Chapter 71: Harvesting the Hidden Stone
There is still some awe of this fourth-order Aotian giant sparrow, tomahawk and others, except for me, who straddles Aotian's back, everyone else sits on their respective pet beasts, even if they are squeezed on the back of Ah Xiong, they are not willing to sit on Aotian's back like me.
There is some arrogance in the eyes and demeanor of the giant sparrow, which will bring an invisible pressure to especially those who are lower than it, but I will ignore it, and the big horse golden knife sits on its back without saying anything, and grabs the feathers around its neck with one hand. It seems that it is still more accommodating to me, maybe it is all because of the circle.
In order not to startle the snake along the way, we smashed a lot of hidden stones, gathered enough special minerals on the surface of the stones, and smeared a layer of gray mud on Aotian's body, completely covering up its energy field.
"Aotian, why do you like to be alone, do you come out of your family to know the way, do they don't care about you?" I asked.
"I've always been like this, you don't know what to do, those old guys in our family are so annoying, they have been talking around me for thousands of years, I can't bear it anymore. Since I was a child, I have loved to live freely, and since my parents died in battle when I was very young, I was ignored by the other clansmen except the patriarch. "Aotian led everyone to the west while communicating with me telepathically.
As a powerful aerial race on the Central South Continent, the Golden Giant Sparrow rules a vast airspace, and there are many powerful existences in the race. Aotian's father, who had been the deputy patriarch, died heroically when he was very young when he was fighting another race in the air to the east of the continent, not long after. Its mother avenged her husband alone and never returned.
The young Aotian began to become independent very early. And become the leader of the younger generation of the Golden Sparrow family. It was the first giant sparrow of his age to reach the fourth order of the stars, and comprehended the talent "Void Shuttle" that few giant sparrows could comprehend.
Even if your strength and potential are very huge, once you have no backing behind you, you can only become a marginal character in the group, and Aotian is the edge of the edge. For a long time, the Giant Sparrow clan has been laissez-faire to Aotian, even if Aotian goes out alone, they will not interfere. Once you have to perform some dangerous tasks or do some hard work and tiring work, Aotian is the first choice.
Over the years, it has not been easy for Aotian to survive in the face of the loss of power among the strong enemy Ring Feeding and the clan, even so, once there is any loot harvested every time, Aotian can only share a little scrap of cold rice.
As a result, Aotian slowly fell in love with the role of the Lone Ranger, and over time, he became more estranged from the entire group. In the last attack on the praying mantis by a group of giant sparrows, Aotian still assumed the role of the front-line "thug", but it was still an ostracized marginal figure. The spoils of war were also left over by others. Angry in his heart, this time it ran out alone. I kind of want to go away and fly high.
After listening to Aotian's experience, I suddenly felt that this guy could be regarded as a childhood misfortune, originally relying on the role of Lao Tzu as the deputy patriarch, he was born to be a second-generation official, but now he has become a pure dick, and it is indeed fate to make people.
"Aotian, what is the situation of the strange insect you said who may know the news of the Dao Spirit Stone?"
"It's, it's actually a 'burrowing dragon' that I let go. This kind of burrowing dragon is the food that our clan likes to hunt, many years ago, the patriarch took us to hunt and kill the burrowing dragon clan, when its race was completely devoured by our clan, I saw that it was still young, so I secretly let it live on the back of the patriarch. In the years that followed, I didn't have a chance to go and see it and bring him some of its favorite plant food, so I got to know each other better. I've heard it say that there is a strange stone hidden deep underground, and because the underground situation is very complicated, it doesn't know much about it, so I didn't ask much about it. Aotian said.
"In that case, you are also the great enemy of their race, how can it be friends with you?" I asked Aotian curiously.
"What's so strange about this? In this world, the law of the jungle is the law of the jungle, they are born to be restrained by us, if you want to blame the arrangement of the food chain, it can't hate me, besides, if it weren't for me, it wouldn't be able to mix with the strength of the stellar level now, you must know that in the past two thousand years, I have taken care of it a lot, to a certain extent, I am its benefactor. Aotian said disappreciatively.
The chats along the way also gave me a lot of understanding of this piece of Central and South China. The life forms of the Central South Continent are different from those of the Southern Continent, mainly led by birds and zergs, which are natural predators.
From the perspective of the division of potential, the center of this continent is a terra nullius, gathering the most powerful life forms on the continent, and there are countless populations on the periphery of the center, most of which occupy a territory, of course, there are also some individual powerful life forms that occupy a place alone.
