Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

Kong nodded. "Yes, he is the Great Sage Who Subdues Demons."

"The Great Sage Who Subdues Demons..."

Zhiqiong's eyes widened further.

Chapter 603 Please Call Me True Lord Bai Yuan

Seeing that Xiao had returned, Jiang Bai put the mined ore into his spatial storage and dusted himself off.

The reason they haven't found a way down underground after so long is largely because Jiang Bai wasted their time.

In order to earn Mora to support Zhongli, Xiao tacitly approved of his behavior of stopping to mine from time to time.

"Did Kong and the others call you?"

"Ah."

"Wait here for a while, they're coming to find you."

"Looking for me? Well, that's a good opportunity to take a break."

Jiang Bai found a rock to sit on and took out food and water.

He had just finished eating when he heard footsteps approaching.

"Handing out flyers!"

The Paimons hadn't arrived yet, but their voices came first.

Jiang Bai put his hands on his hips, "Hey, hey, hey, do you want me to drown you in flyers? Even though you're small and have a small head, my flyers still cost Mora..."

"Hmph!" Paimon flew over and stomped on his head.

"It's only been a few months, and you're already trying to drown me in flyers!"

Jiang Bai grabbed her cloak and dangled it in front of his eyes.

"There's nothing I can do. You asked me to hand out flyers right away."

"Jiang Bai, Jiang Bai, okay!"

"No, please call me True Lord Baiyuan. This is the immortal title I gave myself."

Paimon's lips twitched. "When did you become an immortal? And you even have an immortal title? Besides, immortal titles are all six characters long, and yours is only four."

"That's not true. Who says you can't have a title if you're not an immortal? Besides, isn't the Great Sage Who Subdues Demons also a title with four characters?"

Paimon: "..."

Fine, you're right.

Kong ignored their banter and got straight to the point.

"I heard you're looking for the Yaksha sealed at the bottom of the abyss. Do you have any leads?"

Jiang Bai shrugged. "If we had any clues, we wouldn't be standing here."

"We encountered some treasure-hunting groups on the way, and from them we learned that there was a strange crystal that caused the Abyss's anomaly, so we're going to take a look."

"That's perfect, let's go over together too."

Jiang Bai looked at Xiao, and Xiao nodded in agreement.

He was mainly worried that his karma would affect ordinary people, but now that the adventurer is still drawing maps, he doesn't need to worry about it affecting him anymore.

Jiang Bai chatted with them as they walked.

"By the way, how long have you been down here?"

Paimon counted on his fingers for a moment, "It should be about four days, right? It's the same day and night underground, so I'm not really sure..."

"How much do you know about this?" Jiang Bai took out the Lumenite he had been using for lighting from his waist.

He collected all the lumen stones he saw along the way, but he couldn't put them together, so he only kept one for lighting and put the rest in his storage space.

"This is Lumenite, which, when processed into a catalyst, has the power to purify the black mud."

Kong picked up her own catalyst and showed it to him.

Compared to a single crystal, this catalyst is much purer and brighter.

"This is a catalyst made from a lot of lumenite, which can purify large areas of black mud."

Jiang Bai glanced at it, seemingly lost in thought.

"It looks like all the energy of Lumenite is concentrated in it."

"I've collected quite a few of these lumen stones along the way. Here, take them all and use them as a catalyst for me."

"I'm afraid we'll have to go back to the camp. The catalyst was made by the people at the camp."

"There's no rush."

Jiang Bai still possesses fragments of the Frozen Land, which can also purify the black mud, but it will take time.

With a catalyst, it will be much easier to deal with those black muds blocking the road next time.

The group followed the route drawn on the map and finally arrived at the sealed-off cave entrance that the miner had mentioned.

The entrance to this hole was deliberately sealed off to prevent anyone from accidentally entering the area where the strange crystal was located and causing harm to their health.

How do we get across?

"That's easy, you guys stay away."

With a thought, Jiang Bei quickly transformed the white aura on his arm into a gun.

Geo element continuously gathers within, condensing into a golden Geo element bullet.

boom--

The bullets flew out and struck the hole made of rocks.

Instantly, the stones shattered into fragments and scattered, blasting away all the rubble blocking the cave entrance.

"Wow! The power of your shot is comparable to that of a cannon!" Paimon exclaimed in surprise, clearly unaware of the power of his shot.

Jiang Bai pressed down with one hand in the air, appearing to want to keep a low profile.

"It's precisely because it's too powerful that I don't usually use it; after all, it's too much of a bully."

The gun looks powerful, but it only has absolute suppression against people of lower to middle strength.

If you're fighting a god with top-tier power like Thor, you'd have to use your sword form.

