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Chapter 160 Rat Extermination Master Bai Bai, Everything is Ready [Subscribe]

However, after Zhou Chun left Mushizhai, he did not leave Jinquan Market immediately. Instead, he continued to inquire about the two elixirs in other pharmacies or grocery stores.

But apart from learning in a medicine shop that one could exchange elixirs of the same age for golden leaf bamboo grass, there was nothing else he gained.

In this way, he could only leave Jinquanfang City temporarily, and go to the place where the gold-eating rats given by Luo Qingyi were located according to the map, preparing to obtain the top-grade gold-eating rat gall first.

The gold-eating rat is a low-level monster that likes to chew on various spiritual minerals and metals.

Therefore, where these monsters gather together, there must be mineral veins.

The locations of the several groups of gold-eating rats given by Luo Qingyi are near several spiritual mines in Cangzhou.

These monsters are hated by the owners of spiritual mines. They will dig holes everywhere in the mines to steal spiritual gold ore and attack monks who are mining.

Therefore, the owners of spiritual mines often issue missions to eliminate these monsters.

However, the gold-eating rat is very good at digging holes. Its nest is often located hundreds of feet underground. It is also waterproof, fireproof and smoke-proof. Many foundation-building monks have no way to deal with this beast.

But Zhou Chun didn't care about these ground rats at all.

His Silver Electric Thunder Python is the natural enemy of these rats. As long as he finds the passage leading to the rat's nest and puts the Silver Electric Thunder Python in, he can definitely wipe out the rat's nest in one fell swoop!
So not only did he not catch mice secretly, but he went to a spiritual gold mine openly and took on a task to clear out a rat's nest.

The reward for this task is not small. For each ordinary gold-eating rat corpse, you can get one spirit coin. If you are willing to hand over the corpse to the mine, you can exchange it for two spirit coins, which adds up to three spirit coins.

After Zhou Chun received the task, he left the mine under the expectant gaze of the foundation-building monks guarding the mine, and went to the mine to explore the locations of several suspected gold-eating rat nests.

When he arrived near the location, Zhou Chun left some rat-luring food that he had specially prepared before arriving in some places to attract the gold-eating rats to come and eat it.

He concealed his aura and hid in the dark, monitoring the baits with his spiritual sense.

Less than half a day later, he found two gold rats coming out of a hole in the ground and taking away the food.

However, those two gold-eating rats were only as big as ordinary house cats, and the cave they dug was so big that Baibai, the silver electric thunder python, could not get into it now.

So Zhou Chun had to find the main road leading to the rat's nest.

In order to facilitate the entry and exit of the larger Rat King, that kind of main road would be wider than other underground rat tunnels. With the current size of Baibai the Silver Electric Thunder Python, it should be able to barely pass through.

So Zhou Chun continued to throw baits everywhere, and determined the approximate location of the gold-eating rats' nests by the time and number of their appearance.

After about three days, he had explored several locations given to him by the mine and finally determined one of them.

It was a stone mountain about twenty miles away from the location of the mine. The rat's nest was probably located deep underground beneath the stone mountain.

Because gold-eating rats are active everywhere, there are rat holes everywhere around this stone mountain, and no ordinary wild animals dare to approach here.

At this time, Zhou Chun was patiently searching around the stone mountain for the rat hole leading to the main road of the rat's nest.

He knew that although the gold-eating rat was an underground burrowing monster, it would occasionally come to the surface to enjoy the sun and find food, and the Rat King would have the same need.

Therefore, the large and small rat holes in the mountains must be the main roads leading to the rat nests.

After searching for another two days, he finally found his target.

I saw a rat hole more than a foot wide, under a big rock halfway up the stone mountain, extending obliquely downwards, leading to a rat's nest that was located at an unknown depth underground.

Zhou Chun looked at the rat hole in front of him, stretched out his hand and patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and released the silver electric thunder python.

Then he gently touched the silver python's head and whispered, "Baibai, it's up to you. Remember to catch the Rat King alive and bring him up. A dead one will be useless!"

hiss--

The silver python raised its head and hissed a few times to show that it understood, then dived into the rat hole.

As Baibai crawled into the rat hole, the spiritual connection between Zhou Chun and it began to become weaker and weaker. Later on, he could only vaguely sense its location, but could no longer communicate with it.

Deep underground, the silver electric thunder python meandered down the rat hole and soon arrived near the rat's nest.

The arrival of the natural enemy also frightened the gold-eating rats on guard outside the nest. They screamed in alarm and then turned and ran away.

Inside the rat's nest, the gold-eating rat king, who was originally sleeping soundly with a female rat in his arms, woke up instantly after the alarm sounded, with a hint of panic in his eyes.

