In the vast sea of sand, two sand beasts were running hard under the urging of the knight on their backs.

And in the desert more than ten miles in front of the Sand Beast, a thin and bulging line was spreading towards the depths of the desert at a speed faster than that of a galloping horse.

The thin line rises and falls, slanting from east to west, and does not walk in a straight line, but no matter how it turns, the two Shatuo beasts chasing behind it can always change direction in time to catch up with it.

Even when the thin line stopped extending, the knight on the back of the two Shatuo beasts would stop and rest in time until the thin line appeared again and spread forward, and then set off again to follow.

The sun was very shining, and the back of the sand beast was very bumpy, for Zhou Yang, who was riding a camel beast in the desert for the first time, this feeling was really uncomfortable.

It is also thanks to the strong physique of the immortal cultivator, and he has not eaten a grain of rice in the past ten days, so he has not been so bumped that he vomited on the spot, but the feeling of bumps like the internal organs having to be displaced, still almost made him can't help but shout several times.

Looking at the front again, he was also riding a camel beast and running wildly, but the old man Zhou Quan stood firmly on the camelback as if he was nothing, as if he couldn't feel any bumps at all.

A hundred-year-old man can be so at ease, how can Zhou Yang, a twenty-year-old young junior, be embarrassed to shout?

There was no way, he could only grit his teeth and endure hard along the way, and he already hated the [Gold Eater] who escaped in his heart.

If it weren't for the successful completion of the plan of "returning the rats", why would he have to suffer like this? He had already slaughtered the seriously injured [gold-eating rats] at the refined iron veins.

After chasing all the way for most of the day, after chasing hundreds of miles, Zhou Yang, who was already bumping and pale on his hunchback, finally saw the old man Zhou Quan, who was leading the way in front, strangle the Shatuo beast and stopped.

"Whew, has it finally arrived?"

He grabbed the mount with the reins of both hands, and jumped off the hunchback in collapse, and sat down on the sand with a sweaty ass, gasping for breath, not to mention how embarrassed he was.

"Hey, hey, Xiao Jiu, you also have times when you can't do it, the old man still thinks you can do anything!"

The old man Zhou Quan walked to him easily, looking at his embarrassed appearance, he couldn't help laughing, his face was full of ridicule.

"Huhu! I'm already like this, third grandfather, don't make fun of me, let me have a good rest!"

Zhou Yang rolled his eyes, and in the face of the old man's joke, he just waved his hand with a wry smile, and didn't want to move again.

Seeing this, the old man smiled on his face, and said: "Okay, don't tease you kid, the beast is probably in the place, the old man will go over to investigate the situation first, and you can rest here and wait for the old man." ”

"The third grandfather should be careful. ”

Zhou Yang nodded, and did not object to the old man's practice of acting alone.

The [Gold Eater Rat] has been seriously injured by them, and after hundreds of miles of long-distance travel, it is impossible to pose a threat to the old man Zhou Quan who is in good condition now, and he really doesn't have to worry about the safety of the old man Zhou Quan.

He was only afraid that his and Old Man Zhou Quan's guess was wrong, or that the ore veins he found had no mining value, which would be too shocking.

In the following time, Zhou Yang's whole person suffered from gains and losses.

For a while, I hope to discover a vein of great value this time, so that the family and myself can make a windfall.

After a while, he was afraid that this time he would run in vain, not to mention wasting his energy, and causing dozens of mortal miners to die.

In this mood of suffering from gains and losses, he counted the time almost second by second, and several times he almost couldn't help but follow to find the old man Zhou Quan, who was one step ahead.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, the old man Zhou Quan finally came back in his expectation.

"How's it going, Grandpa, how are you investigating, have you found any traces of the veins?"

He couldn't wait to greet the old man, looking at the old man with anticipation and asking about the situation.

"Found out, we're lucky, there's a red flame iron ore vein in front of us!"

The old man Zhou Quan didn't sell it, and directly said what he found.

"Great!"

Zhou Yang slapped his palms excitedly, and he almost jumped up with excitement.

Red Flame Iron, like Refined Iron, is also a first-order spiritual gold, but Red Flame Iron is suitable for refining fire-attribute magic weapons, and many second-order fire-attribute magic weapons will add Red Flame Iron to act as auxiliary materials, so in terms of value, Red Flame Iron is one or two points higher than Refined Iron.

The refined iron ore of Qingping Mountain of the Zhou family can bring a net profit of 500 lower grade spirit stones every year, and as long as the red flame iron ore vein is put into mining normally, the profit will definitely not be lower than this number.

Dozens of dollars a year, hundreds of dollars in ten years, year after year, that is also a very large amount.

Now that he is about to make such a big sum of spirit stones, how can Zhou Yang not be excited?

"Xiao Jiu, don't be in a hurry to be happy, the old man hasn't finished talking yet!"

