Looking around to make sure there was no one else around, he stepped out of the crack in the rocks and climbed down the hill to the cave where he had found the Flame Iron Ore deposit before.

It is a dark cave hidden in the hollow of the mountain wall, the entrance is about three meters high, but the width is less than one meter, which is a little narrow. But when you enter the cave sideways, you will find that there is a cave inside, and it is a very large space.

Takatsu took out a wooden stick, wrapped it in white cotton cloth at the front of the stick, poured some oil, and lit it with his fire cloud fingers to make a simple torch, which he used to control and levitate in the air to provide lighting for himself.

There is nothing special in such a hollow area connected to the narrow opening, and the surrounding rocks are the color of earthy gray, which are the most ordinary stones and have no use value. Despite this, Gao was able to determine that the iron ore deposit was nearby. Because a powerful hot spiritual power was attracting him, causing the fire attribute true qi in his dantian to be a little restless.

He stood in the middle of the hollow, paused, closed his eyes slightly, and stretched out his right palm forward. Then, he began to adjust the true qi, adjusting the excited fire attribute true qi in the dantian to the palm of his right hand, so that they were condensed in the palm of his palm. This makes the palm of the high pillow red, like a soldering iron.

Immediately afterward, he began to slowly rotate his body, his outstretched right hand scanning the various areas inside the cavity like a radar.

As he had turned most of the circle, his right hand, which was aimed at a rock wall in front of him, suddenly slammed into flames. The fire was so fierce that it engulfed his right hand in one fell swoop, and it almost came up his sleeve. Gao Zhen immediately clenched his fist and slammed forward, and the flame true qi was forcibly forced out by him, and it hit out, forming a fist-shaped fireball in the air, which slammed into the rock wall.

Gao Zhen shook his hand, and a puff of green smoke rose. He had just used the fire attribute true qi in his dantian to sense the surroundings, and found that the fire attribute spiritual power behind the rock wall in front of him was the strongest, and he directly ignited his true qi. It seems that the iron ore deposit is obviously hidden behind this rock wall.

Coming to the side of the rock wall, Gao Zhen reached out to touch the crack on the wall that had just been hit by his own fire fist, and his brow couldn't help frowning. He had only now noticed that the color of the rock wall was slightly different from the surrounding stones. The other stones in the cave are earthy gray, except for this one, which has some yellowish tinges.

After carefully examining the inside of the crevice in the rock wall, Takatsu dipped his finger in his mouth a little saliva, and then pressed it into the crevice. He was surprised to find that the rock wall was actually made of mud.

"Artificial?" A guess arose in Gao Zhen's mind.

He untied the cloth bag from his back, spread it on the ground, and took out a black pickaxe from the cloth bag in the light of the suspended torches.

This is the "Cold Iron Draft", which is made of cold iron, cold to the touch, and Yan Iron are two minerals with opposite attributes, and mining these minerals with fire attributes has an effect bonus. Gao Zhen spent more than 20 copper dollars to rent this pickaxe from the tool shop, other things can be saved, this mining tool, Gao Zhen dare not be sloppy. No matter how expensive it is, he must use it.

"Click!" He picked up his pickaxe and slashed at the yellow rock wall. The tip of the pickaxe is designed to be very sharp, and with a pry of the high pillow, a large lump of yellow dirt is removed.

After stepping on the clod of soil that had fallen on the ground, I was sure that it was a mixture of yellow mud and water, and someone must have deliberately sealed this place. Why? Do you want to protect the iron ore inside?

It took about five minutes for Takatsu to finally dig open the entire mud-made rock wall, revealing a hole just big enough for one person to pass through. He looked into the cave, and a wave of heat hit him, and there were many pink points of light flickering in the darkness.

It can't be wrong, it's a hot iron deposit!

Gao Zhen was slightly excited, because he took a general observation and counted those pink points of light, the iron ore here was very rich, definitely more than 30 pieces.

