Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 583 - 569: Secret Mine Vein, Primordial Secret Realm_1

Chapter 583: Chapter 569: Secret Mine Vein, Primordial Secret Realm_1

[Please Subscribe!] Despite it being night, the ancient mine deep underground is filled with endless noises of impact. There are warriors, wearing nothing but tattered animal skins, continuously hacking at the rock walls with their iron spades.

This ancient mine shaft is tens of thousands of feet deep below the surface. However, the very bottom is filled with dense, poisonous exhaust fumes. Owing to thousands of years with scarce human activities, various dangers have filled the depths of the mine.

The ancient mine extends in all directions with numerous branches. In one branch two thousand feet deep, there is an Earth vein magma lake. Its scalding heat has melted the surrounding rocks into a crystallized state.

This is the mine where the half piece of spirit crystal was discovered. In addition, a large amount of spirit crystal fragments can be found. Because of the scalding lava, the surrounding rocks have melted into an even more solid crystal structure, burying a few scattered pieces of spirit crystal.

Clang-clang-clang!

Iron spades hit the rock walls around, splattering sparks everywhere. However, these rocks scorched by the fierce flame are overly tough. Most of the mining slaves are warriors in the Blood Refining Realm, wielding top-quality iron spades, but after each dig, sparks scatter, leaving only a greyish mark behind.

The eyes of these miners are red, dripping with sweat. The red-hot iron spades in their hands keep falling. As mining slaves, they have no way out. They could only stay in this dark mine until they die.

The faces of the miners are flushed red, and some even have red spots on their bodies. This is the result of long-term exposure to earth fire magma, which leads to Fire Poison entering their bodies. In the end, once the Fire Poison accumulates to a certain level, its eruption will lead to their painful death upon being incinerated.

Clang!

With the sound of metal clashing, a red iron spade breaks into two. A mining slave lets out a heart-wrenching howl. His whole body curls up and continually twitches on the hot rocks. His flesh sizzles, giving off the smell of burning flesh.

"Fire Poison attacks the heart!"

The Fire Poison inside this miner has accumulated to its peak, finally causing him to burst, continuously searing his internal organs.

But the miserable state of the miner does not elicit any response from the other miners. The eyes of all the miners remain unblinking. They have given up hope already. From the moment they entered this mine, their fate has been sealed.

Splat!

At this moment, a burly man with a bare chest walks over from the other side of the mine. Brutally, with a swift kick, he boots the fallen miner into the roiling molten lava. In an instant, the miner vanishes without a trace.

"Get back to work! If you can’t meet the quota for this month, you will all be thrown into the blazing magma."

The burly man glares at the surrounding miners, then turns around and walks out of the mine. He does not wish to be eroded by the dense Fire Poison.

"What are you looking at! We’ve only mined less than ten pieces of spirit crystal fragments this month. Looking at the situation, it seems none of you want to make it out alive!"

The middle-aged warrior looks fierce. He is the leader of the miners in this cave and also one of the leaders of the Yuanling Temple. Unlike these miners, his team switches every month, and they get two extra middle grade Yuan stones each month because they venture deeper into the mine vein.

"If it weren’t for those two Yuan stones, I wouldn’t have stayed in this sunless mine for a whole month."

In his eyes, these miners are nothing more than human-shaped cattle. Their death is not worth a single care. Moreover, even if they all die, there will always be an endless supply of new mining slaves brought in. His words are just to give some hope to these slaves and make them work harder. Clearly, they are not effective at all.

This branch of the mine is a thousand feet long. After several years of mining, it has become extremely spacious. Just as the warrior is walking towards where the branch meets the main vein, cursing all the way, a man coming towards him makes him shiver, and his wild arrogance suddenly disappears.

"Elder Stone, what brings you here? Rest assured, these mining slaves have been behaving well, mining the Yuan stones for our Yuanling Temple."

The man referred to as Elder Stone by the burly man is the elder whose spirit Xiao Chen had snatched, the elder of the Towering Realm’s Third Heaven. Right now, his spirit has been taken over by Xiao Chen and is obeying his commands in this mine.

Xiao Chen is hiding inside the Mountain River Seal World. The Mountain River Seal transforms into a particle of dust and attaches itself to Elder Stone’s body.

"Transfer all of the miners to the other mine branches. I have important matters to handle and shouldn’t be disturbed."

"Yes--"

The bare-bodied warrior hesitated a bit. He noticed that Elder Stone’s expression was slightly vacant and his tone was stiff, but he didn’t dare to disobey. He was just an ordinary leader of a thousand men, while Elder Stone was a powerful warrior in the Yuanling Temple, second only to the temple master.

Following that, the bare-bodied warrior turned around and entered the mine. In his hand appeared a leather whip. He drove the miners to the other mine like cattle.

After a moment, Elder Stone stood in front of the seething blazing magma. Then, a rift in space appeared beside him, and Xiao Chen emerged from the rift.

