Chapter 334: Heaven-Sent Silver Mine, Yu Yao, Yu Sheng, Killing a Chicken with a Meat Cleaver

North slope of the cliff wall. Xia Hong followed behind Chen Ying, drilled into the cave of the original Chen Ye camp from the passage, and walked about three hundred meters deep into the cave, immediately seeing firelight and figures ahead.

"The captain is here, and there are people following behind, it must be from the Camp Needs Department."

"Captain, Lord... Lord... Pay respects to the lord!"

The He Yuanfeng brothers were the first to hear the movement and immediately greeted them. Seeing the people behind Chen Ying, their expressions were shocked, and they hurriedly bowed to pay respects.

Chen Shang and the others in the rear also reacted and quickly walked up to pay respects to Xia Hong.

"Pay respects to the lord!"

"Pay respects to the lord!"

"No need for formalities, rise!"

Xia Hong raised his hand to signal everyone, browsed the crowd, and stopped at the younger Chen Shang, smiling: "I remember Chen Ying has two sons, named Chen Shang and Chen Ping. You are the eldest, Chen Shang, right?"

Clearly not expecting Xia Hong to remember him, Chen Shang's expression was excited, and he nodded heavily: "Subordinate Chen Shang, Chen Ping is my younger brother."

"Sure enough, a tiger father has no dog sons, not bad!"

Seeing Chen Shang's excited posture, Xia Hong praised him with a smile. Chen Shang looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a base strength of 21,000. This aptitude was indeed quite good in Does Does Da Xia.

However, he remembered these two brothers mainly because of his younger brother Chen Ping.

In the first Does Does Da Xia Martial Arts Competition last year, there were only three in the top 100 of the Woodcutting Realm group who hadn't broken through to the Earth-Digging Realm, and one of them was the fifteen-year-old Chen Ping.

At fifteen, he hadn't broken through to the Earth-Digging Realm. Chen Ping's cultivation aptitude was naturally not very strong, but being able to rank in the top 100 with Woodcutting Realm cultivation, his combat talent was clearly far beyond ordinary people, so Xia Hong had a deeper impression of him.

"Chen Ying, you lead the way in front, the rest continue to guard here."

Xia Hong was eager to see the silver mine at this moment and had no heart to talk more, so he directly called Chen Ying behind him and signaled him to continue leading the way.

"Lord, please follow me!"

Chen Ying nodded and drilled into the stone wall secret passage first, with Xia Hong following closely behind.

Just as Chen Ying said before, this tunnel extended into the mountain body of Double Dragon Mountain. Xia Hong followed him for a full four kilometers before finally seeing a trace of a newly excavated tunnel.

"The lord should be able to see that the first four kilometers were basically underground secret passages dug by Gnawing Rats. It wasn't as smooth as it is now before. It took me more than a month to open it up. From this position forward, it is the tunnel we dug in the last nine days."

Actually, there was no need for Chen Ying to explain. The new tunnel he led the team to excavate had an unusually narrow space, with a diameter of at most one meter, and both of them had to hunch over to enter; while the four-kilometer secret passage they walked in front had a diameter of at least two meters, clearly not at the same level.

However, this tunnel was not so narrow throughout. There were many spacious areas in the middle, and Xia Hong discovered that every hundred meters or so, the tunnel diameter would become similar to the secret passage in front.

He immediately reacted. These suddenly widened areas were all dug by Gnawing Rats, but because they were all independent, they were not connected. What Chen Ying had been doing during this period was clearly connecting them.

"These Gnawing Rats are indeed natural hole-digging experts. In my early years, I wondered how the caves we lived in before were formed, given the hardness of the mountain body in the Frozen Abyss. Now that I think about it, they were probably all dug by Gnawing Rats."

Chen Ying nodded upon hearing this: "Indeed, I also discovered that these Gnawing Rats are born to love digging holes. They have dug countless tunnels in the mountain body, and if you are not careful, they will collapse. In the first nine days, I actually spent more than half of the time fixing the tunnel structure."

Xia Hong continued to follow Chen Ying for more than two thousand meters, and finally saw a faint silver light far ahead, and his eyes instantly lit up.

You know, it was currently night. According to what Chen Ying said before, the exit at the end of the tunnel was another valley stone wall, so there shouldn't be any light.

This silver light, could it be...

"Lord, we have arrived, look!"

Finally reaching the exit at the end, hearing Chen Ying's signal, Xia Hong took a slight breath, walked forward a few meters, leaned half of his body out of the cave, and looked down at the stone wall.

Looking at this, his expression instantly became incomparably excited, and his eyes were full of unstoppable surprise and excitement.

