Chapter 19 Undercurrent

This is an incomparably wide underground cave. Water flows down from the overhanging wall. After the originally poisonous water flows through this place, somehow, all the toxicity has disappeared, leaving only the clear and sweet spring.

And behind the pond, there are countless strange rocks standing in forests.

Those white jade stones hanging from the top of the cave, exuding a faint cold air, are impressively formed cold stalagmites.

Cold stalagmite is an extremely rare spiritual material. Although it is hard in texture, as long as it is refined with true flames, it will become soft and glutinous. It can be eaten directly. It tastes like bamboo shoots, so it is named stalagmite. However, its real function is alchemy. The addition of this substance can improve the yield and quality of some special elixirs.

The value of spiritual materials depends on the value of the elixirs that can be made. There are three kinds of high-level elixirs that require cold stalagmites, so cold stalagmites are also considered more precious spiritual materials.

It's just that the cold stalagmites themselves are not too rare, and can even be artificially cultivated, so the price is not too outrageous, but there are quite a lot of cold stalagmites in this cave, adding up to a huge sum of money.

All the stalagmites in front of us have their pointed ends cut off, leaving only the second half of the base. No need to ask, these are the masterpieces of Shi Jingzhai. The stalagmites are mainly the tips, and the second half is worthless.

There are cold stalagmites on the top of the cave, and a huge pothole on the ground. Jumping into the pothole, you can see underground passages extending in all directions. Naturally, these tunnels were not dug for fun. Although everything in the tunnels had been hollowed out, Tang Jie still saw some faintly flickering golden lights.

These golden lights are quite similar to his own gold sand, scattered all over the tunnel, Tang Jie picked up a little and looked closely, and quickly recognized that they were gold essence stones. Gold essence stone is actually a kind of metal ore, which is mainly used to make weapons. Most of the weapons made are hard and not easy to destroy, and they are not high enough to make magic weapons. Even so, Tang Jie took a look at the tunnel and found that it was considered a miniature ore vein. If all of them were dug out, the value would not be lower than that of cold stalagmites.

Shi Jingzhai probably didn't do anything in the past two years, but just mined here.

In addition to the stalagmites on the top of the cave, the underground veins, and the rock walls next to them are also unwilling to be lonely.

Tang Jie finally found the crystallized clamworm he had been looking for.

Proof that they ever existed, to be precise.

On the surrounding rock walls, there are some small black holes everywhere.

These are the traces left by the clamworms. They are like earthworms in the rocks, scurrying around and leaving holes in the rock wall one after another. However, there are no clamworms on the rock wall today. exists.

There used to be a large number of spiritual stones on the rock wall here. It is estimated that they belonged to the same vein as the spiritual mine above, but they were separated by the cliff. Only a small part of them are preserved here. It was this small portion that was eaten up by the clamworm. Because of the poisonous moths, the clamworms cannot get out from here, so they can't reach the top, and they will die here forever.

Only one clamworm, relying on its "strong will" and desire for spirit stones, forcibly opened up the long road to the spirit mine through the stone wall, where it could enjoy the spirit stones, and finally died of crystallization.

But these are not the roots that shocked Tang Jie.

What really shocked him was the black trail in the deepest part of the cave.

That black trail hangs on the rock wall like this. At first glance, it looks like a crack in the rock wall, but when you look closely, you find that it is twisting slightly, like a black snake, glowing with deep black. And when Tang Jie looked at the black cracks in the rock wall, he could clearly feel that his eyes seemed to be trapped in the cracks, as if there was an endless depth in it, which was worth exploring and researching.

Space Rift!

This turned out to be a space crack!

Tang Jie almost cried out.

In order to prove his judgment, he picked up a stone and threw it towards the crack. The stone hit the crack and was cut silently, forming three parts. The left and right two hit the rock wall and bounced back. There are also fine parts that are directly swallowed by the crack and disappear without a trace.

That's right, this really is a space crack.

This time Tang Jie understood why there were cold stalagmites and gold essence stones in this cave.

The space crack is the outer space. It is vast and deep, difficult to describe, and has all kinds of unimaginable strange characteristics. So far, even those immortals who can break through the boundary and ascend cannot make an accurate description of the outer space. But what is certain is that every space crack will bring a breath different from this world, thus changing the terrain to a certain extent.

This kind of change may be good or bad. It may bring a resource production area, or it may form a natural disaster.

Looking at it now, this is a relatively good space crack, and it is precisely because of its existence that the underground cave has become a place of treasure.

In addition, space cracks often bring something in themselves. As for what it is, it is hard to say, it may be just some garbage, or it may be a treasure, depending on what fell out of the crack at that time. Now that there is nothing under the crack, it doesn't mean it didn't fall out, and it's more likely that it was put away by Shi Jingzhai after it got it.