Squeak!
It screamed, calling for the gold-eating rats in the rat's nest to come and protect it.

In fact, in the past, there were monks who had tamed snake monsters and took on the task of exterminating rats and came to eliminate the gold-eating rats.

But even if it was a top-grade demon snake of the first rank, if it went deep into the rat's nest alone, it would be bitten to death or injured by a large number of gold-eating rats, and would not be able to truly eliminate these pests.

So although the Rat King was a little panicked at the moment, he did not abandon his nest and flee immediately.

After all, in addition to the adult gold rats, there are also many baby rats that have not yet left the nest.

If they abandon their nest and flee, these little mice will all die.

However, it never expected that the demon snake that broke into the rat's nest this time was not a first-level demon beast, but a second-level demon beast!

When the figure of the Silver Electric Thunder Python appeared in the rat's nest, the Rat King's body suddenly shook, and his eyes instantly showed extreme fear. He turned around and wanted to escape.

But it saw the Silver Electric Thunder Python Baibai, and Baibai naturally saw it as well.

Bai Bai would not let the rat king, which Zhou Chun had specifically instructed to be captured alive, escape.

Immediately, a bolt of lightning spewed out of his mouth and landed on the Rat King.

In order to prevent the Rat King from being killed instantly with one strike, the power of this lightning was deliberately weakened a lot, to almost only 10% of its strength.

Even so, the Rat King, who was struck by lightning, fell to the ground with his hair standing on end and smoke rising from his face.

The other gold-eating rats were instantly furious.

They couldn't even block the Rat King, so how could they have the courage to attack the Silver Electric Thunder Python that exuded a second-level aura? They all scattered and tried to escape.

But how could the Silver Electric Thunder Python let these delicious foods escape? It immediately fired lightning bolts, instantly electrocuting a large number of gold-eating rats to death.

After a while, the rat's nest was filled with the smell of barbecue.

The Silver Lightning Thunder Python looked at the barbecued meat on the ground but did not rush to eat it. Instead, it went to check on the Rat King first.

After finding out that the rat king was just unconscious, it swam towards the nest of the rat babies in the rat's nest and started eating them.

After eating dozens of baby mice in one breath, it looked at its slightly bulging stomach, and then continued to eat the dead mice.

When it was about 60% full, it stopped eating, grabbed the rat king in one bite, and turned back the same way. Not long after, Zhou Chun, who was waiting on the mountain, saw it coming out of the rat hole with the rat king in its mouth.

"Good job!"

Looking at the Rat King that was spit out on the ground, Zhou Chun's face was instantly filled with a happy smile.

Then he was not in a hurry to kill the Rat King, and took the Rat King directly to the mine.

"Friend Hu, you see, this rat king has been captured by me. Can I be considered to have completed the task of destroying the rat nest?"

Outside the mine, Zhou Chun placed the unconscious Rat King in front of the monk guarding the place, and then looked at him and talked about the mission of destroying the rat's nest.

He learned from Baibai that there were dozens of dead gold-eating rats in the rat's nest.

It can be said that except for those gold-eating rats that went out to look for food, most of the rat nests were destroyed by him.

Moreover, without the leadership of the Rat King, these gold-eating rats can only wait until a new Rat King is born before they can become powerful again.

Seeing the Rat King thrown out by Zhou Chun at this moment, the foundation-building cultivator named Hu who was guarding the mine was also shocked.

After he carefully checked it out, he said in surprise: "It really is the Rat King!"

Then he looked at Zhou Chun with a sharp gaze and said, "Fellow Daoist Jiang is really good at this!"

"Can you tell me how you did it?"

When Zhou Chun heard what he said, he smiled faintly and said, "I'm sorry, this matter involves Jiang's personal secrets, so it's not convenient to disclose it to Fellow Daoist Hu."

After that, he said confidently: "I can guarantee that most of the gold-eating rats in the rat nest have been eliminated, and their bodies are also in the rat nest. Fellow Daoist Hu can arrange people to dig the mountain and collect evidence at any time!"

When the cultivator surnamed Hu heard him say this, he did not ask for more details. He just responded in a deep voice: "Why do we need to dig the mountain to collect evidence? We have people in the mine who have tamed monsters and can enter the rat's nest to verify. Since Fellow Daoist Jiang is so confident, I will take people with you to go there."

"This is better."

Zhou Chun responded and rushed to the stone mountain with the cultivator named Hu and a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage.

Then, just outside the rat hole that the Silver Electric Thunder Python entered, the Qi Refining cultivator brought by the cultivator named Hu released a fire rat monster into it.

At the beginning, because the breath of the Silver Electric Thunder Python was still lingering in the cave, the fire rat monster refused to go in.

