Chapter 165 The Black Claw Behind the Scenes

"Anyone who discovers clues to the cave sky stone will be rewarded with a reward ranging from 10,000 to 100,000 spiritual stones after verification."

When Shen Lian came back from the mountains, he was surprised to hear such news from the monks around him.

Unexpectedly, Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce directly smashed the spirit stone.

"Is it possible that Qianqiu Merchant's Excavation of Cave Sky Stone has other uses?"

Facing the Krypton Gold Chamber of Commerce, Shen Lian refused to accept it.

Such a large reward made some ordinary foundation-building monks excited.

The Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce has accumulated a lot of brand names over the years, so the monks did not doubt the authenticity of this reward.

Shen Lian, who was forging iron outside the city, saw many monks going into the mountains to search, and he also got in and became one of them.

The arrival of the monks from the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce caused everyone to search for the Cave Sky Stone, and the situation was developing towards the scene he expected.

On this day, after returning from the mountains and wilderness, Shen Lian entered a quaint teahouse.

The boy in the building had made a pot of hot tea and had just brought it over when a monk came over to greet Shen Lian.

"Fellow Taoist, I'm Yan Jiu."

Yan Jiu had a smile on his face but was full of wrinkles, but Shen Lian could see through his disguise at a glance.

"Fellow Taoist, please have tea."

Shen Lian poured two cups of tea and gave one to Yan Jiu.

"Fellow Taoist, open up."

Yan Jiu took a sip of tea, raised her head and said, "I won't hide it anymore. My ancestors also produced masters, but it's a pity that they have declined in my generation.

I think back then…”

Shen Lian listened to Yan Jiu's bragging and was not in a hurry to expose him.

Recently, there have been more monks in Topaz Mining City. Many people are looking for cave stones, and many strange monks have also sneaked in.

"Back then, my ancestors saw a vision coming from the sky deep in Tianzhu Mountain. Thunder struck the world and split a mountain. It happened that a sparkling cave stone was found at the foot of the mountain... This was drawn by our ancestors back then..."

Shen Lian glanced at the treasure map Yan Jiu took out. This was the third treasure map he had encountered in the past few days.

This painting is so rough and elegant that even the mountains appear to be floating.

"Drink this cup of tea and leave."

Shen Lian held the tea cup and tasted it gently without looking at Yan Jiu.

"Hey, hey."

Yan Jiu wisely put down the tea cup, stuffed the torn animal skin into his arms, nodded and bowed and stepped aside.

After a while, I saw another monk coming in, and then I approached him.

"well."

Shen Lian sighed softly. With the rewards from the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce, all kinds of scammers appeared, and even more messy news flew around.

Not to mention Dongtian Ore, there are even news about various fourth-level ores and secret realms flying all over the sky, and fellow Taoists are so deceptive.

He tried to find pearls and jade in the sand to see if there was any real news.

However, no.

Don't talk about pearls and jade, just turn over the mud and you will dig out the smelly mud.

A mixed bag of people said that these strange monks thought highly of them.

"It seems that we still have to follow the monks from the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce."

Putting down the tea cup, Shen Lian returned to his original thoughts. He went out of the city for days, seemingly looking for opportunities like other monks, but in fact he was quietly looking for people from the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce.

Unfortunately, there was Jindan Zhenren in the city and he was protected by the formation, so he couldn't get too close to Elder Tian.

After drinking two cups of tea, Shen Lian looked upstairs into the distance. There were two figures heading outside the city. He paid for the tea calmly and headed outside the city.

After several days in a row, I have gained something, at least two spies from the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce have been identified.

It has to be said that the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce is very thieves. They have people arranged openly and secretly in various cities to serve as spies for information.

And these spies have many local monks from the mining city as their minions.

Currently unable to detect the real person of False Dan, Shen Lian can only start with these two foundation-building spies, follow them quietly and eavesdrop on their exchanges.

Killing people and searching for their souls is the worst method.

…

"None of these speculative monks is good."

Outside the topaz mining city, Du Rufang and Yan Zaozhao headed towards the east of the city.

As the secret agents of the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce, they all have open shops in Huangyu Mining City to rely on. Although they are said to be the secret agents, their identities have long been known to the senior officials of the Yuhua Sect.

Fortunately, both parties are pretending not to know. You are busy with your business and do not interfere with each other.

"Brother Du, stop mumbling. When the elders come, we must at least put on a show. If there really is a Dongtian Stone Mine nearby, as you and I are the first to report it, how can the Chamber of Commerce be short of our reward?"

