Make Them Work for Me
A hint of disgust even appeared on his face.
"So noisy."
Chen Fan remained completely unmoved.
These Deathly Stillness Creatures are essentially walking, high-quality Kindling, and their numbers are vast enough.
The only downside is that he has to do the chopping himself.
His gaze swept across the crimson ocean, precisely locking onto the largest and most solidly concentrated of Deathly Stillness Creatures.
That creature was different from others; a few faint gray flames flickered on its twisted body, clearly indicating that it was the leader of this group of monsters, and its strength had already touched the threshold of the Undying Realm.
It let out a silent roar, took the lead, and transformed into a gray lightning bolt, rushing straight towards Chen Fan.
The remaining Deathly Stillness Creatures followed closely behind, like a death wave that threatened to completely engulf the world.
Chen Fan remained standing in the same spot, without moving an inch.
Until the leader was less than ten meters away from him.
He listlessly raised his right hand and casually flicked his finger at the gray lightning bolt.
Laugh.
A wisp of golden spark, finer than a strand of hair, drifted leisurely from his fingertip.
Without any earth-shattering force or the power to burn mountains and boil seas, it simply and lightly, seemingly slowly, yet disregarding space and distance, precisely imprinted itself on the forehead of the leader of the Deathly Stillness Creatures.
Time seemed to have been paused at that moment.
The leader's forward charge suddenly froze.
The next moment.
"..."
A piercing scream resounded through the senses of all the Deathly Stillness Creatures.
Under the watchful eyes of all those crimson eyes, the once arrogant leader's massive body melted away silently and rapidly from the inside out, like an ice block thrown into the core of Star.
One second.
In just one second.
The leader of that Deathly Stillness Creatures, comparable to the Undying Realm, vanished completely.
The golden spark twirled lightly in the air, as if it had done something insignificant, before drifting back to Chen Fan's fingertips, dancing merrily like a child seeking praise.
The entire mine was plunged into a silence more eerily profound than deathly stillness.
That frantically surging wave of death came to an abrupt halt.
All the Deathly Stillness Creatures froze in place. The malice and madness directed at living beings in their crimson eyes receded like a tide, replaced by an emotion they had never experienced since their birth.
Fear!
An absolute fear originating from the deepest level of life, an irresistible force!
They looked at the tiny golden flame at Chen Fan's fingertip like mice seeing a dragon, or mortals looking up to a god.
Those are natural enemies!
It is the terminator of their existence!
"I see."
Chen Fan keenly sensed this fear, and a playful smile curled at the corner of his lips.
The 《Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture》 emphasizes the unity of life and death.
His Undying Divine Fire was ignited by the ultimate foundation of life. To these beings, who are purely composed of death, he is both the creator god and the destroyer of the world.
An idea clearly surfaced in his mind.
He looked at the endless army of monsters before him, like a capitalist seeing a vast, untapped labor market.
"Since that's the case..."
Chen Fan stretched lazily, no longer deliberately suppressing the power within his body.
"Then let's all keep busy."
Boom!!
With a thought, the Undying Divine Fire within his Dantian universe, which had already grown to an unbelievable size, began to circulate with a roar!
A dazzling golden light, indescribable in its brilliance, suddenly swept outwards from Chen Fan's body in all directions!
That was not an attack.
That was simply the pure, vast, and magnificent blossoming of life!
It was as if a blazing sun, illuminating all things, had been forcibly raised in this eternally silent underground mine!
Wherever the golden light passed, the chilling aura of death was instantly purified.
All the Deathly Stillness Creatures enveloped in light curled up in agony, emitting silent wails. Their illusory bodies, scorched by the life force, twisted and faded like wax figures doused with concentrated sulfuric acid, as if they might follow in the footsteps of their leader and be completely erased from this world at any moment.
This is an absolute crushing defeat on a matter of life level!
It is the merciless judgment of the gods upon the ants!
Finally.
Faced with the existential threat of complete purification and evaporation, the instinct for survival overwhelmed everything.
"Waaah..."
It's unclear which of the Deathly Stillness Creatures was the first to succumb; it gave up all resistance, its massive body prostrate on the ground, its scarlet eyes tightly closed, and it let out a mournful cry of submission in Chen Fan's direction.
One, two, ten, a hundred...
Like dominoes being toppled, in the blink of an eye, the surging army of Deathly Stillness Creatures all collapsed to the ground, trembling in fear.
That malice towards all living beings vanished completely, leaving only the most humble begging for survival and submission.
Chen Fan nodded in satisfaction.
He didn't even bother to speak, but simply conveyed an extremely simple instruction to the newly recruited employees through the domineering will of the "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture".
"Mining."
The Deathly Stillness Creatures lying prostrate on the ground paused slightly.
Despite their limited intelligence, they instantly understood the command.
A complex emotion, a mixture of humiliation and resentment, yet an inability to defy in the slightest, flowed through their consciousness.
But under the threat of the sun hanging overhead, ready to purify them at any moment, any thought of resistance seemed pale and powerless.
The next second.
All the Deathly Stillness Creatures silently changed direction.
They stopped looking at Chen Fan and turned around, using their incredibly sharp claws, formed from Deathly Silence Qi, to frantically dig into the surrounding rock walls.
"Snap! Snap!"
Countless Deathly Silent Crystals, emitting a ghostly glow, were roughly peeled off the rock face.
Then, like tribute bearers, they carefully transported the crystals to Chen Fan and piled them up.
A bustling scene of mining construction unfolded in this deathly silent mine shaft in an extremely eerie way.
Chen Fan looked at the rapidly piling-up mountain of crystals in front of him and yawned contentedly.
He sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and entered a meditative state, leaving only a wisp of Divine Thought to supervise the group of diligent miners.
Self-reliance leads to abundance?
No.
Making your enemy work for you is the best strategy.
Time, in this strange yet efficient cycle, flies by.
Chen Fan was completely immersed in his understanding of the Death Dao, and the Divine Fire within his body was growing at an alarming rate with the supply of a massive amount of Kindling.
Driven by their fear of survival, those Deathly Stillness Creatures transformed into tireless laborers, turning the entire mine upside down.
In the blink of an eye, a month has quietly passed.
The Deathly Silent Crystals in front of Chen Fan had piled up into a towering mountain a hundred meters high, and the aura of death emanating from them almost froze the entire space.