After running for more than a thousand miles, Zhou Shu saw a huge abandoned mine in front of him.

The ground sank suddenly, revealing a large hole with a radius of several miles. The hole several hundred feet deep was densely covered with holes, which were all left by mining in the past. And the sky above the big hole was filled with gray

The smoke seemed to have not dissipated for hundreds of years, and was so thick that it was almost impossible to see the direction.

Zhou Shu nodded slightly, "The closest one is this funnel mine. Start from here and search for it one by one."

Before looking for mines, he inquired about information about many mines and pits, and recorded them all in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Zhou Shu quickly fell to the bottom of the pit, found a mine and walked in. Zhou Shu took out the small roller.

Xiao Gun was lying on the ground, looking like a small dark green lizard, but his limbs were not distinct, his fingers could not be seen, and his skin was wrinkled together, making him look indescribably ugly.

Zhou Shu stared blankly for a while and couldn't help but lamented, "Xiao Gun, Xiao Gun, why have you changed like this?"

Xiao Wucuo raised his head, narrowed his eyes, and several balls of green mist sprayed over, almost covering Zhou Shu.

Zhou Shu waved away the green energy, reached out to grab it, put it in his hand and held it in front of him.

"Xiao Gun, don't be angry. You are a bit ugly, but I don't dislike you."

He touched Xiao Gun's head a few times to express comfort, "Your head is still very smooth, almost the same as mine... The thing I want you to find this time is a kind of mineral called red sand, which is about the size of a little finger.

Red, with dark light..."

Zhou Shu stretched out his little finger and gestured in front of Xiao Gun, regardless of whether he could understand it or not, but he talked for a long time.

"Well, just because you don't speak means that you understand and agree. Then I can safely hand over the task to you."

Zhou Shu put Xiao Gun back on the ground and said sternly, "You must do what you promised and don't let me down. Also, now that you are at the second level, don't look for those rubbish ores to make up the numbers.

, the aura of those things shouldn’t arouse your interest, right?”

Xiao Gun glanced at Zhou Shu with disdain, twisted his tail and crawled forward.

Zhou Shu felt at ease and followed closely.

Before walking a few dozen feet, Xiao Gun suddenly burrowed underground. The speed was incredibly fast. Almost in the blink of an eye, Xiao Gun's entire body disappeared, leaving only a small hole about an inch in size.

"What did you do and why did you get in?"

Zhou Shu was stunned for a moment, then quickly released his consciousness to check.

Within the range of his spiritual consciousness, Xiao Gun was still running extremely fast. His speed underground was probably several times faster than on the ground. In just a moment, he exceeded the range of Zhou Shu's spiritual consciousness and completely disappeared without a trace.

"Ah, you won't run away..."

Zhou Shu was stunned and couldn't move.

Although his spiritual consciousness is very strong, in this environment where there are hard rocks everywhere, he can only detect ten feet underground at most. However, the speed of the small roll is very fast, and he got to the ground ten feet below in a while.

, out of Zhou Shu’s control.

"I should have thought of it... What Xiao Gun absorbed during his promotion this time was the Wood Walking Demon Pill. The power of Wood Walking is best at breaking rocks and escaping from the ground. Xiao Gun, who absorbed the Demon Pill, also gained the ability of the Wood Walking Power.

It’s terrible now, I don’t know if I will come back..."

Zhou Shu smiled bitterly and shook his head. Xiao Gun, who had been raising him for four or five years, just ran away like this?

He originally wanted to take out his long sword and follow Xiao Gun's traces downwards, but after thinking about it, he gave up the plan. Looking at Xiao Gun's speed underground, it was simply not something he could compare to.

Zhou Shu stood there waiting, shaking his head slightly. He wanted to believe that Xiao Gun would come back, but it was difficult to believe it. After all, Xiao Gun was a monster and had no relationship with the cultivator. In the past, he had released Xiao Gun with confidence.

, all because he was certain that he could catch it, but not this time.

Just a few dozen breaths seemed as long as several hours. During the anxious waiting, a little head suddenly popped out from the ground and crawled towards Zhou Shu crookedly.

Zhou Shu stared at it for a long time, shaking his head and nodding. It was difficult to calm down his excitement, and his thoughts were a little unclear. He felt that his heart suddenly relaxed, and a big stone suddenly fell down.

After experiencing this, he truly believed that Xiao Gun really had feelings for him and would never leave him no matter what.

Xiao Gun crawled to Zhou Shu, shook his head, and opened his mouth as if offering a treasure. There was a pure white crystal in his mouth, the size of a finger, with fluorescent lights flashing on it.

Zhou Shu stretched out his hand in front of Xiao Gun. Xiao Gun spit out the crystal ore and looked at Zhou Shu with bright eyes, as if he was expecting something.

"This is... emery."

Zhou Shu picked up the crystal ore and quickly recognized it. The crystal ore was also an associated mineral of the vein. It was a fifth-level emery similar to red rosy sand. It was even harder than red rosy sand and was as valuable as red rosy sand.

Similar to sand.

"You are really good at searching. You will get good results as soon as you come here. It is worthy of praise. I will give you the spirit stone later. But next time, can you look for red ones?"

Zhou Shu took out a red pill and waved it in front of Xiao Gun, "Remember this color. Wait, I want any color, as long as it looks like this."

Xiao Gun seemed to understand, nodded vigorously, turned his head and continued to crawl forward.

Putting away the emery, Zhou Shu looked satisfied and said to himself, "Xiao Gun is Xiao Gun. He never lets me down. If this continues, I'm afraid he will make a fortune."

The squeezed little gun seemed to be unconscious, and just crawled forward stupidly, looking very energetic.

After crawling through the entire mine and finding nothing else, Zhou Shu picked up Xiao Gun and walked to the next mine.

There are thousands of holes in the mines, and it would take even a few months to find them. But obviously there is no need to search them all. The holes are all mined from top to bottom. If no minerals are found in the holes above, the mines will be dug downwards again.

If you continue to mine the hole, if you still can't find it all the way down, the mine will be abandoned.

What Zhou Shu has to do is clean up the bottom layer of the mine, which doesn't take much time.

What's more, Xiao Gun is extremely sensitive to spiritual energy and is very fast. It probably won't take half a quarter of an hour to clear a mine.

As far as prospecting for ores is concerned, Xiao Gun is really smart and there is no better helper than him. Xiao Gun will bring up small minerals by himself, and when encountering larger ores, he will send out a few clumps of minerals.

The green energy prompted Zhou Shu to break through the rocks and look for it.

Time passed little by little, and after clearing the last mine, Zhou Shu left the mine.

"Eat, eat, it's delicious. Try harder next time, maybe I can exchange it for the best spiritual stone for you to eat."

After putting many high-grade spiritual stones into the spirit beast bag, Zhou Shu went to the next mineral vein with great satisfaction.

In an abandoned funnel mine, due to Xiao Gun's performance, Zhou Shu got five pieces of emery and two pieces of Lingshan gold. These two pieces of Lingshan jade were both formed from the fourth-order mineral sulfur jade. Although they were not as good as emery, they were equally valuable.

It's not low. If you put it in a place like Ruyi Building, you can sell a lot of spiritual stones.

Xiao Gun spread his limbs and lay on the spirit stone. He seemed to be too tired to lie down and could not move. He only opened his eyes from time to time and made silent accusations to Zhou Shu.
Chapter completed!