As a powerful race in the air in the western part of the Central South Continent, the Golden Giant Sparrow has ruled an airspace for tens of thousands of years, and there are the Black Eagle Clan, the Gray Crow Clan, the Brown Goose Clan, etc., and Aotian's father died at the hands of another very powerful race, this race is extremely strong, known as the "Red Eagle" Clan.
In addition to the air, there are also many powerful Zerg on the ground in the western continent. Some Zerg live on the ground, while others live underground. As far as Aotian knows, the birds mainly live by hunting and killing the insects, while the insects rely on killing other creatures on the ground or taking various plants for a living, and a very small number of the insects will feed on the ores buried deep underground, but these situations are not known to the birds.
After talking all the way, Aotian finally landed on a swamp-like wetland. There seems to be geothermal heat under the swamp, and many of the swamps emit steam, and there are many bubbles emerging from the swamp.
Apparently familiar with the terrain, Aotian led us to a large pool and screamed a few times, and after casting telepathy into the pool, its friend "Earth Dragon" finally probed out of the pool.
When I looked around, it turned out to be a giant earthworm with a head like an auger drill bit, which could reach a distance of ten meters. The wriggling body was covered in mud. Covered in grayish-brown. He has a lot of thick manes and looks very disgusting.
After introducing each other, Aotian didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked if there was any ore hidden under the earth dragon.
The earth dragon, which Aotian called "Derpy", thought for a long time, reflexively burrowed into its pool, and after a long time, handed it to us with a gray stone in its mouth, and said telepathically: "Years ago. I once met a mysterious Zerg deep underground, they have super strength, they only live in the depths of the underground, once, they fought with another underground Zerg, killed a lot of insects, after their battle, I sneaked over to look, and found that they seemed to be for this kind of stone, so I found a few. But I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Derpy said to us with his only eye open.
"Ah Shi, you go and try. "I said to Ah Shi. As a nature elf. Anyone who has swallowed the ore can immediately grasp the properties and energy contained in this ore.
Under our watchful gaze, Shi grabbed the gray stone from Derpy and took a big bite and gnawed off a large piece.
The next scene made us all laugh. I saw that after eating this gray stone, Ah Shi squatted on the ground with his stomach like diarrhea, and after releasing a few gray-blue farts one after another, he directly pulled out a large bubble of gray stone chips.
For a long time, after eating all kinds of ores, Ah Shi would pull out the feces like stone chips very humanely. It's just that this time he looks a little painful, and his little face is twisted together, as if he is suffering some kind of pain.
Seeing that it had been squatting on the ground and not standing up, Lin Yu asked Ah Shi what was wrong with him very concerned, but even Ah Shi himself didn't know what happened to his body, since it was born, it has not had any problems with the digestion of spirit stones and various ores.
Because Ah Shi has been squatting in place, we had to wait for Ah Shi's improvement, and it took most of the day to work hard before Ah Shi covered his stomach and slowly stood up.
After feeling that his stomach finally stopped hurting, Ah Shi told us that the gray stone it swallowed just now was indeed a spirit stone containing powerful energy, and its attributes were really negative!
The reason why Ah Shi's stomach hurts is because after swallowing the negative energy, it has been neutralized with the positive energy in its body! After it has been completely neutralized, Ah Shi also has the power of mixed elements in his body, and from its instinctive consciousness, it has completely figured out the attributes of this spirit stone.
Like the Positive Hidden Stone, there is also a layer of special substance on the surface of this Negative Spirit Stone that isolates the leakage of the energy field, and from the perspective of the energy level, the Negative Hidden Stone that Ah Shi swallowed in is a spirit stone of stellar first-order energy.
After eating this negative hidden stone and mastering the characteristics of the hidden stone, Ah Shi quickly felt that there were still many hidden stone mines deep underground in the swamp where we were. In addition, there are many lifeforms with negative energy living deep underground!
I'll wipe the mine! What else to say, dig!
With Derpy and Ah Shi, two pioneers who are good at burrowing underground, in the next half a year, except for Aotian, who is not suitable to go deep underground due to his large size, the Thunderman team has lived a mining life again!
Because we heard Derpy say that there are powerful negative energy zergs deep underground, we first followed Ah Shi to find the negative hidden stone. Later, in the process of searching for the hidden stone, it was inevitable to encounter the Zerg deep underground, because we had the paint on the surface of the hidden stone for stealth, so we unknowingly killed two underground Zerg of the first order of the star.
