Qiu Qianhai had found this place two days earlier. He had discovered that the waters around here held far more cold iron sand than elsewhere.
Any miner with a little experience could guess what that meant: there had to be a Cold Cave nearby.
A Dead Cave, at that!
As for how he knew it was a Dead Cave... the chill from a live Cold Cave could be felt a full li away.
To find a Dead Cave, however, one first had to notice that an area held more cold iron sand than other places. Among ordinary miners, probably only a seasoned veteran could spot that tiny irregularity.
But for Qiu Qianhai, who had the Mysterious Finger Bone, none of that was a problem.
For days, he had been going on to Ji Yuan about how finding a Dead Cave would be as easy as reaching out and grabbing it.
Now, he really had found a lead... elsewhere, he could usually dig up no more than three and a half jin of cold iron sand.
Here, though, he could easily dig up four jin.
That was why Qiu Qianhai was certain there was an undiscovered Dead Cave nearby.
Since no one had discovered it, both its upper and lower ends must have collapsed and become blocked, with a thick layer of silt covering the surface.
He and Ji Yuan had spent two days searching the area, ruling out several spots.
Now, only one location remained.
After the two used spells to clear away three meters of silt, they did indeed uncover a slope piled with jumbled black rocks.
Qiu Qianhai found a depression, and the instant he took out the finger bone, it lit up with an eerie blue glow.
The closer it came to the rocky slope, the brighter