Yan Zhongzhong looked around. Since Elder Tian arrived, the two of them have been running around in the mountains every day. Although they have not found any useful clues, they have worked hard.

"Brother Yan is right. The president has clear rewards and punishments. Otherwise, why would I choose to join the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce in the first place?"

Du Rufang smiled and said, he was very satisfied with the welfare of Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce.

"If the president is promoted to Nascent Soul in the future, then our brothers can follow suit."

…

On the side of Du Rufang and Du Rufang, the flying boat controlled by Shen Lian in the mountains pretended to be a monk searching for opportunities for the cave sky stone, but in fact it was eavesdropping on the conversation between the two.

He has been following them for several days. These two guys talked nonsense. They didn't overhear anything useful, but they were full of admiration for the president, Master Qianqiu.

In this regard, Shen Lian also made further moves.

There were five storage rings in his hand, but he removed three of them and took out the cave stones inside.

Different from other methods of refining magical weapons, when refining a storage ring, the cave stone is embedded in it, and there are very few refining steps.

In order to offset the traces of refining, Shen Lian directly crushed three rice-sized cave stones and selected out the broken parts without traces of smelting.

Of course, he used a puppet to do this step to exclude his own breath.

Theoretically speaking, where there are fragments of cave stone, there should be cave stone.

He hid these dregs among the earth and rocks in a hidden valley between Scarlet Crystal City and Topaz City.

Now we are just waiting for someone to notice these scum.

…

Two days later.

The gravel and debris scattered by Shen Lian were finally noticed by the passing monks.

Crystal clear like dust.

Du Rufang and his two men, who were showing up outside the city, also received the summons and hurried towards the mountains to the west of the city.

"It's really unlucky. We brothers were sleeping outside, but we didn't expect it to leak out."

Yan Zhongzhong complained as he hurried on. The two of them were running around in the north of the city. Unexpectedly, they received a summons from Elder Tian in the city. Someone found fragments of the broken cave stone in the west of the city, and they were asked to go investigate.

Good guy, doesn't this seem like the two brothers are just putting on a show by being busy for so many days?

Gan!

"It seems that those trash men under me were too kind to them in the past."

Du Rufang also looked a little unhappy. As a spy in the foundation building period, their position in the Chamber of Commerce was at the level of deacon, which was higher than ordinary stewards.

He also has a group of people under his command who are inquiring about information.

But after these people have been scattered for so long, outside monks actually noticed the place where the Cave Sky Stone appeared first. It's really...

"Let's go and take a look at the scene so that we can report back to the real person as soon as possible."

The two of them bypassed the topaz mining city and rushed into an extremely remote valley in the west of the city.

The valley is still filled with evil spirit, and some bones of the killed Fuqing demon sheep can be seen on the ground, and the valley has been dug into a mess.

"So many people."

After Du Rufang entered the valley, he found hundreds of qi-training monks digging, and various magical weapons were striking the rock walls and rocks, smashing them wildly.

There was even a foundation-building monk occupying a large area by himself, staring coldly at the surroundings.

"I found it."

A monk shouted, and a crystal flake on his finger flashed like a star.

"Fellow Taoists, I am Du Rufang, the manager of the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce. I don't know which fellow Taoist discovered this place first."

Du Rufang saw so many monks and the valley was turned upside down, so he could only fly up and reveal his identity.

"Fellow Daoist Du, your Chamber of Commerce will tell you how to receive the reward. I found some ore fragments."

"Senior Du, I have it here too. This place should be where the mineral vein is."

…

As soon as Du Rufang opened his mouth, the monks in the valley spoke one sentence after another, and some even took out the fragments of the cave stone they had found.

"There's more here!"

A monk dug a hole several feet deep and dug up a small fragment in the soil.

"Fellow Taoists, Cave Sky Stone is an associated mine of cloud crystal stone. Is there any Taoist friend who has dug cloud crystal stone?"

Yan Zhongzhong also stood up. With so many people digging here, how many spiritual stones would he get if he really wanted to get the spiritual stones according to the previous rewards.

"Not found."

"No."

…

Shen Lian also dug up earth and rocks at will among the crowd. Although he scattered the cave stone fragments on the surface and deep in the earth when he faked the scene, the cloud crystal stone was indeed a big problem.

He doesn't have this thing either.

"Without cloud crystal, it wouldn't be a cave stone vein."

Du Rufang sighed softly. He also took action several times in succession and dug out a pit more than ten feet deep. After careful inspection, he shook his head slightly.

Some people believe this, while some people do not.

