Swallowing the Stars: Shocking! The Giant Axe Wants to Become My Apprentice

Chapter 784 Heretics should be purified!

Originating on the continent.

In an endless cave beneath a certain chaotic ruin.

"Clang clang clang"

The sounds of metal clanging could be heard from time to time, harsh and unpleasant, but the miners who had lived here for years had long been used to it. They worked numbly, their faces lifeless, like walking corpses.

If the powerful beings of the Cosmic Sea were to see this, they would be greatly surprised, because the weakest miners here are all True Gods, that is, the strongest beings in the universe, and there are even super strong beings who surpass the strongest beings in the universe.

Yet this group of countless powerful individuals were engaged in a job that even the strongest in the cosmic sea could hardly imagine: mining.

It's called mining, but what they're really digging for are Chaos Crystals and Chaos Stones. These Chaos Crystals and Chaos Stones leaked out from the Chaos Ruins and blended into the mountains and landforms. Although it's only a small part, every little bit counts, and when they're all gathered together, they become a great fortune.

"Holy crap, I never thought I'd get to experience mining in my lifetime!"

Zhou Ze shook his head, feeling no discouragement. Instead, he had a rather unique experience, since he could leave whenever he wanted, and at worst, he could try to enter the cycle of reincarnation again.

Because he was a Void True God, Zhou Ze was assigned to the area where Chaos Crystals were formed. If he were only a True God, he would be assigned to the area where Chaos Stones were formed.

"Clang clang clang!"

Zhou Ze raised his pickaxe and slammed it down on the hazy Chaos Crystal in front of him, producing a series of dull, ear-piercing sounds. The Chaos Crystal was much harder than the Chaos Stone, and only a Void True God had the ability to slowly destroy it.

Zhou Ze dug for over an hour before finally unearthing a piece of Chaos Crystal. After these Chaos Crystals were handed over, they would be cut into fixed crystal blocks by a special Void God. These fixed crystal blocks were the Chaos Crystals available for market use.

"I don't even know where I landed. I was captured by some unknown powerful being and sent here to mine. This area is too chaotic."

As Zhou Ze dug, he pondered. According to the records of the Duan Donghe lineage, although miners were somewhat dangerous, it was not so difficult to recruit them. And a force that could control a Chaos Crystal and Chaos Stone mining area would not be unable to pay even that small wage.

So what exactly is the powerful figure behind this mining area planning? Is it simply because there isn't enough manpower for the miners, so they are forcibly capturing True Gods and Void True Gods outside the city to mine the ore?

That's impossible.

There must be other motives.

"Forget about their purpose, let's figure out where we are first, otherwise there's no point in mining."

Zhou Ze put the two large pieces of Chaos Crystal into his spatial ring. This spatial ring was given to him by the management personnel before he entered the mining area; his original one had already been taken away.

Whoosh!

Zhou Ze flew off in one direction.

Within this mining area, the entrances and exits are blocked by powerful individuals, so there is no need to worry about miners escaping. Inside, one can fly freely, as long as a specific Chaos Crystal weight index is achieved each era.

Zhou Ze quickly found a Void God whose head was shining brightly and whose true race was unknown. He transmitted his voice to the Void God and said, "Brother, do you know where this place is? I was inexplicably brought here."

With the lineage of the Broken East River still intact, Zhou Ze had naturally long since learned the common language of the Origin Continent, so there were no barriers between different languages.

The Void God, whose eyes had been numb, recovered slightly and sneered, "It seems you're not from my Yixiu Chaos Continent, or even my Food Kingdom. You're really unlucky—"

The radiant Void God spoke only a few words, yet Zhou Ze gleaned some fundamental and crucial information from them.

"I've actually been transported to the Food Kingdom, a place with a deadly feud with the Mountain-Sitting Guest, and it's even in the Chaos Continent of Yixiu. What luck—"

Zhou Ze clicked his tongue inwardly. The Food Kingdom, especially the Yixiu Chaos State, was no place for a human to live. According to the records in the Duan Donghe's inherited memories, the Chaos Ruler of Yixiu Chaos City, "Yixiu Great Sage," raised all the living beings in the Chaos State like lambs, and would harvest them as food every once in a while.

This applies to everyone from the lowest God to the highest eternal God; it's truly tragic.

"Brother, what's going on here? It seems you know something about this? I just got here and was inexplicably brought here?"

Zhou Ze feigned doubt and asked, "A powerful force that can control the Chaos Ruins shouldn't be so stingy as to not even pay the miners' wages, right?"

The Chaos Ruins is a money-making machine. With the Chaos Ruins around, the Chaos Crystals and Chaos Stones earned by hired miners are nothing.

"It seems you really have no idea what your situation is—" The Radiant Void God's eyes held a hint of pity: "Don't even think about escaping."

"There are several Eternal True Gods guarding this place, and there is also a Void True God squad at the entrance and exit. If you try to resist, not to mention the Eternal True Gods, you won't be able to handle that Void True God squad alone."

Zhou Ze chatted with this Void God whose head was glowing for a long time and learned a lot of specific information about the Yixiu Chaos City.

It must be said that the Food Kingdom was truly born, and the Great Sage Yi Xiu was even more of a birth among births. For example, the Void True God with the glowing head was one of the many tribes within the territory of Yi Xiu Chaos State.

Every tribe located within the Yixiu Chaos State is required to pay a certain amount of Void True Gods and True Gods every so often, depending on the size of the tribe; otherwise, the entire tribe will be destroyed.

All the true gods and void true gods who surrendered their power faced certain death; none of them returned alive.

Mining? It's just making use of waste. In time, Zhou Ze estimated that the true gods and void true gods of these tribes would be taken away as food.

"The environment on the Origin Continent is really harsh, and nobody cares. Maybe this is the law of the jungle, the real law of the jungle!" Zhou Ze thought to himself as he mined.

The longer I chatted with that Void God whose head was glowing, the more oppressed I felt inside.

The information in the memories passed down from the Duan Donghe lineage regarding the Food Kingdom and the Yixiu Chaos State was only mentioned briefly. However, Zhou Ze personally descended upon this region and had an extraordinary understanding of its cruelty.

In the cosmic sea, in the primordial universe, no matter how fiercely the various forces and races fought, they did not raise other races as food; their food came from ferocious beasts with extremely low intelligence.

On the continent of origin, there are actually regions that are recognized as raising intelligent races for food, which is really disgusting and repulsive.

"What a barbaric civilization! No, it doesn't deserve to be called a civilization. It's just a bunch of beasts who prey on the weak," Zhou Ze scoffed.

On Earth, before the Great Nirvana, even when faced with sentient domestic animals, many people couldn't bear to kill them, and eating humanoid apes and monkeys would be considered disgusting.

In the Origin Continent, almost all living beings are in human form. How could they possibly eat them? What's the difference between them and cannibals? Even animals without intelligence rarely eat their own kind.

Zhou Ze really wanted to say, "They are all heretics and should be purified!"