Gao Wu: For Every Bit of Effort My Enemy Puts in, I Reap a Thousandfold Reward
Chapter 31: Six-Armed Poison Claws! I won't let you run away this time.
"I was looking for it anyway."
Lin Chuan put on his communicator.
He boarded the armored transport vehicle with Captain Liang Feng.
Six military vehicles drove out of the encampment simultaneously.
The wheels crushed over gravel, heading straight for the Black Stone Residential Area.
Captain Liang Feng opened the real-time map.
Among the three defensive walls, the first one had completely turned red.
The second defensive wall was also flashing continuously.
"The residential area has a permanent population of eight thousand six hundred."
"Currently, only about four thousand have evacuated."
"The Shadow Poison Cat is currently attacking the second line of defense."
Captain Liang Feng looked at Lin Chuan.
"We must hold it for ten minutes."
"Otherwise, once it charges into the residential area, the casualties will be immeasurable."
Lin Chuan stared at the map.
"Which direction are the personnel evacuating to?"
"The eastern underground passage."
"Then have the troops hold the east side."
Lin Chuan raised his hand and pointed toward the western mining area.
"I will lead the cat to the west."
Captain Liang Feng frowned.
"You want to hold it off by yourself?"
"Not hold it off."
Lin Chuan corrected,
"I'm here to kill it."
Several soldiers inside the vehicle looked at Lin Chuansimultaneously.
Wei An couldn't help speaking up.
"That beast has already broken through."
"Detection data shows that its energy intensity has reached the Third-Stage Peak."
"Its true combat power might be close to the Fourth-Stage."
Lin Chuan flexed his right hand.
Translucent poison crystals rapidly covered his five fingers.
"What a coincidence."
"I just broke through a little bit too."
Captain Liang Feng looked at the thirty-centimeter-long crystal claws.
"You call getting an extra set of B-grade derivative talent 'breaking through a little bit'?"
Lin Chuan said earnestly, "I have always been a modest person."
Captain Liang Feng was silent for two seconds.
"When we reach the residential area, do not pursue it without authorization."
"This time it actively entered the human defense zone, so it must have prepared a trump card."
"Understood."
Lin Chuan nodded.
"I promise to finish listening to the command before acting without authorization."
Captain Liang Feng felt something was not quite right.
But the armored vehicle had already rushed out of the mountain path.
Fire blazed into the sky ahead!
Outside the second defensive wall,
over a hundred Border Defense Force Martial Artists were constructing a defense line.
Heavy machine cannons continuously spat flames.
Metal projectiles covered the gaps in the wall.
A black shadow zipped along the ground.
All the bullets fell behind it,
blasting up large patches of gravel!
The Shadow Poison Cat rushed onto the defensive wall.
Both front claws lifted simultaneously.
Dark green crystals covered the claw tips!
Sizzle!
Five claw gleams swept past.
A Third-Stage alloy heavy shield was split into six pieces on the spot!
The Martial Artist behind the shield flew backward.
The battle armor on both arms was completely shattered.
Blood continuously dripped along fingertips.
"There is a gap on the left!"
"Fire suppression! Stop that beast!"
Captain Liang Feng kicked open the car door.
While his body was still in mid-air, his battle saber had already been drawn!
A three-meter-long blade light descended from above the cat demon's head.
The Shadow Poison Cat sneered hideously, swinging its right claw against the blade edge!
Clang!
The dark green claw tips cut into the battle saber.
A harsh frictional sound spread across the defense line.
Captain Liang Feng's arm muscles tensed, exerting force simultaneously.
Yet the blade snapped from the middle!
"What?!"
The remaining claw light swept across his chest.
The Third-Stage battle armor cracked into five slits.
His entire body crashed into the rear bunker!
"Captain!"
Wei An led people rushing down from the armored vehicle.
Over a dozen beast-locking guns aimed at the cat demon simultaneously.
The Shadow Poison Cat stood on the top of the wall.
Its dark green eyes swept across the crowd,
finally landing on Lin Chuan.
It recognized him!
It was this human.
He broke its front paws,
shattered its shoulder bones,
and even forced it to exhaust years of accumulation!
The Shadow Poison Cat's body sank.
The alloy wall beneath its feet collapsed with a roar!
The black figure crossed hundreds of meters of the battlefield,
heading straight for Lin Chuan!
Captain Liang Feng crawled up from the ruins.
"Lin Chuan, retreat behind the fire line!"
Lin Chuan did not retreat.
He looked up at the pouncing cat demon.
"It came for me."
Captain Liang Feng clutched his chest.
"Are you sure?"
Lin Chuan said, "It bypassed fifty kilometers without attacking the military camp."
"Instead, it ran to the residential area to cause casualties."
Lin Chuan raised both hands.
"This beast knew I would come."
Captain Liang Feng looked toward the eastern evacuation passage.
Over three thousand people had yet to evacuate.
Once the two sides engaged in a full-scale battle in the residential area, the aftershocks could collapse large areas of houses.
"Everyone shift firepower!"
"Clear the three-hundred-meter area on the west side!"
"Wei An, you lead the men to hold the evacuation passage!"
The order quickly spread across the defense line.
The Shadow Poison Cat had already arrived in front of Lin Chuan!
Four True Qi arms unfolded instantly,
along with the body's two arms.
Six paths of attack blocked the front simultaneously!
The cat demon let out a howl.
Its two Poison Crystal Claws swung down from the front!
The claw tips collided with the True Qi arms.
Sizzle!
Lin Chuan's left True Qi arm was snapped directly from the wrist!
The dark green crystals smoothly cut into the second arm.
The entire True Qi arm shattered on the spot!
The cat demon swept its long tail horizontally.
Lin Chuan raised his body's two arms to block.
Bang!
The violent force crashed into his chest along his arms.
Lin Chuan slid back over fifty meters along the ground.
His back crashed through an alloy guard booth!
Fragments flew in all directions.
The Shadow Poison Cat landed on the ground.
Without continuing its attack, it looked at the scattered True Qi arms,
and the corners of its mouth split apart to both sides.
Comfortable!!
Last time,
Lin Chuan relied on multiple arms to seal off its movement space.
But now,
its Poison Crystal Claws could directly cut through these arms!
Captain Liang Feng saw the problem.
"The crystal claw tips have completed materialization."
"Your True Qi arms can't stop it!"
"Retreat back first."
Lin Chuan walked out from the ruins,
brushing off the metal fragments on his shoulders.
"Testing this beast's strength... hehe, it's totally no good."
Lin Chuan looked at the cat demon; from taking that blow just now, he already knew the level of this cat demon after its evolution.
Captain Liang Feng opened his mouth.
The Shadow Poison Cat let out a low roar.
Its black fur rapidly absorbed the surrounding light.
A shadow
extended outward from beneath its feet.
Then,
a second one,
and a third!
Four identical shadow clones appeared around Lin Chuan.
Every single shadow had temperature,
had a heartbeat,
and even carried the same toxic aura!
The detector instantly lost judgment.
[Four targets detected!]
[Unable to confirm the main body!]
The four Shadow Poison Cats lowered their bodies simultaneously.
Their sharp claws left large cracks on the ground.
The next second,
four black shadows disappeared at the same time!
"Lin Chuan, watch your back!"
Captain Liang Feng's warning had just sounded.
The air from four directions was torn open simultaneously!
The claw tips locked onto Lin Chuan's head, back of the neck, chest, and legs.
