Chapter 101: Chapter 76: Golden Jade Gourd

The Miner Slime digs tunnels, and when it reaches loose soil layers, there’s a risk of collapse. But with the Wall Slime transforming the walls into solid rock, there’s no worry anymore.

In the past, when Miner Slime and Earth Slime dug tunnels, they had to be cautious to prevent collapses. Now with the Wall Slime, they can dig freely.

Mix yellow jade and gold into a basin, and the gourd vine greedily absorbs the ’gold-jade soil’, growing rapidly. Three hours later, a seven-meter-long green gourd vine appears before our eyes.

The gourd vine is adorned with a small, tender green gourd, which quickly grows and matures, falling to the ground. Like completing its mission, the gourd vine withers rapidly into dust, disappearing as if it never existed in the world.

The color of the gourd is yellow, resembling both gold and jade, emitting a dazzling glow, clearly not an ordinary item.

Li Cunxu picks up the gourd, and a stream of information floods into his mind.

Gold-Jade Gourd.

This is the new name for the yellow seed gourd.

Its ability is to absorb gold and jade (any gold or jade will do), refining them into the gourd’s unique gold-jade liquid over seven days. The higher the quality of the gold and jade, the longer the refining time, and the better the effect.

The gold-jade liquid enhances the body’s defense, effective not only for pet beasts but also for humans.

After consuming it for forty-nine days, one gains a [Gold-Jade Body] skill, which greatly enhances skin defense for a short period.

“The effect of the gold-jade liquid seems similar to the golden liquid.”

The golden liquid is a very practical resource, and its existence has stabilized the price of gold.

The Divine Guard Continent has massive gold reserves. This continent is rich in mineral resources, and gold is a renewable resource. The core of the golden vein can absorb spiritual energy to produce gold, and odd objects can also produce gold.

It can be said that there’s enough gold to distribute a ton to every person in the world, with some left over.

In principle, price is determined by quantity, suggesting gold should have depreciated severely.

But for years, the price of gold has remained between three to four hundred, precisely because of the presence of the golden liquid.

The golden liquid, a consumable resource, is made by refining gold with something else. The specific composition of the golden liquid is unknown; its formula is a core secret of the Golden Group. Consuming golden liquid enhances the defense of gold-type pet beasts and mechanical pet beasts.

It is effective for all levels, from black iron to King, and the more consumed, the better the effect.

However, the gold-jade liquid is superior to the golden liquid, with versatile use and no restrictions, suitable for all ages.

Looking at the dwindling yellow jade in the basin, Li Cunxu murmured, “I need to order another batch of jade, there’s not much yellow jade left. Fortunately, jade has no color restriction, so the financial pressure will be lighter.”

Among the various jades, yellow jade is relatively expensive, while white jade is the cheapest.

It’s not that white jade is inferior to yellow jade; rather, there’s a large white jade mine near Tongdu, with an abundant supply.

He really wanted to immediately test the gold-jade liquid, but he’d have to wait seven days.

A restless Li Cunxu scratched his head, took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and carefully examined the Gold-Jade Gourd, kissing it fondly, and cautiously hanging it on his waist.

In reality, there’s no need to be that careful; the Gold-Jade Gourd is very sturdy, and when it collides with construction steel, it’s the rebar that would bend. The Gold-Jade Gourd strengthens itself by taking one-tenth of the gold jade when refining the gold-jade liquid, becoming harder and heavier over time.

The weight will not affect Li Cunxu; even if the Gold-Jade Gourd weighs ten tons, it would still feel like it weighs only a hundred grams in his hand.

In the future, Li Cunxu could use the Gold-Jade Gourd as a weapon.

But Li Cunxu couldn’t bear to use such a treasure for smashing.

It’s important to note that a single golden liquid has supported the enormous Golden Group, and the gold-jade liquid is even stronger, its value beyond estimation.

Li Cunxu will not sell the gold-jade liquid, at least not before reaching the King Realm; he will not sell it.

To hold a treasure makes one guilty.

Although the Gold-Jade Gourd is bound to its owner and useless to anyone else, can’t they still control the owner of the Gold-Jade Gourd?

If they capture him and lock him in a dark room, threatening his life, wouldn’t Li Cunxu have to comply?

Even when reaching the King Realm, Li Cunxu wouldn’t easily sell the gold-jade liquid, at most only selling it to trusted partners, and even then requiring a contract forbidding the disclosure of the gold-jade liquid information.

A King is not invincible; how few of them die these days?

On average, one or two Kings die each year, even during peaceful times. It won’t be long before the alliance enters an expansion period, as humans strike out everywhere, expanding new territories and building new cities. During this process, upper-level battles erupt frequently, leading to the fall of many Kings.

Surveying the current funds, Li Cunxu thought he couldn’t rely solely on purchasing jade; no amount of money could withstand such spending.

The gold brought back from the Evil Beast Secret Realm, used to exchange for cash to buy yellow jade and plant gourd vines, has mostly been depleted; if he continues like this, it won’t be long before he finds himself penniless again.

Moreover, refining the gold-jade liquid consumes a vast amount of gold and jade.

The best method is to own his own gold and jade mine.

The secure gold and jade mines are already claimed, but beneath the Divine Guard Continent lies rich vein resources. There are plenty of veins, and if you’re willing to dig, you could find not just gold, but even purple gold a thousand times more valuable than gold.

In the game, there’s a group of players who live by mining, selling the ores they dig up to the rich in exchange for real-world money. These players are collectively known as the ’Mining Party’.

Li Cunxu once did side jobs as a Mining Party, but later gave it up.

Mining is like opening a blind box; after laboring for half a day, what you uncover might be worthless coal.

Li Cunxu spent a month as a Mining Party, and due to limited digging speed and bad luck, he unearthed five coal mines and one iron mine.

“Xiaoyi, stop for a moment.”

The little white spider reluctantly put down the Intermediate Toxicology (II).

“I’ve got something for you to do: stop the propagation potions and multi-seed durians for the other slimes, and allocate all propagation potions and multi-seed durians to the Miner Slime and Wall Slime, expanding their population, and have them dig towards the depths of the plains. I need a large amount of gold and jade.”

“Ah! No, this will delay my studies.”

The little white spider appeared extremely reluctant.

Li Cunxu rubbed his temples; he just couldn’t understand. Didn’t the little white spider used to hate studying? How did it become a learning addict now? It couldn’t stop studying even for a moment.

Could studying be addictive?

Couldn’t be, right?

Li Cunxu said, “Xiaoyi, let your avatar study while you handle this task, expanding the Miner and Wall Slime population under your influence, which will earn you a considerable amount of fate points and increase your learning efficiency.”

Reluctantly, the little white spider went to handle it.

Meanwhile, Li Cunxu took out his phone, opened the online course app, and clicked into the Clear Heart Technique instructional video.

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