Chapter 284

Chapter 284: Only Can Seek Assistance

In the starry sky, a black hole star rapidly spun.

On one side of it, a star was being torn apart and devoured by the black hole, forming a huge glowing disk.

In the center of the disk was a pitch-black area, indicating that light could not escape the gravity of the black hole star.

At the center of the disk, jets spewed out above and below the black hole.

In front of these jets, a planet similar to Jupiter stood in the way, creating ripples across its surface.

Li Xiaojun couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment.

At that moment, he finally understood that this high-quality immortal essence stone vein had been created by the beast tribe itself.

This meant that as long as this black hole existed, the high-quality immortal essence stone vein would be endlessly mined.

In fact, Li Xiaojun felt that the reason this black hole could capture such a massive star was perhaps the work of the beast tribe.

With Li Xiaojun’s strength, if he wanted, he could easily push a star closer to the black hole.

In such a scenario, as long as he kept “feeding” the black hole with stars, it would continuously spew jets and continuously generate the high-quality immortal essence stone vein.

……

Soon, Li Xiaojun arrived at the end of the black hole’s jets… outside a Jupiter-like planet.

Releasing his divine sense, Li Xiaojun quickly discovered that, indeed, there were high-quality immortal essence stones on this planet.

Moreover, there was a group of “miners” at least at the Earth Immortal realm mining the stones.

Perhaps due to the nature of the high-quality immortal essence stone vein, all the beings able to mine here were from the beast tribe; there were no human slaves at all.

This was also due to the beast tribe’s wariness of the Human Race.

Li Xiaojun noticed that a powerful figure from the Heavenly Tiger Tribe, at mid Profound Immortal stage, was stationed on this high-quality immortal essence stone vein planet.

“This is the Heavenly Tiger Tribe’s mine?” Li Xiaojun was very surprised.

He didn’t expect that this high-quality immortal essence stone vein belonged to the Heavenly Tiger Tribe.

The map given to him by the Elders’ Council only marked that there was a high-quality immortal essence stone vein here but did not indicate that it was the Heavenly Tiger Tribe’s.

However, he had to admit that he had a bit of a fateful connection with the Heavenly Tiger Tribe.

Stealth Attack!

When a Golden Immortal who had a twenty percent comprehension of the rule of space, aided by the system to hide his divine sense aura, stealthily attacked a mid Profound Immortal beast, it couldn’t go any smoother.

In a single stealth attack, the Beast King of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe didn’t react in time and was directly killed by Li Xiaojun.

After killing the mid Profound Immortal beast guarding the high-quality immortal essence stone vein, Li Xiaojun then entered the mining area.

Before long, all the beasts in the mining area became his meat reserves in the system space.

After eliminating all the Heavenly Tiger Tribe miners, Li Xiaojun began to mine at the fastest speed.

He possessed the system space, allowing him to collect any high-quality immortal essence stones within a hundred miles around him.

With his current cultivation level at the Golden Immortal realm, after collecting the immortal essence stones at his fastest speed, he spent less than a year to gather all the high-quality immortal essence stones from the entire planet into the system space.

During this process, there were scouts sent by the Heavenly Tiger Tribe, but they were all discovered and eliminated by Li Xiaojun.

One year passed, and Li Xiaojun obtained eight billion high-quality immortal essence stones.

Moreover, this was only half of the high-quality immortal essence stone vein.

On the other side of the black hole, there should be another half of the vein.

So soon, Li Xiaojun arrived at the other side of the black hole.

When Li Xiaojun got here, he discovered that although there were high-quality immortal essence stones, both the mining operation and the Heavenly Tiger Tribe guarding it had disappeared without a trace.

In truth, it wasn’t entirely surprising; the Heavenly Tiger Tribe had sent people to investigate, but they had all been killed by Li Xiaojun, including another mid Profound Immortal stage expert.

This meant that this mining area had cost the Heavenly Tiger Tribe two mid Profound Immortal stage experts, and their strongest had been missing for several years.

Therefore, when the Elders’ Council of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe learned of the situation, they decided to temporarily abandon this high-quality immortal essence stone vein.

In a palace of a small world belonging to the Heavenly Tiger Tribe, a large group of powerful beings gathered.

“Everyone, our Heavenly Tiger Tribe is facing the greatest threat in history. Let’s discuss what we should do,” said an elder at the front.

“Elder Airong, the fact that we lost two mid Profound Immortal stage beasts silently means our opponent must be a late Profound Immortal,” he continued.

“Our strongest member has disappeared. The only options now are to wait or seek assistance.”

Upon hearing this, all eyes turned to his face.

“Waiting means hoping our strongest member, Lord Huzheng, returns. However, I believe Lord Huzheng may have encountered misfortune; otherwise, he wouldn’t have disappeared without reason for so long.”

“As for seeking assistance, we would need to request help from Lord Chiyu. However, that comes at a steep price, possibly even half of our high-quality immortal essence stone vein.”

After hearing this, all members of the Elders’ Council fell silent.

Neither option was desirable.

The first option was to wait for their strongest member to return, but given how long he had been missing, it seemed likely something had gone terribly wrong.

If they chose this option, no one knew how long they would have to wait, and if their strongest member was truly gone, it would mean they would effectively be abandoning the high-quality immortal essence stone vein.

The second option was even less acceptable.

Requesting help from the beast tribe’s strongest, Lord Chiyu, meant facing significant losses; their loss would indeed resemble giving away half of their high-quality immortal essence stone vein.

“Is there no other way?” The elder at the highest position scanned all the others.

At this question, everyone hung their heads in silence.

Faced with such a situation, they truly didn’t know how to handle it.

It was certain that their opponent was a late Profound Immortal.

They had also refused negotiation; several groups they sent had been killed, including one mid Profound Immortal stage expert.

Now, the only remaining combat power of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe was a single mid Profound Immortal stage expert.

In this situation, the only remaining mid Profound Immortal stage expert of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe was naturally too afraid to confront that unknown enemy.

“Elder Airong, I still suggest we contact Lord Chiyu for assistance. With our strength, we cannot compete against that unknown enemy; only Lord Chiyu can easily suppress them,” said a mid Profound Immortal stage Heavenly Tiger Tribe expert to the leading elder.

Hearing this, another early stage Profound Immortal of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe added, “I also agree to seek help from Lord Chiyu. Who knows how long it will take us to reclaim the mining area on our own?

Although asking Lord Chiyu for help requires a great cost, at least we can continue to mine high-quality immortal essence stones…”

At these words, everyone in the hall nodded in agreement.

Finally, the mid Profound Immortal stage elder declared, “Since everyone agrees to seek assistance from Lord Chiyu, let’s reach out to him for help…”