NOVEL NEXT Chapter 447: 【356】Breaking Through Attributes! (Seeking monthly votes, recommendations, and genuine support)_1
Chapter 447: 【356】Breaking Through Attributes! (Seeking monthly votes, recommendations, and genuine support)_1
Jiang Xinrun’s clothes were stained with blood, but he didn’t care and went straight to stand behind “Jiang Qingcang.”
“Family Head, all traces have been cleared.”
“Jiang Qingcang” handed over the blueprint, “Starting today, you will personally lead the team to the area I’ve circled, and use the Space Series for transportation.”
“Yes, Family Head.”
He could reside here and cultivate by refining the spiritual energy while arranging for the mining operation.
Both methods had to be employed simultaneously to reduce the risk of premature exposure as much as possible.
Playing with the surveying equipment, “Jiang Qingcang” affirmed the mining pathway in his mind.
He looked towards the masked person beside him.
Jiang Xinrun’s gaze followed.
He had been unaware of the mysterious person brought by the Family Head from the start.
He saw the other party stretch out a hand and press down on the air.
A terrifying power instantly dissolved the clumps of soil before them.
The display of this horrifying power was done with unmistakable dominance.
Jiang Xinrun’s brows trembled as he watched.
But seeing that “Jiang Qingcang” wanted to go down personally, he quickly offered a set of gas masks.
Once the avatar had put on the mask,
Jiang Qingcang passed another gas mask to Pei Jinye’s avatar, who was wearing a mask, but Pei Jinye refused Jiang Xinrun’s kind gesture.
Jiang Xinrun couldn’t help but take another look at him and reminded him, “There’s toxic gas below.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Pei Jinye’s avatar changed his voice, speaking as if cutting through with a knife, which was bone-chilling.
Jiang Xinrun silently retracted the gas mask and put it on himself.
Using the Earth Element’s ability, Pei Jinye’s avatar began to open the way, and as it controlled the earth element, a tunnel formed naturally.
Jiang Xinrun did not walk at the forefront, but occasionally looked up at the mysterious masked person.
Usually, after a Transcendent with the Earth Element opened a pathway, there could be a risk of collapse.
But they couldn’t match the level of the person in front of them.
Is this a tunnel?
This is clearly a transporter!
The group followed in silence with quick steps.
Following the planned route in his mind, Pei Jinye led the way with his avatar.
About fifteen minutes later, Pei Jinye’s avatar stopped.
Behind him, Jiang Xinrun shone a flashlight forward, Pei Jinye reached out to take the sword from his hand, walked over to the avatar, and poked the ground with the sword. As the soil in front fell away, a glimmer of light appeared on the earth wall.
Soon after, a chunk of earth wall fell.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, the wall looked as though it was embedded with countless sparkling and translucent gems.
“It’s Spirit Stones.” Pei Jinye grabbed a stone the size of a goose egg and gently pressed it, the Spirit Stone shattered into a powder.
Threads of Spiritual Energy were extracted, and Pei Jinye, with his forty times enhanced Element perception, carefully felt the purity of this energy.
He quickly determined that the three-centimeter-long Spirit Stone in his hand contained an amount of Spiritual Energy roughly equivalent to two-thirds of a Blood Spirit Fruit.
“We’ve made a fortune this time!” exclaimed Pei Jinye internally.
Roughly counting, there were at least two hundred thousand Spirit Stones like this in front of him.
The reserves were even more than he had estimated.
His regard for this Spirit Ore mine skyrocketed.
Moving as an avatar, he marked around the mine vein. Pei Jinye cursed his lack of knowledge in formations, resorting to creating some talisman marks as a precaution.
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After returning to the Jiang family.
Pei Jinye immediately instructed Zhong Xuan to purchase some talisman materials in secret.
The “Fu Charm Technique” he had devoured, although incomplete, recorded many inscriptions.
Previously, Pei Jinye had only cultivated the binding, trapping, and collapsing techniques and hadn’t seriously cultivated all the techniques.
Having already mastered both the equipment and body technique streams, he hadn’t focused on this incomplete talisman technique, but it wasn’t too late to cultivate it now.
