Chapter 69 of 100
Chapter 69
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“Pfft…” Yang Dingtian suddenly burst out of the water.
It was so warm, the water here! Of course, this was just Yang Dingtian’s perception. The water temperature was actually around minus ten degrees Celsius, but this temperature already made Yang Dingtian feel warm.
The moment he burst out of the water, Yang Dingtian's eyes instantly brightened. He found himself on a pool of water, the same size as the unfrozen water pool in the abandoned mine. The pool was also in a huge cave, with ice covering the surroundings, sparkling like a crystal palace.
There was a cave entrance on the cave wall, leading to a passage. The passage was filled with various crystals, red and purple, shining brilliantly and beautifully.
The structure here was almost identical to the large cave deep in the abandoned mine.
Yang Dingtian felt a strange sensation, but he couldn't pinpoint where it came from.
Climbing out of the water and walking onto the ice, Yang Dingtian realized why he felt so strange.
He had jumped into the unfrozen water pool and dived down, but after reaching 100 meters, the water temperature rose, and he quickly floated up, which was the opposite of what should have happened.
Looking at the calm surface of the pool and the huge cave, Yang Dingtian understood something.
This place was actually anti-gravity?
He was below the abandoned mine, having dived 200 meters into the unfrozen water pool and then burst out of the water here. According to the direction, the water surface was inverted, and Yang Dingtian was standing on the top of the cave, yet he didn't fall.
The unfrozen water pool was not funnel-shaped but hourglass-shaped. After passing the 100-meter mark, he entered an anti-gravity field and quickly floated up.
Yang Dingtian gritted his teeth, risking his life, not only surviving but also arriving at this wondrous place.
“Blood Black Gold.” Yang Dingtian immediately thought of this. Where there was unfrozen water, there were large veins of fire minerals. Zhao Wuji came here for the Blood Black Gold.
Yang Dingtian immediately searched for Blood Black Gold.
Soon, he found the first piece of Blood Black Gold, embedded in the cave wall at the entrance of the passage, among a pile of red crystals.
Yang Dingtian climbed up the cave wall, entered the entrance, and walked into the two-meter-high passage.
“Master, this piece of Blood Black Gold is different from the one we got in the Red Wilderness,” Yang Dingtian said. “This Blood Black Gold is redder, red like blood.”
Dongfang Niemie seemed to be stunned for a moment, then sighed, “Truly, misfortune brings good fortune. This is the highest-grade Blood Black Gold, at least ten thousand years old. It is ten times purer than the Blood Black Gold I used for forging swords.”
“Child, are you really sent by heaven?” Dongfang Niemie sighed. “Otherwise, why would such ten-thousand-year-old Blood Black Gold appear before you?”
Yang Dingtian was also trembling with excitement. “Master, should I dig it out?”
“Yes, be careful,” Dongfang Niemie said.
Yang Dingtian took out a dagger, grabbed the Blood Black Gold, and carefully dug it out, ignoring the scorching heat.
He clearly felt that when the Blood Black Gold left the crystal wall, something like a soul trembled, as if it was reluctant to leave but also excited to be free. The reluctance was because the crystal wall had nurtured it, and the excitement was because it could finally leave and explore the world.
“Master, it’s strange, I feel like this Blood Black Gold has a life of its own,” Yang Dingtian said.
“It’s not life, it’s spirit!” Dongfang Niemie said. “A treasure that has existed for ten thousand years definitely has a spirit. Forging a sword with such Blood Black Gold will greatly enhance the cultivation of the sword spirit. I can’t even imagine how astonishing your future sword will be.”
Yang Dingtian reluctantly put the Blood Black Gold into a special bag and continued forward.
“Master, I hope this vein has more than just one piece of Blood Black Gold,” Yang Dingtian said.
“It won’t be just one. Since it has created an anti-gravity field and an unfrozen water pool, it must be a large vein, possibly with dozens of pieces,” Dongfang Niemie said. “Continue deeper.”
Yang Dingtian continued deeper. The surroundings were filled with red and purple crystals, and the passage was a natural fissure, not artificially excavated.
“Master, are these crystals useful?” Yang Dingtian asked.
“These are the finest Fire Crystal, each worth thousands of gold coins,” Dongfang Niemie said. “But they won’t be of much use to you. You can take a couple when you leave to make a decoration for Yan Yan.”
Yang Dingtian walked in for about ten meters, searching for the next piece of Blood Black Gold.
Sure enough, he found two more, one on each side of the cave wall.
Yang Dingtian was elated, digging out the two ten-thousand-year-old Blood Black Gold pieces and putting them in the special bag.
Continuing forward, he found five more pieces at a corner, about fifty meters ahead.
