Chapter 471: Harvest
"We are rich." Shen Xu exclaimed, happily examining the spirit grasses.
"Do you know how to refine the golden body pill and the golden light pill?" Zhen Yuan asked, and the double nodded.
"I have simulated it countless times." He said, but soon frowned.
"Unfortunately, I am lacking two of the auxiliary spirit grasses required to refine the golden light pill."
"What about the golden body pill?" Zhen Yuan asked.
"I have all and can refine them at any time. However, I will practice using younger golden rock grasses before refining these old ones." Shen Xu said, and Zhen Yuan nodded.
"These enlightenment grasses are older than the ones we have in the space." He said.
"We will soon enter the temple of chants and the Xuanwu secret realm. These enlightenment grasses are just the thing to enhance our comprehension ability." The double said, and Zhen Yuan agreed.
"There are also the rootless colourful water lily petals." He said.
Shen Xu sighed when he heard this.
"I am still on my first petal." He said, and Zhen Yuan chuckled.
"We have a lot of time before we enter the Xuanwu secret realm. We can use that time to consume all the resources that we have accumulated over the years." He said, but Shen Xu suddenly frowned.
"Ayuan, should we give the triplets some petals?" He asked.
After all, the rootless colourful water lily was a priceless natural treasure.
Considering that the triplets were not their contracted beast companions, Shen Xu was a little unsure of whether they should share the petals.
"Let’s wait and see." Zhen Yuan said, looking at Shen Xu with solemn eyes.
"Xiaoxu, the triplets are family, but we should always remember that the cultivation world is not kind. Do you understand what I mean?" He asked, and Shen Xu nodded.
He and Zhen Yuan had been good to the triplets, and their relationship was harmonious.
However, the triplets were fundamentally outsiders, and a day may come when their interests conflict. When that happened, the two groups may separate and cease flying towards the same destination.
Thinking this, Shen Xu recalled Lin Xiang, and he reminded himself that the only person who would always walk with him and never betray him was Zhen Yuan.
After transferring the spirit grasses to the space, the two walked towards the shallow pit.
The pit was three metres wide but only ten centimetres deep.
At a glance, it was made of top-grade golden rocks and strange texts were etched on its surfaces.
"I have seen this writing in one of the books in the space library." Shen Xu said, pointing at the sides of the pit.
"It’s the writing of the Stone clan." Zhen Yuan said, his eyes narrowed into slits.
Like the Medicine clan, the Stone clan was one of the seventy-two God clans of ancient times. Seeing the writing, he realised that the hidden cave was somehow related to the Stone clan.
"The Stone clan was known for their ability to extract stone milk from rocks." He said, and Shen Xu’s eyes widened.
"Could..." He started, but soon sighed in disappointment.
"The pit is dry. There is no stone milk or golden rock milk." He said, but Zhen Yuan shook his head.
"There is a small depression at the centre of the pit. Do you see it?" He asked, and Shen Xu nodded.
"I see it, but what of it? There is nothing there." He said.
"Not necessarily." Zhen Yuan said with a meaningful expression.
A moment later, he walked to the pit’s edge and bent down to press the small depression.
Soon after, the bottom of the pit parted, and the two saw one thousand jade bottles.
"Are they..." The double started, swallowed, and then continued.
"They all have golden rock milk?" He asked, but Zhen Yuan shook his head.
"Only seventeen have golden rock milk. The others contain ordinary stone milk." He revealed, but Shen Xu’s excitement did not diminish.
After all, although stone milk wasn’t as precious as golden rock milk, it was still a precious treasure.
"Let’s hurry and collect them." He said and bent down to collect the jade bottles.
Unfortunately, as soon as they took the last bottle, the pit broke apart and turned into ninety-nine pieces of top-grade golden rocks.
"I thought we could collect the pit and use it to extract stone milk, but it seems it’s not that easy." Shen Xu said, but wasn’t too disappointed.
"With the stone milk, golden body pills, monster blood wine, and monster blood baths, we should be able to achieve twice the reward with half the effort when refining our bodies in the Cursed Valley." Zhen Yuan observed, and Shen Xu nodded.
"We can probably push our body cultivation to half a step level ten if we exhaust all the body refining resources that we have." He added and quickly continued.
"Ayuan, I suddenly feel that ascension is just around the corner."
"We will enter the Xuanwu secret realm in sixteen thousand years and stay there for ten thousand years. I believe we will be able to ascend as soon as we come out." Zhen Yuan said.
"I feel the same."
After that, Zhen Yuan took out thirty puppets and let them pry the cave walls to extract the high-grade golden rocks that walled the cave.
While waiting for the puppets to mine the rocks, the two entered the space and began working.
On his part, Shen Xu began studying the poison inheritance that he got from the storage rings of the Ten Evils sect cultivators that previously ambushed them, while Zhen Yuan researched stone circles.
One real month, equivalent to two and a half space years, passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, the two exited the space and returned to the cave.
"I can refine more than one thousand weapons and equipment using these golden rocks." Shen Xu said, looking at the mined ore.
"Do you want to keep them all?" Zhen Yuan asked, and the double nodded.
"Ayuan, I am thinking of holding an auction when we advance to the tribulation transcending realm." He said and began explaining.
"We have a lot of valuable things, but most won’t be useful in the immortal realm. It’s best to exchange them for spirit stones before we ascend." He said, and Zhen Yuan didn’t argue.
"You are right. Even if we still have spirit stones when we ascend, we can use them to feed the space." He said.