Cultivation Begins From The Desert

In the vast sea of ​​sand, two Shatuo beasts are running wildly under the urging of the knights on their backs.

And in the desert more than ten miles in front of Shatuo Beast, a raised thin line is spreading towards the depths of the desert at a speed faster than a galloping horse.

The thin line undulates, slanting east and west, and does not follow a straight line. However, no matter how it turns, the two Shatuo beasts chasing behind can always change direction in time to catch up with it.

Even when the thin line stopped extending, the knights on the backs of the two Shatuo beasts would rein in their mounts in time and stop to rest and wait until the thin line appeared and spread forward again before starting to catch up again.

The sun is very hot, and the Shatuo beast's back is very bumpy. For Zhou Yang, who is riding a camel beast in the desert for the first time, this feeling is really uncomfortable.

It is also thanks to the strong physique of the cultivator, and he has not eaten a single grain of rice in the past ten days, so he did not spit out on the spot due to the bumps, but the bumpy feeling like the viscera would be displaced, still almost made him a few times. Couldn't help shouting out.

Looking at the front again, he was also riding a camel beast all the way, but the old man Zhou Quan stood steadily on the hunchback as if he was okay, as if he didn't feel any bumps at all.

A hundred-year-old man can be so calm and at ease, how can a twenty-year-old junior like Zhou Yang have the nerve to shout?

There was no way, he could only clenched his teeth and endured it all the way, hating the escaped [gold-eating rat] to death.

If it wasn't for the successful completion of the plan of "returning rats to their nests", why would he have to suffer so much? The seriously injured【Gold-Eating Rat】had been slaughtered at the fine iron mine.

After chasing for a long time, after hundreds of miles, Zhou Yang, whose face was already pale from the bumps on his hunchback, finally saw the old man Zhou Quan, who was leading the way, restrain the Shatuo beast and stop.

"Huh! Is it finally here?"

He pulled the rein with both hands to rein in the mount, jumped off the hunchback in a state of exhaustion, sat down on the sandy ground covered in sweat, and gasped for breath, out of breath. Not to mention how embarrassing it was.

"Hey hey, there are times when you can't do it, Xiaojiu. This old man thought you were good at everything!"

The old man Zhou Quan walked up to him with ease, seeing his embarrassed appearance, he couldn't help laughing, his face was full of teasing.

"Hoo hoo! I'm already like this, third grandpa, don't make fun of me, let me have a good rest first!"

Zhou Yang rolled his eyes, facing the old man's joke, he just waved his hands with a wry smile, not wanting to move again.

Seeing this, the old man withdrew his smile, and said seriously: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, the bastard must have arrived somewhere, I go over to check the situation first, you can rest here and wait for the old man."

"Third Grandpa, be more careful."

Zhou Yang nodded, and did not object to the old man acting alone.

【Gold-Eating Rat】Has been seriously injured by them, and after traveling for hundreds of miles, it is impossible to pose a threat to old man Zhou Quan who is in good condition. He really doesn't have to worry about the safety of old man Zhou Quan.

Now he is only afraid that his and Zhou Quan's guesses are wrong, or that the ore veins he discovered are not worth mining, and that would be too shocking.

In the following time, Zhou Yang became worried about gains and losses.

For a while, I hope that this time I can find a mine vein of great value, so that both the family and myself can make a fortune.

After a while, he was afraid that this trip would be a waste of energy, let alone a waste of energy, and cause dozens of mortal miners to die.

In such a mood of worrying about gain and loss, he almost counted the time passing by second by second. Several times, he almost couldn't help but followed to find the old man Zhou Quan who was one step ahead.

After waiting for nearly half an hour in this way, the old man Zhou Quan finally came back in his longing eyes.

"How is it? Third grandfather, how is your investigation? Have you found any traces of ore veins?"

He couldn't wait to meet the old man, looked at the old man expectantly and asked about the situation repeatedly.

"Found it, we are lucky, there is a red flame iron vein in front!"

The old man Zhou Quan didn't hold back, and directly stated his discovery.

"Very good!"

Zhou Yang clapped his palms excitedly, almost jumping up in excitement.

Red Flame Iron, like Refined Iron, is also a first-order spiritual gold, but Red Flame Iron is suitable for refining fire-attribute magical artifacts. Many second-order fire-attribute magical artifacts will add red flame iron as auxiliary materials, so in terms of value , Red Flame Iron is one or two points higher than Refined Iron.

The refined iron ore in Qingping Mountain of the Zhou family can bring a net profit of 500 low-grade spirit stones every year. As long as the Chiyan iron ore vein is normally put into mining, the profit will definitely not be lower than this amount. At that time, Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan will be the discoverers. Just getting dividends every year, each person can get dozens of low-grade spirit stones.

Tens of yuan a year, hundreds of yuan in ten years, year after year, that is a huge amount.

How could Zhou Yang not be excited now that he was about to get such a large sum of spirit stones for nothing?

