Chapter 985: Chapter 985: Life Vitality Jade

Everyone was silent for a while after hearing that. They had to face reality. And the harsh and bitter reality was that although every single one of them was at the Soul Sea Realm, they had no choice but to bow their heads since they were in someone else's territory now.

After a few moments of silence, one of the warriors suddenly walked out and asked, “So if I pay a million supreme life vitality crystals, then I'll be exempted from service?”

The armored man replied, “Kind of. It's not that you will be exempted from service. The very purpose of the service is to mine for life vitality crystals! If you can pay up enough life vitality crystals, you can leave at any time!”

To everyone's shock, as soon as the armored man finished his words, the warrior took off the space ring from his finger. He gently tapped it, and hundreds of thousands of life vitality crystals piled up on the ground like a small hill in front of the audience's eyes!

They were glittering like diamond and translucent and pure in texture. The vitality of the heavens and the earth contained within them was extremely rich and powerful. Anyone could tell that these were all supreme life vitality crystals!

Although several of the newcomers had seen a great deal of wealth in their life, when they saw this small mountain of supreme life vitality crystals in front of them, their hearts began to thump wildly.

“Here are a million supreme life vitality crystals. Can I leave now?” the warrior asked.

The armored man nodded in satisfaction, but then shook his head and answered in the negative, “If you want to join the Spiritual Force Sacred Place, one million supreme life vitality crystals are enough to serve the purpose. But if you wish to become an independent martial artist and leave our Spiritual Force Sacred Place or the Spirit Reading World, you will need to hand in two million supreme life vitality crystals!”

The warrior frowned. For a moment he seemed to hesitate, but then, he took out another space ring. With a gentle wave of his hand, another small mountain of supreme life vitality crystals appeared in front of the armored man!

“Dang, this guy… He's super rich!”

“Look! He just took out two million supreme life vitality crystals without even batting an eye. Where is he from?”

“Well. There are some great worlds which are indeed fabulously wealthy. I heard that in the great world neighboring my own, there is a giant mineral vein of life vitality crystals running through the entire place. In fact, people over there are so rich in terms of life vitality crystals that the crystals have lost their value. In that world, they don't serve as a currency anymore!”

With so many supreme life vitality crystals piled up on the ground, the armored man seemed to have run out of things to say. What surprised the audience beyond anything was that the warrior wasn't done. He soon dumped even more life vitality crystals from his space ring in front of the armored man, which formed themselves into two other small hills. He pointed at another martial artist behind him and said, “These are for my brother. He will come with me.”

Seeing the four piles of supreme life vitality crystals, the armored man picked one of them and held it in his hand. Satisfied, he chuckled and said, “Of course, you two can go now! This supreme world is vast, and you can go wherever you want!”

The two warriors nodded, and then left the place under the guidance of the other armored man.

As the rest of them watched the two warriors leave, then besides feeling envy, they could only sigh under their lips. It wasn't that they were all poor. In fact, some of them were even richer than the warrior who had just left. But not many people would have thought of taking so many supreme life vitality crystals with them to the Upper World.

Zen shook his head slightly in regret. When he had been in the four divine kingdoms, he had collected a great number of supreme life vitality crystals. However, he had left a large portion of them in the Cloud Hall. Thinking about it, he remembered that he had only brought about two hundred thousand supreme life vitality crystals with him to the Upper World. They were far from enough.

When he thought about it, he suddenly remembered that he had numerous valuable things with him, such as the Black Star mining pickaxe. This supreme divine weapon was worth quite a bit of money. However, even if someone offered him over hundreds of millions of supreme life vitality crystals to buy it, Zen would never be willing to sell such a valuable thing.

No. He would not sell it in any case. And since he didn't have enough life vitality crystals with him, he would have to mine for them…

The life vitality jade which the armored man had mentioned just now had piqued Zen's interest. The former had said that the jade was much more valuable and he only needed a hundred life vitality jades to earn his freedom. The questions was, could Zen dig out any of these life vitality jades from this dark and steep mountain range in front of him?

Under the lead of the armored men, the warriors arrived at a gathering place. The chances of escape were zero since several Spirit Supreme Realm masters were scattered around to guard the place.

Not far ahead, several martial artists seemed to have just flown in with pickaxes on their backs. After handing over all the life vitality crystals they had dug up, they got the count of crystals handed over recorded and then flew back. They went back and forth like this, digging for life vitality crystal in the mines, trying to be free as soon as possible.

When the newcomers entered the gathering place, they also received their mining picks and tokens according to the rules.

Although everyone was reluctant to go for the mining, they still had hopes that they would leave here soon. They had the same thoughts as Zen. Since only one hundred life vitality jades were needed to get them out of this place, their goal, therefore, was to dig out one hundred life vitality jades as fast as they could.