Old Man Zhou Quan looked at Zhou Yang, who was about to jump up with joy, opened his mouth, and said in a low voice: "It's true that the Red Flame Iron Vein was discovered, but in addition to the [Gold Eating Rat] in this vein, there are also a large number of poisonous fire scorpion demon beasts, the number is at least hundreds, and there are dozens of second-order poisonous fire scorpions, and I am not sure if there is a more powerful [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King]!"

What the?

Zhou Yang's face changed, and he was taken aback by the news that the old man said.

The poisonous fire scorpion is also a common desert demon beast in the boundless sand sea, this kind of demon beast has a first-order and a second-order, the first-order poisonous fire scorpion is just a scorpion needle containing fire poison, as long as you are careful not to be pierced, the innate monk can easily kill it.

However, as long as the poisonous fire scorpion is promoted to the second order, it can immediately obtain the "poisonous fire bomb" spell, which can attack the enemy remotely with a fire bomb, and if it is desperate, it can also shoot the scorpion needle on the tail at the enemy, which is equivalent to the second-order flying needle magic weapon, and contains powerful fire poison.

In the late stage of Qi training, the following monks were shot by this scorpion needle, and unless they immediately took the special second-order detoxification elixir, they would not survive a quarter of an hour before they would be burned by poisonous fire, and they would die without a complete corpse.

This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that once the population of the demon beast of the poisonous fire scorpion reaches the level of hundreds or thousands, there will be a certain chance to evolve a third-order [poisonous fire scorpion king] equivalent to a monk in the foundation building period.

[Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] belongs to the third-order low-grade demon beasts, but if it is assisted by the scorpion group, it is much more difficult than many third-order middle-grade demon beasts, even if the monks in the late stage of foundation building are right, they dare not say that they can win steadily.

"Yes, the poisonous fire scorpion likes heat, and it also has the habit of devouring fire-attribute spirit ore to strengthen itself, and the red flame iron is used as fire-attribute spirit gold, so it is not strange to attract them to breed and settle here. ”

Zhou Yang remembered the record of the poisonous fire scorpion he had read in the book "Illustrated Desert Demon Beasts", and immediately believed the words of the old man Zhou Quan.

However, as soon as he thought of this, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought of something more important, and couldn't help but look at the old man Zhou Quan with wide eyes and exclaimed:

"Third Grandfather, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] is a third-order demon beast, the third-order demon beast is not comparable to the first-order and second-order demon beasts, the demon beast has reached the third order, and it must occupy the spiritual vein like our immortal cultivators in order to continue to progress, if there is really a [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] here, wouldn't it mean that in addition to the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein, there is also a natural third-order spiritual vein underground?"

"Yes, you are keen, and the old man also thought of this after discovering the poisonous fire scorpion swarm. ”

The old man nodded appreciatively, appreciating Zhou Yang's keenness.

Ordinary Qi cultivation period cultivators were daunted when they heard the name of [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], how could they still have the heart to think about this.

Even he, a ninth-level Qi cultivator who had lived for hundreds of years, was very frightened when he first saw the black and suppressed poisonous fire scorpion swarm, and he didn't expect this stubble at all.

It was only after retreating to a safe place to calm down that he thought of this because of his profession as an animal trainer.

Zhou Yang didn't care at all about the old man's praise, he had heard similar praise many times over the years, and he had long been immune.

He was more concerned about what the two of them should do next, so he couldn't help but look at the old man and asked, "What are the plans of the third grandfather next?" Do you go back directly and ask the old patriarch to come over to find out the situation in person, or will we take the risk to find out the situation and then return to the family to report the situation to the old patriarch?"

"What do you think? The old man wants to hear what you think. The old man Zhou Quan didn't answer the rhetorical question, but he used this to test Zhou Yang.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang frowned, and couldn't help but bow his head and think.

After thinking quietly like this for about half an hour, he raised his head suddenly, looked at the old man with blazing eyes, and said: "If the third grandfather asks his nephew what I think, that is, don't care if there is a [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] first, let's go and slaughter the big mouse first, let's not let the miners of my Zhou family die in vain, and we can't let us wait for half a month, and we haven't caught any real gains." ”

After all, he still felt ashamed of the miners who died in vain, and wanted to do something for those people, if not to save them, at least to avenge them.

Fortunately, this time, Old Man Zhou Quan did not object to his proposal.

"Okay, then listen to you, let's go and take the beast's nest and peel it off the bones to comfort the souls of the dead miners in the sky!" the old man bowed his head lightly and approved Zhou Yang's proposal.

So, the two of them immediately found a safe place to shelter from the wind and settled the two Shatuo beasts, and then the old man Zhou Quan sensed the specific location of the "Blood Spirit Mark" and went straight to the fleeing [Gold Eater] lair to kill it.