Chapter 76 Spiritual Stone Veins
Chapter 76 Spiritual Stone Veins
When the stone platform was opened, what came into view was a corpse whose entire body had turned into white bones, but the figure looked like that of a man.
Su Luo subconsciously raised an eyebrow, "There's a corpse inside..."
"This……"
The group stared wide-eyed, looking at the corpse and then at Su Luo, unsure of what to be surprised about.
Clearly more curious about Su Luo than the corpse, Lin Ji asked, "Su Luo, how did you get the key to this mechanism?"
"Yeah!" Chu Wenqing chimed in, her eyes full of curiosity. "You said you'd give it a try, but you opened it so easily! Amazing!"
He thought it was definitely over!
Su Luo smiled sheepishly: "I just stumbled upon it by sheer luck. I just happened to have something that matched the card slot, so I gave it a try, and who knew it would actually work."
She'd been thinking the size and shape of the card slot looked familiar, and it took her a while to remember that she did indeed have a plate of roughly the same size. That ceramic plate was something she'd picked up in Biyue Town when she bought the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams compass; she never expected it to come in so handy!
She knew it! If the female lead could find treasure in that pile of trash, how could there only be one treasure? Luckily, she bought them all!
Of course, Su Luo wouldn't say any of this. She smiled and waved her hand modestly, saying, "Well, it was just a coincidence."
"You can open this mechanism with just a casual try, Su Luo, you're really lucky!" Feng Xiyue couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.
"Yeah, I'm tired of saying 'I'm envious'..." Chu Wenqing muttered, then moved closer to Su Luo. "Su Luo, you're so lucky! I want to stick close to you and soak up some of your good fortune!"
Before Su Luo could even respond, Lin Ji stepped forward, grabbed Chu Wenqing by the back of the neck, and shoved him aside, warning him dangerously with his eyes: "Get out of the way!"
The fear of danger made Chu Wenqing instinctively shrink his neck. He then realized he had crossed the line and chuckled awkwardly, "Haha... I was just kidding, just kidding..."
Meanwhile, he couldn't help but think to himself, "Tsk tsk, Lin Ji is always jealous!"
Su Luo stopped paying attention to them and continued to examine the corpse, trying to find useful clues. Soon she saw the notebook on the corpse's knees.
"Notes?"
She picked up the journal and started reading it. Lin Ji then squatted down and sat close to Su Luo to read the journal together.
Feng Xiyue glanced at Lin Ji, pursed her lips, walked to the side, squatted down, and continued to examine the corpse that had almost been overlooked.
Chu Wenqing pursed his lips, squatted down on the other side of Feng Xiyue, and kept clicking his tongue in amazement as he looked at her, "She actually went to the South China Sea in the human realm to sit and die, this person is quite an extraordinary person."
Feng Xiyue said, "Yes, to be able to set up such a powerful no-fly barrier, it seems that this person must have had a high level of cultivation in his lifetime."
Su Luo was engrossed in reading the journal. After finishing, she let out a long breath and handed the journal to Feng Xiyue.
"This person was a high-level array master. He was injured during the great war a thousand years ago and deliberately hid in the human realm. To avoid being discovered and disturbed, he set up a no-fly barrier in the central waters of the South China Sea and hid on a secluded island to cultivate. He only came here again when his lifespan was nearing its end and passed away in meditation on the stone platform."
Feng Xiyue took the notebook and casually flipped through it: "So you really are a formation master..."
Chu Wenqing leaned closer to look from back to front, and when he saw the last spot, his eyes lit up, and he pointed it out.
"Look here! The last page says that if someone is destined to find his body, please bury it deep in the sea without erecting a tombstone. In return, he will give all his treasures to that person! Wow, there are treasures!"
"It really is……"
Feng Xiyue looked in the direction Chu Wenqing was pointing and noticed it too. When she saw Su Luo coming over, she unfolded the last page for her to see.
"Looks like I missed something." Su Luozai carefully read the last page, and after finishing it, she couldn't help but think to herself, "This really does resemble a side quest in a game, with rewards for completing it..."
However, a reward is always a good thing. After discussing it, the group worked together to dig a pit near the stone platform. Then, Chu Wenqing and Lin Ji lifted the remains, put them into the pit, and filled it in to make a simple grave.
