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In the mine, Zhao Sheng raised the spiritual fire gourd, and a light purple spiritual fire as thick as a child's arm kept spewing out from the gourd.
At this time, in the air not far opposite Zhao Sheng, dozens of Geng gold grains were melting little by little under the continuous burning of the spiritual fire, and began to show signs of fusion.
Time passed slowly, sweat appeared on Zhao Sheng's forehead, and his eyes looked a little tired.
But he didn't dare to relax at all, and tried his best to maintain a stable output of spiritual fire.
A quarter of an hour later, a bead shining with blue light rose and fell in the spiritual fire and spun around.
When Zhao Sheng saw this scene, he was delighted. He immediately retracted the spiritual fire, summoned the Gengjinzhu to his side, and then carefully placed it on the spiritual plate beside him to cool naturally.
At this time, there was already a Geng gold bead of the same size on the spirit plate.
Zhao Xuanjing worked hard to mine for a whole day, but only got two Gengjin beads.
But don't underestimate the small amount. Just one Gengjin Pearl can be easily sold for hundreds or thousands of spirit stones.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Sheng put the two Gengjin beads into the storage bag, said goodbye to Zhao Xuanjing, and left.
When Zhao Sheng appeared again, he had already arrived at Flame Ridge.
After erupting for more than half a year, the volcano released all its fury and gradually cooled down, only occasionally emitting a little black smoke, but it no longer affected the Zhao family's digging and treasure hunting here.
Active volcanoes like Flame Ridge, located in the spiritual vein area.
After each eruption, a lot of spiritual materials will always be ejected from the center of the earth, mostly fire and gold, and occasionally earth spiritual materials.
Zhao Sheng came here not to look for treasure, but to check the progress of the excavation.
Don't forget, there is a fire vein under Flame Ridge.
In order to make use of the underground fire as soon as possible, Zhao Keru took the initiative to volunteer to be responsible for the development of Flame Ridge.
Zhao Sheng landed at the foot of the mountain, aimed at an open space, and continuously cast several spiritual spells.
The open space suddenly became blurry, and then a doorway opened up, revealing a dark tunnel behind it.
After Zhao Sheng slipped in, the door quickly closed and the place returned to its empty appearance.
After a while, the door opened again and Zhao Sheng walked out with a hint of joy on his face.
The progress of the tunnel is encouraging. According to Zhao Keru, the underground fire vein will be opened in at most half a month.
After returning to Lantao Mountain, Zhao Sheng listened to the report from his tribesmen and felt relieved when he learned that everything on the mountain was going smoothly.
Two days later, Zhao Sheng stood at the foot of the mountain beside the spiritual field, looking at the lush green seedlings of spiritual grain in the field. He praised Zhao Xuanjing and others beside him with satisfaction, saying, "Very good, you guys put in a lot of effort."
"I don't dare accept the praise from the elders. This is what we should do."
Zhao Sheng nodded and was about to inspect the next industry.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and as bursts of fragrance spread, large flakes of white feathers suddenly floated down from the sky, just like snowflakes.
Zhao Sheng's head and shoulders were quickly covered in white. He reached out to catch a few feathers and said in surprise, "Hey, the white feather flowers are blooming? It turns out another year has passed! Time flies!"
"Yeah, time flies!" Zhao Xuanjing agreed.
Um?
After Zhao Sheng waved his hand to brush away the peacock feathers on his head and shoulders, he suddenly looked up at the southern sky with a hint of surprise on his face.
Looking from afar at this time, I saw a black line slowly appearing on the southern horizon, and then the black line turned into a sparse black cloud, and gradually spread towards the Rotten Peach Mountain.
Flutter flutter!
Zhao Sheng soon saw clearly that the so-called black clouds were actually countless birds, beasts and flying animals.
Some extremely fast-flying swallows, falcons, etc. have already flown over Rotten Peach Mountain and are desperately fleeing into the distance.
It didn't take long before all kinds of bird calls and flapping wings could be heard between heaven and earth, and the sounds became louder and louder, until they became extremely noisy and harsh.
As more and more birds, beasts and monsters flew over the crowd's heads, the sunlight was blocked by countless flocks of birds and could not shine through. The sky became very dark, as if dark clouds were pressing down.
Just as everyone's expressions were gradually becoming panic-stricken, the number of birds in the sky suddenly became sparse. As flocks of birds flew over Rotten Peach Mountain, the sky quickly became clear again and the sun shone on the earth again.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, but Zhao Sheng kept staring towards the south with a very serious expression.
Zhao Sheng didn't have time to inspect the industry. He quickly returned to Lantao Mountain and immediately issued a recall message.
Flaming Ridge, Zhao Keru looked at the tide of birds flying in the sky with shock on his face, just then a streak of light flew from a distance and fell into his hand.
When he opened the talisman, he saw the words written on it: "Something has happened. Call everyone back to Rotten Peach Mountain!"
In the Gengjin mine, Zhao Xuanjing looked at the two words "come back soon" on the talisman with a very surprised expression.
In the dense forest a hundred miles away from Rotten Peach Mountain, Zhao Jinjian was killing a raccoon-headed monster when a streak of light flew over.
After a while, a sword light wrapped around a figure rose into the sky from the dense forest. After circling half a circle, it flew rapidly towards the direction of Rotten Peach Mountain.
As the sun gradually tilted towards the west, the Zhao clan members outside the Rotten Peach Mountain returned one after another.
During this period, two groups of birds flew across the sky in succession. Compared with the earliest group, the later groups were larger than the previous one.
During this period, when the third wave of birds passed by, a group of more than 20 steel-clawed sparrows suddenly attacked the base. Fortunately, Zhao Sheng was prepared and he and his tribesmen quickly killed this group of first-level demon birds.
By this time, everyone realized that something was wrong.
Wait until Zhao Jinjian, Zhao Keru, Zhao Xuanjing and other clansmen have all returned to Lantao Mountain.
Zhao Sheng immediately unleashed the full power of the Small Four Symbols Formation. A layer of light shield quickly rose from the stone wall, and the four illusions of earth, water, wind and fire appeared on the surface of the shield from time to time.
All the dragon-shooting crossbows were loaded with arrows, and the muzzles were pointed at the sky.
Members of the Zhao clan rushed to the top of the wall, ready for battle.
Zhao Sheng, Zhao Jinjian and others stood on the wall, looking down at the mountain with different expressions.
After many fires, the area within ten miles around Lantao Mountain has been burned into a white land, with no grass or trees left.
But ten miles away, there are still forests and weeds, and it still looks like an undeveloped wilderness.
At this time, some common animals such as wild boars, rabbits, foxes, lizards, etc. fled out of the deep forest in panic and rushed towards Rotten Peach Mountain in a daze.
At this time, they had lost all their vigilance and behaved in a very abnormal way, as if there were countless ferocious beasts chasing them.
Zhao Jinjian watched a gray-haired hare crash into a stone wall and die. He asked in amazement, "Chonghe, what do you think happened?"
Zhao Sheng watched as more and more wild beasts emerged from the mountain below. He said gravely, "This is bad! What on earth is happening deep in the wilderness? If this continues, a beast tide is inevitable."
"Don't worry too much. Maybe the panic is caused by the wildfire. It will calm down in a few days." Zhao Keru said casually.
Beast tides are not uncommon in southern Xinjiang. Every few decades to a hundred years, there will always be large and small beast tides in southern Xinjiang.
There are many reasons for the occurrence of beast tides, most of which are natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, etc. However, a small number of them are caused by man-made disasters.