134: Are jade and gold no longer useful for space?

No matter what it looked like, once she finished collecting the raw stones, she would make it beat it.

And no matter what its purpose was, she couldn't let it keep following her like this.

In the following days, with Xiao Lü staying by the pit, no Alien Insects dared to come here, and no humans could reach this place; this spot belonged solely to Ai Yue.

Cai City truly lived up to its reputation of having the country's largest raw stone mine; it was incredibly rich.

If not for the Apocalypse, this mine could have sustained mining for a hundred years without issue.

What a pity, it met the Apocalypse!

Those jades, which should have been precious, became the most useless things.

Things no one wanted were exactly what Ai Yue needed; all the mineral deposits here were basically given to her for a bargain.

At this moment, Ai Yue was so excited that the corners of her mouth were almost grinning from ear to ear.

She thought that this time, the space would surely reach its maximum level; Ai Yue mused happily to herself.

Every morning, she would take advantage of Xiao Lü going out to find food to enter the space and check the changes.

In just two short days, the small two-bedroom apartment in the space had transformed into a three-story villa.

More importantly, as more and more jade was thrown into the space, the interior of the villa was also undergoing earth-shattering changes.

The villa went from a rough shell at the beginning to being exquisitely decorated now, with water, electricity, and gas supplied anytime, anywhere.

It would even automatically produce a meal and other items every day.

If Ai Yue didn't go out, she could just live out her retirement in the space.

She just didn't know if she could bring her family in after this upgrade.

Ai Yue held onto beautiful expectations, planning to try it with her family after returning home.

Just when Ai Yue thought the space would continue to upgrade, an unexpected result occurred.

One could only say that ideals are plump but reality is skinny; once the space upgraded to a certain point, it no longer relied on jade to level up.

At this point, jade and gold no longer had any effect on the space.

Ai Yue looked at the pit she had been working in for several days, then at the remaining seven pits she hadn't visited yet, feeling somewhat helpless.

She had originally planned to stay here for a month to collect all the raw stones from all the pits, but now she had to give up.

After sighing, Ai Yue looked up and saw Xiao Lü, who had been lying on the edge of the pit. Her expression turned serious; next, it was time to "chat" with it.

She climbed out of the raw stone pit, walked up to Xiao Lü, and stared into its large eyes, saying, "Xiao Lü, you can understand what I'm saying, right?"

Xiao Lü tilted its head, as if it didn't know what she was talking about.

Ai Yue watched it closely, not missing a single trace of emotion in its eyes.

"Don't make that face; I know you can definitely understand!"

"You're the leader of the Devil Frogs, aren't you?"

Hearing Ai Yue's words, Xiao Lü, who had been unresponsive, showed a flash of surprise in its eyes.

Seeing how human-like it was, Ai Yue knew her guess was correct.

"Speak, what on earth are you following me for?"

Seeing that it could no longer hide, Xiao Lü stopped pretending. At this moment, it looked at Ai Yue, its eyes turning incredibly cold, and the aura around its body changed.

Where was there a trace of Xiao Lü's cute and silly demeanor now? It was completely a cold, dangerous monster.

Ai Yue felt a bit conflicted; in her previous life, there had been no mention of a green Devil Frog leader.

But then again, there might have been one, just that she didn't know about it given her status and position at the time.

Xiao Lü looked at Ai Yue with dangerous eyes, its large tongue covered in barbs flickering in and out.

Ai Yue was on full alert.

Xiao Lü really wanted to swallow Ai Yue in one bite, but it hadn't achieved its goal yet. There was only one chance; if it was wasted, there would never be another.

It had originally wanted to continue observing Ai Yue to find a way to extract the space from her and transfer it to itself.

But she had discovered its identity ahead of time. It wondered if it should risk eating her, but a voice inside its heart kept telling it that she was very dangerous and it shouldn't do that.

It was very hesitant!

Ever since it discovered Ai Yue, it felt a familiar fluctuation coming from her.

One hundred and fifty years ago, it suddenly woke up from its Place of Slumber, came to the outside world, and met an Old Daoist Priest.

That priest considered himself its master and even wanted to take care of it.

It found it amusing, so it didn't eat him and followed him everywhere, wandering all over.

During this time, seeing how intelligent it was, this "master" taught it language.

Over time, it really could understand most of what he said.

Just when it felt this kind of life was boring and wanted to swallow him and return to its Place of Slumber to continue sleeping...

A meteorite flew in from the sky and crashed not far from them.

The Old Daoist Priest pinched his fingers to calculate and shouted, "The opportunity has come!"

Then he bolted toward the place where the meteorite had landed.

When they reached the spot, they saw a large smoking crater with a head-sized, grey iron lump inside.

"A divine object from the heavens, a divine object from the heavens!" The Old Daoist Priest jumped with excitement, shouting as he leaped into the meteorite crater and picked up the iron lump.

"Haha... Heaven is truly merciful. Even in my old age, I can still obtain such a treasure..."

The Old Daoist Priest held the meteorite like a madman and laughed at the sky.

At that time, Xiao Lü tilted its head and looked at the Old Daoist Priest in confusion. The Old Daoist Priest split open the meteorite, and two jade pendants were revealed inside. His hands trembled as he picked up the pendants, old tears streaming down his face.

On these two jade pendants, a dragon and a phoenix were carved respectively, looking lifelike.

Just then, someone suddenly appeared and snatched the Phoenix Jade from the Old Daoist Priest's hands while he was off guard.

The Old Daoist Priest was exasperated but didn't give chase, looking at the remaining Dragon Pendant in his hand with a pained expression.

Xiao Lü didn't understand what was so good about two broken stones that someone would snatch them, but deep down, it vaguely understood that this was a good thing.

Since it was a good thing, it wanted it too.

So, while the Old Daoist Priest was off guard, it suddenly extended its long tongue, wrapped it around him, and swallowed both the man and the jade.

A miraculous thing happened. Its weakness disappeared, and its right eye became as hard as the rest of its body.

Xiao Lü was extremely excited. It realized it must be because of that jade pendant. It then thought about the one that had been snatched; if it ate that one too, how powerful would it become?

Filled with excitement, it began searching the whole world for the person who had snatched the jade pendant. Three whole years passed, but it didn't find them; the person and the jade pendant seemed to have vanished into thin air.

And that Phoenix Pendant, after changing hands several times, finally ended up in the hands of Ai Yue's ancestors.

Out of necessity, unable to find the Phoenix Pendant, Xiao Lü could only give up and return to its Place of Slumber to sleep.

The arrival of this Apocalypse caused their entire race to wake up from their slumber. Xiao Lü followed the main group out, wanting to try its luck and see if it could find that Phoenix Pendant.

Unexpectedly, to its surprise, it actually felt a familiar fluctuation. It was incredibly excited but didn't dare to act rashly, so it could only follow Ai Yue all the way.

It was thinking of a way to obtain the space formed by that Phoenix Pendant.

It didn't dare to risk eating her, fearing that doing so would destroy the Phoenix Pendant's space. This was something it had been looking forward to for a hundred and fifty years.