Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal
Chapter 530 - 526: Ore Vein

Chapter 530: Chapter 526: Ore Vein

Lei Xuanyu did not yield any error messages.

With the information Gu Jinlai had specifically obtained from his trip to Purple Thunder City, Zhan Tianpeng managed to locate the rough structure of the Thunder Magnetic Gold Vein in less than half a day.

Three days later, he had even surveyed the size and output of this Thunder Magnetic Gold Vein.

This was a vein that, if fully excavated, would yield tens of thousands of Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold.

Upon obtaining this figure, Gu Jinlai couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

"Although the boost from Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold to my strength won’t be as significant as before after the Chaotic Star Light Body reaches perfection, if I really can refine these tens of thousands of Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold, my combat power will definitely increase significantly... Among those in the level of True Immortals and Demon Gods, I would be considered one of the strongest,"

Gu Jinlai said.

"City Lord, although there is a huge Thunder Magnetic Gold Vein here, it’s deeply buried underground. The difficulty of mining is great, and we will need to invest a lot of manpower and resources. Moreover, it will also require plenty of time to extract these Thunder Magnetic Gold ores,"

cautioned Zhan Tianpeng, who had completed the survey.

"Manpower, resources..."

Gu Jinlai pondered, "If we mine at maximum speed, even mobilizing tens of thousands of martial artists, how long would it take to excavate these tens of thousands of Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold?"

"Three years!"

answered Zhan Tianpeng. "Even by mobilizing 30,000 martial artists, it would still take three years. As for more martial artists, it wouldn’t be significant, as the mine’s area may not be able to accommodate so many people."

Speaking, he paused, "If we mine destructively, the time could be reduced to under two years, but in doing so, the amount of Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold we can obtain will likely be considerably reduced."

"Then let’s mine destructively,"

Gu Jinlai said. "I will design some tools to speed up the mining efficiency. See if you can reduce the time to one year."

"One year..."

Zhan Tianpeng replied with a bitter smile, "Actually, one year or three doesn’t make much difference. Once we spend several months on this land, the devils will quickly realize what we are doing. Even if they don’t dare come to take back the lost territory, just by sending various burrowing devils to harass us, they could cause us major trouble and seriously affect our mining progress..."

"I will take care of the devil issue,"

Gu Jinlai said calmly. "For now, return and have Liu Feiyun and the others assist you. Gather some manpower to mine the Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold here."

After speaking, he added, "Bring more people, as we will likely need to accommodate a large number of the Human Clan in Liuhuo City."

Zhan Tianpeng saw that Gu Jinlai was resolute.

Recalling the rumors from the outside world about his strength akin to that of a Great Divine Ability User and the Strongest Void Immortal, he finally conceded, "Yes."

Gu Jinlai gazed into the distance.

He could not possibly return the territory of the Black Fire Demon Emperor.

And to secure this vein, an unavoidable war loomed ahead.

What he needed to concern himself with was the extent of involvement, to avoid attracting the simultaneous attention of the remaining three or five Demon Gods among the devils.

Even though his strength had changed drastically from before, and he felt somewhat confident in battling a Demon God,...

Facing three, or even five at once, was beyond his capabilities.

"There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to race against time, to fully upgrade the Spirit Mechanism Technique and the Creator’s Inheritance as quickly as possible, merging them into a complete ’Three Realms’ cultivation technique, and rapidly elevate it to a level that can significantly enhance my combat effectiveness,"

said Gu Jinlai, thinking about the amount of Qingguang needed to achieve this step...

and felt somewhat overwhelmed.

A golden technique requires four to five hundred streams of Qingguang just to go from entry-level to perfection.

Some even demand five to six hundred.

And for orange techniques...

At least three thousand to start with.

He wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually required four to five thousand, or even five to six thousand streams of Qingguang.

He had acquired four to five hundred streams of Qingguang in Wind and Rain City, but that was because Wind and Rain City was rather chaotic.

This could be deduced from the fact that even the Holy Dynasty had specifically mentioned Wind and Rain City.

If it weren’t for the serious issues with Wind and Rain City, so severe that they could not be concealed, why else would the Holy Dynasty send special envoys there?

Compared to Wind and Rain City, Liuhuo City, Purple Thunder City, and Hai Feng City may harbor darkness too, but they manage it much more discreetly.

Out of the less than four hundred streams of Qingguang Gu Jinlai had accumulated, less than half came from Liuhuo City. The majority were from criminals who had "fled" to the surrounding cities. He collected these while pursuing those criminals and incidentally dealt with their harbors, involving around a dozen cities.

If he really wanted to accumulate enough Qingguang to fully upgrade the "Three Realms," he feared that he would have to rule the entire Holy Dynasty to achieve it.

"While ruling the Holy Dynasty isn’t unfeasible, the time scale required is too long, and during this period, if the devils end the war with the Immortal Country and the departing Demon Gods return, the situation will definitely deteriorate quickly,"

Gu Jinlai understood clearly.

In such a case, he had no choice but to resort to the second method.

Get the Holy Dynasty’s masters to join the battle.

"And to get the Holy Dynasty involved in the war... I must let them see the hope of victory. In other words, this chess piece that is meant to probe the depths of the devils must truly lure out the devil’s trump card,"

said Gu Jinlai.

