Filling in the mine was simple. There were plenty of rocks in the Shattered Stone Belt; they only needed to toss in a few stones and use Turning Stone to Mud.
Over the next two months, the group continued wandering through the starry sky. They successively encountered three organized Insect Race societies, as well as some scattered insects. If they could wipe them all out, they did; if not, they let them go for the time being.
They also discovered some mineral deposits, including two Vitality Stone Mines, but they never found a Spirit Stone Mine.
Feng Jun had more or less accepted a fact—this world probably had no Spirit Stone Mines.
The good news, however, was that he discovered another gold mine. Its grade was slightly lower, at roughly thirty percent, but the deposit was enormous, nearly ten thousand cubic kilometers in volume.
Feng Jun did not mine it. He merely marked a Footprint so he could find it again later.
Another month passed, and they encountered the Insect Race with increasing frequency. Once, they even ran into an insect swarm in space.
There were hundreds of millions of insects, including Nascent Soul Stage, Golden Core Stage, and Emergence from Dust Stage specimens. However, the Qi Refining Stage insects were the most numerous.
Many massive insects even had layers upon layers of bugs clinging to them, creatures that had not yet entered the Qi Refining Stage. The overwhelming, densely packed sight would absolutely drive anyone with trypophobia insane.
An entire stretch of starry sky was obscured. Even an expert as formidable as Elder Qing Huang could not help suggesting that they avoid it.
Avoiding them was necessary. Heavenly Zither cultivators were arrogant, but that was because they were powerful enough to act without restraint in various worlds. Faced with