Chapter 65: Hunting for Gold-type Demon Nucleus
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
There were rocks scattered everywhere, the result of excavation marks all over the mine. The small amount of soil was only two ters high and two ters wide, spacious enough to allow one person to pass through.
There was no longer any devil silver ore remaining inside. The cave was filled with a white-grey atmosphere, silent except for the occasional sound of bugs.
Yang Dingtian held his fla feather up as he moved forward. Although there wasn’t even a bit of light in the ore mine, the light of the fla feather was able to illuminate everything within a ten-ter radius.
Yang Dingtian held his breath and carefully walked towards the deeper parts of the mine. Although there weren’t many beasts here, the location was still more dangerous than the red, wild forest because it was inside a cave and not on broad, flat ground.
He walked over a hundred ters deep and did not encounter any beasts.
He walked a thousand ters deep and did not encounter any beasts.
He walked two thousand ters deep and still did not encounter any beasts.
“Why is it like this? How is it that there isn’t even a single beast?” Yang Dingtian was shocked and disappointed. “Ningning said, although there were very few beasts living in this abandoned ore mine, there were still, at the very least, a few dozen of them. Why haven’t I seen a single one?”
As a result, Yang Dingtian had no choice but to take out the Bloody Black Gold from a box to lure out a gold-eating beast. Bloody Black Gold had a strong attractive power towards gold-eating beasts. As long as there were gold-eating beasts within a few hundred ters, they would definitely be lured over.
However, Yang Dingtian was disappointed as no beasts appeared.
At the mont, Yang Dingtian had already traveled four thousand ters into the ore mine, which left one thousand ters before the end.
The entire ore mine was winding, and its passages were all interconnected. Yang Dingtian kept walking deeper and deeper, to the point where he had walked past every fork and gone down many curvy paths. The ore mine eventually fell silent. There had been the sounds of insects at first, but those sounds had all disappeared by now.
There were still five hundred ters left before he reached the deepest part of the ore mine, but there were still no signs of any beasts.
“How is this happening? What happened exactly? How did all the beasts disappear?” Yang Dingtian was shocked.
“Could it be that I will be going back empty-handed today?”
As he moved towards the deepest part of the ore mine, the surrounding temperature dropped lower and lower, and the hoarfrost on the ground got thicker and thicker. In the end, it turned completely into frost, which Yang Dingtian knew was caused by the unfreezing pond.
Ningning had said that there was an earthquake a few months ago and that there was unfreezing water deep in the ore mine that had condensed into a pond, causing the temperature around it to drop sharply.
Yang Dingtian continued to move forward. The ground wasn’t only frosted, but there was also a layer of thick ice. On top of that, he could already see a glimpse of light in front of him. Since unfreezing water emitted light, Yang Dingtian knew that he was not far from the deepest part of the mine.
At that mont, Yang Dingtian pinned all his hopes on this unfreezing pond, hoping that there would be an ice-type beast in the area. After all, today’s main goal was still to find an ice-type beast as gold-eating beasts could be found in many other places. The ice-type beast, however, could only be found in the northern continents over ten thousand miles away.
The deeper he went, the colder it beca, and finally, the entire mine had beco crystal clear, completely covered by ice.
Walking past a corner, he saw a hole in which snow-white light shone through.
Yang Dingtian knew that he would be reaching the deepest part of the mine in no ti. The unfreezing pond just around the corner, and whether or not there were any ice-type beasts would be discovered the mont he arrived.
Holding his breath, Yang Dingtian slowly moved forward, walking towards the end of the ore mine.
Underneath was a huge cave ford by the earthquake. It was the size of a football field and was a few hundred ters deep.
Every part of the cave was covered with ice. It was as beautiful as a crystal palace, sporting sharp icicles everywhere. At the center of the cave lay a transparent pond filled with water that was about two hundred square ters in area. The water in the pond illuminated everything in roughly a two-hundred-ter radius with its white light. As such, the entire cave shone brightly.
This was the unfreezing pond.
There were also the beasts that Yang Dingtian cared about.
There were dozens of different kinds of gold-eating beasts around the pond. They were using their sharp claws to dig through the ice to find all kinds of tals to eat. Yang Dingtian finally discovered why there were no beasts in the entire rest of the mine. It was because all of them had gathered here in the only place in the area where tals could be found. The earthquake had caused so of the tal buried deep underground to be shaken out.
As for the ice-type beasts, there were also so swimming in the unfreezing pond.
It had truly seed hopeless before he found this cave.
However, there were too many gold-type beasts before him. There were dozens of them here, one of which was a rank two beast. Although he had the fla feather, if dozens of beasts were to attack him simultaneously, he would find himself in extre danger. In the worst case scenario, he would surely die.
But, it wasn’t like he had no options. Yang Dingtian took out his Bloody Black Gold and waved it high up before imdiately placing it back into the jade box. It couldn’t be exposed for too long lest dozens of gold-eating beast ca rushing over.
