C42

The night wind gradually blew, making the autumn feel slightly cold. The leaves on the trees had turned yellow, indicating the arrival of autumn.

From Lu Ming's August to the Academy's report, two months had already passed. In the mortal world, it was about the late autumn of the tenth month, but here, it was only the beginning of autumn.

Lu Ming activated 'No Steps', passing through the dense forest without even touching a leaf. Looking at the scenery around him, Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh. If not for that miraculous admission notice, he would never have such a life in the mortal world. Although it was dangerous, it was extremely exciting.

Maybe this is my nature, but this is where I belong.

Lu Ming sighed, then carefully began to move forward. It was already close to the location of the signal. Be careful.

At this time, near Liu Feng's side, the Third Elder was deep in thought, wondering if Liu Feng's plan could work.

According to Liu Feng, the most important thing right now was to intercept and kill Lu Ming. After killing Lu Ming, they would invite the Liu Zhai Swordsman to this place. With the corpses and evidence, even if the Liu Zhai Swordsman wanted to cause trouble for the Liu Family, he had no reason to. He could only accept this fact.

No proof, good!

The Third Elder was a martial arts fanatic to begin with, and was only interested in cultivation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have stepped into the cymbidium at such a young age. Now, Liu Feng gave his a plan. Regardless of whether it was feasible or not, he just needed to follow it.

Liu Feng's signal had already been out for a long time, and quite a few Disciples of the Liu Family who had seen the signal also received it one after another. The Third Elder looked at the dozens of people before him and said with a cold expression:

"This is urgent. Later, inform the people who are staying in the secret grounds to call out half of them. Everyone from here to the Cang Ling Academy is to guard this place well. No matter who it is, stop them immediately!"

The dozens of people below acknowledged the order and scattered in groups of two or three. These were not the only people the Liu Family had set up near the Cang Ling Academy.

The Third Elder followed Liu Feng and headed back to the Academy ahead of time. From the Hundred Beast Mountain Range to the Cang Ling Academy, they could only traverse the mountains. At that time, they would be stopped by the Liu Family.

Liu Feng was only concerned with considering whether his plan was feasible, from the start, he did not care about the people onstage. What he didn't know was that the person below was crying out in joy in his heart.

At this moment a group of people who had dispersed to the west were speeding along. Since they didn't have any good movement techniques, they could only rely on their tyrannical physical bodies to run faster.

At this time, a Disciples of the Liu Family who was running away curiously looked at the person beside him and asked:

"Brother, what's your name? Why have I never seen you before?"

The man revealed a bashful smile and replied in a shy manner:

"My name is Liu Ming, I just transferred over from home." Brother, where are we going? "

Disciples of the Liu Family was stunned for a moment, but he was unable to find the name Liu Ming in his mind. However, when he saw the identity token on Liu Ming's waist, there was no doubt in his heart. He replied in a relaxed manner,

"Of course we're transferring people from the Spirit Returning Stone mine. Otherwise, how would the few of us be able to stop such a large mountain range?"

Spirit stone mine!?

Liu Ming was actually running alongside Liu Ming, but his heart was in turmoil. In this place that was only a hundred miles away from the Cang Ling Academy, the Liu Family actually mined a Spirit Stone mine?

Just now, in the middle of the forest, he had coincidentally seen a Disciples of the Liu Family rushing towards the direction of the signal, so he had paid a visit to a bandit. He knocked out the disciple with a stick and tied him up. Then, he changed his clothes to replace the disciple's identity.

Originally, Lu Ming was just curious what Liu Feng was doing, coming here to wait for a chance to kill him. But he did not expect the strength of the Third Elder present to be so terrifying, to the point that even a casual glance from him made Lu Ming's hair stand on end. Lu Ming immediately lost interest in and followed him out. He never thought that he would actually hear such shocking news.

You have to understand that according to the tacit agreement of the different powers, all the materials within a radius of a thousand miles of Cang Ling Academy belong to the Cang Ling Academy, and cannot be touched by any other power. This was not only for the control of resources, but also to show the control of large powers.

Although the Cang Ling Academy did not really extract resources, and did not mind rogue cultivators searching for treasures, as an important resource like the spirit stone mine, it was definitely under strict control. Who would have thought that the Liu Family would be so brazen as to steal resources. Wasn't he afraid of being discovered?

Lu Ming knew the answer, so he did not speak anymore, and followed the others.

The strength of those Liu Family disciples were very low. Only the one in the lead had the strength of a two star cymbidium. The rest only had the strength of an Immortal. With their speed, it was naturally slow, but for the sake of finding out the secrets of the Spirit Stone mine, Lu Ming had to admit that he was following them as they slowly ran.

After running for a long time, the disciples of the Liu Family slowed down again. Finally, they stopped in front of a ravine. The valley seemed to be sparse and ordinary. There were countless such valleys in Hundred Beast Mountain Range and this one before him didn't seem to have anything special.

A disciple walked to a towering tree next to the valley and actually dove into it!

With another two people in, only Lu Ming and the disciple who asked the question remained. The disciple pushed Lu Ming and said: "Let's go, what are you waiting for."

Lu Ming endured his curiosity and slowly walked in.

The big tree was like an illusion, allowing Lu Ming to pass through it instantly. As if passing through a layer of water, his eyes flashed before lighting up.

Just as he saw the scene inside, Lu Ming's mouth opened wide and could no longer close.

The valley in front of him was the same one he had seen outside the cave just now, but it was very different from what he had seen outside.

Countless torches were stabbed into the stone walls on both sides of the valley, lighting up the entire valley as if it was day. The entire valley was over ten acres large, and the dense mining areas were like ant caves that covered the bottom of the valley.

Many mortals were bitterly going in and out of the mines, bringing out baskets of Spirit Stones and pouring them into the boxes. Those people were all in ragged clothes and looked extremely thin. If they moved slightly slower, some of the Liu Family disciples would whip and scold them. Some of them would even be knocked to the ground from time to time.

Looking at the boxes of spirit stones, Lu Ming felt like his eyes were going blind. According to the size of the box, there should be at least one or two hundred pills, and there were at least seven or eight such boxes that were exposed on the outside!

Lu Ming sucked in a bit of saliva, blinking his eyes that seemed to become a ingot and shouted crazily in his heart.

Damn it, I'm going to post it!