This is a very large spirit stone mine, with hundreds of people digging inside, it still feels spacious. The cries of fear broke the original silence.

"Run!"

Everyone seemed to be going mad, fleeing towards the exit. Everywhere there were stone bones, piled up like stones, hard as rock. Occasionally, someone would fall, causing congestion and trampling.

Right at the deepest part of the mine, blood mist floated, and anyone who touched it would scream tragically, instantly turning into pus and blood, dying tragically.

Ye Fan was at the deepest part of the mine, he saw the clearest. On the stone wall, half a corpse was embedded, wrapped in a heaven grade spirit stone weighing several hundred pounds.

The miners accidentally broke a corner of the heaven grade spirit stone, and the blood mist was spreading from there, causing him to feel a great danger.

Qi Tianlin and Shi Ye, Wu Jingtian, and others took action, either deploying spiritual treasures or displaying divine skills to block that cold blood mist.

However, whether it was spiritual treasures or divine skills, none could stop the blood mist—it was highly corrosive, and several spiritual treasures were melted in an instant.

"Something evil has happened!"

"Help! I don’t want to die!"

The miners ran for their lives, shouting various cries of fear, completely ignoring Ye Fan and the others.

"Everyone, don’t panic, I will lead you out!"

Ye Fan made a decisive decision and immediately used a space spiritual treasure to draw the nearby miners, including Hu Fei, Shi Ye, and others, into it.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Then, before the blood mist could spread to him, Ye Fan used the Chasing Star Step, quickly rushing out, leaving behind a series of afterimages.

These afterimages disappeared immediately upon contact with the blood mist, but fortunately, he was not affected. He escaped the mine with no mishaps.

"Ye Fan, where are they?"

As Ye Fan rushed out, the Old Bastard asked anxiously.

"Where’s Jingtian?"

"Where’s Tianlin?"

"Where’s Little Fei?"

"..."

As soon as he came out, Ye Fan was surrounded by a group of Saint Lord level strong people, all talking at once, asking questions.

"They are all fine, I brought them out!"

Ye Fan did not dare to be negligent and directly released Hu Fei and others from the space spiritual treasure, even the miners suffered few losses.

Compared to other mines where similar evil incidents occurred with a high death toll, this time could be said to have incurred no significant losses.

"Little Fei, what exactly happened down there?"

One of the Nine Great Bandits, Hu Tian, grabbed his grandson by the collar, glaring as he asked.

"We dug out half a corpse, with flesh, don’t know what happened, then blood mist spread, and several miners screamed just once before turning into blood water..."

After Ye Fan and the experienced old miners narrated the events, the Saints finally understood what had happened in the mine, all feeling a lingering fear.

"Everyone, step back."

The Old Bastard shouted, wielding his fingers like a sword, slashing forward remotely.

Whoosh!

A divine radiance shot out, transforming into a gigantic light sword, slashing downward.

Boom!!

With a thunderous sound, dust flew upwards, and the mine was sliced open, a dark, eerie, and strange-looking pit.

The Old Bastard continued to tremble his fingers, the divine radiance condensed into a light sword over ten zhang long, continuously falling, splitting open the mine completely, exposing it to the sky.

All the soil and rocks were thrown hundreds of meters away, and gradually before everyone’s eyes appeared a huge sky pit, with many stone bones extracted and placed not far away.

As the Old Bastard continued his actions, the divine radiance-congealed giant sword sliced through the spirit stone mine, extracting all the stone bones. Soon, a stone bone mountain of over ten thousand pieces appeared on the desolate ground.

Lines of blood mist rose, and upon contact with the Old Bastard’s divine radiance, sizzling sounds ensued, and it was actually dissolved.

He waved his sleeve, dispersing the blood mist, shooting it into the sky, until after a long time passed, the area finally calmed.

Then, he performed a divine skill, the divine radiance condensed into a giant hand, reaching towards the depths of the mine. Instantly, the earth trembled as the giant hand extracted all the soil and rocks from below the mine, placing them on the ground.

"Demon!"

"That’s right, it’s that demon!"

Many miners couldn’t help but exclaim. When they were previously in the mine, they saw the demon with their own eyes, with just a wisp of blood mist turning dozens into blood water.

In a piece of blood-colored stone, a huge heaven grade spirit stone was very conspicuous, a piece of heaven grade spirit stone more than half a cubic, enough to cause a sensation in the cultivation world. Even among various Great Emperor clans, such a large heaven grade spirit stone had never been unearthed.

However, the interior of this heaven grade spirit stone was not pure. In addition to its glowing light, half a corpse of a humanoid creature was sealed inside, bloody.

On this piece of heaven grade spirit stone, there was an obvious defect, at the part that was chiseled, where the blood mist spread from. But now it had repaired itself, sealing the crack, otherwise, no one could touch this spirit stone.

"Heaven grade spirit stone, such a large piece of heaven grade spirit stone, it’s absolutely priceless!"

Many Saint Lord level strong people were moved. Not to mention the value of the heaven grade spirit stone, even the half corpse of a humanoid creature sealed inside was already a priceless treasure.

This spirit stone is crystal clear, and from the outside, the half-sealed corpse inside is visible in detail.

