That night, Meng Zhang secretly came to the location of the red copper mine. He took out the insect-control jar, injected infuriating energy, and drove it gently.
After a while, there were waves of vibrations on the ground. After a while, big holes appeared on the ground ahead.
The number of sandworms, which had increased to nine, emerged from the ground.
The originally unruly sandworms were now as obedient as children, automatically lining up in several rows in front of Meng Zhang.
Meng Zhang used his Deception Eye and carefully inspected the belly of the sandworm in front of him.
The huge sandworm's huge belly has become bulging. Obviously, they are all filled with copper ore.
After many attempts, Meng Zhang found that every ten days or so, the sandworm's abdomen would be almost full.
The sandworms that were domesticated and controlled by the insect jar overcame their own nature and shortened their sleeping time.
As soon as he is released by Meng Zhang, he will actively burrow into the ground and will not run around. Instead, he will directly enter the red copper veins and start devouring the red copper ore.
Every time it swallows ore for a period of time, the sandworm will stop and rest for a while. After its physical strength is restored, it will continue to devour ore.
Over and over again, these hard-working miners continued their work until their bellies were full.
Putting all the sandworms back into the insect jar, Meng Zhang secretly returned to Taiyi Gate under the cover of night.
As soon as he returned to Taiyimen, Meng Zhang released all the sandworms and controlled them to forcibly spit out all the ore they had swallowed.
Naturally, the disciples in the sect are responsible for cleaning up the red copper ore spit out by the sandworms.
He took out the specially purchased food for feeding monster insects, and after feeding all the sandworms, Meng Zhang put them all into the insect jar.
Sandworms need to rest in the insect tank for several days to recover their exhausted physical strength and energy.
The copper ore that has been cleaned by the disciples in the sect will be sent to the refining room.
The so-called refining room is just a separate hall that was just built. There is a first-level low-grade weapon refining furnace and many spiritual trees used as fuel.
Tian Li spends most of his time in the weapon refining room every day.
Tian Li is now a qualified weapon refiner apprentice.
He used all his free time after training to refine as much copper ore as possible.
In fact, even if Meng Zhang also spent a lot of time refining red copper ore, the refining speed was far behind the speed of sandworm mining.
Looking at the piles of red copper ore in the storage room, but there is no time to refine it, this is really a happy trouble.
Meng Zhang is not in a hurry, refining it slowly and selling it in a steady stream is not a bad thing.
Selling copper ore directly will not only lose a lot of profits, but also easily expose the existence of cuprite.
Houtu God General’s original guess was correct. This red copper vein also contains a lot of associated minerals.
The associated mines are flame crystals and black gold that are far more precious than red copper.
These associated ores are carefully separated and refined separately.
The income from this red copper mine has become the most stable source of wealth for Taiyi Sect.
Meng Zhang was thinking about whether to train a few more weapon refiner apprentices among his disciples.
Anyway, the cost of training weapon refiner apprentices is not high. These disciples themselves have poor spiritual qualifications, so it is also a good thing for them to learn another craft.
If there are more apprentices for the refiner, the speed of refining cuprite can be greatly accelerated.
However, this matter is not urgent and will be put aside for now.
There are currently only about a dozen disciples in the sect, and not many are practicing fire-attribute techniques.
At this time, almost two months had passed since Houtu God General fell into a deep sleep.
After the earthquake, monks came from all over the place and turned the area upside down. Even the bottomless pit has been thoroughly explored.
None of the monks found any valuable clues locally. The legendary monk's cave was nowhere to be seen.
Even Meng Zhang felt a little strange after hearing the news.
He clearly discovered the monk's cave and the protective formation outside the cave, not counting the monks trapped in the formation.
Why did all these disappear without a trace, leaving not even a single clue?
However, no matter how curious he was in his heart, Meng Zhang firmly remembered the instructions of God General Houtu and resolutely refused to enter that area again. The further away, the better.
The heat in the world of cultivation always comes and goes quickly.
The cultivators who didn't find any clues in that area quickly lost their patience and dispersed.
There are many places worth exploring in the world of cultivation. There is no need to waste time in a worthless place.
The matter passed like this without any follow-up. Meng Zhang also breathed a sigh of relief and told Li Xuan to bury the secret that he and others had entered there deeply in his heart and never let it out.
Ever since this incident happened, Meng Zhang also followed the example of the former Houtu Divine General and patrolled around Taiyi Gate from time to time.
If any problems are found, they can be dealt with promptly.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the sandworm to rest in the insect tank, Meng Zhang decided to go a little further.
As if by some strange mistake, Meng Zhang rode the Wind Chasing Horse all the way to the abandoned Meng Family Oasis.
During the sand monster rebellion more than ten years ago, the Meng family oasis was invaded by sand monsters.
Like all oases destroyed by sand monsters, the spiritual veins in the Meng family oasis were destroyed, and the oasis completely degraded into a desert in a short period of time.
The once prosperous Meng family oasis has now completely turned into ruins.
Meng Zhang circled around the Meng family oasis.
Dozens of miles to the north is the area where the earthquake occurred, and where Meng Zhang and the others originally fled.
Meng Zhang did not dare to take the initiative to enter there, but changed the direction and continued to ride the horse chasing the wind.
Meng Zhang headed south, and before he had even gone fifty miles on his horse, he slowed down.
Not far ahead is a series of hills.
Meng Zhang rode the wind-chasing horse up the highest hillside and looked down.
Several hillsides form a circle, with a valley of about one hundred acres in the middle.
Meng Zhang sensed it carefully on the hillside. Yes, there was a relatively strong spiritual energy here.
He used his delusion-breaking Dharma Eye and looked around carefully.
Then, he used the Earth Escape Technique and dived directly into the ground.
After a long time, Meng Zhang emerged from the ground.
Meng Zhang was not mistaken. A new spiritual vein actually appeared here at some point.
Meng Zhang had passed by this place before. It used to be a barren mountain and ridge, so desolate that there was no spiritual vein at all.
Meng Zhang also mastered a little bit of the art of Kan Yu, so he started surveying the surroundings.
After some careful investigation, Meng Zhang had some guesses in his mind.
