Chapter 37: Long Xuan's Decision

So one of the loose cultivators immediately suggested that it would be better to sell this mine vein directly and earn a wave of quick money.

They couldn't dig up this fossil mine vein in a hundred lifetimes. It didn't belong to them in the first place. Instead of wasting cultivation time here, it was better to sell it directly.

But his suggestion was immediately opposed by the remaining loose cultivators.

Loose cultivators were all scared of being poor. This was a gold mountain they could never spend. How could they be willing to sell it in pain?

If the total value of this fossil mine vein was 100 billion Spirit Stones, then it would be good if they could sell it for 10 billion Spirit Stones, because no force could take out so many Spirit Stones at once.

From a long-term perspective, it was definitely a huge loss.

But the loose cultivator who proposed selling the mine vein was also not wrong. After all, no matter how many fossils were here, what was the use if they couldn't dig them out?

As long as you earn a wave of quick money, you can grow rapidly. Once your strength is strong, what wealth can't you have?

Guarding wealth you can't use is being a miser, which is irrational.

Their opinions had huge differences, and they soon started arguing, finally arguing out of anger, and both sides evolved into a big melee.

In the end, because of the civil war, only one of the four survived, dragging a heavily injured body out.

Maybe some accident happened, or maybe he finally died of heavy injuries, leaving only a map recording this place, and then he passed away.

As for why the map was burned in a large area, it might be that the person who got this map was being killed and robbed of treasures. Before dying, he didn't want the treasure map to fall into the hands of the enemy, so he simply planned to burn it.

But the fire burned slowly, and only one-tenth was burned before it was extinguished by the enemy.

Later, this burned map fragment was circulated several times, and I don't know how it flowed into the hands of the Little Medicine Boy.

At this time, Long Xuan also had the same idea as those few loose cultivators. Whether to keep this gold mountain himself or sell it in pain to earn quick money, he fell into entanglement.

But he didn't struggle for long. He came here to hunt for treasure because he lacked Spirit Stones to buy materials for the Ice Cold Divine Flame. He urgently needed a huge amount of Spirit Stones.

And he couldn't dig the mine vein alone. Since he couldn't use this mine vein, what was the use of keeping it in his hands? He didn't have the ability to mobilize mortals to do hard labor.

Since guarding this mine vein was just staring blankly, then he really had nothing to struggle with.

First sell the mine vein to those major clans, let them dig first, and when they take out the fossils they dug and sell them, he would go over and pick up bargains at cabbage prices.

This was equivalent to having the great clans mine for him; he was freeloading off the labor of the great clans.

The major clans not only had to pay a huge amount of Spirit Stones to buy his mine vein, but even the good insects dug out had to belong to him.

He was truly too cunning. This abacus was clattering loudly. Long Xuan showed a cunning and sinister smile.

After making a decision in his heart, Long Xuan didn't leave immediately, but walked toward the deepest part of the cave with his clones.

He was different from those loose cultivators. After all, his eyes could accurately locate.

Those few loose cultivators dug for half a day and might have dug up all waste mines, not digging up a single fossil.

And Long Xuan could accurately find the location of the fossils, and they were fossils that must produce insects.

He chose to give up because he couldn't dig the mine vein alone, but he certainly had to loot the shallow mine vein before leaving.

The deeper he went, the more forks Long Xuan saw. Some forks had as many as nine, some cave entrances extended upward, some cave entrances went deep downward, like a bottomless pit.

Some cave entrances were mine caves dug artificially by those few loose cultivators, and some were born naturally.

In short, it was winding here, with caves everywhere, simply a huge labyrinth. Once you go in, it's hard to come out.

Long Xuan's plan was to only collect shallow fossils, and not care about places that were too deep.

On one hand, it was because he was afraid of getting lost, and on the other hand, it was because of danger.

Danger not only came from strange insects that drilled out of the soil at any time, but in this world full of spiritual power, some strange spiritual events often occurred in the mine cave, full of danger.

There were quite a few villagers in Big Stone Village who went to dig mines for major clans, but from time to time, a few died due to various accidents, including metal mine veins and Spirit Stone mine veins, all of which would appear various dangers.

He had seen too many such things in Big Stone Village, so how could he not be vigilant here?

So he didn't go deep into the labyrinth, choosing to order all clones to dig shallow fossils, while he himself acted as a supervisor on the side, drinking fine wine.

Until he accidentally scanned a fossil deep inside with progress 【38.17903%】, he finally couldn't sit still, immediately waving his iron pick, his eyes rushing over like a searchlight.

It was actually progress with five digits after the decimal point, which represented that what was hidden in this fossil might be an Extreme Grade Spirit Insect in the mature stage of over ten thousand years.

How precious were Extreme Grade Spirit Insects? It was no exaggeration to say that even with 100,000 Upper Grade Spirit Insects, you couldn't produce one Extreme Grade Spirit Insect.

The floor price of Extreme Grade Spirit Insects on the market was 10 million Spirit Stones. In reality, that was simply priceless; the vast majority could only be obtained through barter.

Long Xuan had been hiding in the market for so many years and had encountered countless treasures, but he had only seen one Extreme Grade Spirit Insect, which was the Stone Eye he discovered in the Stone King.

After being refined into an Extreme Grade Gu insect, he had seen its strength. Not to mention the over-standard abilities he developed, the Original Realm alone was ridiculously strong and could already be called an unsolvable ability.

It was no exaggeration to say that Extreme Grade Gu insects were a dimensionality reduction strike against Upper Grade Gu insects, and there was no comparison at all.

Therefore, how could he not be excited when he saw the necessary materials for refining Extreme Grade Gu insects?

His self-created Gu Formulas had always been to first collect the rarest materials, and then create Gu Formulas based on these rare materials as the main materials.

Now an Extreme Grade Spirit Insect appeared in his line of sight, representing that he could try to create Extreme Grade Gu Formulas again. His second Extreme Grade Gu insect was just around the corner.

Because this Extreme Grade Spirit Insect was buried very deep, Long Xuan and the four External Avatars worked together to dig for a full two days before finally digging out this fossil hiding the Extreme Grade Spirit Insect.

One had to know that this was only a shallow fossil. If digging deep fossils, who knew how long it would take to dig? The key was that there was no oxygen and it was dangerous deep inside. He was truly powerless against deeper fossils.

At this moment, Long Xuan held this huge fossil tightly, unable to put it down, his mood extremely excited. With this treasure in hand, his long-distance bitter journey was not in vain...

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