached the bottom of the valley.

The closer he got, the more furious he became.

This was because he noticed that not only were the Savage Beast s the ones pushed into the furnace, there were also ordinary people and the Martial Cultivator s. Ling Xiao had even discovered a First Level of Martial Soldier s, but these people that were powerful enough to show off their strength in Kata City, in this place, could only be like an animal who was mercilessly pushed down.

Who was it that could be so powerful and not care about the lives of so many people? And this even included so many Martial Cultivator!

Ling Xiao had a nagging feeling that their actions might be related to sending out death warriors to kill him.

After sliding down the valley, Ling Xiao was finally able to raise his head and take a good look at the entire appearance of this colossus. The entire shape of the furnace looked like a funnel, getting smaller and smaller. At the bottom end, there was a thumb-sized exit, which was slowly dripping with milky white liquid.

The red liquid rolled endlessly inside the furnace, and then continuously poured down from the other hole, flowing out of the valley through the man-made channel.

Ling Xiao frowned. His specially trained agility worked at this moment. He stared at the white liquid that was slowly dripping and agreed with Gayaro. "The essence of heaven and earth!"

They were artificially creating the essence of the world!

In an instant, Ling Xiao revealed the entire truth based on the current situation.

In order to obtain the Heaven and Earth Essence, a force had set up a mine in this remote town. In reality, they had thrown all the captured people and beasts into a huge furnace, and when their bodies melted in the high temperature, the Inner Bead would naturally fall and the Qi of Heaven and Earth would be compressed to the extreme to form the Heaven and Earth Essence.

It was obvious that those who spent such a huge amount for the essence of heaven and earth must have some other scheme. Therefore, Ling Xiao, who wielded a large amount of the essence of heaven and earth, became a thorn in the eye for them to eliminate!

Since there was no way to save the Inner Bead, he chose to fill it up with his life just for a drop of the essence of heaven and earth.

These people were so cruel and cold!

Ling Xiao, who was usually indifferent to his surroundings, couldn't help but to get angry. The flames that shot to the sky still had no intention of stopping as miserable screams rose and fell one after another.

Ling Xiao began to look around. He probably knew that once the matter was exposed, it would become a public target. The security around the mine was very tight, so Ling Xiao was almost discovered a few times.

Soon, he arrived at the outskirts of the mine. In order to hide from others, there were still many people mining here. At this moment, a familiar figure suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.

Dongzi!

Ling Xiao took the opportunity to stop Dongzi and asked him why he was here.

Dongzi grinned and said gratefully because he met Goddess Martha at the auction. When he saw him looking for a job, he recommended him to come to the mine.

Looking at Dongzi's expression, it seemed that he didn't know how dirty this place was. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so calm.

"Calm down." Gayaro said, his voice also filled with anger and disdain, "It's fine to be alone, but it's impossible to get out of here with another normal person. Why don't we go and find help first?"

No matter how arrogant he was, he did not think that he could take Dongzi and escape from so many people with him.

It was also thanks to Gayaro. Otherwise, Ling Xiao would have been discovered the moment he stepped out of the underground tunnel. Perhaps he would have already become the unlucky soul of this furnace.

I need to get out of here as soon as possible and get reinforcements.

Ling Xiao repeatedly reminded Dongzi not to leak the news that he came here. After getting the assurance, he carefully stuck close to the cold and hard stone and returned along the same road.

Who knew that just as he entered the tunnel, he would hear a familiar voice coming from the front.

"How is the collection of natural essence going?" The man's slightly shrill voice echoed in the tunnel.

The one who spoke was none other than the brainless fan Dean who had a life and death grudge with Ling Xiao.

"We have already collected quite a few of them. It's enough for the rest of the family to raise their strength once."

Dean was complacent, as if he was the one who had done all this, "I still have to thank Miss Martha. If it wasn't for her, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly. Oh right, please pass this pair of earrings to Miss Martha. I ordered someone to specially make these earrings for her. I'll find a way to bring more people here and reassure her. "

He was indeed a small marten.

It was obvious that half a month ago, Dean was still in the Seventh Stage of Qi Cultivating Stage at the entrance of Martial Cultivator. But in the end, he became a First Level of Martial Soldier so quickly.

Thinking about the manufacturing process of those things, Ling Xiao could not help but feel a wave of disgust in his heart.

They all said that Dean killed the original owner, ordered the hoodlums to gang up on Ling Xiao, and then insulted Ling Xiao in front of the crowd. These three grudges should be avenged today!

Having made up his mind, Ling Xiao relied on his nimble figure to secretly follow behind Dean.