Mining

With the Gu Recipe successfully researched, the next task is naturally to collect the Gu Recipe materials.

He embezzled countless Spirit Insect materials from the Western Land Long Family, which are currently being stored as fossils by the Divine Ice Flame. He won't have to worry about Spirit Insect resources for a long time.

Even so, he could only collect most of the materials required for the Gu Recipe; the rest still required him to spend time collecting.

Long Xuan pondered for a moment. He had already spent all his contribution points on purchasing the last top-grade Dragon Boat, and now he could only go to the Western Land Long Family to ask for the promised two hundred million contribution points.

Now that Blackstone City has been unsealed, it's time for him to claim his 200 million contribution.

Two hundred million contribution points are more than enough to collect the remaining materials; you might not even need one hundred million.

Just as Long Xuan was thinking this, Thatch Gu suddenly walked over with a letter in his mouth. He took the letter, opened it, and saw that it was a letter from Long Qian.

After reading the above, his eyes lit up. It turned out that Long Qian had not only come to deliver the Contribution Token to him, but also to fulfill Geng Metal's promise.

Before going to the Western Land Long Family to compete, Long Qian promised that if he won the competition, he would be allowed to enter the Geng Metal Ore Vein to mine Geng Metal.

However, the Blackstone City incident delayed this matter for several years.

Now that Blackstone City has been unsealed and all the Lineage have returned to normal operations, it's time to fulfill the promise made to reward the geniuses of the Far West Long Family, Geng Metal.

Long Xuan quickly packed his things and rushed down the mountain in a great hurry.

The value of Geng Metal is immeasurable. Just think about how the Bai Clan sacrificed the lineage of Lineage genius to obtain all the Geng Metal Ore Vein, and you can fully appreciate the value of Geng Metal.

Geng Metal is something even the Gu King covets; it's priceless, and you might not be able to buy it even with a lot of Spirit Stone outside.

Needless to say, the even more precious Geng Metal Essence is so valuable that a fist-sized piece of Geng Metal Essence would be enough to make many Gu King fight tooth and nail to obtain it, even at any cost.

Geng Metal Essence is considered the hardest metal in the Gu World. If a little Geng Metal Essence were added to the Gu King's sword, its sharpness would be enough to cut through a fourth-grade top-quality spiritual sword. The value of Geng Metal Essence is self-evident.

If Geng Metal Essence is so tempting even to the Gu King, then it goes without saying that Long Xuan would never let go of the opportunity to dig for Geng Metal Essence.

That's the hardest metal in the Gu World. If his Earthworker wore a suit of Insect Armor made of Geng Metal Essence, he would truly be invincible.

As soon as Long Xuan stepped out of the Rubik's Cube Grand Formation, Long Qian threw a black token engraved with dragon patterns at Long Xuan.

"Here's your 200 million contribution, take it."

"Whatever treasure you lack, just go to the Western Land Long Family's Treasure Repository and exchange it for it."

"Thanks to you, the Western Land Long Family has made a fortune this time; their treasures are so plentiful that they can't even fit in the entire Treasure Repository."

"It contains all kinds of treasures; basically, anything that can be produced in the Western Land can be exchanged for in the Treasure Repository."

"Take advantage of the warehouse being full and hurry up and exchange them, otherwise all the treasures will be gone."

Long Qian tossed the Contribution Token to Long Xuan and gave him a reminder.

Long Xuan accepted the Contribution Token, carefully storing it in his Storage Bag as if it were a precious treasure. He smiled and said, "I'm actually lacking some treasures right now, and they're quite expensive. You simply can't buy them with Spirit Stone outside."

"However, I can leave the treasure exchange to my clone. Why don't you take me to the Geng Metal Ore Vein to mine first?" Long Xuan said somewhat impatiently.

Faced with the hardest metal in the Gu World, he was naturally anxious, wishing he could go and extract all the Geng Metal Essence right now. The longer he delayed, the more Geng Metal Essence Geng Metal Essence would be taken away, and all of it belonged to him.

Long Qian laughed and said, "You're in such a hurry. Fine, then come with me."

"Besides you, Long Panpan and Long Qilin both chose to mine the minerals themselves."

"Only Long Ziyan claimed that she wanted to comprehend some Sword Intent and didn't want to be distracted, so she told me to just give her the Geng Metal."

"It's a pity. Sword Intent isn't so easy to comprehend. Instead of wasting time trying to understand Sword Intent, she should go mining. For a Gu cultivator, Cultivation Resources are always the top priority. This little girl is putting the cart before the horse."

Long Qian looked regretful.

"What? She's actually trying to comprehend Sword Intent inside! What a waste of her talents! Unacceptable!"

Upon hearing that Long Ziyan had not yet emerged from the Immortal-Slaying Formation, Long Xuan was immediately enraged.

He somewhat regretted researching the Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation Immortal-Slaying Formation. Ever since he set it up, Long Ziyan had become completely addicted to it, spending every day grinding her sword Sword Intent inside, determined not to stop until she had mastered all the Sword Intent within.

Now things are really messed up. Long Ziyan will never have time to accompany him again. He has been alone in his empty room for so long. How could Long Xuan not feel regret?

It's all his fault for being so impulsive. He should have just put in one kind of Sword Intent, but he insisted on putting in hundreds of different Sword Intent. Now look what happened, Long Ziyan has gotten addicted to playing with them inside.

