Chapter 8: The Third Grandfather's Request
[Gold Eating Rat] is a very aggressive demon beast, although the aura of the two humans Zhou Quan and Zhou Yang is not weak, it does not make it feel incomparable danger, because it is very annoyed by these two humans who disturb its eating, and it will not let go of the two of them easily.
After attacking Zhou Yang and being blocked by the [Silver Gang Shield] Automatic Protector, this cunning demon beast secretly hid for half an hour before attacking again.
The target of this [Gold Eating Rat] attack was the old man Zhou Quan, and in order to lure it out, the old man deliberately put away the golden light of the protective body, which made it think that it had found an opportunity.
However, the old man Zhou Quan, who has experienced a hundred battles, is not a newcomer like Zhou Yang who has just come down the mountain, he just pounced out of the cave wall where he was hiding, and was immediately smashed to the ground by a flying round shield.
Then, just as it was frightened and wanted to run away again, a golden light suddenly burst out from between the fingers of the old man Zhou Quan, and quickly sank into the ground of the mine.
In an instant, the ground within a radius of tens of meters directly became as hard as steel under the action of golden light, instantly jamming half of the [Gold Eater Rat] who had escaped half of the ground to the ground.
Golden opportunity!
Whether it was Zhou Yang or Old Man Zhou Quan, they didn't expect that "Pointing to the Ground into Steel" would be able to use the effect of "drawing the ground into a prison", and their eyes lit up, and they launched a follow-up attack almost at the same time.
I saw the old man Zhou Kui raise his hand and make a move, and the hammer head of the golden gourd sledgehammer instantly skyrocketed to the size of a water tank, and Mount Tai smashed into the [Gold Eating Rat] that was stuck on the ground.
Zhou Yang remembered the old man's previous words, and instead of sacrificing a magic weapon to attack, he used the second-order spell "Fire Snake Technique" that he had been cultivating for several years.
With a quick pinch, he summoned a flaming python several meters long and pounced on the [Gold Eater].
The old patriarch said at that time that the "Golden Yang Flame Technique" he practiced was good at fighting, but it was not untargeted, this ordinary second-order spell "Fire Snake Technique" was released in his hand, and the power was at least twice as great as the "Fire Snake Technique" released by ordinary sixth-layer Qi cultivators.
Boom Boom –
After a rocking explosion, the entire mine collapsed by a small half because of the blow of Zhou Quan and Zhou Yang, the grandson, and both of them turned pale with fright.
Just now I only remembered to eliminate the demon, but I forgot that the two of them are now in the depths of the ground dozens of meters deep, if the mine really collapses, and hundreds of millions of sediment falls, it is not something that the two of them can bear in the Qi cultivation period, and it is almost the same if it is a Jindan period monk.
"Quick, let's get out first. ”
After the old man Zhou Quan's face turned pale, he immediately made the decision to withdraw temporarily, he didn't even have time to take back the golden gourd sledgehammer magic weapon, and directly pulled the frightened Zhou Yang along the mine road to exit this dangerous area.
Compared with the matter of eliminating demons, of course, it is more important to keep Zhou Yang, the genius child of the Zhou family.
The two of them retreated for dozens of meters in a row, and did not stop until they retreated close to the exit of the mine.
Then the two of them waited for a while, and when the shaking in the ground was completely over, the old man Zhou Quan strictly ordered Zhou Yang to continue to wait on it, and went down alone to check the situation.
After a while, the old man Zhou Quan, who went down to check the situation, came back, but he came back empty-handed.
"That animal has a big life, let it run away with serious injuries!" Facing Zhou Yang's puzzled gaze, the old man Zhou Quan explained the situation with a scowl on his face.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he also sighed with a look of pity: "It's a pity, such a second-order high-grade demon beast is not common here, if you can take it down and peel it off and give it to the old patriarch, you will definitely be able to refine a few second-order high-grade magic weapons!"
It's good that he didn't say this, but as soon as he said this, the old man Zhou Quan's face was a little ugly.
The old man originally wanted to show his strength in front of this nephew, telling this young man that he was old and old, but he was not old, and he should not really regard himself as one of those mortals who could only sit at home and wait for death.
As a result, it has become like this, and the old man can imagine how annoyed he is in his heart.
"This matter is not over, the [Gold Eater] beast is the most vindictive, this time we will seriously injure it here, and when it is healed, it will definitely come over to eat people, when the time comes, we will prepare relevant treasures in advance, we must slaughter it and peel it and peel it apart!" said the old man with a look of hatred.
When Zhou Yang heard the old man say this, his heart was pinched, if the [Gold Eating Rat] really came to take revenge as the old man said, should the mine continue to be mined?
The family sent him to guard Qingping Mountain, and his main duty is to protect this refined iron ore vein, if he stops mining because of the demon beast, the loss is the shining spirit stone!
