Chapter 589: Chapter 537: Taixuan Golden Liquid
On the battlefield beneath Songfeng City, Jiang Yuebai collected over five thousand complete Demon Cores, with fewer than a thousand reaching Golden Core Stage quality, the rest were Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Earth Demon Cores that hadn’t crystallized yet.
The shattered Demon Cores that Jixiang devoured were countless, including the Demon Cores of those three Nascent Soul Stage Primordial Demons.
When they were smashed by her and Bai Jiuyou, Jixiang promptly swallowed them, because she had said that the broken ones were all for Jixiang.
To make Jixiang defecate more and cultivate Black Armor Bees, Jiang Yuebai gave all the Earth Demon Cores to Jixiang, keeping only the Golden Core Stage Magic Demon Cores as snacks for herself.
"Looks like the mission here has an addition, hunting Demons and collecting Demon Cores."
Jiang Yuebai thought carefully, the Demons were not strict with the internal defense of the mine, busy with mining, patrol guards were few, and heavy troops were guarding outside the mine to prevent the Human Clan from reclaiming it.
The miners outside were all Foundation Establishment Stage Earth Demons, lacking the Spiritual Light of Magic Demons, and Jixiang’s Mouse offspring had also reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, while Little Thunder Hound had reached Late-Stage Foundation Establishment. It could lead the Mouse offspring for a sneak attack.
Killing a few in each area, then escaping through tunnels after the kill, after all, Little Thunder Hound was a Spiritual Beast without substance, able to transform into a thundercloud and burrow into mouse tunnels...
Jiang Yuebai rested her chin on her hand, deliberating that this might work, as the Demons might mistake them for the beasts already lurking in the mines.
"It’s time to train them! To be my Spiritual Pet, you must learn independence!"
Jiang Yuebai called Little Thunder Hound and the Mouse offspring in for a pep talk. Little Thunder Hound was raring to go, while the Mouse offspring, like Jixiang, lined up with their paws clasped, black bead-like eyes full of unease.
"It’s only right for a son to support his father. This is all about finding food for your father. A mouse cannot be unfilial, understood?"
Squeak...
Roar!
Little Thunder Hound roared, its body crackling with thunder, causing the fur of the Mouse offspring to fluff up. They immediately nodded obediently.
"Alright, off you go, be careful. If there’s trouble, run far away, try not to expose my location unless absolutely necessary."
The Mouse offspring looked dazed, while Little Thunder Hound’s eyes shone, its desire for battle swelling.
Jiang Yuebai handed a storage bag to the more composed eighth, Yuanbao, and fed Little Thunder Hound two Yin Yang Thunder Pearls she had refined.
"Fierce Thunder Collapse, Hill Crumble and Shatter, Little Thunder Hound, from now on you’ll be called ’Lieque’, which also means thunder."
Roar!
Electric silver light flashed over Little Thunder Hound, liking the name very much.
Lieque tilted its head, signaling for the Mouse offspring to follow. They lined up in a row and drilled out of the stone chamber’s mouse hole to hunt.
Settling the Mouse offspring, Jiang Yuebai threw the relaxed Flower-Furred Rat back into the Grotto Heaven, allowing it to enjoy a rare moment of leisure.
The Flower-Furred Rat was so moved that it was crying, for years it had waited for the day when its children would grow up and go hunting without needing it to provide.
Jiang Yuebai and three Clones continued to refine the Taixuan Gold, while Bai Jiuyou settled the Black Armor Bees and came out to help.
Over more than ten days, Jiang Yuebai still hadn’t refined Taixuan Pure Gold. Outside, all was quiet, while Lieque and the Mouse offspring returned once, dropping off over a hundred Earth Demon Cores before leaving excitedly again.
Judging by the cheerful look of the Mouse offspring, everything seemed to be going smoothly.
Jixiang’s excrement from eating Earth Demon Cores wasn’t as good as from Magic Demons and Primordial Demons, but the Black Armor Bee Queen ate it nonetheless, just with fewer young bees produced and at a slower pace, with no other impact.
Lieque led the Mouse offspring to find food for Jixiang, Jixiang ate and defecated, the excrement went to feed the Black Armor Bee Queen, who then produced a swarm for her use. The entire process happened without her intervention or effort.
Simply perfect!
Every third day, Jixiang returned for some food and to defecate, then continued deeper underground to find Taixuan Pure Gold for Jiang Yuebai.
This day, Jiang Yuebai burned clean another lump of Taixuan Gold, without spotting Taixuan Pure Gold, her head drooped in disappointment.
