Ning Fengzhi's Reaction

Hundreds of areas beneath the roads of Falling Star City contain buried Soul Crystal?!

In no time, the people on the street were making a great fuss, and some even began to dig up the road that Ning Rongrong had ordered people to dig, in order to get their hands on those Soul Crystal!

One of them is worth at least ten Gold Soul Coin!

Why not take it if it's free!

As the news spread by word of mouth, it naturally became increasingly absurd. By the time the news left the street, the following transformation had occurred—

"Have you heard? The former lord of Nuoding City buried Soul Crystal under the roads!"

"What is Soul Crystal? I don't know either, but it looks sparkly and is definitely a gemstone. I've heard that a single Soul Crystal is worth at least ten Gold Soul Coin!"

"Ten? I heard it was one hundred Gold Soul Coin?"

"·····"

"You're all wrong! I heard that the former Lord of Nuoding was afraid of his wife, so he used the excuse of planning the city's road network to hide his secret stash of money! What was buried underground included not only Soul Crystal, but also gold!"

"That's right, that's what I heard too. They say there are a hundred tons of gold!"

"One hundred tons? I heard there were ten thousand tons buried right beneath the City Lord's Mansion!"

Regarding why the former Lord of Falling Star City buried things under the road, a small number of elderly people in the city, around seventy or eighty years old, seemed to have heard their grandfathers mention it when they were young. However, they are now so old that their speech is unclear, and what they say is often contradictory.

And there's only one piece of information that can be confirmed from these elderly people:

For the past two hundred years, it seems that the successive city lords of Falling Star City have actually buried sparkling diamonds or similar things under the roads when they replanned and rebuilt them.

In this way, the news spread throughout the entire Falling Star City in a very short time!

Why did the previous city lords do this?

Nobody cares.

No one investigated.

The residents of Falling Star City knew only one thing: there was indeed treasure buried beneath the roads of Falling Star City, waiting for them to dig it up!

Most residents dared not start digging immediately, partly because they had their own businesses to run, and partly because they were afraid of alerting the city's patrol officers, who would then use the pretext of "disrupting the city's order" to arrest them and throw them in jail.

But the entire Falling Star City was indeed in an uproar...

"Fengzhi, is this really okay?"

The Soul King who was protecting Ning Rongrong reported the situation to Ning Fengzhi immediately. However, to Sword Douluo's surprise, Ning Fengzhi was not angry at all, and did not even have the idea of calling Ning Rongrong back to ask her questions.

Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is large and powerful, and ordinary people dare not provoke it, its Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Disciple must not actively seek trouble, lest other forces use this as an excuse to attack them, thus causing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's reputation to decline.

In reality, Ning Rongrong's actions weren't that serious a problem, but if someone with ulterior motives found out, they would inevitably accuse Ning Fengzhi of failing to properly educate his children.

"Uncle Jian, you and Bone Uncle used to dote on Rongrong the most. I clearly remember that Rongrong almost burned down the sect's kitchen once. I wanted to discipline her, but you Bone Uncle stopped me, saying that she was still young." Ning Fengzhi smiled, as if he didn't care about Ning Rongrong's treasure hunting on the road.

"How can this be the same? It doesn't matter how much she misbehaves at home, and it's fine if she's arrogant and domineering outside, since Old Bones and I can protect her. But she's caused turmoil in a small town right now." Although Sword Douluo was domineering, he wasn't unreasonable.

Compared to Ning Rongrong's current behavior of deliberately guiding the residents of Falling Star City to accomplish something, he would rather she always remain that mischievous Little Witch.

"Do you really think this is something Rongrong would think of?" Ning Fengzhi asked rhetorically.

"I knew it!"

Sword Douluo's face darkened. "We should have killed Zhou Qing back then to prevent future troubles. Now look what's happened, even Rongrong has been used by him!"

"Use? Not really."

Although Ning Fengzhi couldn't fully see through Zhou Qing, one thing was very clear: the other party was a sincere person and wouldn't guide Rongrong to do this intentionally.

Moreover—

No one knows a daughter better than her father!

"Rongrong is so clever, she learned it from me."

"You?"

Sword Douluo's eyes were strange.

Ning Fengzhi coughed awkwardly, but still said, "When I was young, I was also very clever. I learned from my father how to use people's hearts to guide others. Rongrong is my daughter, so she naturally knows some tricks of the trade. When we play pranks in the sect, can't we use words to guide you to fight with Bone Uncle?"

Sword Douluo blushed and defended himself, saying, "I did that on purpose! I was just trying to make Rongrong happy! That old bone was the one who was truly fooled!"

However, Sword Douluo understood that if Rongrong herself was unwilling, even if Zhou Qing tried his best to persuade her, it would be difficult to get her to take action.

It seems I was indeed overthinking things...

Sword Douluo sighed inwardly, but then Ning Fengzhi said, "Uncle Jian, Rongrong has so many Soul Ancestor protecting her, and the Soul King who came to report the situation has also rushed back. There won't be any problems. Now, why don't we consider why there are Soul Crystal and Soul Sand beneath the roads of Falling Star City?"

Soul Crystal are one of the materials used to manufacture Soul Tool. They have excellent properties for conducting Soul Power and are also an excellent item for storing Soul Power.

Although Soul Sand is a byproduct of the Soul Crystal refining process, its efficiency in conducting Soul Power is dozens of times stronger than that of Soul Crystal. However, because it is too brittle, it will vaporize due to excessive temperature when placed in Soul Tool, making it unstable. Therefore, it is called waste.

However, twenty years ago, it was discovered that this kind of Soul Sand, when ground into powder and mixed with pine soot, glue, and charcoal powder, could be used to make a kind of Fragrant Ink.

This ink, when used for writing, emits a faint fragrance that is refreshing and pleasant. Moreover, when used for painting and infused with Soul Power, the patterns on the artwork appear to come alive.

Therefore, although Soul Sand is waste, the Fragrant Ink made from Soul Sand is highly regarded by high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as Soul Master who love calligraphy and painting.

Therefore, the price of Soul Sand is not low. If we average the prices in various places, it is 10 catties for 1 Gold Soul Coin. The high-grade Fragrant Ink in Heaven Dou City even reaches the point of 1 catty for 1 Gold Soul Coin.

According to current information, the street that Rongrong dug up contains not only Soul Crystal that can store Soul Power, but also a lot of Soul Sand. It is very likely that the entire street is covered with soul sand, and even the roads of the entire Nuoding City may be covered with a large amount of Soul Sand!

Paving roads with Soul Sand?

Even Heaven Dou City isn't this extravagant!

"That's simple. Soul Sand was discovered to be usable for making Fragrant Ink within the last twenty years or so. Twenty years ago, I heard that Soul Sand was treated as ordinary gravel." Sword Douluo wasn't interested in this. "However, since this kind of Soul Sand is very brittle, it's indeed unlikely to be used as paving stone... Perhaps the city lord here back then was ignorant and bought a lot of Soul Sand to pave roads."

"I'm afraid things aren't that simple..."

The possibility that Sword Douluo mentioned is not nonexistent, but why fill the Soul Sand with Soul Crystal? And why do those Soul Crystal store Soul Power?