Almost as soon as the earthen slope was completed, a storage bag appeared out of thin air and then fell to the ground.
Chu Wenqing was overjoyed and rushed forward to pick it up, exclaiming, "It's a treasure drop!"
In the world of cultivation, once the bound master dies, the storage bag can be opened at will. Therefore, Chu Wenqing easily took out one treasure after another from it, and Su Luo and the other two also gathered around.
Soon, four bottles of pills, three large bags, a small flying device, a dagger, a jade ring, a small compass, an ancient parchment scroll, three palm-sized triangular flags, and a self-made book of formations appeared on the ground.
Feng Xiyue covered her mouth in surprise, "There are so many treasures! And so many pills too!"
Chu Wenqing's eyes sparkled. "This guy is a tycoon!"
What's in the bag?
Su Luo picked up the bag out of curiosity, opened it, and was almost blinded by what she saw.
Feng and Chu were overjoyed and jumped for joy, because two large bags were full of spirit stones and the other bag was full of thunder seeds!
"So many treasures! And pills too! My goodness!"
"Spirit stones! Heavenly Thunder Crystals! We're rich! Hahaha~"
Su Luo simply put the bag on the ground for them to look at at their leisure, while she picked up the parchment scroll next to her and began to examine it.
Feng Xiyue and Chu Wenqing grinned from ear to ear, their eyes practically disappearing from their smiles. The two of them, as if they had never seen the world before, sat on the ground without a care for their image, picked up a spirit stone, touched it, and put it down. Then they picked up another Heavenly Thunder Stone, touched it, and were practically rolling around on the ground.
"We're rich! We're rich! We're rich!"
"Am I dreaming? It feels so unreal..."
Lin Ji watched them go crazy speechlessly, then turned to look at Su Luo, who was looking down at a parchment scroll.
Lin Ji smiled, thinking that Su Luo was much calmer than the other two. But the next moment, she also jumped up suddenly and said something surprising.
"Holy crap! There are so many spirit stone veins?!"
Lin Ji:......
"What?! A spirit stone mine?!"
"Where are the spirit stone veins?!"
Chu Wenqing and Feng Xiyue were instantly drawn to the scroll. They quickly jumped up and surrounded Su Luo, looking down at the parchment scroll.
It wasn't until they saw the map of the five mineral veins marked on the parchment scroll, and noticed that two of them were not far from the Lingxiao Sect!
Chu Wenqing rubbed his eyes, then rubbed them again, muttering incredulously to himself, "I'm not seeing things, am I? It really is a mineral vein map..."
Feng Xiyue was also dumbfounded, "It really is a mineral vein map..."
"Senior sister, this is all so dreamlike, I feel like I'm dreaming!"
Chu Wenqing muttered to himself, then grabbed Feng Xiyue's shoulders with both hands and shook her excitedly, "Senior Sister! Tell me, am I dreaming?!"
Feng Xiyue flicked him on the forehead, "Does it hurt?"
Chu Wenqing let go, clutching his head and crying out, "It hurts!"
"Pain is not a dream!"
After confirming he wasn't dreaming, Chu Wenqing grinned foolishly, "Hehehe... It's not a dream, we're rich... We've actually found a spirit stone mine! Hehe..."
He's going to become a millionaire!
A single small mine vein is enough to support a sect's expenses for decades, let alone five large ones! They were all completely unaware that there were two more mine veins near the Lingxiao Sect! They must have suffered so much! It's truly heartbreaking to hear and see…
Chu Wenqing was so excited that he danced with joy, even placing his hand on his chest. He turned around, knelt down, and began to sing passionately to Su Luo: "A grateful heart, thank you for being there..."
If it weren't for Su Luo, they would never have had this opportunity to make a fortune! Thank you, Su Luo!
Su Luo, who was being thanked: ...
Feng Xiyue covered her face, unwilling to admit that the one with a problem in his brain was her fellow disciple.
"Ah……"
Lin Ji snatched the parchment scroll from Su Luo's hand, rolled it up, and then shoved it into Chu Wenqing's wide-open mouth.
As the others stared in disbelief, the boy revealed a dangerous smile and said to Chu Wenqing, word by word, "If you like it so much, then you can eat the sheepskin scroll."
Chu Wenqing: ...
He was wrong. The parchment rolls didn't taste good!
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