"Alright, Brother Shu Han, you're almost out of magical power. Come rest for a bit, and let's go."

Shu Han rolled his eyes, thinking he finally didn't have to dig anymore. He pretended to be exhausted and sat down next to Kang Guangwen.

Kang Guangwen laughed and said, "What's wrong, Brother Shu Han? It feels like you want to leave just a few days after you've started mining. Do you miss home?"

Shu Han laughed it off, "Everyone at home is a mortal. I had arranged everything before I left. But sometimes I can't help but worry."

Kang Guangwen smiled mysteriously, "Brother, tell me, have you cultivated with a female cultivator?"

"What?"

Shu Han awkwardly said, "That... hasn't happened yet."

Kang Guangwen's eyes flashed with pity, "Ah, that's a shame, you've never tasted that pleasure. If you had tasted it once at your young age, I bet you'd be thinking about it every day!"

Shu Han stuttered, "Isn't that an exaggeration? Cultivators should prioritize their cultivation."

"Dumbhead!"

Suddenly Kang Guangwen's eyes bulged and he pointed behind Shu Han, anxiously saying, "Brother, look quickly five-color trace!"

Five-color trace? Top-grade spirit stone?!

Shu Han quickly turned to look, but the stone wall behind him was empty, and there was no so-called five-color trace at all. At the same time, he suddenly felt a great danger behind him. His subconscious immediately activated his Eight Treasure Kirin Armor, and the eight-color treasure light immediately bloomed in the dark mine tunnel.

Boom!

Kang Guangwen was blasted off along with the magical pickaxe in his hand, creating a large crack in the stone wall.

Shu Han was immediately on alert, and his four Heavenly Swords flew out. He turned around, confused and angry, looking at Kang Guangwen, and shouted, "What are you doing?"

Kang Guangwen's eyes almost bulged out of his sockets.

"Top-grade magic tool, Qi Refining twelfth level! You hid your cultivation level!"

His situation just now was extremely dangerous, and if not for his strong spiritual sense and the protection of the Eight Treasure Kirin Armor, Shu Han's life might have been hanging by a thread.

He didn't hesitate, and the four Heavenly Swords flew out directly, pinning Kang Guangwen to the stone wall!

"Ah!"

The mine tunnel echoed with Kang Guangwen's heart-wrenching scream.

"I thought I had met two kind-hearted people when I first entered the world of cultivation, but it turns out you are both a pair of wolves! Tell me! Your purpose for tricking me into the mine can't be just some top-grade spirit stone, what is your real purpose? I can make your death quick!"

Kang Guangwen was unable to fight back, and immediately begged for mercy, "Brother Shu Han, spare my life, I was just joking with you."

"A joke?"

Shu Han waved his sword and cut off his legs directly.

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"Do you think I'm joking with you now?"

Suddenly, his mind went blank, and he thought of Lin Wenguang in the other tunnel.

"Damn it!"

He stepped forward and directly smashed Kang Guangwen's Dantian with his palm, then grabbed him like a dead dog and ran towards the other tunnel.

However, at the intersection of the dark tunnels, Shu Han bumped head-on into Xie Ming, who was carrying Lin Wenguang's corpse.

Because it was pitch-black, Xie Ming felt the aura of the twelfth layer of Qi Refining from the person opposite him and mistook him for Kang Guangwen, complaining, "Kang, what's the rush? I succeeded here. I've successfully transformed that naive youngster into a storage corpse. How about you?"

Upon hearing these words, Shu Han was instantly enraged. His four Heavenly Swords shot out, their brilliant golden light illuminating the mining tunnel as if it were daytime.

Only then did Xie Ming see the furious Shu Han, dragging Kang Guangwen like a dead dog. He wanted to pull out his magic tool to fight back, but he was far too slow compared to Shu Han.

Four sharp Heavenly Swords whirled, directly severing Xie Ming's hands and feet.

The screams of these two echoed, and Shu Han directly pierced Kang Guangwen's throat with a sword, making him unable to make a sound. He turned and had the four Heavenly Swords hover above Xie Ming's head, saying harshly, "Answer me, why did you trick us into the mine? Otherwise, I'll make you wish you were dead!"

Xie Ming was scared out of his wits. He never thought that the simple-minded Shu Han would transform into a killing god!

"This...This is a special method of making a storage bag by refining a person's Dantian. In this way... the Spiritual Memory Array can't detect it... they also would not do a thorough check on the corpses..."

Refining living people into storage bags?

Shu Han enraged beyond control, silenced him forever with a swift sword stroke to the throat. Looking at Lin Wenguang's bewildered face in death, he couldn't help but feel a lump in his chest and sorrow welling up within him.

Although they had only known each other for a day, seeing such a hopeful newcomer meet such an end, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken. It was like when he and Erdan Goudan joined the Mystical Dragon Sect together, thinking they had arrived in a paradise, but never expecting it to be a hell.

The Dao of immortality is merciless, treating human lives like nothing.

"My master's dying advice was right, I really can't easily trust others in the cultivation world!"

Collecting himself, Shu Han gathered up the storage bags of Kang Guangwen and Xie Ming. Inside were a considerable amount of spirit stones, and a myriad of miscellaneous magic tools and pills. Who knew how many naive newcomers they had harmed to get these?

Then he opened Lin Wenguang's storage bag. His storage bag was extremely shabby, empty, and bare, with only a few bottles of pills scattered within. What drifted most in the storage bag were letters.

Shu Han casually read a few and found that they were all written by Lin Wenguang, expressing his love for a certain woman.

The most recent one was filled with excitement about soon being able to return home with a large number of spirit stones. The wording was slightly exaggerated, but every word revealed genuine emotion.

With Lin Wenguang's cultivation level, he was just an insignificant ant in this cultivation world, bustling about and struggling to survive. However, even such an insignificant ant had genuine feelings from the heart and had truly lived.

Shu Han carefully arranged the letters and body, thinking that he would definitely visit Lin Wenguang's hometown after he left, and deliver the letters he had saved to the woman in the letters. Then two fireballs flew out of his hands, turning the corpses of Kang Guangwen and Xie Ming into ashes.

Now Shu Han thought that the so-called trace of the top-grade spirit stone might have been Kang Guangwen's excuse to lure him into the mine. It's better to leave this mine first and look for other opportunities for the Foundation Establishment.

With this idea in mind, Shu Han walked up to the mine according to the map. Soon, he arrived at the surface mine tunnel, and the number of other cultivators he could encounter gradually increased. Just as he was about to move on, he suddenly bumped his head into something in front.

Shu Han held his head, opened his eyes, and suddenly saw a five-colored barrier blocking the way out of the mine.

Five-colored brilliance? Could it really be a top-grade spirit stone?!

Shu Han's heart couldn't help beating violently. Then, a five-colored torrent started to flow on the stone wall. Shu Han hurriedly followed the torrent, only to see it rushing into the nearest mine tunnel and hovering in the air motionlessly.

Shu Han arrived in the mine tunnel, feeling overjoyed.

Could this be the spiritual energy left by the so-called top-grade spirit stone? Foundation Establishment is hopeful!

However, to his surprise, this cluster of five-colored light began to change and actually transformed into a human face.

"Ants who have come to the mine, seeing so many of you eager to find traces of the top-grade spirit stone, I am very pleased. Therefore, I will mercifully give you a chance to obtain a top-grade spirit stone. But please note, only one person can obtain the top-grade spirit stone, and only this person can walk out of this mine alive."