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Chapter 88 Meng De Self-Destructs! [Updated after 50 Monthly Tickets]

Chapter 88 Meng De Self-Destructs! [Updated after 50 Monthly Tickets]

Ultimately, at Mengde's request, the manager could only make those ordinary miners who were working day and night accept the new "nine-to-five" work schedule.

"The immortal master is too kind..."

"Nine-to-five... Slap me! I think I'm dreaming!"

"This new immortal master is so kind..."

As Mengde issued the order to work nine to five, all the ordinary miners in the mining area couldn't help but cheer.

"Who would have thought that ordinary laborers would be cheaper than low-level puppets..." Inside the tent, Mengde murmured to himself as he heard the voices outside.

The main reason why cultivation sects are willing to use mortals for mining is that puppets with a certain level of intelligence are certainly not cheap, while low-level puppets lack intelligence. Therefore, for some relatively simple tasks, mortal laborers, who can be paid almost without pay, possess a cheap advantage that cultivation sects cannot refuse.

That night, after all the mortals had left the mine, Mengde walked alone into the dark, lightless abyss.

hum...

As Mengde moved, the sound of countless mosquitoes flying around him began to fill the dark space around him.

In some places illuminated by torches, swarms of yellow flying mosquitoes can be seen constantly flying across the darkness before disappearing into the depths.

This is a bloodline demon insect that has evolved earth-elemental spiritual power. Because it likes to eat soil and has even evolved genes that specifically seek out high-energy spiritual soil, Mengde named it the "Soil-Eating King".

Well, the main reason is that Mengde hasn't yet developed the evolutionary capabilities of this type of mosquito, so he hasn't given it a special name.

Earth mosquitoes are highly sensitive to fluctuations in spiritual energy, which allows them to detect spiritual minerals hidden behind rocks and soil, and then begin to dig and devour them.

Meng De did not stop the earth mosquitoes from devouring the low-grade spirit stones they found by chance, because his current spirit stone inventory was enough to meet the spirit stone production targets of the Spirit Beast Mountain in the short term.

Furthermore, these unevolved earth mosquitoes devour very slowly; it would take hundreds of thousands of them gathering together to possibly consume a low-grade spirit stone in one night.

Soon, the entire mine was almost completely filled with Mengde's Source Blood Demon Worms, and then he began to explore the spiritual energy fluctuations within it little by little.

This was destined to be a very long task, because without Han Li's protagonist halo, Meng De could only explore little by little, and at the end of the exploration, he would retrieve all the source blood demon insects, leaving some earth mosquitoes behind, and then refine the other demon insects that had finished grazing into source blood for cultivation.

And so, by day they screened for mosquito genes and by night they released the mosquitoes into herds, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.

After three months of selection, Mengde gradually obtained a batch of slightly better earth-type source blood demon insects—[Spirit-Smelling Stone Mosquito].

These Blood Demon Insects possess an extremely keen sense of smell for spirit stones and spiritual minerals. Even when hidden five or six meters deep under rocks, they can detect fluctuations in spiritual energy and thus discover the minerals.

From an individual perspective, the ability of the sniffing volcano is not outstanding at this stage; its perception may not even be comparable to that of Mengde.

However, the main advantage of the venomous rodent is its large number, which allows it to win by sheer quantity and to explore a much larger area than Mengde alone.

However, what truly made Mengde happy was that he finally discovered the abandoned tunnel with the ancient teleportation array behind a collapsed section of earth very deep in the spirit stone mine.

"Fortunately, I learned some array formations beforehand..." In the dark, abandoned tunnel, Meng De looked at the skeleton next to an ancient teleportation array in the depths of darkness, his eyes narrowing slightly.

A chilling killing intent instantly swept over us!

puff!

Just as Meng De was about to react, his blood was about to flow, when in the next instant, with a soft "噗嗤" sound, a sharp white jade spider spear pierced through Meng De's dantian!

The next instant, Mengde's body suddenly began to expand violently, and the vast blood spiritual power within him released extreme high temperature and light, before exploding with a loud bang!

Disintegration Technique!

Boom!

Deep underground in the spirit stone mine, a huge explosion suddenly rang out, but thanks to the layers of rock and soil, those above ground could only feel a slight tremor.

"Lord Yue, is it just my imagination? The ground seemed to shake..."

"Is it an earth dragon turning over?"

Even under the cover of night, the slight tremors from underground still startled the mortal miners who risked their lives to mine for the immortals.

Of course, the main reason is that their work has been too easy for the past three months, so they are not very sleepy and can wake up in time.

"Don't talk nonsense. Master Meng said he's going to investigate this mine in depth, which might cause some disturbance. Don't overthink it, go to sleep!" Manager Yue quickly organized people to calm the commotion and told the others not to overthink it. This was all arranged in advance by Master Meng.

On the other side, amidst the intense flames comparable to a self-destruction at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the ferocious beast in the darkness finally revealed a glimpse of its true form!

It was a crystal-clear white spider, several meters long, with its entire body made of white jade and tinged with a touch of blood!

Blood Jade Spider, a peak level four demonic beast!

Mengde's resolute self-destruction only caused a scorch mark on the white jade spider spear he was protecting in front of him; there were no other injuries.

"Fortunately, I didn't forget you in the end..." Outside the abandoned tunnel, Meng De, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes and looked into the depths of the tunnel covered by smoke and dust. The mine overlord was now entrenched in the depths, its sharp spider spears and ferocious fangs silently waiting for every cultivator who came to die.

After realizing that his self-destruction attack at close range with his condensed Blood Spirit True Body didn't seem to do much damage to the Blood Jade Spider, Meng De had to think of other solutions.

In terms of strength... it's a peak level four demonic beast with combat power approaching the early stage of Core Formation... In this mine environment, let alone a mere Qi Refining 13th level cultivator like me, even if my master came, without her natal magic weapon, she might still feel a bit troubled..."

Although Meng De's magical cultivation was only at the thirteenth level of Qi Refining, with the support of the second-tier Blood Spirit Demon Body, his true strength was no less than that of a beginner Foundation Establishment cultivator. Even in his Blood Pattern Armor state and with the harassment and assistance of the Eight-Winged Blood Tyrant, he could still proudly flee with his head held high after uttering some threats against a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Meng De could take advantage of early Foundation Establishment cultivators who lacked resources. However, mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators usually possessed many hidden strengths, so Meng De dared not be reckless. At most, after escaping, he would send his Blood Spirit True Body to harass them periodically.

Therefore, Mengde's biggest problem now is that he has found the abandoned tunnel containing the ancient teleportation array, but he seems unable to deal with the Blood Jade Spider, which is at the peak of level four!

"...Even if we wanted to use a swarm for harassment, we don't have enough resources..."

Mengde finally got up and sealed the abandoned tunnel again, and then deliberately caused all the tunnels along the way to collapse.

"It seems we have no choice but to look for Han Li..."