Chapter 1768: Little Digging Expert

Before long, Bai Seventeen brought back good news:

The Silver Pearl Fruit cut down with the branches had a glowing duration that was greatly increased, actually exceeding half an hour!

The ground army had more than enough time to walk from the Upside-Down Lake to the Kidney Lake in half an hour.

This news made Bai Ziqi feel much more settled in his heart.

Having solved this trouble, as the commander of the entire army, he still had to take care of Banqiu and the mining area.

He said to Bai Seventeen: "Ask Zhaoyoushen about the progress of the mine cave."

Entrance of the Spiritual Mine Cave.

A fire snake swam out from underground, red and bright, but as soon as it touched the tongue of Jieshui True Person, it turned into flying smoke with a puff.

"There are some prohibitions and traps in the mine cave, all of which have been cleared by my fire snakes." It said lazily, "No sign of people."

Otherwise, they would have been burned together.

The dwarf asked it: "Are you sure?"

"Patrolled back and forth several times, how else to be sure?" Jieshui True Person didn't even give it a white eye, "Or do you want to go down and see for yourself?"

The dwarf ignored it and took out an earthy yellow—from his bosom.

The eyeball spider on the nearby branch rubbed its eyes. Is this thing a coconut-shaped round jar? Dong Rui muttered: "Are they going to pour water into the cave?"

"Useless." Luo Xie said as soon as he heard it, "The bottom of the cave leads directly to the underground river, and the water poured in will all be injected into the underground river and flow away."

Then the dwarf opened the jar lid, buckled the jar on his hand, and poured out a beige squirrel.

Its tail was fluffy and had dark brown stripes, and its ears were sharp and large, capable of turning in different directions.

The little squirrel also wore a dark green necklace around its neck. The eyeball spider discovered that the pendant was a dark green the size of a soybean, and a rune seemed to be faintly glowing inside.

Zhu Xiuer immediately told the other two onlookers that this necklace was a seal, or rather, a restraint.

The dwarf ordered the squirrel: "There are Profound Crystals in this mine cave, dig them all out, the more the better, the faster the better!"

The squirrel stretched out its two front claws toward him instead.

He Lingchuan often fed monkeys, and as soon as he saw it, he knew this action was asking for things.

The dwarf took out three light red Profound Crystals the size of duck eggs and gave them to it: "Don't be lazy, or you'll have a hard time."

The squirrel took the Profound Crystals and swallowed them in one gulp.

Its mouth was only that small, and no one could see clearly how it swallowed the huge Profound Crystals, but it didn't even bulge its cheeks, and after eating the three, it wiped its mouth and whiskers with its front claws, still unsatisfied.

However, after taking the benefits, it had to work. The little squirrel raised its upper body and reached out its two front claws to touch its belly. Only then did the eyeball spider discover that it also hid a pocket on its belly.

The squirrel took out small earthy yellow balls from its pocket and threw them on the ground at will, its speed dazzling. In the later stage, it could throw out a dozen balls in one handful.

These balls looked very much like walnuts at first glance, but after rolling twice on the ground, they suddenly cracked, and their volume suddenly swelled, actually turning into insects the size of domestic dogs!

Their big heads looked like crayfish, but the back half of their bodies looked like ants, with long whiskers in front and back, and strong long legs, and the color was also earthy gray.

Dong Rui saw at a glance that this was a mole cricket, commonly known as "earth dog", but these big guys also had thick and powerful front claws like shovels, looking like little experts at digging.

The squirrel pointed to the mine cave entrance very humanely, and the mole crickets swarmed in.

They went into the mine cave in groups, stopped when they encountered Profound Crystals, dug open the rocks with their front claws, and dug out the Profound Crystals, their movements very skilled. Rocks harder than steel were like soft sponge cake in front of them.

Liu Elder summoned the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, and the crowd watched the mirror surface. The little squirrel was still constantly rubbing out new mole crickets and putting them into the mine cave as coolies for mining.

Zhu Xiuer suddenly said: "This is the essence of earth!"

Dong Rui: "Which one?"

Liu Elder pointed to the little squirrel in the mirror: "This one."

Dong Rui was surprised: "The essence of earth has fur?"

In fact, He Lingchuan was no stranger to the essence of earth. The main demon puppet Ashimona made by the Red Hut Master was refined from the essence of earth mixed with divine blood and divine bones; He Lingchuan also entered the white-haired bear demon cave guarded by the essence of earth when he went to White Hair Mountain to take the black dragon scales.

"The appearance is just a facade, these mountain and water spirits can choose for themselves. Overall, the more they look like this animal, the higher their cultivation level; this one has been raised very large; the Immortal Venerable's previous cave dwelling also had a water essence, which took the image of a giant salamander." Liu Elder's expression was solemn, "I didn't expect the Tiangong to let the essence of earth dig for Profound Crystals, this is troublesome. Fortunately, Miaozhantian has not yet unsealed the Immortal Venerable's 'escape technique prohibition', otherwise, the speed of the essence of earth digging for Profound Crystals could be several times faster."

As long as the "escape technique prohibition" is still in effect, the Tiangong's essence of earth must also honestly dig for Profound Crystals, at most sending mole crickets to dig like human hands. But once the lighthouse barrier covers here and can unseal the "escape technique prohibition", it can even turn the rocks around the Profound Crystals into stone people, lift the Profound Crystals to hand them over, or forcibly squeeze the mine tunnels to crush the enemies inside into meat paste.

"Our opponent is not this little thing." He Lingchuan said to the crowd, "We can't let those few guys watch the show comfortably at the cave entrance, we have to trick them down."

The essence of earth was not their target, the two great powers were.

He Lingchuan's goal was to defeat them one by one, and now he had to trick at least one down.

The earth mole crickets lined up to carry the harvested Profound Crystals out, but none of them were eye-catching. The dwarf grabbed a Profound Crystal the size of a quail egg, smashed it on the squirrel's forehead, and said unhappily: "Too small, send your earth puppets to the depths of the cave to mine big ones!"

The Profound Crystals near the cave entrance had all been mined by the Yu villagers. The newly grown ones were all in a crystal cluster state, not worth digging.

They were also anxious; Miaozhantian was urging them tightly. If they didn't dig for Profound Crystals and go back soon, the Tiangong team wouldn't be able to build new lighthouse barriers.

The squirrel hugged its head and looked at him sideways, making a whistling sound in its mouth, and the earth mole crickets entered the mine cave even faster.

Jieshui True Person and the dwarf Immortal looked around, alert to possible dangers.

Although they lit Miaozhantian's candle, what was the probability that the Illusion Sect would discover them occupying the mine pit? Conservatively estimated, eighty percent.

So they had already arranged a series of formations outside the cave.

The earth mole cricket army walked deeper and deeper in the mine cave, soon reaching twenty yards underground. At this depth, the air was very thin, and the Profound Crystals in the rock layer were indeed getting larger and larger.

Their numbers exceeded four hundred, mainly divided into two teams, one responsible for digging and one for transportation, working diligently and enthusiastically.

In fact, these were all clones of the essence of earth.

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