The northwest region is larger than the southeast.

Moreover, sometimes mountains stretch endlessly, sometimes grasslands extend as far as the eye can see, bringing together different terrains.

Ten days later, Jun Changxiao arrived here.

Traveling normally would take at least several years, and even using a flying treasure would take several months, so this speed was simply fast as lightning.

Of course, the consequence of pursuing speed was burning through Profound Stones like crazy.

The warship stopped on the endless grassland. Feeling the fragrance brought by the green grass and earth, Jun Changxiao clutched his chest, bleeding deep in his heart, because… the cost expended was truly too great, so great it was incalculable.

“Sigh.”

Gu Chaoxi said helplessly, “What a pity.”

He didn’t know exactly how many Profound Stones were consumed, but a rough estimate was at least tens of millions, possibly even breaking a hundred million, so he really couldn’t understand his old brother’s intentions. Could it be he really had so much money with nowhere to spend it?

Give it to me!

I won’t mind having too much, only too little!

Hua Meigui took out the map and judged based on the environment, “We’re still several hundred miles from the destination.”

Jun Changxiao forcefully suppressed the pain from the crazy consumption of Profound Stones and said, “Still bearable!”

Having rushed over such a long distance, Dog Leftover certainly didn’t care about a few hundred miles, so after adjusting his mindset, he controlled the warship to fly toward the Yuding Mountain Range.

Along the way, he continuously released his spiritual sense and discovered that although there were martial artists nearby, they were only scattered here and there. This meant no one knew about the ore vein’s emergence, otherwise major forces would have already gathered together.

A smile gradually appeared on Jun Changxiao’s face.

As long as he found the True Stone ore vein, not only could he obtain abundant resources for the sect, but he could also complete the epic quest—killing two birds with one stone, one arrow hitting two eagles!

……

Yuding Mountain Range.

A place so ordinary it couldn’t be more ordinary.

Though the scenery here was beautiful as a painting, because the heaven and earth attributes were thin, no heavenly treasures had been nurtured, and even ordinary demon beasts were too lazy to come here.

Jun Changxiao piloted the Tonggu Warship flying over and hovered at the outer perimeter. Looking around, he couldn’t help but wonder, “There’s an ore vein here?”

Hua Meigui asked, “What ore vein?”

“True Stone ore vein.”

Since he accidentally let it slip, Jun Changxiao could only be honest—after all, she wasn’t an outsider.

“Don’t misunderstand.”

The System explained, “This ‘not an outsider’ refers to being from the same sect.”

Hua Meigui understood, “No wonder husband brought so many people—you’re looking for a True Stone ore vein.”

……

“Whoosh!”

“Whoosh!”

High-ranking members and disciples successively jumped off the ship, then found themselves within the mountain range.

“Old brother.”

Gu Chaoxi said with despair, “There’s not even a decent demon beast here, so how are we supposed to conduct training?”

He still couldn’t figure out why they came to Yuding Mountain Range.

Since they’d already reached the quest location, Jun Changxiao naturally didn’t need to hide anything, so he proactively explained the reason.

“What?!”

Gu Chaoxi first widened his eyes, then with an incredulous expression looked around and said, “This godforsaken place has a True Stone ore vein?”

Ore vein emergences weren’t uncommon.

However, most occurred in places with abundant attributes. Here the attributes were abnormally thin—how could a large ore vein possibly exist?

“Old brother.”

Gu Chaoxi inquired, “Where did you get this information from? Could it be a rumor?”

“Impossible.”

Jun Changxiao’s tone was firm.

The System quest had spoiled things quite a few times, and each time was extremely accurate, so he believed there must be a True Stone ore vein here.

What if there wasn’t?

Then without question, he’d go straight for the throat.

Coming all this way to Yuding Mountain Range this time, consuming countless Profound Stones—if the epic quest had an error and gave a false spoiler, with Dog Leftover’s stingy personality, he would definitely fight to the death.

“Where is it?” Gu Chaoxi asked.

“Search.”

Jun Changxiao said, “Carpet search.”

The quest only spoiled the location, but Yuding Mountain Range was too large, so where exactly it was hidden would require searching everywhere to determine.

Would the treasure detector work?

No.

