"The vitality in the city has suddenly increased in the past ten days, and this area is about fifty meters around the castle. What is going on?"
Zhang Changkong felt that the concentration of vitality in his surroundings had increased by about one-tenth compared to before. In the past ten days, Zhang Changkong had been trying to find the reason. Now, he had a vague guess in his mind.
Zhang Changkong came to the basement.
Looking at the five dark deep caves, these five caves leading to the underground are the entrances to the five areas where he placed the insects to live underground a year ago.
Zhang Changkong made a move.
After waiting for a while, the sound of crawling insects came from the cave.
Soon, more than a dozen bugs of various kinds crawled out of the five caves, half of which were steel ants.
But what left Zhang Changkong speechless was that the steel ants crawled out of three of the caves separately. Zhang Changkong's idea of deliberately separating the worms was shattered by the steel ants' burrowing ability.
"It's been a long time since I've managed these bugs in the ground. I hope they don't fight too seriously. It would be a pity if there are only one or two thousand dead."
Zhang Changkong moved the magic formula in his hand.
"The True Explanation of Burning"!
Five small fireballs were suspended in the air, illuminating the basement even brighter.
Under the firelight, Zhang Changkong carefully observed the insects under his hands and saw that these insects had grown to varying degrees.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Zhang Changkong felt that the dark shell of the steel ant seemed to have faded a little, and the appearance of other insects also changed to varying degrees.
But these insects did not make Zhang Changkong feel weak. Instead, his aura seemed to become stronger.
The insects cannot communicate, but Zhang Changkong can vaguely convey his thoughts to the insects through the "Insect Slave Secret Technique".
Zhang Changkong followed a few steel ants all the way down the cave. He saw that the underground of the castle was dug in all directions by these insects. It was unknown where the excavated soil and rocks disappeared. He did not know whether they were moved to other places or directly given to the cave. Worms ate it.
The tunnels dug by the insects were very narrow in places, but for Zhang Changkong who controlled the earth and rocks, it only cost a little mana and could not stop him at all.
All the way down, Zhang Changkong estimated that he had already gone hundreds of meters underground, but the steel ants hadn't stopped yet.
At this point, the steel ants' path finally stopped going straight down. Sometimes it would zigzag for hundreds of meters in one direction, and then change direction again...
Zhang Changkong walked for a long time and no longer knew where he was, but he was certain that he was no longer within the range of Black Bee Mountain.
Now he estimated that it was thousands of meters deep underground.
Gradually, the steel ants that Zhang Changkong met sporadically at the beginning became more frequent. It was obvious that the steel ants had moved their base camp here.
At this moment, Zhang Changkong deeply admired the burrowing ability of the steel ants. In just one year, they were able to dig the burrow to such a distance.
Suddenly, the steel ants brought Zhang Changkong to a wide underground space.
There were more steel ants crawling away. Many steel ants crawled to Zhang Changkong and touched Zhang Changkong's calf with their tentacles, expressing their closeness.
But what surprised Zhang Changkong was that there were still young steel ants in this place that looked like a nest of steel ants. Fortunately, due to the genetic relationship of the contract, these little steel ants would also be controlled by Zhang Changkong.
Under the light of five small fireballs, Zhang Changkong saw many ant holes around the wall. He checked several ant holes at random.
"Sure enough, these ants can reproduce." Zhang Changkong looked at a steel ant egg, a little surprised, but also a little happy. He thought that steel ants must rely on blood-thirsty fruit to reproduce, but now there is another way. , which made him a little happy.
You know, although he has many other reptile bugs under his command, he personally thinks that steel ants are the most suitable reptile bugs. They are easy to feed and have strong combat power. In the same number, Zhang Changkong has never seen that kind of bugs. Beat the steel ants.
If he had more than 100,000 or 200,000 steel ants, he could launch a small wave of ants in the Sanhe Rainforest. Under the ant wave, what insects can stop him?
Well, maybe insects like the Colorful Moth can stop it.
"Huh? This is it?"
Zhang Changkong suddenly saw some familiar stones beside the insect eggs and couldn't help but be startled.
He quickly took it and looked at it carefully for a while.
"Sure enough, this is the vitality stone. Although the size is a little different from the vitality stone of the Xiangshan Sect, it is indeed the vitality stone, isn't it?"
