If Chu Qi had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that this little thing, the size of two palms, could leave a shallow tooth mark on the Long Yin sword with one bite.
It has a somewhat unique appearance.
At first it looked like a round stone, but after it removed its camouflage, two small horns appeared on its forehead, and it had a pair of obsidian pupils. Its limbs were short and fat, and it could squat on the ground with its hind legs standing together. There were golden scales on its back, and there were thorns on the tip of its long and thin tail, which would curl up and droop down according to its mood changes.
Chu Qi had never seen such a spiritual beast before.
"Woo woo." It was holding the broken tooth and wooing to Chu Qi, and the emotion revealed in its little eyes looked a little pitiful.
"… "
Chu Qi softened his heart for a moment and simply cast a healing spell on it.
Healing magic cannot fill teeth, but it can relieve the pain of a broken tooth.
On the side, Yan Jiuge finished tempering the Longyin Sword and walked over again. Before he took two steps, he saw the spirit beast enjoying the healing spirit art.
"Don't waste your spiritual energy on healing magic. It's just a broken tooth. It will grow back on its own." Yan Jiuge's voice was cold.
"Lulu!"
The spirit beast opened its eyes and made loud noises, as if refuting Yan Jiuge's words.
Chu Qi curiously asked Yan Jiuge, "Ah Yan, what kind of spiritual beast is this? It looks quite unique, and it's not afraid of people." And it seems to have a certain level of intelligence.
"It's not a spiritual beast, nor a demon beast." Facing Chu Qi's curious eyes, Yan Jiuge explained carefully, "It belongs to the category of rare and exotic beasts, one that was bred by the spirits of heaven and earth. Its name is the gold-swallowing beast."
"The gold-devouring beast likes to eat spiritual ore and other gold, silver and iron ores. It also occasionally drinks spiritual marrow. Most of the rare treasures in the world can go into its stomach. Its teeth are extremely hard and can cut iron like mud. Its body is immune to all poisons and invulnerable to swords and guns."
"So powerful?" No wonder he was able to leave a tooth mark on the Long Yin sword.
Chu Qi was surprised.
"Just a fool who only knows how to eat."
After finishing his objective statement, Yan Jiuge became disgusted.
"Lulu!"
The gold-eating beast grunted twice at Yan Jiuge, turned around and pointed its butt towards him.
The two sides were fed up with each other and were too lazy to care about each other, but there was Chu Qi among them.
"How could the gold-eating beast appear under the spiritual spring? We were clearly looking for the spiritual spring's springhead..." Chu Qi was a little confused.
Yan Jiuge: "That's something you need to ask it. It doesn't eat the spiritual ore, but runs to the bottom of the spiritual spring to eat the spring."
Chu Qi's gaze fell on the gold-eating beast.
"chatter!"
The gold-devouring beast raised its front legs and spread its claws towards Chu Qi. There was a crystal clear crystal in its palm, emitting rich spiritual energy.
This is the spring of Lingquan.
"For me?" Chu Qi asked uncertainly.
"Lulu." The gold-eating beast stretched out its short hands towards Chu Qi again, and its attitude was particularly obvious.
"This..." Chu Qi hesitated. He had just seen this little thing today, so it would be bad to take its things for nothing. If they were fighting for the spiritual spring, it would be fine for the one who could take it, but the other party offered it to him on his own initiative, which made Chu Qi hesitate.
"Go on. It just wants to take this opportunity to please you and become your contracted beast." Yan Jiuge's voice was a little unhappy, but he still explained to Chu Qi, "Gold-eating beasts usually don't stick to people unless they want to recognize their master."
Although he really didn't want Aqi to raise such a thing, Yan Jiuge had to admit that the gold-devouring beast was a useful fool compared to other spiritual beasts and demon beasts.
Hearing Yan Jiuge's words, Chu Qi's eyes showed surprise.
He knew that after his talent turned into an extremely good wood spiritual root, some kind-hearted spiritual beasts would be attracted to him, such as Yun Jiangmiao's spiritual pet.
But a rare and exotic beast like the Gold-Swallowing Beast is also attracted by the aura of the wood spiritual root
Putting the reason on spiritual root talent temporarily. Chu Qi met the expectant eyes of the gold-devouring beast. He could accept raising such a spiritual beast, but Yan Jiuge didn't seem to like it very much.
