The next morning, Shi Yue, Xiaoyaozi, and Xiao Pei left the marketplace and flew southeast.
Mysterious Jade Island was an island controlled by the Ice Moon Sect. A medium-sized vein of Mysterious Jade Crystal Ore ran through it and had been mined for over a thousand years. There wasn't much ore left. Mysterious Jade Crystal Ore was a Third-Order Artifact Refining Material and could also be used to set up Third-Order formations. For this reason, the Ice Moon Sect had only sent a few Core Formation Cultivators to guard the island.
After nightfall draped Mysterious Jade Island in a black cloak, three shadows slipped onto the island. They were Shi Yue and the others.
Several hundred yards ahead, a pale-yellow light screen covered most of the island.
They cautiously moved toward the Yellow Light Screen. Xiao Pei released a Yellow Giant Python. Thick scales covered its body, and its head looked much like a rat's, with three eyes.
A beam of yellow light shot from its third eye and struck the Yellow Light Screen.
Green smoke rose from the screen's surface, and a gap several yards wide appeared. Shi Yue and the others flew through it, and the gap quickly sealed itself.
A quarter of an hour later, Shi Yue and the others appeared inside a crisscrossing mine tunnel. Blue light shimmered along the stone walls on either side, and Water Spirit Energy filled the air.
More than a dozen tunnels of various sizes branched off ahead of them. No one knew where they led.
"Xiao Pei, where did you mine the Mysterious Jade Crystal Ore last time? Take us there," Shi Yue ordered.
Xiao Pei looked troubled and gave a bitter smile. "Senior, I can't remember clearly. Each time I came, I mined the Mysterious Jade Crystal Ore in