Chapter 103 Digging a Well (2)
Knowing that he could dig a spirit well so that the spirit plants could grow well, Ji Zhuang was excited and couldn't wait to dig it, but he didn't know where to start.
Ji Zhuang then went to ask Jiao Jue, who replied, "For this kind of thing, go to your sister Ji Rong. That monster of hers is rooted in the spiritual veins every day, she definitely knows where there is spiritual water."
Upon hearing this, Ji Zhuang could only stay by his sister's side every day, hoping that his sister Ji Rong would wake up soon.
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Ji Rong encountered a troublesome problem below: her roots could not get past the cut of the blade energy. Now, the blade energy had severed her 534th root.
Since she couldn't get through, Ji Rong turned around and dismantled her rope-like little spiritual vein into its original hair-like strands, connecting one end to the spiritual flow and sending the bird imprint in the spiritual vein back to the ground along her roots.
Her consciousness returned to the tree trunk. Ji Rong looked around and slowly drew the underground roots into her spiritual platform.
"Sister, you're finally awake!" Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing, who had just returned from work, shouted happily when they saw Ji Rong awake.
Ji Zhuang said excitedly, "Sister, tell me quickly where there is a spiritual spring, I want to dig a well to irrigate the land!"
Gu Qingqing hugged Ji Rong and cried out as usual, "You're finally awake! Do you know, Jinlong, he..."
"How am I?" Jiao Jue asked from behind.
"Brother Jinlong, he...he's doing well,"
Gu Qingqing choked up and said, "Thanks to him for making us mine these days, you see, my control over the claws has improved, and your brother has raw ore as payment. Now we mine every day, and our claws are all polished."
After saying that, Gu Qingqing raised her two smoothed front paws for Ji Rong to see.
Ji Rong ignored Gu Qingqing's ambiguous words. She was very happy to see Jiao Jue. She was just worried about how to break the sword energy when Jiao Jue arrived.
"If the golden dragon could dig a hole down..."
Ji Rong thought about it more and more and it seemed more and more reliable. There must be another stream of spiritual energy on the other side of the broken spiritual energy channel. The golden dragon could not refuse.
So she called out loudly to Jinlong, "Brother Jinlong!"
The familiar smile, the familiar voice, the old routines—all are still vivid in my mind.
Jiao Jue suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and he turned and went into the cave.
Ji Rong flapped her wings and ran in front of Jiao Jue, saying, "Brother Jinlong, we're going to get rich!"
"Get rich?!" Jiao Jue stopped immediately, his eyes wide open.
Ji Rong continued cheerfully, "Yes, I found a spiritual stream below the spiritual vein, and there's a blade mark on the stream. Big brother, if you can neutralize that blade energy, we'll be rich!"
"Is what you're saying true?" Jiao Jue asked excitedly.
“True,” Ji Rong replied, “Nothing could be more true than this.”
“Okay.” Jiao Jue squinted happily and said, “Ji Rong, mark this place.”
"Ji Zhuang, Ugly Fox, you don't need to work tomorrow. Go dig where Ji Rong marked."
The upstream of the spiritual stream is not far from the mine, and it is not even outside the sealed area of the ore vein.
The next day, Jiao Jue sat on the spot marked by Ji Rong, watching Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing dig.
Ji Zhuang, being a bird, was extremely bad at digging holes, but Gu Qingqing could barely manage to use him.
They dug for a month, but then they couldn't dig any further. They dug out a hole inside, and water gushed out like a spring.
It turned out that Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang had cut off a small tributary of this underground water vein.
Jiaojue drank a mouthful of well water, but there was no spiritual energy in the water.
Jiao Jue squinted and thought for a moment, then said to Ji Rong, "Sometimes the water veins and spiritual flows cross paths, but most of the time they go their separate ways. You little bird, even your roots can't cross that sword intent. That sword intent is probably hard to dispel. Let's try another method. You can take root along the water veins of this land and see if you can go around them."
Ji Rong did as she was told. She transformed into a tree trunk and slowly extended her roots downwards.
With the cover of the underground water veins, this time, Ji Rong's roots actually managed to reach the other side of the blade.
Through her divine sense, Ji Rong looked at the unfathomable spiritual river beneath the roots.
She quickly summoned the hair-thin spiritual vein and connected the other end to this spiritual river.
Ji Rong activated her divine sense to gradually straighten out the spiritual veins, losing track of time.
During this time, Xuanwu came once and brought Ji Zhuang a lot of seeds. Jiaojue asked Yanwu to bring a few pickaxes next time.
After Ji Rong connected the tiny spiritual vein, it became like an extremely thin, hollow stalk of grass, carrying drop by drop of spiritual liquid from the spiritual river into the spiritual stream below Tuifeng Island.
"It's done!" Ji Rong snapped out of her daze, slowly opened her eyes, and excitedly shouted to everyone.
“Ugly fox, Ji Zhuang, fill in this mortal well.”
Ji Zhuang looked at the well he had painstakingly dug but couldn't bear to part with it. He asked Jiao Jue, "Brother Jinlong, if this mortal water is mixed with spiritual water, can it be called a spiritual spring?"
Jiao Jue lowered his head in thought, then looked up again, squinting and smiling, "That should be possible."
Upon hearing this, Ji Zhuang happily said to Ji Rong, "Sister, could you poke two holes in the spiritual vein? That way, I can have a spiritual well to irrigate the land, and everyone will have spiritual water to use."
Ji Rong did as instructed and made an opening in the small spiritual vein.
Jiaojue condescended to go down into the well and partially blocked the underground water vein. The spiritual energy and water slowly met and merged at the bottom of the well. When it rose to the surface, it was spiritual water with a very low spiritual energy content.
Not having enough spiritual energy, Jiao Jue took a bite and asked Ji Rong, "Can your spiritual vein absorb more spiritual energy?"
Without hesitation, Ji Rong spread her wings and replied, "Sure, but my little spiritual vein is only this long, not enough to connect."
If I need to pick them up again, I'll have to go out and find them first, then I can bring them back.
Jiao Jue nodded and said, "Twenty days from now, the witch will come, and I will go with you to find her then."
For the rest of the time, Jiaojue acted as both a supervisor and an instructor for the foxes' cultivation.
Thus, Gu Qingqing began the most fulfilling life she had ever lived.
While mining, she also trained her four claws, and every now and then her foxfire would go out of control, burning her fur into pits.
She stopped looking for Ji Ronghao and would curl up and fall asleep as soon as she finished work.
Sometimes, when Ji Zhuang saw that Gu Qingqing was really dirty, he would wipe her face with a burlap cloth and stroke her fur with his paw.
Twenty days later, the witch arrived as promised. Jiao Jue said to Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang, who were leading the ox, "Don't be lazy. If I come back and find that you have dug less spirit crystal ore, you know what will happen."
Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang nodded repeatedly. Seeing that Jiao Jue was really gone, the seal returned to normal. Gu Qingqing jumped onto the cow's back and let out a joyful howl.
Then, she was reluctantly dragged by Ji Zhuang to go mining.
The little calf followed obediently behind, and now, watching Gu Qingqing dig, he has also learned to dig for ore.
He stood in front of the mine wall, followed the vein's texture to the top of a corner, and when the texture loosened, he sat on the ground and slowly dug with his front hooves. He could dig up eight pieces a day. Jiaojue gave him two pieces of raw ore as payment each day, which Ji Zhuang kept for him.
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