After carefully returning to Ling's house, Ling Dong was already covered in cold sweat.
It was not because he was sweating because he was worried that his whereabouts would be exposed, but because he was frightened by the news that "the high-roller who spent 1.2 million taels of silver and 1,200 pieces of low-grade crystals to buy his two bottles of Sanhua Yaogang Pills was Ling Zhengshan."
Combining the clues obtained these days and the news he got from Kuixing Pavilion today, Ling Dong surmised an extremely terrifying fact, and this fact was most likely the result of Ling Dong's failure to find out in his previous life.
The real reason why the family was wiped out.
If this news is confirmed, then there will be an answer to why the mysterious Mr. Mou pays attention to the Ling family.
Ling Dong's conclusion was a bit frighteningly simple - Ling Zhengshan probably obtained a spar mine!
Only this conclusion can explain why Ling Zhengshan was able to throw out 1,200 low-grade crystals at once, including the 1.2 million taels of silver, which Ling Zhengshan had successively exchanged for low-grade crystals.
And under the chain reaction, Ling Dong also speculated that the Ling family member who secretly met Zuo Xuancheng, the head of the Zuo family a few days ago must be Ling Zhengshan, and the heavy gift Ling Zhengshan sent to impress Zuo Xuancheng was probably a large amount of low-grade money.
spar.
This can be proved by the fact that today Zuo Xuancheng increased the price of low-grade crystals for two bottles of Sanhua Yaogang Pills. Generally speaking, the three major families in Nanshan County have a certain amount of low-grade crystals in reserve, but
This amount won’t be too much, two to three hundred yuan will be enough.
A common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade!
Crystal mines, which are more direct wealth than gold mines, are definitely not something that the Ling family can possess at present. For example, the cost of mining gold mines is still very high, and they have to be smelted and so on. But crystal mines are something that
If you own something, it is no different than picking up money.
Not only is the value much higher than that of gold mines, but the cost of mining is very small. The most important thing is that crystal stones are also strategic materials for warriors to practice. If a warrior has a large number of crystal stones to absorb Gang Qi, then his
The cultivation speed is twice as fast as others.
If it is a mid-grade crystal stone with better quality, the cultivation speed can be increased by more than three times. However, this method of practicing with crystal stones is definitely not something ordinary people can bear. Take a warrior at the first level of the Xiantian realm as an example.
To practice for one night, you need to absorb at least 20 low-grade crystal stones.
One night's consumption is equivalent to 20,000 taels of silver, and this consumption will increase significantly as the cultivation level increases. The consumption will almost double with each level of cultivation level.
Use silver to exchange crystals for cultivation? Even if you have ten silver mines at home, it is not enough. But if you have crystal mines, that is another matter. This kind of cultivation method that purely uses crystals to quickly improve your cultivation is also possible.
of.
The top forces in Tiangang Continent can ignore the existence of a silver mine or a gold mine, but no one can ignore the existence of even half a crystal mine.
Ling Dong didn't know how long it had been since Ling Zhengshan got a spar mine. It was foreseeable that Ling Zhengshan was still very cautious in this regard. However, the mysterious Mr. Mou's attention to the Ling family already showed that someone had begun to pay attention to Ling Zhengshan.
"Gao Yuan, has anything strange happened in the family recently?" It's not too difficult to know where the crystal mine is. Ling Zhengshan can't get a crystal mine for no reason. There must be something fishy in it.
Strange things or omens happen.
"Something strange?" Gao Yuan scratched his head, "Sir, the family has been very peaceful recently. Nothing strange has happened."
"Think carefully. Don't just think about the recent ones. You can think about big and strange things. Think about everything in the past six months or so?" Ling Dong frowned and said. According to Ling Dong's estimation, it shouldn't take long for Ling Zhengshan to get the spar mine.
"The last six months?" Gao Yuan was suddenly stunned when he mentioned this, "Oh, Master, if you talk to the boss, there is really one thing. Four months ago, the Ling family was in No. 40 or 50 of an iron mine in Xiongnan Mountain.
All the miners suddenly died. The family said they were attacked by some monster. The miners' families refused to comply and made a fuss for a long time. Finally, the second master came forward and paid a large sum of money to save the miners.
The family please calm down."
"What happened next?" Ling Dong stared at Gao Yuan and asked.
"Later?" Gao Yuan was a little confused about what Ling Dong meant. "Later, the families of the miners took the pension money and admitted most of the people who met the conditions into the Ling family to work as roughnecks or handymen, so no one anymore
There's trouble."
"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about what happened to the iron mine that was attacked by monsters?" Ling Dong asked.
"We don't know about that. I just heard that it was handled by the second master." Gao Yuan replied.
