Accidentally sliding down and finding the array formation mechanism.

The koi Ren Shan once again displayed his ability and told the world what was called a deliberate arrangement from ‘heaven.’

“Whoosh whoosh!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Not only did strong heaven and earth attributes blow from the cave opening, but array formation aura also emanated.

“I understand now!”

Zhen Dejun realized, “That pattern earlier was the activation mechanism for the array formation, so we didn’t sense any array formation aura at first!”

“Not important.”

Jun Changxiao said, “What’s important is we’ve struck it rich!”

From the surging heaven and earth attributes, he judged that inside there were definitely resources more advanced than Profound Stones!

The epic quest didn’t deceive me!

Yuding Mountain Range really has a True Stone ore vein, and no one else knows about it!

“Let’s go!”

Jun Changxiao immediately threw Gu Chaoxi off, then took the lead walking toward the pitch-black tunnel.

The high-ranking members and disciples followed.

Shortly after, everyone walked to the end and entered a relatively spacious natural cave. Inside there were stone beds and stone platforms, indicating someone had once lived here.

Jun Changxiao stopped in front of a stone table and wiped the accumulated dust with his finger, saying, “Should have been abandoned for a long time.”

“Sect Master.”

Zhen Dejun said, “The array formation aura is even stronger.”

Jun Changxiao nodded and said, “If we hadn’t accidentally discovered the mechanism, who would think there’s another world below.”

Being able to come here was thanks to Ren Shan, because the array formation existing all around was extremely advanced. Outside, one simply couldn’t sense the array formation aura. If it kept operating, it would never be discovered by others.

“Could this be the cave dwelling of some great expert in seclusion?” White Rakshasa asked.

Gu Chaoxi said helplessly, “Building a cave dwelling inside an ore vein—that’s way too imaginative.”

Jun Changxiao came before a stone platform resembling a bookshelf, waved his hand to remove the dust, and discovered ancient books arranged on top, so he said happily, “Cultivation techniques and martial skills?”

He was disappointed.

They weren’t martial skills, but diaries.

Jun Changxiao flipped through them and learned from them that the cave dwelling’s master was a rogue cultivator proficient in array formations. By chance, he discovered this large True Stone ore vein and lived here permanently until his natural death.

So how did he find it?

According to the diary’s records, in his youth he had entered an ore vein with the woman he deeply loved, but an accident occurred. Not only did he lose both legs, but she also perished because of it, so he suffered a heavy blow.

Whose fault?

The fault of the one who discovered the ore vein.

Because if not for that person, he wouldn’t have gone.

“This is a bit extreme.” Jun Changxiao shook his head.

Admittedly, the cause of the tragedy was the ore vein, but ultimately it was still being controlled by greed.

Jun Changxiao continued reading and became even more certain this rogue cultivator was very extreme, because the diary’s contents were full of hatred, even developing by the end into hatred for the entire world.

“I want revenge!”

“I want to plan something big!”

These two sentences appeared frequently on every page of the diary. From the handwriting, one could tell he must have been gritting his teeth while writing.

I lost my beloved because of an ore vein, so I’ll use an ore vein for revenge!

Later, the rogue cultivator worked hard to overcome his leg disability, transforming from an array formation enthusiast to an ore vein prospecting enthusiast. Hard work paid off, and he found a large True Stone ore vein in Yuding Mountain Range.

“The ore vein is very large.”

“Stores at least several billion True Stones.”

When Jun Changxiao read this passage, he first placed the diary on the stone platform, then covered his chest with one hand, breathing rapidly, “No… a bit oxygen-deprived…”

Several billion True Stones.

What an enormous astronomical number!

Never mind Dog Leftover—any martial artist would be unable to handle it.

“Calm down, calm down!”

Jun Changxiao adjusted his mindset and continued flipping through the diary. His facial expression gradually froze because it was clearly written that the rogue cultivator sealed the ore vein with array formations, preventing its emergence time, for the purpose of…

Creating various traps inside to turn the opportunity into a living hell!

“Damn.”

“This guy really went crazy.”

