Chapter 570: Chapter 252: Great Lord of the World, East Cliff City’s Thirteen, Refining Pattern Master

In the dark mining area.

Lei Dong looked gloomy, his face shadowed, and in front of him on a high platform sat a man wearing a strange fish-bone mask.

After silently waiting.

The man on the platform slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lei Dong in the distance.

"Is there something?"

Lei Dong slowly nodded, "Something happened that I mentioned to you before. Someone from the Black Fire Association in Extreme Wind City noticed this place. The Black Envoy chased after them, but someone escaped."

The bone-faced man frowned, "The Black Fire Association?"

He was not from Jizhou, and the forces behind him had not had much presence in Jizhou. Perhaps the Black Fire Association had ventured out to the open sea in the past, but it had declined slightly over the years, so he wasn’t familiar with such a force.

Lei Dong quickly explained the situation about the Black Fire Association.

"Just a declining Holy Land-level force, I can handle it. What’s the situation with the secret treasure in the mine pit?"

When the other party asked about this, Lei Dong pondered for a moment.

"Yesterday, another six hundred living sacrifices were sent, and the blood patterns on the bronze door have spread to about seventy percent. At the current pace of sacrifices, it should cover the bronze door in half a month."

This pace was obviously not satisfactory to the man.

But this was not because Lei Dong was not working hard, nor because he cherished life, it was because the bronze door hadn’t been used in so long, and it was already decayed, initially accepting too few sacrifices. It’s only recently that it has improved somewhat.

Because of this, the profits from the mining site have decreased significantly.

Lei Dong temporarily held Jin Buhuan steady with the threat of the Purple Mountain Chamber of Commerce. Jin Buhuan did not like such a place as the mining site that did not care about human life and rarely visited.

His original plan should have allowed him to deceive everyone, but unexpectedly, to win over Xu Guang, Jin Buhuan was willing to offer thirty percent of the mine’s profits. Xu Guang felt it was not right to just collect money without working, so he specially came over to help Jin Buhuan investigate the decrease in profits.

Fortunately, Xu Guang was still relatively young and was easily dismissed by him.

"What about the situation with the Golden Bull Chamber of Commerce behind you recently?"

The man suddenly asked.

Lei Dong nodded, "The Young Master’s fellow disciple came over, but I dismissed him."

The man was interested, knowing Jin Buhuan’s identity and his current whereabouts.

"Fellow disciple? What kind of fellow disciple?"

Lei Dong also noticed this point. He was a bit hesitant in his heart. Although he cooperated with the other party, he never knew the other’s identity, only that it was an organization with significant power overseas.

Hongze, with its hundred thousand states and interconnected seas, only has thirty-three seas in total.

The real tycoons on the open sea were at least comparable to the forces of the Extreme North’s Six Institutes.

The man’s expression made Lei Dong suspect that the forces behind him had a grudge with the Six Institutes of the Extreme North.

As soon as this thought emerged, it made Lei Dong’s heart grow cold.

In Jizhou, if he offended the Golden Bull Chamber of Commerce, he still had many places he could go, whether fleeing overseas or using the secrets of the Golden Bull Chamber of Commerce to seek refuge with forces comparable to it.

But offending the Extreme North’s Six Institutes...

But at this point, he could not turn back, and could only walk deeper into the darkness.

"Last year’s century election of the Northern Empire Institute produced two peerless talents, and one of them, who was friendly with the Young Master, is named Xu Guang. He ranked first in the Northern Empire Institute’s big competition with rumors of mastering the Five Divine Techniques as a Martial Artist."

Lei Dong shared everything he knew with the bone-faced man in front of him.

The eyes of the bone-faced man flickered, brewing some dangerous aura.

"Did he leave?"

Lei Dong nodded.

"If he comes again, remember to find me. I have some business with the disciples of the Northern Empire Institute."

...

Lei Dong walked out from the deep mineshaft, feeling somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.

The environment was too oppressive, and coupled with the mysterious bone-faced man, despite their current cooperative relationship, he had no initiative in front of the other.

Especially as the blood patterns on the bronze door grew deeper, this feeling intensified.

The warm sunlight shone on him, dispelling some of Lei Dong’s chill.

He continued forward, encountering some headmen who managed the slaves at the mining site, who greeted him with bows, and Lei Dong smiled and nodded back.

But just when he reached an intersection, he suddenly felt the sunlight in front of him became somewhat dazzling, followed by a fogginess in his mind.

’Not good!’

The thought flashed in his mind, not allowing Lei Dong to wield his Qi Force, as a powerful force came from behind, carrying a death-like decayed aura.

Lei Dong turned around, seeing a somewhat familiar figure in the blurred vision.

It was...

Xu Guang!?

From a high ground above, Cao Ku poked his head out, nodding slightly at Xu Guang.

Then the three swiftly left.

A moment later.

In a mountain forest.

Xu Guang looked at Cao Ku, "Cao, can you interrogate him?"

Cao Ku looked at Lei Dong’s state and frowned, "This person has been cursed, hidden upon his mind ape. If we force our way in, his Divine Soul would be destroyed. This kind of Curse Technique..."

Jin Buhuan’s face had already turned extremely ugly. Hearing Cao Ku’s words, he continued.

"Lifeless Curse!!"

The Lifeless Sect, fully named Great Lord Lifeless Sect, was the force with the deepest vendetta against the Northern Empire’s Six Institutes, with battles exceeding over a thousand years.

This force is very evil, cultivating the Lifeless Path, worshiping the ’Great Lord of the World’. At first glance, what this force worshiped seemed righteous, but the source of the name Lifeless Sect was precisely because of this.

What is the Great Lord of the World? The followers of the Lifeless Sect believed death was the only fairness, being keen on destruction and slaughter, advancing through killing, and everyone condensed the notorious Lifeless Mark.