Paimon and Kong rolled their eyes at Jiang Bai's very Versailles-esque remark.

"Let's go inside."

Behind the cave entrance is an abandoned mine tunnel, and the deeper you go, the more black mud you encounter.

The slimes living in the mine tunnels were also greatly affected by the black mud, becoming extremely agitated.

Even Gudu would feel very uncomfortable in such an environment and become unusually irritable.

But the increasing amount of black mud also indicates that they are getting closer to the source.

Soon, a huge space appeared before them.

In the air, a huge blue crystal floated.

The surrounding stone pillars looked as if they had been ravaged, displaying irregular shapes like cubes.

The enormous crystal was exceptionally bright, illuminating the entire space.

Jiang Bai also saw the thick black mud covering the entire ground beneath the floating crystal.

These black muds exude a foul stench, attempting to corrupt the crystals in the air.

"This is……"

Jiang Bai looked at this thing and felt that it was not quite the same as the fragment of the Frostfire Nail he had imagined.

The fragments he saw were probably just shattered pebbles.

This crystal is entirely blue, spherical in shape, and the pure blue light at its center is so intense it appears white.

“It looks very similar to a fragment of the Snow Mountain Cold Sky Nail,” Kong gave an affirmative answer.

He was the one who repaired the Frost Nails of the Snow Mountain, and he knew exactly what those crucial core fragments looked like.

"This can no longer be called a fragment..."

Jiang Bai felt that this thing might be the core source of the nail's power.

"It seems Jinwu was right. Luminous Crystal is a special crystal formed by the dissipation of the power of this crystal. That purifying power also originates from this large crystal."

“They’re fighting,” Xiao suddenly said.

“A confrontation?” Paimon saw through the situation. “Yes, this large crystal wants to purify this black mud, while this black mud wants to pollute this large crystal.”

"Let's clean up that black mud first."

The struggle will continue unless these black sludge are cleared away, and judging from the increasing amount of black sludge in the abyss, the power of this crystal is not enough to suppress them.

Chapter 604 I can't understand it, I really can't understand it.

Jiang Bai grabbed Xiao, who was about to swat down to clean the black mud, and said, "Xiao, don't move, let us do it!"

Xiao frowned.

He is not some hothouse flower that needs to be protected.

It's just the power of the abyss; it's not like we haven't faced it before.

Jiang Bai's protective stance made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Immortal Xiao, this is a trivial matter, you don't need to get involved. The two of us can handle it quickly. You can step in when we encounter a truly dangerous enemy. Kong, don't you agree?"

Jiang Bai put his arm around Kong's shoulder and winked at him.

Kong nodded. "Yes, we can handle it. Trust us."

Although he didn't understand why Jiang Bai didn't want Xiao to make a move, Paimon still obligingly agreed:

"Yes, they'll handle this little thing quickly!"

"Paimon, you stay here with Xiao to keep things under control. We'll be right back."

Purifying the black mud is not difficult; you can simply use the energy emitted by the lumen stone to dissipate it.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the black mud itself is extremely polluted, and even with the protection of the Eye of God, staying there for a long time will still have an impact.

The demon itself is subject to the erosion of karma. When this black mud comes into contact with the body, it will obstruct the flow of elemental power. When the two forces collide, it will produce intense pain. But this is only the effect on the body. These filthy forces will also silently affect the mind.

Unfortunately, Xiao is the kind of person who won't talk about his injuries. Who knows how much these abyssal powers will affect him? So, we should try to prevent him from taking action as much as possible.

The black mud below was very dense. Jiang Bai hovered in the air, trying his best not to come into contact with it. Although the mud didn't affect him, the disgusting, sticky feeling was still quite unpleasant.

Fortunately, this black mud was just a substance produced by the conflict between the power of the abyss and the crystal, not real silt, and had no smell. Otherwise, Jiang Bai would have had to consider shutting down his sense of smell.

"There's a strange device here," Kong noticed the anomaly.

The Lumenite catalyst in his hand purified the filth faster than the Frostfire Nail fragments carried by Jiang Bai. After purifying a large chunk of silt, a strange device was revealed.

The device was buried deep in the ground, and strange runes were carved on it. The crystals that should have been glowing were now dull and lifeless.

He tried to activate the energy of the lumenite catalyst, and the device emitted a pure blue light as it burst forth with light.

Tangible light surged and connected with the fragments floating in the air, making the crystal's radiance much brighter.

"Hmm? This device is used to stabilize this fragment?"

But who exactly placed it here?

"careful!"

A rock element bullet flew past Kong and struck the thrusting spear.

boom!

Another bullet flew past, and the black-clad figure wielding the weapon was blasted directly into the black mud.

Holding the long sword empty-handed, he turned his head in an instant.