Wang Daoyuan asked his eldest brother to give every family in the village a freshwater fish. There were still twenty to thirty fish, turtles, shrimp, and crabs left. Mortal fire was useful for unranked fish, shrimp, and crabs, but it was useless for a first-tier, low-grade crocodile.
Neither of them were fire-attribute cultivators, so they could only use fire-attribute spirit talismans to roast the crocodile.
After cutting open the crocodile's stomach and removing its scales, Wang Daoyuan used the Mystic Yang Sword and two stones to build a simple roasting rack. He took out a first-tier, high-grade fire-attribute spirit talisman. After activating it, he roasted the crocodile with spirit fire.
Wang Daoxing's eyelids twitched when he saw this. A first-tier, high-grade talisman cost five Spirit Stones! He didn't know any cultivation arts, so he couldn't earn many Spirit Stones in a month.
Wang Daoyuan gave the other freshwater fish to his father and left them for the family to eat.
The crocodile was soon roasted. The two tore off a large piece of meat from the crocodile and ate happily.
Nephew Gu was drooling at the sight. He ran over, wanting to share some of the meat, but Wang Daoyuan pulled him aside. "This crocodile meat can only be eaten by cultivators. Ordinary people can die from just one bite. If you want some meat, ask Grandpa for it. You can eat it."
Ordinary people's bodies were too weak, so they could only eat non-ranked feys. Apart from spirit grains, which had a very mild Spirit Qi, eating a little of it could be fatal.
San Wa was also very hungry. It wanted to eat some crocodile meat, but its stomach was still full.
Blackie didn't care. It monopolized the crocodile's internal organs and was happily gnawing at them.
It had used up too much energy to increase its size. Now, it had made up for it and could also increase its cultivation.
Spirit beasts without bloodline inheritances relied on eating feys to increase their cultivation.
The two of them chatted as they ate. Wang Daoyuan asked, "Second Brother, why do you have time to come to Qingxi Village?"
Wang Daoxing was stunned for a moment. He slapped his thigh and said, "I saw that there was demonic beast meat and forgot about business. Something happened at Mirror Iron Mountain, and the patriarch sent me to deal with it. "
Mirror Iron Mountain's original name was Mirror Mountain. The origin of the name was unknown. The ancestors of the Wang family found a red iron mine in the belly of the mountain, so it was renamed Mirror Iron Mountain. It was not far from Qingxi Village, only about 50 kilometers away. It was under the care of Eighth Uncle Wang Shoujiang.
Most of the people mining there were ordinary members of the Wang family. There were also some itinerant cultivators at the initial stage of Qi Refinement or even Meridian Opening. They were there to earn some cultivation resources.
"What happened?" Wang Daoyuan asked while eating.
Wang Daoxing swallowed the meat in his mouth and said, "Recently, there have been people disappearing in the mine every now and then. At first, the disappearances were all rogue cultivators. After all, it is very common for rogue cultivators to leave after earning some resources, so the clansmen guarding the mine did not notice.
Later on, mortals in the clan began to go missing. The families of the missing came to the mine to inquire. Only then did Eighth Uncle know that someone had gone missing.
He searched the area but found nothing. He waited for a few days but still found nothing.
Eighth Uncle reported it to the family, and the patriarch sent me to assist Eighth Uncle. "
His eighth uncle, Wang Shoujiang, was not even fifty years old yet. He was at the ninth level of Qi Disciple. His talent was not bad, and he belonged to the category of combat talents.
Besides, it was impossible to guard a business at the edge of the family's territory without any fighting power.
What's more, the Mirror Iron Mountain was not far from the edge of the Sky Slash Mountain Range, and there were often first-rank demonic beasts around.
Wang Daoyuan was a little curious and asked, "Eighth Uncle can't handle it. Why did the patriarch send you here?"
Wang Daoxing glanced at him and said, "Why? Are you looking down on me?"
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said, "How would I dare? It's just that your strength shouldn't be as good as Eighth Uncle's. When it comes to using your brain, you don't know anything about it. Aside from being a helper for Eighth Uncle when there are powerful demonic beasts, you won't be of any use.
I don't know what the patriarch's intention is. Does the patriarch think that the demonic beast is so strong that Eighth Uncle can't deal with it alone? "
Wang Daoxing was still chewing meat in his mouth. "How would I know? The patriarch didn't tell me the specific situation. He just asked me to come here and listen to Eighth Uncle's arrangements."
