After more than ten minutes, Qin Tian could clearly sense that the Mining Beast's movement had completely stopped, but its internal energy fluctuations were still violent, like boiling water surging relentlessly, clearly still in a restless state.

He didn't rush into action, just letting the Soul-Devouring Demon Vine continue maintaining its spherical shape, quietly lurking deep within the Mining Beast's stomach.

This waiting lasted for half a day.

During this time, the unconscious man in the black robe woke up once, but Qin Tian didn't release him from the Yang Space. The Soul Seal was a power he must keep hidden to the end, even from those close to him.

Until the aura within the Mining Beast gradually stabilized, the violent energy fluctuations receded like a tide, even the stomach's movements became extremely slow, as if falling into slumber.

Qin Tian opened his eyes, a glint of insight flashing in his purple eyes— the time had come.

He cautiously controlled the Void Gate to unfold on the inner side of the vine sphere, at first merely a thread-thin silver gap, the spatial fluctuation so weak it was almost negligible.

Then, the gap slowly expanded, at a speed hard to discern by the naked eye, like a spring silkworm breaking its cocoon, gradually tearing open a passage to the outside world.

When the gap widened to half a meter at top and bottom, Qin Tian made a silencing gesture to Allen, the two adhered to the vine wall like geckos, using hands and feet to crawl out through the gap, fully restraining their aura.

Just as they escaped the Mining Beast's body, a dense metallic tang hit them in the face.

Qin Tian and Allen landed on a chill ground, looking up, involuntarily sucking in air through their teeth—this was a vast underground space capable of accommodating several castles, with a ceiling so high it was indistinct, only faint fluorescent light seeping from rock wall crevices outlining jagged stone contours.

The rock walls bore rugged traces, as if having been excavated, Qin Tian operated the [Metal Sensing] ability, instantly feeling a strong energy feedback from all directions, beneath these rock walls, existed a vast continuous large mineral vein, and the mineral quality was very high, the surface part having all fallen into the Mining Beast's belly.

"This is…" Allen's eyes widened, he could feel this underground space contained pure energy, just standing here, his Spiritual Energy slightly trembling.

Qin Tian said nothing, his gaze attracted by the scene in the center of the space.

There was a Spiritual Spring occupying several hundred square meters, with springs constantly emitting white mist, containing thin yet pure Spiritual Qi.

But the water level of the Spiritual Spring was very low, leaving only a shallow layer, clear-viewed pebbles on the spring bottom, clearly approaching desiccation.

"What a pity," Qin Tian whispered in lamentation, if this spring were in its prime, it would be a sanctuary for cultivation, now it was nothing more than leftovers.

No doubt, this was another deed of the Mining Beast.

In various corners of the space, spread clusters of Energy Crystal Stones, star cloud-colored crystals radiating dazzling light, making the underground space as bright as day. These crystals were at least high-quality, with some being top-quality or even supreme-quality crystals, casually pulling out a piece could cause a scramble in the market.

But the Mining Beast seemed uninterested in these Energy Crystal Stones, letting them scatter there, even accumulating a thin layer of dust on the surface.

"The Mining Beast is interested only in metals, these crystals barely attract it," Qin Tian realized, then a hint of a smile flashed across his eyes, "That's fortunate for me."

Beneath the Hundred Spring Star, metal ores and Energy Crystal Stone mines coexist, yet in common accompanying mines, metal and crystal quality often inversely fluctuate, rarely do both reach such a high standard as now.

Crystals have wide-ranging uses.

Ordinary and high-quality crystals can serve as a weapon's energy source for battleships, or power special structures like the Star Element Tower or city energy central tower, maintaining energy cycles.

While top-quality and supreme-quality crystals are key ingredients for forging Spiritual Artifacts—through repeated forging by Spiritual Energy forgers, these crystals are integrated with weapons, ultimately forged into rare and powerful Spiritual Artifacts.

This pile of crystal mountains, if appraised by a professional evaluator, would be worth at least billions of Star Coins, splitting and selling to forces urgently needing high-tier crystals could multiply its value substantially.

What a land of treasure!

Qin Tian marveled, such rich and high-quality mineral deposits, if he could unleash Gold Devouring Enhancement to absorb them, his physique would surely reach a new height, while the Energy Crystal Stones scattered on the ground represented an astonishing wealth.

However, to achieve these goals, he first needed to resolve the Tier Seven Mining Beast ahead.

Qin Tian looked forward.

The Tier Seven Mining Beast was asleep, its hundred-meter-long body coiled into a spiral, its breathing extremely slow, each inhalation accompanied by a deep roar, drawing surrounding metal particles into its nostrils, exhaling sulfur-scented white mist, where the mist landed, stones instantly dyed a shade of dark gold.

Perhaps out of longstanding habit, even while asleep it wasn't sensitive to surroundings, hence failing to notice the two "small insects" nearby.

What method could make the Tier Seven Mining Beast temporarily leave?

Qin Tian narrowed his eyes, sinking into thought.

Just then, Allen lightly tapped his arm.

Qin Tian glanced at him, using Spiritual Link to communicate.

