Nine Yang Sword Saint
chapter-69

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

“Oh…” Yang Dingtian broke the surface of the water.

“The water here is so warm!” Of course, this was just Yang Dingtian’s feeling. The water temperature was still around negative ten degrees Celsius, but this temperature was already high enough such thatYang Dingtian felt warm.

The moment he surfaced, something shone brightly in front of him. He was in a pond whose surface area was similar to the unfreezing pond in the abandoned ore mine. The pond was also located in a huge cave, and the surroundings were covered with a layer of ice. It all looked crystal-clear like a crystal palace.

There was a hole in the wall of the cave and a passage behind that hole. The passage was covered with all kinds of crystal that were red and purple, all dazzling and beautiful.

The structure here was almost identical to the huge cave deep in the abandoned ore mine.

While Yang Dingtian was feeling delighted, he suddenly had a strange feeling but wasn’t sure what it was.

After climbing out of the water and walking onto the ice, he realized why he felt so strange.

He jumped into the unfreezing pond and dove all the way down. When he reached a hundred meters deep, the water temperature rose, and he actually floated up rapidly when he was supposed to sink.

Looking at this quiet pond surface and huge cave, Yang Dingtian understood something.

This place was actually anti-gravity?

This place was beneath the abandoned ore mine, and Yang Dingtian emerged out of the pond surface here after diving over two hundred meters. Based on the orientation, the water surface was actually on the ceiling, and Yang Dingtian was standing on the top of the cave. However, he did not fall.

Apparently, the shape of the unfreezing pond wasn’t a funnel but an hourglass. As soon as one dove over a hundred meters deep, one will enter the anti-gravity area and rapidly float up.

Yang Dingtian clenched his teeth and risked his life, and now, not only had he survived, but he’d also arrived at this magical place.

“Bloody Black Gold.” Yang Dingtian immediately thought of something. Where there was an unfreezing pool, there would also be a huge fire-nature mine. Zhao Wuji came here just for the Bloody Black Gold.

Yang Dingtian immediately began his search for the Bloody Black Gold.

Soon, he found the first piece of Bloody Black Gold located on the wall in the passage, a fiery red piece among a bunch of crystals.

Yang Dingtian climbed up the cave wall, entered the hole, and walked into the two-meter-high passage.

“Master, this Bloody Black Gold is different from that piece we obtained from the wild,” Yang Dingtian said. “The Bloody Black Gold here is redder, blood red.”

Dongfang Niemie seemed to be a little stunned. After a long time, he sighed and said, “It’s really a blessing in disguise. This blessing is profound. This is top-quality Bloody Black Gold that has been condensing for over ten thousand years. Compared to the Bloody Black Gold used to forge my sword, its purity is ten times greater.”

“Son, were you really sent down by God?” Dongfang Niemie sighed. “Otherwise, how could this kind of Bloody Black Gold that has been condensing for thousands of years appear before you?”

Yang Dingtian was excited and asked while trembling, “Master, then shall I dig it out?”

“En, dig carefully,” Dongfang Niemie replied.

Yang Dingtian drew his dagger, held the Bloody Black Gold with one hand, ignored the burning, and carefully dug out the entire piece.

He could clearly feel it as the Bloody Black Gold left the crystal wall. There was a soul-like entity that trembled as if there was a heavy heart and also a little happiness. A heavy heart because the crystal has nurtured it for so long. Happiness because it can finally leave and enter the world.

“Master, it’s really strange. I felt that as if this Bloody Black Gold has a life,” Yang Dingtian said.

“Not life but spirit!” Dongfang Niemie replied. “It’s a treasure that is over ten thousand years old. It definitely has a spirit. Using this kind of Bloody Black Gold to forge the sword cuts the effort needed to cultivate the sword soul in half while producing twice the results. I really can’t imagine how stunning your future sword will be.”

Yang Dingtian heavy-heartedly placed the Bloody Black Gold into a special bag and continued walking forward.

“Master, I hope that this is not the only piece in this mine.”

“It won’t. Since there are an anti-gravity field and the unfreezing pond, there will be more than one. It will be a huge mine that may contain dozens of pieces,” Dongfang Niemie explained. “Continue inside.”

Yang Dingtian continued walking through the cave. There were red and purple crystals everywhere, and the passage was not manmade but naturally formed.

“Master, are these crystals useful?”

“This is the most outstanding Fire Distant Crystal, and one of them is worth at least a few thousand gold coins,” Dongfang Niemie said. “But, it is not of much use to you. You can take a few of them with you when you leave to make accessories for Yanyan.”

Yang Dingtian walked another few dozen meters into the cave to search for the next piece of Bloody Black Gold.

Of course, there was another piece, and it came as a pair this time. There was one on the left and another on the right side of the cave wall.

Yang Dingtian became excited again. He stepped forward to dig out both ten-thousand-year-old pieces and placed them in the special bag.

Then, he walked another few dozen meters and found five pieces in a corner.

