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The frequency of the beast's roar decreased.

Lin Feng didn't back down; his eyes remained focused.

The outline of that huge shadow gradually became clear.

A strange beast covered in grayish-white stone armor lay perched above a crack at the end of the rocky area.

Its size is similar to that of his earth dragon, but its appearance is completely different.

It has six legs, a flat head, and a tail that forks into three bony whips.

[Detected: Peak A-level Exotic Beast: Stone-Armored Earth-Splitting Beast (Martial Venerable Ninth Stage)]

Lin Feng raised his hand.

The Starfall Nine Tribulations Blade shot out from the sleeve, forming two arcs in mid-air.

Sensing the killing intent, the Stone Armored Earth-Splitting Beast used all six legs to spring up from the crack.

It opened its mouth and exhaled a grayish-white, petrified aura.

The throwing knife did not make direct contact with the petrifying gas.

Two arcs cut in from the wings and precisely pierced the joints of the stone-armored beast.

Puff puff puff!

All six legs broke off.

The stone-armored beast lost its support and crashed to the ground, crushing a ring of rocks around it.

It was still struggling, continuing to spew petrifying gas from its mouth.

Lin Feng stepped forward, his right fist brimming with energy, and slammed it into the center of its head.

Click.

The stone armor shattered. Brain matter and fragments splattered outwards.

[Defeat an A-rank alien beast and gain 10000 Martial Arts Points]

One punch and he was done for.

Lin Feng shook the sticky liquid off his hands and continued walking forward.

Behind the crack where the stone-armored beast lay, the space suddenly opened up.

It is a huge underground space.

How big?

They pushed their mental strength two kilometers out, but still hadn't reached the edge.

Even when the Eye of All Beasts is zoomed out to its furthest point, the outline at the edge of the field of vision is still receding.

Its head was covered with glowing minerals.

Lin Feng stood on a protruding rock at the entrance, looking down.

Skeletal remains were scattered all over the ground.

Humans and animals were mixed together.

Some of the bones have petrified and become fused with the ground.

In the distance, there is a group of collapsed stone buildings.

Further on, there was a dried-up riverbed.

Several broken stone pillars stand on both sides of the river, and the carvings on the pillars have been weathered and are no longer visible.

The entire site is roughly estimated to cover at least several hundred square kilometers.

It's about the size of a small province.

Lin Feng pushed the range of his mental perception to its limit and scanned the entire layout of the ruins.

Five regions.

The outer ring is a mineral vein zone.

The glowing minerals at the top are just the tip of the iceberg; the real mineral veins are embedded in the rock walls surrounding the ruins, stretching for kilometers.

The middle layer is a dark green area.

From a distance, you can see plants.

Hundreds of meters underground, there are actually large areas of medicinal herb fields.

These herbs survive by relying on the sunlight from the top ore and the earth's veins; they have grown for who knows how many years.

Further in, the area becomes densely packed with broken rocks.

The ground was littered with a large number of broken weapons, including swords, spears, and halberds.

Deeper inside, there is a tower.

The tower remains intact, standing out starkly amidst the ruins.

It is entirely black and its height is estimated to be over 100 meters.

There was light flashing at the top of the tower.

Finally, there was an area directly behind the tower that was completely impenetrable to mental energy.

Multiple seals.

The five areas increase in difficulty from the outside in.

"Start with the outer perimeter."

Lin Feng jumped off the rock and headed towards the mineral vein.

I walked less than two hundred meters.

The ground shook.

It exploded simultaneously from six directions.

Six enormous scorpion-like beasts emerged from beneath the rubble, their tails held high and the tips of their venomous stingers gleaming eerily.

[Rank A Beast detected: Rock Armored Giant Scorpion x6]

Six heads, arranged in a circle.

Lin Feng didn't stop.

The nearest scorpion pounced from the right, its pincers outstretched, clamping down on his waist.

Lin Feng threw a punch with his right hand.

The perfect physical strength of the Undying Golden Body, combined with the infusion of Qi and blood from the second stage of Martial Saint.

The fist struck the scorpion's pincers.

Click!

The scorpion pincers split in the middle, and fragments flew to both sides.

Lin Feng's fist didn't stop; it pierced through the fragments and smashed into the scorpion's head armor.

The entire scalpel collapsed.