However, this kind of underground zerg seems to have a strong ability to transmit information and be vigilant, after we have killed two of the same clan, they will then move underground in groups of dozens, and we have to dismiss the idea of doing something to these zergs.
Fortunately, there are a lot of hidden stone mines underground, and the Zerg in the depths of the underground only seem to know how to dig holes everywhere to blindly search, so most of the real mineral deposits have been emptied by us, all of which we have to thank again for Ah Shi's magical talent. It can lead us straight to the point of digging hidden stones, saving us a lot of trouble.
In this way, it took more than half a year, in addition to a large number of planetary-level high-level negative hidden stones, we found a lot of negative hidden stones above the stellar level, and under the assessment of Aotian, we even found more than two hundred hidden stones above the fourth order of the stars. In terms of total energy, the reserves of this piece of negative cryptostone ore are more abundant than the previous positive cryptostone veins in the southern continent.
This time, we completely believed what Aotian said, about the fact that the Southern Continent was a barren continent.
With so many Negative Hidden Stones, combined with the Positive Hidden Stones we had originally collected, we were once again ambitious and eager to immediately improve our strength, and the next step was to find a suitable and safe place to try to absorb the Hidden Stone energy with the Gathering Circle.
"Come with me. I used some of your positive spirit cores and spirit stones before, and I will return them to you this time. Let's go to my cave. However, I also want to share some of the negative hidden stones you collected this time. Hehe, this time, I should be able to make the cut. "After Aotian saw that we had harvested so many negative hidden stones, he couldn't contain the excitement in his heart and said to us.
Aotian is indeed a lone ranger in the Golden Giant Sparrow family, and even secretly searched for a cave outside alone! After a day of flying, between the westernmost mountains of the mainland, on a remote, grass-covered cliff, there was a cave with a narrow entrance and a wide inside!
And in this cave, there are still five golden giant sparrows for it to look after! It's just that only one of these five golden finches is a stellar first-order strength, and the others are all planetary ninth-order, and they are all separate yang attribute energy.
After asking, I learned that these five golden giant sparrows had a similar fate to Aotian, and they were either seriously injured and killed in the missions they went out again and again, or were secretly persecuted by their clansmen. And Aotian secretly rescued them one by one in his own cave, and these giant sparrows connected with the same disease have since taken Aotian as the boss and this cave as the real nest, and never returned to the original giant sparrow nest. And these little brothers who were rescued by Aotian, Aotian gave each of them a name, such as "Aodi", "Aohai", "Aoshan" and so on, anyway, they all have a proud character.
"I said, Aotian, can you be a little creative with the names of your little brothers. "Looking at the Aohai, Aoshan, etc., which are only the ninth order of the planet, I said to Aotian.
"Ha Luha, I like it. I'm at least a few hundred years older than them, and I could have been their boss, and they dare to have something to say when they have a name, and besides, they're all my brothers. Arrogantly replied to me.
Proud of the ground and other giant sparrows, they obviously regarded Aotian completely as their relatives and elders, and looked respectful. And in their cave mansion, there are a large number of spirit cores of all levels that have been plundered by giant sparrows such as Aotian for many years.
When we arrived at the grotto where the spirit cores were stored, we were all dumbfounded, how many birds and zergs had been killed by these guys in Aotian, only to see that all kinds of positive spirit cores below the high level of the planet and below the fourth order of the star were piled up like a small mountain.
Seeing so many positive spirit cores, I smiled and said to Aotian: "Before, I was worried that there were too many negative spirit stones this time, and the positive spirit cores and hidden stones we brought were not enough to neutralize them, but now with these positive spirit cores of yours, the problem is solved." ”
"Hehe, I'll just pay you a few pieces, and you look like you want them all. It's okay, you can exchange the circle and your feminine hidden stones. "Aotian is obviously a slippery guy too.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, the magic circle can't teach you for the time being, but I can set up the magic circle to help you cultivate first. Of course, before that, I still have to do some tests to see if I can gather energy at the same time with the two attributes of yin and yang. If you have to agree, let's start now, if you don't agree, it's a big deal that I'll find another place, and I don't want your spirit cores. I rolled my eyes and said to Aotian.
Aotian looked at me as if he wanted to eat me, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head and said to me, "You are the boss, you have the final say." (To be continued......)