Chapter 540: Gold Devouring (2)
Chapter 540: Gold Devouring (2)
Of course, Jiang Li and Xie Changan would not treat Mo Qilang badly. They found him a dry and ventilated cave, cleaned it thoroughly, and took out furniture and other things from the Dragon Palace and made some simple arrangements.
Mo Qilang saw that the cave was clean and tidy, with beds, tables, and chairs, and even food prepared for him. He was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Highness! I am very satisfied. Please thank Xiao Shiliu for me!"
The cave is on the cliff. Standing at the entrance, you can see the sea and sky merging into one, and the sea breeze blowing. Mo Qillang can't help feeling relaxed and happy.
Coming here on an eagle and living in this "blessed place", he can also experience what it's like to be a god!
After a day's rest, Jiang Li and Xie Changan coaxed Xie Wuyou and Xie Wuchou to sleep, asked Xiao Teng to look after them, and then went to the west peak of Sanshan Island with Mo Qilang.
Mo Qilang said angrily, "Little Sixteen, why didn't you tell me earlier that you had a portable cave?"
Jiang Li chuckled and said, "Before I could even say anything, you rushed in and said you wanted to ride the eagle. Of course I have to let you do that."
Mo Qillang wanted to slap himself in the face, you are so quick to talk!
"Then after we return to the capital, can you let me in and take a look?"
Jiang Li smiled and said, "Actually, that cave isn't mine. It belongs to a friend of mine, and he just lent it to me. If you want to go in, I have to ask for his permission."
"Who is your friend? Is he a god in heaven?" Mo Qilang was very curious. It was a fairy thing, so wouldn't its owner be a god in heaven?
Xie Changan glanced at him and said, "Not far from here, on the coast of Laizhou Prefecture, there is a temple dedicated to him. You can go and ask him directly."
"Who is it?" Mo Qilang became even more curious. "Lord Long Jun?"
"One level higher than the Four Rivers Dragon Kings," Jiang Li said with a smile, "He is the Dragon King of the East Sea, the leader of the four seas."
"Dragon King of the East China Sea?"
Mo Qillang was very excited. The legendary Dragon King of the East China Sea turned out to be Xiao Shiliu's friend!
"Then...can I meet him?"
Wouldn't Shen Muchun be envious to death of being able to see the real Dragon King of the East China Sea?
"Hahahaha, the current Dragon King of the East China Sea is still an egg, and he's unworthy of your address as 'old man'."
Although the dragon egg is more than five hundred years old, it is still a baby from the perspective of the dragon clan.
"Ah?!" Mo Qillang couldn't close his mouth.
Jiang Li then told him all about their adventures in the East China Sea.
Mo Qillang was speechless for a long time, as if he was listening to a fantasy book.
Xiao Shiliu actually saved the dragon egg and got the legendary Crystal Palace!
Wait, Crystal Palace?!
"You're saying," he said excitedly, "that your portable cave is the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King of the East China Sea?!"
"Well, what's so strange about that? You don't know how dilapidated the Dragon Palace was back then..."
"Little Sixteen!"
Mo Qilang grabbed Jiang Li's sleeve and said, "Please, let me see the Crystal Palace..."
Xie Changan cleared his cough and looked unhappily at Mo Qilang's hand that was grabbing Jiang Li's sleeve.
Mo Qillang quickly let go and grabbed Xie Changan's sleeve again.
"My Lord! Boss! Please!"
When he got anxious, he even brought up the name he had used in the East Factory.
"Let me see Xiao Shiliu's Dragon Palace!"
Xie Changan was helpless: "It's no use begging me. If you, Xiao Shiliu, don't agree, I can't get in."
Jiang Li doubled over with laughter: "Okay! Okay! I'll ask Dandan after we get back to Beijing. If he agrees, I'll let you in to take a look."
Mo Qilang was immediately overjoyed: "Don't forget!"
The three of them chatted and laughed, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at the foot of West Peak.
Mo Qillang took out a small shovel-like tool, inserted it into the soil, and began to explore carefully.
