Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal

After leaving Su Shan's Small Courtyard, Song Wen did not return directly to his residence, but instead headed east.

The valley east of Clearpeace Mountain is where the Su Clan patriarch secluded himself in seclusion.

As for inducing Su Shan to cultivate Devil Cultivation Method, it was merely a whim and a momentary impulse on his part. Song Wen didn't care whether it would have any effect or whether it would have any impact on the Su Clan.

Song Wen walked for dozens of miles and finally circled around to the east side of Clearpeace Mountain.

The valley where Su Gan, the patriarch of the Su Clan, resides is just ten miles ahead.

The Sacred Beetle Gu's detection revealed that there were numerous sentries, both overt and covert, within a ten-mile radius ahead, and dozens of the Su Clan cultivators had been detected by the Sacred Beetle Gu.

The valley is not large, covering an area of about ten miles in radius.

The entire valley was shrouded in a massive array.

Trying to sneak into the valley is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

At the same time, Song Wen was somewhat surprised.

Such a large formation, if kept running for an extended period, would consume an enormous amount of resources.

What is the reason that a large formation is needed to protect it at all times?

Is there some great secret hidden in the valley, which they fear being discovered by outsiders?

Or is it that the Su Clan patriarch is truly on his West Mountain, barely clinging to life, and needs a grand formation to stop his vengeful enemies?

Song Wen casually found a secluded Cave to hide in, and had the Sacred Beetle Gu explore the valley to see if it could find a weak point and sneak into the valley.

The valley was too large, and Song Wen couldn't get too close to it. His Divine Sense couldn't cover the entire valley, so he could only order the Sacred Beetle Gu to explore the valley and bring back the results to Song Wen.

The Sacred Beetle Gu flew around the valley once, but gained nothing.

The valley was guarded by the Su Clan cultivators, and no one was seen activating the formation.

As the sun was about to set and Song Wen was about to return to his residence, a large spaceship suddenly appeared from the horizon.

Song Wen immediately recognized it as the Su Clan ship that had been parked outside East Birch Market that day.

The spaceship hovered directly above the center of the valley.

The array barrier that covered the entire valley slowly opened a gap at the top.

On the spaceship, a person flew out on a sword, holding a chain in his hand.

One end of the chain was being held by this person, while the other end remained on the spaceship, with something attached to it, though it was unclear.

The man flew into the valley through the opening in the barrier, pulling the chains out of the spaceship.

Gradually, a Rogue Cultivator bound by chains was dragged out of the spaceship.

As the swordsman flew lower and lower, the chains pulling the spaceship grew longer and longer. One after another, the Rogue Cultivator bound by the chains were dragged out of the spaceship until the end of the chains came into view.

Song Wen discovered that there were over seventy unaffiliated Rogue Cultivator bound. It wasn't hard to guess that these Rogue Cultivators were all practitioners of the Longevity Art.

It seems that the cultivators of the Longevity Art who were kidnapped by the Su Clan were eventually sent to this valley.

But why did the Su Clan capture these people and take them to the valley?

What is the connection between this and the patriarch of the Su Clan, whose lifespan is nearing its end?

For the next two days, Song Wen diligently Alchemy in the Alchemy Chamber. On the third day, he went out again under the pretext of taking a day off.

Early in the morning, Song Wen disguised himself as a young cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refinement and left the Clearpeace Mountain area.

We flew westward for over 500 li.

Several miles ahead of Song Wen, a low mountain appeared. The mountain was bare and had no vegetation on it.

Among these low hills are numerous mine shafts as tall as a person, where ragged ordinary people can be seen coming and going from time to time.

This is the Su Clan's Su Clan profitable and most important industry: Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal, a crucial spiritual ore for refining various Spirit Artifact.

The Crimson Blood Crystal Marrow, which is found alongside the Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal, is a third-tier spiritual material used to refine Law Treasure and is priceless.

Song Wen released the Sacred Beetle Gu to survey the entire mining area, discovering that the defenses were not tight.

Only in the central area of the mining area is there a large courtyard, which is protected by an array.

That makes sense, since Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal cannot be detected by Divine Sense and can only be slowly mined by human effort in hard mines.

The Su Clan is not afraid of anyone sneaking into the mine to steal Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal. Even if a cultivator were to sneak into the mine, they would not be able to find many Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal even after digging for a month. On the contrary, they might be discovered by the patrolling Su Clan cultivators and lose their lives.

The courtyard in the center is likely where the Su Lineage members cultivate, live, and temporarily store Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal, which is why it needs the protection of an array.

The Black Armor Gu also brought back an unexpected discovery.

On the other side of the mining area, atop a high mountain, six people were hiding, also secretly observing the mining area.

All six of them were at the Foundation Establishment Realm, with five at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage and one at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Six Foundation Establishment cultivators were lurking near the Su Clan's spirit mine, clearly with ill intentions.

However, the six people were too far away from Song Wen, and even with the help of the Sacred Beetle Gu, his Divine Sense could not cover that area.

This is the message brought back by Black Armor Gu after receiving Song Wen's order to explore the entire mining area and its surroundings.

However, the Sacred Beetle Gu was not very intelligent and could not understand Human Race language. Therefore, Song Wen was unaware of what the six were plotting.

Song Wen bypassed the mining area and secretly approached the location of the six people.

At this point, the six people had likely completed their reconnaissance and were retreating.

These six people clearly had their eyes on the Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal Mine. Song Wen was unwilling to get no information from them at all, so he followed them.

After following for only a few miles, Song Wen saw out of the corner of his eye a rat the size of a bowl suddenly darting out of the dense forest not far away.

The rat was incredibly fast, like a bolt of lightning; only a blurry afterimage could be seen as it flashed through the dense forest, chasing after the six people ahead.

Song Wen thought to himself, 'This is bad!'

Long ago, his Divine Sense detected the rat lurking in the tree hole, but since there was no spiritual energy fluctuation on the rat, Song Wen regarded it as an ordinary mountain rat.

Unexpectedly, this rat possessed speed comparable to that of Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and was extremely agile, moving freely through the dense jungle.

It's obvious that this rat is a spirit beast kept by a cultivator.

Song Wen knew that he had been exposed.

Now that he had been exposed, he no longer concealed himself and chose to reveal himself to the six people.

In order not to alert the Su Clan cultivators in the spirit mine behind them, the six people in front did not flee at full speed, but instead carefully moved through the dense forest.

The one among them, Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, was dressed like a frail scholar.

The mouse darted swiftly into the scholar's arms.

The scholar's expression changed slightly, he stopped and said in a low voice.

"Oh no, we've been discovered."

The other five people looked over when they heard the sound.

"What's wrong?"

"The Shadowless Mouse has detected someone following us."

The five men's expressions changed instantly; they instinctively assumed the person following them was a member of the Su Clan.

The five instinctively tried to use their movement Movement Method to get away immediately.

"Don't panic, there's only one opponent, and he's only at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage."

These words put the five men at ease.

"Then how should we deal with this?" asked one of the female cultivators, who had an ordinary appearance but a pair of bright, intelligent eyes.

The scholar said, "Let's play it by ear! That person is already here."