The underwater world the middle-aged instructor described put an inexplicable pressure on all the new trainees present.
All this time, everyone had focused on land, rarely turning their attention to the seas.
Now that they had the chance to hear about it, they were startled and unnerved.
Quite a few trainees exchanged bewildered looks.
Lin Shuguang sat alone to one side, his gaze thoughtful.
Something suddenly occurred to him. The seas covered a far larger area than the land, and they remained undeveloped.
There were already plenty of mines on land. Didn't that mean there might be even more in the seas?
Lin Shuguang suddenly perked up, brimming with eager energy. He wished he could assemble a team right now, slip beneath the sea for a leisurely tour, and claim the waters as his kingdom.
A single Elemental Ore mine was not enough to set him up for good. If he could possess the mines of the underwater world-not all of them, just a small portion-then upgrading around the clock would no longer be mere talk.
But the middle-aged instructor's next words gave Lin Shuguang a sense of crisis.
"Besides stopping the marine creatures inside the [Demon Domain] from breaking out, there's another, more practical reason why countries scramble to send Martial Artists into the sea every year... mineral resources!"
Facing everyone's gazes, the middle-aged instructor said calmly, "After three hundred years of mining, many mineral resources on land are no longer so plentiful. The more Martial Artists appear on the continent, the greater the consumption of minerals, especially Elemental Ore..."
At the mention of Elemental Ore, the newcomers from the Demon Capital immediately thought of the Elemental Ore mine owned by a certain Boss Huang. It had caused quite a stir in the Demon Capital back then.
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