These Ruin Guards had been scrapped before they could even stand up.
Li Qiuzhi gained quite a few Experience Points as a result, bringing the total on his panel past three hundred thousand.
"All right, feel free to look around. I'll go plug the ley lines leaking demonic energy, and then we can head back."
He said this to everyone.
"Okay."
Bennett and the others could not help for the moment, so naturally, they had no objections.
Li Qiuzhi walked past several Ruin Guards to the Ley Lines Stabilizing Stone and carefully examined its condition.
The Ley Lines Stabilizing Stone served to suppress and seal abnormalities in the ley lines.
But it had cracked, leaving it unable to suppress the abnormal ley lines, which was why black smoke was rising from it.
As for why it was black smoke...
That was mainly because the ley lines contained all sorts of things. It was hardly strange for demonic energy that drove monsters berserk to emerge from them.
Otherwise, there would have been no need to seal them with a Ley Lines Stabilizing Stone.
However, Li Qiuzhi discovered that this Ley Lines Stabilizing Stone did not seem to have cracked naturally with age.
Nor did it seem to have burst from within because it could no longer contain the demonic energy leaking from the ley lines.
Instead, it looked somewhat like someone had damaged it.
Along the edges of the cracks in the Ley Lines Stabilizing Stone, he could see that the fractures ran inward from the outside.
Clearly, a person, a monster, or something else had cracked it with an external blow, either deliberately or accidentally.
The latter would be easy enough to explain as an accident. But if someone had done it deliberately, then someone was likely planning another harmful