A Guide to Surviving the Mysterious Dungeon and the Twelve Talismans

"Ben, is this a warning to us?"

"Who is this person? A ninth-tier Ghost Emperor? How can there be such a terrifying being in the Soul Iron Mine?"

Both the malevolent and benevolent entities were visibly surprised.

Seeing this, Zhou An pondered for a moment and then transformed back into human form: "Then let's do as this big shot says, we won't dig, we'll just pick them up."

Upon hearing this, both the malevolent and benevolent entities transformed back into human form.

"Then let's pick them up," the two nodded in agreement.

At this moment, that consciousness descended again, but it did not emit any aura.

Zhou An and the other two were completely unaware of this, and under the gaze of this consciousness, they began to pick up the soul stones scattered on the riverbed.

That consciousness lingered for a while before fading away.

Five hours later.

Zhou An and his two companions had already collected over 100,000 jin (50,000 kg).

They searched the entire riverbed, but apart from the soul stones in the riverbed, they couldn't find any other soul stones.

"Finished picking up the scavengers? Shall we go back to mining?" the benevolent entity asked.

It's not that they don't want to pick them up anymore, it's that they simply can't.

At the end of the upstream section is a huge cave, about three meters high.

At the cave entrance, there is extremely strong water pressure flowing out from inside.

With their third-tier strength, Zhou An and his companions were simply unable to go against the tide.

Even after a blood sacrifice, with all firepower at full blast, they can only walk a dozen meters before being swept away by the water.

At the same time, the temperature inside dropped sharply, by at least several times, and the pressure became stronger the higher you went.

At the downstream end, there is a waterfall, and even more so, a bottomless abyss, with no idea what lies below.

Only occasionally could one hear a very low roar coming from below.

Although Zhou An is now immortal, if he goes down there, he might get swept away by the current to some unknown corner, which would be troublesome.

"We're only at the third level right now, which is still too weak. We'll come back and explore again when we have time."

"Now, let's go back to mining," Zhou An said in a deep voice.

"It's a pity we can't mine for soul stones. Otherwise, we could mine directly upstream, and there would definitely be soul stones there too." The evil entity looked regretful.

The rock walls at the upstream end are all made of soul stones, making them impossible to mine.

"Alright, 100,000 jin is definitely worth a lot. Let's go back to mining," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

He then leaped directly out of the water.

Before Zhou An could land, it transformed into a hawk.

They then flew back to the cave entrance where they had come from.

After landing, it transformed back into human form.

Once the entities of good and evil returned, Zhou An immediately took out some soul iron ore and completely sealed off this place.

They even used fire bombs to melt and weld it shut.

This directly resulted in a thickness of ten meters.

"Alright, let's change direction and keep digging," Zhou An said, clapping his hands.

Both the good and evil beings took up their power pickaxes and began their mining operations.

Zhou An did not immediately collect the ore, but instead took out the soul stone and began to study it.

Although soul stones can enhance soul power, he doesn't know how to absorb them and just waits to be passively absorbed, which is too slow.

He tried to cultivate the Xuanming Technique, hoping to see if he could increase his absorption speed.

However, it had absolutely no effect and was still just passively absorbing soul power.

Zhou An then tried to activate the Soul Devouring Technique.

The next instant, Zhou An felt the pure soul power within the soul stone being directly absorbed into his body.

About an hour later, the fist-sized soul stone was completely absorbed and turned into a white stone.

With a gentle pinch, Zhou An turned it into dust.

"It took an hour to absorb it all, and my soul power has increased a little. That's pretty good." A smile appeared on Zhou An's face.

The only downside might be that it's absorbed too slowly.

It's most likely because his skill level is too low.

Zhou An doesn't seem to have noticed any effect from the enhancement of his soul power.

The soul power increased, but the three-dimensional attributes remained unchanged.

However, Zhou An felt that it would definitely play an extremely important role in the future.

Zhou An stopped absorbing the soul stones and instead looked towards the mine in another direction.

This mine was dug out by both benevolent and malevolent entities.

Large chunks of Soul Iron Ore were piled up in the passage.

"It's been an hour, and I still don't know how far they've dug."

"I need to get to work too." As soon as Zhou An finished speaking, he quickly stepped forward and touched the soul iron ore.

The Soul Iron Ore immediately disappeared into the mine and entered Zhou An's inventory.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour, an hour, two hours.

After three hours, Zhou An finally caught up with the benevolent and malevolent entities.

The two completely ignored Zhou An's arrival; all they cared about was mining, mining, and mining.

"Wait, you two stop for a second," Zhou An said to the two of them.

The next second, they stopped mining altogether.

"What's wrong?" The benevolent being looked at Zhou An with a puzzled expression.

"Take these and put them in your pocket. They will slowly increase your soul power." Zhou An tossed them a few soul stones.

The two nodded as they took the soul stone, put it in their pockets, and then continued digging.

Zhou An took out the Soul Stone once again, using the Soul Devouring Technique to absorb and refine it while using the other hand to collect the excavated Soul Iron Ore.

And just like that, nine days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these nine days, Zhou An and his two companions would go out once a day to receive a buff from the succubus clan.

And their gains during those nine days were undoubtedly enormous.

Zhou An roughly estimated that the three of them had excavated a total of 100,000 tons of Soul Iron Ore.

It occupied a full twenty squares.

"100,000 tons, that's 200 million jin, which would cost 20 billion yuan at the market retail price."

“If we let the top management of Soul Iron Mine acquire it, we can also make 10 billion yuan.” Zhou An did the calculation and was secretly amazed.

"Do you think the higher-ups at Soul Iron Mine will really pay out 10 billion? We've mined too much," the benevolent entity said with some concern.

"What's there to be afraid of? According to Tang Ming, however much we dig, they can quietly smuggle it all out."

"We make a lot of money, but those old Dengs make even more," the evil entity said nonchalantly.

"It seems that the scale of this Soul Iron Mine far exceeds our expectations," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

Please take one day off.

As the title suggests, I have something to take care of and need to take a day off.

Chapter 136 One Hundred Billion, Return Reward

Zhou An recalled his clone and returned to the mine square.

The forty-nine players stood in the square, all of them extremely excited.

Clearly, each of them gained a great deal during those ten days.

They'll get a large sum of soul money soon.

When those fairies saw Zhou An come out, their eyes practically popped out of their noses.

It's as if it's saying that even without you, we women can still achieve great things.

Of course, they didn't dare to say anything to Zhou An, for fear that Zhou An would slap them to death.

At this moment, Tang Ming arrived with a number of strange employees.

The employees brought the human players into the warehouse so that trading could be conducted more easily.

Zhou An, on the other hand, was taken by Tang Ming to a rather special warehouse.

“Zhou An, this warehouse was rushed out in the last few days, specifically to store the ore you mined.”

"Then let me see how much ore you've mined," Tang Ming said with a faint smile.

Zhou An nodded slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a large amount of Soul Iron Ore began to appear.

Before long, the entire warehouse was filled.

"This..." You've filled the entire warehouse? Tang Ming was greatly surprised.

"This warehouse can hold 50,000 tons of Soul Iron Ore... cough cough, how did you manage to mine so much?" Tang Ming looked at Zhou An, his eyes filled with shock.

Zhou An wanted Tang Ming to take him to other warehouses, but when he saw Tang Ming say that, he smiled.

“Not only that, I still have 50,000 tons in my inventory. Take me to another warehouse,” Zhou An said.

"There are... there are still 50,000 tons left?" Tang Ming's pupils contracted sharply.