Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 285 The Secret of the Underground [Subscription Request]

Without having to pay attention to Zhou Chun's situation anymore, Zhou Mingde, working together with his pet Vulcan Jackal, was indeed not afraid of the giant insect composed of a swarm of insects at all.

Although the aura emitted by the giant insect is comparable to that of a third-tier top-grade monster, its strength is obviously not comparable to that of a real third-tier top-grade monster.

After Zhou Mingde and his servant fought with it for about half a minute, the aura emitted by the giant insect began to subside.

After all, the strength of those ordinary monster insects is too low, and it is difficult for them to maintain such high-intensity combat for a long time.

At this moment, Zhou Chun, who was watching the game, suddenly felt distracted and couldn't help but look in a certain direction.

But in the southwest sky, several beams of light from monks were seen rushing towards the battlefield at a rapid speed.

After a while, four figures, three men and one woman, appeared outside the battlefield.

Among these four people, two are Purple Mansion cultivators, and the other two are in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

After the four of them stopped outside the battlefield and observed the situation for a while, a middle-aged man with Purple Mansion cultivation said loudly: "Fellow Daoist in front, do you need our help?"

Hearing this, Zhou Mingde frowned immediately and slowed down the pace of fighting the giant insect.

He took the time to look at the four people outside the battlefield and found that they were a combination of a mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator and an early-stage Purple Mansion cultivator. Their overall strength should be on par with his.

Although now is a special period when all human cultivators unite to fight against the insect plague, it stands to reason that no cultivator would dare to take such a big risk by killing people and stealing treasures under such circumstances. But it is better to be safe than sorry, who knows if there will really be such a crazy person!

So after thinking for a while, Zhou Mingde still responded in a deep voice: "Since fellow Taoists are willing to help, Zhou will naturally be grateful."

Hearing this answer, the middle-aged man who spoke laughed and said, "Haha, Brother Zhou is straightforward. Then Shen will come to help you."

After saying that, he joined the battle together with another woman in a red dress who was in the early stage of Purple Mansion cultivation.

With the addition of these two new forces, the giant insects formed by the swarm were quickly dispersed by the three people and the jackal. The third-level insect king inside was finally bitten by the Fire God Jackal and his head was twisted off.

After killing the remaining evil insects, the two groups came together to communicate with each other.

Through communication, we learned that the middle-aged man was named Shen Borong and the woman in red skirt was named Ruan Hongzhuang, and they were both from Qi State, west of Yang State.

This time, the two of them brought their descendants to the territory of Yang State, and they also had an idea in mind with the two people from the Zhou family, wanting to see if they could find something to restrain the insect swarm.

They were attracted here because they saw the giant insect from afar.

After the two sides briefly exchanged their origins, Shen Borong took the initiative to bring up the topic and said, "We have found many insect nests before, but those nests were either completely abandoned or only had a few old, weak and sick insects left. This is the first time I have come across an insect nest with a large number of demon insects like this one. Could there be some other mystery here?"

coming!

Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun both raised their eyebrows, knowing that the most troublesome thing was about to happen.

There are not so many fools in this world. What they can think of, others can naturally think of as well.

Now that Shen Borong has made the matter clear, they can no longer play dumb.

Zhou Mingde quickly replied, "That's what we guessed, but we have to find out whether it's true or not."

As soon as the voice fell, Ruan Hongzhuang beside him said: "Then let's start exploring now, so as not to have more trouble at night."

When she said "we", it sounded as if she was very familiar with the Zhou family.

Zhou Mingde couldn't help but turn his head and look at her. He didn't say anything more, but just nodded slightly, which was considered as his agreement.

Then the three parties separated and dug in the mountains and the ground to search for the secret underground.

It didn't take long for them to find the reason.

It turned out that there were a large number of crops such as kudzu and cassava growing underground in this mountain range. Although the fire burned the vines and tree trunks on the ground, most of the edible parts underground were intact.

The insect colonies can still maintain their daily needs by eating these underground potato crops.

That's why the insect swarm here didn't migrate away.

After figuring this out, the three parties were undoubtedly quite disappointed.

"I never thought that the truth would be so simple!"

Next to a dug-up mountain, Shen Borong looked at the potato crops buried in the ground with a grim expression.

They had many guesses in their minds, but they had never thought about this simplest situation.

How could they not be extremely disappointed when they discovered that the truth was so simple?

