Fang Qianyuan watched their behavior without the slightest ripple of emotion.
Qian Shuisheng and Luo Zhengye no longer posed any threat. Even if he released them and let them assist in defending the area under some grand, high-sounding pretext, they would be unable to constrain him.
The reason was simple: those two could never hold this spirit valley on their own!
Fang Qianyuan had deliberately brought so many people to fight his way back to the spirit mine, and it certainly had not been for a sightseeing trip.
Countless demons swarmed the surrounding area. After sensing that the aura of the Demon Realm had vanished, many would hurry back, attempting to find a new world gate.
Others had followed the ore veins into various mine shafts and ore fields, surviving on the spirit qi they released.
These were very real threats. Without an Earth Rank Expert like Fang Qianyuan holding the fort, anyone else would be left floundering.
Spirit mines generally had an established garrison of Spirit Tamers. The Chuanlan Mine, for instance, had over a hundred and fifty Spirit Tamers handpicked by the various parties, along with nearly five hundred elite soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.
This garrison of nearly six or seven hundred could handle petty theft by rogue cultivators, defend against marauding bandits and Greenwood experts, and even wipe out small groups of demons that happened to appear in the Human Realm.
But a demon calamity of this magnitude was beyond their strength.
The Third Elder of the Luo Clan had originally been responsible for guarding this place. In principle, after he was injured, an Earth Rank Expert from the Qian Clan should have taken his place. Yet the Qian Clan had stubbornly dragged its feet, hoping to keep conquering territory around its other holdings and secure its