God of Pets

Chapter 271 Valley of Beasts

“Deputy Commander Chen, we discovered Hundred Beast Valley first, and it’s within the territory of our Jade Kirin Camp. It should be our responsibility to guard it, don’t you think?” Bai Yueguang spoke with an air of entitlement.

“Deputy Commander Bai, that’s a rather impolite way of speaking. Hundred Beast Valley is clearly within our guarded area…” Zhu Hongzhi immediately retorted.

"Wait a minute." Chen Guan interrupted the two, then looked at Bai Yueguang and asked, "Vice Commander Bai, is Hundred Beast Valley within your jurisdiction?"

"Yes," Bai Yueguang replied decisively.

"Deputy Commander Zhu, is Hundred Beast Valley also within your jurisdiction?" Chen Guan asked Zhu Hongzhi.

“That’s right.” Zhu Hongzhi nodded emphatically.

"Was the Valley of a Hundred Beasts only recently discovered?" Chen Guan asked again.
“We just discovered it two days ago,” Bai Yueguang said.

"What you just discovered? We were there too..." Zhu Hongzhi immediately retorted.

"That's right." Chen Guan suddenly clapped his hands, startling Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi, who stared at him blankly, wondering what he meant.

“Since this is a newly discovered area, it should be explored by our vanguard team first. Why don’t you two return to your camps and wait until our vanguard team has found out and confirmed that there is no danger inside? Once the corps commander returns, we will then inform you both to discuss who should guard Hundred Beast Valley,” Chen Guan said seriously.

Jiang Tianqing, who had just taken out his thermos to quench his thirst and watch the show unfold, nearly choked on the water he had just drunk when he heard Chen Guan speak.

I thought Chen Guan was there to mediate the fight, but it turns out another person came along trying to take advantage of the situation.

Jiang Tianqing coughed as he looked at Chen Guan, his expression quite complicated.

Upon hearing Chen Guan's words, Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi immediately said in unison, "This place was discovered by our battalion, so there's no need for the vanguard battalion to trouble themselves."

"Aren't we really going to ask our vanguard battalion to scout ahead first? What if there are some dangerous spirits in there...? Let's leave the dirty work to our vanguard battalion..." Chen Guan said, squinting his eyes.

Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi were both speechless. In the past two days, they had already figured out the situation in Hundred Beast Valley. Now, everyone in the army knew that there were many rare and unusual spirits in Hundred Beast Valley, as well as many rare and precious natural treasures such as Ganoderma lucidum, which were all top-grade qi-tonifying herbs.

Although they didn't dare send people in on a large scale at first, and the two battalions only sent scouts to explore, they have already seen quite a few hundred-year-old and even thousand-year-old stone lingzhi mushrooms.

Stone Ganoderma is one of the main ingredients for making top-grade Qi-replenishing pills. The price of a hundred-year-old stone Ganoderma is already quite high, while the price of a thousand-year-old stone Ganoderma is even more astronomical.

The key issue is that the level of the spirits inside is not high, mostly only a few or a dozen levels. Moreover, due to their previous isolation from the world, these spirits have a large amount of rare and precious materials to eat, so their combat power is not very strong. They are all spirits that do not consume flesh and blood.

If Chen Guan's vanguard team were to go in and take a look, wouldn't they dig up all the rare and precious materials?
"No need," Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi replied with unusual firmness.

“That won’t work either. How can you two teams guard the area? It’s hard to assign them. Let our vanguard team guard the area first, and we’ll decide on the assignments when the corps commander returns,” Chen Guan said.

"Easy to allocate... easy to allocate..." Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi were both anxious. This was a great place they had discovered, how could they let Chen Guan reap the rewards?

"Alright, then you two suggest how to divide it," Chen Guan asked, looking at the two of them.

Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi understood that Chen Guan was putting them in a difficult position, but there was nothing they could do.

The two exchanged a glance, and Zhu Hongzhi spoke first: "Let's develop it together and split everything equally. What does Deputy Commander Bai think?" "Excellent," Bai Yueguang nodded in agreement.

The two made their decision in just a few words. Zhu Hongzhi smiled and said to Chen Guan, "Vice Commander Chen, why don't you come with us into the valley and take a look? We can pick up a few stone lingzhi mushrooms to make wine and count it as a contribution from our Mo Qilin Camp."

He knew in his heart that Chen Guan did not intend to compete with them for Hundred Beast Valley, and that the mediation was relatively fair, without favoring those from better backgrounds like the Jade Kirin Camp.

"Commander Chen likes to eat Ganoderma lucidum, so please eat as much as you like. There's no need to worry about such things. Come with us into the valley," Bai Yueguang said with a smile.

Watching the group of people chatting and laughing as they headed towards the entrance of Hundred Beast Valley, Jiang Tianqing felt like a million grass mud horses were galloping through his mind. He had just talked himself hoarse trying to get the two battalions to jointly guard and develop Hundred Beast Valley, but Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi completely ignored him.

Chen Guan just stood there, and they immediately said they wanted to split it 50/50. Jiang Tianqing felt like he'd really screwed over today.

"You two bastards!" Jiang Tianqing gritted his teeth inwardly, but quickly followed after them.

Wild Ganoderma lucidum is a good thing; it would be nice to get some fresh ones to soak in alcohol and drink.

Each battalion was arranged to rest and recuperate. Chen Guan and his companions passed through a narrow crevice in the mountain wall and arrived at a strange valley.

The valley is surrounded by cliffs on all sides, and many exotic flowers and herbs grow in it, with lingzhi mushrooms being the most abundant. The ground and even the mountain walls are covered with clumps of lingzhi mushrooms of different sizes.

These Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms come in different colors: black, white, and gray. According to Bai Yueguang, the white stone Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms are basically less than 100 years old, while the gray ones are more than 100 years old. Depending on the shade of gray, they may be 100 years old or 800 or 900 years old.

The black ones are all over a thousand years old, and those stone lingzhi are extremely valuable.

Chen Guan glanced around and saw that, in the area he could see, there were countless white stone lingzhi mushrooms growing in clusters.

Gray and black Ganoderma lucidum are also quite common; you can see them in small groups.

"Deputy Commander Chen, that thousand-year-old stone lingzhi over there looks quite good. Taking it back to make a soup would definitely be incredibly delicious," Bai Yueguang said to Chen Guan, pointing to a black stone lingzhi as big as a washbasin.

The only stone lingzhi mushroom that can be seen in this area is that one plant, which is the largest and has the darkest color.

"Then I won't stand on ceremony." Chen Guan summoned a wild ghost pet and sent it over to pick up the thousand-year-old stone lingzhi.

Although we had already scouted the area beforehand and found no powerful mystic spirits, and the mystic spirits at the entrance had already been cleared out, there shouldn't be any threat left.

However, Chen Guan did not pick it up himself. He just watched from afar as the pet ghost went over, held the millennium-old stone lingzhi the size of a washbasin in his hands, and pulled it off directly.

Bang!
The moment the thousand-year-old stone lingzhi was pulled off, the wild ghost suddenly fell straight to the ground, frozen motionless, as if it were dead.

No matter how Chen Guan issued the commands, the wild ghost pet remained unmoved and could not be retrieved; it seemed to be truly dead.

Chen Guan looked at Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi and found that they also looked astonished.

(End of this chapter)