Tang Jie roughly counted the scale of the resources here. Among them, the crystallized clamworm has the highest value and the least quantity, and the gold essence stone has the lowest value and the largest quantity. Combining the three resources together, plus the spiritual stones secretly hidden by the Shimen sect, the total The value can basically be confirmed to exceed 100 million.

Of course, as black goods, the Shimen sect would definitely not be able to sell so much, and it would be good if they could sell for tens of millions.

However, there is no such thing as inflation in the Qixia Cultivation World. Tens of millions of spiritual money is enough to transform a small sect into a middle or even stronger sect.

The Qijue Gate also benefited. You must know that some things cannot be measured by money. Cold stalagmites and gold essence stones are fine. If the crystallized clamworms are put up for auction, it is possible to increase the value of the goods by tens of millions more. If it is said that the benefits are so great, it may even exceed the Shimen faction.

Therefore, this approach is undoubtedly an enemy.

This is a serious crime, but in the face of the huge temptation, even if they kill everyone, they will do it.

Tang Jie couldn't help but have this scene in his mind:

With the excavation year after year, the vein gradually came to an end and came to the edge of the cliff.

The miners continued to dig day and night, happy that there was such a cliff, because they could throw the waste rock directly into the cliff instead of pulling it out.

This undoubtedly saves a lot of manpower.

But they didn't know that a group of vicious poisonous moths were sleeping deep in the bottomless cliff.

A large amount of waste rock fell from the sky.

Some poisonous moths were awakened by this.

They didn't move out in a big way, perhaps because they didn't feel the danger, only a few poisonous moths flew up the mine tunnel along the cliff.

There, they found the culprit who disturbed their sleep, and dragged some humans off the cliff, dealing with these mortals, they didn't even need venom.

So the earliest disappearance in the mine occurred.

With the disappearance, the Shimen faction came to investigate.

What happened next seemed more natural. They first discovered the poisonous moth, and the difficulty of dealing with the poisonous moth attracted three real people to come in person. Then the three real people should have discovered some clues about the cave.

So they went further down the river, venturing into the cave, and there they found the riches.

After that, everything will be more logical.

Under great temptation, the three real people decided to embezzle the wealth for themselves. They first dealt with the disciple who discovered the secret, and then put an Earth Demon Ape in the mine vein.

The Earth Demon Ape was raised by Shi Jingzhai, and it was ordered by Shi Jingzhai to intimidate and kill some miners. As a result, the miners naturally did not dare to approach the depths of the mine veins.

The poisonous moths are no longer disturbed, and they will not fly up easily, so the secret is preserved.

The three real people used poisonous moths as their natural guardians to further keep the secrets of this place, and for two years, they frequently entered and exited the caves, digging out all the benefits that could be excavated, and finally contacted actively to prepare to sell the things. out.

Of course, in addition to asking for money, they want things that can bring them a bright future.

For example, the method of promoting the Purple Mansion.

This is also the reason why after learning that Yu Wanniang had gone to Li Country, Tang Jie was sure that it was Qijue Sect and not other sects, because only the Six Great Sects could easily come up with the method to promote Zifu.

The only thing that surprised Tang Jie was that, looking at the current situation, they hadn't sold any part of their resources. After all, it was hard to hide the upstart temperament.

Especially for immortal cultivators, other things, such as magic treasures, can be refrained from buying, but it is impossible not to use the resources that can increase the speed of cultivation. But the three of Yu Wanniang are not like this. Although they are Tianxin, they are still only at the Tianxin level.

Tang Jie went out for a whole day yesterday, and had already found out the details of these three people. Shi Jingzhai is the only one who has improved his realm within ten years, and entered the demon stage from the spirit ring stage, and it happened last year.

This fully proves that these wealth have not been transformed into the resources that everyone needs in time to strengthen themselves. The only one who may benefit is Shi Jingzhai.

This is unreasonable. The resources were slowly dug out by the three of them in two years. There is no need to wait until the end to sell them together.

unless……

Tang Jie thought of his previous guess again.

"Internal instability." Tang Jie muttered these words.

On the day when he was drunk at the banquet, Tang Jie knew that these three people and Qiu Shuyu were not in the same mind, and now it seems that there may not be complete trust between these three people. Because of this, many things that should have been done have not been done well.

"If this is the case, there is a ready breakthrough." Tang Jie said to himself.

In fact, after discovering this place, Tang Jie found the evidence, and he had already completed the task, but at that moment, he suddenly realized that he might be able to do more and better.

His natural adventurous spirit made him try to move forward, and the first thing he did was to start with Shi Jingzhai.

