Sect Master’s Immortal Journey Chapter 23: Ore
The place where Meng Zhang killed the sandworm was not far from Taiyi Gate, more than fifty miles at most.
Shortly after the messenger was sent out, Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling rode over on a horse chasing the wind.
When he came to Meng Zhang, Tian Zhen couldn’t wait to ask.
"Master, why is it so urgent that you want my uncle and I to drop everything and rush over immediately?"
I took a look at Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling. They had several storage bags beside them. There were even several storage bags on the saddles.
"You followed my instructions and brought all the usable storage bags in the door?" Meng Zhang asked without answering.
After receiving Tian Zhen's affirmative answer, Meng Zhang led them to the sandworm corpse, pointed at the pile of fiery red objects, and slowly explained to them.
It turns out that monsters like sandworms do more than hunt prey and consume blood. Sometimes, they also eat large amounts of earth and rocks.
When eating earth and rocks, sandworms often inadvertently swallow various ores.
The pile of fiery red objects exposed in the sandworm's stomach is copper ore.
Due to the corrosion of gastric juice, most of the earth and stone in these ores have been digested, revealing relatively pure red copper.
The knowledge that Meng Zhang acquired in the trial area was all-encompassing and covered a wide range, including a lot of knowledge about ores.
According to Meng Zhang's judgment, these copper ores should come from a copper mine.
The sandworm, which often travels underground, somehow found the red copper mine, and its natural instinct allowed it to swallow a large amount of ore.
Fortunately, red copper is difficult to digest, so it can be retained in the sandworm's belly.
If these two sandworms encountered Meng Zhang at night, Meng Zhang would probably miss this discovery when the cuprite was completely digested.
The sandworm's activity range is not very large. As long as you follow the movement tracks of these two sandworms, you will definitely be able to find the red copper vein.
Red copper is a spiritual metal material often used in weapon refining, and its price is not cheap.
In the endless sand sea where all kinds of materials are barren, even if this red copper vein is just a poor ore, its value is very high.
Furthermore, Meng Zhang judged from the quality of the red copper ore remaining in the sandworm's belly that the reserves of this red copper vein should be quite high.
For the impoverished Taiyi Sect, if they could find and mine this red copper vein, they would make a fortune.
That's why Meng Zhang felt happy.
As the head of Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang also has a lot of pressure on him. Especially the financial situation of Taiyi Sect is indeed not good.
The Taiyi Sect’s main income comes from the nineteen acres of spiritual land.
After a year of hard work, the income from spiritual grains, spiritual fruits, etc. can be converted into spiritual stones, no more than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones.
With such a small income, he still has to hand over 300 low-grade spiritual stones to Shuangfeng Valley every year as a routine offering.
In the past, the Taiyi Sect was unable to support the cultivation of disciples within the sect, but was very nervous.
Some time ago, Taiyi Sect experienced changes, although it lost many disciples. But to a certain extent, it also reduces the supply pressure on the sect.
However, Taiyi Sect cannot develop forever, and the number of disciples will gradually increase in the future. At that time, providing for disciples to practice will still cause a lot of financial pressure.
The items that Meng Zhang counted in the Taiyi Sect's warehouse included less than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones. However, the Taiyi Sect's accumulation over the past decades was the result of the Taiyi Sect's successive heads from Xin. Working hard and saving money is the final accumulation of the sect.
Meng Zhang would enter the trial area almost every night.
Ten low-grade spiritual stones are consumed each time. After converting the remaining materials, it takes almost five low-grade spiritual stones.
The consumption of fifteen low-grade spiritual stones each time may not seem like much, but over time, it becomes a large amount.
The materials in the warehouse are the materials in the Taiyi Sect. They belong to the entire Taiyi Sect and are not the private property of the leader alone.
In the past, the successive heads of the Taiyi Sect knew this very clearly.
In Meng Zhang's generation, because there were only two or three big cats and kittens in Taiyi Sect, and Tian Zhen, who was in charge of general affairs, and was a die-hard supporter of Meng Zhang, he allowed Meng Zhang to do whatever he wanted.
Meng Zhang also knew very well that he did not distinguish between public and private affairs. If this continued, it would definitely bring huge harm to the entire sect.
If I hadn’t killed the three brothers of the Zhang family and obtained almost four hundred low-grade spiritual stones, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to consume such a large amount of spiritual stones and supplies.
Now there is a red copper vein, which can be said to be a windfall from heaven, which can solve the problems of Meng Zhang and Taiyi Sect in one fell swoop.
But Meng Zhang's thinking was still careful. After calming down, he discovered the trouble in between.
As a vassal of Shuangfeng Valley, Taiyimen must hand over at least half of the revenue from the mineral resources discovered around its territory to Shuangfeng Valley.
And the current Taiyi Sect has neither the manpower nor the material resources to mine this red copper mine.
After the discovery of cuprite, I am afraid that most of the benefits will fall into the hands of Shuangfenggu, and Taiyimen will only get a little leftover water at most.
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After the news of the discovery of red copper ore spreads, it will definitely attract many casual cultivators like locusts.
There are many ruthless and vicious people like the three brothers of the Zhang family among the casual cultivators.
If some casual cultivators are really interested in making money and plunder the surrounding areas, or even directly attack the Taiyi Sect's headquarters, then the Taiyi Sect will be in big trouble. If you are careful, you may be in danger of being wiped out.
Meng Zhang thought for a moment and decided to hide the existence of the red copper veins.
We will wait until the Taiyi Sect has the ability to protect itself and develop its capabilities in the future.
After Meng Zhang told Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling everything about the incident and his decision, they all agreed with Meng Zhang's decision.
Especially Taoist Priest Xuanling, he felt that Meng Zhang, the head of the family, was so young, could think things through so carefully, and was not impulsive at all. It was really a blessing for the Taiyi Sect.
According to Meng Zhang's arrangement, the three of them began to use the water-making technique to create a large amount of clean water, which was used to simply clean the ore in the sandworm's belly, and then put it into a storage bag.
The sandworm has a big belly, and there is a lot of copper ore in it.
The three of them spent a lot of effort to clean all the ores and put them into the storage bag.
As for the flesh and blood of the two sandworms, apart from the large amount of blood collected by Meng Zhang, the rest was naturally cheaper than that of the three Wind Chasing Horses.
This is the first time since the three chasing wind horses were subdued by the Taiyi sect that they feasted so happily. They had a good meal, and each of them had a full stomach.
After eating the three wind-chasing horses, it was inevitable that there would be a long night and many dreams, and he did not want to waste it. Meng Zhang directly cast a spell to burn the remaining flesh and blood of the two sandworms, and then cast a spell to open the ground first and bury all the residue deeply. underground.
During the entire process, no outsiders passed through this desolate and remote place.