Ye Liang now has some understanding of the grades of ore.

There are ordinary irons, such as the iron-core sword that my senior sister used before.

Above that is the black iron, just like the Azure Profound Sword, which is made of Azure Profound Iron.

Above that is the secret iron.

The word "secret" implies mystery, which vividly illustrates that this secret iron contains other metal components, like an alloy. However, its properties cannot be entirely understood as those of an alloy from the Earth's world.

Many alloys from Earth would be no match for the Azure Profound Sword. Of course, some expensive military materials, such as titanium alloys, would be exceptions.

If Xuan Tie is already this powerful, then Mi Tie must be even more formidable.

At this moment, the metal ore that Junior Sister discovered for Ye Liang was an extraterrestrial meteorite, known as the Secret Gold Iron.

The term "mysterious iron" refers to a piece of iron that actually contains precious gold components, and in a significant proportion at that. Otherwise, it wouldn't be considered "mysterious iron."

If the silver content is higher than the gold content, then it is mithril iron.

Right now, the meteorite iron that Ye Liang is touching is the most precious of all the secret irons, the secret gold iron.

If you take a pickaxe and strike it, you can clearly see that it contains golden-yellow gold components.

Before his junior sister could speak, Ye Liang immediately smiled and told her, "Junior sister, you've really made a great discovery. This is a piece of mithril iron, which means it contains gold. Putting everything else aside, the gold inside is very valuable. So, junior sister, you've brought a considerable fortune to our sect."

"Really?" The junior sister had also seen with her own eyes that there was yellow metallic ore on this black stone, and now that Ye Liang said it, she knew that it was gold.

Gold, in her eyes, was so precious.

But the sect is so poor.

The thought that she had found a lump of iron containing gold for the sect made her jump for joy.

"Ye Liang, does this mean our sect will be rich in the future? I've done a great service? I can make my senior sister live a good life?"

Although Ye Liang himself had plenty of gold coins in his Qiankun bag, and in the Earth world he was from a family with hundreds of billions in assets and always spent money lavishly without a second thought, now he could empathize with his junior sister Yang Ting.

I understand her joy at finding a great treasure for the sect.

However, Ye Liang still smiled and told his junior sister, "Junior sister, this is secret iron. Although it contains gold, its most precious part is that it can be used to forge weapons. It would be a waste to melt it down and spend the gold. Use it to upgrade the weapons of the senior sisters. Upgrading the Azure Profound Sword for the senior sisters is also putting it to good use, and it's also a great contribution to the sect for you. As for the gold coins, I have more than I can spend. If you need any, please take them anytime."

These words immediately reminded the junior sister.

The junior sister immediately said excitedly to Ye Liang, "That's right, Ye Liang, you can forge weapons. Now that we have such good ore, why don't you forge a mithril knife and a mithril sword for yourself? You really need a suitable weapon."

“But this is the ore that my junior sister found. How can I just use it like that?” Ye Liang said, reluctant to part with it, and immediately used the mithril iron to forge a weapon for himself.

"What do you mean 'I discovered'? It was you who discovered it. Because I found it with your pickaxe, and you brought me out, which gave me the opportunity to discover this piece of mithril. So, this should be considered your discovery." The junior sister argued confidently, determined to attribute the credit to Ye Liang.

My junior sister is so kind.

This warmed Ye Liang's heart even more as he said, "Junior Sister, let's not talk about this for now. I'll put the meteorite away first. Then, let's look around the area again to see if there's any more meteorite. I've heard that meteorites break apart when they fall. So, it's very likely that there's more than one piece of meteorite. Let's search the area some more; we might find something else."

"Really? Then let's hurry and go find it." The junior sister was excited when she heard that there might be meteorite iron nearby.

Such precious meteorite iron would be of great use to Ye Liang and his sect, and she desperately wanted to find more for them.

The junior sister was anxious, but Ye Liang was not in a hurry and said, "Don't rush, I can only put it away after I break this melon-sized meteorite into standard pieces of ore."

"Shall we use my Azure Profound Sword to cut it down?" The junior sister immediately drew her sword, eager to try.

It must be because she had a good time chopping the bandits' ordinary swords into pieces last time for Ye Liang.

Ye Liang shook his head slightly and said, "No need this time. This is ore, I can break it down using my mining skill."

"Oh." The junior sister, who didn't quite understand what mining skills were, didn't need to. She just needed to do whatever Ye Liang said.

Ye Liang immediately began using his mining and decomposition skills to break down the meteorite, which was the size of a large winter melon.

Disassembling meteorite iron, like setting traps in hunting, is a skill.

There's no need to actually use knives and axes to chop or cut the ore.

All you need to do is use the skill and consume your true energy.

This time, perhaps because the ore was really hard, the skill lasted for a rather long time while breaking it down.

The progress bar moves even slower than the traps were set.

However, setting traps is much slower now.

Fortunately, Ye Liang has already reached level 13, and his True Essence limit has reached an astonishing 1500 points or more.

Even with a skill that consumes so much true energy to decompose ore, he could still manage it.

It took nearly five minutes for the skill progress bar to finish, and Ye Liang completed the cutting of the meteorite ore, which was the size of a large winter melon.

A huge, intact ore rock instantly collapsed into perfectly cubic pieces of mithril ore, which were then presented perfectly to Ye Liang.

"Such neat cuts!" The junior sister exclaimed in amazement, wanting to pick one up for a closer look, but she couldn't lift it immediately: "It's so heavy!"

Ye Liang immediately nodded and said, "Of course. This is meteorite iron. Top-grade mithril iron, with a lot of gold inside, and gold is naturally very heavy."

The junior sister laughed: "If it weren't for the gold coin you gave me, I wouldn't have known that gold is so heavy. Ye Liang, you should put all these ores away. Let's hurry up and continue looking for other ores around here."

"Okay." Ye Liang was very obedient and immediately put all the ores, which had been broken down into perfect cubes, into his Qiankun bag.

After decomposition, any amount of ore, as long as it is of the same size, can be placed together. Those that only occupy one slot can be placed in the Qiankun Bag, which is very convenient for storage.

"Senior sister, I caught a quest while I was fishing. It costs 2,000 cultivation points. It asks us to kill 20 big-mouthed frogs, 10 wild wolves, 5 wild boars, and 1 shallow-water crocodile." Ye Liang told his junior sister about this serendipitous quest worth 2,000 cultivation points when he got up to look for ore.