Chapter 20

Book 9 Chapter 20 – Sky Marrow Stone

Lei Xinfeng began to give orders . “Okay, Senior Song, you’re in charge of shattering the rock bed . Hongjie, please throw the shattered stones to a clean place . Hongjie may not be enough, so Uncle Hu, help here . Elder brother, you help Senior Song . Uncle Jin and Uncle Ying will stay with me . I’ll identify the rocks . ”

Everyone agreed . “You’re going for those boulders?” Song Qiao asked .

In the pile of giant boulders that wounded like a giant snake, the smallest one was still bigger than a house . Ice coated the top . “Follow me,” Lei Xinfeng said . He flew into the sky, following the boulders for a short distance . The others followed closely .

Suddenly, a bunch of black spots appeared on one of the boulders . Most of the boulders had no such spots, but Lei Xinfeng found one of the ones that did . One side of it was filled with black spots . He pointed at it . “This one . Destroy the top, but do not touch this side . Just collapse it . ”

To Song Qiao, attack power wasn’t an issue . He just waved his arm and a burst of red light exploded, accompanied by a loud boom . The boulder that was bigger than a small house split into pieces just like that .

Lei Xinfeng began to point to the pieces with dark spots . “That one, that one, and that one . This one too, but break a bit of it off first, then move it to that empty spot there . ”

Song Qiao already saw traces of Tiansui stones peeking out of the split pieces of the boulder . It only took a glance to identify it, and he discovered that there were many of it embedded within the boulder . In a moment of excited, he said, “Let me! Let me!”

His Hidden Lun space was the biggest, putting all the pieces of stone in directly . After he flew to the empty spot, he dropped it . To be honest, he wanted to just take the entire chunk home because this proved that there were indeed large amounts of Tiansui stones in the boulder . He didn’t before because there was no way to confirm if there were really stones in the boulder . He couldn’t just take the all the boulders either .

Pieces after pieces of boulder were split off under Lei Xinfeng’s direction, heaping rubble on the designated formerly-empty ground .

They broke seven giant boulders in a row . Of those, the biggest one was over a dozen meters tall and some thirty meters long . After this rock was destroyed, the remains took the whole group half an hour to transport .

“Alright, let’s go pick out the rocks with Tiansui stones . ”

Most of these rocks didn’t contain the precious stones, only a few did .

Under Lei Xinfeng’s direction, they put to the side all the chunks containing Tiansui stones and then split those up among them . These chunks had to be taken home and slowly chiseled away to obtain a whole Tiansui stone . According to Lei Xinfeng, each individual chunk had at least one Tiansui stone .

Everyone was allocated around eighty chunks of shattered boulders or the equivalent of eighty Tiansui stones . Everyone was satisfied . The happiest of all was Song Qiao, who knew how grueling the process of blinding searching was . He never imagined that he could obtain so much Tiansui stones in just half a day .

He knew in his heart that the reason he could get so much was because of Lei Xinfeng . To start with, he didn’t know which boulders contained Tiansui stones . They broke a total of seven boulders, but around those even where thousands upon thousands of other boulders . If he came by himself, it was doubtful if he’d be able to find one of those Tiansui stone-rich boulders .

There were many scattered pieces of rock that Song Qiao had broken before . Many of them were glowing darkly . As Lei Xinfeng walked by, he took them into his Hidden Lun space . No one said a thing . This kind of stealing was on a whole other level . It was a kind of stealing unique to Lei Xinfeng .

Lei Xinfeng found other kinds of ore too . Some glowed red, while some glowed blue . However, as long as it glowed, Lei Xinfeng took it .

Then began another round of boulder breaking .

They went along the band of boulders, busily breaking boulders left and right . Everyone was excited . In Jin Daya, Fengying, Shihu, and Hongjie’s eyes, all these stones were potentially Yin Rings . If they didn’t work now, when will they work? Everyone mined with all their might .

Even Song Qiao was working seriously . In just a few days, he’d already reached his original goal . With this speed, he’ll soon have more than he needed . However, he will still gladly take as many stones as he could get . He’d trade almost anything for these Tiansui stones .

In ten days, Song Qiao calculated that he’d put at least three thousand pieces of rocks into his Hidden Lun space . When he had spare time in the future, he could slowly chisel away the surrounding rock and obtain over three thousand Tiansui stones .

Lei Xinfeng got even more . He had three subordinates, each with their share . However, their share was basically all his . Aside from that, he had his own share as well, and he also picked up some chunks here and there from the rubble lying about . No one else knew, but the rocks he picked up where all special . Maybe there were more dark spots, or the color was deeper . Of course, he still needed to chisel away the surrounding rocks before he could find out what was inside .

He pointed at a rock around seven or eight meters tall . “Destroy that one . ”

Song Qiao flew over and destroyed it joyfully . It was at that time that Lei Xinfeng’s attention was attracted by a boulder the size of a large water container . It wasn’t because the boulder was small, but before it glowed with the colors of the rainbow .

He quickly flew over and absorbed the boulder into his Hidden Lun space . He did not know what was inside, but he instinctively knew that it was definitely something good .