"Xiao Jiu, don't rush to be happy, the old man hasn't finished talking yet!"

The old man Zhou Quan looked at Zhou Yang who was so happy that he was about to jump up, opened his mouth, and said in a low voice: "It is true that the red flame iron ore vein was discovered, but besides the [Gold-Eating Rat], there are other people in this vein. There are a large number of poisonous fire scorpion monsters living there, the number is at least several hundred, there are dozens of second-level poisonous fire scorpions, and it is not sure if there is a more powerful [poisonous fire scorpion king]!"

What?

Zhou Yang's face changed, and he was shocked by the news the old man said.

The poisonous fire scorpion is also a common desert monster in the boundless sand sea. This kind of monster has both first- and second-order monsters. The first-order poisonous fire scorpion only contains fire poison in the scorpion needles. As long as you are careful not to be pierced, the innate monks can Can kill it easily.

However, as long as the poisonous fire scorpion is promoted to the second level, it will immediately be able to obtain the "poison fire bomb" spell, which can attack the enemy with fire-breathing bullets from a long distance. If it is desperate, it can also shoot the scorpion needles on the tail at the enemy. Needle weapon, and contains powerful fire poison.

If monks below the late stage of Qi training are shot by this kind of scorpion needle, unless they take the special second-level detoxification pill immediately, they will burn themselves with poison within a quarter of an hour and die without a whole body.

This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is that once the population of monsters like poisonous fire scorpions reaches hundreds or thousands, there will be a certain chance of evolving into a third-order [poisonous fire scorpion] that is equivalent to a foundation-building monk. king】.

[Poison Fire Scorpion King] belongs to the third-rank low-grade monster, but if it is assisted by a scorpion, it is much more difficult to deal with than many third-rank middle-rank monsters. able to win.

"That's right, poisonous fire scorpions are hot and hot, and they also have the habit of devouring fire-attribute spiritual minerals to strengthen themselves. Red flame iron is used as fire-attribute spiritual gold, so it is not surprising to attract them to multiply and settle here."

Zhou Yang remembered the records of monsters such as the poisonous fire scorpion that he had read in the book "Illustrated Desert Monster Beasts", and immediately believed the old man Zhou Quan's words.

But when he thought of this, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought of a more important thing, he couldn't help but stare at old man Zhou Quan with wide eyes and exclaimed:

"Third Grandfather, [Poison Fire Scorpion King] is a third-order monster. The third-order monster is not comparable to the first-order and second-order monsters. When the monster reaches the third level, it must occupy the spiritual vein like us immortals to continue. Progress, if there really is a [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] here, wouldn't it mean that besides the red flame iron ore veins, there is also a natural third-order spiritual vein underground?"

"That's right, you're quite perceptive. The old man didn't realize this until a long time after he discovered the poisonous fire scorpions."

The old man nodded appreciatively, admiring Zhou Yang's sensitivity.

Generally, when a monk in the Qi training period hears the name of [Poison Fire Scorpion King], they are all intimidated, so they don't have the time to think about it.

Even he, a nine-level Qi training cultivator who has lived for hundreds of years, was terrified when he first saw the swarm of poisonous fire scorpions, and he didn't expect this at all.

It was only after he retreated to a safe zone and calmed down later, because of his career as a beast trainer, that he thought of this.

Zhou Yang didn't care about the old man's praise at all. He had heard similar praise many times over the years, and he already had immunity.

He was more concerned about where the two of them should go next, so he couldn't help but look at the old man and asked, "Then what's the plan for the third grandpa? Go back directly, and ask the old patriarch to come over and find out the situation in person. Or should we take the risk to find out the situation, and then return to the family and report the situation to the old patriarch?"

"What do you think? The old man wants to hear what you think." Elder Zhou Quan didn't answer the question, but used it to test Zhou Yang.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang frowned, and couldn't help lowering his head to think.

After thinking quietly like this for about half a quarter of an hour, he raised his head abruptly, looked at the old man with piercing eyes and said, "If the third grandfather asks my nephew what I think, he should not care whether there is any [Poison Fire Scorpion King] ], let's kill that big rat first, we can't let the miners of my Zhou family die in vain, and we can't let us wait for half a month without any real gains."

In the end, he still felt ashamed of those miners who died in vain, and wanted to do something for them, even if he couldn't save them, at least he wanted to avenge them.

Fortunately, this time, old man Zhou Quan did not object to his proposal.

"Okay, then I'll listen to you, let's take that beast's lair and tear it apart to comfort the souls of those dead miners!" The old man nodded slightly, agreeing to Zhou Yang's proposal.

Therefore, the two immediately found a safe place sheltered from the wind and settled the two Shatuo beasts, and then the old man Zhou Quan sensed the specific location of the "Blood Spirit Mark" and went straight to the nest of the fleeing [Golden Rat] to kill it .

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