Chapter 1217: Chapter 1115: Springtime for Prisoners
No wonder this Prison Chief dares to come over and collect a fee; his abilities are indeed impressive.
"Lead the way." Tang Feng didn’t waste words, casting a Blinding Technique inside the cell and then following the Prison Chief to their designated cell.
After confirming the guards hadn’t noticed, the Prison Chief pushed open the stone door and entered, revealing a passage about twice the height of a man, leading straight ahead.
Elemental Crystals were embedded in the walls of the passage, making the entire corridor resemble a place of Divine Storage, so beautiful it was intoxicating.
Tang Feng’s mind stirred, and additional lamps appeared along the wall. These lamps he crafted absorbed the Divine Element and remained lit as long as it was present, never extinguishing.
"You blockheads, it’s a good thing no strong person came over, otherwise, did you think such a path could have been preserved?" Tang Feng scolded everyone around.
"Yes, sir, your teaching is right. We should be more careful." The Prison Chief felt a chill in his heart after listening; he realized he’d been somewhat too complacent lately.
Fortunately, Tang Feng woke him up.
No, this guy is my enemy now; I shouldn’t thank him. Damn it, my Elemental Crystal Mine, if only I hadn’t gone there.
But it’s too late to say anything now.
About a hundred meters later, the dazzling Elemental Crystals blinded their eyes.
Tang Feng’s Divine Sense swept out, revealing a joyful expression. Finding a lot of Elemental Crystals was one thing, but discovering a Crystal Vein a hundred thousand meters deep and a hundred feet long was rarer than a Divine Vein.
To be honest, at that depth even experts above the Deep Space Realm could only sigh, but for Tang Feng, it was quite simple.
After initially acquiring the Earth Dragon Beast’s Divine Skills, he naturally mastered the technique of penetrating the earth.
So for him, getting below is not difficult at all.
However, before taking it, Tang Feng still wanted to harvest some Elemental Crystals.
And the people in front of him were the best workers.
Tang Feng’s mind stirred, and the space in the Elemental Crystal Mining Area expanded by twice its size, now three hundred square meters wide. Shortly after, Tang Feng built a row of houses and planted Divine Trees and flowers, instantly transforming the place into a blessed land.
Witnessing such means, the crowd of mining prisoners were utterly shocked. The houses were not strange, but those Divine Trees, which grew and bore fruit within tens of breaths after being planted, their fragrance making everyone salivate immensely.
"Want to eat Divine Fruit? Actually, it’s quite simple. Gather a thousand Elemental Crystals each per day, and you can pick one Divine Fruit; gather two thousand, and the number doubles. When you’ve gathered a million Elemental Crystals, you can move into the house next door. Gather ten million, and I’ll give you your freedom."
As soon as Tang Feng finished speaking, dozens of mining prisoners, including those who entered with him, rushed beside Elemental Crystals and started mining with their weapons.
Tang Feng took out twenty Divine Puppets and added them among them.
Outside, in the prison, not a person was missing; they were all just Puppets.
Nobody cared about their fate once locked inside, unless there was a need, they would extract prisoners.
In summary, Tang Feng was unconcerned about matters outside. In the following time, he moved prisoners from relatively hidden cells into the Crystal Mine.
Having them work, Tang Feng utilized the Elemental Crystals to cultivate.
Aiming to break through to the Deep Space Realm Peak before leaving.
Then find two medicinal herbs, refine the Breakthrough Pill for that realm, break through to the Vast Universe Realm, and stroll other Star Domains.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, during which the Elemental Crystal Mining Area expanded tens of thousands of times, reaching thousands of miles long, and Elemental Crystals began to diminish.
In these years, with the assistance of the Elemental Crystal Mine, Tang Feng successfully broke through the Deep Space Realm Peak. He absorbed tens of billions of Elemental Crystals, an amount that left Tang Feng speechless; apart from advancing cultivation, he didn’t have many Elemental Crystals left.
Still holding onto a few million, Tang Feng decided to explore underground.
He didn’t expect that it would take him two days to reach depths near ten thousand meters; if not for his cultivation breakthrough, Tang Feng would have suspected he might be crushed by the earth’s pressure.
Knowing he had an affinity that other beings with the earth found difficult to possess.
If it had been those at the Vast Universe Realm, they likely couldn’t withstand the pressure from the earth’s core.
The Crystal Vein lay like a dragon, quietly within the earth’s core.
Tang Feng didn’t hesitate anymore, merging bit by bit, crossing over in exploratory attempts.
This method, although time-consuming, didn’t provoke struggles, similar to the gradual process of heating frogs in warm water.
Tang Feng didn’t foresee that recovering the Crystal Vein would waste two years.
Once he planted the Crystal Vein on the mountain where the Tree of Life was located in space and then led the Life Source to it.
Boom!
As the two merged, the Crystal Vein began to emit colorful threads, infiltrating the region and initiating changes to the main mountain.
Returning to the Mining Area, Tang Feng discovered this place had been found. Now, thousands of guards gathered in the mining area, and all prisoners were concentrated together, including dozens of Divine Puppets.
All were in the Chaos Realm; naturally, this was utterly insufficient, but Tang Feng didn’t care, nor did he expect them to do anything for him.
"Kid, surrender."
"Release them, and I’ll go with you." Tang Feng said.
"Release them? Impossible! Not reporting what you know, stealing Elemental Crystals, of course, deserves death. Kid, you can’t even protect yourself and you still think of helping them —such stupidity! Is your life more important, or theirs?"
Kill them, leave none alive.
"If you dare harm them, you’ll all die." Tang Feng declared.
"Even at the brink of death, you dare boast shamelessly, standing there in a daze? Kill him. Let me see how capable he really is."
And so they truly acted up, with full force.
However, the next moment, they found themselves unable to act, and a bizarre scene unfolded; one by one, the guards exploded, and soon all were dead.
"You, who are you exactly?" This guy finally feared.
"Who I am is not something you can inquire about. Come on, take me to see your master." Tang Feng ordered them to disperse themselves, then followed the remaining people from Spring out of the stone prison.
At this moment, they were obedient like babies, not daring to utter a sound, making Tang Feng find it a bit amusing.
Outside the stone prison, a beast car parked, with several young men stepping down.
They looked at Tang Feng, all with contempt, "Is this the kid causing trouble?"
"Sir, it’s indeed him causing the trouble."
"Kid, hand over the Elemental Crystals, you’re truly bold, daring to steal right under our noses, you’re really seeking death," said one of them.
"What are you to talk? What qualifications do you have?" Tang Feng chuckled.
"Hit him, I want to see how long you can endure."
"A bunch of idiots, if not for the Elemental Crystals, I wouldn’t have bothered with jail." With one move, he drew the four over, then made them kneel on the ground, one by one.
"Anything else you want to say?"
At this time, the four were already terrified; supported by their family’s power, they had run rampant, never suffering such loss, and were genuinely frightened now.
"Spare us, big brother, spare us."