He and A Yan have been together for a long time. If he raises a pet that A Yan doesn't like, he will surely have a headache in the future.
After careful consideration, Chu Qi decided to ask Yan Jiuge for his opinion. "Would Yan mind if I kept it?"
As soon as Chu Qi finished speaking, two pairs of eyes were immediately cast in his direction.
A gleam of light flashed across Yan Jiuge's eyes. He didn't expect that A Qi would ask for his opinion in the end. Seeing that the money-eating beast, which had been somewhat proud, became nervous, Yan Jiuge raised the corners of his lips.
"I do not mind."
No matter how useful the gold-eating beast is, he is still the first in Aqi's heart.
As Yan Jiuge thought about this, he began to find the gold-eating beast more pleasing to his eyes.
"Contract it. I can help you find herbs and spiritual minerals in the future."
Yan Jiuge's voice softened a lot.
"Lulululul..." The momentum of the gold-eating beast that was gurgling softly faded a lot. It never expected that it would rely on the "enemy" to speak in order to recognize its master in the end.
But it is so comfortable to stay with this person, more comfortable than eating jade ore for a year.
"Little guy, are you willing to follow me?" Seeing that Yan Jiuge had no objection, Chu Qi turned around and continued to ask the gold-devouring beast.
“Lululululul!”
The gold-eating beast nodded its head again and again, as if afraid that Chu Qi would regret it, and took two steps forward. It showed its sharp claws and stabbed its palm.
It took out a drop of blood, neither more nor less, just enough to sign the spirit pet contract.
There are three types of spirit pet contracts. One is that a cultivator with a higher level of cultivation than a spirit beast can take the blood of a spirit beast and force it to sign a contract, which is a master-servant contract. This kind of contract is a unilateral constraint on the spirit pet, and the cultivator does not have to bear any cost.
The second type is that the spirit beast takes the initiative to sign a contract. Regardless of the strength of the cultivator, both parties promote each other and follow the contract.
Another kind is that the spirit beast and the monk exchange their heart blood as a life contract. This is very rare because if one party dies, the other party cannot survive. Monks generally do not take such a big risk.
The contract Chu Qi signed with the gold-devouring beast was the second type. According to the contract, if their fate came to an end one day, they could just release it and it wouldn't affect anything.
After signing the contract, the gold-eating beast ran around Chu Qi's feet with its tail curled up, looking very happy.
Chu Qi sealed the spiritual spring into a jade box and put it into his Qiankun bag.
Looking around, Chu Qi looked at the little space left and said to Yan Jiuge, "Now that all the natural treasures have been collected, let's go find Senior Brother Liu and the others."
"Lulu!"
A gurgling sound came from Chu Qi's feet. The gold-eating beast, which was originally curling its tail and playing happily, stopped and called out to Chu Qi.
"What happened to Xiao Jin?"
Xiao Jin is the nickname Chu Qi just gave to the gold-eating beast, which is easier to call.
"Lululul." It shook its head and pointed its tail in the direction of the spiritual spring where there was no spring anymore, motioning Chu Qi to go over there.
After signing the contract, Chu Qi was also able to understand what it meant.
"You mean, there is something under the spiritual spring? You want me to go over?" Chu Qi asked the gold-devouring beast based on what it revealed.
"chatter!"
The gold-eating beast nodded.
After getting the correct answer, Chu Qi turned around and said, "Ayan, let's go over and take a look."
"Yes, it should be something good." Knowing the habits of the gold-eating beast, Yan Jiuge could roughly guess what was under the spiritual spring.
So, the gold-eating beast hopped in front and led the way. Chu Qi and Yan Jiuge followed behind it and walked towards the direction of the spiritual spring again.
The sword energy that Yan Jiuge had slashed down had not dissipated, and the spring water remained separated. The two people and the beast could easily reach the bottom of the spiritual spring.
Unlike the lake bottom that Chu Qi had imagined, the gravel and soil under their feet were not soft due to being soaked in water for a long time, but were as hard and solid as rock.
"bass!"
Just when Chu Qi was in doubt, Yan Jiuge, who was standing beside him, drew out his magic sword and slashed at the gravel under his feet again.
