The abandoned gold-mining tunnels inside the floating mountains of the Shattered Star Sea were damp and dark. Aside from gold miners, few people ever ventured into these abandoned tunnels, but for that very reason, they had become ideal hiding places and shelters for certain people in the Shattered Star Sea.
A small amount of metal sand still glittered like fireflies on the walls around the abandoned mining tunnels. This glittering metal sand was the raw ore of Levitation Gold. In a place like Great Xia, tunnels like these would have been mined until not a single grain of ore remained. But in the Sky-Piercing Realm, because Levitation Gold was not rare, these scant "cold scraps from a leftover meal" had already ceased to draw much interest.
Zhang Tie himself was over eighty kilometers away, but his spiritual energy had spread here. Everything within the tunnel was as clear to him as a blazing fire, as though he were personally present; nothing in the tunnel could escape his eyes or ears.
The man waiting in the tunnel had a head of wild, tangled red hair and wore an open green robe. Yet his face was as tender as a baby's, with no eyebrows, while his hands were black as ghostly claws. He sat cross-legged with his eyes shut, cultivating inside a somewhat larger cavern at the end of the tunnel.
Setting everything else aside, merely looking at that eerie appearance, chilling enough to make one's heart go cold, Zhang Tie knew at once that the odds of this man being a good person were exceedingly low. The corpses beside him further proved Zhang Tie's judgment.
Those corpses were female, their bodies **** and filthy, reeking of stench. They had been ravaged beyond recognition. Two of them had huge bloody holes in