"Heavily guarded?"
Li Xian focused his mind, as though seeing through space, his attention falling directly on the enormous mine.
Through the mysteries of the "true self" and the Primordial Art's hazy perception of karma, he could judge that there were far more than eight auras in the mine that seemed to belong to marshals.
There were twelve.
Perhaps thirteen.
But those individuals were deep inside the mine and had no direct karmic entanglements with him, so he could not calculate their number precisely.
The Undying Clan stationing so many powerful experts at the mine amply proved that Ziyuan's information was indeed accurate.
This really was a Crimson Flame Crystal Ore deposit.
Considering that a single cubic unit of this ore was worth over a million, and around ten thousand cubic units could be refined into one cubic unit of immortal crystal...
He turned his gaze to Ziyuan and transmitted through divine sense, "Have you been deep inside the mine? How long would it take to extract all the Crimson Flame Crystal Ore?"
Hearing that Li Xian still seemed unwilling to give up, Ziyuan paused slightly, but still replied through divine sense, "I explored an area of roughly a thousand li. The crimson flame crystal reserves within that area amount to around a million cubic units. Following the earth veins and having Yunrang carry out destructive mining without regard for the cost, it would take about an hour..." A million cubic units, one hour.
Li Xian made a quick calculation. If everything went smoothly...
They could extract ten million cubic units in ten hours.
Of course, that was assuming this mine really contained ten million cubic units of crimson flame crystals.
He looked toward the City of the Sleepless. "Eighty million li. Even a top-tier Immortal Boat would need most