"Now that the truth is clear, Zhou and I will not stay here any longer. Fellow Daoist Shen, Fellow Daoist Ruan, take care of yourselves!"

Just when Shen Bowen and Ruan Hongzhuang were staring at the potato crops in disappointment, Zhou Mingde suddenly spoke out to indicate his intention to leave.

After hearing what he said, Shen and Ruan looked at the two people from the Zhou family, nodded, said some polite words, and watched them leave.

After watching the two people from the Zhou family go away, Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang, who were unwilling to give up, searched the mountains several times, and finally left the place unwillingly.

On the other hand, although the two members of the Zhou family were quite disappointed, at least they did not gain nothing.

Although the intervention of Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang reduced their harvest, the corpse of the third-level demon insect finally fell into their hands.

Compared with third-order monsters, third-order monster insects do not have inner elixirs condensed in their bodies. This is the biggest reason why third-order monster insects are generally not as strong as third-order monsters and Purple Mansion Stage cultivators.

But this does not mean that the corpse of the third-level demon insect has no value.

In fact, the corpse of a third-level demon insect is a treasure in itself.

The shells, claws, sharp teeth, and even the eyes of the demon insects are all very good materials for refining weapons.

And the collected corpses of the second-level demon insects can also be taken to the market and sold for spirit coins.

Because the reinforcements from various countries and factions began to exterminate the demon insects in Rong State, they also offered relevant rewards to their disciples. The corpse of a second-level demon insect could allow those disciples to gain a lot of good deeds in their sect.

Since the corpses of demon insects have this function, naturally there will be people willing to buy the corpses at a slightly lower price to improve their battle records.

But just as the two were about to continue looking for something to restrain the demon insects in Yang State, Zhou Chun seemed to remember something and suddenly shouted, "Something is wrong! Something is wrong!"

"What's wrong? Zhengchun, what did you think of?"

Zhou Mingde was stunned and couldn't help but stop the Fire God Jackal he was riding. He looked at Zhou Chun in confusion.

Zhou Chun did not hide anything and said in a deep voice: "Grand Elder, think about it. Even if the potatoes buried underground can be used as food for the demon insects, how can the second-level and third-level demon insects grow by just eating these ordinary foods without any spiritual power?" Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde's eyes narrowed and he immediately said: "You mean, there are other things buried underground?"

"I can't really say for sure now, but there must be some other reason behind this unreasonable thing!"

Zhou Chun answered Zhou Mingde's question in a low voice, and expressed his meaning.

"Okay, then let's go back and look for it carefully!"

Zhou Mingde did not hesitate and made a decision quickly.

So the two of them turned back into the mountains.

This time, the two of them not only searched the ground thoroughly themselves, but also released their spirit pets to help search together.

After searching for a long time, I actually made an unexpected discovery.

The one that discovered the anomaly was the golden-armored rock turtle.

It was originally an earth-born monster, but later mutated and developed gold attributes, giving it a sensitivity to the earth that is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

This time, when it was searching alone in the mountains, it vaguely sensed a strong earth-based spiritual power hidden deep in the earth, and then notified Zhou Chun.

After Zhou Chun learned about the abnormality underground from the golden-armored rock turtle, he immediately asked Zhou Mingde to start digging according to the golden-armored rock turtle's perception.

In order to avoid making too much noise and being discovered by other monks passing by, this time they set up a formation they carried with them to cover up the noise of the excavation.

After digging about a hundred feet deep, the two finally discovered something abnormal underground through their spiritual sense.

It turned out that the rich earth-based spiritual power that the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle sensed was actually emitted by a kind of spiritual jade.

Deep underground in this mountain range, there is actually a mine of [Earth Crystal Jade] buried!
[Earth Crystal Jade] is a good thing.

This kind of spiritual jade contains pure earth-based spiritual power and has an excellent ability to accommodate earth-based spiritual power. It plays a great role in the fields of refining equipment and formations.

Generally speaking, this item is one of the necessary materials when building a mountain protection formation.

Moreover, Zhou Mingde also knew that some Jindan stage cultivators would use secret methods to extract the earth-based spiritual power contained in the [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] to condense magic weapons, which could enhance the power of the magic weapons!
Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, this kind of spiritual object has the least trouble selling and its price is also very expensive.

It is obvious that those evil insects refused to migrate and chose to stay because they discovered the [Earth Crystal Jade] mines and sufficient food here.

