Chapter 174: Alert, Red Smelted Crystal Copper

Early the next morning, Lin Zhangqing finished his cultivation of the Five Elements Chaos Sutra, and not long after, Chen Zi Ya came over.

Now both of them were used to meeting every day, staying together for a while to drink tea, chat, and then separate to do their own things.

Lin Zhangqing was currently appreciating Chen Zi Ya's tea ceremony performance. Perhaps it was because the relationship between the two was different now, and their moods were naturally different, so the things they tasted were of course different.

The more he looked, the more he felt that Chen Zi Ya's temperament was icy and otherworldly, making people itch with impatience, and he always couldn't help but want to tease her.

"Senior Brother, drink tea!" Now that the relationship between the two was close, their speech and such had become very routine.

Seeing that Chen Zi Ya had already brewed the tea, Lin Zhangqing ran to her side again and sat leaning against her. Fortunately, he didn't make any other moves.

Chen Zi Ya's face just turned slightly red. She was used to it, and she wondered why she hadn't noticed Lin Zhangqing's face was so thick before.

After Lin Zhangqing leaned against Chen Zi Ya and drank a cup of tea, he took out six storage bags and two spirit beast bags from his bosom.

He said proudly: "Junior Sister, let's take a look together and see if there are any good things inside!"

"Are these the storage bags and spirit beast bags of that group of rogue cultivators who captured the villagers to mine?"

"That's right. There were six rogue cultivators in that group, and not a single one escaped. They are all here."

"Senior Brother is formidable, eliminating harm for the people. Junior Sister admires you! Can you bring Junior Sister along next time, so that Junior Sister can see Senior Brother's divine might with her own eyes?" After finishing, she looked at him with anticipation.

Hearing Chen Zi Ya say this, Lin Zhangqing chuckled "Hehe!" proudly.

However, he didn't pick up on Chen Zi Ya's topic, nor did he pay attention to her expectant expression, and could only respond with a laugh.

Bringing her along when fighting with others was still too dangerous; Lin Zhangqing didn't dare to, and even more so, couldn't bear to.

Subsequently, the two began to refine the storage bags.

Because Lin Zhangqing had already refined the storage bags of the Chen Biao and Chen Hu brothers inside, each of them only needed to refine two storage bags. They poured all the contents of the six storage bags onto the ground, and there was quite a lot of stuff, piling up into a large heap.

Subsequently, the two began to organize them by category, and soon they were sorted out, with high-quality Red Smelted Fire Copper ore accounting for the vast majority.

In the six storage bags, there were only over eight thousand low-grade spirit stones, less than nine thousand, and not a single medium-grade spirit stone was found.

The harvest in terms of dharma artifacts was quite good: three medium-grade dharma artifacts and twelve high-grade dharma artifacts, with about half being offensive and half defensive.

There were three extreme-grade dharma artifacts: one was a defensive dharma artifact in the shape of a turtle shell shield, and the other two were two flying swords, one gold and one fire.

Lin Zhangqing wanted to give the turtle shell shield defensive dharma artifact and the gold-attribute flying sword to Chen Zi Ya to use, but she refused, so Lin Zhangqing didn't force her.

There were more pills, over thirty bottles. There were seven or eight bottles of Spirit Nurturing Pills, as well as Qi Gathering Pills, Spring Return Pills, and Qi Recovery Pills—all common pills.

In one bottle, he also found three red pills. This kind of pill had a very strong bloody smell.

However, Lin Zhangqing didn't recognize the pill and didn't dare to try it casually, so he could only put it aside first and ask Junior Sister Zhao Mingxia for advice when he saw her in the future.

He picked out six bottles of Spirit Nurturing Pills and gave them to Chen Zi Ya. Now she also had spirit beasts that needed to be raised. She didn't refuse this time and accepted them happily.

There were also over a dozen bottles of Qi Gathering Pills, which were divided into medium-grade and high-grade. Lin Zhangqing picked out the high-grade ones; he could use these himself.

As for those medium-grade Qi Gathering Pills, he would see how to deal with them later; he might sell them to the clan or simply let Lin Zhangliu absorb and digest them.

Next were some sundries and personal items. He put them all in one storage bag and would find a place to deal with them with a Fireball Technique later!

This time, twelve cubic meters of high-quality ore were sorted out from the six storage bags. Lin Zhangqing put them all into the Spirit Beast Bracelet and placed them together with the high-quality ore harvested last time.

The remaining items were all put back into their corresponding storage bags.

Lin Zhangqing refined the remaining two spirit beast bags himself, and soon finished.

He took one, used his spiritual sense to look inside, and saw a Swift Wind Thunder Leopard at the First-Rank Peak and a Spirit-Seeking Rat at the First-Rank Mid-Stage, but unfortunately, they were both dead.

It seemed this should be Chen Biao's spirit beast bag. Because Chen Biao had died, the two spirit beasts had both suffered backlash and died, so they could only be left as rations for Lin Zhangqing's spirit beasts.