"So, this is the Blazing Magma, isn’t it!

"Yes!" Elder Shi mechanically replied to Xiao Chen’s question.

Hearing this, there was a burst of brilliance in Xiao Chen’s eyes. His clear gaze swept over the rumbling magma, as if trying to uncover its mysteries.

Upon finding out about the ancient mine where Spirit Crystals surfaced and the secrets of various ranger forces in Xuanling City, Xiao Chen became cautious. It turned out that behind these six major ranger forces were the Marquis-level Battle Divisions or forces comparable to them.

Once he obtained the information he wanted, Xiao Chen’s spiritual will, like a sharp sword, was ready to fully take over the sea of Elder Shi’s spirit to prevent any leakage of information.

His spiritual will was already at a venerable level, and to completely crush Elder Shi’s spirit was a relatively simple matter.

However, when Xiao Chen entered his spirit, he found that Elder Shi was trying desperately to hide something and was even willing to destroy his spirit.

Fortunately, Xiao Chen was faster. Before Elder Shi self-annihilated his soul, he broke through it in an instant, understood all his memories, and immediately figured it out.

The key was still the mine vein where the Spirit Crystal was discovered, but the secrets within it would even make a Venerable envious.

As Xiao Chen understood from Elder Shi’s memory, there was a connection to a Secret Realm within the Blazing Magma.

What is a secret realm!

It was said that some powerful beings used their formidable strength to create a space over a Void node. From Xiao Chen’s knowledge, only Venerable beings of the Towering Realm’s Stage Eight would qualify to find a Void node and establish their personal Secret Realm.

But these types of secret realms were only the lowest level, and they were appropriately called "spaces".

When a Warrior with a personal secret realm falls, his personal secret realm may be preserved. If someone gets hold of this Secret Realm, it would be a great opportunity.

It is rumored in the Great Wasteland that the Hundred Realms, where the Hundred Clans currently reside, are the Primordial Secret Realms created by the powerful beings of the Hundred Clans. Throughout generations, each clan’s power augmented these Secret Realms, which have now grown into a small world.

Rumor has it that some powerful tribes within the Hundred Clans, such as the Ghost Tribe and the Demon Tribe, have an unbroken lineage of Emperors. They even imprinted the mysteries of the Great Dao that best suit their tribe’s Warriors for cultivation in each of their Secret Realms. The Great Dao is propagated, the rules are orderly, and they form a real prototype of the world, almost indistinguishable from the Human World in many respects.

Of course, aside from the Secret Realms artificially created by powerful beings, there are also Secret Realms in the Great Wasteland produced by various factors, such as the Ruins of the Xuan Kong Marquis Department with a Secret Realm derived from the protective clan array and naturally occurring Secret Realms in the Great Wasteland. In the central area of the Ten Thousand Mountains Domain, there is a naturally-formed Ten Thousand Mountains Secret Realm that opens every ten years.

Underneath this Blazing Magma, there’s a link to a Secret Realm. According to Yuanling Temple’s investigation, it’s likely left behind by a powerful being who had fallen.

Having discerned this news, Xiao Chen was indeed very relieved. He was lucky that he restrained Elder Shi before he could self-annihilate his own soul.

This Secret Realm node is less than ten feet below the magma. However, even if all the Towering Realm Warriors from Yuanling Temple gathered, they still couldn’t open this Secret Realm due to their insufficient strength.

Furthermore, Xiao Chen learned that Yuanling Temple’s Master had already sent this news back to the Yuan Feng Marquis Division, so it probably won’t be long until the strong Venerable of the Yuan Feng Marquis Division arrives.

The allure of a Secret Realm left behind by a powerful being isn’t small. If one could find the source of the Secret Realm and refine it, it would be like carrying a small world with them. There’s also a great chance of inheriting the powerful one’s legacy through some fortuitous coincidence.

Xiao Chen only knew that this message had been sent to the Yuan Feng Marquis Division. But as to when it was sent, Elder Shi’s entire sea of spirit had already turned into chaos, with only basic instincts left to control. The message about that part was already annihilated.

Now, the only thing Xiao Chen can do is to enter the Secret Realm before the Yuan Feng Marquis Division Warriors arrive. He needs to find the source of the Secret Realm for refinement as soon as possible. Once the source is refined, even if a Venerable arrives later, he can still hide in the Mountain and River Seal World and keep himself invincible.

Splash!

Like a meteor, Xiao Chen plunged into the rumbling magma, triggering a turbulent wave of flames. The scorching magma enveloped his body, teeming with poisonous fire intending to invade him.

However, Xiao Chen’s physical body was robust, and he also practiced the Golden Battle Body. Such Blazing Magma could not harm him at all within a short time.

Within moments, Xiao Chen was able to locate the node of the Secret Realm. On the red rock wall was a black crystal the size of a baby’s fist.

This crystal seemed as though it didn’t exist in this space. The rolling magma flowed through the crystal without being obstructed. Yet, the crystal existed in reality.