"Alright, let's go. Long Qilin and Long Panpan have been waiting for a long time."

Long Qian smiled, took out a Thatch Gu House from the Insect-Rearing Pouch, placed it on the ground, and said, "Thanks to you, the Longevity Gu you invented allowed that old fox Long Wanli to squeeze another hefty sum out of us."

"Now we can teleport directly to the Geng Metal Ore Vein through the Thatch Gu House."

"What used to take us months to reach that Geng Metal Ore Vein can now be done in an instant. It's truly a great invention of this world. You're a genius."

"I have no idea how your brain works, to be able to invent such a monstrous Gu Insect."

"You invented those monstrous Gu Insect used by Earthworker, didn't you?"

"Tsk tsk, fighting while carrying Mountain-Protecting Formation on one's back, that's a truly terrifying idea. Which opponent wouldn't be stunned? The result of that battle has already reached the Western Land, and now this kind of Gu Insect Earthworker, is famous."

Long Xuan smiled but remained silent. He didn't know how Long Qian had guessed that he had invented all those Gu Insect.

But he didn't intend to admit it outright; what if he was bluffing?

To avoid the topic, Long Xuan went straight into the Thatch Gu House and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But then Long Qian faced a dilemma. He suddenly realized something: if he went inside too, what would happen to the Thatch Gu House? Wouldn't it be completely impossible to take it back?

The Thatch Gu House allow for cross-regional teleportation are very expensive.

He wanted to slap himself for making such a stupid mistake; he was incredibly foolish.

Alright, let's leave it here for a while. Those geniuses will come back after they finish mining, and we'll need it.

Long Qian glanced around a few times, then finally dug a cave in the nearby mountain wall. He placed the Thatch Gu House inside the cave, blocked the entrance with stones, and then crawled into the Thatch Gu House and left.

At that time, he was unaware that he would later keep the Thatch Gu House permanently in this hidden cave, using it as one of his emergency escape routes, and never take it back.

Later, this Thatch Gu House did indeed save his life more than once, and even a powerful enemy used great Divine Ability powers to track him down.

However, because he didn't pay attention to the Rubik's Cube Grand Formation next to him, he slipped and accidentally entered it, and never came out again.

Long Qian narrowly escaped death.

After that, he became cunning, always fleeing to this place, pretending to hide in the formation, luring one powerful enemy after another inside, and killing countless renowned experts.

Of course, that's a story for another time...

By the time he crawled out of the Thatch Gu House, he had already wasted a lot of time, and the genius on the other side was already getting impatient.

Long Dan, Long Ruoxue, Long Xuan, Long Qilin, and Long Panpan all looked at him with dissatisfaction.

"Sorry, I just had diarrhea, so I was a little delayed. I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long?"

Long Qian said somewhat embarrassedly, but his expression showed no embarrassment whatsoever.

"What do you think?" Everyone rolled their eyes.

"Hehe, I apologize for my rudeness this time. I'll treat everyone to a meal another time. Let's go inside and start mining."

"Let me make this clear beforehand: the Lineage will only give you one month to mine. Mine as much as you can."

Even if you dig up a bunch of Geng Metal Essence, that's your own skill, Lineage will never ask for it.

"If you're unlucky and find nothing, then you'll just have to accept your bad luck."

"Let's go in now."

Long Qian quickly headed towards the Geng Metal Ore Vein, and the five geniuses behind him showed excited expressions and hurriedly followed.

In fact, this Thatch Gu House was located on the edge of the Geng Metal Ore Vein; they were already within the Geng Metal Ore Vein's boundaries.

However, without Long Qian's authorization, they couldn't wander around freely and could only wait patiently.

At this time, countless mine shafts had been excavated from this gold vein, with numerous Gu cultivators coming and going, busy at work.

That's right, this time the miners are no longer ordinary people, but all of them are Gu cultivators.

Geng Metal is so hard that ordinary people cannot mine it. Only Gu cultivators with strong body tempering can mine Geng Metal Ore Vein.

Fortunately, the Western Land Long Family has been operating in the Western Land for countless years and has a large number of members. Don't think that the Long Family only has the few people in Blackstone City.

The Western Land Long Family Western Land has branches in many major cities, so it is not difficult to mobilize a large number of branch clan Gu cultivators to mine. Mining Geng Metal Ore Vein is such a lucrative job that all branch clan Gu cultivators are eager to do it.

Of course, many branch clan Gu cultivators come here with the intention of taking advantage of the situation to embezzle Geng Metal, which is unavoidable.

Not long after Long Xuan arrived, he discovered that more than one branch family Gu cultivator had been arrested for stealing Geng Metal and taken away, and it was unknown what kind of punishment they would receive.

Greed is inherent in all human nature; wealth is a powerful motivator. The benefits of Geng Metal are simply too great. How many of those impoverished Gu cultivators could resist the temptation of Geng Metal?

"You've already taken enough. Don't get any other ideas. The law is impartial, and it will put me in a very difficult position. Even if we're close, don't expect me to make an exception for you."

With a stern face, Long Qian glanced at the geniuses with a serious look after seeing that several people had been caught hoarding Geng Metal, and issued a warning.

The geniuses quickly nodded, not daring to entertain any other thoughts.