Inside the other spirit beast bag were two First-Rank Late-Stage Swift Wind Wolves, still alive and kicking inside. Since Chen Hu was still alive, his two spirit beasts naturally hadn't suffered backlash.

There was no way to deal with them now, so he could only put them away first. He would see if they could withstand the backlash after dealing with Chen Hu in a couple of days! However, even if they really withstood the backlash, Lin Zhangqing probably would still kill them. Because Lin Zhangqing didn't look down on this kind of Swift Wind Wolf at all, and it was even more impossible for him to contract them, so he would just keep them as rations for the Purple Crystal Scorpions and Chuyi and the others in the future!

After organizing everything, the two were going back to drink tea and chat.

"Senior Brother, how do you plan to deal with those Red Smelted Fire Copper ores?" Chen Zi Ya asked suddenly.

Lin Zhangqing thought for a moment and said: "Take them all back to the clan and entrust them to the Affairs Hall to be refined into Red Smelted Fire Copper."

Chen Zi Ya chuckled lightly: "Senior Brother, why not entrust them to Junior Sister Hu and have them refined directly into Red Smelted Crystal Copper."

Lin Zhangqing hesitated for a moment and said: "It wouldn't be good to always trouble Junior Sister Hu, would it!"

Chen Zi Ya glanced at him and said with a smile: "She might even be wishing for you to trouble her often!"

Lin Zhangqing immediately smelled a hint of vinegar and said alertly: "It's better for you to come forward and talk to her about this when the time comes! I'm not often in Qingyun City, and it's more convenient for you to deal with her."

Chen Zi Ya thought for a moment and said: "You should still be the one to talk to her. When you are not in Qingyun City, I will take your place and take over from her."

Since Chen Zi Ya had said so, Lin Zhangqing nodded, considering the arrangement agreed upon.

"By the way, Junior Sister, I saw you cast some spells in the mine cave that day and knew the specific situation of the mine vein. Was that the Surveying Technique? Are you learning the Earth Master inheritance?"

Chen Zi Ya nodded and said: "It is the Surveying Technique, because the Array Master inheritance and the Earth Master inheritance have some commonalities, so I learned it incidentally."

"Then the Spirit Eye Spring we discovered in the secret realm—was it because our cultivation wasn't high enough that we didn't move it away?" Lin Zhangqing asked with a sudden realization.

"Senior Brother is truly wise beyond measure, guessing it right away. That's right! To move the Spirit Eye Spring, one needs at least the cultivation of the Purple Mansion Stage to barely be able to move it."

"And there is still a fifty percent chance of damaging the Spirit Eye Spring, causing it to fall into a long period of dormancy and self-healing."

"So to move this kind of spiritual object, it is best to find a Golden Core True Person; that is the safest."

Lin Zhangqing nodded. He had given up hope this time; before reaching the Purple Mansion Stage, when encountering this kind of spiritual object, he could only watch.

After accompanying Lin Zhangqing to drink a pot of spirit tea, Chen Zi Ya returned. Coming back to visit relatives this time, she mainly wanted to spend more time with her parents and family.

Since Chen Zi Ya had already returned, Lin Zhangqing also had to cultivate spells, so he activated the illusion array.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to cultivate thunder techniques. This kind of spell with relatively high power should be cultivated in a relatively safe place; he couldn't cultivate it on the Wanbao Pavilion's guest ship.

Days passed like this, and five days passed without him noticing.

This morning, not long after Lin Zhangqing and Chen Zi Ya finished their cultivation, they were gathered together preparing to drink tea.

Unexpectedly, several key figures in the village were escorting a middle-aged cultivator and walking towards Chen Zi Ya's home. Lin Zhangqing's spiritual sense detection range was now ninety zhang, so he had discovered them long ago.

Lin Zhangqing laughed and said to Chen Zi Ya: "We have guests. I estimate that the one coming should be a cultivator from the Nanhe Liu Family."

"You go to the back garden pavilion, brew some spirit tea, and I will go to welcome him! The sooner we deal with it, the sooner it will be over."

Chen Zi Ya also used her spiritual sense to scan, and they had just reached her spiritual sense detection range. She was a bit surprised at the strength of Lin Zhangqing's spiritual sense.

However, now was not the time to ask this, as Lin Zhangqing was already walking towards the entrance.

Just as Lin Zhangqing stood still at the entrance, the guest arrived at the front.

The several key figures in the village hurriedly saluted Lin Zhangqing, "Greetings, Immortal Master Lin!"

The middle-aged cultivator saw Lin Zhangqing standing at the entrance and understood that this was to welcome him, so he saluted first and then said: "Liu Yuntao of the Nanhe Liu Family greets Fellow Daoist."

Lin Zhangqing hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Lin Zhangqing of the Nine Peaks Mountain Lin Family greets Fellow Daoist Liu."

"Junior Sister Chen has already brewed spirit tea and is ready to host Fellow Daoist Liu. Please come in."

Liu Yuntao nodded and followed Lin Zhangqing inside. As for those few people in the village, they were hosted by the Chen family.

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