"Hiss~"

When people saw the corpse inside, everyone was stunned, including strong people at the Saint Lord Level, who all took a sharp breath.

This half corpse seemed to have been torn apart, leaving only the left half of the body, while the right half was nowhere to be found.

However—

Even half the corpse shocked everyone!

He was a tall, powerful man, his face covered with tiny silver scales, and in the center of his forehead was a vertical eye, which now looked more like a hole made by someone’s finger. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Besides his face, his body was also covered with a layer of silver scales, and there was a bone wing on his back, with edges sharp as knives.

"Ancient creature!"

"Human-shaped creature!"

People were amazed, this half-sealed corpse in the Heaven Grade Spirit Stone was clearly not human, nor did it look like it belonged to the Demon Clan.

Before ancient times, there was a kind of human-shaped creature in this world, similar in appearance to humans, but definitely not human. These creatures were filled with Death Qi, and seemed to have no other instinct but slaughter.

Many major forces wanted to obtain this and explore the weaknesses of such a creature. If possible, they might be able to study why these creatures were so powerful.

If they could gain any insight, it would be a huge gain for any force, so no one was willing to give up, all hoping to get a share of the pie.

As for the bones, they were not considered as important. Who would care about the bones when they could have flesh and blood?

"On behalf of the Imperial Academy, I request that the Immortal Academy share this half-corpse with everyone. We, the Imperial Academy, must have a share!" Imperial Academy Director, Monk Dao Yan, was the first to speak.

"Exactly, we also want to take part of the flesh and blood back for research!"

Many major forces couldn’t help but clamor, even the Di Clan and Holy Land spoke up, expressing that they would not give up on this half corpse.

The flesh and blood of the human-shaped creature was secondary; what they really aimed for was to divide the Heaven Grade Spirit Stone from the Immortal Academy.

"What are you doing?"

Old Bastard glared and said, "Want to divide this half human-shaped creature’s corpse? No way! This was unearthed by our Immortal Academy, it’s our private property. Why should we share it with you?"

These words were sonorous and well-reasoned. It was the Immortal Academy that spent a tremendous effort to excavate it. Why should they share with others?

"Old Bastard, that’s not right. Although this half-corpse was excavated from your Immortal Academy’s mine, it concerns the safety of all humankind. You can’t possibly monopolize it, can you?" Monk Dao Yan said with a sly smile.

"Exactly, Brother Dao Yan makes a good point. These human-shaped creatures concern the survival of humankind, and we must be involved!"

"This half human-shaped creature’s corpse must be shared among us for research!"

"Don’t forget, according to ancient records, human-shaped creatures are the great enemy of all humans. The Immortal Academy cannot represent all humanity, right?"

"The Immortal Academy is obliged to share their discovery with the world, they cannot monopolize this half corpse!"

Under the leadership of Monk Dao Yan, the heroic lords made a commotion, implying that the Immortal Academy could not keep the half corpse to themselves, and must share it equally with everyone.

"I propose we clear the venue now. Those unrelated should leave immediately, and only the few of us from the Di Clan, Immortal Academy, and Imperial Academy will discuss how to allocate the half human-shaped creature’s corpse."

A Saint of the Di Clan said coldly, his gaze as sharp as a knife, looking down on saints from some Holy Lands, not taking them seriously at all!

"You..."

Many strong people at the Saint Lord level glared angrily, but were powerless, as he was holding a crimson Ancient Tower exuding the might of an Emperor Weapon.

They even brought an Emperor Weapon, how could they possibly contend against that?

Those saints had no argument left; faced with an Emperor Weapon, even if they used all their heritage, they might not be able to compete against the Di Clan armed with an Emperor Weapon.

"No, that’s not a true Emperor Weapon, it’s a replica!"

One of the saints from the Wu Shang Sect shot two gleams of light from his eyes, affirming this.

"Yes, it’s indeed not a real Emperor Weapon, but it can unleash a single strike like an Emperor Weapon. Do you want to try?" the Saint of the Di Clan said coldly.

Though a replica, it was equivalent to a Forbidden Artifact, capable of exhibiting a fraction of the Emperor Weapon’s power when attacked with full force.

Even these saints dared not underestimate this fraction of the Emperor Weapon’s power unless they possessed a Quasi-Emperor Weapon, otherwise, they could not resist.

"Enough! Stop arguing!"

Old Bastard glanced at all the saints, then let his gaze fall on Monk Dao Yan, lingering for a moment before looking at Ye Fan, "This half-corpse was discovered by our disciple, Ye Fan. Let him decide how to distribute it; what does everyone think?"

"No way, he’s your disciple from the Immortal Academy, of course, he’ll side with you. We don’t agree!" many saints clamored, throwing their gaze at Ye Fan.

"If you don’t agree, then our Immortal Academy will protect this half corpse with all our might. Let’s see who dares to provoke us!" Old Bastard suddenly became firm, unleashing a powerful aura that stunned everyone.

"Fine, let’s have Ye Fan decide the ownership of this half human-shaped creature’s corpse!"

Imperial Academy Monk Dao Yan said with a smile, deliberately or inadvertently glancing toward Ye Fan.

Swish!

In the next moment, everyone’s eyes fell on Ye Fan, awaiting his decision!

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