Ninth-Rank Refiner - Chapter 70: We're going to get rich.

After a grueling moment, the Mystic Sky Crocodile emerged from the ground and shook its head at the withered old man.

The withered old man didn't give up and searched other parts of Phoenix Tail Mountain. Before long, five or six deep pits appeared in the desert, each originally marked by spirit garlic!

Each step of that bad old man felt like a heavy stomp on Qian Duoduo's heart.

The destroyed spirit garlic was worth at least ten million gold coins!

The Mystic Sky Crocodile went in and out, each time returning empty-handed. The bad old man hesitated repeatedly, then personally went down into the pits to check everything.

Sitting back on the Mystic Sky Crocodile, the withered old man circled Phoenix Tail Mountain from the air once more. Finding nothing new, he then shot off to the east, disappearing into the sky.

Just as Qian Duoduo was about to move, Liu Boli stopped him again.

"That guy didn't go far..." His faint voice made Qian Duoduo's heart skip a beat.

Sure enough, after a while, the withered old man and the Mystic Sky Crocodile flew back from south and north, respectively, meeting in the desert sky. They exchanged a few words, then circled above the deep pits covered by quicksand repeatedly before flying south.

"Get up, they won't be back," Liu Boli patted Qian Duoduo's shoulder.

Brother Tiger, who had emerged from the grass at some point, nudged Qian Duoduo's backside with his head, as if mocking him.

Qian Duoduo ignored him, turning to ask Liu Boli, "Is there still spirit garlic under this sand?"

In Qian Duoduo's opinion, the spirit garlic under the desert surely couldn't have been completely destroyed by that withered old man. As long as some were left, Liu Boli would be able to find them.

"spirit garlic? What do you want to find it for?" Liu Boli counter-questioned.

"To sell for money. I'm poor, you know that."

"Don't you want to know what they were looking for?"

"What were they looking for? Could it be a gold mine?" Qian Duoduo's mind was full of spirit garlic. If he could successfully plant them in the manor, he wouldn't have to worry about the money needed to reach the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation.

"You're right."

It took Qian Duoduo a while to react to Liu Boli's unhurried words. His head suddenly felt like it had been kicked, buzzing.

"Gold—mine!" Qian Duoduo stammered, "The spirit mine scroll says that common gold mines often have spirit awn baskets..."

"What about hao gold mines?" Liu Boli interrupted Qian Duoduo.

"hao gold?!" Taking a few deep breaths, Qian Duoduo felt his heart race as if a thousand Ling Rats were crawling on him. It took him a while to recall the content of the spirit mine scroll: "hao gold mines occasionally have spirit garlic on the surface."

"But they searched several times and didn't find anything," Qian Duoduo calmed down.

The cultivation of the withered old man and the Mystic Sky Crocodile was higher than Liu Boli's. If they couldn't find it, could we?

"Them? Humph, are they Artifact Refiners?" Liu Boli walked towards the desert, his back as straight as a spear.

Stepping onto the quicksand, Qian Duoduo immediately felt a faint, almost imperceptible Spiritual Qi floating beneath his feet.

What a good place! Closer to the deep pit, the Spiritual Qi was even more abundant.

Liu Boli waved his hand, the quicksand parted, revealing a large hole in the ground.

Is hao gold in here?

"Let's go down and see," Liu Boli led Qian Duoduo and Brother Tiger, jumping into the hole.

Liu Boli's Spiritual Qi pushed away the quicksand as they continuously descended.

However, after descending dozens of meters vertically, there was no trace of any spirit mine.

It was normal to think that if there were any traces, the withered old man and the Mystic Sky Crocodile would have discovered them long ago.

Qian Duoduo and the others went down into the second, third, and fourth pits, similarly finding nothing.

Back on the surface, Liu Boli floated in the air, narrowing his eyes in thought.

Qian Duoduo stared at him expectantly, hoping for a miracle, waiting for him to point his finger and discover a huge hao gold spirit mine.

Brother Tiger, however, had no such patience. He twitched his tiger whiskers and stealthily walked to the side, then suddenly pounced, pulling a Sand Rat out of the sand and swallowing it whole.