The scorpion's body was slammed into the ground by a punch, its six legs kicked twice in the air, and then it stopped moving.

[Defeat 1 A-rank monsters: Rock Armored Giant Scorpion, gain 10000 Martial Arts Points]

The second one charged up from behind, its poisonous needles piercing straight in.

Lin Feng turned to the side, and the poisoned needle grazed past his shoulder.

He grabbed the scorpion's tail with his other hand and pulled it forward.

He picked up the whole scorpion, swung it half a circle, and smashed it onto the third scorpion.

The two ends collided, and the shells shattered all over the ground.

[Defeat 2 A-rank monsters: Rock Armored Giant Scorpion, gain 20000 Martial Arts Points]

Seeing that things were not going well, the remaining three turned around and tried to run away.

The throwing knives scattered.

Eight per group, three groups strangled simultaneously.

Puff puff!

The three scorpions' joints broke simultaneously, and their bodies scattered into parts.

[Defeat 3 A-rank monsters: Rock Armored Giant Scorpion, gain 30000 Martial Arts Points]

The six guardian beasts, all at the Martial Venerable level, were wiped out in no more than ten seconds from their appearance to their complete annihilation.

Lin Feng retrieved the throwing knife and continued towards the mine.

The mineral veins are embedded in the rock walls surrounding the ruins.

Lin Feng only realized after getting closer that these mineral veins were much larger than they appeared from a distance.

The entire rock face is over ten meters high and extends to the horizon.

The vein's veins stretch from the bottom of the rock face all the way to the top, densely packed.

His mental energy seeped into the rock wall, scanning the distribution of the mineral veins.

Grade A spirit stone mines make up the majority.

It contains a small amount of high-grade S-rank ore.

There were also some ores he had never seen before.

Lin Feng started working.

With mental energy penetrating the rock wall, he precisely located the position and shape of the ore, and then released his qi and blood to peel the ore out of the rock layer piece by piece.

The ore broke off from the rock wall and floated in mid-air.

With a wave of his hand, Lin Feng sent the ore flying into his storage ring.

Peel off a piece, then harvest it.

The efficiency is ridiculously high.

It takes dozens of people a month to dig out a Class A ore vein.

Lin Feng cleared two veins by himself in half an hour.

The storage ring's capacity is starting to run low.

He took out the high-level storage ring that the Bai family had confiscated from his pocket and put it on his other hand.

Keep installing.

On the system panel, martial arts points are also slowly increasing.

Mining itself doesn't give martial arts points, but occasionally one or two low-level alien beasts will emerge from the depths of the mine, which you can easily take care of.

Lin Feng walked deeper into the rock face, peeling away layers as he went.

I stopped at the end of the mineral vein.

The color of the rock face in front of us changed.

Elsewhere the rock face is dark brown, but this small section has turned a dark gold.

It looks particularly jarring.

A section of dark gold ore protrudes outward from the rock wall, with fine, flowing patterns on its surface.

It's not the flow of spiritual energy.

It was something more concentrated. It was as if some force was sealed inside the ore, slowly stirring it.

Lin Feng's spiritual power adhered to it.

The energy density inside the ore is more than ten times higher than that of the S-grade spiritual marrow next to it.

A prompt appears on the system panel.

[Rare forging material detected: Star Dragon Bone Essence x1]

【Star Dragon Bone Essence: A top-grade forging material formed from dragon bones under special geological conditions. It can be used as the core base material for forging Martial Emperor-level weapons.】

[Currently known number of surviving individuals: Extremely small.]

Lin Feng stared at the line of text on the panel for a few seconds.

Martial Emperor-level weapon.

Dragon Blood Crimson Gold Spear.

The crack running from one end to the other on the gun barrel flashed through his mind.

He didn't hesitate.

Qi and blood flowed into the palms, and the force was exerted by pressing against the rock wall.

The rock layers peeled away one by one.

The dark golden ore revealed its complete form.

The piece was roughly the size of a fist, irregularly shaped, and the patterns on its surface pulsed even faster under the influence of the blood and qi in the palm.

It feels very heavy when you hold it.

It weighs four to five times more than the same volume of iron.

Lin Feng stored the Star Dragon Bone Essence in the deepest compartment of his storage ring.

He turned his head and looked at the dark green area in the middle of the ruins.

Medicinal herb field.