This is a cave stone. Digging out a piece can be worth a long time of income. The Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce wants to monopolize the cave stone, so naturally it will not say that there is a cave stone here.

Du Rufang and Yan Zhongzhong looked at each other and realized that these monks were not that easy to fool.

They are just the monks of the Chamber of Commerce who are responsible for catching winds and shadows. Wherever they know how to explore for mineral veins, the Chamber of Commerce has specially trained ore prospectors.

Mineral veins belong to the essence of heaven and earth, and there have always been related legends in the world of immortality. Even if a Nascent Soul monk wants to explore the spiritual secrets in the mineral veins, he will be blocked by the heavenly secrets.

This is a limitation of the rules of heaven and earth. What I am afraid of is that high-level monks will dig out the spiritual wisdom of heaven and earth.

Otherwise, how could all the major sects start mining honestly? They would just send a Jindan elder to stay here for a while and sweep away all the ore.

At that time, it will depend on which sect can dig the most and who will be able to monopolize it.

In view of this, Shen Lian also did his homework when scattering the cave sky stone fragments, and specifically chose this valley because there was a small mixed vein mine deep below the valley.

At the same time, Du Rufang and Yan Zhongzhong looked at each other silently, and Du Rufang flew out of the valley.

…

Three miles outside the valley.

On the top of a low hill, Du Rufang took out the jade talisman, with a look of fear on his face, as if the person opposite the jade talisman could see it.

"Elder Qi, we have made a preliminary investigation and found some fragments of cave stones. We dug dozens of feet of soil and found no accompanying cloud crystal stones."

There was no response from the Jade Talisman, so Du Rufang pondered for a moment and then said: "Elder, there are currently many foreign monks in the valley, and I am planning to recruit some of my subordinates from the mining city.

Divide dozens or hundreds of points in the valley, conduct preliminary excavations and take a look, and then determine subsequent actions based on the next situation. "

Seeing that there was always no movement on the side of the jade talisman, Du Rufang panicked a little. He knew Elder Tian somewhat, and his subordinates were very strict and never showed mercy to those who violated the law.

The reason why he and Yan Zhongzhong run out every day is to perform harder.

"Control the valley and no more monks are allowed to enter."

"I brought a batch of spirit stones. The existing monks in the valley will give them different amounts of spirit stones as compensation according to their strength."

"Lihuo will deliver the spiritual stone later."

…

Half a day later.

Shen Lian, dressed as a second-level Foundation Establishment monk, was invited out of the valley after being compensated with 3,000 spiritual stones. For a Foundation Establishment monk like him, 3,000 Spiritual Stones was enough to buy a magical weapon of inferior quality. .

There are hundreds of monks in the valley, and the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce has issued a total of more than 50,000 spiritual stones.

One word trench.

People don't talk much about things that can cost money.

Dragons roared in the sky above the valley, and the second-level Great Perfection Fire Dragon was lingering in the sky, breathing flames.

Regardless of whether they are willing or not, anyone who approaches the valley from now on will be killed without mercy.

After collecting the spirit stones, Shen Lian walked dozens of miles, plunged into the depths of the jungle and turned back towards the valley.

…

At night.

Sentries have been set up around the valley, and red flints dispel the darkness and illuminate the surroundings of the valley.

In the valley, there are more than a dozen figures, searching carefully.

Outside the valley, there are monks stationed and patrolling back and forth.

The elder Tian who controlled the dragon finally came to the valley. He sat cross-legged directly on top of the cliff on one side of the valley, looking at the busy monks below.

In front of him, there was a jade box, and what was shining inside was a handful of broken cave sky stone fragments.

Occasionally, a monk would dig it out in the soil below and bring it to him.

"Elder, there is a small vein of earth element stone and hematite mixed here."

The visitor made a report and flew back to the valley automatically. Elder Tian's back was straight even when he was sitting cross-legged. He picked up the fragments of the cave stone and looked at it.

He has checked the cave stone fragments in this box many times, and they are indeed cracked raw ores.

After thinking for a while, he took out the jade talisman and activated it.

"Elder Tian."

After the jade talisman lit up, Elder Geng's voice came back first.

"How's it going?"

"Things went very well. We did find some fragments and a valley..."

Elder Tian explained the matter simply.

"So there is no cloud crystal stone underground, only a small miscellaneous vein..."

Elder Geng's voice rang out, and after a few deep breaths, he said, "I remember that in the Cave Mine in the Cloud Forest, I didn't find the cloud crystal stone at first. I found it only after the vein was broken."