Liu Boli looked at Brother Tiger, who lowered his head sheepishly.

A Sand Rat scurried out of the sand and fled elsewhere. Because Liu Boli was watching, Brother Tiger restrained himself, making no move.

Liu Boli, however, slowly walked over and gently stroked the sand with his hand. The sand slowly parted layer by layer, revealing a small clump of spirit garlic underneath.

There were several hundred of these spirit garlic plants, their grayish-white stems full of Spiritual Qi.

Haha, no gold mine found yet, but at least a small fortune first. Qian Duoduo quickly ran over and squatted down. Just as he was about to dig up the spirit garlic, Liu Boli stopped him.

"Don't rush," Liu Boli also squatted down.

He pushed aside the sand with his hand, exposing the roots of the spirit garlic. The spirit garlic's rootlets were long and slender, a beautiful pink, extending deep into the sand. Strangely, these rootlets all stretched in the same direction.

"How interesting, they all go to the front left. Is there a water pit there?" Qian Duoduo fiddled with the spirit garlic rootlets, muttering to himself.

"Perhaps a water pit, perhaps a gold pit," Liu Boli smiled. He called out to Brother Tiger, "Little Brother Tiger, find a few more Sand Rats."

Brother Tiger immediately perked up upon hearing this. His whiskers fully extended, his nose twitching slightly, he ran dozens of meters before suddenly pawing at the sand with his front paw.

A Sand Rat scurried out in a panic, only to be immediately stunned by Brother Tiger's paw. After catching three in a row, Brother Tiger carried the Sand Rats in his mouth and respectfully presented them to Liu Boli.

Liu Boli, however, did not take the Sand Rats. He went to the place where the Sand Rats were caught and discovered another clump of spirit garlic under the sand.

The rootlets of these spirit garlic also extended in one direction.

Liu Boli followed the spirit garlic rootlets, drawing a line on the ground, and asked with a smile, "If connected with the previous direction, what would you find?"

"A gold mine, a hao gold mine." Even Qian Duoduo, as foolish as he was, could think of this as the only answer.

Liu Boli carefully identified the direction, repeatedly confirming the intersection point of the directions indicated by the rootlets of the two clumps of spirit garlic. He took out his tortoise shell tent, placed it on the intersection point, and told Qian Duoduo and Brother Tiger to go inside. The tent slowly sank into the sand, and it became pitch black inside. Qian Duoduo took out a fluorescent stone and simultaneously released his Spiritual Awareness, feeling his surroundings with unease.

A hao gold mine, that was a hao gold mine! A tiny bit could be worth a large chunk of a common gold mine!

Liu Boli appeared, controlling the tent to continue descending, further and further down.

Finally, the tent stopped.

In Qian Duoduo's Spiritual Awareness, the tent had stopped on top of a giant rock.

Outside the tent, besides sand, there was still sand, about forty to fifty meters thick.

Where was the gold mine, the hao gold mine?

"There's nothing, not even a single spirit garlic," Qian Duoduo's hope was sucked dry by the thick sand.

In Qian Duoduo's opinion, if there were a hao gold mine in this place, there would definitely be a massive amount of spirit garlic.

Now, with not a single one, it was highly likely they were wrong.

Liu Boli, however, said confidently, "Spirit mines, especially gold mines, if they were that simple, would have been discovered long ago."

He lifted the bottom of the tent, revealing the rock underneath, and took out the silver sword he had used to dig Ming Iron ore, slowly thrusting it downwards.

Cylindrical stones were silently cut out one by one and thrown into the sand outside the tent. A round stone hole, large enough for a person to descend, slowly appeared.

Suddenly, the silver sword brought up a bright yellow stone. Qian Duoduo hugged it, but said disappointedly, "A spirit copper stone."

"With spirit copper stone appearing, can the gold mine be far?" Liu Boli pointed, and the silver sword sank back into the stone hole.

That's right! Gold mines and spirit copper are associated minerals. Qian Duoduo heavily patted Brother Tiger, "We're going to get rich, really rich."