108: Chapter 108: Red Sand Crystal

"Hmph, if those rats from the Sun Family dare to come back and cause trouble, I will certainly make them perish and have their Dao dissipate," General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng said disdainfully. "As for the Fire Cloud Crocodile, once I have eaten my fill, I will go down and investigate to find out the truth."

Logically speaking, a small stronghold like the Fire Cloud Stronghold only has a mere Grade 3 Spiritual Vein, so it is impossible for it to raise a Grade 4 Demonic Beast. It is truly strange that the Fire Cloud Crocodile was able to achieve a Breakthrough and become a Grade 4 Demonic Beast.

Furthermore, when the Fire Cloud Crocodile achieved its Breakthrough to the fourth grade, how did it conceal the three Lightning Tribulations? With such a great commotion, it is impossible for the nearby Martial Ancestor Families to have had no reaction. If they had known, they would have long since reported it to the Ye Family and requested the Ye Family to intervene and eliminate the Fire Cloud Crocodile; the usual tributes were not paid in vain.

"Let's go, let's go down and take a look!" After General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng had eaten his fill, he casually wiped his hands on his clothes and led the three of them flying toward the cave of the Fire Cloud Crocodile.

To be safe, Ye Xiaosan led Ye Yisong to wait outside the cave, while General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng only brought Ye Xiaowu inside.

Watching the two figures disappear, Ye Yisong was not worried at all that they would encounter any accidents. The map showed that in the cave below, there were only a few Grade 2 and Grade 3 Yao Beasts, which posed no threat to the two of them.

Before long, the two came out from inside the cave, holding several small Fire Cloud Crocodiles in their hands, laughing loudly and saying that they would have extra food for dinner tonight.

"Inside the cave, other than the Spiritual Qi being more abundant than outside, there were no strange discoveries. That Fire Cloud Crocodile must have eaten some Heaven And Earth Treasure and achieved an accidental Breakthrough. After the Breakthrough, it occupied this stronghold as its own territory," General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng said to the two of them.

Ye Yisong looked at General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng in astonishment. "No strange discoveries"? I think you stumbled into a treasure land without realizing it.

"There really weren't any discoveries," Ye Xiaowu also said the same.

"Uncle Jiefeng, Uncle Xiaowu, I'll go down and see if there are any fire-attribute Talisman Making Materials to collect and bring back." It seems I, your young master, have to take action myself. My two unreliable uncles, Ye Yisong thought to himself.

"I'll go with you." Ye Xiaosan was afraid that something might go wrong at the last moment, which would be a big problem.

Saying this, the two jumped straight down from the cave entrance. The further down they went, the higher Ye Yisong felt the temperature became. Stepping onto a protruding rock at the bottom of the cave, Ye Yisong looked around and discovered that the cave was quite large, easily the size of three football fields.

The surrounding rock walls were made of red sandstone, which was extremely sturdy. In the southwest corner, there was a small magma pool, which should be the place where the Fire Cloud Crocodile nurtured its offspring. Fire-attribute Yao Beasts like the Fire Cloud Crocodile especially like to live in underground magma. It is said that this high-temperature environment can help them grow more rapidly.

Ye Yisong lightly stepped on the protruding rocks, occasionally having to dodge the splashing magma. He was not yet a Martial Ancestor expert, so he did not have a Protective Aura around his body to move freely within this magma.

"Where exactly is the treasure?" Ye Yisong searched carefully inside the cave. He had picked up a few stones, but after having almost searched the entire cave, he still had not found the treasure shown on the map.

The spiritual light on the map was quite large, covering the entire cave; this treasure shouldn't be small!

Why couldn't he find it? Wait! It covered the entire cave!

"Could it be a mine?" Ye Yisong looked at the surrounding walls, thinking thoughtfully. If it were a mine, that would explain why the range of the spiritual light was so large.

Ye Yisong took out his precious sword, pierced the wall in front of him with one strike, stirred it a few times inside, dug out a large hole, reached in and groped around for a while, and pulled out a fire-red crystal stone.

"It's Red Sand Crystal Ore." Ye Xiaosan stared wide-eyed at the crystal stone in Ye Yisong's hand and exclaimed.

The two who heard the commotion outside also jumped down from above. Seeing the Red Sand Crystal Ore in Ye Yisong's hand, they also said with rapid breathing: "Dig!"

Red Sand Crystal Ore is a crystalline mineral of red sandstone. After thousands of years of magma washing, red sandstone will slowly precipitate a type of crystal, which is the Red Sand Crystal Ore.

Red Sand Crystal Ore is a type of Grade 4 Ore and is a rare mineral used for refining Grade 4 fire-element divine weapons; it is worth a fortune.

Just the fist-sized piece of Ore in Ye Yisong's hand was worth three thousand Spirit Stones.

In less than ten minutes, the four of them were holding several fist-sized pieces of Ore, and they laughed loudly: "This should be a small Red Sand Crystal Ore mine. Quickly, report it to the Family!"

This was a mine they had discovered that belonged exclusively to the Ye Family, and there was no need to pay taxes to the Great Wei Imperial Court. According to the Family rules, the four of them, Ye Yisong included, could solely receive thirty percent of the profits from this mine.

General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng no longer complained in his heart. He hadn't expected that on this trip, he would not only get five hundred jin of Grade 4 Demonic Beast meat for free but also gain a small Grade 4 mine.

"Xiaowu, do not send a transmission talisman, so as to avoid complications," Ye Xiaosan stopped him. "You should make the trip yourself, go directly to the Dali Courtyard to see the Clan Chief, and explain the situation here."

"Okay, okay," Ye Xiaowu said excitedly. "It was my lack of consideration. I will return to the Family right now."

"Be careful on the road. If anything happens, send a level-one distress signal directly to the Family," Ye Xiaosan instructed. The more critical the time, the less one could be chaotic; the lessons learned from predecessors were truly too tragic.

Transmission talismans could potentially be intercepted by others midway. For this kind of matter, it was safer for a person to return to report the news.

After Ye Xiaowu left, Ye Xiaosan said to the two of them: "Let's go up as well. The temperature here is too high, and Yisong probably isn't feeling comfortable."

"Right, right, right," General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng nodded quickly, directly flying Ye Yisong up and returning to the outside of the cave.

"Uncle Jiefeng, Uncle Xiaosan, do you think the Sun Family knows about the Red Sand Crystal Ore mine here?" After the three of them set up warning talismans, they gathered around the previous campfire again and started roasting the Demonic Beast meat again.

"They probably don't know. Otherwise, the ones who came wouldn't have just been Sun Chengzong and Sun Chengan. The Sun Family would likely have dispatched everyone," Ye Xiaosan answered after thinking for a while.

"Sun Chengzong recognized me," Ye Yisong said. Before Sun Chengzong left, his pupils constricted; although subtle, it was still noticed by Ye Yisong.

"Even if he recognized you, it doesn't matter. Does the Sun Family dare to snatch food from the tiger's mouth of our Ye Family?" General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng said confidently. Don't look at how the Qi Family jumps around happily in front of the Ye Family; if it weren't for the Wei Family backing them up, the Qi Family would have long since perished.

The Sun Family has no one backing them up!

The three of them sat together in the night, eating roasted meat, quietly waiting for Ye Xiaowu's return.

Ye Xiaosan and General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng did not put on airs as Martial Ancestor experts, and they talked to Ye Yisong about some interesting things they had experienced while out on missions.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and the roasted meat on the rack vanished into thin air, giving the three of them a huge fright.

"Who?" General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng reacted the fastest and shouted sternly.