He kept going, and the deeper he went, the higher the temperature rose. Towards the end, it was as if he were in a stove.

This natural mine was really deep. Yang Dingtian walked over two thousand meters and dug out thirty-two pieces of Bloody Black Gold.

Although he was able to carry a few hundred jin, his speed was still slowed by the weight.

(TL note: One jin is equivalent to 500 grams.)

Gradually, however, the number of pieces grew fewer and fewer, from one every few dozen meters to one every few hundred meters to finally none within thousands of meters.

At the moment, Yang Dingtian was already over five thousand meters deep and had mined over forty-five pieces. He dragging it all along with him as he went.

In the last one thousand five hundred meters, there was not even a single piece of Bloody Black Gold. Because the temperature in the cave was over a hundred degrees Celsius, if Yang Dingtian hadn’t gone through three stages of vein cleansing, he would’ve already been dead.

“Master, it seems that we’re about to reach the end. There should be no more Bloody Black Gold pieces right?”

Dongfang Niemie answered, “Probably not. Generally, the number of pieces in a mine is a multiple of nine. It is already an incomparably huge mine to have forty-five Bloody Black Gold pieces over ten thousand years old.”

“Then, shall I go back?” Yang Dingtian asked. “But, it’s a shame that there weren’t any gold or ice-type beasts here, or I could’ve replaced the two demon nuclei that Zhao Wuji destroyed.”

Thinking about this, Yang Dingtian’s excitement diminished. Although obtaining forty-five Bloody Black Gold pieces was a happy event, his main purpose here was to hunt for demon nuclei. Now that the demon nuclei were destroyed, especially the ice demon nucleus, he won’t be able to use the Yin Yang Five-Element Formation in seven days, and he won’t be able to achieve a breakthrough in his Xuan energy.

Also, another huge problem was how to go back.

Of course, he could go back to the unfreezing pool, but how could he also bring back nine hundred jin of Bloody Black Gold? In addition, Zhao Wuji was guarding the place, so he wouldn’t be able to leave the mine by himself. Also, it’s been approximately five hours since he entered the abandoned ore mine, so it was close sunset outside. It’s almost reached the time when he promised to meet Ningning, and if he couldn’t make it out in time, he’s afraid that she might enter the ore mine to find him. Then, she might fall into the hands of that psychopath, Zhao Wuji.

What is at the end of this crystal cave? Could it be another exit?” Yang Dingtian thought in his heart as he looked towards the end of the mine.

Yang Dingtian was ambivalent about whether or not to continue walking to the end of the crystal mine. As the temperature was getting higher and higher, it was becoming more and more unbearable.

“Try and see. If there is another exit, you will be able to escape Zhao Wuji and prevent Ningning from entering the mine and meeting him,” Yang Dingtian decided in his heart. Then, he clenched his teeth hard and continued walking ahead, even though there was no more Bloody Black Gold ahead.

Every step he took soon became extremely difficult. It was like he was walking across a fire pit. If Ningning hadn’t applied some medicine to Yang Dingtian’s hair, his hair would’ve all burned away.

Ten meters.

Twenty meters.

Thirty meters!

Finally, Yang Dingtian reached the end of the crystal mine.

He reached the end after turning a corner. There was an extremely bright light and an extremely hot atmosphere there.

Yang Dingtian’s entire body was dehydrated, and his lips were dry like wood. He clenched his teeth and crossed the remaining few meters.

After passing around another corner, he was instantly shocked when he reached the end of the crystal passage.

There was no exit but rather a huge cave with boiling hot lava at the bottom of it. This was not what that freaked Yang Dingtian out, though. It was all the Bloody Black Gold all over the cave walls. They were all close together like countless beautiful fireballs growing on the black wall, each appearing incomparably beautiful.

Yang Dingtian was stunned. Dongfang Niemie was also stunned.

“Oh my God…,” Dongfang Niemie said. “Such a huge Bloody Black Gold mine actually existed in the world. The largest mine that I’ve seen in my entire life only had over a hundred of them. Even the largest Bloody Black Gold mine on record only has 198 pieces. How many are there here?”

Yang Dingtian was completely shocked!

After being stunned for ten minutes, Yang Dingtian began to count the number of pieces here.

There were too many, and it was so dazzling that he had to start from the beginning many times.

Finally, the number he got was 954. Add those to the ones Yang Dingtian already had in hand, it was a total of 999, the largest Bloody Black Gold mine in history.

Yang Dingtian was overwhelmed with happiness.

He needed 999 pieces of Bloody Black Gold to forge a high-quality treasure sword. Previously, Dongfang Niemie had spent a few years to collect 999 pieces. Now, Yang Dingtian managed to find 999 in one go. This signified that the main ingredients required to forge the treasure sword have already been obtained. What’s left to do was to personally forge it.

Moreover, these 999 ten-thousand-year-old pieces were ten times better than ordinary Bloody Black Gold. Therefore, the sword that can be forged from these 999 pieces would not be just a treasure sword but something even higher than that, probably an emperor sword that has never before existed in history!