Below, as Chen Ying said, was a valley about two kilometers in circumference.

On the ground of the valley, more than two thousand Gnawing Rats were densely entrenched. More than half of the Gnawing Rats' bodies were buried underground, leaving only a flesh-colored long tail swaying on the ground, and only a few were still scurrying outside.

In the very center of the valley, there were eighteen high-level Gnawing Rats, each only half a meter long, whose fur had evolved into gold. With them as the core, there were over a hundred mid-level Gnawing Rats, each four meters long, on the periphery.

Of course, a mere Gnawing Rat group was not enough to make Xia Hong show an excited expression. The key was that the ground of the valley where these Gnawing Rats were entrenched had hundreds of clearly visible silver rays of light.

Sure enough, the faint silver light seen just now was emitted by silver.

Under this valley, it was really a silver mine.

And the silver in the mineral vein had already been exposed to the ground!

Rich, this is really rich...

Xia Hong endured the excitement in his heart, swept his eyes around the valley, then looked up at the top, and the joy on his face instantly became more and more intense.

This valley was located inside the mountain body of Double Dragon Mountain. The cave he was in was indeed in the middle of the stone wall, about four hundred meters from the valley floor. The stone wall above was expected to be more than two thousand meters high. It was too far away to see how big the opening at the top was, and he could only vaguely see a little bit of the night sky.

"Climbing up from the cliff wall, you reach the deepest part of the west side of Double Dragon Mountain!"

Xia Hong looked up at the night sky above, and a hint of movement rose in his eyes.

To this day, whether for him or for many people in Does Does Da Xia, climbing up Double Dragon Mountain along the cliff wall was not a very difficult thing.

But he currently still strictly ordered people in the camp not to go up Double Dragon Mountain.

The reason was very simple: one was safety, and the other was demand.

Because the top of the cliff wall where they were located was theoretically just the deepest part of the west side of Double Dragon Mountain. If there were no accidents at the cliff, there would certainly be no human activity, and added to the rule that the deeper the area in the three resource areas of Red Wood Ridge, Arrow Bamboo Forest, and Longshan, the more dangerous it was, so by the same token, the environment above the cliff wall must also be abnormally dangerous. The huge vibrations that Xia City felt from time to time were enough to corroborate this point.

Demand was even easier to understand!

The three resource areas currently controlled by the camp had not been explored clearly, and the various resources of Xia City were currently in a state of overflow. The camp simply had no urgent need to explore new areas.

"That's true, but if we can explore new areas, we can obtain more new resources, which is also a great benefit to the camp!"

Xia Hong took a slight breath and looked toward the north side.

"However, the tunnels in the mountain body are not just this one. There is also a secret passage in the main building of the inner valley of Hanqiong, which leads directly to the interior of Double Dragon Mountain. It's just that I don't know where the final exit is. Lu Yang should have found out almost everything, right?"

When Hanqiong was destroyed last year, Han Feng, the son of Han Jiuli, refused his recruitment and ran away with more than a thousand people from the secret passage. Xia Hong hadn't forgotten this.

Lu Yang was the current Hanqiong Guarding Envoy. When he went to Hanqiong to take office at the beginning of the year, Xia Hong had already instructed him to explore inward along that secret passage to see if he could find the whereabouts of the thousand-plus people of Han Feng.

"Lord, this silver mine can be considered a gift from heaven to my Does Does Da Xia. Such a closed valley, and only a small Gnawing Rat group, basically has no mining difficulty. Subordinate congratulates the lord for finally getting what he wanted!"

Xia Hong's thoughts were flying, but in reality, it was only for a moment.

Chen Ying saw him full of excitement, remembered that Xia Hong had been running around for the silver mine since the beginning of the year, and immediately bowed to congratulate him.

Xia Hong heard this, the smile on his face became stronger, nodded and said: "You have made a great contribution to finding this silver mine. Don't worry, what I just said is still valid. Xia Chuan, after returning this time, directly record 500 military merits for Chen Ying, and the other rewards that should be given should not be less."

The Minister wasn't here, why did he call him?

Chen Ying's expression was somewhat confused, but before three or four breaths passed, he knew why Xia Hong called Xia Chuan and immediately turned to look at the tunnel in the rear.

"Subordinate understands, lord, there is great joyful news, there is great joyful news!"

In the tunnel, Xia Chuan hadn't appeared yet, but his voice arrived first.

After four or five breaths, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng came into Chen Ying's sight.

The two walked very fast, and both had rich joyful expressions on their faces, running over excitedly, shouting that there was great joyful news in their mouths.

"Chen Ying pays respects to the Minister, pays respects to Director Yuan!"

Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng waved their hands, signaling Chen Ying to rise, and then rushed directly to Xia Hong, who was full of confusion.

"What great joyful news?"

"The Lady is giving birth, and the two Highnesses are about to be born!"

Xia Hong heard this, his face instantly changed, and he subconsciously walked toward the cave exit, but he stopped after walking two steps: "You two first look at the valley below."

Although they were mentally prepared before coming, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng still showed wild joy when they saw the white silver exposed in the valley below.

"More than two thousand Gnawing Rats, eighteen high-level, more than one hundred mid-level, this silver mine is simply given to us for nothing!"

"The space in this valley is all closed, and the Gnawing Rats have nowhere to retreat except for digging and climbing walls. Just dig a tunnel to connect to the valley floor, ignite the Tengjiao poison sac in the valley, and send part of the army to fire arrows from the cave entrance of the cliff wall, and you can quickly solve a large batch, and then let the army enter the underground to clear it. It will take less than an hour to clean it all up. This silver mine is indeed no different from being given for nothing."

Compared to Yuan Cheng, Xia Chuan's train of thought was clearly much clearer, directly stating the idea of dealing with the Gnawing Rat group below.

Xia Hong heard this and immediately showed approval, asking: "Have you sent someone to notify Yu Wentao? There are only two hours left until dawn. The Dragon Martial Army walks the straight road all the way, rushing back from Longshan, is it a bit too late?"

Xia Chuan nodded: "I have already sent someone to notify. I let the Dragon Martial Army rest in the Mirror Valley tonight first. After dark tomorrow, I will lead the Cloud Dragon Army, and Yuan Cheng will lead the Slaughter Dragon Army to set off from Xia City. By then, the three armies will gather at this place.

Qiu Peng has already ordered the Camp Needs Department to prepare mid-to-high-level Tengjiao poison sacs and antidote pills, which will be distributed before the army sets off tomorrow night."

Hearing Xia Chuan's deployment was so proper, Xia Hong didn't say anything more, directly greeting everyone: "Then let's all go back first. This place is less than two kilometers from Xia City, so there is no need to leave anyone to watch. We'll talk about it tomorrow night!"

After speaking, Xia Hong walked toward the outside of the tunnel with an eager pace, clearly his inner heart was not as calm as he appeared.

The three people behind Xia Chuan were full of smiles and hurriedly followed closely.

"Ah... so painful, so painful... I'm so painful..."

"Lady, don't be in a hurry, take a deep breath and take it slow, it will come out soon."

"Go and get another basin of hot water."

"No, ah... I'm so painful, so painful..."

Inside the Star-Plucking Hall in Xia City, Li Ying Xuan Ling's shrill screams had lasted for a long time, and they could be heard clearly even from outside the Political Hall, which was more than a hundred meters away.

Outside the Political Hall, nearly three hundred people had gathered at this moment, and almost all the Cold-Resistant Realm experts in the camp had arrived.

Everyone looked up at the Star-Plucking Hall, their faces full of worry and expectation.

"Why has it been so long? It's been half an hour, right!"

"It's clearly not normal! Don't you feel it? The temperature over at the Star-Plucking Hall is much lower than usual!"

"I felt it. I just heard from a maid who came from there, saying that there is transparent water mist everywhere in the Star-Plucking Hall, the Cold Ruin Cauldron is useless, and seven midwives have gone, and they have to rotate to hold on to that cold!"

"Isn't it said that the Jade Dew Stone has already been refined by the Lady!"

"The Lady is already at the Cold-Resistant Realm, and she can still be in such pain. This..."

"The two Highnesses must be born safely!"

"They definitely will, wait a little longer, wait a little longer."

In the front of the crowd, Li Tiancheng, Meng Ying, Zhou Yuan, and a group of Longshan people were full of worry. If the rules of Does Does Da Xia were not too strict, they would have rushed into the Political Hall and rushed to the Star-Plucking Hall from the iron bridge in the rear.

Humans in the Frozen Abyss had strong physiques, and women were no exception. Even for ordinary parturients, the process of giving birth lasted at most half an hour. Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm—the higher the cultivation, the shorter the time, and the easier the process.

This was also easy to understand. The stronger the physique, the stronger the body function, and the higher the ability to withstand pain.

Cold-Resistant Realm parturients were even more so. The process of reshaping skin membranes with beast blood after reaching the Earth-Digging Realm limit was a hundred times more painful than giving birth. This little pain of giving birth was simply nothing to them.

The two wives of Xia Chuan, Xiao Ning and Xiao Yu, had birth processes that lasted less than five minutes and didn't make any screams, which was in line with common sense.

Li Ying Xuan Ling's situation at the moment was clearly abnormal.

