Yang Qi had assumed the chancellor called him to the Minorcosm World to offer some reward or another. Instead, he had shared his opinion about the Crown Prince, offered no reward, and instead, assigned him a dangerous mission.

The west? An ancient mine? A monster, and a Legendary at that?

And he was to kill this monster and steal a treasure, in a place originally created by Demonfolk of the distant past? That was like snatching food from the tiger’s mouth. It would definitely be profoundly dangerous.

According to the rumors, the Demonfolk of the distant past practiced cultivation using a certain type of spirit stone that contained particularly powerful spirit energy. And humans who used such spirit stones would achieve incredibly rapid progress. Unfortunately, the Heavendawn Quarry had long since dried up, and people had learned to either eat physical food to gain strength, or use medicinal plants to make energy convergence pills.

Cultivation in modern times went much more slowly than in the past.

The powerful divine abilities and energy arts of the primeval world were all available because of the spirit stones, and the vital energy they produced.

Of course, there...