Zhang Changkong quickly checked the insect nest here, and sure enough, he found more than ten vitality stones of different sizes.
"Haha, I didn't expect it. I didn't expect that the trees planted intentionally would not be successful, but the willows planted unintentionally would make shade. After so much effort, the iron veins of the Vitality Stone without any clues were actually found by Steel Ant." Zhang Changkong shook his head. "Who would have thought that this vitality stone is buried thousands of meters deep underground. If other vitality stone veins were the same, without this continuous heavy rain, there is a high probability that I would have found nothing in the Sanhe Rainforest."
Zhang Changkong was overjoyed. The concentration of vitality in his castle had increased, and he was afraid that some steel ants would bring the vitality stones to the underground of his castle to eat them.
Yes, I don’t know what happened to these steel ants. They used to eat gray iron ore, but now that there is no gray iron ore, they eat vitality stones. There are many scattered vitality stones in the ant nest that have been chewed by steel ants. .
Zhang Changkong thought in his mind, and the steel ant led Zhang Changkong out of the ant nest's cave, and walked for a while before stopping.
Zhang Changkong felt that the energy of the outside world was slowly increasing.
Zhang Changkong stood in front of a stone wall.
A thought came to my mind.
"Mastery of Earth and Stone"!
The stone wall in front of him rippled, and the rocks spread apart in all directions.
Zhang Changkong has no consciousness and cannot feel the vitality stone in the rock.
After tinkering for a while, I got a piece of vitality stone, but the mana consumption was two times. I don't know if the quality of the rocks here is different, or the vitality in the rocks hindered the operation of "Earth and Stone Mastery", and the mana consumption increased greatly.
Zhang Changkong was a little discouraged. He originally thought that with the magic of "Earth and Stone Mastery", he could find thousands of vitality stones in minutes. It seems that he was still too naive. If it were that easy, the vitality stone veins in Xiangshan Sect would have been found long ago. Depleted.
"It seems that steel ants are still needed as miners. Although steel ants are very unqualified miners, seven or more of the ten vitality stones dug may go into their mouths." Zhang Changkong was a little helpless. Steel ants are just insects. His brain capacity is only so small. Unless he supervises the work here, there is no way he can put an end to the steel ants' self-stealing behavior.
Without his personal control, Zhang Changkong was not so naive that the steel ants could suppress the desire to eat and leave him the vitality stone.
"Forget it, after all, this is the vein of vitality stone found by the steel ants. They should take the big head. Anyway, the vitality stone is enough for me to consume every day." Zhang Changkong didn't take the vitality stone very seriously. He had no choice but talent. He is so versatile that he has very little demand for external items. There really aren't many things that need to be purchased with vitality stones.
And he was alone, he didn't even have a friend who was a cultivator, and he couldn't even talk about helping his friends.
He believed that no matter how small this vein of vitality stone was, it could still provide him with enough output to reach the level of a mage.
But when he reached the level of a mage, with a lifespan of five hundred years, he plowed through the Three Rivers Rainforest to find the second vein of vitality stone. If he couldn't find it in the Three Rivers Rainforest, he went elsewhere. I believe that by that time his loyal team of steel ant miners had expanded. Quite a few, it will definitely help him dig out more vitality stones.
It's not that Zhang Changkong doesn't want people to mine here. First, it's thousands of meters deep underground. It's okay if there are few people. But if there are too many people, the air will not circulate, and anything can happen. Besides, with a vein of vitality stone, he alone Isn’t it beautiful for people to grow secretly? Why risk being stabbed in the back to spread the news to Xiangshan Sect?
At that time, it would be good if his profit from the vitality stone veins could be one thousandth or even one ten thousandth.
So, now even if it is against Iron Ant One Nine, he is One, Iron Ant Nine, he still makes a profit.
Zhang Changkong searched all the insect nests near the steel ants and found one hundred and twelve vitality stones.
Most of them were found in a huge nest.
Zhang Changkong gave the Steel Ant several orders to collect vitality stones and not eat such stones, but he already knew the effect. For a large type of miner like the Steel Ant, this order would definitely have no effect. , is he still here to sweep these nests?
Anyway, Zhang Changkong was in a very good mood. It had been a long time since he had practiced with the Vitality Stone.
At this moment, he felt that his journey in the Sanhe Rainforest was over for the time being, because there was time to search for vitality nodes, so it was better to let the steel ants dig more mines.