If any direction wasn't blocked,
the Poison Crystal Claws could directly tear open his body!
Lin Chuan was very calm.
The four shattered True Qi pathways lit up again.
True Qi extended outward along his shoulders and spine.
Four arms condensed once more!
A mocking glint flashed in the Shadow Poison Cat's eyes.
The same arms—
no matter how many times they condensed,
the result wouldn't change!
The dark green claw tips descended.
Lin Chuan's six arms lifted simultaneously.
Boom!
Then, translucent poison crystals covered the body's two hands!
The crystals continued to spread outward.
The surface of the four True Qi arms also underwent the same change!
On all six hands, dark green crystal claw tips extended at the same time!
The movements of the four shadows paused for a split second.
The cat demon's pupils dilated abruptly.
That was its bloodline Martial Technique!
This bastard! How could he use it too?
Lin Chuan looked at the cat demon directly in front of him.
"Your innate Martial Technique—"
"Bro learned it just by looking at it once, pretty normal right?"
"Awoo!"
The Shadow Poison Cat went completely crazy.
Four black shadows lunged down simultaneously!
Lin Chuan's mental perception fully unfolded.
The four shadows possessed the same energy aura,
but they couldn't fake the stress changes on the ground!
Rear-right:
seven pieces of gravel sank into the ground simultaneously.
The main body was there!
Lin Chuan rotated his six arms.
His Poison Crystal Claws tore through three phantoms.
The remaining three arms met the rear-right!
Boom!
The two sets of Poison Crystal Claws collided head-on.
Dark green crystal fragments flew in all directions!
The nearby defensive wall was torn with a dozen cracks by the aftershocks.
The Shadow Poison Cat was larger in size,
and its strength had already reached the Third-Stage Peak.
But Lin Chuan possessed six arms!
Two True Qi arms intercepted the cat demon's front paws.
The other two stabbed toward its shoulders!
The cat demon twisted its body in mid-air.
Its long tail smashed one True Qi arm to pieces.
Its right poison claw landed on Lin Chuan's chest along the gap!
Sizzle!
The black training uniform was completely torn open.
Five claw marks extended from his shoulder to his chest.
The poison surged into his bloodstream along the wounds!
Joy appeared in the Shadow Poison Cat's eyes.
It knew the power of its poison very well.
After a Martial Master was scratched,
they would lose their mobility within twenty seconds!
Yet Lin Chuan took a step forward.
The body's right hand directly grabbed the cat demon's wrist.
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture operated on its own!
The poison that had entered the blood was forcibly decomposed by the thirty-six meridians!
"Still waiting for my poison to act up?"
Lin Chuan looked up at the cat demon.
"Idiot! I told you long ago, I play with poison too!"
His five fingers tightened!
The Poison Crystal Claws cut into the cat demon's wrist bones.
Green blood spurted outward!
The Shadow Poison Cat pulled back its front paws,
and its figure melted into the darkness once again.
The four arms behind Lin Chuan swept across simultaneously.
The alloy fences within thirty meters were all severed by the claw light!
The cat demon was forced out of its shadow-escaping state.
As soon as it landed,
six Poison Crystal Claws were already pressing down from different directions!
Claw shadows covered the entire street.
Walls constantly cracked.
Deep intersecting trenches were cut into the road surface!
The Shadow Poison Cat frantically dodged.
Its left front paw was still grabbed simultaneously by two True Qi arms.
Lin Chuan lowered his shoulders.
The Zhongyue Body-Suppressing Stance erupted!
Power surged from his legs through his spine,
and then split into six True Qi pathways!
Boom!
The cat demon's huge body was hoisted into mid-air.
Two Poison Crystal Claws crossed and slashed across its abdomen!
Flesh and skin peeled outward,
and its ribs broke simultaneously!
The remaining four arms closely followed, slamming into the cat demon's back.
Its massive body crashed through two abandoned mining houses,
and finally smashed into the second defensive wall!
The twelve-meter-high alloy wall buckled inward,
and large pieces of steel framing collapsed with a roar!
The Shadow Poison Cat crawled out from the ruins.
Its right front paw was twisted,
its back caved in,
and green blood had soaked its abdomen.
It finally realized
that the Poison Crystal Claws mastered by Lin Chuanwere even stronger than its own!
The cat demon was afraid and stopped continuing its attack.
Its body rapidly turned into a black shadow,
fleeing toward the western mining area!
"Still want to run?"
Lin Chuan propped up the ground with his six arms.
His entire figure leaped over the ruins!
However, the Shadow Poison Cat suddenly changed direction,
drilling its body into an underground drainage ditch.
As long as it entered the underground poison river,
it could shake off the pursuit once again!
Captain Liang Feng knelt on one knee atop the defensive wall.
A beast-locking crossbow had already appeared in his hand!
"Last time I let you run."
"Do you still want to run away from right in front of my eyes this time?"
He pulled the trigger!
Boom!
The Third-Stage beast-locking chain traversed the battlefield.
The front hook pierced through the cat demon's right hind leg!
The chain tightened instantly,
and the other end tightly wrapped around the alloy wall!
The Shadow Poison Cat lost its balance,
crashing heavily at the entrance of the drainage ditch!
Veins bulged on Captain Liang Feng's arms.
"Lin Chuan!"
"I can only lock it for three seconds!"
"Enough!"
Lin Chuan landed on the cat demon's back.
His six arms unfolded simultaneously!
Four True Qi poison claws pierced through the cat demon's shoulders and limbs,
nailing it entirely into the ground!
The body's dual claws crossed and fell.
Avoiding the poison core in the abdomen,
one claw pierced through the chest cavity,
and the other cut off the cervical vertebrae!
Green blood spurted out several meters.
The Shadow Poison Cat struggled twice,
and its dark green pupils completely lost their light.
The battlefield fell quiet.
The residential area's defense System locked onto the target again.
[Third-Stage Late Stage Shadow Poison Cat: Killed!]
[Threat eliminated!]
"Success!"
"That student kid slaughtered that Shadow Cat Demon!"
Nearby soldiers gripped their weapons, still looking at the center of the ruins.
Lin Chuan dismissed his four True Qi arms.
His right-hand Poison Crystal Claws cut open the cat demon's abdomen.
A dark green poison core completely fell into his palm.
The material detector scanned rapidly.
[Poison core integrity: Ninety-eight percent!]
[Quality: Third-Stage Late Stage, B-Grade!]
[Compatibility with Bone-Eroding Poison Physique: Ninety-seven percent!]
Wei An was the first to walk over.
He looked at that poison core,
and then at the claw marks covering the entire street.
"Brother Xiaolin, you saved the entire Black Stone Residential Area."
A soldier in his thirties nearby handed over a hemostatic spray.
"Brother Xiaolin, your chest is still bleeding."
Lin Chuan took the spray.
"You are twice my age."
"Isn't it inappropriate to call me brother?"
That soldier glanced at the dead cat demon.
"On the battlefield, whoever has harder fists is the brother."
Lin Chuan put away the poison core.
Captain Liang Feng walked over dragging the broken saber.
"Don't listen to his nonsense."
"The Border Defense Force has no such tradition."
Lin Chuan looked at the hilt in his hand.
"Can the saber still be reimbursed?"
"Yes."
"That's good."
"Whose does the mission bounty count as?"
Captain Liang Feng's eyelids twitched.