With his hundredfold Talent for cultivation, Pei Jinye was as comfortable as a fish in water.
Half an hour later.
Zhong Xuan brought two large boxes of talisman materials.
Pei Jinye waved them all away.
After Zhong Xuan closed the room door,
Pei Jinye ignored them and began crafting talismans.
Looking over these hundred-plus talisman techniques, they could generally be categorized into two main types: offense and defense.
This time he chose two talismans.
“Ghost Hitting the Wall” and “Misty Shadow.”
The former could prevent intruders from entering for a certain period once activated.
The latter, Misty Shadow, was purely meant to scare people.
Pei Jinye was helpless.
Most of the talisman techniques were attacks linked to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Choosing “Ghost Hitting the Wall” and “Misty Shadow” was simply the best of a bad bunch.
The consumption was somewhat high.
What made Pei Jinye more helpless was that there was no one in Jiang Xinrun’s family who knew the Talisman Technique.
Meaning, during the mining period, he was the only one capable of activating these talismans.
“I can only trouble my avatar brother,” he lamented.
Before the night completely fell, Pei Jinye activated the Light System’s Flash Escape. Had he not been wearing dark-colored armor, his clothes would have probably been burned off again.
Taking his avatar with him, Pei Jinye arrived at the campsite Jiang Xinrun and the others had set up under the guise of being temporary.
There were ten large tents, almost transforming this uninhabited area into a private territory.
Pei Jinye didn’t care about being accused of anything.
He scattered dozens of talismans around.
Armed with an oxygen bottle, Pei Jinye decisively dived underground.
With the activation of the Earth Element.
He split the ore vein in two.
He assigned the Spirit Ore in the west to Jiang Xinrun’s management, while the Spirit Ore in the east remained within his perception, clearing out the middle to give him space to stretch out.
As Pei Jinye sat cross-legged,
The shimmering and transparent Spirit Stones around him began to turn into mists under the operation of his cultivation technique, continuously merging into four Golden Lotuses above his head.
Purified by the Golden Lotuses and then continuously flowing into Pei Jinye’s body through the golden light connecting to his forehead,
Time ticked by.
Pei Jinye felt the changes in his Physical Body, the Vitality within him roaring like mighty rivers.
He looked contemplative.
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If at this moment he was still at the Blood Refining Realm, the influx of such a massive volume of Spiritual Energy into his body would have shattered all his meridians in an instant.
Even now, Pei Jinye’s entire skeleton made an ear-piercing sizzle and friction sound.
But he remained indifferent.
With the talent for Flesh Rebirth, he feared nothing.
That’s why he also took this domineering path that outsiders dared not directly refine.
Under the nourishment of Spiritual Energy.
The increase in Pei Jinye’s Physical Body Strength was the most apparent, and it could be described as explosive.
In just ten minutes, he had already broken through the critical threshold of three hundred Attribute Points.
Vitality, after purification, dropped by twenty points, but at the 58th minute of refinement, it rebounded from the bottom and began to skyrocket rapidly, breaking through the three hundred mark just as quickly.
The 216th minute.
The spirit mist around Pei Jinye had almost become liquid, enveloping his entire body.
After the qualitative change.
Only then did Pei Jinye’s spiritual power start to surge, breaking through the three hundred mark in just a few seconds.
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…
The first rays of morning sunlight appeared through the forest, and before it could light up the land, footsteps from afar resounded first.
Jiang Xinrun immediately grabbed the sword next to him, his gaze stern as he raised his hand to signal, and the clinking sounds inside the tent ceased.
The middle-aged leader who approached swept a glance at Jiang Xinrun and the others, and with a somewhat wary look towards the nearby tent, noted there were still people inside.
“Friends, I’m looking for someone. My young master was kidnapped last night, and we tracked him running into this place. Did you see him yesterday?”
The middle-aged man gestured for his companions not to follow and raised his hand to imply he meant no offense, stepping forward alone and taking out a photo of their young master.
Jiang Xinrun glanced at it, his expression calm, “Haven’t seen him.”
