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An immortal ninth-grade Spirit Vein, weathered by the passage of time, had formed a thick shell around itself, preventing the spiritual energy within from leaking out. Such a Spirit Vein was what Heaven-Burning Venerable called a dead vein.

The shells of such Spirit Veins were far too hard. Even Heaven-Burning Venerable's full-powered strike could not leave so much as a mark upon them.

"Then wouldn't something like this... make an invincible defensive treasure?"

Chen Xiao crouched down and gently stroked the hard shell, which resembled stone, murmuring to himself.

"How could it be that simple?" Heaven-Burning Venerable sneered. "Every dead vein here stretches for thousands of miles, and they are all interconnected. They cannot be separated at all. Even a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal might not be able to lift one. Using them as defensive treasures? That is rather wishful thinking."

How could Heaven-Burning Venerable not have entertained such an idea before? But these dead veins weighed tens of millions of times more than mountains of equal volume. He did not even have the ability to budge them.

"Is that so?"

Yet Chen Xiao was somewhat unconvinced.

"If I had a way to take these dead veins away..."

"If the Supreme of the Talisman Dao can take these dead veins away, then consider them a gift from this venerable one to you, free of charge." Heaven-Burning Venerable swept out a hand and declared grandly.

"Lord White Tiger, do you have the ability to take these dead veins away?"

Suddenly, Chen Xiao turned to the little tiger on his shoulder.

"What do you need these things for?" The little tiger blinked and asked curiously.

"Ahem, these dead veins are fine things. If they were refined into treasures, they would surely shake heaven and earth."

Chen Xiao coaxed it patiently.

"Not taking