Because things like Spirit Stones and Profound Stones weren’t classified as heavenly treasures, nor did they fall under the category of weapons and equipment, so they couldn’t be detected.

“Ren Shan.”

Jun Changxiao walked over, his tone meaningful, “It’s time to display your talent.”

Many readers might have already forgotten this character.

Very normal—after all, with a hundred thousand disciples, if all their names had two characters, just listing them out would take a hundred chapters.

However, Dog Leftover remembered clearly and distinctly, because back in the lower realm, Ren Shan had discovered ore veins more than once—he was truly the sect’s koi.

Coming to search for an ore vein this time, Jun Changxiao’s first thought was of him.

“Uh…”

Ren Shan felt the responsibility was heavy and his heart felt a bit anxious.

“Tell this seat loudly whether you have confidence to find the ore vein!”

“I have confidence!”

“Move out!”

“Yes!”

The disciples received their orders and began searching.

Although Yuding Mountain Range had no danger, because the environment was intricate and complex, searching inside was indeed somewhat difficult.

Moreover, with no clues, they could only search blindly, making the difficulty coefficient undoubtedly greater.

“Everyone remember this!”

Jun Changxiao shouted, “As long as you work hard enough, an iron rod can be ground into a needle. Only by waiting until the clouds part can you see the moon clearly!”

The motivational words sounded beautiful, but in fact he handed all the search work to the high-ranking members and disciples while he himself sat on a boulder leisurely drinking tea, occasionally putting on headphones to listen to popular songs.

……

“How are we supposed to find this!”

“The heaven and earth attributes all around are thin, completely without clues!”

“We can’t dig three feet into the ground everywhere, can we?”

The disciples searched for several consecutive days, turning an area of several hundred miles upside down without any harvest, even feeling like idiots searching for a needle in the ocean.

Even more devastating, it started raining while they were searching!

Although they couldn’t get wet themselves, the ground became muddy, making the search certainly more difficult.

“Peiqi.”

Li Qingyang, walking at the front, asked, “Still haven’t discovered anything?”

“No.”

Peiqi shook his head.

As the Ten Thousand Ancient Sect’s famous tool pig and an earth-type beast, after searching Yuding Mountain Range for so long, he still hadn’t detected any ore vein in the earth layers.

“Not good!”

Just then, someone shouted, “Junior Brother Ren slid down!”

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

Li Qingyang and the others rushed back and discovered clear slide marks on a slope, indicating Ren Shan had passed through here and accidentally fallen down.

“Sect Master!”

Suddenly, a sharp shout came from below, “There’s a discovery!”

“Whoosh!”

Jun Changxiao instantly vanished from the boulder, leaving his headphones beside him. Because of being rained on, they first made a buzzing sound, then emitted sparks and produced wisps of white smoke, showing they weren’t waterproof and had broken.

……

The place where Ren Shan fell was a rather long slope with a winding river below, but there was an open space in the middle that could just accommodate two or three people.

“Whoosh!”

Jun Changxiao flew over and asked, “What discovery?”

Ren Shan pointed toward the slide marks. Stone blocks appeared on the mud surface with complex lines carved on them.

“Hmm?”

Jun Changxiao approached, narrowed his eyes, and said, “An array formation?”

……

“Correct.”

After Zhen Dejun carefully studied the patterns carved on the stone blocks, he said, “It is indeed an array formation.”

Gu Chaoxi propped up his chin and said, “How could there be an array formation in this godforsaken place? And why didn’t we detect it at all?”

“There’s something mysterious!”

Black and White Rakshasa said in unison.

“I say…” Jun Changxiao interrupted their thinking and said helplessly, “This small place can only accommodate two or three people, and you all crowded over—don’t you think it’s cramped?”

“Not cramped!”

“Nonsense, you’re practically riding on this seat’s neck!”

Complaints aside, Jun Changxiao still placed his hand on the stone block pattern and said, “Let me try touching it.”

“Buzz!”

When his fingers made contact, flowing light immediately flickered.

“Rumble!”

In an instant, a cave opening suddenly appeared in front of the area where everyone was crowded, and extremely pure heaven and earth attributes instantly surged out from inside!

“Ore vein!”

Gu Chaoxi, riding on Jun Changxiao’s neck, said excitedly, “There must be an ore vein inside!”

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