Chen Changfeng looked happy after confirming the mining value.
Next, Lu Changfeng carefully explored the surrounding area.
It took more than a day to continuously explore the terrain and landforms, mark various locations, and finally draw a conclusion.
He called Lu Zhiwei and others over and talked about the results of this exploration.
"This ice dragonite vein runs across the earth in a north-south direction, with a length of about two hundred miles and a width of about thirty miles. According to my observations, this is a small vein that can last for about ninety years."
Lu Changfeng explained the details, but he didn't find out whether there were ice dragons nearby in this short period of time.
Everyone was very happy after learning the value of the mineral vein. The value of a piece of ice dragon stone is just over one hundred spiritual stones, and it can be mined continuously for ninety years. This is a huge wealth.
In order to determine whether there was an ice dragon hiding, Lu Changfeng and Lu Zhiwei temporarily stayed in Hongxia Mountain for the next month, using various methods such as spiritual awareness to investigate the area Wanli.
What needs to be focused on is the area of the ice crystal veins.
This lasted for a month, and Lu Zhiwei finally made some discovery.
About three thousand miles away from the west of Hongxia Mountain, an underground cave was discovered. There was a huge cold pool in the cave, occupying half of the entire cave area.
It is not unusual for cold pools to appear underground.
The strange thing is that the area of this cold pool is too large to accommodate several dragons living in it, and the temperature is cold, which is very suitable for ice dragons to live.
Around Hantan, Lu Zhiwei also discovered a strange stone called Jiao's Breath Stone.
The so-called dragon's breath stone is an ore that is born after being contaminated with the dragon's breath for a long time. Its grade is even better than ice dragon stone, reaching the third-level low-grade level.
There is also a cold pool, and the appearance of the Jiao Breathing Stone all confirms that there must have been ice dragons living in this cold pool cave.
When things progressed to this point, Lu Zhiwei was ready to send her spiritual consciousness deep into the cold pool to investigate.
Using spiritual consciousness to investigate would be offensive to monks, and it would be objectionable to be investigated in this way.
Therefore, generally high-level monks or people close to them will directly use their spiritual consciousness to detect the other person's cultivation aura.
As for monsters, monsters below the fourth level will not pay too much attention to the monks' spiritual consciousness exploration, and many of them cannot feel the existence of spiritual consciousness.
However, monsters that have reached the fifth level have already enlightened their spiritual wisdom. Their intelligence is similar to that of teenage children, and they already have their own thoughts.
Once you notice the monk's spiritual exploration, you will feel that your privacy is being spied on.
Therefore, using one's spiritual sense to detect a fifth-level monster is a very risky move and will most likely anger the opponent.
But this is related to the safety of the Zhang family in Hongxia Mountain, and even millions of mortals within a radius of thousands of miles, so we can only take the risk.
If the existence of the ice dragon is discovered, Lu Zhiwei will take action without hesitation to drive it away or kill it.
After informing Lu Changfeng and others, they took precautions.
The next day, Lu Zhiwei took Lu Changfeng, Song Minghui, Zhang Nianchuan, and several senior members of the Zhang family to the area around the underground cave more than three thousand miles away from Hongxia Mountain.
This underground cave is located on the edge of an underground river.
Where this underground river passes, there are more than a dozen cave entrances, some large and some small. The smallest opening is about one foot, and the largest one is about one hundred feet wide.
The entrance of the cave that Lu Zhiwei discovered that might hide the ice dragon was nearly 100 feet long, and it was like a sinkhole sitting in front of a few people.
Because the underground river is so big, its flowing distance is at least 100,000 miles. It is an underground direct flow of Lingxi River, and finally merges into Qingli Sea. It is obviously too time-consuming to follow the underground river to explore the traces of ice dragons.
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Fortunately, Lu Zhiwei made a discovery while she was here, and speculated that the ice dragon might be in the cold pool of this underground cave.
"It's right here."
Stepping here, maybe there are ice dragons hiding and living in that cave. Zhang Renmo's expression was quite solemn, and he was very nervous in his heart.
"Senior, this place is only more than three thousand miles away from my Hongxia Mountain. If there are really ice dragons living here, I hope that senior can take action and consider the safety of our Zhang family!"
There was a hint of pleading in Zhang Renmo's tone, and he looked at Lu Zhiwei and Lu Changfeng one by one.
A distance of three thousand miles, for a fifth-level monster, could be covered in just one day. Zhang Renmo and other Zhang family monks were particularly nervous at this time.
If there is really ice dragon activity here, then they have been neighbors with such a fifth-level monster for hundreds of years.
If you don't know this kind of thing, you can live in peace of mind.
But after knowing it, it is like being watched by a ferocious beast in the dark. No one knows when this ferocious beast will launch a sneak attack.
When the time comes, with the strength of the Zhang family alone, how can they resist it? They will only become a piece of cake.
"Clan Leader Zhang, why are you worried about this? If there is really an ice dragon under the ground, let alone whether your Zhang family sends out a request for help, even if a mortal comes to report the news, I, the Qingshan Sect, will still take this matter seriously and will not sit idly by.
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Lu Changfeng said seriously and glanced at Zhang Renmo.
On the side, Zhang Nianchuan and Song Minghui also nodded secretly, knowing that Qingshan Sect could not just sit idly by and ignore this matter.
"Okay, okay, thank you two seniors."
After hearing Lu Changfeng's words, Zhang Renmo felt relieved.
After everyone briefly chatted for a few words, Lu Zhiwei warned everyone to be ready to take action, then slowly unfolded her consciousness and penetrated into the ground.
The strength of the Jindan monk's spiritual consciousness can cover a distance of up to 30,000 meters in radius.
Because Lu Zhiwei has practiced the Xuan Su Jade Girl Heart Sutra, the strength of her spiritual consciousness is about twice that of monks of the same level, and she can detect as far as 60,000 meters.
This time, after his spiritual consciousness penetrated five to six hundred meters underground, he once again detected the existence of the cave and the cold pool.
As his consciousness continued to penetrate deeper into the cold pool, the scene inside came into Lu Zhiwei's eyes clearly.
In the cold pool, the water was clear and no trace of any living thing appeared. It was not until more than thirty meters deep into the cold pool that the water began to get colder and a spiritual fish appeared.
Some of the spirit fish have sensitive senses, and were disturbed after being exposed to the exploration of spiritual consciousness. They avoided and swam in the water one after another.
Continuing to explore for about a hundred meters, the water in the pool is even colder and the light is much darker. We have reached the bottom of the pool.
At this time, Lu Zhiwei's expression condensed, because at the bottom of the cold pool, she found a huge snake-shaped black shadow, lying motionless in an entangled posture.
Due to the dim light, it is impossible to tell what the huge black shadow is with the naked eye.
But with the exploration of spiritual consciousness, Lu Zhiwei recognized the origin of the creature after its spiritual consciousness came into contact with the other party.
"Ice dragon!"
As soon as the word was spoken, the ice dragon at the bottom of the cold pool was touched by his spiritual consciousness. He was immediately disturbed and suddenly opened his eyes as if he felt an attack from a foreign enemy.