"The cat was killed by you, and the poison core is yours."
"In addition, there are three million in cash and five hundred points of Border Defense Force merits."
Lin Chuan nodded.
"The Border Defense Force's System is not bad; I suggest promoting it nationwide."
"It has been promoted nationwide for decades."
"Then I, representing Lin Chuan myself, express my support."
Captain Liang Feng couldn't be bothered to continue talking.
He raised his hand and modified the combat records.
[Lin Chuan's temporary combat rating: S-Grade!]
[Special access permissions for the Dark Night Cavern: Unlocked!]
[Military cooperative identity: Officially established!]
...
An hour later,
Lin Chuan passed through the cavern passage.
Pei Wubing was already waiting at the exit.
His gaze directly landed on the poison core.
"Hand it over."
Lin Chuan handed the poison core to him.
"Shifu, your tone sounds a lot like a robbery."
"If I were robbing you, would I tell you in advance?"
Pei Wubing took the poison core.
Mental Strength entered the interior of the crystal.
Ninety-eight complete poison meridians—
only two suffered slight damage.
"A cat demon close to the Fourth-Stage."
"You actually managed to avoid the poison core and complete the kill?"
Lin Chuan looked at that poison core.
"People who have been poor fight by—"
"will actively avoid valuable parts."
Lin Chuan's poverty sickness was purely brought over from his past life. In his past life, he was blindly loyal, foolish, and excessively filial; the Lin family didn't give him any money to spend at all, keeping him stingy all the time.
After restarting in this life, many habits were hard to change overnight.
Pei Wubing looked up at him.
"You kid really have some special talent!"
The testing equipment quickly gave the final report.
[Fusion success rate: Ninety-two percent!]
[Talent evolution probability: Eighty-seven percent!]
Pei Wubing threw the poison core back to Lin Chuan.
"Fuse with it."
"Your Blood-Eroding Poison Body can enter B-grade now."
Chapter 32: Fusion of the Poison Core, Bone-Eroding Poison Physique Grade B!
"Don't celebrate too early."
Pei Wubing slapped the inspection report against Lin Chuan's chest.
"Eighty-seven percent is the talent evolution probability, not the probability of you coming out safely."
Lin Chuan lowered his head and glanced at it.
"The Fusion success rate is ninety-two percent, and the evolution probability is eighty-seven percent. Both items are quite high. Shifu, what else are you dissatisfied with?"
"The Poison Core is close to Tier 4, and poison crystals have already formed inside."
Pei Wubing clicked open the inspection image.
Ninety-eight dark green poison veins crossed each other, and a large number of tiny crystals were condensed in the center.
"An ordinary poison core will slowly decompose into energy, but this one might release all the poison crystals at once."
"If the poison crystals block your meridians, not to mention cultivation in the future, even circulating True Qi might stuff yourself to death."
Lin Chuan understood.
Fusion failed.
The Poison Core would be scrapped, and the meridiansmight also suffer permanent damage.
"Then should we still do the Fusion?"
"Of course we do the Fusion."
Pei Wubing answered very straightforwardly.
"The activity of the Poison Core has been declining. After twelve hours, the evolution probability will drop below seventy percent."
"We even brought back something worth more than twenty million, could we just put it in a box and watch it expire?"
Lin Chuan nodded with satisfaction.
"That's true."
...
Underground Level 3 of the Border Defense Force medical area.
A silvery-white Fusion chamber was built behind three layers of explosion-proof glass.
Technician Zhou finished reading Lin Chuan's profile and reconfirmed the Realm.
"Martial Artist Third Layer?"
"Senior Pei, Tier 3 Fusion chambers usually serve poison-attribute Martial Masters. Are you sure you want to let him absorb a Poison Core close to Tier 4?"
"That's right."
Pei Wubing pulled out a chair.
"Let's follow the procedure first."
"If poison crystals really block the meridians, even if I have to use tweezers, I will pull that thing out."
Technician Zhou brought up the electronic document.
"This is the risk acknowledgment form."
"Poison Core loss, Meridian damage, and talent degradation all require personal signature."
Lin Chuan turned to the last page, and his fingers suddenly stopped.
"The Fusion chamber usage fee is 1.2 million per hour?"
"Yes, overtime is charged in half-hour increments, and subsequent cleanup fees are calculated separately."
"Can military merit reimburse it?"
Technician Zhou fell silent.
The first four pages were all about injury risks.
Yet Lin Chuan didn't ask about a single one and instead stared at the price list.
"You just saved more than eight thousand people in the Black Stone Residential Area, and the Seventh Battalionhas already submitted a special application."
"This Fusion and equipment cleanup will be entirely borne by the military."
"Not bad, not bad."
Lin Chuan quickly signed.
"The service of the Border Defense Force is very humane."
Technician Zhou opened the chamber door.
"After entering, start from ten percent. Your feelings can only serve as a reference; everything is subject to the instrument data."
Lin Chuan looked towards Pei Wubing.
"Shifu, should I listen to him or you?"
"Under normal circumstances, listen to the instrument."
"What about abnormal circumstances?"
"Listen to me."
"All right, if I die, it's on you."
Lin Chuan entered the Fusion chamber.
Six fixing rings locked his wrists, ankles, and waist and abdomen.
The Poison Core of the Shadow Poison Cat was placed into the upper energy slot.
[Current Fusion concentration: Ten percent!]
Technician Zhou pressed the start button.
Dark green poisonous mist quickly poured into the chamber body.
The toxin passed through the lungs and entered the meridians along the blood.
The Bone-Eroding Poison Physique operated on its own!
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture followed closely behind.
The toxins that entered the body had just gathered when they were enveloped and decomposed by the poison-attribute True Qi, directly fusing into the Dantian!
[Toxin refinement rate: Ninety-eight percent!]
[Meridian load: Four percent!]
[Toxicity rejection: None!]
Technician Zhou stared at the screen.
"It's already absorbed?"
Pei Wubing picked up his water cup.
"Increase it to thirty percent."
"Thirty percent is already the safety upper limit for ordinary Martial Masters."
"His Meridian load is only four percent. Put your hand on the abort button and keep adding."
The concentration was raised to thirty percent.
The tiny crystals hidden in the poisonous mist began to impact the inner walls of the meridians.
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture completed a cycle of circulation.
All crystals rapidly decomposed!
[Toxin refinement rate: Ninety-seven percent!]
[Meridian load: Nine percent!]
"Disciple, how do you feel?"
Lin Chuan's voice came out from the communicator.
"My mouth is a bit bitter, like eating two catties of bitter gourd raw, nothing else much. How about this, pull it directly to one hundred percent."
Technician Zhou immediately refused.
"If the concentration is raised to one hundred percent, the Poison Core will completely shatter. Ninety-eight poison veins will all enter your body within a few seconds."
"By then it will be too late for you to regret, and it will be too late for me to lower the concentration."
Lin Chuan thought for a moment.
"Then pull it to seventy percent first. If the Meridian load does not exceed thirty-five, then pull it directly to maximum."
Technician Zhou looked towards Pei Wubing.
Pei Wubing stared at the data and finally nodded.
"Do as he says."
"Once the True Qi route lags, abort immediately."
The concentration rose rapidly!
Seventy percent!
Boom!
More than a dozen poison veins inside the Poison Core ruptured simultaneously.
A large amount of crystallized poisonous power slammed into Lin Chuan's body!
