Chapter 280 Ning Fengzhi's Response
There are hundreds of areas of soul crystals buried under the roads in Falling Star City? !
For a moment, the people on the whole street were arguing in an uproar, and some people even began to take the initiative to dig up the road that Ning Rongrong had ordered to be dug, preparing to get those soul crystals!
One coin is worth at least ten gold soul coins!
Don't be in vain!
As the news spread by word of mouth, it naturally became more and more outrageous. When the news spread out of this street, the following transformation process had already occurred:
"Have you heard about it? The mayor of Notting City once buried soul crystals under the road!"
"What is a soul crystal? I don't know either, but it looks sparkling, it's definitely a gem. I heard that one soul crystal is worth at least ten gold soul coins!"
"Ten? Why did I hear it was one hundred gold soul coins?"
"..."
"You are all wrong! I heard that the former Lords of Notting were afraid of their wives, so they used the excuse of planning the distribution of roads in the city to hide their private money! In addition to soul crystals, there is also gold buried underground!"
"Yes, that's what I heard. It is said that there are 100 tons of gold!"
"One hundred tons? How come I heard there are ten thousand tons? It's buried right under the City Lord's Mansion!"
As to why the former Lord of Luoxing City buried things under the road, a small number of elderly people in the city, who were around seventy or eighty years old, seemed to have heard their grandfathers mention it when they were young. However, they are now so old that they can't speak clearly and what they say is mostly contradictory.
There is only one piece of information that can be confirmed from these elderly people:
For two hundred years, the successive lords of Luoxing City seemed to have buried sparkling diamonds and other things under the roads when they were replanning and building them.
In this way, the news spread throughout the entire Luoxing City in a very short time!
Why did the city lords do this in the past?
Nobody cares.
No one has explored it.
The residents of Falling Star City only knew one thing at this time, that is, there was indeed treasure buried under the roads of Falling Star City, waiting for them to dig!
Most residents did not dare to start digging immediately. Besides because they had their own business to attend to, they were also worried about alerting the city patrols, who would then accuse them of "disturbing the order in the city" and throw them into jail.
But the entire Falling Star City was indeed in turmoil...
"Feng Zhi, is this really okay?"
The soul king who was guarding Ning Rongrong reported the situation to Ning Fengzhi immediately, but to Jian Douluo's surprise, Ning Fengzhi was not angry at all, and he didn't even think of calling Ning Rongrong back to ask.
Although the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is wealthy and powerful, and ordinary people dare not provoke it, the disciples of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect must not take the initiative to cause trouble, lest other forces use this as an excuse to attack them, causing the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's reputation to decline.
If you really think about it, Ning Rongrong's behavior is not that serious. However, if it is discovered by someone with ulterior motives, Ning Fengzhi will inevitably be accused of not having a good family education.
"Uncle Jian, you and Uncle Gu doted on Rongrong the most in the past. I clearly remember that Rongrong almost burned down the sect's kitchen once. I wanted to teach her a lesson, but you and Uncle Gu stopped me, saying that she was still young." Ning Fengzhi smiled, as if he didn't care about Ning Rongrong digging for treasure on the road.
"How can it be the same? It doesn't matter how she behaves at home. It's okay for her to be arrogant and domineering outside. After all, Old Bones and I can protect her. But now she has caused unrest in a small city." Although Jian Douluo is domineering, he is not unreasonable.
Compared to Ning Rongrong's current behavior of deliberately guiding the residents of Falling Star City to accomplish something, he would rather she always be the little witch who only plays pranks.
"Do you think this is something Rongrong could think of?" Ning Fengzhi asked back.
"I knew it!" Jian Douluo's face darkened. "We should have killed Zhou Qing at that time to prevent future troubles. Now, Rongrong has been used by him!"
"Use? Not really."
Although Ning Fengzhi could not fully see through Zhou Qing, one thing was very clear to him: he was a sincere person and would not guide Rongrong to do this deliberately.
What's more -
No one knows a daughter better than her father!
"Rongrong is so clever, but he is learning from me."
"you?"
Jian Douluo had a strange look in his eyes.
Ning Fengzhi coughed awkwardly, but still said, "When I was young, I was also very smart. I learned from my father how to use people's hearts to guide others. Rongrong is my daughter, so I naturally know some tricks about this. When I usually play pranks in the sect, can't I use words to guide you to fight with Uncle Gu?"
Jian Douluo's face turned red, and he defended himself, "I did it on purpose! I just wanted to make Rongrong happy! That old man was the one who was really fooled!"
However, at this point, Jian Douluo also understood that if Rongrong herself was unwilling, even if Zhou Qing tried his best to persuade her, it would be difficult to make her take action.
[It seems that I was indeed overthinking...]
Jian Douluo sighed, but Ning Fengzhi said again: "Uncle Jian, Rongrong has so many Soul Sects guarding her, and the Soul King who came to report the situation has also rushed back, so there won't be any problems. Now why don't we think about why there are Soul Crystals and Soul Sands under the roads of Falling Star City?"
Soul crystal is one of the materials used to make soul guides. It has excellent performance in conducting soul power and is also an excellent item for storing soul power.
Although soul sand is a by-product of the soul crystal refining process, its efficiency in conducting soul power is dozens of times stronger than that of soul crystals. However, it is too brittle and will vaporize due to the high temperature when placed in a soul guide. It is unstable and is therefore called waste.
But twenty years ago, it was discovered that this kind of soul sand could be ground into powder and mixed with pine soot, glue, and carbon powder to make a kind of scented ink.
When this kind of ink is used for writing, it will emit a light and refreshing fragrance that makes people feel relaxed and happy. Moreover, when using this kind of ink to paint and infusing it with soul power, the patterns on the paintings will seem to come alive.
Therefore, although soul sand is waste, the scented ink made from soul sand is also highly praised by dignitaries or soul masters who love calligraphy and painting.
Therefore, the price of soul sand is not low. If we average the current prices across the country, it is one gold soul coin for ten kilograms. The high-grade fragrant ink in Tiandou City even reaches the point of one gold soul coin for one kilogram.
But according to the current information, the street dug by Rongrong, in addition to soul crystals that can store soul power, is mostly soul sand, and it is very likely that the entire street is covered with soul sand, and even the entire Notting City’s roads may be covered with a large amount of soul sand!
Paving the road with soul sand?
Even Tiandou City is not so luxurious!
"That's easy. Soul sand was discovered to be used to make scented ink only in the past twenty years or so. Twenty years ago, I heard that soul sand was treated as ordinary gravel." Jian Douluo was not interested. "But since this kind of soul sand is very brittle, it is unlikely to be used as gravel for paving roads... Maybe the city lord here was ignorant and bought a lot of soul sand to pave the road."
“I’m afraid things aren’t that simple…”
The possibility that Jian Douluo mentioned was not non-existent, but why did they bury soul crystals in the soul sand? And those soul crystals also stored soul power?
(End of this chapter)