The sword energy penetrated deep into the ground, causing the solid rock layer to crack.
Yan Jiuge controlled the power of this sword very skillfully. He did not split the entire stratum, but only cut a crack. Then a rumbling sound came from underground, and the crack continued to extend downwards.
When Yan Jiuge drew his sword, the gold-eating beast had already jumped to Chu Qi's feet and was clinging to him, with its tail erected, looking a little frightened.
It remembered the sword attack it had suffered before, and probably lost some of its strength.
The tip of its tail swept across its back, where the skin was cut, but it was later healed by the healing magic. However, seeing Yan Jiuge holding the sword, the gold-devouring beast still felt a little nervous.
The sword also broke one of its teeth, and it would take a lot of spiritual jade ore to repair it.
When the noise underground gradually subsided, Chu Qi reached out and picked up the gold-eating beast at his feet, and asked, "Then should we go down from the middle of the crack?"
The crack that Yan Jiuge cut was very deep, and it was pitch black underneath, with no light and nothing could be seen.
"Lulu." The gold-eating beast nodded, got down from Chu Qi's hand, and prepared to continue leading the way.
In fact, the gold-devouring beast had dug many tunnels for itself, but none of them could compare to the crack cut by Yan Jiuge. In addition, its owner was unable to transform, so it would be more convenient for him to take the main road.
"Wait a minute." Yan Jiuge spoke rarely and stopped the gold-eating beast that was about to walk into the crack.
"chatter?"
The gold-eating beast turned and looked at him in confusion.
"Take this." Yan Jiuge took out a night pearl from his Qiankun bag and threw it to the gold-eating beast.
The gold-eating beast took it in a daze, and when it looked down, the sparkling bead looked very beautiful.
"can not eat!"
"… "
After hearing what Yan Jiuge said, the gold-eating beast raised its head from the night pearl, with a bit of innocence in its eyes, but its mouth swallowed subconsciously and swallowed the piece it had bitten off into its stomach.
The night-shining pearl with a hole in it was still emitting light and looked like it could still be used.
but-
Chu Qi's gaze was uncontrollably attracted to the belly of the gold-eating beast. The night pearl swallowed by it was also glowing in its belly.
The magical thing is that the light will pass through the belly of the gold-eating beast and shine outside.
“Could it be that Xiao Jin has a stomachache…” Chu Qi was a little worried. The appearance of the gold-eating beast was quite unsettling.
Yan Jiuge sneered rudely. He had reminded him before, but the money-eating beast was faster than him.
Seeing Chu Qi's worry, Yan Jiuge said, "No, it is immune to all poisons. It's just that eating something strange will affect its appearance. For example, if it eats a poisonous mineral, its whole body will turn black for a while, and it will be fine after digestion."
"Lululu..." The gold-eating beast felt aggrieved. It thought it was really strange that its belly was glowing. If it had known, it would not have eaten this beautiful thing.
Yan Jiuge raised his eyebrows, "Lead the way, this way you don't have to carry the night pearl while walking, you can just be a night pearl."
The original intention of giving the gold-eating beast a night-shining pearl was to have it lead the way and provide lighting at the same time.
Although Jindan stage cultivators can see at night, it is very energy-consuming. No one knows how deep the treasure is underground, so it would be easier with a night pearl.
Unexpectedly, the gold-eating beast took a bite of the night-shining pearl and directly replaced the function of the night-shining pearl.
The gold-eating beast walked forward, feeling sad that it had just eaten something strange. It hung its head and rarely made any purring sounds.
Chu Qi originally wanted to comfort it, but when he mentioned the Night Pearl, the gold-devouring beast became even more sad. After thinking about it, he decided it would be better to remain silent and not open his mouth to expose the scar.
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When they walked into the crack, the initial space was still enough for Yan Jiuge and Chu Qi to fly with swords, but when they reached the deep end, only one person could walk through it.
Yan Jiuge originally wanted to strike with the sword again, but was stopped by the gold-devouring beast.
“Lulululul!”
This place is very close to the Lingyu mine. If Yan Jiuge draws his sword, it might destroy the mine.
Yes, deep underground in Lingquan, there is a spiritual jade vein that has accumulated for tens of thousands of years. It is very likely that there is a condensation of spiritual jade inside - no, it should be said that it is definitely condensed. After all, even gold-eating beasts live here, it is hard to imagine how rich this spiritual jade vein is.
