“Thud!”

Su Xiaomo fell sitting to the ground.

“Thud!”

Li Qingyang also fell sitting to the ground.

Any Eternal Sect disciple who entered and found themselves in a secret realm rich with heavenly and earthly attributes, sensing that every plant and tree was formed from spirit stones, all made the same motion.

The Heavenly Vein Secret Realm.

Was actually equivalent to a dimension.

Although its scale wasn’t as large as the Eternal Realm, it was no less than the Upper Realm. Entirely composed of spirit stone veins—that was truly super shocking.

“It’s over.”

Ren Shan leaned against the wall, tears streaming down his face as he said, “I’m unemployed!”

As the Eternal Sect’s famous lucky charm, he could often inadvertently find veins. Now that the secret realm was full of them everywhere, with no need to search, his sense of existence would definitely become even more insignificant.

There were indeed many spirit stone veins in the secret realm, but what about their grade?

Even spirit stones shaped like leaves were no weaker than the Upper Realm’s highest grade, which was enough to prove their strength.

“Do you like it?” Jun Changxiao shouted loudly.

“Like it!”

All the disciples shouted in unison.

“Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and mine!”

“Yes!”

Li Qingyang and the others dispersed one after another, diving headfirst into the deep mountains and old forests.

They didn’t even glance at the nearby stones and trees because their instinct told them there must be even more high-grade spirit stones hidden inside.

Sure enough!

In just a moment.

Xiao Zuiji lifted a heavy mountain stone and flew up, unable to hide his excitement as he said, “Look what I found!”

Everyone looked over, their eyes immediately filling with envy.

The stone that Xiao Zuiji was holding was very substantial, belonging to a super-large ore. Its surface was surrounded by heavenly and earthly attributes, clearly stronger than the Star Spirit Realm’s top-grade spirit stones!

“Haha.”

Jun Changxiao threw his head back in laughter.

Currently speaking, the highest grade of spirit stones in the Upper Universe was that of the Star Spirit Realm, yet even stronger ones existed within the secret realm. That was absolutely amazing!

Not only that!

Even stronger spirit stones were successively found by disciples!

“Boom!”

Li Qingyang flew out and placed a small hill on the ground, saying excitedly, “This one is even stronger!”

“My heavens!”

Everyone’s eyes widened like saucers.

They had seen hills piled up from individual spirit stones, but they had never seen a single spirit stone as large as a hill.

“How many years must it have been nurtured?”

“How much heavenly and earthly attributes must it contain!”

“Incredible!”

The disciples made a fuss in the secret realm for most of the day. Each person had considerable gains, obtaining extremely high-quality and enormously sized spirit stones.

Without exaggeration, they were situated in an environment full of spirit stones and veins everywhere. As long as they reached out a little, they could obtain large amounts of veins that were, moreover… inexhaustible and endless.

“Worth it.”

Jun Changxiao said, “So worth it!”

Having invisibility allowed him to go out and steal things, but wasn’t it because his own resources were limited?

Now, with the Heavenly Vein Secret Realm full of powerful resources everywhere, he could truly squander freely!

“Sigh.”

The System sighed once, saying, “These cheats are insanely overpowered!”

“However…”

It said proudly, “This also proves the System’s formidability even more, and proves that there’s only timely assistance in snow, not icing on the cake.”

Indeed.

A secret realm entirely composed of veins absolutely qualified as timely assistance in snow.

Departments like the Array Hall and Casting Hall had already fallen into technological bottlenecks. Now with even stronger resources appearing, they would definitely bring enormous benefits.

The disciples could use them for cultivation, and their realm advancement speed would definitely skyrocket.

Undeniably.

The power of Celestial Sound was an extremely formidable energy.

But this was the Upper Universe after all, primarily based on heavenly and earthly spiritual power.

Attributes from the Land of Eternal Life could ultimately only be occasionally brought out to display miraculous power. For actual battlefield combat and prolonged battles, one still relied on heavenly and earthly attributes.

The appearance of the Heavenly Vein Secret Realm was equivalent to giving the Eternal Sect unlimited energy storage.

…

“Peggy.”

On the mountain peak, Jun Changxiao said, “These years have been hard on you.”

Peggy was very excited.

It had been a long time since it had heart-to-heart talks with its master.