"Allen, this is my ability, Spiritual Link, speak what you wish without sound, just communicate directly," Qin Tian explained.

Allen's eyes widened, amazed that Qin Tian revealed yet another new ability.

"Brother Qin Tian, what do we do now?" Allen asked.

Qin Tian: "I'm quite interested in these crystals before us, I want to take them all, but dealing with the Mining Beast is a problem."

"This is simple, leave it to me."

Allen confidently said, "I can distract it and create an opportunity for you."

"It's too dangerous, this is a Tier Seven Mining Beast."

Qin Tian shook his head. Allen is a Tier Five Spiritualist with extraordinary bloodline, but still too weak against a Tier Seven Mining Beast.

"Don't worry, I've done this many times, I'm well-practiced, and when it comes to escaping, no one is better than me." Allen had a look of confidence.

Qin Tian saw the spark of confidence in Allen's eyes, remained silent for a moment, and finally nodded, "Alright, you just need to distract it for a dozen seconds, I can quickly rescue you with Void Shuttling."

"Then it's no problem at all, leave it to me." Allen patted his chest, a strong green glow erupted around him, Dragon Scales spread from his neck to his cheeks, and he lightly tapped the ground with his feet, shooting like an arrow towards a mine entrance. At the same time, he gathered Dragon Power in his fists and fiercely struck the scales on the tailbone of the Mining Beast.

"Clang!"

A crisp metal collision sounded through the underground space.

The Mining Beast, originally in slumber, suddenly opened its eyes, with lantern-sized pupils burning with ghostly green flames. Its hundred meters long body abruptly stretched out, the gust of wind it brought blew surrounding Crystal Stones into the air.

Evidently, it did not expect a "little bug" to dare rampage in its lair, a deafening roar erupted from its throat, the wave of sound directly blew Allen away.

"It's now!" Allen adjusted his posture in mid-air, using the push from the soundwave to sprint deeper into the mine.

The Tier Seven Mining Beast was thoroughly enraged, its massive body crushed through the rock wall, rocks crumbled and pillars collapsed wherever it went, and deep claw marks were left on the hardened metal ground. It opened its huge mouth, countless metal particles gathered into a dark-golden light ball, which it blasted in the direction Allen fled.

"Boom!"

The light ball exploded, the entire underground space trembled violently, tons of rocks fell from the dome, completely blocking the path Allen had just traveled.

But Allen had already changed direction amidst the smoke from the explosion, weaving left and right in the complex mine paths, the roar and collapse sounds behind him pursued like bones entrenched with worms.

As the Mining Beast was distracted, Qin Tian made his move.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Vine surged out from his palm like a tide, countless tendrils branched out like flexible tentacles, sweeping up Energy Crystal Stones scattered everywhere, and accurately depositing them into the Spirit Space.

In just a dozen seconds, all the Crystal Stones were collected into the Spirit Space, Qin Tian dared not linger, a flash of silver, and he disappeared from his spot.

On the other side, those dozen seconds felt like an eternity to Allen.

He sprinted desperately within the mine, the metal storm spewed by the Mining Beast closely following, dark-golden particles brushed past his ear, pulverizing the stone pillars ahead into powder. Rocks constantly fell from above, he could only curl his body and withstand it, the Dragon Scales crackled under the impact.

Worse yet, in his panic he ran into a dead end—a steep cliff tens of meters high lay ahead, with sharp rocks covering the strata, leaving no way forward.

"Damn it!"

Allen abruptly turned, seeing the Mining Beast's imposing head smashing through the final rock wall, in its ghostly green pupils burned flames meant to annihilate everything.

He could even smell the sulfur spewing from the beast's mouth and nose, feel the pressure that could crush a Tier Five Spiritualist, cold sweat instantly soaking through his clothes as Dragon Power frantically surged within him, yet he found no chance to break through.

Just as the beast's giant mouth was about to swallow him—

Swish!

Silver light flashed, and Allen felt his waist tighten, being pulled into the void by a force.

Boom!

The Mining Beast's massive body crashed against the cliff, rocks weighing hundreds of tons collapsed with a thunderous sound, amidst the cloud of dust, it shook its head covered in debris, but it couldn't even touch Allen's hem, its furious roar made the whole mine tunnel tremble.

"That was close..."

Several hundred meters behind the Mining Beast, Allen sat on the ground, gasping for breath, his palms were sweaty.

He turned to look at Qin Tian beside him, about to express thanks, but saw Qin Tian staring in the direction of the collapsed cliff, with a peculiar gleam in his eyes.

Following Qin Tian's gaze, Allen was stunned—

Behind the collapsed cliff emerged a deep cave.

Wisps of milky white mist-like Spiritual Qi were gushing out from the cave's crevices, its concentration nearly solidifying, even from afar they could feel a tingling sensation as their skin was drenched in it.

The purity of this Spiritual Qi was several times richer than the underground Spiritual Spring he had previously discovered!

"This is..." Allen's eyes widened, "A new underground Spiritual Spring?"

Qin Tian turned to Allen, eyes filled with surprise.

This guy is really a lucky star~

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