When they reached the end of the road, Chu Qi and Yan Jiuge stopped where they were. The gold-eating beast opened its mouth and began to eat along the outer layer of the ore.
The gold-eating beast ate the ore so quickly that Chu Qi didn't even see the movement of its mouth. In the blink of an eye, the ore in front of it disappeared.
Chu Qi looked at the little guy, puzzled. "Xiao Jin eats so much, but its body doesn't seem to be swollen. Where did the ore go?"
The amount of ore that the gold-eating beast swallowed just now was as much as dozens of it.
"The gold-eating beast digests the ore it eats frequently very quickly. The residue will float on its skin and then fall off. This cycle repeats over and over again, which is similar to the practice of a monk."
"It's amazing." Chu Qi thought to himself. After returning from this experience, he would go to the Tianxuan Sect's library and take a good look at the Records of Rare and Exotic Animals to make up for some knowledge that he had neglected before.
While the two were talking, the gold-eating beast had already gnawed through a passage large enough for one person to pass through, and was calling them to come in.
This passage leads directly to the center of the Lingyu mine. Just by taking a step, Chu Qi could already sense the deep spiritual energy contained in it.
Even this wall of ore that was gnawed out by the gold-eating beast was dotted with a lot of half-exposed spiritual stone ores!
As long as the concentration of spiritual energy is sufficient, it can be directly cut into the size of spiritual stones and used as currency or for cultivation.
Chu Qi took a closer look and found that the concentration of spiritual energy in these spirit stone mines was very high, not inferior to the spirit stones in his Qiankun bag.
Who would have thought that before entering the Yunxi Secret Realm, Chu Qi was still worried about how to earn spirit stones. After entering the Yunxi Secret Realm, he now directly discovered a whole vein of spirit jade.
The only pity at the moment is that the space in the Qiankun bag is too small to stuff an entire spiritual jade vein in and take it away.
Putting aside the regret in his heart, Chu Qi turned his attention to the road ahead. The further he went in, the thicker the spiritual energy became.
Later on, just by being in the state, the surrounding spiritual energy would involuntarily flow towards them. They didn't need to practice deliberately, their bodies would spontaneously absorb the spiritual energy.
"There must be a large piece of ten thousand year old spiritual jade in it, otherwise the spiritual energy wouldn't be so strong." Yan Jiuge guessed.
Chu Qi knew the value of Lingsui Jade.
Spiritual jade is a legendary treasure. It is a piece of pure white jade condensed from the ten thousand year old spiritual jade vein. Practicing around it can achieve twice the result with half the effort. It is also an extremely rare material for refining tools. It is said that those space tools that can carry living things and form their own small world need spiritual jade.
Although Chu Qi and Yan Jiuge already had some guesses in their minds, when they saw it with their own eyes, they were still shocked by the huge piece of spiritual jade.
The piece of spiritual jade was actually ten feet wide, quietly embedded in the center of the spiritual jade vein. All around it was deep green spiritual jade, piled up for a hundred feet, and the depth was self-evident.
"Lulu!"
The gold-eating beast ran to Chu Qi's feet and pointed its tail in the direction of the thousand-year-old spiritual jade, motioning Chu Qi to take it down.
There are certain requirements to be taken in order to remove the thousand-year-old spiritual jade intact without damaging the entire spiritual jade vein.
The cultivator needs to gather spiritual power to separate the spiritual marrow jade and the spiritual jade mine at the boundary. The entire process requires the use of spiritual power to dig.
After listening to Yan Jiuge's explanation of the precautions for digging out the spiritual marrow jade, Chu Qi took out several bottles of Huiling Pills from his Qiankun bag, giving half to himself and the other half to Yan Jiuge.
"We each take charge of half a piece?" Chu Qi asked Yan Jiuge for his opinion.
"Okay." Yan Jiuge nodded.
On the side, the gold-eating beast did not speak when it saw that the two had already discussed it. It touched its round belly. The night pearl was digested, but it had eaten too much when it was making the journey just now. Now it was full after seeing the spiritual marrow jade.
