Chapter 21 - A Bountiful Harvest
Yue Qianchou appeared in the mine again, after listening carefully, he confirmed that no one was nearby. He put the basket down, equipping the 'Piercing Mountain Claw' and infused true Qi, the gauntlets immediately shrinked in size according to his palms, the ten dark claws glowed slightly, Yue Qianchou made a clawing motion toward the wall, "Swish!" The wall easily crumbled to the ground.
"Don't these gauntlets have the function to feel spiritual Qi? Let's try it!" The two claws pressed on the wall, Yue Qianchou calmed his mind and focused on the gauntlets, he felt the gauntlets guided him to the left direction. Yue Qianchou's heart pounded in excitement, he really felt the spiritual Qi. The hands followed the guidance of the gauntlets until he moved three or four meters from his original position.
The moving distance was not far, but the direction of where he started to dig was poor as he didn't know where to go. Right in front of him, Yue Qianchou could clearly feel that there were spirit stones he wanted to dig. He was feeling very happy, if not for these gauntlets, he might have dug tirelessly without any gain.
"Baby, I'm coming!" Exclaimed Yue Qianchou with a smile on his face, The ten claws made a swift strike, "Swish!" No longer a 'ding ding' sound, as if a sharp knife cutting through paper, the debris flew everywhere, and the surface was instantly devastated.
Not long after, a hole as big as himself was dug out, the feeling of pulling from the gauntlets became more and more intense, it motivated Yue Qianchou to confidently digging forward.
After some clawing down, Yue Qianchou noticed the glittering white of the crystal clear stone on the wall, he cheered up and giggled his mouth, finally discovered spirit stone. Suddenly remembered that his basket and pickaxe were still outside the hole he dug, he hurriedly went out, looked around there was no one to be found, he picked up his stuff and returned into the hole.
Yue Qianchou took the spirit stone, he observed carefully on his hand, the spirit stone was so beautiful, it was crystal clear looking very lovely. Unfortunately, this was just a piece of spirit stone. Yue Qianchou shook his head, and put the spirit stone into the basket, he racked his brain, then transported the pickaxe and the loaded with a low-grade spirit stone basket directly into his own space.
Keep working hard, perhaps top-grade spirit stone is in the front. The more excited Yue Qianchou was, the more he followed the guidance of the gauntlets. Not long after, he discovered one then two spirit stones from the wall, then gradually became several pieces discovered simultaniously, all while he transported every pieces of those into his own space. Although Yue Qianchou only found low-grade spirit stones so far, he didn't have the slightest idea to slow down his work.
"Wow! What a good harvest, one, two, three .... nine, there are ten pieces of low-grade." At the same time, Yue Qianchou found ten pieces of low-grade spirit stones, a moment after he's done counting, the spirit stones disappeared.
After digging nearly a hundred pieces of low-grade spirit stones, a chunk of thick white crystal appeared in front of Yue Qianchou, this was exactly the same thing that master had given him, a mid-grade spirit stone. Needless to say, the first piece of mid-grade spirit stone disappeared from his hand.
Further digging, Yue Qianchou became more and more excited, the spirit stones' discovery rate became higher and higher, for every hundred pieces of low-grade spirit stones, he would find a piece of mid-grade spirit stone, suddenly he got the unusual feeling from the gauntlet.
"Is the top-grade spirit stone going to appear?" A little surprised, Yue Qianchou immediately dug in that direction.
The right judgment naturally was not disappointing.
When the wall exposed to the golden light of the spirit stone,Yue carefully pulled it up, then took off the gauntlets to pinch it with his hands and grasp the feeling. "Yes, this is exactly a top-grade spirit stone." It was the first time he saw a top-grade spirit stone. However, he previously heard from Master's mouth that it was a pale gold.
Pale golden spirit stone similiar to amber of the past life, was generally beautiful, the shining light excuded a charming luster, seeing this Yue Qianchou was dazzled, he felt the spirit stone on his hand was rich of spiritual Qi, he had the impulse to immediately absorb it into the body. But he controlled himself, not for anything else, only because he was confident there would be more and more top-grade spirit stones to discover. Yue Qianchou swallowed his salive then exclaimed, " Such a good thing, how can Father not to be tempted? Huh! I won't do it!" The amber-like crystal disappeared from the hand.
Inside the golden bead.... The White Fox confirmed her guess, sure enough not long after Yue Qianchou disappeared, the sky began raining of spirit stones, the spirit stones fell to the courtyard and poured into a small pile, she only shook her head, those things were not a temptation to her. Reaching the late Tribulation Crossing stage was the peak of the world, spirit stones would give no effect to hear..
Yue Qianchou concluded a fact about the excavation of spirit stones. each time digging following a direction, the first discovery would be low-grade quality, and every hundred pieces of low-grade quality would be found a single mid-grade, and after about hundred pieces of such group would appear a top-grade.
Knowing this rule, he no longer had any interest toward those low-grade spirit stones, it's a waste of time and not cost-effective, having a top-grade spirit stone would be equivalent to ten thousands of low-grade spirit stones. Only when it was right in front of him, he would immediately transported the low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones into his space.
Counting the time, almost a day had passed, Yue Qianchou wasted half of the day before working with the gauntlets, the remaining time he estimated to have excavated nearly a hunderd top-grade spirit stones, few hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones, and thousands of low-grade spirit stones. His excited mood at the beginning turned into unsatisfying, this was the change of heart from the poor to the rich.