“Sorry to trouble you.” The middle-aged man put away the photo, turned around, and left with his group.
Jiang Xinrun watched the departing figures with sharp eyes until they vanished. Then he sat back down, waved his hand to indicate the others should continue mining, and closed his eyes to rest again.
The “ding ding dang dang” sounds of mining resumed.
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…
At another mountaintop.
The middle-aged man frowned, as someone near him anxiously said, “The Wild Bull Association hasn’t caught the young master yet; otherwise, they wouldn’t still be hiding… But where is the young master?”
Without a word, the middle-aged man’s brows tightened, and he gazed again towards where Jiang Xinrun was, located amidst a green grove that fully obscured their line of sight from one another.
“Loyal Brother, I always feel there’s something off about that group,” someone whispered by his side. “Could the young master…”
“They’re all new faces, and they’re carrying guns. They’re probably not just anyone. If the Wild Bull Association had this kind of strength, they wouldn’t have been holed up here.” Another voice whispered, “But with so many tents here, this bunch definitely isn’t here for a simple camping trip…”
“Yeah, not even a woman in sight, a bunch of men camping my ass!”
The man addressed as Loyal Brother retracted his gaze, his satellite phone at his waist rang, his expression changed slightly, and he stepped aside to take the call urgently.
“Yes… I’m searching… Yes, yes, rest assured, I will find the young master… No, the people from the Wild Bull Association aren’t here either… Yes.”
After hanging up the phone.
The middle-aged man spoke gravely, “If you don’t want to die, search seriously.”
“Loyal Brother, I think that group probably knows something,” a tall thin man whispered on the side. “There’s only one path up the mountain, and the young master’s footprints led this way… I don’t believe they don’t know anything.”
The middle-aged man frowned, “The other party is not to be trifled with, as you saw their attitude earlier. Split into two groups. Er Liu, you take people back for reinforcements while the rest search nearby with me. PengKe, you’re an Element Master, find an opportunity to gauge their true capabilities.”
“Yes, Loyal Brother.”
PengKe, the young man, pressed his hand on the ground, feeling something attentively.
“Boom boom!”
An unexplained heartbeat sound transmitted through the ground.
He jerked in fright.
“What’s wrong?” asked the middle-aged man urgently.
“Underground… seems like there’s someone?” PengKe sounded a bit uncertain, “There’s a heartbeat… and there…”
He pointed in a direction.
“It’s as if there’s a living creature beneath this spot… ”
The middle-aged man paused, “You mean there’s a creature over ten meters tall beneath the ground?”
“Roughly… but I’m too far to make out anything clear…” PengKe was speaking when suddenly he jumped in fright and fell back on his seat.
“What happened now?” the middle-aged man frowned.
What an unsettling fellow.
“He… he knows I’m here!!!” PengKe’s face was filled with terror as he pointed in a direction, stammering for a long time without being able to finish…
Suddenly, the ground where they were standing collapsed, as earth clods, like quicksand, swiftly devoured the group.
The middle-aged man quickly leaped up, agile.
“Help me, Loyal Brother—” came a horrified cry for help nearby.
The middle-aged man looked grave.
In just two breaths, his companions had already sunk into the ground.
Cries for help gradually turned into curses, berating the middle-aged man for not saving them.
The middle-aged man’s face turned ashen.
What monster was hidden underground?
Heart pounding with dread, he wanted to leave this area.
Suddenly!
The hairs on the back of the middle-aged man stood up, an ominous feeling washed over him, and he turned around doubtfully to look back, only to find a giant hand smashing down fiercely.
“Bang!”
The middle-aged man’s vision burst with stars as he was slapped into the ground.
“Get away!”
He yelled in shock and anger, trying to struggle free.
But to his horror, no matter how he struggled, he couldn’t break free.
The quicksand enveloped him completely, cocooning him and plunging him a hundred meters into the ground…
A figure clad in dark War Armor hovered in mid-air.
His body was swirling with endless Spiritual Energy.
He flicked his fingers downward.
Numerous figures down below burst into explosions in an instant.
…
“Into the dream.”
Faintly, a murmur resonated.
Darkness descended!