Chapter 122 Thoughts
Ji Rong slept for seven days.
Ji Rong, who hadn't dreamed in a long time, dreamed again.
She dreamt that she was with a three-headed dragon, rooted in a wide spiritual river, where golden ripples would occasionally spread across the surface.
She found the spiritual energy emanating from the ripples to be exceptionally sweet, so she urged her roots to drink it in.
The three-headed dragon beside it also looked fascinated. Its three heads were all wide open, and wherever there was a golden ripple on the river, its head would bite towards that spot.
They watched over the food until Ji Rong felt she was full, let out a satisfied burp, and then woke up.
Upon waking, she was stunned by the dense spiritual energy in the air. Before she could even think, she saw Jiao Jue staring at her with unusually wide eyes, urgently saying, "Quickly fix the spiritual energy flow below!"
Ji Rong paused for a moment, then instinctively pulled her roots to gather the spiritual vein, leaving only a small opening.
After carefully collecting the roots, Ji Rong was still in a daze.
As she inhaled the rich spiritual energy, she stared blankly at Ji Zhuang beside her and asked, "Brother, are we home? Why is the spiritual energy so abundant?"
Ji Zhuang shook his head and said, "We're still on Tuifeng Island and haven't left yet."
Jiao Jue looked up at the dense spiritual energy in the air, his face grim. He turned to the calf and said, "Silly bird, now that you're awake, go mining with the calf!"
Ji Rong followed Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang into the mine. Her mind gradually returned to normal, and she realized that she was still on Tuifeng Island.
The spiritual energy on this island is most likely due to the fact that the person fell asleep without gathering the spiritual energy flow, causing a massive amount of spiritual energy to leak out.
"This is terrible! The spiritual energy has been leaking for almost ten days. The master of the Spirit River might already be on his way." Ji Rong thought to herself, "No wonder the Golden Dragon is unhappy. In that case, I have to get the money back first."
So Ji Rong spread her wings and flew to Jiao Jue, extending one wing towards him: "Big brother, we agreed on two thousand per person. Pay me when you're done."
With a livid face, Jiao Jue squinted and said, "You're in such a hurry!"
“Yes!” Ji Rong said sincerely, “My storage ring is small, and I’m going to wander again, so it’s better to use readily available spirit crystals. Big brother, your storage ring is large, so you can put more spirit crystal ore in it.”
Jiaojue squinted and opened his mouth wide. He used his claws to pull out his enormous storage ring and beckoned to Ji Rong, saying, "Give me your storage ring."
Ji Rong handed it over as instructed.
Jiaojue touched the two storage rings together and chanted a spell.
One by one, pale golden inscriptions rose from the ring face, slowly rotating around the two storage rings, with the brilliant light of spirit crystals faintly shimmering between them.
A moment later, Jiao Jue tossed the small storage ring to Ji Rong: "Here you go, hurry up and leave!"
Ji Rong took the storage ring, quickly glanced inside, and then happily flapped her wings and went into the mine.
Having run ahead, she turned back and asked, "Brother Jinlong, are we going to move all of this mine?"
Jiaojue sighed, "Let's not move them. Let's dig up some and leave when Yanwu comes."
Even if this mineral vein is discovered, it will still require living beings to mine it.
Those guys in the sky aren't used to hard labor, so the old folks will be fine.
Upon hearing this, the two birds and the fox walked into the cave with heavy hearts, until they reached the place where the calf was digging.
With Jiaojue's guidance, Xiao Niu can now dig up twenty-five pieces of spirit crystal ore a day. When he saw everyone coming in, he quickly pushed the spirit crystal ore he had dug up under Jiaojue's claws.
His tail wagged loudly, and his eyes gleamed with pride.
"This ox is so capable now?" Ji Rong said proudly. "I knew it! Killing it for meat is not as worthwhile as keeping it to work as a laborer, right, brother!"
Jiao Jue nodded slightly, walked to a spot in the mine, took out a giant pickaxe, and began to dig.
Dust filled the mine shaft in an instant.
Ji Rong and the others were stunned for a moment, then picked up the pickaxes on the ground and started digging frantically.
After these days of practice, everyone's mining skills have improved significantly.
With its dragon head covered in stone chips, Jiao Jue turned around and shouted, "Fools, why aren't you spreading out and digging? Do you want to collapse this ground?!"
The two birds and the fox hurriedly dug deeper. As they dug, Ji Rong's thoughts drifted, and she suddenly said, "Brother, we don't know when we'll be able to settle down again after this trip. Why don't we take out the Xuanhuan wooden plaque that Tiger Boy from Tianxu Palace gave us and bring it with us? It'll give us an extra layer of identity."
Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang deeply agreed.
They retrieved the two plaques from their storage rings, hung them around their necks like precious treasures, and then used their beaks to gather their feathers and hide them away.
After digging for about ten days, Yanwu arrived. As soon as she entered Tuifeng Island, she activated the eye on her forehead to distort space. This scene happened to be seen by Shan Zuo and Shan You.
This natural means of altering the range of light would not be noticed if people on the left and right sides of the mountain were merely passing by.
But the people on the left and right of the mountain were always on Tuifeng Island, and they saw everything clearly.
The space-distorting witch's figure became as small as a weed. She held up a jade seal and chanted a spell. As if sensing this, the world within the island emitted a trace of its own energy.
Yanwu cut his finger and dripped his blood drop by drop into the inscription groove on the jade seal. The jade seal shone with golden light, and soon a circular portal appeared.
She disappeared as soon as she went inside, her very breath vanishing.
“There’s a way to isolate the world here!” Shan Zuo and Shan You frowned at the same time. They were each the same tiger guarding their own territory. Now, their eyes met, and their eyes gleamed with a sharp light as they guarded the entire island.
However, after waiting for two days, no living creatures came in or out.
They carefully examined every pebble and every blade of grass within their field of vision, discerning the various scents wafting in the air.
Although they were patient hunters, the tedious waiting was exhausting for the tiger. Yamazuo's eyes became unfocused, and he couldn't help but close them and take a nap.
He was suddenly awakened by several ore fragments hitting him.
He looked up and saw that what had hit him was a grayish-brown bird flying overhead, with a dappled fox sitting on its back. The fox was holding a pouch, and the ore inside was still falling down.
It turned out that Gu Qingqing was worried that after they left, they would soon have to live in poverty again, so she stuffed the raw ore into the bag like hemp thread, and pressed it down again and again until it was very full.
Before leaving, Jiao Jue noticed that Gu Qingqing was carrying a series of old and worn-out storage bags on her back, looking exactly like a destitute refugee. So he took out a small storage ring and asked Gu Qingqing to put them away.
He said disdainfully, "Ugly fox, we're just going out to hide for a while, it's not like we can't survive anymore, who are you trying to impress with that look on your face!"
Gu Qingqing accepted the storage ring and, while putting it away, grinned at Jiao Jue, saying, "Brother Jinlong, you know how difficult Ji Rong is to raise. She has eaten me out of house and home several times. I can't even scrape together two spirit crystals with my entire fortune. I'm really scared."
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue stopped and waited for Gu Qingqing to dress up without saying anything more.
After filling the storage ring, Gu Qingqing still had three storage bags in her hands. She hid these three bags in her fluffy tail before standing up and saying that she was done. She then happily followed the witch out.
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