[Poison crystal deposition detected!]
[Meridian load: Thirty-one percent!]
[Thirty-four percent!]
Technician Zhou pressed and held the abort button.
"Once it reaches thirty-five, I will stop immediately!"
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture completed its cycle again.
The poison crystals adhering to the inner walls of the meridians rapidly dissolved.
[Meridian load: Twenty-nine percent!]
[Twenty-two percent!]
[Eighteen percent!]
Technician Zhou's hand stopped.
This kid was indeed extraordinary.
Lin Chuan moved his fixed wrists.
"Shifu Zhou, max it out!"
The control lever was pushed directly to the top!
[Current Fusion concentration: One hundred percent!]
The entire Poison Core shattered with a bang!
Ninety-eight strands of crystallized poisonous power rushed into Lin Chuan's meridians simultaneously.
Dark green poison crystals rapidly condensed under his skin.
Arms.
Chest.
Spine!
[Meridian load: Forty-two percent!]
[Fifty-one percent!]
[Sixty-three percent!]
Technician Zhou's expression changed drastically.
"The poison crystals are beginning to cover the bones, abort immediately!"
"Don't stop yet."
Lin Chuan closed his eyes.
"These poison crystals haven't blocked the meridians; they are attached to the meridians like a thin film."
"Give me ten seconds, and I can refine them again."
"Ten seconds later might be too late!"
Technician Zhou turned to look at Pei Wubing.
Pei Wubing's spiritual perception had already passed through the Fusion chamber.
Although the poison crystals were dense, the True Qi route was still intact.
"Give him ten seconds."
"If the load doesn't drop by then, I will open the chamber myself."
The countdown began.
Ten!
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture operated frantically.
The originally flowing poison-attribute True Qi actively crashed into the solid poison crystals!
Nine!
Cracks appeared on the surface of the poison crystals.
Eight!
The first poison crystal completely shattered.
The internal poisonous power did not dissipate, but was forcibly compressed into even richer poison-attribute True Qi!
The second one.
The third one!
The poison crystals adhering to the surface of the bones began to dissolve in pieces.
[Meridian load: Fifty-nine percent!]
[Forty-eight percent!]
[Thirty-one percent!]
Technician Zhou finally released the button.
The core of the Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripturewas originally the word 'Transform'.
Even the poison crystals condensed into solids could likewise be transformed into his own True Qi.
Inside the Fusion chamber.
The remaining bloodline toxicity of the Shadow Poison Catwas completely released.
The Bone-Eroding Poison Physique actively opened its bloodline barrier and swallowed it in one bite!
Boom!
Lin Chuan's heart beat heavily.
On the surface of his right hand, the Poison Crystal Clawspontaneously condensed.
The translucent crystals gradually turned dark green.
Inside the five claw tips, an extra layer of slowly flowing black poison patterns appeared!
Technician Zhou's just-released hand raised again.
"How did his derivative talent activate by itself?"
"It's not out of control."
Pei Wubing saw the direction of the poison patterns clearly.
"This kid upgraded his Bone-Eroding Poison Physique and that wasn't enough; he even ate the Shadow Poison Cat's bloodline Martial Technique together."
Lin Chuan opened his eyes.
"Shifu, this is what they call 'might as well since we're already here'."
"Talk less, continue refining."
Five minutes later.
The last poison crystal completely disappeared.
The poisonous mist in the Fusion chamber was also completely absorbed by Lin Chuan.
[Poison Core energy absorption rate: Ninety-six percent!]
[Bone-Eroding Poison Physique evolution successful!]
[Obtained Grade B talent: Nether Bone-Eroding Physique!]
[Poison-attribute True Qi quality: Tier 3 Middle Stage!]
[Meridian toxin carrying capacity increased: Sixty-eight percent!]
[Poison Crystal Claw duration: Forty-two seconds → Two minutes!]
The Fusion chamber door slowly opened.
As soon as Lin Chuan walked out, Technician Zhou pushed him into the testing room.
"Draw blood first."
"If the toxicity doesn't reach the stability standard, you can't go anywhere today."
Military Doctor Xu put on three layers of protective gloves and drew a small tube of blood.
The moment the needle was pulled out.
A drop of dark green blood fell onto the glove.
Sizzle!
The outer protective material quickly turned black, and a small hole was corroded in three seconds!
Military Doctor Xu immediately took off the gloves.
"A single drop of blood can corrode Tier 2 protective materials?"
"Before you get injured in the future, you'd better remind the medical staff first. Before others even start saving you, they are likely to be sent to the emergency room by your blood first."
Lin Chuan looked somewhat innocent.
"Normal blood drawing shouldn't leak out either."
"This belongs to a technical problem of yours and shouldn't be completely blamed on the patient."
"Then clean up the blood on the experimental bench."
A second drop of blood had already corroded a patch of white smoke on the metal tabletop.
Lin Chuan raised his hand and pressed down on the blood.
The Myriad Poisons Transformation Scripture operated.
The overflowing poisonous power re-entered the body along his palm.
The dark green blood gradually returned to red, and the corrosion of the metal tabletop also stopped accordingly.
[Toxin control stability: Ninety-four percent!]
Military Doctor Xu put on the gloves again.
"Being able to actively retract the toxicity, there is no problem in terms of control."
Technician Zhou pushed over another Tier 3 alloy test board.
"Finally, test the Poison Crystal Claw."
Lin Chuan raised his right hand.
Dark green crystals instantly covered his entire forearm!
Five sharp claws stabbed into the Tier 3 alloy.
Hiss!
The claw tips cut in 1.8 centimeters.
Around the cut, the black poison patterns were still continuously spreading inward!
One minute.
One minute and thirty seconds.
Two minutes!
The Poison Crystal Claw was still intact.
It wasn't until two minutes and seven seconds that the first crack appeared on the claw tips.
[Poisonous power erosion intensity: Tier 3 Middle Stage!]
[Poison Crystal Claw stability time: Two minutes and seven seconds!]
Pei Wubing finished reading the results and finally put down his water cup.
"Solely in terms of poisonous power quality, you are already no worse than a Middle Stage Martial Master."
Lin Chuan dismissed the Poison Crystal Claw.
His phone also vibrated at this moment.
[Seventh Battalion battle achievements audit passed!]
[Bounty and military merits pending collection!]
Lin Chuan immediately picked up his jacket.
"Let's go."
"Return to the camp to collect our salary."
Chapter 33 Military Camp Rewards
Brother Xiaolin is back!"
As Lin Chuan just walked into the Seventh Battalion, someone shouted at the entrance of the medical area.
The soldiers who were training turned their heads one after another.
Someone raised a hand to greet him.
Some people even gathered around directly.
Yesterday, Lin Chuan was still a student who needed two Martial Masters to protect him closely.
Today, he was already the main force who killed the Shadow Poison Cat and saved more than eight thousand people in the Black Stone Residential Area.
Wei An ran over from the training ground.
"I heard your poisonous body evolved successfully?"
"The news spread this fast?"
Lin Chuan raised his right hand.
A layer of dark green crystals covered his five fingers.
Inside the claw blades, black poisonous veins slowly flowed.
"Now it is a B-grade Netherworld Bone-Eroding Body. The poison potency has reached the Middle Stage of Tier 3, which barely counts as a bit of progress."
Wei An stared at the Poison Crystal Claw for two seconds.
