Chapter 27 Treasure Hunt After the Natural Disaster
However, Xiao Bao was too hasty in his thinking.
The spirit boat originally flew at an altitude of about 100 meters. After all, there were no skyscrapers or signal towers here, so there would be no obstacles at this altitude.
Upon discovering signs of a volcanic eruption on the ground, the spirit lamp immediately increased the altitude of the spirit boat from 100 meters to about 200 meters.
The initial height of the volcanic eruption was indeed not very high, only a few tens of meters.
However, after a short while, the volcanic eruption expanded, and even though their spirit boat kept flying forward, they still couldn't escape.
Worst of all, the volcanic eruptions are getting higher and higher.
The erupting lava was visible, with the highest peak exceeding 800 meters in height.
The spirit boat navigates amidst the spewing lava, much like a small boat navigating the crests and troughs of waves riddled with hidden reefs. A slight misstep could result in being splashed by the scalding lava.
Helpless, everyone could only work together to add several more thick protective shields to the spirit boat to prevent it from being pierced by the scalding lava or having holes melted in it.
In this situation, if the spirit boat is damaged, everyone will be in danger.
The advantage is that the Dust Continent is vast and sparsely populated with life. Apart from the Fine Demon Clan, the number of other races is extremely small.
Therefore, there were no large-scale casualties.
Even so, the strong earthquake caused by the volcanic eruption has already caused problems for the spirit ship.
For a moment, the spirit boat's direction became chaotic, veering left and right, unable to follow the predetermined trajectory.
The immense harm caused by the natural disaster has been truly felt by Achen and Xi'er this time.
The mountains below were leveled to the ground by the violent tremors.
The broad plain is divided into ravines that are several meters to tens of meters wide.
The volcanic ash that blotted out the sky severely obstructed visibility, causing the navigation array on the spirit boat to malfunction. Even at full speed, it was impossible to fly out of the area covered by volcanic ash.
The high priest had lived for thousands of years and had never seen such a terrifying sight.
He revealed his true form, enveloping the spirit boat, and then began to chant incantations and pray:
"Great gods! We beg you to have mercy and protect the Dustfall Continent and our Demon Clan. This old servant is willing to sacrifice all of my lifespan!"
In his view, only God could protect this continent now.
The volcanic eruption lasted for nearly an hour before gradually subsiding.
Amidst the billowing volcanic ash, the spirit boat could not discern its direction of travel, but it could still roughly distinguish up from down.
After a near-death struggle, the spirit boat finally rose to a height of over three thousand feet.
At this point, everyone was finally able to discern directions, but the spirit lamp refused to continue fleeing into the distance. Puzzled, the others asked her why:
“In the past, after underwater volcanic eruptions, five elemental spirit beads would often condense, especially fire-attribute essence crystals.”
This volcanic eruption was unprecedented in scale.
After the eruption ends, there will definitely be plenty of treasures to be found.
Everyone was delighted to hear that there was treasure to be found.
In order to protect the spirit boat from damage, everyone's spiritual power was almost exhausted. They must collect more treasures to make up for the losses.
Four hours later, the scorching air finally began to cool down, but this coolness was only relative; the temperature remained in the 50s Celsius range for miles around.
Fortunately, the tough-skinned Long Batian released his true form, carrying everyone through the volcanic ash.
Achen took out a number of gas masks from his space. These were brought from the Flowing Light Galaxy. Back then, the Withering X800 series virus raged there, and these were essential for home and travel.
Wearing gas masks, the group released their divine senses to search for treasure in the volcanic ash.
Xiao Bao was the first to find the treasure. His current ability to sense metal and gold spiritual energy is unmatched throughout the entire Dust Continent.
Sensing the presence of the Crimson Flame Golden Crystal, he broke away from the main group and went to search for the treasure on his own.
Lingdeng, of course, followed her husband and went with him.
Next, Long Batian sensed the presence of the Earth Spirit Orb. As an earth-attribute spirit beast, his ability to sense the Earth Spirit Orb was naturally stronger than that of others.
Then Ah Chen sensed a bunch of meteorites.
This thing has a protective layer that isolates one's aura, but he is naturally good at concealing his aura. In addition, when the volcano erupted, the protective layer of this pile of meteorites developed tiny cracks, which he was able to detect.
He wanted to give the treasure to Xi'er, but his little sister clearly wasn't interested, waving her chubby little paws at him and saying:
"Mom said that rare and precious things are meant to be possessed by those who are destined to receive them. My treasure is still waiting for me, so I don't want yours."
Sure enough, not long after, Xi'er sensed the purple jade bone bead formed from the tempered ancient dragon bone.
There are nine in total. They emit a purple jade light. Each one is no bigger than a longan, but the energy contained within them is extremely terrifying.
Moreover, each purple jade bone bead contains hidden Dao patterns, which, after being refined, can help people comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
These things were originally buried deep underground, but this massive earthquake had the power to move mountains and overturn seas, forcibly exhuming them.