Later, it was forced by its owner that it crawled in tremblingly.

Not long after, the fire rat monster crawled out of the rat hole, squeaking and telling its owner what it had seen and heard in the cave.

When he learned that the rat's nest was really filled with the corpses of gold-eating rats, the monk named Hu instantly believed Zhou Chun's words.

Then, after a moment of hesitation with his eyes flickering, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Brother Jiang, I can judge that you have completed the task of destroying the rat nest, but you have to leave the body of the rat king to me to report to the family. And because the body of the gold-eating rat inside is difficult to take out, I can only give you a basic reward of 300 spirit coins."

"That's fine too. Then please wait for a moment, Brother Hu."

Zhou Chun nodded, and immediately took the unconscious Rat King to the side, performed a laparotomy on the spot, and took out a black rat gallbladder as big as a thumb.

Then he processed the fresh rat gall and put it into a jade box, and handed the body of the Rat King to the monk named Hu.

Seeing this, the cultivator surnamed Hu was straightforward. He immediately took out the spirit coins from his storage bag and handed them to Zhou Chun, saying, "Here are three hundred spirit coins. Fellow Daoist Jiang, keep them."

"Fellow Daoist Hu is very straightforward. Jiang will take his leave now."

Zhou Chun put away the spirit coins, bowed to the cultivator named Hu, and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, the cultivator surnamed Hu suddenly said, "Brother Jiang, could you please leave your contact information? I may need your help in the future."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun immediately understood what he meant.

Then he thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Then Fellow Daoist Hu can send someone to deliver the letter to Lingshouzhai in Hongyafang Market in Lanzhou. The shopkeeper there will naturally forward the letter to Jiang."

"Is this the Spirit Beast House in Hongyafang City?"

The cultivator surnamed Hu looked thoughtfully at the spirit beast bag on Zhou Chun's waist, then nodded and said, "Okay, Hu will remember it."

"Then we'll see each other again."

"See you soon."

The two men saluted each other, and then Zhou Chun took off into the air and left the stone mountain under the gaze of the monk named Hu.

After watching Zhou Chun go away, the monk surnamed Hu waved his hand and said, "We will leave too. When we return, we will ask people to dig holes in the mountain. The corpses of the gold-eating rats in the holes and the spiritual gold ore they stole cannot be wasted."

In fact, it is not too difficult for a cultivator to dig a passage leading to a depth of one hundred feet underground without having to worry about alarming the gold-eating rats and causing them to move.

On the other side, after Zhou Chun left Shishan, he went straight back to his family.

It was impossible for him to go alone to exchange for the golden leaf bamboo roots, otherwise he might not be able to leave Cangzhou alive.

So he planned to ask the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan to bring the Supreme Elder's Fire God Jackal to come after he returned. That way, if anyone really dared to attack them for a 500-year-old golden-leaf bamboo grass, don't blame them for being ruthless.

Half a month later, Zhou Chun, who came to Cangzhou again with the third elder Zhou Daoquan, successfully exchanged a five-hundred-year-old spiritual ginseng for golden leaf bamboo grass from a Zifu family in Cangzhou.

Compared to the golden leaf bamboo root which has few uses, the five hundred year old ginseng which has a wide range of uses is undoubtedly more valuable.

The five hundred year old spiritual ginseng that Zhou Chun used in this exchange was also obtained from the Wang family of Hongyao Valley. The object of exchange was exactly the one tael and four qian of fragrant musk incense that he had left in his hand.

The Wang family also made a lot of money from him in this transaction.

Therefore, all in all, neither of the two families that made deals with Zhou Chun suffered any loss, and he was the only one who paid for this necessary item.

It is not known whether it was because of Zhou Daoquan’s cultivation in the late stage of foundation building that had a deterrent effect, but after the transaction was completed, Zhou Chun and his companions had a smooth journey and did not encounter any attacks.

With the two main ingredients for refining Jinling Tiaoqi Powder in hand, Zhou Chun quickly asked the clan leader Zhou Daoyi to take the Jinling Tiaoqi Powder recipe to the Li family, the alchemy family, and ask the Li family's master alchemist to personally refine the medicine.

Because the Zhou family provided the recipe this time, the Li family's alchemy master readily took on the job and did not charge a penny.

Less than half a month passed, and the fully refined Golden Spirit Regulating Qi Powder came into Zhou Chun's hands.

At this point, he had already made all the preparations needed to switch to practicing "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art". He only had to wait for clan leader Zhou Daoyi's pet, the Azure Cloud Python, to successfully transform into a dragon, and then he could go into seclusion and practice this top-level technique.

First update today! Next, a key plot will unfold, not the transformation into a dragon, but the foreshadowing laid out before!

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