Spiritual jade is different from other minerals. Eating a small bite can make the gold swallowing beast sleep for a long time, and all its energy is used to digest the spiritual jade. It usually does not eat it often.
But now it is leaving this place with its owner, so naturally it has to pack up and take away such treasures. Otherwise it would be such a waste to leave them here.
The gold-eating beast burped, its eyes moving around the place where it used to live, with a hint of nostalgia flashing in its eyes.
On the other side, after Chu Qi discussed with Yan Jiuge, they began to dig out the ten thousand year old spiritual jade.
Two spiritual powers burst out from their bodies, the wood spiritual root was gentle, and the fire spiritual root was unbridled. Wood gave birth to fire, which further boosted the momentum of the fire spiritual power.
Chu Qi used his spiritual power to probe into the boundary between the spiritual jade and the spiritual stone mine and found that the two were closely connected and it was a little difficult to separate them.
However, as Chu Qi sent more and more spiritual power, the spiritual jade would spontaneously move closer to the direction of his spiritual power, as if it had fallen off naturally.
Seeing this, Chu Qi used this method to dig out the spiritual marrow jade.
Compared to Chu Qi's methods, Yan Jiuge's was much more brutal. His fire spirit power was very aggressive, and he burned away all the impurities at the border.
Although the sword energy has not been condensed, the spiritual power is like a sharp spiritual sword, cutting towards the border.
The two of them worked in perfect harmony, and the speed of digging out the spiritual jade was half as fast as expected.
When the spiritual jade was about to be dug out, Yan Jiuge paused and took back his spiritual power first.
"Aqi, put it in your Qiankun bag."
Treasures like the Spiritual Marrow Jade are very beneficial to the cultivation of medical practitioners. Yan Jiuge doesn't need it, so it's more convenient to let Chu Qi take it directly.
“Okay.” After persisting in the spiritual energy transfer for a long time, Chu Qi is now a little tired. Most of his attention is focused on the spiritual marrow jade, hoping to dig it out as soon as possible and rest.
The wood spiritual power eventually enveloped the entire piece of ten thousand year old spiritual jade and dug it out of the spiritual stone vein.
Chu Qi immediately put the entire thing into his Qiankun bag.
The pressure suddenly eased, Chu Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to turn around and talk to Yan Jiuge, but he saw Yan Jiuge's expression suddenly change.
"Aqi, be careful!"
“Lulululul!!”
The incident happened in an instant and the peaceful atmosphere came to an abrupt end.
Even before this, they had not noticed anything unusual in the spirit stone mine.
"boom!"
After Yan Jiuge finished speaking, a loud bang exploded above Chu Qi's head, and spider-web-like cracks immediately appeared in the surrounding spirit stone mines.
A huge hole appeared where the ten thousand year old spiritual marrow jade was just now. Now that the spiritual marrow jade disappeared, it was easily opened by external force.
Spiritual stone ore and dust continued to fall from the hole and hit them in clusters.
Without caring about etiquette, Yan Jiuge reached out and took Chu Qi into his arms, leading him to avoid the falling rocks. With his other hand, he clenched his fist, and the Longyin Sword automatically came out of its sheath and was held in his hand.
"hold me."
In the chaos, Yan Jiuge only had time to tell the person in his arms these words.
Chu Qi rested his head on Yan Jiuge's shoulder, his waist was embraced by an arm. The arm was very strong, pulling Chu Qi's body closer to Yan Jiuge's chest.
Before he could figure out what was going on, Chu Qi came back to his senses from his initial confusion, and he only had time to do as Yan Jiuge said. He reached out and hugged Yan Jiuge's waist, so that he wouldn't have to distract himself to take care of himself while he was on his way.
“Boom!”
The sound of the collapse was still expanding, as if the entire mountain was shaking.
Chu Qi turned around and looked towards the source of the noise.
Amid the chaotic falling rocks, the gold-devouring beast chased after them. The place behind it that was originally inlaid with the thousand-year-old spiritual jade had become a huge hole.
In the hole, half of a hideous head that looked like a snake but was not a snake suddenly poked out, staring at them angrily with its strange snake eyes, emitting a terrifying and oppressive aura.
After seeing the head, Chu Qi's mind flashed with Yun Jiangmiao's words -
[We will know what the monster looks like when we see it]
(End of this chapter)