After conquering the Empress, I proved my Dao with the Heaven and Earth Spirit Furnace!

His purpose in coming down there was to see if there were any other exits.

Another reason is to take this opportunity to search for the treasure that Brahma Gate mentioned.

Given Shangguan Jing's confidence in victory at the time, there was absolutely no need for him to lie.

Beneath this mine lies a treasure!

Before long, Qin Chuan released his divine sense and sensed a passage with a significantly denser concentration of profound energy among the dozen or so tunnels.

Clearly, there are good things in this passage.

"wrong!"

Just as he was about to walk into this passage, Qin Chuan frowned and suddenly looked at another passage.

There, he sensed a presence.

That's... the aura of the primordial wilderness!

Without hesitation, Qin Chuan walked into the passage.

There was no one else in the passage, but one could faintly hear the sounds of digging stones from other places.

After walking to the end in one breath, several more passages appeared ahead.

The underground mine is a network of interconnected tunnels, with many passages leading to each other.

Sensing the direction of that primordial aura, Qin Chuan continued walking towards a passage.

After an incense stick had burned, he paused.

At the edge of this mine, there is a pile of stones that is two or three people high.

Qin Chuan narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing within them.

Beneath this pile of stones, he sensed a trace of the primordial wilderness.

It wasn't emanating from those stones, but rather from some ancient, primordial era.

There really is something down there!

Qin Chuan felt a tremor in his heart and tried his best to remain calm.

"Heaven-Shattering Palm!"

Ignoring the possibility of making any noise, he suddenly unleashed a palm strike.

boom!

An explosion rang out, sending boulders flying and revealing a crater buried below.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan took a deep breath and jumped into the pit.

The pit wasn't high, only about two or three zhang (approximately 6.6-7.6 meters) deep.

Before long, he landed smoothly on the ground.

In the mine below, there are piles of ore.

However, many of them are only mined halfway and then discarded.

It was as if something had happened before, causing the people here to flee in panic.

Looking ahead, one sees many luminous minerals embedded in the stone walls of the pit.

Illuminated by these ores, the distant pits appeared brightly lit.

After bypassing the messy ore, Qin Chuan headed towards a passage ahead.

As soon as he stepped into the passage, his hair stood on end.

Qin Chuan looked wary and looked up ahead.

But there was nothing there at all.

"Strange, there's nothing here, but I instinctively feel a bit uncomfortable."

Qin Chuan frowned.

Although there was nothing there, he did not let his guard down and kept looking around as he moved forward.

There are far fewer glowing minerals in the passage than outside, so the passage is extremely dark at this time.

Fortunately, he soon saw the light at the exit.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan immediately quickened his pace and rushed towards the exit of the passage.

"call!"

The moment I stepped out of the passage, the scene before me suddenly opened up.

An enormous mine pit appeared before us.

Dozens of pieces of ore, emitting a white glow, hung above the mine, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

On one side of the mine's rock wall, dozens of tunnels can be seen that have been dug out.

It's clear that all these passages lead here, but they're all blocked.

"This should be the very bottom that the Brahma Gate people dug up in the mine..."

Seeing this, Qin Chuan raised an eyebrow and muttered to himself.

This pit is extremely large; this one mine alone is equivalent to the five mines previously owned by the Qin family in Guiyun City.

It looks quite impressive.

"Kid, look down into that pit."

Just then, the Wang family patriarch suddenly spoke.

Hearing this, Qin Chuan was stunned and looked down into the depths of the pit.

"This is!"

Qin Chuan stood there, completely stunned.

Below, at the bottom of the pit, were countless white skeletons!

Some of the skeletons are in the position of trying to climb up the rock wall next to them.

Some skeletons lay at the bottom of the pit, their heads raised in despair.

It's clear that this place was once a living hell.

"How...how could so many miners have all died here?"

Qin Chuan frowned slightly and unconsciously swallowed.

Suddenly, he remembered the news he had heard earlier: more than a thousand miners had died in the mine.

The skeletons before us are probably those of the miners.

But after a quick glance, he discovered that there were at least tens of thousands of skeletons, not just a little over a thousand.

This is a blood-soaked land that has buried tens of thousands of miners!

"So many people have died, and this place is so eerie, what on earth happened?"

Qin Chuan exhaled a breath of stale air and frowned heavily.

But since we're already here, there's no need to give up so easily.

Moreover, there are Xuanhuang Realm experts guarding the outside, so there's not much point in going out now.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan took a deep breath, chose to bypass the pit, and headed towards the passage behind.

He sensed the aura of the Great Wilderness within this passage.

Without hesitation, Qin Chuan strode inside.

As he ventured deeper, he also saw many partially mined ore deposits and piles of scattered bones.

As Qin Chuan continued forward through the passage, although the number of skeletons did not increase, he could still discern from their struggles how desperate they were before they died.

"It's truly heartbreaking..."

Qin Chuan shook his head, his mood becoming somewhat serious.

Even though these people had become skeletons, seeing their appearance before death still made his nerves tense up.

At this moment, Qin Chuan couldn't help but wonder if there were any treasures hidden deep within this mine...

With this question in mind, Qin Chuan continued forward.

After about half an hour, he finally arrived at the end of the mine.

Here, a large pile of bones lay scattered haphazardly.

From the residual Xuan energy fluctuations above, Qin Chuan knew that these skeletons were not from the same group of people in the mine.

These are all cultivators!

Behind these skeletons was a rock wall, blocking the way.

"Qin Chuan, wait a minute!"

Qin Chuan frowned, and was about to use the Xuan Chi sword to cut it open when the voice of Empress Yao Xi echoed in his mind.

"What's wrong, Senior Yaoxi?" Qin Chuan asked.

"The primordial aura behind this rock wall is too great for your current level to resist. You must use the aura of the Heaven and Earth Spirit Furnace to envelop yourself," Empress Yaoxi reminded her.

"Okay!" Qin Chuan nodded.

As a half-owner of the Heaven and Earth Spirit Furnace, he naturally knew what to do.

Immediately, he manipulated the primordial energy of the Heaven and Earth Spirit Furnace within his body to completely envelop himself.

After doing all this, Qin Chuan gripped the Xuanchi sword tightly and cut through all the rocks along the way.

As a mid-grade medicinal treasure, the Xuan Chi Sword naturally dealt with these rocks effortlessly.

As the rocks were continuously cut open, Qin Chuan advanced rapidly.