"You'd better not let ordinary Martial Artists hear what you just said.
Having a Tier 3 Middle Stage poison potency at seventeen only counts as a bit of progress, then all these years of theirs have been standing still."
Two soldiers wearing hospital gowns also walked out of the medical area.
They were precisely the two people who were scratched by the Shadow Poison Cat earliest.
Lin Chuan had drawn out the toxins in their bodies for them.
Now the dark cyan color on the skin of both of them had completely disappeared.
"Brother Xiaolin."
One of them solemnly saluted.
"If it weren't for you yesterday, even if Old Sun and I were rescued, half of our meridians would have been crippled.
We will remember this life."
"Your lives belong to yourselves."
Lin Chuan glanced at the two of them a few times.
"Since you have recovered, eat more good food. Next time you see that kind of cat, strive to run a bit faster."
Old Sun was originally quite touched.
Upon hearing the second half of the sentence, his expression instantly became somewhat complicated.
"Is your way of comforting people learned from SeniorPei?"
Pei Wubing walked over from behind.
"Don't blame me.
I only taught him to cultivation, not how to make nice words sound so punchable."
A burst of laughter sounded around.
The squad leader of the cooking squad also walked out from the cafeteria.
He was holding a thickened meal box in his hands, which was stuffed with Demonic Beast meat and high-energy nutritional meals.
"The military doctor said your bloodline evolution was just completed, and your body needs to replenish energy. This is saved for you; if it's not enough, there is more in the cafeteria."
Lin Chuan took the meal box that weighed a full dozen catties.
"So much!"
Pei Wubing reminded him from the side.
"The Netherworld Bone-Eroding Body just finished evolving, and the consumption is huge.
Eat quickly, don't pass out from hunger later when receiving the award, and have word spread out that I abuse my Shifu's apprentice."
Lin Chuan picked up a piece of Demonic Beast meat.
"Rest assured.
When the bounty arrives, I will treat myself to extra meals and won't affect Shifu's economic image."
One large box was already a lot, but Lin Chuan ate five boxes.
Only then did the hunger deep within his body gradually disappear.
Captain Liang Feng walked out from the command building.
His breastplate had already been replaced, but that sabre with only the upper half left was still hanging at his waist.
"If you want to chat, chat tonight. The battle results audit just passed."
"Lin Chuan, come with me to the command room to collect the reward."
Lin Chuan's eyes lit up.
"Captain Liang Feng, you're still the one who speaks with the main points."
...
Seventh Battalion command room.
Captain Liang Feng completed the military identity authentication.
Yesterday's combat video, the poisonous cat carcass inspection, and the residential area casualty report appeared on the screen at the same time.
"Tier 3 Peak Shadow Poison Cat, killed by Lin Chuan."
"The poison core belongs to the individual."
"The Border Defense Force public bounty is officially settled."
The numbers on the screen lit up one by one.
[Bounty: Three million yuan!]
[Military Merits: Five hundred points!]
[Border Defense Force Grade A Cooperative Martial Artist clearance: Open!]
[Priority purchase qualification for poison-type materialsbelow Tier 4: Open!]
Captain Liang Feng threw a black identity token to Lin Chuan.
The front of the identity token was the Border Defense Force emblem.
The back recorded Lin Chuan's Grade A cooperative serial number.
"This token is not a military post, it only represents a cooperative identity."
"In the future, when you enter other border defense garrisons, you can apply for temporary equipment, medical, and intelligence support."
However, all calls will be recorded.
Lin Chuan put away the identity token.
"Quite convenient."
As soon as he finished speaking, his cell phone vibrated immediately.
[Received amount: 3,000,000 yuan!]
Lin Chuan first tapped open the balance to take a look.
The money was real.
There was no pending review.
Nor was there arrival in installments.
Lin Chuan was very satisfied.
"The Border Defense Force sends money quite fast.
If there are tasks like this in the future, you can contact me with priority."
Captain Liang Feng leaned against the edge of the desk.
"Don't treat the Border Defense Force as a task platform first.
Many of the bounties hung out here require paying with lives to settle."
"I know, so I only take those I'm certain of."
Lin Chuan pointed to the clearance description.
"However, wasn't I a Grade S temporary combat rating before? How come the cooperative clearance is only Grade A?"
"Those are two sets of standards."
Captain Liang Feng pulled up the clearance table.
"Grade S represents your temporary combat value in the Martial Master-grade dungeon.
Grade A cooperative clearance determines what tasks and materials you can access."
"You are still underage and haven't received complete military training.
Grade A is already the approval limit."
Lin Chuan accepted it very quickly.
"As long as I can buy internal materials, that's fine."
"How cheap is the internal price?"
Captain Liang Feng casually opened a materials catalog.
A Tier 3 Corroding Heart Poison Sac with a market price of 18 million.
The military cooperative price only required 12 million.
In addition, military merits can be used for deduction.
Lin Chuan continued flipping down.
Poisonous flowers.
Poisonous blood.
Poison-type Yao cores.
All materials below Tier 4 are open!
"How much money are five hundred points of military merits worth?"
"Military merits cannot be sold or transferred."
"Then how much payment can it deduct?"
"Depending on the type of materials, it can deduct up to five million."
"Five hundred points of military merits are permanently valid, and you can also have priority in applying for Border Defense Force Cultivation venues."
Captain Liang Feng added:
"Some scarce resources only accept military merits for exchange, and you can't buy them with money. Don't exchange them all for ordinary poisons in one breath; leaving a part will be more useful later."
Lin Chuan nodded.
"Understood.
Spend money first on things money can solve, and keep military merits to buy what money cannot solve."
Captain Liang Feng glanced at him.
"Your understanding of resources is indeed more mature than ordinary students."
"That's a must."
Lin Chuan looked at Captain Liang Feng with eyes that immediately became much more affectionate.
"Captain Liang Feng, do you still lack people here?"
Captain Liang Feng was asked into a laugh by him.
"Just a moment ago you said you wouldn't treat the Border Defense Force as a task platform, and now seeing the internal prices, you're ready to join?"
"It's mainly because I've had the ideal of protecting the country since I was young."
Pei Wubing sat on the side, drinking water expressionlessly.
Captain Liang Feng did not continue to expose him.
"If you are really interested, after graduating from high school, you can participate in the Border Defense Forcespecial recruitment."
"With your current battle record, the basic annual salary will not be lower than 1.8 million. Task bounties, military merits, and Cultivation subsidies are calculated separately, and family members also enjoy military medical treatments."
Lin Chuan listened seriously until the end.
"The treatment is indeed not bad. Can poison-type materials always go through internal prices?"
"For sure."
Captain Liang Feng paused for a moment.
"However, I'm a bit afraid of you coming over."
"Why?"
"I feel like you have the potential of an embezzler."
Lin Chuan denied it on the spot.
"How could I be that kind of person!"
"At most I take away what's useful, and what's useless, I definitely won't take!"
Captain Liang Feng was silent for two seconds.
"Your sentence doesn't seem to have achieved any clarifying effect."
Lin Chuan closed the materials catalog.
All task rewards have arrived.
The long-term procurement channels of the Border Defense Force were also officially opened.
Captain Liang Feng took out an electronic document.
"In addition, the Black Stone Residential Area jointly sent you a banner. The military propaganda department will send the banner and commendation certificate to the Lin family."
"Haicheng Television has also applied for an interview."
Lin Chuan was slightly stunned.
