Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1136 - 109_2

"Hey, it’s all thanks to friends’ compliments, just a hollow reputation." Xu Shu shook his head and then asked, "How has Gu Pan been lately? I’m not as close to her, haven’t been in touch for a while."

Gu Yue Ming’s beautiful eyes turned, playfully glancing at him: "Missing the teacher, huh? Hehe, she’s doing great. Recently, she’s been in seclusion, trying to break through to the Second realm. Once she’s out, I’ll team up with you, so she can add you."

"I see!" With this, Xu Shu suddenly understood, and didn’t ask her to contact Gu Pan.

Thinking back to when they parted ways, the difference in cultivation between the teacher and him was less than ten levels.

Now, a month has passed, and this gap has rapidly expanded to over twenty levels. It’s truly astonishing.

’Ah, indeed, the path of a genius is destined to be lonely! Perhaps I will meet many fellow travelers in my life, but how many can keep up with me? Eventually, only I will be left to brave the summit! This is what it means to overlook the mountains! This is what it means to find cold solitude at the heights!’

Xu Shu sighed slightly in his heart, for a moment feeling as if he had seen through the mundane world.

He didn’t chat much more, instead focusing on observing the Sea of Death, despite its surface being almost monotonous.

After more than an hour of sailing, everyone safely reached the destination.

It’s a place that looks like a mine, but on the Sea of Death, this mine was destined to be abandoned, because no one could dive below 50 meters, and the drilling shaft was no exception.

With the naked eye, one could see some fragmented bones on the mine, while the deep pit retained chaotic claw marks.

Through these marks, one can imagine that an extremely terrifying attack might have happened here, where mysterious monsters emerged and slaughtered the workers, feasted, and left.

Under the catastrophic trend, no one cared about the lives of these people, and they were directly buried in history.

Until the development of the Death Sea Ruins, more and more Transcendents nearby searched for relic entrances, sweeping and scavenging, only then were these forgotten pasts discovered, yet still unnoticed.

Not even a moment to mourn the refugees, Xie Xiaochan blew a whistle, and a black fish head emerged from the bubbling water under the submerged watchtower.

"Finally here! I thought you were going to back out of the transaction!" That person climbed ashore on his own.

He is a second-tier "Deep Diver," only they can disguise themselves as monsters with Merfolk techniques, hiding in shallow waters without being attacked by monsters.

Xu Shu suspected this tranquil journey might have something to do with this.

"Enough small talk, the entrance?" Xie Xiaochan took out a small bag and threw it to the "Deep Diver."

The latter opened it for a glance, satisfied, he put it away: "Follow me!"

Under his lead, they quickly entered a control room about 15 meters underwater in the drilling shaft.

In the modest space, a small golden mysterious gate hung in mid-air, causing a slight ripple in the air, with special characters above, reading "Yin Soil · Chou Gen Yue Yang: Great Cold."

Xu Shu’s pupils shrank slightly; this was clearly a relic entrance ignited by an incense burner, and it was already activated!

After brief contemplation, Xu Shu suddenly realized what was happening.

The "Deep Diver" here had found the relic entrance location, then sought out those in need to sell it to, upon confirming the transaction, he used the cheapest Heart Fire Incense Burner to lock the place down, preventing other explorers from taking it, affecting his transaction credibility.

It sounds convoluted, but another way to understand it is "ticket scalping!"

"Damn, city folks are too devious." Xu Shu was astonished; he hadn’t thought of such a way to make money before.

The scalper "Deep Diver" took Xie Xiaochan’s money, immediately moving his incense burner aside, chuckling: "Transaction complete, I wish you all martial success, may Lie Zhenzi protect you all!"

He then dived into the sea like a nimble fish and soon disappeared into the ocean.

Meanwhile, Xie Xiaochan took over the location, and from a storage bag, she retrieved a three-layered burner whose exterior alone suggested considerable value, preparing the site for the entrance.

—Relic admission thresholds have an upper limit but no lower limit, like the [Night Parade of Hundred Demons] relic can only be entered by third-tier individuals at most, but first and second tiers can also enter, except those beyond third can’t.

Xu Shu looked back, suddenly curious: "Aunt, you said this guy does this flesh-and-blood place-holding, but his own strength is not ordinary, isn’t he afraid of other explorers looting or us turning the tables, taking his place without paying?"

"?" Gu Yue Ming was momentarily stunned, scrutinizing Xu Shu with a bewildered expression, before finally saying, "You... don’t know?"

Xu Shu raised an eyebrow: "Huh, hearing you say that, is there something tricky about it?"

Gu Yue Ming bit her lip, finally saying after a while: "An unwritten rule on the Sea of Death, if humans kill each other, it easily causes changes in the sea beneath their feet, attracting some usually hidden monsters."

"So, unless it’s something incredibly valuable, almost no one takes the high-risk, low-reward gamble."

"What? Damn, there’s such a thing?" Xu Shu was astonished once again.