After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1742: Discovering the Little Expert

Chapter 1742: Discovering the Little Expert

It is not safe to rely solely on Wu Shidao or Goddess Feng He, so Bai Ziqi chose to take a two-pronged approach and work together on both sides.

Not long after, Bai Shiqi brought back good news:

The silver bead fruit that was cut off along with the branches glowed for a much longer time, actually exceeding half an hour!

It would take the ground troops more than half an hour to walk from Diandao Lake to Yaozi Lake.

This news made Bai Ziqi feel much more at ease.

After solving this problem, as the commander of the entire army, he also had to take care of Banqiu and the mining area.

He said to Bai Shiqi: "Ask Zhaoyoushen about the progress of the mine."

……

The entrance of the spiritual mine.

A fire snake swam out from the ground, glowing bright red, but as soon as it touched the tongue of Master Jieshui, it turned into flying smoke.

"There were some restrictions and traps in the mine, but they were all cleared out by my fire snake." It said lazily, "No one was seen."

Otherwise, burn them together.

The dwarf asked it, "Are you sure?"

"We've patrolled back and forth several times, how can we be sure?" Master Jieshui rolled his eyes at it, "Why don't you go down and take a look yourself?"

The dwarf ignored it and took out a khaki-colored one from his pocket.

The eyeball spider on a nearby branch wiped its eyes. Was the thing it took out a coconut-shaped round can?

Dong Rui murmured, "Are they going to pour water into the cave?"

"It's useless." Luo Xie said as soon as he heard it, "The bottom of the cave leads directly to an underground river. All the water that pours in will flow into the underground river and flow away."

Then the dwarf opened the lid of the jar, put the jar on his hand, and poured out a beige squirrel.

Its tail is fluffy with dark brown stripes, and its ears are large and pointed and can turn in different directions.

The little squirrel was wearing a dark green necklace around his neck. Eyeball Spider discovered that the pendant was an emerald the size of a soybean, and there seemed to be a faint glowing rune inside.

Aunt Zhu immediately said to the other two onlookers that the necklace was a seal, or in other words, a confinement.

The dwarf ordered the squirrel: "There are black crystals in this mine. Dig them out. The more the better, the sooner the better!"

Instead, the squirrel stretched out its two front paws toward him.

He Lingchuan often feeds monkeys, and one can tell at a glance that this action is asking for food.

The dwarf took out three duck egg-sized light red crystals and gave them to it: "Don't be lazy, or you will suffer."

The squirrel took the black crystal and swallowed it in one mouthful.

Its mouth was so small that no one could see how it swallowed the huge black crystals, but its cheeks didn't even bulge. After eating three crystals, it wiped its mouth and beard with its front paws, as if it was still not satisfied.

But if you get the benefit, you have to work for it. The little squirrel raised his upper body and stretched out his two front paws to touch his belly. The eyeball spider then discovered that there was a pocket hidden in its belly.

The squirrel took out small brown and yellow dirt balls from its pocket and threw them on the ground at a dizzying speed. In the later stage, it could throw out more than a dozen dirt balls in one hand.

At first glance, these soil balls looked like walnuts. After they landed on the ground, they rolled twice and suddenly cracked. Their size also suddenly expanded and they turned into bugs as big as domestic dogs!

Its big head case is like a crayfish, but the back half of its body is like an ant, with long whiskers on the front and back, long and powerful legs, and its color is also gray.

Dong Rui recognized at a glance that these were mole crickets, commonly known as "earth dogs", but these big guys in front of him also had thick and powerful, shovel-like forelimbs, and they were obviously good at digging.

The squirrel humanely pointed to the entrance of the mine, and the crickets swarmed in.

They entered the mine in groups, and stopped when they saw the black crystals. They used their front claws to dig out the rocks and dig out the black crystals. Their movements were very skillful. The stones that were harder than fine steel seemed like soft steamed cakes in front of them.

Elder Liu summoned the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, and everyone looked at the mirror. The little squirrel was still constantly rubbing out new mole crickets and throwing them into the mine as miners.

Aunt Zhu suddenly said, "This is the essence of earth!"

Dong Rui: “Which one?”

Elder Liu pointed at the little squirrel in the mirror and said, "This one."

Dong Rui was surprised: "The Earth Spirit has hair?"

In fact, He Lingchuan was not unfamiliar with the earth essence. The main demon puppet Ashmona created by the master of Honglu was made of earth essence mixed with divine blood and divine bones. When He Lingchuan went to Baimao Mountain to get the black dragon scales, he also entered the white bear demon cave guarded by the earth essence.

"Appearance is just a superficial representation. These mountain and water spirits can choose for themselves. Generally speaking, the more their transformed images resemble this kind of animal, the higher their cultivation level is. This one has been raised to a large size. There was also a water spirit in the previous cave of the Immortal Venerable, which transformed into the image of a giant salamander." Elder Liu looked solemn. "I didn't expect that the Heavenly Palace would let the earth spirit dig out the black crystal. This is troublesome. Fortunately, Miao Zhantian has not yet solved the Immortal Venerable's 'Escape Technique Forbidden', otherwise the speed of this earth spirit digging the black crystal would be several times faster."

As long as the "Escape Technique Forbidden" is still in effect, the Earth Spirits of the Heavenly Palace will have to dig for the Black Crystals in earnest, and at most they will send crickets to imitate human hands to dig. But once the lighthouse barrier covers this place, it can unlock the "Escape Technique Forbidden" again, and it can even turn the rocks next to the Black Crystals into stone men, pick up the Black Crystals and hand them over, or squeeze the mine tunnels and crush the enemies inside into meat paste.

"Our opponent is not this little thing." He Lingchuan said to everyone, "We can't let those guys stay comfortably at the entrance of the cave and watch the show. We have to trick them down."

The Earth Spirit was not their target; the two powerful beings were.

He Lingchuan's goal is to defeat them one by one, so now he has to trick at least one of them down.

The mole crickets lined up to carry out the black crystals they had collected, but none of them were very impressive. The dwarf grabbed a piece of black crystal the size of a quail egg and smashed it on the squirrel's forehead, saying unhappily, "It's too small. Send your earth puppet to the depths of the cave to collect a bigger one!"

The black crystals near the cave entrance had all been mined by the people of Yu Village. The newly grown ones were in the form of crystal clusters and were not worth digging.

They were also anxious. Miao Zhantian was urging them to hurry up and mine back, the Tiangong team would not be able to build a new lighthouse barrier.

The squirrel held its head and glanced at him sideways, hissing twice, and the mole cricket entered the mine even faster.

Zhenren Jieshui and the dwarf fairy looked around, alert to possible dangers.

Although Miaozhantian's candles were lit, what were the chances that Huanzong would discover that they had seized the mine?

A conservative estimate would be about 80%.

So they have set up a series of formations outside the cave.

The army of earth mole crickets went deeper and deeper into the mine, and soon they were twenty feet underground. At this depth, the air was very thin, and the black crystals in the rock layer were indeed getting bigger and bigger.

There are more than 400 of them, divided into two teams, one responsible for excavation and the other for transportation, working diligently and enthusiastically.

In fact, these are all clones of the earth spirit.

(End of this chapter)