Jixiang returned from the mouse tunnel, not going for food, instead squeaking at her.
Jiang Yuebai lifted her head, eyes suddenly shining, "Did you find the Taixuan Golden Spirit Vein?"
Squeak!
"Bai Jiuyou, you stay here and watch. I’ll go down with Jixiang to have a look!"
Bai Jiuyou yawned and lazily uttered ’mm’ as he sprawled in the corner of the stone chamber, drowsily casting a flame with one hand.
Leaving a Clone behind, Jiang Yuebai temporarily retrieved the Lotus Platform, transforming into a puff of Demon Fog, following Jixiang into the mouse tunnel. If the distance exceeded her Divine Sense’s reach, the three White Vine Clones would automatically disperse.
If not, the three White Vine Clones could continue refining the Taixuan Gold.
Jixiang’s dug tunnel ran deep, and Jiang Yuebai saw many forks along the way. Despite Jixiang’s timid and gluttonous nature, when it came to work, it was still very diligent.
Following Jixiang all the way down for over two hours, the surrounding air grew hotter, filled with strong Fire Elemental Power.
The rocks changed from brown to dark red, like heated branding irons, Jiang Yuebai’s demon fog sizzled upon contact.
Jixiang’s paws couldn’t touch the ground, lifting and lowering in a quick shuffle, skipping and weaving forward.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai suddenly felt touched, it was really hard on Jixiang, she would surely treat it better in the future.
Jiang Yuebai used the demon fog to scoop up Jixiang, letting it lead the way.
They continued down for another half hour, the heatwaves like fires scorched Jiang Yuebai’s demon fog, prompting her to release some Undetermined Cold Ice Qi from the Lotus Platform to repel the heat.
Squeak!
With Jixiang’s squeak, Jiang Yuebai looked up, the tunnel had come to an end, nothing ahead had been dug open, yet Jiang Yuebai could clearly feel the rich Golden Elemental Power in the Fire Elemental Power.
She used Demon Fog to form a hand sliding in the dark red air, causing ripples of black-gold. These were all Taixuan Gold melted by fire.
Jiang Yuebai stuffed two Magic Demon Cores into Jixiang’s mouth, "You’ve worked hard, go back to the Grotto Heaven and rest with the Flower-Furred Rat, I’ll proceed on my own from here."
Squeak~
After storing away Jixiang, Jiang Yuebai reached the end, the demon fog formed a hand pressed against the rock wall, feeling a vast space behind.
She didn’t dig through directly, better to keep this return path hidden.
Jiang Yuebai directly activated the Space Restriction, phasing through the rock wall.
As she arrived, waves of heat surged forward, the view turned fire red.
Jiang Yuebai returned to her original form landing on the ground, a sizzling sound came from beneath her feet, the soles of her shoes were burnt through, as if standing in fire.
Before her was an endless subterranean cave, like a stone forest, countless thick black stone pillars propping up the space, majestic and grand.
Above hung large clusters of black stalactites, sticky liquid dripping from their tips, pooling into various sized black ponds below.
Around the ponds grew exotic flowers and grasses, and clusters of crystals in various colors, in riotous profusion, with underground Fire Fierce Beasts lurking in the shadows, guarding those Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Jiang Yuebai examined the nearby black pool, unsurprisingly, it was all liquefied Taixuan Gold, a purity dozens of times higher than what she mined above.
She scanned the surroundings, aside from some low-level Fierce Beasts, it was temporarily safe.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai used her Divine Sense to scoop up a small lump of Taixuan Golden Liquid, burning it with Phoenix True Fire. In no time, a fist-sized amount was burned down to a single black thread.
No matter how the Phoenix True Fire burned, that black thread remained unchanged, containing a surge of Spiritual Energy, quietly floating before Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai’s eyes lit with delight, this was Taixuan Pure Gold!
She glanced around, unsure of how many hundreds of such ponds existed, but collecting all that Taixuan Golden Liquid could definitely yield a thousand pounds of Taixuan Pure Gold, possibly much more.
Jiang Yuebai pulled Jixiang back from the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven, the blissfully clueless Jixiang, fresh from cuddling with the Flower-Furred Rat, held a little pink flower, blinking perplexedly at Jiang Yuebai.
"Jixiang, one more trip for you, please go call Bai Jiuyou down to help."
This depth had already surpassed her Divine Sense’s range, requiring another run from Jixiang.
Jixiang, tearful yet unwilling, could only eat the flower and continue working.
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