Yue Qianchou was not aware that his small half a day income had arrived at the day's production of the mine. This was due to the White Fox's precious treasure 'Mountain Piercing Claws'.
For three days, Yue Qianchou was digging almost no-stop, not handing over spirit stones each day like everyone else, his spirit stones was more than enough for him to complete the three days quota.
During at the end of the second day, Yue Qianchou was feeling hungry. After all, he wasn't someone with Core Formation stage, he went into the golden bead to roast a pheasant to eat. Seeing a heap of spirit stones occupied half of the yard, he praised himself that his hard work was not in vain.
However, the White Fox threatened him, if Yue Qianchou dared to throw a single spirit stone at the courtyard, she would take the 'Mountain Piercing Claw' back. The threat was quite effective, and the spirit stones were thrown into the forest outside the courtyard.
The three day deadline arrived, Yue Qianchou carried a basket full ot spirit stones. More than 10 overseers at the cave mouth were counting spirit stones from the miners, and he waited a moment before his turn.
Just about to step forward, Yue Qianchou heard someone shouted, "Let me see!" Looked ahead, the hard-featured Gao Shiping was smiling at him.
"Junior Brother Yue, I've been waiting for you to come out! Have your task been completed?" Asked Gao Shiping with a little chuckle.
This guy is definitely not friendly! Yue Qianchou unloaded the basket and put it on the table, smiled "I'm not really accustomed since it's my first time, but fortunately i barely completed the task."
A heap of spirit stones fell on the table with a glittering light, Gao Shiping eyes faintly flashed a trace of greed, and soon disappeared. However, it all fell into Yue Qianchou's eyes, his mouth slightly tilted to the side, showing a smile. The former waved his hand, and two overseers counted the spirit stones.
"Senior Brother Gao! I have something to ask," Said Yue Qianchou as he moved one-step forward.
Gao Shiping's brow furrowed, in his heart complained, "I gave you one-third of the paint, but you wanted to dye every corner of the house.[1] I'm calling you Junior Brother is really polite, but you dared to call me Senior Brother, don't you know what place is this?" However, he remembered what the two law enforcement Senior Brothers' instruction, it's not good to be easily offended, perhaps this guy would return to the Green Light Sect and raise his cultivation, it would not be good to have enmity, Gao Shiping calmed his mind down, and asked coldly, "What is it Junior Brother Yue?"
"When Junior Brother first arrived in the mine, i don't really know the custom here, i'm afraid i have offended Senior Brother, Senior Brother please forgive me, " Yue Qianchou faced Gao Shiping and raised his hands to salute,[2] the hands inadvertently flashed a pale gold. His two eyes checked the surrounding and found no one noticed, the hand swiftly brought down and the pale golden light slipped into the Gao Shiping's robe.
Alluring pale gold, Gao Shiping noticed Yue Qianchou's hand and he naturally knew what it was. However, he couldn't respond in time, the thing have slipped into his robe.
Gao Shiping's whole body was a little trembling, he unconsciously pressed his abdomen to feel that piece of thing. His eyes stared at Yue Qianchou, the temptation of top-grade spirit stone was so big, he was considering to accept it. As the Core Formation cultivator, he could only get 25 pieces of mid-grade spirit stones, a top-grade quality was equivalent to the income of four months ah! Although he was the overseer of the spirit stone mine, he never dared to take a single spirit stone from here, if people would find it out, the consequence would be disastrous, especially there were also three Nascent Soul elders guarding the place.
Gao Shiping slightly lowered his voice, "Taking care of Junior Brother is obvious, but Junior Brother is punished to do the hard work, if the task isn't completed or what should be done wasn't done, i can't take care of it, after all, there are three elders here, there are some things even i can't do it."
Yue Qianchou understood the meaning of his words, Gao Shiping would take care of him, but some things were out of his authority. Such as the completion of the task, as well as the punishment for stealing spirit stones.
Damn it! There is no thief without a wicked heart! Yue Qianchou touched his nose and patted Gao Shiping shoulder while smiling softly, "Senior Brother can rest assured, i won't make things hard for Senior Brother. I just want to live comfortable here. I believe this will not be hard for Senior Brother."
Gao Shiping was still a bit hesitant, the overseer on the side shouted, "Yue Qianchou, task finished, 500 low-grade spirit stones of excess. Come and i will inspect you!"
"Senior Brother rest assured!" said Yue Qianchou softly, he went ahead, the overseer took the bronze mirror to check him and did not find anything unusual.
The staring Gao Shiping heaved a sigh of relieve and shouted at the overseer at the side, "Focus on your inspection!" Finished, he went to approach Yue Qianchou with a laugh, "Junior Brother's first task already exceeded 500 low-grade stones, i have been here for many years, but this is the first time i see something like this, really admiring ah!" He was not just spouting flattering words, if adding his own top-grade spirit stone, that would be equivalent to 10.500 pieces of low-grade spirit stones, which was never seen from the newbie.
"Luck, luck, it was purely luck, i only discovered a good vein, " Said Yue Qianchou with modesty, the two shared a smile, seeing this the other people were a little hard to believe. Gao Shiping had always been know as the 'Butcher Gao', the miners who had died in his hands were hard to count, when seeing him, all the miners would always had to give respect.