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Xu Ming discovered that there was a treasure with a very high cost-performance ratio for improving his strength, and he should buy it. That is—Second-Grade Attribute Stones!

Second-Grade Attribute Stones are priced at two hundred 2nd-Grade Guadian each. There's Strength, Agility, and Wisdom, with a limit of one thousand stones each; after using them all, one can "extraordinarily gain" strength comparable to someone newly entering the Core Forging Realm!

Second-Grade Attribute Stones are good, but this price has always made Xu Ming flinch—two hundred 2nd-Grade Guadian per stone, so three thousand stones would be… six hundred thousand!

Six hundred thousand 2nd-Grade Guadian!

If Xu Ming hadn't developed the "Domain Mining Flow," he would probably have to work hard for a year to mine that amount!

However, since developing the "Domain Mining Flow"…

"Six hundred thousand 2nd-Grade Guadian?" Xu Ming smiled, very rich and overbearing, "That's just a matter of mining for a few days!"

Therefore, as soon as he accumulated enough Guadian, Xu Ming immediately began using the attribute stones on the spot!

When he had used up all one thousand stones for Strength, Agility, and Wisdom, Xu Ming's own strength suddenly surged several times!

Now, even if Xu Ming doesn't use any cheats, he definitely has the strength of the Core Forging Realm!

The stronger he is, the more easily he can control his domain. At this time, Xu Ming could already control three layers of domain at the same time for mining, and the efficiency of mining soared again!

After mining for half a month, when Xu Ming quietly left, he had accumulated more than one million 2nd-Grade Guadian and more than three thousand 3rd-Grade Guadian—this was after deducting the consumption of forced upgrades and buying attribute stones!

And this Liang-faction's mine…

Very unfortunately, it had shrunk by one-tenth!

"Han Mo's coming-of-age ceremony is coming soon, I should go out first!" Xu Ming thought, "I'll come back and take away the remaining Profound Stones after the coming-of-age ceremony!"

Whoosh—

Xu Ming activated his invisibility and rushed out of the mine entrance like a whirlwind.

After leaving the mine, Xu Ming didn't immediately return to the inner sect, but first walked down the Ten Thousand Step Stone Stairway. When he reached the foot of the Savage Mountain, he found a secret place to deactivate his invisibility, and then walked back to the Ten Thousand Step Stone Stairway.

After escaping the encirclement of the infatuated female disciples of the outer sect in a disheveled manner, Xu Ming first went to the departure registration office to register his return.

Master Zeng Gang at the registration office looked at Xu Ming in surprise: "Xu Ming? …You're back?"

"I'm back, is there a problem?" Xu Ming asked rhetorically.

"Ah, no! No!" Zeng Gang said repeatedly, "By the way, where's your letter talisman?"

"I accidentally dropped it into the latrine when I went to the toilet last time!" Xu Ming made up an excuse, "It costs twenty low-grade Profound Stones to compensate, right? Take it!"

"You can even drop that into the latrine?" Of course, Zeng Gang didn't believe it.

However, since Xu Ming had paid the fine for losing the letter talisman, Zeng Gang didn't say much.

After Xu Ming left, Zeng Gang thought to himself: "It seems that Elder Liang Hui was probably tricked when he took the main letter talisman to track Xu Ming last time! No wonder Elder Liang Hui's face has been looking bad ever since he came back…"

However, there was still one thing Zeng Gang couldn't figure out: "But Elder Liang Hui hasn't eaten for half a month, what's going on with that?"

…

Savage Mountain, Liang-faction Mine.

Deng Yuan and Yang Jiu began their monthly routine inspection in the mine again.

Both of them were holding detection treasures in their hands, mainly to detect if anyone had hidden a storage ring in the mine.

The detection treasure in Deng Yuan's hand had a larger detection range, but lower accuracy; while the detection treasure in Yang Jiu's hand had a smaller detection range, but high accuracy. Under the sweep of these two detection treasures, basically no one could hide a storage ring in the mine.

"It's really boring to inspect every month!" Deng Yuan complained.

"Yeah, I've been inspecting for so many years, and I've never encountered a situation!"

Deng Yuan and Yang Jiu would inspect every large and small fork in the mine every month. It was precisely because of this that the two of them were extremely familiar with the situation in the mine.

"Hmm?"

When the two of them inspected the deepest part of the mine, they were suddenly stunned; "This… how is it empty! ?"

The original Profound Stone mine at this location was all gone. The mine had become empty, leaving only a pile of gravel.

"This… what the hell is going on?"

The two of them saw horror and disbelief in each other's eyes: "This inspection is no longer boring, but… the fun is big!"

The two of them quickly reported the situation here to Xue Xi.

He had been in charge of the Profound Stone mine all this time! Now that such a big thing had happened, with such a large piece of Profound Stone mine missing, he would definitely be blamed.

"What to do, Chief Manager Xue?"

"What to do? What to do? What else can we do! Of course, we have to report it quickly!" Xue Xi roared, "Such a big thing, do you still want to hide it?"

Soon, Liang Hui, who was having a good time on a woman's belly, received Xue Xi's report.

"You trash! What did you say? Say it again! !" Liang Hui didn't even have time to pull up his pants and rushed to the mine in a panic.

Xue Xi repeated in a trembling voice: "Elder… Elder Liang, a large piece of Profound Stone mine is missing from the mine. According to preliminary estimates, the loss should exceed two million low-grade Profound Stones…"

"I, I, I, I… I rely on!"

In the blink of an eye, Liang Hui rushed from the inner sect to the depths of the mine.

"Elder, Elder Liang, look, this is the situation…" Xue Xi didn't even dare to raise his head.

"I rely on!" Liang Hui scolded again.

This Profound Stone mine is their Liang-faction's economic lifeline! Their Liang-faction has paid so much to the Gu-faction and Zhang-faction in order to monopolize this mine!

And now, this economic lifeline has had such a big problem! ?

"Where are the Profound Stone mines here?" Liang Hui's voice was gloomy.

"I… I don't know…" Xue Xi trembled.

"You don't know?" Liang Hui suddenly widened his eyes, and his voice suddenly rose, "You TMD you are in charge of the mine, and now that such a big thing has happened, you tell me you don't know! ?"

"Elder Liang, I… I really don't know…" Xue Xi said with a crying voice, "You also know that the entire periphery of the mine is surrounded by warning formations; during this time, the warning formations have not been touched at all. And the entrance of the mine, all the entry and exit records, I have done a good job, there is no suspicious place at all…"

"No suspicious place? I rely on, the entire mine has shrunk by nearly one-tenth, and you tell me there is no suspicious place! ?" Liang Hui roared frantically, "Since there is no suspicious place, then you TMD tell me, where did the Profound Stones here go? Did they grow wings and fly away! ?"

"I… I…" Xue Xi couldn't figure out this unbelievable situation.

"Waste! Get out!" Liang Hui kicked Xue Xi away with a heavy, angry foot.