Fusheng and Ruomeng, who had just taken human form, also discovered a piece of lightning-struck wood that had been buried underground for thousands of years.
This piece of lightning-struck wood is different from the lightning-struck wood on the ground. It has condensed the essence of tribulation lightning and absorbed enough earth spiritual essence. It has the ability to resist lightning strikes and can also nourish all things.
The fathead fish was even luckier, finding the remains of the Kunpeng clan. The patterns on the skeletons recorded many lost memories of their heritage.
This will greatly help its future cultivation, and its future achievements will far surpass those of the Kunpeng clan of the same era.
The spirit lamp also made a considerable haul, finding the inner core of an ancient sea overlord, the dragon whale beast.
This is the inner core of a tenth-tier divine beast. Although it has gone through a long period of time, for some unknown reason, it was sealed in the underground rock layer, and most of its spiritual power was preserved.
If the spirit lamp can completely refine and absorb it, it can at least advance one major level.
For a ninth-tier sea beast to break through to the tenth tier, it often requires hundreds or thousands of years of cultivation and accumulation. The inner core of a tenth-tier divine beast is a legendary existence.
Unexpectedly, she received it.
Lingdeng felt extremely fortunate. If she hadn't followed Xiaobao out of the deep sea on this trip, the treasure would definitely have been out of her reach.
Nie Xiaoxiao was still asleep, but Xianxian, who had already sprouted little seedlings, sensed dozens of wood spirit beads and earth spirit beads.
Although most of them are not of a high enough level, only of the fourth to seventh rank, there are two that are of the eighth rank or higher.
With these Wood Spirit Orbs and Earth Spirit Orbs, it would be enough for the master and pet to recover their strength, and advancing to the next level would only be a matter of time.
When the High Priest accompanied Xi'er to retrieve the Purple Jade Bone Bead, they unexpectedly discovered a Large Soul Bead.
This large soul bead is purplish-gold in color. Its outer layer is formed by the condensation of five purple demon soul beads, while its core is composed of countless blue, green, and yellow demons.
The high priest speculated that the demon race that once lived here had suffered a catastrophic disaster.
In the end, these five purple demons sacrificed themselves in an attempt to protect the souls of all their people and wait for the right opportunity to possess them and be reborn.
However, they never received any rescue, and eventually all the Soul Beads merged together to form this large Soul Bead.
The high priest knew that if he could devour this great soul bead, his future achievements would far surpass those of the Purple Demon.
However, he was reluctant to swallow it yet, planning to give it to his young master when she broke through her bottleneck in the future.
After Ah Chen and his group collected enough treasures, the volcanic ash gradually thinned out.
The air temperature dropped to around forty degrees Celsius, and just as everyone was about to leave, they heard Xiao Bao say:
"I remember Sister Fan once said that volcanic ash is a treasure with many uses, but unfortunately I can't remember it clearly."
But since we've come across this, let's grab as many bargains as we can.
After Xiao Bao reminded him, A Chen finally remembered that when his mother was running a plantation on Algae Star when he was a child, she had spent money to hire a mercenary group to collect soil after a volcanic eruption.
It is said that those soils contain abundant elements such as potassium, magnesium, iron, aluminum, calcium, and silicates, which are the main nutrients needed by plants.
Volcanic ash soil has extremely fine particles with many tiny air gaps, giving it a strong ability to retain water and fertilizer, and it is also easily permeable.
In summary, volcanic ash soil is an extremely fertile soil, particularly suitable for plant growth.
This time, the whole family came to the Dust Continent to help the people of the Fine Demon Clan to grow plants, raise animals, and build a food chain, thereby improving their living environment.
Therefore, this fertile soil is of utmost importance.
If that's the case, then what are we hesitating for? Let's go all out and pretend!
A collective mobilization was carried out, and all the remaining space was filled with volcanic ash.
During this time, Xi'er unexpectedly discovered a top-grade spirit stone mine. Although it wasn't large, it was still quite amazing.
After all, this is the Dust Continent, where even low-grade spirit stone mines are extremely rare, except for the rare Dawn Stone which has scarce spiritual energy.
In the end, it was Xiao Bao, a metal-type ability user, who took action and mined out the entire top-grade spirit stone mine, storing it in Xi'er's hollow bracelet space.
Because compared to everyone else's space, this hollowed-out bracelet has the largest capacity.
The spirit lamp once again demonstrated the level of trust among this group. Such a top-grade spirit stone mine would have caused any faction to fight to the death for it.
None of them raised any objections, so they let Xiaobao dig it up and store it in Xi'er's space.
No one suspected that Xiao Bao would embezzle during the excavation, and no one worried that Xi'er's space might directly swallow the vein.
Three days had passed since the group set off, and only now did purple demons and blue demons from thousands of miles away begin to arrive to shop.
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