"Thank you for your trust, Miss. I will certainly live up to your expectations and keep a close watch on Dongdan Shuiyue and the Dongdan family," Bai Yusheng said excitedly.

It should be noted that ever since Bai Yusu was sent to another city, he has not been able to follow Ji Fengyao closely as before. His former position has been almost completely replaced by Zhuang Shaoze, An Zijin, and Lu Yang.

Today, Miss has finally entrusted him with an important task again. This is his chance to prove himself again and to be valued by Miss once more!

In the afternoon, Ji Fengyao called Dongdan Shuiyue over and gave her some advice and instructions.

He also taught Bai Yusheng a needle-sticking technique that could temporarily stop the craving for needles for a month.

That evening, she took Xi Que, An Zijin, Lu Yang, Zhuang Shaoze, and others and set off for the location of the spirit mine in the Monster Forest.

Following Dongdan Shuiyue's description, they successfully located the waterfall where the spirit mine was situated and entered the cave that Dongdan Shuiyue and Dongdan Wenhao had dug behind the waterfall.

The chisel marks in the caves have been artificially aged, presumably because Dongdan Wenhao and Dongdan Shuiyue were afraid of being discovered, hence this trick.

Just as Dongdan Shuiyue had planned, even if someone discovered the spirit stones they had hidden.

They could also use this deliberately aged cave and the spirit stones left in the cave to cover up the truth that there was a spirit mine here.

“Miss, the quality of these spirit stones is quite mixed.” Unlike An Zijin and the others, Xique jumped down into the pit that Dongdan Wenhao and Dongdan Shuiyue had dug to store several boxes of spirit stones and opened the lids of several boxes.

The box contained low-grade spirit stones, which were of much better quality than those given to the miners by the Dongdan family.

However, it was far inferior to the low-grade spirit stones that Ji Fengyao and the others had dug up in the Mangshan Mountains of Dazhao.

"Miss Xique, are you kidding me? This spirit stone is of such high quality!" Zhuang Shaoze stared wide-eyed.

He had been chatting and laughing with the magpies all the way here, and they had become quite familiar with each other.

Furthermore, since they had all sworn an oath to follow the Heavenly Dao for life, Ji Fengyao naturally treated them differently than before.

So now, they all consider each other family, and they no longer hide their true nature.

This was the first time in Zhuang Shaoze's life that he had seen so many spirit stones; he almost drooled over them on the spot.

"Good job! You're praising this? Take a closer look." The magpie took out a low-grade spirit stone from the Great Zhao Mang Mountain from its storage ring, tossed it into Zhuang Shaoze's hand, and said proudly, "Shouldn't this kind of stone be called a celestial stone?"

Zhuang Shaoze gripped the spirit stone tightly, feeling the abundant spiritual energy within it, as if he had found a priceless treasure: "This...is this a legendary high-grade spirit stone! The spiritual energy is so full and abundant!"

As he spoke, Zhuang Shaoze leaped to the magpie like a monkey, excitedly coaxing, "Little Magpie..."

"Hey, what are you doing? Stay away from me!" The sparrow was disgusted by Zhuang Shaoze's sudden soft and delicate manner and quickly jumped away.

“Little Sparrow, if you have any more spirit stones like this, please give this one to your brother. I will do anything for you, from making your bed and serving you tea and water,” Zhuang Shaoze said, half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"Take it away, take it away, take it away quickly, just stay away from me." Xi Que rubbed her arms, which were covered in goosebumps, and said with a look of disgust, "I never thought you were like this, Brother Zhuang. I, Xi Que, have never admired anyone but you!"

"Pfft, hahaha..."

Ji Fengyao, An Zijin, and Lu Yang were amused by the two of them and burst into laughter.