One month later.
Xiao Sheng and Si Kong Yi felt as though their sky had collapsed again!
They and the several Innate Lifeforms who had arrived stared at one another, wide-eyed. The cultivators dispatched by the Five Elements Immortal Domain had actually gone to capture miners?!
"Brother Xiao, what? There wasn't any great battle at all!"
"A complete crushing victory?!"
"Just what is the Five Elements Immortal Domain..."
"Alas!"
Xiao Sheng angrily threw his mining artifact to the ground, then hurriedly picked it back up. "What I fear now is that a Holding Origin Sect disciple might ascend. If they see their ancestor mining here, this old man... I might as well suffer Death and Dao Dissipation!"
Whenever he imagined that scene, his entire body trembled uncontrollably. It was simply more terrifying than death.
Si Kong Yi cast a deep glance at the ore vein beneath his feet. After mining for some time, some inexplicable aura within him seemed to have awakened. Yet the feeling was quite good, as though his cultivation were advancing.
But there was still one more matter.
It had kept them deeply unsettled.
For a stretch of time each day, the sky would grow dim, followed gradually by deep, colossal chewing sounds, as if something were feeding. The heavens and earth around these ore veins were tranquil to begin with, making those chewing sounds all the more terrifying.
Whenever they looked toward the distant sky, they always felt that a pair of eyes as vast as stars was watching them. It was utterly chilling.
That was right...
The one making them uneasy was White Elephant An Ning. Yet An Ning merely glanced over curiously while eating Heavenly Foundation Stone ore veins. It loved watching others work, but had never expected to frighten them.
Seeing their hopes