"Your Majesty, look. Although high-grade spirit gold ore is everywhere on this planet, actually mining it is fraught with difficulties!"
Xiao Zier pointed at Liu Fufeng and the others mining ore nearby and said helplessly:
Liu Changxu looked in the direction she indicated and saw Liu Fufeng and the others unleashing divine abilities and spell arts, bombarding a small mountain composed entirely of eighth-tier crimson sun immortal gold with all their might. They were trying to blast the mountain into fragments so they could carry it away.
Yet, to everyone's astonishment, the terrifying bombardment from Liu Fufeng and the other Integrated Body Experts, powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth, could do nothing to the mountain.
Liu Fufeng and the others exhausted every trick at their disposal, but in the end, they only blasted a few fist-sized chunks of crimson sun immortal gold off the mountain.
Liu Changxu swept his divine sense across the entire planet and found that the others' mining efforts were no different from those of Liu Fufeng and his companions. Even Body Integration Cultivators exerting their full strength could extract only a few fist-sized pieces of ore.
If even Body Integration Realm experts could do no better, cultivators below that realm were even more helpless.
Aside from a lucky few who managed to pick up a small piece of high-grade spirit gold from the ground, the vast majority of the Expeditionary Army's soldiers involved in the mining came away empty-handed.
Everyone present felt as though they stood amid a mountain of gold yet had no way to lay hands on it.
This immediately made Liu Changxu realize that an Innate Spirit Treasure similar to the Ten Thousand Poisons Pearl might well exist at the planet's core, preventing everyone from mining its spirit gold ore.
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