Half an hour later, the battle ended. Naturally, the Yuanming Sect and the other factions emerged with a sweeping victory. A heap of Voidbringer Beast corpses littered the ground, which was pocked with craters and split by fissures. One could imagine how savage the battle had been—it far surpassed all expectations.
Even the warships had been shaken full of cracks, with damaged sections appearing all over them.
Some elders had even fallen in the Voidbringer Beasts' desperate death throes, leaving them with grievous losses.
Yet despite enduring such a brutal battle, they were beside themselves with excitement. Now that they had finally wiped out these Voidbringer Beasts, they could monopolize the spatial stone vein here.
"Quick, get over there and strip mine the spatial stones immediately."
"Don't let the other factions beat us to it. First come, first served."
"This feels amazing. It's practically picking up money."
"After working so hard for so long, we've finally got our reward."
The elders of the Yuanming Sect and the other factions were ecstatic. One after another, they left their warships and flew toward the mine vein, entering the caves with their fists itching to get to work. They were ready to start digging up spatial stones and make a fortune.
But when they charged into the caves and tried to excavate the spatial stones, every one of them was dumbfounded. The entire vein was empty. Nothing had been left behind.
"Where are the spatial stones? Where the hell are the spatial stones? Isn't this a spatial stone mine? Why is there nothing here? Where the fuck did it all go? Did dogs eat it?!"
An elder of the Yuanming Sect nearly went mad, searching everywhere for traces of spatial stones, but he found nothing—only empty underground tunnels.
"Dear heavens, there really isn't