The change in his face was not disguised, and when the old man Zhou Quan saw it, he immediately understood what he was worried about, and couldn't help but comfort him: "Xiao Jiu, don't worry, the old man will help you explain this matter to the clan, the [Gold Eating Rat] is a second-order high-grade demon beast, which is beyond the scope of your strength to deal with, and no one will look down on you because of this." ”
"Thank you for the enlightenment of the third grandfather, but the nephew still has a little doubt, this refined iron ore vein has been mined by our Zhou family for decades, although there are many desert demon beasts attracted by human breath to attack the miners, but no one has ever found the [Gold Eating Rat] This kind of demon beast. ”
"And the [Gold Eating Rat] just now is clearly an adult demon beast, if it has been active here in the refined iron vein before, it shouldn't have been revealed at all. ”
Zhou Yang looked at the old man with a puzzled face, and slowly said the question he had just thought of.
He knew that the old man was a second-order beast trainer, and when it came to understanding demon beasts, there was no one in the Zhou family who could compare to this centenarian except for the old patriarch.
"Hmm, what you said is true, the demon beast [Gold Eating Rat] has always liked to build nests and breed in metal veins, this refined iron ore has been mined by our Zhou family for decades, if there is a [Gold Eating Rat] in the ore vein, the family elders and Zhou Qian's eldest brother who explored the ore vein should not be able to find it, unless it is ......"
"Unless it's recently migrated!"
The grandfather and grandson exclaimed in surprise almost at the same time, and then looked at each other with joy in their eyes.
"That's right, as far as the old man knows, if a demon beast like [Gold Eater Rat] wants to advance to the third order, it needs to devour a large amount of metals with different attributes, and that escaped beast must have migrated here from another ore vein recently!"
The old man Zhou Quan excitedly stretched out his hand and pulled his beard, and shouted again and again with a bright face.
Zhou Yang was not much better, as soon as the old man's words were finished, he nodded again and again with a red face: "Since the third grandfather said so, it will definitely not be wrong, but I don't know how far away the vein where this [Gold Eating Rat] was originally located is from here, if it is not far, our Zhou family may have to make a fortune again!"
It's no wonder that the two are so happy, because the Zhou family has established a family rule since the ancestor Zhou Yuquan established the family.
That is, the children of the Zhou family, as long as they find an ownerless ore vein or a natural spiritual vein in the boundless sand sea and report it to the family, after the family occupies and develops these resources, the discoverer will receive a 10% output dividend every year, and this dividend will continue until the discovery person sits or the ore vein resources are exhausted.
If the situation this time is really as the two of them guessed, the [Gold Eater] migrated from another undiscovered ore vein nearby, then as long as they find that ore vein and report the location to the family, they can lie down and collect dividends in the future.
In this case, how can you say that the two of them can not be happy?
However, after all, both of them are immortal cultivators who have been cultivating for many years, even if they are happy in their hearts, they will not jump and jump like ordinary mortals, and the demeanor of immortal cultivators must still be maintained.
What's more, everything is still just a guess between the two of them, and it has not really been confirmed.
However, just as Zhou Yang calmed down and thought about how to find the possible ore vein, the old man Zhou Quan on the side suddenly looked at him with a hesitant look on his face and whispered, "That, Xiao Jiu, how about the old man discuss with you?"
"Third grandfather, please speak. Zhou Yang replied reflexively, then raised his head and looked at the old man with a surprised face, this is not the tone of the elder to the junior.
The old man couldn't help but turn red when he looked at him like this, and a touch of shame flashed in his eyes, but he still gritted his teeth and said: "If you really find the mineral vein, the old man can give you this credit and let you enjoy that part of the red alone, and then you will take out three of your own dividends every year to give your second brother?"
"This ......"
Zhou Yang's face changed, and he immediately understood what the old man meant.
According to the rules of the family, if more than one person discovers a vein at the same time, then the multiple people will share the dividends of the family, and then whoever falls and sits down, his share of the dividends will be taken over by the family.
Old man Zhou Quan is already more than a hundred years old, even if Zhou Yang shares that reddish with him, he won't be able to take it for a few years, and it is very likely that he may sit down first before the family develops and utilizes the ore vein.
But if Zhou Yang alone leads the red, not to mention that Zhou Yang may build a foundation in the future, even if he fails to build a foundation in the future, at his current age of twenty, he will be able to eat dividends for decades.
If calculated in this way, even if Zhou Yang only takes out 30% of his dividends every year and gives it to his brother Zhou Bao (Zhou Quan's grandson), it will be a lot of money for Zhou Quan's family.
It's just that Old Man Zhou Quan's practice is strictly speaking harming the interests of the family, and it is a selfish behavior that harms the public and private interests, especially since he himself is also the elder of the family.
Old man Zhou Quan obviously knew that his approach was very bad, and when he saw that Zhou Yang's face had changed greatly and he didn't reply, the shame in his eyes was even worse, but some beliefs in his heart still supported him and continued:
"The old man knows that his approach is very bad, but Xiao Jiu, you also have to be considerate of your second brother, your second brother is just a lower grade spiritual root, and his parents have passed away, once the old man sits down, how hard will it be for the family left by the old man alone? The old man has lived for more than a hundred years, and he has never done anything sorry for the family in his life, only this time, it will be regarded as the old man begging you!"
In the end, the old man was already in tears.