Although being pushed forward by the Holy Dynasty was somewhat uncomfortable, but...

Considering that what he’s doing now is also for the sake of fighting for humanity.

Plus, the Contribution Value obtained from slaying devils could still be used to exchange for resources...

He soon calmed down.

"Just think of it as being employed by the Holy Dynasty."

With this thought, he continued to delve deeper.

As Gu Jinlai ventured further away from Liuhuo City, or rather, from the living quarters of the Holy Dynasty, the number of devils appearing in his sight grew increasingly numerous.

After traveling more than twenty thousand miles from Liuhuo City, even though the devils had tightened their defenses, there were still plenty of Demon Kings wandering about in front of him.

Gu Jinlai didn’t give any mercy to these Demon Kings.

He directly unleashed a beam of South Fire Divine Light.

The South Fire Divine Light, stimulated from the Eternal Furnace, was like a laser cannon with a diameter of several meters that could even reach over a dozen meters when necessary, instantly piercing the Demon Kings within dozens of miles, reducing them to charred cinders.

Whenever he encountered groups of ordinary devils and Great Demons, Gu Jinlai didn’t indulge them either.

Soaring through the sky, he tossed a small yield nuclear fusion energy over.

The brilliance of the righteous way instantly turned hundreds, even up to a thousand devils, into flying ash.

Conserve energy?

The biggest feature of the Eternal Furnace is that its energy conversion rate is endless.

In terms of endurance, it never let him down.

...

A dazzling white light burst forth.

The fierce high temperatures and shockwave swept through thousands of devils like a battering ram, all the trees on the way crumbling and disintegrating as if they were rotten wood caught in a storm, ground into dust.

To the naked eye, the fierce flames spread at an unimaginable speed in all directions, engulfing an area of over ten miles in an instant, turning it into a sea of fire.

And at the center of the sea of fire, powerful Demon Kings and the weaker Great Demons alike, without any doubt, were all turned to ashes, leaving no bones behind.

"Demon Kings, Great Demons, devils, these once mighty beasts are now so insignificant that they don’t even qualify to be taken seriously by me," Gu Jinlai said as he flew through the sky, his expression reflecting some introspection.

He remembered the first time he encountered a devil back in Changjun City.

If it weren’t for his eldest disciple Su Nanxing being there, and the two of them working together, he would have probably managed to kill that devil in the end, but not without paying a certain price.

And that was just an Upper Demon.

Not even a Great Demon.

But now...

Upper Demons or Great Demons, to him, they were merely insignificant foot soldiers.

Even the Demon Kings, which were powerful enough to block the Tianhe North and South in Qiantian, were just a matter for a nuclear fusion blast.

It’s no exaggeration to say that he has a hundred ways to kill a Demon Demon King, and that devil wouldn’t even know how it died.

"In today’s world, there must still be places like Qiantian, some Holy Lands that still shelter some of the Human Clan, but the number of those humans definitely cannot compare with Qiantian. A power that has an Earthly True Immortal sitting in could shelter ten million people and that would be considered quite good, but with a population of ten million... the potential for war is already very limited," Gu Jinlai thought as he casually swept through the devils.

"The reason Qiantian had more than a billion people back then was partly because Master Wushi was sorting out the Spirit Realm, and the Demon Realm couldn’t open up any major rifts on this side. On the other hand, it was because of the reputation made by people like Emperor Tianji a hundred years ago..."

People like Abyss Lord Lin Yuan, Emperor Master Tai A, and Void to Nothingness, who were of the same era as Emperor Tianji, each had a record of leveling Holy Lands, and even if they weren’t Supreme Void Immortals, they couldn’t have been that far off.

Plus, there’s Master Wushi who held two Divine Weapons...

From this point of view, Emperor Tianji’s combat power was probably close to that of a True Immortal.

That’s precisely why the Qiantian which was able to kill him was feared by surrounding devils.

Moreover, Qiantian was not a focal point of the world; it never attracted a powerful Demon God, allowing Qiantian to continue as a sanctuary to this day.

"With Wushi gone, the rifts in the Demon Realm will get bigger and bigger. Large rifts, super-large rifts will become commonplace, and even the Demon Abyss that allows Spirit Venerables to enter freely will appear... With the strength that Qiantian now has, the arrival of any Demon Spirit would be enough to steamroll Qiantian, and if a Demon Emperor were to appear, it would only force Qiantian to burn both jade and stone together with the Power of Fate..."

Thinking of this, Gu Jinlai couldn’t help feeling eager to return to Qiantian.

After all, that’s where his true stronghold was.

As he pondered, a huge human settlement gradually emerged in his perception.

As he circulated the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique, a faint Human Clan Qi, insignificant and tenacious in the midst of the brilliance of many devils, stood defiantly.

He had arrived at the largest devil herding ground on the outskirts of Liuhuo City.

"Oh, quite a few powerful devils have gathered. It seems they know I’m coming," Gu Jinlai observed and wasn’t the slightest bit surprised.

After all, he had been killing his way here, and it was impossible for the devils to not have received the news beforehand.

Right then, he stopped concealing his aura. The power of the Eternal Furnace continuously and unrestrainedly dissipated from him, erupting, and in the void, it seemed as though a Great Sun phantom appeared, emitting endless light as if to illuminate everything within a hundred miles.