Chapter 495 Backbone

In the next few days, Qingyang kept wandering around the nest of the Mountain Rat King, searching for spiritual stones in the mine with his divine sense. Five days passed quickly, and Qingyang dug out seven or eight low-grade spiritual stones from the ore layer, and roughly confirmed the scope of the spiritual stone vein.

During this period, Qingyang also found three nests of ordinary Mountain Rat, just like the nest of the small Mountain Rat he found the first time, there were more or less some spiritual stones in them, all added up to thousands of pieces, which was considered another small fortune.

At this time, Qingyang finally confirmed that the reason why this group of Mountain Rat was so large was that it was composed of five small groups of Mountain Rat. The third-level Mountain Rat, as their common king, occupied the center of the spiritual stone vein. The other four small groups of Mountain Rat were all distributed around the spiritual stone vein. They were not together at ordinary times, but acted together when something happened.

For five consecutive days, all the collections of the Jingshan rats were swept away by Qingyang, but facing the heavily guarded Qingyang, the Jingshan Rat King had no way to deal with it. He could only watch Qingyang go in and out and dig the area around their nest into pieces.

Seeing that the time for everyone to meet was approaching, Qingyang stopped his action, drew a simple map of the mines he had walked through in the past few days, and then took Jiujiu and Iron Arm Monkey out of the mine.

After several consecutive battles, the number of this group of Jingshan rats was reduced by almost half, and their strength was greatly reduced. Now they have been tossed by Qingyang for several days. The Jingshan Rat King has no temper at all, just begging Qingyang to leave quickly, how dare he find trouble with him?

As for Qingyang, he did not find trouble with these Jingshan rats. The spiritual stone vein is here, and these Jingshan rats can't hide. As long as he reports the situation here, the Lingkuang Academy will definitely organize sufficient manpower to deal with it. If this group of Jingshan rats continue to stay near the spiritual stone vein, they will be killed by the disciples of the immortal sect sooner or later, so there is no need for him to worry about it.

After leaving the mine, Qingyang put the Iron-armed Monkey and the Alcoholic Queen Bee into the Drunken Immortal Gourd, leaving only a few ordinary alcoholic bees on guard around, and walked quickly towards the agreed meeting place.

A few hours later, Qingyang arrived at the agreed place. Chen Biwang, Kang Zhuangzhu and others had been waiting here for a long time. Seeing Qingyang, Chen Biwang asked: "Brother Qingyang, you look happy. Did you gain something on this trip?"

Qingyang didn't say much, and said directly: "Half a month ago, I followed a group of injured mountain rats to find their nest, and then followed the clues to find the location of the mountain rat king. Finally, I lived up to everyone's expectations and found a spiritual stone vein there."

The four of them had almost nothing to gain during this period. Now they heard that Qingyang had found a spiritual stone vein, and they were overjoyed. Although it was Qingyang who discovered the spiritual stone vein, everyone had agreed that others could also share another 50% of the reward, and everyone could benefit from it.

Everyone just hated Li Shengbo, and had no opinion on Qingyang. It was better for Qingyang to get a reward than for Li Shengbo, the selfish guy.

"Really? Do you have any evidence?" Zeng Shuisheng asked anxiously.

Qingyang smiled, then took out ten spirit stones and said, "Of course there is evidence. Look, these ten spirit stones are what I dug out there during this period of time, and one of them is a medium-grade one."

Chen Biwang picked up the medium-grade spirit stone, looked at it from left to right and couldn't let it go. After a long time, he reluctantly put it back in Qingyang's hand and said, "It is really a medium-grade spirit stone. It seems that the quality of this spirit stone vein is not low. This time we can all follow Junior Brother Qingyang to benefit from it."

Looking at the spirit stones in Qingyang's hand, others were also extremely envious. As the discoverer of the spirit stone vein, Qingyang dug out the spirit stones to confirm the spirit vein, and the Spirit Mining Institute must be embarrassed to take them away, which means that these spirit stones are all Qingyang's own. One medium-grade spirit stone can be worth a hundred low-grade spirit stones. Qingyang's labor results in the past few days are equivalent to their income in the past few years. It would be great if these ten spirit stones were all dug out by themselves.

Unfortunately, this is the only chance. After the people from the Spiritual Mine Academy take over the spirit stone veins here, they will enclose all the surrounding areas and have corresponding measures to prevent mining disciples from hiding them. The management is very strict, and it is impossible to get extra spirit stones.

However, it is useless to envy this matter. Who made me not as lucky as others? Zeng Shuisheng hesitated and said, "Brother Qingyang, where is the spirit stone vein? Can we also confirm it?"

Qingyang understood Zeng Shuisheng's little thoughts. He just wanted to try to see if he could dig out a few spirit stones. It would be even better if he could get a medium-grade spirit stone. Qingyang said: "The spiritual stone vein is not far from here, but the nest of the mountain rat group is nearby. Hundreds of mountain rats are not easy to deal with. I have been surrounded by the mountain rats several times. If I hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, I might not have been able to come back."

The external injuries on Qingyang's body were not treated very thoroughly. Some places can still vaguely see some scars. It can be seen at a glance that he had experienced a fierce battle with the mountain rats. Everyone also knows that Qingyang's words are not empty words. Chen Biwang said: "The number of mountain rats is huge. We can't deal with it with our strength. It's better for us not to take risks."

Master Kang nodded and said: "Since the location of the spiritual stone vein has been determined, our trip is not in vain. When Senior Brother Li comes back, we can report to Uncle Qingyuan."

Miao Baoye also echoed: "Yes, I have been in Jingfeng Mountain for four months. Now I can finally go back to rest for two days."

Qingyang knew very well that Li Shengbo had been killed by the mountain rats and it was impossible for him to come back. No matter how long he waited, he would never see him. However, in order to avoid being discovered, he could only pretend to be confused and said, "I have been active near the mountain rats' nest these days, and I have been so nervous that I have not even had time to treat my injuries carefully. Let's find a place to rest first. When Senior Brother Li comes back, we will go down the mountain together."

After Qingyang finished speaking, he found a quiet place nearby, treated his wounds again, and then sat on the ground to meditate and recuperate. Others knew Qingyang's situation, and no one came to disturb him. They just meditated and adjusted their breathing outside.

A few hours passed, and Li Shengbo did not come back. A day passed quickly, and there was still no sign of Li Shengbo. The others finally couldn't help it and came to Qingyang to discuss countermeasures. Although Qingyang's cultivation was slightly lower than Chen Biwang's, his strength was the highest among the five people, and now he was considered the backbone of the team.