Jin Daya and Fengying had blocked everyone else’s view of him . Given that everyone else’s attention was on Song Qiao, it meant that aside from Fengying and Jin Daya, no one saw Lei Xinfeng hide away a boulder .

When Song Qiao finished his destruction, Lei Xinfeng began pointing out the chunks of rocks . Whenever he pointed at a piece, someone came forward to take it . Everyone got a chance, and then the process started again .

It took but a moment for the harvesting to conclude .

“It’s tiring . Let’s rest for a bit,” Lei Xinfeng said .

Song Qiao smiled . “Yeah, let’s rest . I’m almost done . Heh heh, I’d never have thought that I’d get so much this time!”

Everyone found an empty spot and sat down . This time, it was Hongjie who built a fire and began to make food .

After Lei Xinfeng settled, he asked Song Qiao a question . “Senior Song, there there any other kind of materials to harvest here?”

“What, are you not satisfied with so many Tiansui stones?” Song Qiao asked .

Lei Xinfeng shook his head . “It’s not that . It’s because it’s so hard to come here, so if there were to be some other special ores, I want to take the chance to get some, or I might never have the chance again . ”

Song Qiao shrugged . “I only know about this place . If you want to gather other ores, you’ll have to look around . Don’t worry, with me here, we can return to Hanya Castle at any time . ”

“I think we should look for some other spots . We’re pretty much done gathering Tiansui stones . If there are any other mining spots… Haha, we have Ah Feng . No matter what, we’ll have a great harvest!!” Xin Zhaolun said .

Song Qiao didn’t care anymore . He already harvested enough Tiansui stones . His objective for coming here was already fulfilled . If he could find other ores, he wouldn’t be opposed to it . He nodded . “I vote we look for new spots . ”

Hongjie also raised her hand . “I vote as well . ”

“No objections,” Jin Daya said .

Shihu and Fengying didn’t oppose it either . Lei Xinfeng smiled . “Alright, let’s go look around . Though it scared me half to death, Hanya Castle isn’t such a bad place!”

Xin Zhaolun snorted . “You little bastard . This one trip to Hanya Castle, you got the most out of all of us . A Lightning Stamp, a Chaos Ring,” he said, listing, “already made it worth coming here . Not to mention Purple Crystal, Red Gold, Biyasi…a whole bunch of materials!” When he mentioned the Biyasi, Song Qiao eyes flashed .

“You obtained Biyasi?”

Xin Zhaolun kicked himself . He was careless and forgot that Song Qiao, and outsider, was present . But since he already said it out loud, he didn’t need to hide it anymore, and answered . “Yeah, we found a some . ”

Song Qiao smiled . “It’s not bad . I’d never thought that aside from Purple Crystals, you even got some Biyasi!”

“Biyasi isn’t easy to find, so we didn’t get much either,” Lei Xinfeng blurted .

“Heh! How can it be possible that you only harvest a little with you here?” Song Qiao asked, jokingly .

Lei Xinfeng clammed up . He’d already displayed his ability . In these few days, even the ultra-rare Tiansui stone was easily found by him . He just laughed stupidly .

Seeing that everyone else was playing dumb as well, Song Qiao laughed . “Whaat! Even if I wanted some of that Biyasi, I’ll trade for it . I won’t steal for you folk! I also have some self respect . I won’t bully you!”

Inside, everyone’s hearts was full of doubt, and two words only . “Yeah, right!”

As expected, a second later, Song Qiao asked them for the material . “Ah Feng, can I have some Biyasi?”

Lei Xinfeng smiled . “Senior, didn’t you say that you didn’t want anything?” He changed his words at the last second . It was originally “where’s your self respect?” He definitely couldn’t say it out loud though, or he might offend him .

If Song Qiao got mad, they were all dead .

“Who said that? I want!” Song Qiao said .

Lei Xinfeng felt like he just barely averted a disaster . “Alright, alright . You’re the senior, so whatever you said . However, I really don’t have much,” he said .

Song Qiao raised his hand and extended a pinky finger . “Just a little, a tiny bit is fine . ”

Lei Xinfeng found that the senior was truly shameless .

As Lei Xinfeng stood, not sure what to do, a far off sound of collapsed from reached them . It came from under the ice cover, so it was especially frightening .

Everyone stood up in an instant, looking toward the source of the sound .

A tide of white fog shot into the air far away . Song Qiao flew up, eying the rising fog . After a while, he landed . “It seems it’s an Ice beast . I’m not sure . Maybe it’s just a piece of the ice cover falling off…”

“There’s Ice Beasts here?” Xin Zhaolun asked .

“Of course there’s Ice Beasts here . It’s a place that can be used to avoid the frost . Many Ice Beasts will hide down here,” Song Qiao answered .

Lei Xinfeng had neither seen an Ice Beast before . “Are Ice Beasts powerful?” he asked .

I’m confused . Monarch Hidden Lun spaces can be so big other people can live in it, but it couldn’t transport a shattered boulder with a volume totaling no more than thirty thousand and two hundred cubic meters?

Remember when Yin Rings were rare?

Yay, it’s really a four-chapter day! Another chapter or my homework? Such a tough decision . Putting that aside, thanks for your support, everyone!

Still, it’s already been a week since I started, huh? Just in time for a round of applause for a finished book!