129: New mission

"Routine inspection mission." In the training room, Yuan Yang looked at his terminal and spoke.

"Location: Fire Burning Mountain Range area; Time limit: Five days; One: Investigate whether there are any traces of Crystal Fire Clan squads; Two: Monitor military discipline... Depart immediately, get ready."

"Yes!" The group replied, though there was actually nothing much to prepare.

Given the current strength of the Bell Tower Squad, they were basically unstoppable among those at the same level!

Even though Feng Hou and Li Mengru had not yet successfully achieved a Breakthrough, having three Sixth Realm Martial Artists in a single squad... what kind of treatment was this?

Theoretically, Wang Ying and Li Qi could already leave the Bell Tower Squad to create their own squads. But they had been following Yuan Yang for a long time and were already used to it, so they had no intention of going solo.

This time, they did not fly directly to the mission; instead, they took a flying shuttle.

After Li Mengru exchanged her military merit, she updated and upgraded the items the team would need, and the flying shuttle was something she had just exchanged for.

With more resources in hand, they could now afford things they couldn't get before.

Chu Yuan was actually a bit curious; the technological strength displayed by the Ninth Legion did not match the technological strength on Earth Star.

Although they were consistent in many areas, such as devices like terminals... the Ninth Legion possessed many technologies and weapons that seemed like they were from science fiction movies!

For example, the flying shuttle beneath their feet.

It was entirely silver-gray, not very large, only four or five meters long.

But once activated, its speed was even faster than the flight of an ordinary Fifth Realm Martial Artist!

Its defensive capabilities were even more robust, capable of resisting attacks from a Fifth Realm Martial Artist head-on... higher than the defensive capabilities of the inner armor worn by many people!

If it had been manufactured using Artifact Refining methods, Chu Yuan would not have been surprised. After all, if an Artifact Refining Great Master took action, even stronger items could be created.

But this flying shuttle clearly showed traces of mass production everywhere.

However, Yuan Yang and the others did not know the answer; they only knew that it had always been this way—military merit could exchange for everything!

For the extermination mission in the Lianshan Secret Realm, after Chu Yuan joined, the military merit gained increased fivefold!

After selling off those resources, aside from Yuan Yang taking a little more, the military merit each person in the Bell Tower Squad received was... nearly ten thousand!

When he first learned of this number, Chu Yuan was stunned. He had thought about how hard it was to obtain military merit, but he hadn't expected it to be this hard.

By this calculation, if he hadn't come, the Bell Tower Squad would have only received an average of two thousand military merit each after completing this mission?

No wonder Pang Long's expression was so colorful when he heard that the Pang Family had been fined one million military merit earlier.

However, this also seemed to further indicate that the value of the Blood Beast Clan Legacy was far beyond his imagination.

"We've arrived. Let's split up. Feng Hou and I will be one group, Li Qi and Wang Ying another, and Chu Yuan and Mengru the last... Contact via terminal if there's a situation; use the Heart Link Token in an emergency." Yuan Yang was as concise as ever, and after speaking, he left with Feng Hou.

Chu Yuan put away the flying shuttle... the storage rings of the others did not have such a large capacity. Li Mengru had originally wanted to exchange for a storage ring capable of holding the flying shuttle, but her balance was insufficient, so she had to give up.

"What should we do first?"

"First, inspect for any traces of Crystal Fire Clan infiltration." Li Mengru seemed to have already made a plan and spoke without hesitation.

The Fire Burning Mountain Range was at the border between the Ninth Legion and the Crystal Fire Clan's territory. Neither side had the ability to occupy the entire mountain range, so each occupied about half.

The temperature inside the mountain range was relatively high, and it was entirely fiery red. Looking down from the sky, it seemed like a giant red Dragon crouching on the earth.

The Seventh Legion and the Crystal Fire Clan would certainly not fight over a useless place; the Fire Burning Mountain Range had its own value.

It was mainly due to a mineral called fire flame gold, which could be used to forge various weapons and equipment. It even carried its own attributes and provided a significant boost to Martial Artists who cultivated certain fire-attribute Martial Skills or Cultivation Techniques!

Also because of the existence of this mineral, the Fire Burning Mountain Range was extremely solid and very difficult to destroy!

Chu Yuan looked down. Although he could see many traces of battles, the usual situation where an entire mountain peak was blasted to pieces... did not exist.

He followed Li Mengru and flew along the planned route, his Divine Sense already released, even penetrating into the interior of the mountain.

Perhaps because of the special minerals, his Divine Sense did not penetrate easily; it could only penetrate about ten kilometers into the rock layer... which was nothing for this massive mountain range.

But he quickly discovered that there were some sporadically scattered fire flame gold within the rock layers. Even when touching them with his Divine Sense, he could perceive the warmth emanating from them.

"If we put one of these in the house, would we not need to turn on the air conditioning in the winter?" Chu Yuan blurted out nonsensically.

Li Mengru looked bewildered, not understanding why Chu Yuan's thinking was so scattered, but she still played along: "Even if you ran the air conditioning for a hundred years, the electricity consumed wouldn't be enough to buy a single gram of fire flame gold..."

"It's different. This is natural heat, which is good for the body; air conditioning is technological heat..."

"True, it's too natural; it's radioactive."

"..." Chu Yuan immediately abandoned the idea of taking some home. Things that many Martial Artists didn't need to worry about were very harmful to ordinary people.

He no longer paid attention to the situation inside the mountain. Although his Divine Sense could see the fire flame gold, he would still need to break open the rock layer to get it. For the time being, he had no intention of mining.

After flying for about half an hour, three strange-looking creatures appeared within the range of his Divine Sense.

They were humanoid, tall, each over two and a half meters, with long legs and feet shaped like dangerous, sharp cones. Their entire bodies were covered in flame patterns, and there was a large, fiery red crystal in the center of their foreheads.

"I've discovered the Crystal Fire Clan." Li Mengru was not surprised and immediately asked seriously, "In which direction?"

Chu Yuan pointed to the front left, "This way, eighty kilometers."

"Can you determine their strength?" "One Fifth Realm, two Fourth Realm."

Li Mengru relaxed. She had great confidence in Chu Yuan's Mental Energy; since he was so certain, there shouldn't be any mistake. "Let's go, slaughter them!"

"Captain, the mission time limit is about to be reached, right?" "Yeah, we haven't obtained any valuable intelligence yet..."

"Anyway, we've collected quite a bit of fire flame gold, so it's not a loss."

Hearing this, the crystal in the center of the forehead of the tallest Crystal Fire Clan member flashed, and his tone became much more relaxed: "That may be so, but... forget it, let's go back."

The other two Crystal Fire Clan members relaxed. The captain teased one of them: "Yante, Ye Ci is in a hurry to go back to get married, what are you in a hurry for?"

"I'm afraid of death, hehe~" The three Crystal Fire Clan members did not notice a ripple of seven colors appearing in the Void Realm...