"What are they interviewing me for?"
"Killing a Tier 3 Peak Magical Beast at seventeen and saving more than eight thousand people. Do you think this matter is still not enough for them to make a trip?"
Captain Liang Feng patted Lin Chuan's shoulder.
"Go back and prepare. Don't just talk about internal prices facing the camera, leave some face for the Seventh Battalion."
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
The Provincial Martial Arts Association special car drove out of the military restricted area.
At the same time.
Outside the Lin family's ancestral home.
Three Haicheng Television reporter cars were already parked in front of the door.
Chapter 34: Lin He: I Think I'm Kind of Dead
"Everyone look sharp."
Lin Nan adjusted his tie and led the Lin Clan elders to the entrance of the ancestral residence.
Three television reporter vehicles parked in front.
Lin Nan had already heard the news.
Haicheng Television was going to interview a seventeen-year-old Martial King disciple from the Lin Clan.
The military would also publicly deliver a commendation certificate.
In Lin Nan's view, such a formation was naturally aimed at Lin He.
"Xiao He, when the reporters ask about your training later, just tell the truth."
Lin Nan pushed Lin He to the very front.
"There are only about ten days left until the Clancompetition. Reputation is also something the young Clanhead must possess, and today's interview is very important for you."
Lin He was actually a bit dazed.
He had been following Thunder King Yue Jinglei to cultivation over the past few days.
Aside from reintegrating the six-colored lightning, he hadn't even contacted the military at all, right?
"Dad, could there be a mistake?"
Lin Qingxue adjusted his collar.
"You are Haicheng's only S-rank lightning-attribute Genius, and the Thunder King's direct disciple, so it's completely normal for the military to pay attention to you in advance."
Lin Yuwei stood on the other side.
"Don't be nervous during the interview. If the reporters ask about Lin Chuan, you don't need to say too many good things about him, lest he hype himself up using your reputation again."
The preliminary brief obtained by the reporters only contained the Lin Clan, seventeen years old, Martial Kingdisciple, and merits in the Dark Night Cavern, with no photos or combat footage.
Seeing Lin Nan actively send Lin He in front of the camera, the reporters naturally regarded him as the interview subject.
The female reporter turned on the live broadcast equipment.
"Classmate Lin, I heard that you just finished the Provincial Martial Arts Association Genius training camp and became a Martial King's direct disciple. How are you feeling right now?"
Seeing the camera, Lin He's inner doubts dissipated a little.
These two matters were indeed related to him.
"Of course I am very happy to be recognized by my teacher. However, I was just lucky, and I still need to continue working hard afterwards."
The answer was humble and proper.
The number of viewers in the live broadcast room rose rapidly.
The reporter continued to ask:
"We received news that a seventeen-year-old HaichengGenius frontally killed a Shadow Poison Cat in the Dark Night Cavern, protecting more than eight thousand residents in the Black Stone Residential Area."
"You are only a Martial Artist, may we ask what you were thinking at that time when facing that Magical Beast close to Tier 4?"
Lin He's expression stiffened slightly.
He had never been to the Dark Night Cavern at all.
But the camera was already aimed at him.
Lin Nan and more than a dozen Clan elders were all standing behind him.
Denying it now—
All those interviews just now would become a joke.
Lin He quickly put on a gentle smile.
"Actually, it's not as exaggerated as the outside world spreads. The situation was critical at the time, and I was very nervous; I just did what I should have done."
The reporter looked at him with newfound respect.
"I heard you were even injured?"
"How can there be no injuries in battle? It's just a minor injury, not worth bringing up specially."
Mother Lin's eye rims turned slightly red.
"Xiao He is just like this. Whenever he suffers grievances and injuries, he is never willing to tell the Clan."
Lin Qingxue also walked over beside the camera.
"He has been very kind since childhood. On the contrary, his older brother Lin Chuan has a rather impulsive, selfish, sinister, and cunning personality, frequently stirring up trouble outside and finally making Xiao He clean up his messes."
Lin Yuwei took over the conversation.
"Lin Chuan does have some achievements recently, but he loves showing off too much. When real danger is encountered, Xiao He's steady personality is much more reliable."
Lin He sighed softly.
"The two older sisters shouldn't say that."
"Big Brother, sometimes he really is a bit selfish in his conduct. But I believe that once he understands things in the future, he can also do some truly meaningful things for the Clan and for society."
The viewers in the live broadcast room had already started praising Lin He for being humble.
However, the female reporter gradually felt something was wrong.
She lowered her head and glanced at the interview outline.
The column for the hero's name clearly wrote two characters:
Lin Chuan.
The assistant nearby, holding the complete brief received just now, hurried to her side.
"Sister Fang, the interview subject is wrong!"
The female reporter raised her head.
"Please wait a moment."
"You are not Lin Chuan?"
The smile on Lin He's face froze.
What is going on!
"My name is Lin He, and Lin Chuan is my big brother."
The female reporter looked at Lin Nan.
"Mr. Lin, the person we are interviewing is Lin Chuan. The battle result report submitted by the Border Defense Forcealso clearly writes Lin Chuan's name."
The entrance instantly quieted down.
Lin Qingxue subconsciously retorted.
"This is impossible. Lin Chuan is only a Tier 3 Martial Artist, how could he kill a Magical Beast close to Tier 4?"
The assistant directly unfolded the military brief.
[Mission Executor: Lin Chuan!]
[Elimination Target: Late Stage Tier 3 Shadow Poison Cat!]
[Residents Protected: Over 8,600 people!]
[Temporary Combat Rating: S-Rank!]
All four pieces of information appeared in the live broadcast screen.
The female reporter looked at Lin He again.
"Since you didn't enter the Dark Night Cavern, why did you say just now that it was only what you should have done?"
Lin He's face flushed red.
"I thought you were asking about the training camp..."
"There are Shadow Poison Cats and eight thousand residents in the training camp?"
The reporter didn't give him a chance to explain, directly launching a combo of questions.
"Moreover, as far as we know, during the last training camp, it was also Lin Chuan who made a move to save Ye Qinghe. It seems you were also at the scene at that time, but you did nothing and hid behind your classmates."
"Lin Chuan saved people twice, but now his reputation and his actions seem very disconnected. Is it because you always smear him in front of various cameras?"
Lin He was completely speechless. Facing this kind of scene in front of quite a few people, being asked this on a live broadcast—
It really embarrassed him to death.
Holy cow, they aren't interviewing me!
He already harbored secret hatred in his heart; it was all Lin Nan's fault. He had been Cultivating well, only to be called over.
And now it was a live broadcast.
Seriously, if there were a rock in front of Lin He right now, he would choose to crash his head into it and die.
It was really a bit so awkward that he couldn't go on living!
And it was the kind of awkwardness that for the rest of his life, every time he remembered it, he would curl his toes in cringe.
The Provincial Martial Arts Association's special car happened to stop at the entrance of the ancestral residence.
Only then did Lin Chuan push the door open and get out of the car.
He first looked at the camera.
Then he looked at Lin He standing in the interview position.
Then he looked at the interviewing reporter and walked over humming a little tune.
"Life is already so difficult, some things shouldn't be exposed~"
"Oh my, younger brother Lin He."
Lin Chuan walked up close.
"Are they interviewing you, yet you rushed to stand at the front?"
"Do you even know which way the entrance of the Dark Night Cavern opens, and 'what you should have done'—tsk tsk, do you even want face?"
