Chapter 758 Topaz Mine
Compared to Chen Qingyun, Liu Zhilan is much more careful.
After she mastered the language here, she did not disguise herself and infiltrate the families or tribes on the island to inquire about the situation.
Instead, they continued to rely on the advantage of their spiritual consciousness to conduct fixed-point exploration around them and record where there were monsters and what the situation was like in which family and tribe.
Once, while trying to explore a place a little further away in the Topaz Mountains, she also discovered traces of a golden elixir python.
In order not to alert the enemy and lure him over, Liu Zhilan quickly withdrew her consciousness and hid her traces.
After that, for a month, she never released her consciousness in the direction of the golden elixir python.
Except for the situation deep in the Huangyu Mountains, Liu Zhilan already knew this Huangsha Island very well.
She took out a hand-drawn map and told Chen Qingyun.
Juanxiu's words were neatly written on the map, recording the locations of the three major families, named Shui family, Wu family, and Lin family in order.
The eight major tribes were all concentrated in the southern part of the Huangyu Mountains and settled on both sides of a river called Baipu River.
It is worth mentioning that Liu Zhilan also found out the origin of the name of the Huangyu Mountain Range.
It was named because more than five hundred years ago, the Shui family monks who first arrived at this spiritual island discovered a large number of topaz mines in this unknown mountain range.
The Shui family originally occupied a small spiritual island in the boundary sea to reproduce and inherit, and cultivated third-level spiritual veins and six Zifu monks.
Unfortunately, due to bad luck, the tribe was hit by a violent wind. The entire island was almost destroyed and the spiritual veins were damaged.
In order to survive, the Shui family had no choice but to abandon their clan territory, quickly organized a fleet, and set off on a long voyage with the remaining population of more than 3,000 people, wandering in the boundless sea in search of a new home.
Finally, after wandering on the sea for five or six years, going through many twists and turns, and losing 60 to 70% of the population, they finally found this Huangsha Island, and thus discovered the topaz mine.
"This topaz ore is a first-level material. It is bright yellow like jade and feels warm to the touch. Because the material is hard, it has a good storage and circulation effect on mana. It can be used as an excellent magical weapon material."
Liu Zhilan introduced it in detail.
"The magic weapon made from topaz ore is not only strong and durable, but also has a much smaller effect on magic power, which is better than other magic weapons of the same level."
"The Shui family relied on this topaz mine to refine a large number of magical weapons, which enhanced the strength of the clan and laid the foundation for their fortune."
As for the follow-up, monks from other families fled here and started to compete with the Shui family. The historical events here are very different.
The parties have been fighting for a long time, and gradually found that internal friction was serious.
The number of births is not as large as the number of casualties.
It's not okay to continue fighting like this. Sooner or later everyone will be finished.
Therefore, all parties had no choice but to turn their hostility into friendship, and divide the resources together to protect this spiritual island, and no longer let other monks compete for the territory.
Over time, people here have developed a sense of unity, cooperation, and unity toward the outside world.
Many of those tribal monks were mortals who had moved away from their families. In order to be self-reliant, they chose to make a living by farming and hunting.
Because there are too few monks and no ability to sell resources overseas, a lot of topaz and even all kinds of elixirs have been accumulated here, and the prices are much cheaper than outside.
The topaz mine is still being mined to this day, and the magic tools produced are basically two or three pieces per person. The monks here are not short of low-level magic tools.
This is where the advantage lies.
But the shortcomings are also very obvious.
Although this island is huge and rich in resources, due to its geographical location, it is located in the boundary sea and is often attacked by space debris or strong winds.
Chen Qingyun had witnessed the strong wind destroying a corner of the island before. This time, more than two months ago, Liu Zhilan had witnessed a piece of space debris approaching Huangsha Island.
Under that powerful space devouring force, the desert on the island became like food, being sucked into the space cracks in large quantities.
The originally thick layer of desert was swallowed up by about half due to this natural disaster.
The area of the entire desert has also been reduced by 20%.
This disaster was also observed by the monks on the island. They started to use self-protection methods and were ready to run away at any time.
According to their strength, there is no way to fight against the space cracks. Only by escaping can they have a chance of survival.
Fortunately, this disaster did not last long, and the area attacked was not in fertile farmland.
Otherwise, once the fields are damaged and food production is greatly reduced, the mortals on the island will have no choice but to venture into the mountains to hunt or go out to sea to fish in order to support their families.
Natural disasters often occur, destroying land and buildings, which also prevents the island's population from growing too fast and maintaining stability.
Sometimes a disaster strikes and lasts for a long time, which can easily destroy thousands of people.
After learning about the settlement history recorded by the three major families, the two learned that Huangsha Island was at its peak more than 140 years ago.
At that time, the island's population had multiplied to more than 300,000, with six Zifu monks and more than 30 Foundation Establishment monks.
In terms of family power, there were originally four families.
Just over 140 years ago, Huangsha Island suffered the largest gale attack in history.
This disaster lasted for three days and three nights, pushing the Wang family, the largest cultivating family, to destruction. A large number of buildings and people were destroyed in the storm.
It is precisely because of this that the power structure on the island has changed, and the population has dropped rapidly, showing a trend of decline.
Otherwise, with the resource advantages of the island, it would not have developed such a small population after so many years.
It is in this living environment that the population of Huangsha Island has stabilized in recent decades, and there have been no large-scale natural disasters.
As for going out to sea to find another place to live, although there are many islands in the boundary sea, they are far apart from each other.
The spiritual islands with spiritual veins are also occupied by monks. To avoid long-term exposure to the sea, they are more willing to shrink on the island to practice.
Once going out to sea, facing the natural disasters of the boundary sea is one aspect, it can be said that there is no chance of survival.
On the other hand, it is not necessarily lucky to find a better place to live than Huangsha Island.
A population of tens of thousands is not suitable for long-term sea voyages, and the consumption is too great.
With the current financial and material resources of the three major families, they simply cannot support long-distance voyages.
So, we can only stay on Huangsha Island peacefully, and everyone will share the difficulties and resist the natural disasters together.
Considering the continuation of the inheritance for their descendants, the monks on the island have already built large spirit ships, the more the better.
Doing so is also convenient for preserving the fire and leaving Huangsha Island in times of crisis, so as not to completely cut off the fire on this spirit island.
After understanding the situation on the island, the two discussed for a few words, Chen Qingyun released Biling, took Liu Zhilan on the spirit beast, and began to go deep into the Huangyu Mountains.