Jiang Li was a little curious: "Brother Mo Qi, how did you, the Mo family, determine that there are mines underground?"
Mo Qilang said, "It's said in the Guanzi Dishu that where there's cinnabar above, there's gold below; where there's cinnabar above, there's copper and gold below; where there's mausoleum above, there's lead, tin, and red copper below; where there's ochre above, there's iron below..."
"Cinnabar? It's cinnabar, right?"
"Yes." Mo Qilang said, his hands moving non-stop as he dug out a deep red lump from the mud.
His eyes lit up, "This cinnabar is extremely pure, it seems this is a large gold mine!"
He was also very curious. How did Jiang Li and the others discover the gold mine here when they didn't know the art of exploration?
Jiang Li couldn't say that it was Lord Tiandao who told her, so she said vaguely: "Because we are looking for a gold-eating grass!"
Gold-eating grass, as the name suggests, must grow in places with rich gold-based spiritual energy.
From this we can see that this gold mine has an extremely high gold content!
"Brother Mo Qi, you explore on your own first, and the two of us will go find that spiritual herb."
"it is good."
Mo Qilang knew that he couldn't keep up with them, so he nodded and said, "Be careful."
Jiang Li and Xie Changan used their lightness skills and disappeared among the mountains in an instant.
Xie Changan recalled the image Jiang Li had sent him, and asked, "That gold-eating grass seems to be deep in the gold mine. How can we get in?"
You can't use gunpowder to blast a passage on the spot, right?
Jiang Li laughed and said, "Why bother digging a tunnel? We can just lure it out."
Xie Changan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Is that why you let me carry a big bag of gold?"
"Yes, that spiritual herb is used to eating coarse grains. Once it eats fine grains, I don't believe it will refuse to come out."
Jiang Li smiled slyly.
Xie Changan couldn't help but smile.
Her metaphor is very vivid. Isn't unprocessed gold ore just "coarse grain"?
After purification, the gold with extremely high purity is naturally "fine grain" for the gold-eating grass.
Jiang Li estimated the Gold Devouring Grass's location based on the image the Mirror Spirit had sent her. She placed her hand on the mountain wall, activated her True Listening Technique, and called out, "Gold Devouring Grass, Gold Devouring Grass! Can you hear me?"
Xie Changan was speechless.
Can she really call out the gold-eating grass like this?
Jiang Li gestured for him to take out a gold ingot and put it on the ground.
"We're not bad people. We just want to be friends with you. We even brought you a gift!"
"You don't have gold of such high purity?"
It happened so quickly that Xie Changan only felt a flash of golden light under his eyelids, and it seemed that something stretched out from the ground, and the gold ingot disappeared without a trace!
With the help of the art of listening, Jiang Li could even hear the "crunching" sound of chewing coming from underground.
Jiang Li chuckled and took out a larger gold ingot. "Is it delicious? I have more here."
The golden light flashed again, and this time Xie Changan saw clearly that a golden leaf actually stretched out from the ground and grabbed towards Jiang Li's hand as fast as a meteor!
Jiang Li dodged and avoided the golden leaves.
The leaf missed the target and instantly shrank back into the ground.
"Don't grab it. I have plenty of gold ingots here. If you speak nicely, I'll give them all to you."
At this moment, Jiang Li only heard a crisp sound in her mind, like the sound of metal hitting stone.
"What do you want?"
Jiang Li said bluntly: "We only need two of your leaves."
The voice hesitated for a moment. "I want... ten of those gold ingots! No, twenty! One leaf for ten!"
"Deal!" Jiang Li was also very straightforward.
She signaled Xie Changan to pour all the gold ingots in the bag onto the ground.
Two golden leaves suddenly emerged from the ground, like two human hands, gathering the pile of gold ingots together. The two golden leaves suddenly grew larger, wrapped the gold ingots together, and disappeared into the ground together.
Xie Changan glanced at Jiang Li and asked, "Aren't you afraid that it will run away after eating?"
Do these plant monsters still know what credit is?
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