Lin He wished he could burrow into the ground, into the Earth's crust, and into the Earth's core right on the spot.
Lin Qingxue's expression was ugly.
"Knowing clearly that reporters were coming, why didn't you come over earlier to explain the situation?"
Lin Chuan glanced at the military vehicle.
"I was just thinking of giving you a chance to be on camera, who would have thought that you guys are useless!"
"Even when given the chance, you're useless!"
Lin Qingxue was left speechless.
She grabbed Lin He and turned to walk into the ancestral residence.
Lin Yuwei also avoided the camera.
However, every word they had said earlier had already spread throughout Haicheng via the live broadcast.
The Border Defense Force's special vehicle subsequently drove up to the entrance.
Wei An and two military propaganda personnel walked down.
They brought a red banner and a Border Defense Forcecommendation certificate.
Wei An unfolded the banner in public.
[Youthful blood protects the people's safety, bravely slaying Ferocious Beasts to guard Black Stone!]
"Comrade Lin Chuan, during the Shadow Poison Cat's attack on the Black Stone Residential Area, you took the initiative to shoulder the frontal combat mission."
"You ultimately completed the target elimination and protected the safety of over 8,600 residents."
"The Seventh Battalion and the Black Stone Residential Area express their gratitude to you!"
Lin Chuan took the banner.
The gazes of the Lin Clan elders looking at him were completely different now.
Training camp points were only an assessment, and the things inside the Beast Fighting Tower were also projections.
But the Peak Tier 3 Magical Beast in the Dark Night Cavern would really kill people.
A neutral Clan elder spoke up first.
"Tier 3 Martial Artist, frontally killing a Magical Beast close to Tier 4. This battle record, no one in the younger generation of the Lin Clan can compare to."
Another person nodded along.
"The young Clan head not only needs talent, but must also be able to shoulder responsibilities. Lin Chuan won face for the Lin Clan this time."
The reporters restarted the interview.
"Classmate Lin Chuan, when facing the Shadow Poison Cat, were you ever afraid?"
"Of course I was afraid."
Lin Chuan didn't deliberately act like a hero.
"That thing's claw can cut through Tier 3 alloy with one strike, and I'm not made of iron."
"However, the residents hadn't finished evacuating at the time, and the Border Defense Force was holding the line at the front. Since I had the ability to make a move, I couldn't just stand in the back and watch."
The female reporter continued to ask:
"I heard the military rewarded you with three million yuan. How do you plan to use this money?"
"Buy Cultivation resources."
Lin Chuan answered very realistically.
"Striving for next time we encounter this kind of situation, to fight a bit faster so fewer people can get hurt."
Wei An added a sentence from the side.
"After he killed the cat demon, his very first thing was indeed asking when the bounty would arrive in his account."
The atmosphere at the scene relaxed a lot.
Only Mother Lin stood at the back of the crowd.
She looked at Lin Chuan accepting the interview, and then looked at Lin He who had fled into the ancestral residence.
Lin Chuan returned having achieved great merit.
Yet not a single person in the Clan knew he had gone to the cavern.
Just moments ago, everyone had pushed Lin He in front of the camera, publicly belittling Lin Chuan, who had truly saved people.
Only Lin Xiuxiu stood by Lin Chuan's side from beginning to end, holding the commendation certificate for him.
For the first time, a thought popped up in Mother Lin's heart.
Lin Chuan had always been very lonely.
Over these years, had they been partial way too much?
It seemed that ever since Lin He entered the Lin Clan—
Those inner voices kept telling them that Lin Chuan was jealous, bullying Lin He, and destroying this home.
Every single time, they chose to believe it.
And then pushed their biological son further and further away.
After the interview ended, Mother Lin found Lin Nan.
"Husband, did we make mistakes in the past?"
"Learning that Xiaochuan saved so many people today, I am truly so proud of him."
"Yet as a mother, I couldn't stand by his side."
"We didn't even know where he went."
"And just now we said he was stirring up trouble in front of everyone."
Lin Nan's expression remained ugly.
"Starting to care about that little beast now?"
"He'd be more than happy for our whole Clan to lose face."
"Knowing clearly that reporters had already come, he intentionally dragged it out until the very last moment to show up—wasn't it just to watch us make fools of ourselves?"
"But he just came back from a military restricted zone."
"So what? Couldn't he have called in advance?"
Mother Lin didn't continue to argue.
She suddenly discovered:
No matter what Lin Chuan did, Lin Nan could always find a reason to blame him.
Haicheng Television's interview segment quickly rushed to the local trending topics.
Lin He's sentence "I just did what I should have done" was edited out separately.
The comment counts on the TikTok accounts of several Lin Clan members rapidly exceeded one hundred thousand.
[They aren't interviewing you, what are you acting so righteous for there?]
[Your own older brother saved over eight thousand people, yet in front of the camera, you guys said he only knows how to cause trouble?]
[Lin Chuan wasn't poisoned to death by the cat demon; he was almost angered to death by this Clan of heaven-defying freaks.]
[Lin He, this green tea bitch, just took the credit right along with the camera!]
Lin He's hatred value continued to rise.
But Lin Chuan had no time to look at the comments; he rubbed his nose and took out his phone.
"To do a good job, one must first sharpen their tools. Having talent alone is not enough; one must make money and get equipment."
Chapter 35: An Eighty Billion Mountain!
Lin Family, Conference Room.
Lin Chuan thought about the Mystic Gold deposit matter and had to take some time to handle it personally, so he called an exploration company from Haicheng.
"Qingsong Ridge had a rough exploration done before."
Chen Mingyuan, the project manager of Yuanfeng Exploration Company, placed the historical report on the table.
"At that time, only ordinary iron ore and a small amount of associated copper were found, and the grades were not high."
"According to existing data, the probability of a large, high-value deposit appearing is less than three percent."
"We can take on this project, with a normal quote of three million and preliminary results out in ten days."
"However, I must make it clear in advance that exploration is only responsible for searching, and there is no guarantee that there is definitely ore in that mountain."
Lin Chuan flipped the contract to the end.
"I will give five million, and give me the results in three days."
"Accelerate your work, divide the personnel into three shifts, keep the equipment running twenty-four hours a day, and drill all three boreholes to the depth I specified."
Chen Mingyuan was stunned for a moment.
"Mr. Lin, expediting is not as simple as turning on a few more machines."
"Geological mapping, core sampling, and composition testing must all be carried out simultaneously."
"Three days is too tight. Even if we work through the night, we can only ensure the process is complete, not that the results will meet your expectations."
"I am spending money just to make you accelerate. It does not matter whether the ground produces ore or not."
Lin Chuan picked up the electronic pen and signed directly.
"Three days later, if there is ore in the mountain, I will give you an extra 2 million bonus."
"If there is no ore, I will still pay the five million in full."
Chen Mingyuan stopped trying to persuade him.
As expected of the young master of the Haicheng Lin Family, he was so generous.
Moreover, not letting the second party bear any responsibility—where could one find such a first party?
Gu Shanhe was listening from the side.
He waited for Chen Mingyuan to leave the conference room before lowering his voice and asking:
"Young Master Lin, do you think there is ore in that place?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
Lin Chuan leaned back against the back of the chair.
"Because I had a dream before."
"What dream?"
"In the dream, someone spent forty-seven million six hundred thousand to sell eighty billion to me."