Pyrite appears to be a crystal-like transparent ore, usually in the shape of a prism, except that the protruding end is sharper. This kind of ore does not want most crystal ores, it grows in clusters, and the iron ore is one piece at a time, growing on stones, and there are no other ores around, standing alone.

At the tip of each piece of Pyrite Ore, there was a pink point of light that flashed with pink light. The crystals were originally transparent, but when reflected by this pink point of light, they showed a faint pink glow. And this point of light is the essence of the iron ore, a piece of iron ore can have no back part, but there must be a little bit of pink at the tip.

Gao Zhen did not dare to put the torch into this cavern full of iron ore, because the heat flowing from the hole was a flammable gas emitted from the iron ore, and once it came into contact with oxygen, it could explode under an open flame. Therefore, Gao Zuo could only extinguish the torch and use the little light outside the cave to adjust to the darkness with his eyes to mine these pink ores.

Picking up the cold iron pickaxe, he turned into a mining expert and began the ore mining work.

The cold iron pickaxe clanged against the pink ore, but there was no need to worry about sparks and explosions. Because this cold iron pickaxe would emit a burst of cold air from time to time, covering the power of the surrounding fire attribute spiritual power, so that they could not release their power.

After two hours of digging and mining, Gao Ji had already collected as many as 50 pieces of Flame Iron Ore, and to his great excitement, he had actually dug up a piece of Flame Iron Ore Core.

Each kind of ore has its corresponding core, the so-called core is actually a spherical thing, the reason why ore grows in the cave is related to this core. In a small mine, there are usually two or three cores, and the ore is centered around the core.

The fire attribute spiritual power in this thing is extremely pure, and it is a good material for building fire attribute equipment. The "volcanic stone pendant" that Gao Zhen got earlier was made from the fragments of some kind of ore core.

It was already afternoon, and the sun was going to set soon, so Takatsu gave up the idea of continuing mining and decided to leave as soon as possible. He was in a hurry to return to Yancheng, hoping that he could meet the carriage on the way back at this time and give him a ride.

Wrapped the mined ore in a cloth bag and tied it to his body, although it was much heavier than when he came, he decided to turn on the witch seal and use his magic power to increase his movement speed. On the way back, he wanted to see if the four red-armored knights had left any traces in the forest.

Before leaving the cave, Gao Zhen looked back at the entrance of the cave that had been sealed with dirt, who did this? Did someone from the material store send out to investigate? Or is it that this was sealed by someone from the Blazing Yuan Sect? The iron ore deposit is still very deep, and he doesn't know what is hidden behind it, but Gao Zhen thinks that these are not within his consideration, and it is enough to complete the task by himself.

Witch flames rose from the rib skull on his chest, and black ripples were set out on his high pillow, and his feet barely touched the ground. Although this is very physically demanding, but if I am lucky, I can go back to Yancheng tomorrow, and I don't care so much.

Soon, he was back in the forest he had passed through.

Gao Zhen slowed down his pace and tried not to make a sound, this time he was not worried about alarming the beast, but he didn't want to alarm the disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect who might be haunting the forest.

Near the clearing, he looked through the cracks in the thorn bushes and saw that the bodies of the four burning wolves had been burned to the ground. This beast has a fire-like physique, and it can easily burn like this.

After waiting for a while, making sure there was no other movement, Gao Pillow stepped out of the thorn bush and came to the middle of the clearing. Sure enough, he found the traces left by the horses of the four red-armored knights.

The horses made a sudden turn in one of the clearings and ran in the other direction deep in the forest. It looks like he's chasing something.

At this time, Gao Zhen noticed that there was a row of footprints on the ground that he had not seen before, extending in the direction of the horse's pursuit. These footprints do not belong to the scorching wolf, nor to the horse, nor to the high pillow and the knight in red armor. It was stepped on with a bare foot, and the bottom of the footprints was charred and blackened, giving off a strange smell.

Gao Zhen sniffed, and a stream of blood rushed into his nose.

It's blood.