After taking the deserted island, Liu Changxu headed straight for the enormous volcano at its center with his four wives.
This was the heart of the fourth-tier high-grade spirit vein. The hundred-mile stretch around it also held the island's densest spiritual energy, and only here could fourth-tier spirit treasures develop.
After half a day of careful searching, Liu Changxu and his four wives gathered numerous fourth-tier spirit treasures near the volcano.
Ordinary spirit plants could hardly survive around this enormous volcano. Only fire-attribute spirit plants could flourish here.
Liu Changxu and his wives discovered one fourth-tier high-grade Fireflame Jujube Tree, one fourth-tier middle-grade Fireflame Jujube Tree, three fourth-tier low-grade Fireflame Jujube Trees, three fourth-tier middle-grade Fire Crystal Zhi, and one Fire Sun Ginseng that was two thousand years old.
Unfortunately, none of the five Fireflame Jujube Trees bore ripe fourth-tier spirit fruit. Only one fourth-tier low-grade Fireflame Jujube Tree had thirty-six greenish-red Fireflame Jujubes hanging from its branches, but they still needed seventy or eighty years to ripen.
As for the Fire Sun Ginseng and Fire Crystal Zhi, their medicinal properties were too violent to make them suitable for refining pills that aided Nascent Soul formation.
Of course, being so close to the volcano, Liu Changxu and his four wives gathered far more high-grade spirit gold and spirit materials than anything else.
The five of them collected over two hundred and thirty chunks of fourth-tier spirit gold and spirit material ore alone, and even found two chunks of fifth-tier low-grade Geng Metal ore. It was a tremendous haul.
The moment Liu Changxu found those two chunks of fifth-tier low-grade Geng Metal, the artifact spirits of the Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords being nurtured in his dantian appeared one after another, surrounding their master and begging for the ore.
They were