Sure enough, a few gold-eating beasts slled that delicious scent and imdiately looked up towards Yang Dingtian’s hiding spot. However, they found nothing so most of the beasts went back to shaving ice to find food. The beast standing closest to Yang Dingtian hesitated for a mont before running quickly towards Yang Dingtian.
Yang Dingtian imdiately retreated a few hundred ters. He couldn’t kill the gold-eating beast here. Otherwise, he would attract the rest of the group.
After retreating to a corner a hundred ters away, Yang Dingtian found an advantageous position and waited for the arrival of the gold-eating beast.
Sure enough, a minute later, the gold-eating beast snuck in. Yang Dingtian hid the fla feather behind his back to cover its light. The entire mine was dark so he could only see the two red eyes of the gold-eating beast.
It was a gold-eating mouse about the size of a rabbit. Its attacking power was not strong, but it was extrely agile. Its teeth were very sharp and were effective when attacking a person’s crotch. Thus, for Yang Dingtian, it was an extrely dangerous beast so he definitely could not let it get close to him. Otherwise, it would be too dangerous.
Yang Dingtian held his breath and closed all of his body pores. Even so, he was still detected by the golden mouse. It stopped instantly, used its nose to sll, and determined Yang Dingtian’s location very quickly, fixing its pair of red, fiery eyes on him.
“Whoosh...” Suddenly, the golden mouse rushed out at lightning speed and was so fast that it completely exceeded Yang Dingtian’s expectations.
Even worse, it had closed its eyes when it rushed over. Since the entire cave was steeped in total darkness, he could no longer spot this golden mouse.
It was a really cunning beast. Yang Dingtian sensed that he was in extre danger and took out his fla feather from behind him imdiately. The dark cave was instantly illuminated.
At this mont, Yang Dingtian was shocked to find the golden mouse not even an inch away from him, its mouth already opened and baring its sharp teeth. It was less than 0.01 seconds away from biting his crotch. However, when the fla feather’s light blazed forth, the golden mouse was stunned montarily before it continued its charge towards Yang Dingtian.
“Pig-Killing Swordsmanship, break into two pieces.”
Yang Dingtian waved the fla feather towards the golden mouse lightly. One wave!
“Whoosh!” Imdiately, the airborne golden mouse was silently chopped in half. The creature did not even have ti to utter a scream.
“Really a good treasure.” Yang Dingtian stared at this fla feather.
This golden mouse ate gold all year round. Not only its skin, but even its hair was harder than steel. It was harder to kill it than a fire-eyed wolf or a wind snake. If the Xuan energy was not strong enough, a strike would not be able to hurt it even with the best iron sword. However, this fla feather cut the iron body of the golden mouse as easily as cutting tofu.
Yang Dingtian squatted down and looked at the golden mouse’s corpse. The part that was cut was actually dark and cauterized. Not even a drop of blood had flown out. This fla feather really was too amazing.
He easily dug out the demon nucleus from the golden mouse’s brain. It was still hot and looked like a fiery red-gold walnut, covered with complicated lines. He placed the demon nucleus of the golden mouse into the box.
The third gold-type demon nucleus was obtained easily.
Next would be the fourth demon nucleus, an ice-type. Beneath the unfreezing water, there were at least three ice-type beasts. Around the pond, there were still dozens of gold-eating beasts. First of all, he needed to get rid of these dozens of gold-eating beasts. Otherwise, he not only wouldn’t get the ice-type demon nucleus but would also even lose his life.
Yang Dingtian ca up with two plans. The first plan was to throw the Bloody Black Gold far away. Then, dozens of gold-eating beasts would definitely rush there and fight for it, killing each other in the process. In the end, the only beast that would survive should be the rank two gold-eating beast. After Yang Dingtian killed the rank two gold-eating beast, he would then head to the unfreezing pond to kill an ice-type beast.
The second plan was to put the Bloody Black Gold at the mine entrance about a kiloter away to lure all the gold-eating beasts over so that he could freely head over to the unfreezing pond to kill an ice-type demonic beast.
Both of these plans had shortcomings and uncertainties, but Yang Dingtian eventually chose the first plan.
However, Yang Dingtian did not know whether things would go as planned. Even if they did, Yang Dingtian would still have to kill the rank two golden beast by himself. The beast was a few tis more powerful than a low-rank gold-eating beast.
Holding his breath, Yang Dingtian grabbed the Bloody Black Gold and threw it towards the golden beasts.
“Clank...” A dozen pounds of Bloody Black Gold landed ten ters away.
The gold-eating beasts that were shaving ice were stunned and sniffed desperately with their noses before rushing madly towards the Bloody Black Gold.
The Bloody Black Gold’s attraction to the gold-eating beasts really was fatal. The dozens of gold-eating beasts were madly agitated and desperately bit each other. In no ti, the blood of the beasts splashed into the air, and screams sounded out non-stop.
This bunch of low-rank gold-eating beasts went completely insane after seeing the Bloody Black Gold and fought for it aggressively.
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