Gu Shanhe stared at him for a long time.
"If you do not want to explain, you can directly say this is a commercial secret. Using a dream to fob me off is somewhat disrespectful to the clan elders."
Lin Chuan slapped his thigh: "Grandpa Gu, what if it is true?"
Gu Shanhe rolled his eyes: "If this is true, then I hope you sleep more and cultivation less in the future."
"What the Lin Family lacks the most right now are young people like you who can dream of mines."
That noon.
The first batch of vehicles from Yuanfeng Exploration drove into Qingsong Ridge.
Large drilling rigs, core trucks, and mobile testing stations lined up along the forest farm road, and dozens of staff members began setting up the camp.
As soon as Lin Chuan put on his hard hat, a white off-road vehicle stopped behind him.
Ye Qinghe got out of the car, carrying a collection box on her shoulder and holding a silver medical box in her hand.
"Why are you here?"
"There are several venom-system medicinal plants on the shady slope of Qingsong Ridge, and the Provincial Martial Arts Association database has always lacked live samples."
Ye Qinghe said very naturally.
"I just happened to come over to collect them, and by the way, see if your exploration team will destroy the growth area of the medicinal plants."
Lin Chuan took the medical box from her hand.
The box lid was not tightly fastened.
Inside were neatly placed bloodline stabilizers, True Qirecovery fluid, and special nutrient injections for poison cultivators.
These were all things he could use right after completing his venom-body evolution.
This girl, if she cared about her buddy, she should have just told the truth; her mouth was quite stubborn.
"You bring so many recovery medicines just to pick herbs?"
"There are poisonous insects in the mountains, I prepared them for myself."
"Why does the nutrient injection say male, seventeen years old, weight seventy-two kilograms?"
Ye Qinghe was silent for two seconds, reached out, and took the box back.
"Pharmacists need a reference object when dispensing medicine."
"I found rebuilding a file troublesome, so I used your data."
"If you think it is inappropriate, I will take it back now."
"Appropriate, extremely appropriate."
Lin Chuan hugged the medical box again.
"Since you are already here, do not toss the medicine back and forth."
"After I dig out the ore, I will treat you to the most expensive working meal in the forest farm cafeteria."
Ye Qinghe glanced at the cafeteria food not far away.
"You are about to be the owner of a mountain, can you not treat me to something better?"
Lin Chuan thought about it seriously.
"Alright, I will reluctantly ask the cafeteria chef to add an extra chicken drumstick for you."
After hearing this, Ye Qinghe rolled her eyes. Did she come all this way just to eat his chicken drumstick?
"Then I thank you."
Soon, the drilling work began.
The first borehole was set on the east slope.
The drill bit went four hundred sixty meters deep underground.
The extracted core was all dark gray basalt, and the instruments did not detect any Mystic Gold reaction.
The second borehole was moved to the north valley.
Seven hours later.
The result was still ordinary rock layers.
Two failures made the atmosphere of the exploration team obviously sink.
Chen Mingyuan found Lin Chuan with the latest data.
"The stratigraphic structures of the two places are basically consistent with the old report."
"Continuing to drill according to the original plan, the success rate will not be higher than three percent."
"I suggest suspending for half a day to redo the electromagnetic mapping."
"At least it can reduce blind construction and prevent wasting the last borehole."
Gu Shanhe also looked at Lin Chuan.
Five million spent, even if they really did not find the ore, he would not blame a seventeen-year-old child.
But Lin Chuan was too certain from beginning to end.
So certain as if he had seen the underground with his own eyes.
"No need to change."
Lin Chuan pointed to the third red dot on the map.
"On the southwest side of the hillside, the drill bit goes vertically downward. For the first seven hundred meters, there is no need for frequent sampling. Focus on after seven hundred eighty meters."
Chen Mingyuan frowned.
"The surface signal at that location is even worse than the previous two places."
"Are you sure you want to put the last borehole there?"
"Sure."
"Can you tell me the reason?"
Lin Chuan answered with composure: "Feng shui."
Chen Mingyuan said: "Alright, I know."
The third drilling rig started quickly.
The drill pipe sank into the ground section by section.
Six hundred meters.
Seven hundred meters.
Eight hundred meters!
There was still no obvious metal anomaly signal on the screen.
Gu Shanhe waited from daytime to late night.
He wore work clothes over his suit, and the yellow hard hat on his head was never removed.
Two in the morning.
The drill bit reached eight hundred twenty meters!
The pressure value on the operation console suddenly rose.
The drilling rig emitted a dull roar.
The underground temperature also rose by more than ten degrees in a short time.
An engineer immediately shouted:
"Engineer Chen, the drill bit has encountered a high-hardness rock layer, and the torque is close to the safety line. Continuing to force it downward may damage the drill bit!"
Chen Mingyuan walked quickly to the front of the operation console.
"Stop drilling, extract this section of the core. First see if it is waste rock or the thing we have been looking for."
Ten-odd minutes later.
A section of dark black core was slowly sent out by the robotic arm.
The surface of the core was covered with dark golden lines.
When the light shone on it, those fine lines ran through the entire rock like blood vessels.
The entire operation area suddenly quieted down.
Chen Mingyuan put on gloves, scraped off just a little bit of debris, and his voice changed.
"Send it to testing platform number three immediately."
"Do the spectrum, spiritual energy reaction, and impuritiesanalysis simultaneously. Do not test only once, cross-check with three sets of equipment!"
The testing instruments ran continuously.
The first group of data jumped out.
The second group was completely identical.
The results of the third group still showed no change!
[Mystic Gold content: seventeen point three percent!]
[impurities content: six point eight percent!]
[Reaches high-quality commercial mining standards!]
Chen Mingyuan brought up the stratigraphic model and reconnected the three boreholes and underground metal reactions.
A golden region traversing the southwest mountain body of Qingsong Ridge quickly appeared on the screen.
[Preliminary estimated reserves: more than two hundred thousand tons!]
[Conservative valuation: eighty billion yuan!]
Gu Shanhe held the report and did not speak for a long time.
A forest farm of forty-seven million six hundred thousand.
In just a few days.
It turned into an Mystic Gold mine worth eighty billion.
That perfunctory-sounding dream did not even get the amount wrong in the dream.
Chen Mingyuan recovered his senses before him.
He opened the contract, found the column for the success bonus, and quickly closed it again.
Lin Chuan saw his action.
"Do not look anymore. The success bonus promised to you will not be a single cent less."
"Mr. Lin, I am not only concerned about the bonus."
Chen Mingyuan turned back to look at the staff who were already preparing to rest, raising his voice directly.
"Everyone cancel your rotational breaks, the overtime pay for tonight will be calculated at triple rate! Move the remaining two drilling rigs entirely to the southwest area, let us confirm the boundary of the deposit overnight!"
A group of people instantly became spirited.
Just moments ago, they wished the drilling rig would stop immediately.
Now they wished they could drill through the entire Qingsong Ridge in one night.
Chen Mingyuan came back before Lin Chuan, his tone much more solemn than when signing the contract.
"This is not an isolated mineral point, but an entire high-grade Mystic Gold deposit."
"Tomorrow morning, the official exploration results will be submitted simultaneously to the resource management department."
"Once the news of eighty billion is reported, the entire Haicheng will know."
Lin Chuan looked at Qingsong Ridge in the night.
Once the deposit in the mountains is surveyed, it cannot be hidden.