After cleaning up the battlefield and putting away their respective spoils, Liu Changxu led everyone to the mountain where the Black-Horned Sheep flock had roamed.
Liu Changxu examined the area carefully with the Eye of Myriad Forms and discovered that the soil on this mountain was somewhat unusual. Quite a few stalks of Golden Sun Grass, an upper-grade first-tier spirit medicinal herb, also grew there.
Golden Sun Grass liked to grow above metal-attribute mineral veins containing a substance called sun-gold iron. Liu Changxu suspected that a sun-gold iron vein might lie underground. Sun-gold iron was a first-tier supreme-grade metal-attribute spirit material, an important material for refining supreme-grade magical artifacts. It was also the main material used in the Red Lotus Sword, a supreme-grade magical artifact longsword. This discovery delighted everyone.
They first harvested the Golden Sun Grass, gathering fifty-five mature stalks in total. Each person received six stalks, while the immature Golden Sun Grass was left untouched.
However, after searching the surrounding area, they found no metal vein exposed aboveground.
To locate the vein as quickly as possible, Liu Changxu formed a hand seal and sent out the Golden Flood Dragon Spear. Weighing thirteen thousand jin, the spear struck a patch of ground that might conceal the vein like a streak of golden light. After a thunderous crash, a pit several zhang deep appeared there.
When everyone walked over, they found nothing except the Golden Flood Dragon Spear embedded deep inside.
Unwilling to give up, Liu Changxu directed the Golden Flood Dragon Spear to attack three more times in succession. After three thunderous crashes, they finally discovered a fist-sized chunk of golden ore-sun-gold iron-in one of the pits.
Finding a piece of sun-gold iron proved that this was a genuine sun-gold iron vein, lifting the spirits of every lineage member