If they had not been discovered and destroyed by Zhou Chun and his team, and if those evil insects had not been given enough time, relying on the abundant food here and the [Earth Yuan Crystal Jade] mine, this insect swarm might have multiplied into a population of tens of millions!
After all, when winter passes and spring comes, the land of Yangguo that was burned by fire will surely come back to life.

Then the swarm will have more food to eat.

"[Earth Crystal Jade] is indeed a good thing. Even if this vein is just a tiny one, it is worth no less than a million spirit coins!"

"But this is Yang Country. Our Zhou family is thousands of miles away from here. How can we mine this mineral vein?"

At this moment, Zhou Mingde, after feeling happy, quickly looked at Zhou Chun and told him the problem.

The value of the mineral vein is unquestionable, but mining it is extremely difficult.

In the past, many independent cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation had discovered mineral veins, but because they were alone and weak, they were ultimately unable to possess the veins.

Those who are capable and courageous may be able to sell the mineral information for a good price.

Those who don’t have the strength and courage can only secretly dig some ore and sell it, and they have to be very careful when selling it.

Although the Zhou family is also a powerful force, their family is far away in Jingguo, so it is obviously impossible for them to send people to occupy this [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] mine and mine it.

If they cannot occupy this place and mine the mineral veins, then this discovery will obviously be of little significance to them.

It's impossible for the two of them to follow the example of those casual cultivators and secretly mine here!
Therefore, after Zhou Chun heard Zhou Mingde's words, his excitement suddenly disappeared and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

To be fair, he certainly didn't want to give up this [Earth Crystal Jade] mine.

This is definitely the most precious mineral vein discovered by the Zhou family so far, and it is even more high-grade than the black crystal stone mine shared by the four families.

Moreover, they are the only ones who know about this mineral vein at present, and it can be said that there is no force nearby the mineral vein now.

But they had to face the reality that the small Zhou family really could not lay their hands on such a mineral vein thousands of miles away.

Not to mention the Zhou family, even if it were a big force like Qinglian Temple, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to reach so far!
At this time, seeing that Zhou Chun remained silent for a long time, Zhou Mingde tried to suggest: "Why don't we find a force to sell this news? With my cultivation strength, as long as I am not too greedy, I should be able to sell this news for 30,000 to 50,000 spirit coins!"

Selling the information about the mineral vein is undoubtedly a very bad idea, and it is something that only a casual cultivator would do.

But compared to owning a precious land but being unable to mine it, selling it in exchange for spirit coins is undoubtedly an option.

Thirty to fifty thousand spirit coins are nothing compared to the value of the [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] mine. There will definitely be forces that are interested in this.

As Zhou Mingde is at the Purple Mansion stage, doing this kind of business is relatively safe and he won't be easily murdered to silence him.

But how could Zhou Chun be willing to use such a bad strategy!
He was not in a hurry to respond to Zhou Mingde's words and was still thinking about a better way to deal with the situation.

After a long period of time passed, Zhou Chun's expression suddenly relaxed, as if he had thought of a good idea.

He looked up at Zhou Mingde, smiled and said, "I have thought of a better way to deal with it than selling the mine. Grand Elder, you may as well guess what it is!"

"You kid, you're still keeping me in suspense!"

Zhou Mingde's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but urge, "Tell me quickly, what good idea did you come up with?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately smiled and said, "I think that although my Zhou family cannot send people to mine this [Earth Crystal Jade] vein, it does not mean that my Zhou family cannot use this [Earth Crystal Jade] vein!"

"What do you mean? If we can't mine it, how can we use it?"

Zhou Mingde frowned, not understanding what Zhou Chun meant.

Zhou Chun saw this and immediately spread his hands and said, "Grand Elder, think about it. We can ask someone who is capable of mining this [Earth Crystal Jade] vein to come and start mining, and then we can take a cut from the profits!"

"Who has this ability?"

Zhou Mingde asked, too lazy to think about it anymore.

"Of course it's Senior Lin Hongyu. With her cultivation in the late Purple Palace, she can definitely come to Yang Country to occupy a spiritual land and build a stronghold after the insect plague is eliminated. After Yang Country was robbed, it is hard to attract powerful people from all sides to occupy land here like before!"

"When Senior Lin Hongyu opens a mine here, she can use most of the output as she pleases. As the information provider, it's not too much for our Zhou family to give her 20% of the profits!"

(End of this chapter)