Wang Daoyuan thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go with you. We can take care of each other. Since we're searching for the enemy, I'll bring Big Black. It has a keen sense of smell and is better than us in this aspect. "
The Soul Chasing Bee could not be exposed. Otherwise, it would be more efficient to use it to track the enemy.
Wang Daoxing naturally had no objections. Having someone to help him was better than going alone.
Wang Daoyuan bade farewell to his parents and put away the roasted crocodile and Big Black's food. He put Big Black into the spirit beast bag and followed his second brother to Mirror Iron Mountain.
The spirit ship was already far away, and the two could only rely on their legs. They used first-grade high-grade Spirit Travel Talismans, and their speed was much faster than riding the spirit ship.
The two ran for less than an hour, and Mirror Iron Mountain was already in sight.
Mirror Iron Mountain was not tall, only a few hundred feet. The mountain's roots were especially large, but this made it convenient for the Wang family to mine and transport the ores.
This place was only about ten miles away from Mirror Iron Mountain. Wang Daoyuan let his second brother go alone while he disguised himself as a loose cultivator and patrolled the nearby area.
If the two of them went together, if the enemy was human, it would be easy for them to hide and not make a move. That would be troublesome.
One could be a thief for a thousand days, but not a thief for a thousand days.
If the two of them separated, one in the light and one in the dark, the enemy would not be too wary.
Since the enemy dared to provoke a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refinement who was relatively strong in fights of magical powers, they would not be scared away by an eighth level Qi Refinement cultivator.
Wang Daoyuan was in the dark, so it was convenient for him to investigate and not make the enemy too vigilant.
He changed into a black robe and put on a veil and a bamboo hat. It was already late. Wang Daoyuan used an invisibility spell and an Aura Concealment Talisman to sneak into a small forest about one and a half miles southwest of Mirror Iron Mountain.
He found a large tree with lush foliage and hid among the branches and leaves.
With the invisibility spell and Aura Concealment Talisman, as well as the cover of the branches and leaves, as long as the enemy was not a Foundation Establishment cultivator or above, it would be difficult for them to discover him even if he was under the tree.
Of course, the enemy could not be a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Otherwise, they could have just faced him head-on. There was no need to be sneaky.
Perhaps the enemy saw that the Wang family had a new helper and did not know the details, so they did not dare to act rashly. It was safe for a few days.
In these few days, Wang Daoyuan explored the surroundings and released Big Black to search, but he did not find any traces of demon beasts or other cultivators nearby.
After waiting for a few more days, there was still no movement. Wang Daoyuan decided to change his strategy.
He first secretly sent a message to Wang Daoxing, asking him and Eighth Uncle to announce that the problem had been solved. Then, he recruited a group of miners and used an Aura Concealment Talisman to disguise himself as an early-stage Qi Refinement itinerant cultivator.
Based on the fact that the enemy first attacked itinerant cultivators and then ordinary people, it could be seen that his main target was cultivators. The reason why he attacked ordinary people was probably because there were no more cultivators.
And Wang Daoyuan used a mid-grade level-one Aura Concealment Talisman, which could not completely conceal his aura at the seventh level of Qi Refinement. The aura that leaked out was probably at the first or second level of Qi Refinement or the peak of Meridian Opening.
After the incident, some itinerant cultivators went missing, and some were scared away. There were no more cultivators among the miners of Mirror Iron Mountain.
Wang Daoyuan went in. As a rare cultivator miner, he was more attractive than ordinary people. He was likely to become the enemy's first target.
Wang Daoyuan was not worried that the enemy was too strong and would kill him.
With his Cloud Smoke Escape and hundreds of talismans, it was difficult for anyone below the Foundation Establishment to take him down. Moreover, in the mine, the enemy had little room to dodge. If he randomly scattered talismans, it would be difficult for the enemy to dodge all of them.
If the enemy did not have particularly strong means and was at the peak of Qi Refinement, he also had a chance to kill them.
Of course, the enemy's strength would not be too strong. At least, they would not be a match for Eighth Uncle. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to take down Eighth Uncle directly than to capture itinerant cultivators at the early-stage Qi Refinement?
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