Coincidentally, over a hundred warriors also returned to the gathering place, just as the newcomers were about to leave. These warriors took out all of the life vitality crystals they had obtained and began handing them over. ṝ𝐀N𝖔𝔟Еș

However, when Zen saw those life vitality crystals they handed in, he frowned. Although there was a massive amount of them in the pile, their quality wasn't too high; there were just some top-grade life vitality crystals and a few supreme life vitality crystals among the lot. There was even a massive amount of mid-grade life vitality crystals. But he saw no life vitality jade in the piles.

Zen walked up and asked, “Friend, may I ask why you only excavated top-grade and mid-grade life vitality crystals? Isn't it too arduous to get these lower grade life vitality crystals? I mean, it would be easier if you got the life vitality jades instead...”

Everyone's goal was to get one hundred life vitality jades, which was equivalent to a million supreme life vitality crystals. In fact, if they exchanged them for top-grade life vitality crystals, the number would be too enormous. After all, a supreme life vitality crystal could be exchanged for about 100 top-grade life vitality crystals. That was to say, they had to gather one hundred million top-grade life vitality crystals to be free. So whatever the warriors had just brought in was worth ashes and sand.

The warriors who had arrived in the Upper World with Zen were also concerned about this issue and they all cast their gazes over to them, full of curiosity and expectations.

To their surprise, the warrior shook his head with a wry smile on his face. “If I don't excavate these things, what else will I mine?” As he spoke, he took a look at Zen and the others and asked, “Are you guys new here?”

Zen and the other warriors behind him nodded in unison, like a programmed machine.

The warrior sighed, and then ventured a guess. “If I am right, you all want to dig out the life vitality jades, right?” He then laughed.

“What's wrong with that? It would be easier, right? Is it impossible?” Zen asked curiously.

“Of course you can try to get them.” the martial artist chuckled. “When I had just arrived, I also wanted to dig up the life vitality jades so I could leave as soon as possible. But if you want to dig up the life vitality jades, you will have to be ready to lose your lives.”

“What do you mean?” Zen asked immediately.

The martial artist turned around and pointed to the distant mountain range in response, “Look. Here's the deal. If you want to dig up the life vitality jades, you will have to go into the depths of the mineral vein that runs in there. The only problem is, there are eleventh and twelfth grade vicious beasts scattered all over the place. Ordinary warriors simply don't dare go down there to dig up the life vitality jades. It's too risky. These powerful warriors at the Soul Sea Realm who are trained by the Spiritual Force Sacred Place don't want to take this risk while trying to dig up the life vitality jades themselves. And they also couldn't count on weak warriors to do the task. So they came up with this system for warriors who have just ascended to the Upper World to do the task. Now we have to take the risk if we are in a hurry. But, no life comes cheap. I would rather dig out ordinary life vitality crystals and waste time here than risk my life to get those life vitality jades!”

Hearing the martial artist's words, the newly arrived warriors finally came to understand the situation.

As it turned out, life vitality jades were not that easy to obtain and they would have to toil in here only.

The warriors of the Soul Sea Realm who had ascended to this place might be insignificant in this supreme world, but they had still acquired some strength.

Mining was originally something that was done by the weaker warriors. In the Lower World too, it was the same case. Most often, nature creatures, or those at the Illuminating Soul Realm did the mining work. The problem was that it was impossible for weak worriers to get in deep enough to dig the life vitality jades and the local warriors of the Soul Sea Realm were unwilling to do it. So they took it for granted that this task should be done by the newcomers who had ascended to this world.

However, the vast majority of newcomers cherished their lives more than fast freedom. How could they be willing to risk losing them?

After all, anyone who had reached the Soul Sea Realm was bound to have a long lifespan. At worst, it would only take them thirty to fifty years. Even worse case scenario would be a hundred years to gather all the life vitality crystals they needed.

The group of warriors who had come here with Zen had also planned to excavate life vitality jades initially. But when they heard how difficult it was to get them, they immediately gave up on the idea and decided to dig for life vitality crystals instead. At least, they would be safe that way.

They then left one after the other to start their work. The earlier they started, the faster they could leave this godforsaken place. No one wanted to stay here forever…

As for the plain-clothed woman, she was holding onto a pickaxe in her hand with a sullen face. The poor girl had expected her uncle to come and pick her up. However, no one had come. She had no choice but to follow the others and take a shot at mining. She looked very depressed indeed.

Zen examined the mountain range from a distance. Once he had put the token and pickaxe in place, he flew towards the mountain range.

Even though the martial artist he had talked to had said that life vitality jades were very difficult to dig out and that the places where they could be found were very dangerous, Zen had no intention of giving up. He had a supreme divine weapon that was specifically used for mining and he was going to use that to earn his freedom.