Chapter two hundred and thirty second: greed blindfolded
When Cao Wenjin arrived at the Lingshi Mine, the number of monks mining inside had reached seventeen.
And after he discovered that the reason why the spiritual energy was soaring into the sky was because of the appearance of the spiritual stone mine, his face was filled with joy at first, and then a look of sadness appeared on his face.
The discovery of the spirit stone mine is of course a good thing, but it would be nice if this time could be moved forward a few decades.
We have just discovered this spiritual stone mine, let alone whether Huangshamen can travel thousands of miles to mine it.
Even if it can be done, it will not take a few years or ten years to mine all the spiritual stones inside, but at least tens or hundreds of years.
And his longevity can no longer last until that time!
"I, Cao Wenjin, please listen to everyone inside now. You have to wait for a cup of tea before they can all come out. Anyone who fails to come out after the time will be treated as a disobedient military order!"
The cold voice, supported by Cao Wenjin's powerful magic power, quickly reached the ears of everyone in the mine.
Zhou Yang, who was using his flying sword to mine, heard the sound, a look of regret flashed in his eyes, and then he immediately put away his flying sword and walked out of the cave without hesitation.
He worked hard for more than half an hour, but did not find the high-grade spiritual stones he wanted. Instead, he found a lot of medium-grade spiritual stones. After cutting, there were thirty or forty pieces, which was considered a big gain.
When he saw Zhou Yang here, a look of surprise flashed through Cao Wenjin's eyes. He looked at Zhou Yang and directly asked via voice transmission: "Boy from the Zhou family, was it you who discovered this spirit stone mine?"
He had always thought that Zhou Yang was a man of great fortune, and now that he saw Zhou Yang here, he naturally thought it was the spiritual stone mine discovered by Zhou Yang.
When Zhou Yang heard Cao Wenjin's question, he had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and finally replied through a message: "Senior, I misunderstood. I am not the first person to discover the spirit stone mine. I just saw the strange phenomenon of spiritual energy rising into the sky."
, just came over to check the situation."
"Is that so?"
Cao Wenjin looked startled, then looked at the other monks who came out, narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice: "Which of you is the first one to discover the spirit stone mine? Come forward and explain!"
Hearing Cao Wenjin's question, Zhou Yang and other people who arrived later all took a few steps back. In the end, only a middle-aged man with a sixth-level cultivation base stood there with a pale face, not knowing what to do.
Seeing this, Cao Wenjin looked directly at the middle-aged man and asked, "Is this the spirit stone mine you discovered?"
"If I tell my ancestors, it is indeed the spirit stone mine discovered by the younger generation." The middle-aged man lowered his head with evasive eyes and admitted it in a low voice.
Cao Wenjin nodded with satisfaction and continued to ask: "How did you find out?"
"Ancestor Mingjian, at that time, the place where the junior was defending was attacked by several third-level monsters at the same time. The junior was defeated and had no choice but to escape with his sword.
"When I fled here, I discovered that there was no spiritual vein here, but the spiritual energy was much richer than in ordinary places. I suspected that there were some spiritual mineral veins underground, so I cut mountains and rocks to check the situation."
"I didn't expect that with one strike of this junior's sword, the spiritual energy accumulated in the underground spiritual stone mine for countless years would swarm out, breaking through the ground and forming a strange phenomenon of spiritual energy soaring into the sky!"
Zhou Yang didn't dare to panic in front of the golden elixir monks, and the middle-aged man certainly didn't dare to tell the truth about how he discovered the spirit stone mine.
After listening to the middle-aged man's story, Zhou Yang compared the situation he found after arriving and basically confirmed that he was not lying.
In fact, it doesn't matter that the middle-aged man said he didn't lie, because the Lingshi mine is here, and he discovered the Lingshi mine, and that's enough.
So Cao Wenjin just nodded slightly, then looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "This place will be sealed for now while you wait for the spiritual stones that were excavated earlier. I will only consider it as an opportunity for you to wait, so I won't confiscate it. Now you wait right away."
Go back and help eliminate the other third-level monsters in the oasis, and we will talk about the rest after everything is over!"
Although they had long thought that Cao Wenjin would not confiscate the harvest from the Lingshi Mine, when they heard the news, Zhou Yang and others were still overjoyed and responded one after another: "Yes, we will obey the orders of our seniors!"
In the next day or two, Zhou Yang and the rest of the Foundation Stage monks were busy chasing down the remaining third-level monsters on the Rhinoceros Continent and collecting the spiritual objects on the oasis.
After sealing the spirit stone mine, Cao Wenjin also returned to the fifth-level spiritual veins to rest and recuperate.
The two "Golden Horned Rhinoceros" opened a cave in the mountain to live in. In order to accommodate the huge size of the two fifth-level monsters, this cave is naturally very large, but the owner of the cave has now been replaced by Cao Wenjin.
After Cao Wenjin searched this cave, he not only obtained several fourth- and fifth-level spiritual objects, but also found a cold spring in it. The cold air emitted by the cold spring was so severe that the foundation-building monks could not stand it even if they stayed nearby for a long time, but this cold air
For physically powerful monsters, it has the effect of tempering the body.