“Do you still remember the agreement we once made?”

“Remember!”

Peggy said, “I’ll never forget it until death!”

What agreement?

When Jun Changxiao reached the mountain peak, he hoped to have it accompany him.

These words had always deeply motivated Peggy. No matter how tiring or bitter the work was, whenever it thought of this, it was full of fighting spirit, like it had been injected with adrenaline.

Can’t admit defeat, can’t surrender.

Must continuously grow stronger, must accompany the master!

“This master is very gratified that you’ve been able to grow and strengthen all along, but this still seems far from enough.”

“…”

Peggy lowered its head, saying shamefully, “I’m foolish.”

In terms of beast quality, it couldn’t compare to Xiao Longlong, who was honored as the Dragon Clan leader. That it could barely keep up now stemmed from near-crazy cultivation, but limited by its race and bloodline, there was ultimately a ceiling.

Jun Changxiao naturally understood this point, so he patted Peggy’s head, saying, “If there’s an opportunity, this master will let you completely sublimate.”

“Thank you, Master!”

Peggy was so moved it was about to cry.

“However.”

Jun Changxiao waved his sleeve, pointing to the distant, seemingly endless heaven and earth, saying, “Your primary task now is to dig out all the spirit stones here.”

“Hehe.”

The System said, “After all that talk, it’s still being used as a tool!”

“Yes!”

Peggy leaped down.

If it could hear the System’s inner thoughts, it would definitely bare its teeth and claws, saying: “I’m being used as a tool, and I’m happy about it!”

“Whoosh whoosh!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

In the Heavenly Vein Secret Realm, Peggy seemed to transform into a diligent old ox, frantically mining the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees formed from spirit stones. Although it was tiring and bitter, it was happy doing it.

Speaking of which.

Jun Changxiao had ore mining tools—why was he still using Peggy?

The System only saw Dog Leftover using Peggy as a tool, but didn’t realize that mining spirit stones also counted as a type of cultivation.

Over these years, Peggy had been able to keep up with the main force because it constantly kept busy. Although quite tragic, it could repeatedly improve itself, repeatedly stimulate itself.

Contract beasts like the Purple Lightning Spirit Tiger and Ice Crystal Lion Beast didn’t even have screen time now, precisely because their strength had severely diverged from their master.

Simply put.

Jun Changxiao temporarily had no means to let contract beasts easily grow stronger, so he could only temper them through hard work and endurance.

Unfortunately, many people couldn’t understand Dog Leftover’s painstaking efforts and truly saw him as a capitalist who mercilessly squeezed and exploited contract beasts.

“Others laugh at me for being too mad.”

On the mountain peak, Jun Changxiao stood with his hands behind his back, shaking his head and chanting: “I laugh at them for not seeing through.”

“Sect Master!”

A voice came to his ear: “The Star Spirit Realm is attacking!”

“Oh.”

Jun Changxiao responded with a sound and appeared out of thin air in front of Dation City’s tower.

His gaze casually looked into the distance and saw several tens of thousands of Star Spirit Realm soldiers arranged in neat formation, radiating an imposing aura that shook the mountains and rivers.

The Flying Tiger Army.

They had come.

However, because their flagship-level equipment had been stolen, they were currently wearing sub-flagship equipment.

This didn’t matter. For the Flying Tiger Army soldiers, equipment just provided a small bonus. As long as their strength was sufficient and their coordination tight enough, they could naturally make up for it perfectly.

“Are you the rebel leader?”

Commander Yu stood at the front of the formation, locking onto Jun Changxiao.

“Hm?”

Dog Leftover looked at the armor she was wearing, its quality no weaker than what he had stolen earlier, saying, “So you have more than one piece of this grade of equipment.”

“…”

Commander Yu’s entire face immediately darkened as she said, “My commander’s armor was stolen by you?”

“Indeed.”

Jun Changxiao admitted frankly.

Suddenly, a very bold idea emerged in his consciousness!

Everything purchased from the System shop was stolen. Now he himself enjoyed stealing. Could it be… that his future self really created the System and then inherited this characteristic of stealing?

“Damn!”

Dog Leftover shouted, “It’s really possible!”

“…”

The System fell silent for a moment, then said weakly: “Those with diabetes, don’t come…”

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