Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

There was a little light coming from the front. It was a spiritual stone as big as a watermelon embedded in the soil and rocks, shining brightly.

An old monk who looked to be in his fifties was sitting there slumped, bleeding from all seven orifices, and died in a very tragic way.

"The problem should come from here." Gu Chi and the big black dog walked closer carefully and found that there was a claw inside the watermelon-sized spirit stone!

It looks a bit like a bird's claw, but has green hair and is about an inch long.

"Ghost Claw!"

"Monster!"

Everyone around screamed.

Gu Chi secretly extended his spiritual sense, looked carefully, and soon made a new discovery.

There was actually a skeleton in the stone layer at the back, which was connected to the claw aura in this spiritual stone.

Gu Chi was surprised. The two should have been one body, but only the claw was preserved, and the other parts had turned into fossils.

"Judging from the fossil bones, this should be a humanoid creature, and it also has a pair of membranous wings similar to those of a bat." Gu Chi secretly told his inference to the big black dog using his spiritual sense.

In addition, she also roughly knew what the gray mist just now was.

During the excavation process, a corner of the watermelon-sized spirit stone was damaged, allowing the rotten smell of the claw inside to be released, which was the gray mist just now.

As for why there was no smell of decay, Gu Chi guessed that it might be because it had been too long, so that there was only gas and no smell.

At this time, the monks above also flew in. After confirming that there was no danger below, they were no longer afraid.

"Is this... a claw?!"

Several middle-aged monks screamed on the spot.

"A few years ago, a severed arm was unearthed in the Sixteenth Mining Area, also sealed in a spirit stone. Now, another claw sealed in a spirit stone has been unearthed in the Sixteenth Mining Area. This..."

"The Grand Elder once said that if we discover something similar again, we must report it immediately. These things are of great research value."

These monks carefully dug out the spirit stone together with the stone wall behind it and moved them to the ground outside the mine.

Soon, the elders of several mining areas around Xuanyuan Immortal Palace were also alarmed. They came to the scene, carefully observed the claw, and repeatedly checked the human fossil in the stone wall.

"It's incredible!" an elder exclaimed.

"Elder, what kind of creature is this?" a young disciple beside him asked in a low voice.

The elder said nothing, but waved his sleeves and put the watermelon-sized spirit stone and the stone wall into his sleeves.

"You continue to dig here. If you make any new discoveries, report them to me immediately. This matter is of great importance. I will reward you with great merits afterwards." He looked serious, and in the blink of an eye, he and dozens of other elders disappeared from the spot.

This was just a minor episode. The next few days were relatively calm and nothing unexpected happened. Just when people thought the storm was over, screams were heard again from a mine.

"What's wrong? What happened?" The cultivator from Xuanyuan Immortal Palace shouted from the ground.

"Bones! We've found a lot of bones!" A terrified cry came from the mine below, and a group of people scrambled to climb out.

After hearing the news, the other people in the mine all climbed out of the mine immediately and ran away as if their butts were on fire.

They were all mortals without any cultivation. Faced with such evil things that were beyond their cognition, they would choose to save their lives at the first sign of trouble. The 16th mining area was suddenly in chaos.

Gu Chi finally understood why so few people could successfully complete the twenty-year construction period here. With the demons and evil spirits causing trouble every other day, even cultivators could not withstand the torment, let alone mortals whose lives were thinner than paper?

"Something's wrong. Normally, there aren't many evil spirits throughout the year. Why are they happening so frequently these past few days?"

Several people who had been working in the 16th mining area for more than ten years gathered together, and they all had a bad feeling in their hearts.

"I think the last time we dug up the ghost claw, it wasn't the end, but the beginning! Our 16th Mining Area is most likely a strange mine. A disaster is about to happen!"

"I heard that things have been very turbulent at the Sacred Mountain this year. I'm afraid this is a sign of a great disaster to come!"

"I have this feeling too. Damn it! I've already been working here for nineteen years, and my twenty-year term is almost over. God, please don't do anything weird to me right now!"

"Brothers, please be careful when you work recently."

Not far away, listening to these people's discussions, Gu Chi already had the urge to run away.

She had originally thought that she could embezzle some spirit stones while mining the spirit ore, but at the end of the day, their 16th mining area could only mine a few dozen kilograms of spirit stones at most, which was pitifully little. Even if she wanted to be greedy, she couldn't take much.

It would be totally not worth it to lose your life for such a few spirit stones.

"No need to run, they're just dry bones, there's no danger, come back quickly!"

The monks of Xuanyuan Immortal Palace ordered everyone to return and concentrate all their manpower to continue digging the deep spiritual mine.

In order to calm everyone's emotions, this time they went into the mine themselves and gave orders on the spot.

However, when they arrived at the scene and witnessed the scene inside the mine with their own eyes, they were so frightened that their eyes widened and they gasped.

There are endless corpses, so densely packed that it is difficult to count how many there are.

If you break any stone, a lot of bones will fall down.

"Shit... Is this a spirit stone vein? Wouldn't it be more accurate to call it a burial pit?" Gu Chi muttered softly, walking at the back with the big black dog so they could run away at any time.

Just then, someone screamed.

"Blood! Why are you digging out blood?!"

In an instant, screams rang out one after another, and hundreds of people who were walking in the front to dig the mine died on the spot.

"Oh shit!"

"A strange mine! This is a strange mine!!!"

Cries of panic and screams echoed one after another in the dim mine.

Everyone was desperately trying to escape to the exit. Dead bones were piled up on the road. People were tripped from time to time, and before they could get up, they were trampled to death by others.

At the deepest part of the mine, there was a blood mist floating there. Anyone who was contaminated by it screamed and instantly turned into a pool of pus and blood.

The cultivators of Xuanyuan Immortal Palace took action one after another, either using magic weapons or performing magical spells, trying to stop the spread of the blood mist.

However, neither the spiritual weapons nor the magical arts could stop the spread of the blood mist. The latter was terribly corrosive and melted more than a dozen spiritual weapons in an instant. Even the magical arts they cast were instantly wiped out when they came into contact with the blood mist and could not play any blocking role.