He could well understand the rogue cultivator’s pain at losing his beloved, but he couldn’t destroy the whole world because of it, could he?

“The host doesn’t understand.”

The System said, “This is the magic of love. When a person falls too deep, they really will do very irrational, even crazy things. For example, if one day the person you deeply love…”

Damn!

With his eternally single constitution, there was simply no way to establish such an example.

“Tch.”

Jun Changxiao rolled his eyes and said, “As if you understand.”

“Although I’m a bunch of data, if I had a body and human thinking, I’d definitely be stronger than you in emotions.” The System corrected, “Oh no, any person would be stronger than the host!”

“Scram!”

Jun Changxiao cursed once and continued flipping through the diary. Reading to the last page, he learned that the array formation existing all around could only suppress until a certain year, month, and day. When that time came, it would stop operating, thus allowing the True Stone ore vein to emerge.

This exactly corresponded to the epic quest time.

The System said, “The ore vein should have emerged a hundred years ago, but was artificially suppressed and kept under pressure. When it’s released, it will inevitably cause an even stronger heaven and earth phenomenon.”

“Like this.”

Jun Changxiao said, “It will attract even more martial artists to accompany him in death.”

“Sigh.”

The System said, “Why bother?”

“Whoosh!”

The scene flashed. Jun Changxiao put on a white coat, slicked back his hair, put on sunglasses, and said, “As someone who harbors righteousness, how can I let a tragedy occur, so…” He paused, then said, “I’ll take all the True Stones here and nip the disaster in the bud!”

“Clap clap clap!”

“Clap clap clap!”

Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji, and others applauded, though they didn’t know why they were doing this.

……

Through the diary, it could be confirmed that the cave dwelling was left by a rogue cultivator who, after his beloved perished, gradually became filled with hatred toward the world. His purpose was simple—using his mastery of array formations, transform the ore vein into hell.

Though the idea seemed somewhat crazy, it successfully grasped the weakness of human greed. Implementing it in half a year with strong heaven and earth phenomena would inevitably attract swarms of moths.

Want the ore vein?

They’d definitely fight first.

Then, after entering, they’d be entertained by the array formations left behind.

Too bad, despite all his calculations, he didn’t calculate that the epic quest would spoil to Jun Changxiao that Yuding Mountain Range had an ore vein emergence, and with the koi Ren Shan’s help, they entered the cave dwelling early.

If the dead rogue cultivator could come back to life, he’d definitely crawl out of his coffin roaring, “I report this person is cheating!”

“Elder Zhen.”

Jun Changxiao said, “The cave dwelling should be the control center of the entire array formation system. Can you break it and take control?”

Zhen Dejun shook his head, “A bit difficult.”

That rogue cultivator spent a hundred years arranging countless array formations, just waiting for half a year later to show them to the world. With his strength, wanting to break them simply didn’t have enough time.

“However.”

“The Grand Elder should be able to do it.”

Jun Changxiao said, “I should have brought Master along.”

No choice—he could only summon the Tonggu Warship and madly burn calories all the way back to the sect to bring Taixuan Elder to Yuding Mountain Range. The round trip consumed massive amounts of Profound Stones, making his tears flow from the heartache.

“Tsk tsk.”

Taixuan Elder, positioned in the cave, carefully observed for a while and exclaimed in admiration, “The array formation arranger is an expert!”

“Master, can you break it?”

“Need a bit of time.”

“How long?”

“About a day.”

“…”

Jun Changxiao, Zhen Dejun, and the others directly fell over.

An array formation system created over a hundred years, and you break it in one day—can that guy really bear the evaluation of ‘expert’?

He can.

Because as a technical nerd, Taixuan Elder’s array formation mastery was quite high. Needing a day to break it was enough to show great difficulty. Under normal circumstances, he could break arrays in seconds, minutes, or hours.

“Master, hurry!”

“Don’t rush, don’t rush.”

Taixuan Elder closed his eyes and began breaking it.

After studying for a while, he frowned, “The array formation system has a self-destruct program. If anyone touches the ore stones, it will directly explode—very malicious intent!”

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