The second hidden danger ran deeper than the first.
From this, it was clear that Rong Long truly wanted to stir up trouble—and not anything small.
After all, these were insects that specifically gnawed away at spirit veins and ore veins. Gathering them alone took time, let alone breeding them.
"Hmm?"
"There's actually an egg!"
"Could it be that Yang Zhenyue has never been here?!"
The location of the second hidden danger was still within an ore vein.
Compared with the first Spirit Iron Ore vein, the second was the rarer Mystic Iron Ore vein.
This stuff was specifically used to forge spirit artifacts and magical artifacts, and demand for it was enormous.
Beside the Mystic Iron Ore vein, at the location Yang Zhenyue had marked, there truly was something this time—and it was an egg.
It looked quite large, at least about the size of a human head.
It was entirely black, without any patterns whatsoever, appearing utterly plain and unremarkable.
Yet, appearing precisely at the site of the hidden danger, it was certainly not simple.
Xu Changqing swept it with his divine sense and discovered an extremely faint trace of life within. "Such a large egg—just how big would the insect be?"
But on second thought, he felt that something was off.
Perhaps the true hidden danger had already been captured or had left.
Only this egg remained, waiting to hatch and continue gnawing away at the Mystic Iron Ore vein.
With that thought, Xu Changqing decisively stepped forward and lifted the egg with his spiritual power, taking the opportunity to examine it carefully.
If he remembered correctly, there were roughly four kinds of spirit insects that specifically gnawed on Mystic Iron Ore.
They were: Iron-Eating Insect, Ore-Eating Insect, Gold-Swallowing Ant, and Mystic-Iron Earthworm.
The first among them