Jiang Yuan sighed heavily, glanced reluctantly at the Earth Spirit, and then removed the lightning cage.
"You're lucky, kid!"
After saying that, the lightning cage vanished without a trace. Jiang Yuan turned around and stopped making things difficult for the earth spirit. Instead, he took Ning Yanlan's hand and said, "Let's go back!"
"Chirp!" the earth spirit chirped in confusion.
"You're free now, but you still need to be careful in the future. Don't let bad guys catch you!" Ning Yanlan's eyes were filled with deep affection. No girl could resist such a cute little thing.
"Go!" Jiang Yuan casually kicked the earth spirit a long way, and said smugly, "This kick evens us out!"
The earth spirit attacked him first, so it's fair and reasonable for him to kick back!
"Waaah!"
The earth spirit was furious when it was kicked, its body swelling up, but it deflated when it saw that Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan had really left.
The higher the intelligence of a creature, the stronger its sense of loneliness; clearly, the earth spirit is such a being. Due to its unique identity, it is destined to have few of its kind.
The thought process yielded a result in an instant, and the earth spirit followed him out.
"Chirp chirp!"
The earth spirit followed Ning Yanlan, calling out incessantly, trying to attract their attention.
Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan naturally noticed the abnormality and turned around to look at the Earth Spirit with puzzled expressions. Jiang Yuan, in particular, thought that the Earth Spirit had come to cause him trouble because he had just kicked it.
"Woo!" The earth spirit roared at Jiang Yuan, then turned its head and looked gently at Ning Yanlan, chirping again.
"It's quite cute, but the more I listen to its chirping, the stranger it sounds!" Jiang Yuan couldn't help but scrutinize the earth spirit. No one would feel insulted if they chirped in front of a man.
“Little one, you were born of nature and should return to nature. Go back!” Ning Yanlan had some concerns. She knew that anything related to her would not end well, so she did not want to harm the earth spirit.
Unexpectedly, the earth spirit suddenly shot over, its target Ning Yanlan.
"Holy crap, you think you can bully my Yanlan just because you can't beat him?!"
Jiang Yuan was about to kick it, but the Earth Spirit was faster and plunged into the divine beast-taming talisman in Ning Yanlan's hand.
"This?" Jiang Yuan was full of questions. In this day and age, is it possible for a beast to recognize its own master? What happened to the beast taming mode that was supposed to subdue you? Why is it not working at all?
The divine-level beast-taming talisman emitted a seven-colored light, and at this moment, Ning Yanlan and the earth spirit formed a battle pet contract.
"Buji Buji!"
The earth spirit shouted excitedly, and then it actually pounced on Ning Yanlan's face with a slap. Because it was gelatinous, the hug was like a thick face mask stuck to Ning Yanlan's face, which was incredibly unsightly.
"How can you take advantage like this?" Jiang Yuan resisted the urge to kick it and pulled the Earth Spirit off.
Ning Yanlan didn't show much surprise on her face; instead, she seemed somewhat helpless. However, she still smiled sincerely when she heard the voice of the earth spirit, Buji Buji.
"Well, I've gotten a free son!" Jiang Yuan didn't have a good impression of the earth spirit that was 'competing for his favor'. What good could someone be that would pounce on someone's face the moment they met? It was definitely a lecherous thing!
"Don't think such things, the earth spirits don't have such filthy thoughts!" Ning Yanlan said with a long face. How could she not guess what Jiang Yuan was thinking?
"Ahem!" Jiang Yuan pinched the earth spirit's soft body and asked, "Is this little thing male or female?"
"You're silly, they don't distinguish between genders!" Ning Yanlan could already smell the sour jealousy in his eyes.
Jiang Yuan frowned and thought for a moment, then exclaimed in shock, "Wouldn't that mean he'd be bisexual?"
Ning Yanlan: "..."
She was speechless!
"Woo woo woo!" The earth spirit, after being pinched twice by Jiang Yuan, immediately condensed teeth and bared them at him.
"You dare threaten me!" Jiang Yuan said, increasing the pressure in his hand, causing the earth spirit to deform repeatedly.
With a thud, the earth spirit transformed into an incredibly hard stone, so hard that it nearly broke Jiang Yuan's left finger bones.
"It's still a child, why are you jealous of it!" Ning Yanlan was afraid that Jiang Yuan would hurt the Earth Spirit, so she quickly snatched the Earth Spirit back, and the Earth Spirit returned to its soft state.
Jiang Yuan's expression was strange. He could sense that this earth spirit had great potential. Putting everything else aside, just the aura it had when it turned to stone just now—to be honest, if this earth spirit had been in that form before, he really wouldn't have been confident of defeating it.
"It's almost dawn, we need to hurry up and organize the people to mine the black stone vein, Shi Xuyao and the others are still waiting for materials!" Ning Yanlan held Jiang Yuan with one arm and hugged the Earth Elf with the other, her face filled with indescribable happiness and satisfaction.
The two left quickly, and after the reserves set up a defensive line, they began excavating the black stone vein.
As for the Black Stone Mine, the paid mining system recommended by Ning Yanlan was adopted. The mined ore was exchanged for points or materials according to a certain ratio. This measure greatly boosted the enthusiasm of the reserves. In just one day, the mined ore had exceeded one hundred cubic meters.
Meanwhile, good news also came from Shi Xuyao and Yang Zhehan. They had pledged to cooperate with the Beicheng Alliance to forge the first forging machine tool. With the forging machine tool, energy weapons could be mass-produced. However, due to the limitations of the forging process, the current forging machine tool could only produce fifth-tier products. Although it seemed useless, it opened up another path for forging and proved that the mainstream of forging in the future would inevitably be industrialization.
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