However, neither the spiritual object nor the cold spring was what Cao Wenjin cared about most. What Cao Wenjin cared about the most was half a golden rhinoceros horn about one foot and five feet long.
This half of the golden rhinoceros horn was placed on a stone platform in the corner of the cave hall where the two "golden-horned rhinoceros" lived. It looked similar to the rhino horn that Cao Wenjin chopped off from the "golden-horned rhinoceros", but the aura it exuded was
I don’t know how many times stronger it is.
When Cao Wenjin saw this half of the rhinoceros horn, he seemed to see a giant beast that was hundreds of feet long. The giant beast had a single golden horn on its head, and the tip of the horn pointed diagonally towards the sky. It exuded a domineering and majestic aura.
This makes a late-stage Jindan monk like him feel frightened and almost want to kneel down on the ground and worship.
"The sixth-level demon king! This broken horn belongs to a sixth-level demon king! The two [Golden-horned Rhinoceros] are the descendants of that sixth-level demon king!"
Cao Wenjin looked at the broken horn on the stone platform in horror, his face full of shock.
When he saw that the "golden-horned rhinoceros" actually possessed a high-level magic weapon suitable for use by monsters, he suspected that the two "golden-horned rhinoceros" were related to a certain sixth-level demon king.
Now that he saw the broken horn on the stone platform, he still couldn't guess the origin of the "Golden Horned Rhinoceros" bone ring artifact.
"It's just that since these two [Golden Horned Rhinoceros] are descendants of the sixth-order demon king, why did they bring the tribal people to live in the Sand Sea Oasis?"
"With the blessing of the sixth-level demon king, wouldn't it be better for their tribe to occupy a large territory in the Duanyun Mountains?"
"Could it be that...could it be that the sixth-level demon king had died, and then these two [Golden-horned Rhinoceros] and their tribe were expelled from the Duanyun Mountains by other demon kings after losing the protection of the demon king?"
The more Cao Wenjin thought about it, the brighter his eyes became, and the more he thought about it, the more likely his guess was.
If his guess is true, then after killing two "golden-horned rhinos" this time, Huang Shamen will really make a lot of money!
You must know that Rhinoceros Island is a super large oasis. Although the area of this oasis is not as large as the giant oasis where Huangshamen is located, the products and resources on it are no worse than that giant oasis.
Not to mention anything else, the Lingshi mine with unproven reserves is an extremely huge amount of income.
And the truncated horn in front of him was the strongest single horn on the sixth-level demon king. It would not be a problem to use it to refine sixth-level magic weapons.
If this object is auctioned in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, the obtained spiritual stones will be enough to purchase a "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir"!
Thinking of this, even with Cao Wenjin's state of mind and cultivation, he couldn't help but clasping his hands and praying to the ancestors of Huangshamen: "Bless the ancestors, and bless this younger generation's speculation is true! If this younger generation's speculation is true,
Then not only can I, Huang Shamen, preserve the sect’s inheritance, but in the future, we may be able to use this harvest to recreate the sect’s glory when it was in its heyday!”
With these thoughts in his mind, Cao Wenjin's class teacher was no longer so eager to return to the court.
Moreover, they had just experienced a fierce battle. At this time, the monks on Rhinoceros Continent, from himself to the ordinary foundation-building monks, all needed time to meditate to heal their wounds and restore their mana.
After going back and forth, I have to wait for three to five days to get better.
However, Cao Wenjin never thought that his blindness of greed would bring about a fatal disaster for himself!
However, Jin Peng, who is said to be a fifth-level high-grade monster "Golden-winged Thunder Peng", immediately found out the direction after being entrusted by the "Fire Scale Demon King" and rushed straight to the Rhinoceros Horn Continent.
"Golden Winged Thunder Roc" is already famous for its speed. As the most advanced Golden Winged Thunder Roc in the Duanyun Mountain Range, Jin Roc can't even catch up with ordinary Nascent Soul monks and sixth-order demon kings at full speed.
Although Rhinoceros Continent is located hundreds of thousands of miles away from Jietian Peak where the "Fire Scale Demon King" is located, for it, it is only a few days' journey away.
It flew with lightning speed all the way, and it took less than three days to fly to the outside of Rhinoceros Island.
At this time, Cao Wenjin had not yet recovered from the battle with the two "Golden Horned Rhinos", and his strength was not even 70% of what it was at its peak.
Therefore, when he sensed that the mammoth aura of the fifth-level high-grade monster on Jin Peng was approaching rapidly, we can see how wonderful his expression was at that time.
"The fifth-level high-grade monster is attacking. Everyone should leave the oasis immediately and return to their sects!"
"Repeat it again, the fifth-level high-grade monster is attacking, everyone should leave the oasis immediately and return to the sect!"
The anxious and panicked voices, driven by the powerful magic power of the Golden Core Stage monks, quickly spread throughout the area for hundreds of miles.
After Cao Wenjin warned him twice in a row, he no longer cared about whether the other monks heard his warning or acted according to his warning. He just set up a white cloud and fled outside the oasis.
He knew very well that in his current state, even with the combined power of all the monks on the oasis, he would probably not be a match for that fifth-level high-grade monster.
In this case, it would be better for him to escape first and lure the fifth-level high-grade monster away, so that the other monks on the oasis would have a greater chance of survival.