Chen Yan stared at the detector in his hand and jabbed the buttons several times with force.
The data on the screen remained a straight green line.
Energy reaction eight hundred meters underground: zero.
He raised his head and looked toward the bottomless rift ahead.
The blinding violet lightning within the rock layers had vanished without a trace. All that remained was a heap of gray-white stone debris.
"This..."
Chen Yan stood there with his mouth open, unable to make a sound for a long while.
Li Zhengyang brushed the stone dust from the back of his hand, his gaze settling on the panel.
[Current account balance: 830 billion Great Xia yuan.]
That string of numbers lay quietly in the balance column.
Eight hundred and thirty billion.
Even the entire Army-Breaker Bureau would have to empty more than half its reserves to produce that much liquid capital at once.
Zhong Shanli landed at the edge of the rift with his Battle Saber slung over his shoulder.
He leaned over and swept his gaze underground, his eyelids twitching wildly.
The underground area, which should have been filled with violent Violet Vein Energy, no longer even retained a trace of the Earth Vein's warmth.
"Did you drain this place dry?"
Zhong Shanli turned and stared at Li Zhengyang, barely keeping his voice down. "This is the main vein of a crystal mine stretching over a dozen kilometers. Can that damned domain of yours swallow all that energy?"
Yun Bing landed right after him.
When her foot stepped onto the gray-white rock shell, the ice did not melt from the Earth Vein's heat as it had before. Instead, it spread freely down through the cracks in the stone.
The underground really was empty.
She looked at Li Zhengyang's profile, tightening her