Everyone immediately associated it with the Yanglu Realm incident last year and could basically conclude that Li Ying Xuan Ling's current abnormality was caused by that Jade Dew Stone.

Swish...

Just as everyone was anxious, a figure suddenly ran up from downstairs, broke into the Political Hall directly, went straight up the cloud ladder, and headed straight for the Star-Plucking Hall.

"The lord is back."

"It's the lord!"

"Be quiet, don't make noise, just wait for news in the Political Hall!"

The crowd had just let out a few exclamations when they were interrupted by Xia Chuan, who came up from behind. He signaled everyone to be quiet and wait for news in the Political Hall, while he followed behind Xia Hong and walked toward the Star-Plucking Hall.

"What's the situation?"

Hearing Li Ying Xuan Ling's shrill screams from far away, Xia Hong's face naturally didn't look very good. After approaching the Star-Plucking Hall, he found that the temperature of the entire hall was abnormally low, so his brows furrowed, and seeing Han Yue guarding the room door, he immediately asked about the situation.

Han Yue's expression was very panicked at this moment. She didn't have time to pay respects and opened her mouth directly:

"Reporting to the lord, half an hour ago, the temperature in the Star-Plucking Hall rose and fell from time to time. Water-blue liquid condensed everywhere on the bed edges, floors, tables, and windowsills in the Lady's room. We heard the Lady's screams and immediately went to notify the midwives.

After the temperature in the room dropped completely, the Lady's situation stabilized slightly. The midwives only have Earth-Digging Realm cultivation and simply couldn't hold on. We have already called seven midwives to rotate to deliver the baby for the Lady."

Han Yue said while taking out a small bag of water-blue liquid from her bosom and handing it to Xia Hong.

"This is... Cold Apple Jade Dew?"

Coincidentally, Xia Chuan walked over from the Political Hall at this time. Seeing what Han Yue handed to Xia Hong, his expression froze, then he reacted, his body shook violently, and he asked Han Yue: "You just said that there is this liquid everywhere in the Lady's room, how much did you collect?"

Although Han Yue only had Earth-Digging Realm cultivation, she had served Xia Hong for a long time and often went to the Camp Needs Department. Although she hadn't seen Cold Apple Jade Dew with her own eyes, she had heard of it and knew that it was an extremely precious medicine refining material.

Hearing Xia Chuan's question, she realized something, her expression was stunned, and then she nodded softly: "We have collected at least a thousand drops, and it is still condensing continuously in the Lady's room."

"This..."

Xia Chuan's expression froze instantly, then he turned to look at Xia Hong. Both of them had joy and deep worry in their eyes.

"The Jade Dew Stone must have been refined by Ying Xuan Ling. She couldn't lie. It is highly probable that the Jade Dew Stone after refining has had some kind of impact on the children. Is dystocia also one of the links? Being able to contend even with the Level 4 Cold Ruin Cauldron, this kind of impact is too great!"

Xia Hong forced himself to calm down first, then handed the Cold Apple Jade Dew to Xia Chuan and began to pace back and forth to relieve his mood, but the action of looking into the room repeatedly proved that his heart was not calm at all at this moment.

"Big brother, don't worry, nothing will happen!"

Xia Chuan couldn't help much at this moment, so he could only comfort him.

"Hmm? The temperature is rising!"

After waiting for another hundred breaths, Li Ying Xuan Ling's voice in the room suddenly became a bit more relaxed. At the same time, Xia Hong also clearly noticed that the temperature in the room was rising rapidly to a normal state.

"Wah... wah..."

"Lord, don't be in a hurry, there is still one Highness who hasn't come out, wait a little longer."

A loud cry came from the room, and Xia Hong's face instantly erupted with rich joy. If Han Yue hadn't stopped him in time, he would have rushed directly into the room in one step.

"Yes, yes, yes, there is another one, there is another one, forgot, forgot!"

The smile that had just risen on Xia Hong's face was immediately replaced by anxiety.

"No, so painful... so painful... ah..."

As Li Ying Xuan Ling's second round of screams began, Xia Hong found that the temperature in the room was rising at an exaggerated speed, and the anxiety on his face was directly transformed into deep worry.

Clearly, both fetuses were affected by the Jade Dew Stone.

"Wah..."

After the first child was born, the subsequent process seemed much smoother. Xia Hong only waited for less than a few minutes before hearing the second baby's cry.

This time, Han Yue finally didn't stop him and let him in directly.

"Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, the Lady gave birth to a pair of twins."

"The eldest Highness is a sister, the second Highness is a brother."

"Congratulations to the lord." ===== CHAPTER 335 =====