The clear water in the pond was icy cold. With Xu Feng's physical fitness being below that of an average adult man, as soon as he entered the water, he felt his hands and feet going numb and his body slowly becoming stiff.

"I miscalculated. I didn't expect that my physical condition is so bad. I'm in danger of drowning while diving..." Xu Feng's heart sank, but he did not panic. Instead, he curled up his limbs and hugged them tightly, and his body sank to the bottom of the pool like a stone.

Fortunately, this pool of water was not deep, at most about three or four meters deeper than the small river in front. Xu Feng groped his way to the bottom of the pool, immediately opened his eyes and looked around.

Soon, he discovered a golden light shining in a corner. Padding his limbs, Xu Feng swam towards the direction of the golden light.

When they arrived at the place, they saw a pile of small gold ingots in the corner, each weighing one or two taels. After Xu Feng grabbed two, he pushed his legs into the mud at the bottom of the pool and rushed to the surface of the water.

Cough cough cough~ Xu Feng climbed out of the pool in a panic. As soon as he got ashore, he lay flat on all fours, his chest heaving and breathing heavily. The sun was shining brightly. Xu Feng lay in the scorching sun for a long time before he recovered. Looking at the two gold ingots that were thrown beside him when he got ashore, which were shining with golden light in the sunlight, Xu Feng couldn't help laughing.

This pool of water is connected to a small river on one end and an underground river deep in the Daqing Mountains on the other. The entire river water actually surges up from the underground river.

Next to the underground river, there is a small space. Wei Hong has always regarded it as his own small treasury. All the one or two taels of gold paid by students after completing the main tasks will be cast into small gold ingots of one tael each by Wei Hong, and all of them will be hidden in the mountains. In fact, it is a place where Wei Hong stores his personal belongings.

In fact, as long as the secret realm apostle who has mastered one or two secret realms will have the same hobby as Wei Hong, and develop one or two places to store miscellaneous items in the secret realm under his control.

Among the hundreds of secret realms that Xu Feng controlled at the time, at least a dozen had similar storage spaces, which contained the treasures obtained by Xu Feng.

Therefore, for the Apostles of the Secret Realm, digging into the secret realm of the Fallen Apostles of the Secret Realm is also a very attractive thing. Not to mention inheriting the mantle, even if you get some of the Fallen Apostles' usual collections, you can make a small fortune.

Wei Hong would obtain a large amount of gold every year from the secret realm of Qingfeng Town, and he hid all the gold next to the underground river in the mountains.

Over time, gold will roll into the river and be washed to the pond. In the future, more and more gold will even be washed into the river.

That year, a student was fishing in the river in order to obtain the initial profession of "fisherman". He accidentally picked up a gold ingot and happily told the news to his classmates. Most of the students thought that there was a gold mine in Daqing Mountain and that all the gold was washed out from the gold mine.

But one of the students noticed that these gold ingots had traces of casting. Like Xu Feng, he went upstream along the river, came to this pool of water, went down to fish, and ended up making a fortune.

When these students left the secret realm, the news spread throughout the school. More and more students began to take shortcuts and ran to the pool to look for gold ingots.

After learning about this, Principal Wei Hong did not care. After all, compared with his small treasury, the gold ingots that occasionally fell into the underground river and washed into the pond were nothing. Since this kind of thing happened, it would be better to treat this pond as a place of adventure. After all, not every time you enter, gold ingots will be washed out of the underground river. Taking gold from the pond still depends on luck.

However, unexpectedly, Principal Wei Hong's secret treasury was guarded by a formation. Once approached, the formation would be triggered to counterattack, and the student was directly seriously injured by the formation. If Principal Wei Hong had not happened to be in school at the time and sensed that the protective formation was triggered, he would have entered the secret realm and rescued the student. This student would probably have become the first person to die in the school's secret realm, and his name would have been recorded in school history.

From then on, Principal Wei Hong moved his small treasury to another place, and no gold ingots were seen in the pond or river again. However, this incident spread throughout Songtao No. 1 Middle School and was talked about as a campus legend.

After lying on the riverbank for a long time, Xu Feng finally recovered slowly. Looking at the two gold ingots weighing one or two taels at hand, Xu Feng rubbed his wrists which were still a little numb, stood up, and jumped into the pool again.

It was not until the sun was setting that Xu Feng finally stopped salvaging the gold ingots. It was not because all the gold ingots at the bottom of the pond had been salvaged, nor because Xu Feng's plan required a lot of money. It was just because the feeling of getting something for nothing was too intoxicating, and Xu Feng felt he couldn't stop.

"Enough, enough, I can't fish any more..." Xu Feng took a deep breath, looked at the eight or nine gold ingots on the shore, and a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"I am now powerless and have no magical storage device on me. Carrying so many gold ingots into the town is no different from a child walking in a busy city with treasures. It is really too dangerous..." Xu Feng said in his heart.

Looking at the gold ingots all over the ground, Xu Feng gritted his teeth and showed a hesitant look on his face. After a moment, he seemed to have figured something out and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

"After my rebirth, my willpower seems to have become like that of an ordinary person. Just a few gold ingots made me hesitate..."

Xu Feng bent down, took out three gold ingots and put them in his arms, then kicked the remaining gold ingots into the water.

"If you want to become an excellent secret realm apostle, you must follow a principle that everything must serve the purpose. If the treasure you find becomes an unfavorable factor that affects the achievement of the goal, you must abandon the treasure without hesitation! Even holy artifacts and divine artifacts must follow this principle, not to mention gold ingots that will have no value after a few of them!" Xu Feng said to himself.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Watching the gold ingot slowly sinking to the bottom of the pool, Xu Feng turned around and left without hesitation, walking towards the direction of Qingfeng Town.

After Xu Feng left, a quarter of an hour later, a thin figure emerged from the forest. The man was only 1.56 meters tall, wearing a black tights, a patched gown on the outside, and a mustache. He came to the edge of the pond, looked in the direction Xu Feng left, and couldn't help laughing: "Hehe, what a sour scholar! You just throw away the gold you got, what a waste! Let your uncle Qingfengzi spend these little cuties for you!"

After saying that, the man jumped into the pool.

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(End of this chapter)