Ling Dong was stunned, and then he realized that what happened next was indeed not something Gao Yuan, a young follower, was qualified to know. After explaining the matter, he went straight to his father's yard on Ling Yuan Mountain.
"Dong'er, how come you are so concerned about the family's mining affairs? That is your third uncle's territory?" After hearing Ling Dong's question, Ling Yuanshan said slowly.
"Dad, the mine is the third uncle's territory, so why did I hear that the iron ore that broke into the monsters was handled by the second uncle?" Ling Dong asked.
"Aren't your second uncle and third uncle close to each other? At that time, your third uncle happened to be too busy, so your second uncle took people into the mountains to hunt monsters! But your second uncle also failed that time.
Because the monsters that broke into the iron mine and took up residence there were a group of mid-stage innate green-horned wolves, and one of them was the green-horned wolf king.
The six experts brought by your second uncle were all lost, and even your second uncle returned with serious injuries. Later, your second uncle suggested that in order to re-excavate the iron mine, the family must dispatch two senior elders.
It is possible to successfully eliminate the monsters, but that iron mine doesn’t have much reserves anymore, so it’s better to give up!”
Speaking of this, Ling Yuanshan spread his hands and said, "That's it, that iron mine is abandoned. Why, is there anything wrong with this iron mine?"
"Nothing, I'm just asking!" Everything was just speculation. Although Ling Dong was 90% sure that there was something wrong with the abandoned iron mine, Ling Dong still decided to wait until he was sure before telling his father.
After bidding farewell to his father, Ling Dong returned to his room with heavy thoughts.
As usual, he held the Xiantian Wooden Gang Bead in his hand, drank a bowl of marching wine, picked up the Tiangang Beidou Jue, and started practicing every night. After nearly a month of hard training in alchemy last time, Ling Dong felt that he had left the day after tomorrow.
The ninth floor is not far away.
As long as his cultivation level can reach the ninth level of the acquired world, his real transformation will begin, and the most magical aspects of Tiangang Beidou Jue can be revealed.
There was no words all night, and early the next morning, Ling Dong gave Gao Yuan some instructions and left the Ling Mansion. Today was the day he and Uncle Wu agreed on, but before going to Uncle Wu's place, Ling Dong had to go
Visiting Baijiu'er's ancient wine shop, January has passed in the blink of an eye, and he has already used up 70% of his marching wine. In addition, if you go into the mountains in the winter, you still need to prepare some spirits for heating.
It was early in the morning, when Ling Dong went there, Baijiu'er's ancient wine shop had not yet opened the door. After a loud knock, Baijiu'er's buck-toothed woman came to open the door with messy hair. When she saw it was Ling Dong, she didn't open the door.
His handsome face immediately turned red with embarrassment.
"Why, it's so early in the morning that it disturbs you two?" Ling Dong laughed when he saw Baijiu'er coming out.
Bai Jiu'er's old face turned red: "It's snowing all over the sky, let's sleep! By the way, Master, come here early this morning, what do you want?"
"I came here, of course, to get some wine, next month's marching wine, plus a few jars of strong wine for me, just like three bowls!" Ling Dong said.
"Prepare some strong liquor? It's snowing. Are you planning to go on a long journey?" Baijiu'er asked in surprise.
"Well, I'm going to go into the mountains and bring some strong wine to warm myself up." Ling Dong smiled and finally said: "Just bring me two jars of marching wine. The rest, you can check the time and deliver it to the house.
, just leave it to Gao Yuan."
"Young master wants to enter Xiongnan Mountain. I heard from people that it is very dangerous there, especially in winter. The food of monsters decreases and they are very aggressive. Even in normal times, non-innate warriors are not allowed to enter! Young master's current strength seems to be still there.
It’s not as good as innate, right?” Baijiu’er said.
"Are you quite familiar with Xiongnan Mountain?" Ling Dong smiled.
"Usually, drinkers talk nonsense and listen to it a few times. The more you listen, the more you understand. So if you don't have anything important to do with this Xiongnan Mountain, it's better not to go there. If something really goes wrong with you, I will
Where can I find such a good owner?" Bai Jiuer joked.
"We have hired two experienced guards, so safety should be no problem."
"What do you mean, it shouldn't be a problem. I think there's a big problem, there are only two guards!" Bai Jiu'er muttered a few words with some dissatisfaction, which made Ling Dong smile bitterly.
Bai Jiu'er and his buck-toothed woman are always the best. Men, mother-in-law and mother-in-law look like women. Women, Fengfenghuohuo looks like men.
After pondering for a while, Baijiu'er suddenly said: "Since the young master is going to the mountains, the new wine that has just been brewed will be handed over to the young master for emergency use."
"New wine?" Ling Dong suddenly looked forward to it. For ordinary wine, Baijiu'er would definitely not say this.