Chapter 108: Making Money in Silence
After handing the innate spiritual entity, whose original form was no longer discernible, to Shui Miao, Chen Xiao left the Main God’s Space. He had no intention of interfering with this innate spiritual vein anymore—he didn’t have the strength to do so at the moment. Emerging from underground, Chen Xiao once again activated a combined spiritual spell to cover the ground, burying the massive pit.
Chen Xiao realized that the blood-red monstrous spirit that appeared in the spiritual vein must have long noticed the existence of the innate spiritual entity but had never had the chance to act. It was Chen Xiao’s previous combined spiritual spell, which shook the land and forced the innate spiritual entity out of the vein, that gave the blood-red monstrous spirit its opportunity.
By claiming this medium-sized mineral vein and obtaining the innate spiritual entity—now the soul of Xuanwu—Chen Xiao had no plans to return. He continued to explore the Thousand Souls Domain. He wasn’t in a hurry to revive Xuanwu; there was no rush. After all, its growth cycle was extremely long. Even if it hatched now, it would take a long time to grow up, so it was of little use for now. The best approach was to focus on improving his own strength.
If Chen Xiao’s soul were fully merged with the Main God’s essence, he could immediately wield all the power of the Main God and hatch Xuanwu right away. But currently, he could only borrow a portion of that power—one ten-millionth of its strength.
As he wandered through the Thousand Souls Domain, Chen Xiao continued to dig up various crystal mineral veins. As for those blind-minded monstrous beasts, he didn’t hesitate to eliminate them outright.
Among the nine types of water powers he now possessed, the Death Water, which absorbed the essence of countless monstrous spirits, was the strongest. As for the other types of water powers, Chen Xiao hadn’t found any shortcuts to enhance them yet. He could only improve them gradually through the “Yu” technique.
On the periphery of the Thousand Souls Domain, Chen Xiao discovered two medium-sized mineral veins and four small ones. As for the large mineral veins, they were all located in the center of the domain, and he didn’t dare touch them. The energy surrounding those large mineral veins was extremely dense, occupied by powerful monstrous beasts. If Chen Xiao rashly tried to take control of their lairs, who knew what might happen?
Although Chen Xiao carried the aura of a Ye Dragon, he wasn’t a true one and lacked the strength to intimidate those monstrous beasts. There were also many eighth-tier supermonsters in the Thousand Souls Domain, ones that people like Suo Hen couldn’t even confront at this stage. If he angered those eighth-tier monsters, he would have no choice but to flee, and they certainly wouldn’t give him a chance to claim their mineral veins.
After wandering around the Thousand Souls Domain for a while more and finding no other mineral veins, Chen Xiao swept through the various spiritual herbs there once again before leaving satisfied.
Now, in this world of supernatural abilities, Chen Xiao could be considered extremely wealthy. Even Lin Tianchi’s family likely didn’t possess as much wealth as him. After all, he carried the wealth accumulated over a lifetime by three superpowered warriors.
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The entire world was in an uproar.
In the secular world, the joint fleets of the United States, Japan, and South Korea conducted military exercises off the Yellow Sea coast of China and encountered a terrifying storm that occurs once in ten thousand years. Five hundred warships, various advanced fighter jets, including five newly developed aircraft carriers by the United States, all sank to the bottom of the sea. South Korea and Japan’s naval forces were almost completely destroyed, and the United States’ dominance in the Pacific was also severely shaken. Scientists from various countries began to study the causes of this storm capable of destroying aircraft carriers. Those with supernatural abilities in the world of supernatural powers naturally understood what had happened, but they paid little attention to the losses suffered by secular military forces. To the shock of all supernatural beings, three super-powered individuals from the United States who violated China’s territorial sovereignty were killed on the spot! In the world of supernatural powers, even the death of a sixth-tier powerhouse would cause a huge uproar like an earthquake or tsunami; so what could the death of three super-powered individuals possibly mean? All supernatural beings from various countries were stunned, and even those in China’s supernatural communities found it unbelievable. At the same time, they reevaluated the power of the Soul of China. This message was sent by the Soul of China, which also issued a ultimatum to all countries: China’s territorial sovereignty must not be violated. If any supernatural beings led secular forces to invade again, China’s supernatural forces would resolutely use force to defend their sovereignty. China’s tough stance in the world of supernatural powers surprised and frightened all supernatural beings! After all, the elimination of three super-powered individuals from the United States within China’s territorial waters showed China’s determination. This time, the United States fell silent. Five aircraft carriers and all the advanced equipment on them were lost, and the loss of three super-powered individuals dealt them a severe blow—truly a heavy loss. As for recovering the wreckage of the aircraft carriers, the United States didn’t have the courage yet, as it was all within China’s territorial waters. This had already hurt and scared America’s supernatural community. As for any retaliation from the United States, all of China’s supernatural forces issued a joint ultimatum: if the United States dared to act, they would be ready to destroy them. America’s supernatural forces were not as strong as China’s. And America wisely chose silence, as both sides were constrained by secular matters; retaliating in the secular world was unrealistic. Considering China’s previous actions, everyone understood that something major was likely to happen, but facing China’s increasingly tough stance, they didn’t have the courage to send anyone to investigate. Faced with America’s losses, no supernatural community from any country would claim to share hardships with America and resist China together; instead, many were just eager to watch. After all, this time China was only passively resisting. On China’s territory, there was a huge treasure waiting to be unearthed—a fact that couldn’t be hidden. The leaders of China’s supernatural communities knew this and had no intention of hiding it.
For now, all that can be done is to exert every effort to drive out the foreign supernatural forces, preventing them from acting rashly in China. Meanwhile, the major supernatural powers in China will make secret arrangements to seize the treasure as soon as it is unearthed, so as not to give foreign supernatural beings any opportunity to take advantage. Of course, all this has nothing to do with Chen Xiao. He leaves all these complicated matters to the big players in the supernatural world to handle; after all, he has already reaped enough benefits from this incident. …
“Xiaozi, don’t tell me you’re the one who destroyed that American aircraft carrier?” Hu Zixuan had learned a bit about the supernatural world through Chen Xiao and had some vague suspicions.
“Stop talking nonsense,” Chen Xiao grunted. “I’m just a minor sorcerer right now—how could I have such great powers? I did go to the scene of the chaos, but I almost lost my life getting back.” Of course, Chen Xiao wouldn’t tell Hu Zixuan the truth. If anyone found out that he had taken those three bodies of super-tier supernatural beings, all sorts of dangerous people would come after him, after all, those were enormous treasures. …