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Faced with Jiang Yan's question, Little East Evil's eyes darted around: "Why are you asking this?"

"Just asking. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine too." Jiang Yan knew that the little devil was cunning and not easily fooled, so he immediately changed the subject: "I want to see just how difficult it is to mine here."

As he spoke, he took out a pickaxe from his backpack and began digging into the red crystal wall.

[Ding~ Congratulations, player, you have successfully mined and obtained a Fire Cloud Stone of quality +17]

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for successfully mining! You have obtained a Fire Marrow Jade of Quality +15]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

……

As Jiang Yan dug, he opened his backpack and discreetly checked the properties of the Fire Cloud Stone and Fire Marrow Jade.

【Fire Cloud Stone】: Quality +17, high-grade ore, can be used to forge fire-type magical artifacts!

【Fire Marrow Jade】: Quality +15, High-grade Fire Jade, can be used to forge fire-type spiritual weapons!

As expected, it's used to forge fire-type spiritual weapons... As Jiang Yan dug, Little East Evil beside him said with a grin, "How's it going? Can't dig anything out, huh?"

Whether a player succeeds or fails at mining, outsiders cannot tell. Xiao Dongxie can only see Jiang Yan mechanically swinging his pickaxe, but cannot see the high-quality fire cloud stone and fire marrow jade in his backpack!

Jiang Yan naturally wouldn't reveal his true intentions, and calmly said, "I was just unlucky, so I'll go somewhere else."

Jiang Yan, channeling his inner drama queen, continued to delve deeper into the cave, digging here and there.

"Don't think I'm lying to you. Players can't mine this kind of high-quality ore at all unless they have special items, otherwise..." Little East Evil followed behind, analyzing it logically.

Jiang Yan ignored him, determined to fight these ores to the bitter end.

After walking a while longer, the crystal walls on both sides of the cave became thicker and the temperature rose higher and higher. Jiang Yan and Xiao Dongxie began to get -1-1 damage numbers above their heads.

After walking a few dozen meters further, the damage on their heads had become -10-10!

"In my experience, the more extreme the environment, the greater the chance of a baby being born!" Little East Evil's eyes lit up as he drank his medicine and quickened his pace.

Jiang Yan put away his pickaxe, not wanting to fall behind.

Before long, the two finally arrived at the deepest part of the cave!

This is a closed cave of about 100 square meters, with a pool of water in the very center!

But the pool wasn't filled with water; it was filled with crimson lava!

The lava surged and churned, constantly radiating heat in all directions, making the entire cave look like a steamer.

Little East Evil took a step inside, then immediately retreated.

Because the damage inside is higher, -100 per second!

"Such high damage!" Little East Evil was only level 14, with just over 600 HP. Without medicine, he couldn't survive inside at all.

Jiang Yan had no such concerns. His total HP and MP had exceeded 7,000, and with the 20,000 gold worth of pills in his backpack, he didn't care about this little bit of damage at all!

He strode into the cave, the intense heat causing a dull ache to run down his skin. Jiang Yan frowned, enduring the pain, and quickly checked his surroundings.

Suddenly, he noticed a few inconspicuous little grasses in the lower left corner of the cave!

Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow. How could grass possibly grow in such a high-temperature environment?

He immediately went to the bottom left corner and used his level 6 gathering skill.

[Ding~ Player failed to collect resources]

[Ding~ Player failed to collect resources]

[Ding~ Congratulations, player! You have successfully harvested a 300-year-old Flame Tongue Grass.]

[Ding~ Player failed to collect resources]

[Ding~ Congratulations, player! You have successfully harvested a 300-year-old Flame Tongue Grass.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Jiang Yan's eyes suddenly lit up.

So far, the oldest herbs he has dug up are only a hundred years old. This Fire Tongue Grass is three hundred years old, so it must be an exceptional medicine!

Jiang Yan hurriedly opened his backpack to check its attributes.

【Fire Tongue Grass】: Can be used in alchemy and medicine.

This introduction is too simple... While continuing to collect the herbs, Jiang Yan sent a private message to the alchemy genius, inquiring about the effects of the Fire Tongue Grass.

The alchemy expert replied quickly: I think I've heard of this herb, but I need to ask my NPC teacher for details. Boss, wait for me!

Jiang Yan replied: Okay, I'll wait for your message!

"Jiang Taigong, what did you find inside?" At this moment, Xiao Dongxie saw Jiang Yan squatting in the corner outside the cave and was extremely anxious.

"Just a few herbs." Jiang Yan finished chatting, stood up with a smile, and with his level 6 gathering skill, he quickly gathered all the Fire Tongue Grass in the lower left corner, obtaining a total of five 300-year-old Fire Tongue Grasses!

Jiang Yan continued searching, but found nothing more.

and many more!

Jiang Yan suddenly noticed that the walls of the magma pool were also covered with thick, crimson crystal walls!

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up. He had mined his way in and had found a lot of Fire Marrow Jade and Fire Cloud Stone, but he had not found any fragments of ancient demonic weapons!

Could it be that the fragments of this demonic weapon are hidden in the lava pool?

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan hurriedly walked towards the lava pool and then took out a pickaxe.

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for successfully mining! You have obtained a Fire Marrow Jade of Quality +19]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for successfully mining! You have obtained a Fire Marrow Jade of Quality +19]

The quality is much better than what's available elsewhere... Jiang Yan was overjoyed and started digging frantically!

He had a premonition that as players' levels and strength increased, the ores that could be used to forge magical artifacts would definitely sell like hotcakes!

"What the hell? Are you crazy? Mining next to lava?" At this moment, Little East Evil walked in after drinking a bottle of super red potion (restores 100 health points per second for 5 seconds).

He moved with lightning speed, quickly circling the lava pool in 5 seconds. After confirming that there was nothing inside, he ran out of the cave, feeling dejected: "Jiang Taigong, there's nothing in here. Let's hurry up and leave."

"No rush, it'll be done soon." Seeing that his health and mana had dropped by more than half, Jiang Yan quickly ate a low-level magic pill (restores 500 mana per second for 5 seconds) and then continued mining!

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for successfully mining! You have obtained a Fire Marrow Jade of Quality +19]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

As Jiang Yan dug, he said to Little Eastern Heretic, "Little Eastern Heretic, go outside and keep watch for me. If the Tiger King comes in, notify me immediately."

"Fine... then." Seeing this, Little East Evil had no choice but to retreat.

Without the interference of Little East Evil, Jiang Yan dug even harder!

[Ding~ Congratulations, player, you have successfully mined and obtained a Fire Cloud Stone of quality +19]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for successfully mining! You have obtained a +22 Flame Copper Mother.]

+22 quality?

Jiang Yan was stunned when he saw the system notification, and then quickly opened his backpack.

【Blazing Copper Mother】: Quality +22, top-grade ore, can be integrated into fire-type spirit artifacts to upgrade their rank!

After reviewing the attributes, Jiang Yan frowned slightly.

Upgrade your spirit weapon?

Is it possible that divine artifacts cannot be forged directly and can only be achieved by upgrading the grade of spiritual artifacts?

Jiang Yan continued digging while pondering, but for some reason, he encountered a series of failures!

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

[Ding~ Player's mining failed]

……

At that moment, Jiang Yan suddenly had a premonition that he might be about to dig up something big!

Just then, Little East Evil suddenly messaged him: The Tiger King seems to have discovered us, come out quickly!

At the same time, a system notification came:

[Ding~ Congratulations, player! You have successfully mined and obtained an Ancient Demon Weapon Fragment!]