Yang Dingtian kept going deeper, and the temperature kept rising, eventually becoming like a furnace.
This natural mine was incredibly deep. Yang Dingtian had already walked over two thousand meters and dug out thirty-two pieces of Blood Black Gold.
Although he could still carry the weight of several hundred kilograms, his speed had slowed down.
However, the Blood Black Gold gradually became scarce, appearing every few dozen meters, then every few hundred meters, and finally, not appearing for over a thousand meters.
By now, Yang Dingtian had walked over five thousand meters and dug out forty-five pieces of Blood Black Gold, and he was struggling to move forward.
Finally, there were no more Blood Black Gold pieces for another one thousand five hundred meters, and the temperature inside the cave had risen to over a hundred degrees Celsius. If it weren’t for the three layers of bone marrow cleansing and meridian refinement Yang Dingtian had undergone, he would have died long ago.
“Master, it seems we’re approaching the end. There probably won’t be any more Blood Black Gold,” Yang Dingtian said.
“Probably not. Usually, the number of Blood Black Gold pieces in a vein is a multiple of nine. Forty-five ten-thousand-year-old Blood Black Gold pieces already make a huge vein,” Dongfang Niemie said.
“Should I go back?” Yang Dingtian asked. “It’s a pity there are no Gold Eaters or Ice Beasts here. Otherwise, the two destroyed beast cores could have been replaced.”
Thinking about this, Yang Dingtian’s excitement diminished. Getting forty-five ten-thousand-year-old Blood Black Gold pieces was indeed exciting, but the main goal for the past few years was to hunt for beast cores. Now, without the beast cores, especially the Ice Beast cores, the Five Elements Yin-Yang Array in seven days couldn’t be performed, and his Mystic Qi couldn’t break through.
Another huge problem was how to get back.
Of course, he could return through the unfrozen water pool, but how could he carry nine hundred kilograms of Blood Black Gold? Moreover, Zhao Wuji was guarding the entrance, and he couldn’t leave the mine. Additionally, he had been in the abandoned mine for about five hours, and the sunset was almost gone, approaching the time he had agreed to meet Ning Ning. If he didn’t get out quickly, she might come into the mine to look for him, which would be disastrous, possibly falling into Zhao Wuji’s hands.
“What’s at the end of this crystal mine? Is there another exit?” Yang Dingtian wondered as he looked at the end of the crystal mine.
Yang Dingtian hesitated about whether to continue to the end of the crystal mine, but the temperature was getting unbearably high.
“Let’s try. If there’s another exit, I can avoid Zhao Wuji and prevent Ning Ning from entering the mine and encountering him,” Yang Dingtian thought, then gritted his teeth and continued forward, even though there were no more Blood Black Gold pieces ahead.
Each meter was excruciating, like walking in a furnace. If it weren’t for the medicine Ning Ning had applied to his hair, it would have been scorched by now.
Ten meters.
Twenty meters.
Thirty meters!
Finally, Yang Dingtian reached the end of the crystal mine.
After the last corner, he saw the end, where there was an incredibly bright light and an intensely hot aura.
Yang Dingtian was almost dehydrated, his lips cracked and dry. He gritted his teeth and walked the last few meters.
After the corner, he reached the end of the crystal mine and was completely stunned.
There was no exit, only a huge cave. The bottom of the cave was filled with scorching lava. What stunned Yang Dingtian was not the lava but the Blood Black Gold covering the cave walls, densely packed like countless bright red balls on the black stone walls, looking incredibly magnificent and beautiful.
Yang Dingtian was stunned, and so was Dongfang Niemie.
“Heaven….” Dongfang Niemie muttered. “There’s actually such a large vein of Blood Black Gold. The largest vein I’ve seen in my life had only a hundred pieces. According to records, the largest Blood Black Gold vein in the world had only 198 pieces. How many are there here?”
Yang Dingtian was also completely stunned!
After being stunned for over ten minutes, Yang Dingtian started counting the Blood Black Gold pieces.
There were so many, it was dizzying. He counted again and again.
Finally, he counted 954 pieces. Adding the 45 pieces he already had, there were a total of 999 pieces, the largest recorded Blood Black Gold vein.
Yang Dingtian was overwhelmed with happiness.
He was forging a supreme sword, which required 999 pieces of Blood Black Gold. Dongfang Niemie had planned to spend years finding these 999 pieces, but now he had all 999 pieces at once, meaning he had all the materials for his supreme sword, and the only thing left was to forge it.
Moreover, 999 ten-thousand-year-old Blood Black Gold pieces were ten times purer than ordinary Blood Black Gold. Therefore, the sword forged from these 999 pieces would not just be a supreme sword but possibly an imperial-grade sword, something never seen before in history!
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