World-saving Plan: The Only Savior

Chapter 1765 - 49: Plague Relics (5)

The Lan Family’s extraction of the Olharast Vein has been relatively smooth; since the Plague Army here was wiped out by Zhang Xiaoman, there have been no further threats.

However, due to the toughness and resilience of Olharast Rock, the mining progress is very slow. Coupled with the extremely harsh environment within the relics, it will take the resource gathering troops at least a year to fully exploit this vein.

Spending an entire year here mining doesn’t impact the Lan Family members much. In fact, discovering such a massive Olharast Vein is already considered very good news.

After all, the Plague Relics are fraught with danger. Sometimes, even half a year of continuous search might not yield a suitable resource point.

If any danger arises during this process, like the previous Plague Army, they might even lose their lives here.

So, even someone as ambitious as Lan Gu is very satisfied with this discovery.

In the upcoming period, all members of the Lan Family will not be leaving this area for the time being. They will continue extracting from the vein until they can move on to the next location a year later for further exploration.

During this period, the Lan Family disciples cannot afford to be careless. Even though the threat of the Plague Army has been eliminated, it does not mean they are absolutely safe.

The Olharast Vein is a tempting prize, and if discovered by the exploration teams of other families, it will certainly incite jealousy and attempts to seize it.

To ensure the safety of the resource gathering troops, the elite guards of the Lan Family must also stay behind to prevent attacks from other factions.

Zhang Xiaoman, of course, won’t just idle here like them; he has his own mission.

The primary purpose of such a large family like the Lan Family coming here is to gather resources, and personal inheritance activities are not their focus.

But Zhang Xiaoman is quite the opposite.

Although resources are equally important to him, what he truly desires is to find methods to utilize the Divine Domain, to unleash his maximum potential.

After leaving his Star Alliance Marker on the Lan Family’s destroyer, Zhang Xiaoman secretly left the camp, planning to do something for himself and seek opportunities.

The reason for his secret departure was to conceal his secret ability to teleport within this relic at any time.

Zhang Xiaoman would teleport back to the Lan Family’s destroyer at regular intervals to prevent Lan Gu and others from noticing his absence.

After all, he is still nominally the honorary elder of the Lan Family, and the promise to aid them hasn’t been voided until the end of this exploration.

Fortunately, with his Unlimited Teleportation ability, combined with the Star Alliance Marker, he can come and go at will. The Dark Star Ring also shields him from being tracked, so even if Lan Gu wanted to secretly monitor him, it would be impossible.

Zhang Xiaoman can even occasionally return to the Star Alliance via the Original Realm. As long as there is a Star Alliance Marker, the world has no distance for him.

Determining a direction, Zhang Xiaoman continued to delve deeper into the Plague Relics.

This time, he was alone, unburdened by a large group, making his actions much faster than when he was with Lan Gu and the others, covering the previous ten days’ journey in just under two days.

"The deeper into the relics, the more dense the toxic mist becomes..."

During low-altitude flight, Zhang Xiaoman saw the dense toxic mist surrounding him, which began to affect his line of sight and greatly diminished his perception.

Taking a deep breath, he also noticed that factors such as temperature and gravity in the surrounding environment were rapidly increasing, and the Spirit Breath Sequence he cultivated seemed to start to show signs of strain.

"It’s like flying towards a black hole... With my current Fourth Stage Spirit Breath Sequence and Star Shining Armor protection, I should withstand temperatures exceeding three million degrees Celsius, but this relic is making me feel pressured; what’s inside this relic?"

While flying, Zhang Xiaoman deployed spiritual power to resist the assaults of harsh surroundings. Eventually, he couldn’t maintain flying and had to use his legs to run on the ground.

Fortunately, the most lethal toxic mist couldn’t harm him. If it were other strong individuals, they might not even reach such depths, as the mist is something they simply couldn’t resist. If contaminated, even exiting this place would be a luxury, and those few extraordinary-level figures outside wouldn’t allow them to bring calamity from the relics to the outside world.

"No, I must quickly find a method to use the Divine Domain, especially Pure Energy. Once I learn this ability, these environmental factors not involving dark spiritual power won’t affect me anymore."

Zhang Xiaoman thought to himself.

He greatly admired an ability of the Transcendent level, which is the ability to transform the body into an energy body.

It is a special ability that can transform the body into an energy body, achievable only by communicating with the 33rd ’Fusion Sequence.’ If he could communicate with the 22nd ’Eternal Sequence,’ this ability would receive a huge boost, allowing him to maintain this energy state indefinitely and switch freely between energy body and strength without worrying about consumption.