Deep Sea Zone

"Forget it. I've had enough fun with some of these, though I do feel..."

Lu Ren did not press the matter after hearing this. After all, these video games, already quite outdated even in China, existed purely for nostalgia and amusement.

After chatting with Huang Gong for a while, Lu Ren learned that the mine tunnels he had dug underground extended in all directions, making many Spirit Crystal deposits much easier to extract. With Clarity Spirit Wine poured down their throats as they dug, there was still profit to be made overall.

After all, Huang Gong had built his business on Lu Ren, and when Clarity Spirit Wine became wildly popular, he had been constantly restocking day and night, making a hefty fortune from bulk sales.

Even the resources needed for the Path to Ascension could be scraped together if they tightened their belts.

Not to mention that renowned alchemy masters had specially refined Clarity Pills, which could protect one for half an hour against the chill beneath the Sunken Sea Zone, preventing one's spiritual consciousness from being clouded and completely dragged into ruin.

Otherwise, saying something as shocking as Lu Ren had would be the least of their problems. More often, they would completely turn into human demons, becoming monsters that knew only slaughter, like the Celestial Immortal-level beasts beneath the Cloud Sea of the Path to Ascension.

The moment Lu Ren heard Huang Gong say that even ordinary Celestial Immortals had joined the mining teams below, he immediately lost all interest in competing for it. He already had enough. No matter how much more he got, it would only amount to a few more pretty Spirit Crystal mountains.

All he needed now was to further nurture that Spirit Crystal star within the Inner World Universe. Given enough time,