395: Chapter 382 System Restart

"You've got guts," Blood Scorpion sneered, cracking his knuckles with a sound like popping beans. "It seems you don't understand the rules here. Newcomer, you have to hand over all your Amethyst to me. Also, your teeth look pretty good. From now on, you're responsible for biting open stones for me! You'll be my bottle opener!"

"Give me the Amethyst in your hands, then kneel down, kowtow three times, call me Grandpa, and crawl through my crotch, and I'll guarantee you won't die."

Blood Scorpion's underlings erupted in laughter.

Lin Feng sighed. Why were there always such self-important idiots no matter which world he went to? Was this the standard entry template for villains?

"And what if I don't?" Lin Feng asked, lifting his eyelids and speaking indifferently.

"Not give?" Blood Scorpion laughed heartily as if he had heard a joke. The laughter was deafening. "If you don't give it, I'll blow your head off! I'll pull your teeth out one by one!"

Before the words left his mouth, Blood Scorpion struck. He held nothing back, throwing a punch.

"Rock Crushing Fist!"

Although this punch had no Qi reinforcement, relying on his terrifying Physical Body strength at the God General level, the air was compressed into a cannonball, emitting a shrill whistle. A strike like this could blast a half-meter-deep crater into even hard Black Fiend rock, let alone a human head.

The surrounding miners couldn't bear to look and closed their eyes. The one-armed old man sighed in despair: "It's over... What a pity for such a promising young man; another corpse will be added to the pile."

However, the expected scene of brains splattering and blood flying did not occur.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud. Everyone opened their eyes and then turned to stone.

Lin Feng was still sitting on that stone, not having moved an inch. He had only extended one index finger. That fair, slender, seemingly powerless, and even delicate-looking index finger rested lightly against Blood Scorpion's massive, vein-covered fist. Steady as a mountain. Not moving a single bit.

Blood Scorpion maintained his punching posture, his entire face turning the color of pig liver. He felt as if his punch had struck an insurmountable mountain; no matter how hard he tried, even using all his strength, the other's finger wouldn't budge.

"This... this is impossible!" A tempestuous storm raged in Blood Scorpion's heart. This was a punch from a God General! How could this kid block it with one finger? Could he be a God King Reincarnation? Or a powerful Body Cultivator?

"Too weak. Didn't you eat breakfast?" Lin Feng looked at the sweating, vein-popping Blood Scorpion, shook his head, his eyes full of disappointment. "Since you want my Amethyst so much, I'll give you a gift. A flick to the forehead."

Lin Feng's finger that was blocking the fist suddenly curled and then flicked lightly. The movement was elegant, even carrying a touch of childlike playfulness. But in Blood Scorpion's eyes, in that instant, he seemed to see a purple meteor crashing toward his forehead. It was the shadow of death.

"Snap!"

A sound, crisp to the extreme, rang out like a thunderclap on flat ground. Blood Scorpion's massive body, over two meters tall and weighing three hundred pounds, was sent flying backward as if hit by a high-speed locomotive. The speed was so fast that afterimages appeared, and he couldn't even manage a scream.

"Boom!"

Blood Scorpion slammed directly into the rock wall thirty meters away. He didn't just hit it and fall; he was embedded directly into it! His entire body, in a spread-eagled shape, was deeply stuck in the incredibly hard Black Fiend rock, impossible to pry out. The surrounding rock showed radial cracks.

On his bald head, a fist-sized purple-red lump had risen; his eyes were rolled back, he was foaming at the mouth, his tongue lolled out, and he had completely passed out. The entire scene was deathly silent. You could hear a pin drop. Everyone had their mouths wide open, their jaws almost hitting the ground. The one-armed old man's dentures even fell out, hitting the ground with a "clatter."

One finger. Instantly defeating the God General-level mine tyrant Blood Scorpion? What kind of strength is this? This is a death-row prisoner? This is clearly a God of Death!

Lin Feng blew on his finger, as if he had just flicked away a fly. He stood up, his gaze coldly sweeping over Blood Scorpion's underlings, who were already scared witless. The underlings felt as if they were being stared at by a prehistoric behemoth; their legs went soft, and with a thud, they knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically until the ground was stained with blood.

"Master! Great Master, spare our lives! We were blind and didn't recognize a superior expert! We were forced into this!"

Lin Feng ignored them and looked around at the dumbfounded, shivering miners. He walked to a high spot and said loudly: "From today on, the rules here have changed." Lin Feng pointed to Blood Scorpion, who was embedded in the wall. "From now on, there is no Blood Scorpion here, only 9527."

"Whoever wants to eat Amethyst, follow me. Whoever wants to bully others, go keep him company on the wall. Do you understand?"

"We... we understand!" Everyone shouted in unison, their voices shaking the heavens.

Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction, dug another piece of Amethyst out of the rock wall, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it up with a "crunch." At this moment, in this dark and sunless Black Fiend Mining Area, a new legend was born. 9527, this number, would become everyone's nightmare.

"Burp—" A burp filled with high-purity energy, enough to intoxicate an ordinary Cultivator just by smelling it, echoed in the deep, silent mine shaft, lingering for a long time.

Lin Feng lounged without any grace on a massive piece of raw Amethyst ore, patting his slightly bulging belly, his face full of contentment. At his feet, the mountain of discarded mine tailings had been turned upside down by him. The low-quality Amethyst hidden in the crevices of the stones, which previous miners had overlooked due to insufficient purity, were now all being treated like beans by him, "crunch, crunch" chewed up completely.

Three full days. The style of Mining Pit No. 9 became extremely bizarre, even absurd. Although the other miners didn't have to hand over tributes under his oppressive might, they still swung their pickaxes with trepidation, fearing they wouldn't finish their tasks. Only Lin Feng was like a master on vacation; his daily tasks were: sleeping, sunbathing under the temperatureless Spirit Stone lamp, and eating a buffet.

And that once arrogant mine tyrant "Blood Scorpion," who had made countless miners tremble in fear, was now crouching next to Lin Feng like a schoolboy who had made a mistake, bruised and swollen. He held several pieces of top-quality Amethyst just dug from the depths of the rock wall, still warm to the touch, his face full of flattery, smiling even more miserably than if he were crying.

"Master, would you like to try this one? This is 'Purple Rhyme Crystal' dug from 3,000 meters deep in the rock core. It's well-aged and definitely crunchy! I specifically cleaned it for you." Blood Scorpion, sporting that still-swollen lump from the flick to the forehead, carefully handed it over.

Lin Feng glanced at it, took the Amethyst, and casually threw it into his mouth. "Snap!" It was like biting into a piece of crispy rock candy.

Just the moment this high-purity energy crystal slid into his stomach, a violent tremor suddenly erupted deep within Lin Feng's Sea of Consciousness. Immediately following, a long-lost yet brand-new electronic notification sound exploded directly in the depths of his Soul. This voice was no longer the rigid, mechanical synthesized sound from before, but was filled with a certain rhythm of the Dao, as if it were an echo from when the Universe first opened.

[Ding!]

[Energy reserves have reached the critical value.]

[Grandmist Law analysis progress: 99%...100%.]

[Underlying logic reconstruction complete. Compatibility test passed.]

[System restarting... Loading Grandmist V1.0 interface...]