He wanted to find evidence that Shi Jingzhai embezzled goods.

But this time, it wasn't for the Moonwashing faction, but for the other two.

Tang Jie started with a tacit understanding.

Yiyi's voice rang in his ears: "Brother, do you still know how to find me?"

Tang Jie smiled and said, "Of course I do, my brother has never forgotten you. How are you doing recently?"

"Very good, very happy!" Yiyi exclaimed in a cute voice.

Following Tang Jie to the Wei Mansion, Yiyi probably lived the most comfortable life. Her appearance is attractive, and after many years of Tang Jie's training, she has learned to be sensible and able to speak, which makes the adults in the mansion love her, even though they know that she is a beauty, they are not afraid of her. The old masters and old ladies in the mansion even treat baby Yiyi like their own granddaughter, serving all kinds of delicious and fun food every day.

After Wei Zhengshufeng found out about the relationship between Yi Yi and Tang Jie, he set up a garden for Yi Yi and formally confessed as his own child.

So if you want to say who is the happiest during this period, it has to be Yi Yi.

Hearing what Yiyi said at this moment, Tang Jie said: "It's good to be happy, but next, brother needs you to help me with something."

"Brother, tell me!"

"Go and tell Young Master Wei, and ask him to help me check the material transaction records of the Cultivator Market in the past two years."

"Material transaction records in the cultivator's market?" Yiyi repeated this awkward statement.

"Yes, mainly to check the three materials of crystallized clamworm, cold stalagmite and gold essence stone, and look at the sales situation in the past two years. This matter is relatively cumbersome, and the young master alone can't do it. I'm afraid I have to launch a guard It’s time to go home, please let your wife take action, you must be quick!”

"Oh, I see." Yiyi has already quickly ran out to find Wei Tianchong.

At this time, the benefits of having a family behind them to rely on emerged. With the large amount of manpower, contacts and information network owned by the Wei family, it is definitely much more convenient to check the material transactions in the past two years than Tang Jie alone.

It is not an easy task to find out the transaction records of the national material market, especially from Tang Jie's tone, he can't wait to help him get it done in a few days. But after learning about this, Wei Zheng Shufeng only hesitated for a moment, and then decided to do his best to help Tang Jie.

This is not only because she trusts Tang Jie, but also because Zheng Shufeng realizes that this is a time to show the meaning of mortal existence. Only in this way can the two become more inseparable, and at the same time give herself more status.

With Zheng Shufeng handling it personally, the huge business machine of the Wei family began to roar into motion. The first thing Zheng Shufeng did was to find the other three big families in the Canglong Mansion, the Jin family, the Zhou family, and the Zhang family. In this way, the four major families would work together, and the Wei family's workload would be greatly reduced. Then, Wei Tianchong, in the name of Tang Jie, sent a letter back to the academy with a flying sword, and asked Qi Shaoming, Liu Hongyan, Ping Anyue and other students to leave the academy to help.

As soon as these students heard that Tang Jie needed them, they left the hospital in the name of accepting the task without saying a word, especially those students who had benefited a lot from Tang Jie's guidance at the Fairy Fate Meeting. Without notice, they took the initiative to ask Ying to come down the mountain to help.

What's interesting is that Peng Yaolong and Ye Tianshang, who have already graduated, also came, and it was Qi Shaoming who notified them. The boy's reason is that many things will be easier to do with the help of formal disciples of the Moon Cleansing Sect.

Naturally, Peng Yaolong, Ye Tianshang and the others agreed immediately, not only that, but also brought a group of disciples who had made good friends with the faction to accompany them.

With Wei Tianchong as the core of the information transfer, under the advice of Zheng Shufeng, a massive operation was carried out in an orderly manner.

The official disciples of the Moonwashing Sect headed by Peng Yaolong are responsible for the transaction records of the Moonwashing Sect. As the sect in power, they actually have a lot of information on material transactions. In addition, check the relatively high-end Xiuxianfang City, which is the easiest place to produce high-end products, but ordinary people are not qualified to enter, and only official disciples of the Xiyue Sect like Peng Yaolong and the others can run amok everywhere.

The students headed by Qi Shaoming Liu Hongyan are responsible for checking some low-level markets and auction houses. These places are mixed with dragons and snakes, and immortals are alike, and occasionally good things such as crystallized clamworms appear.

As for Gu Weizhou and others, they are responsible for checking some mortal shops, but it is basically impossible for such rare treasures as crystallized clamworms to appear here. Another important task they are actually responsible for is data analysis. The moon washing disciples and students are only responsible for collecting accounts, but the authenticity, duplication, validity, etc. of these accounts still need to be screened by those professional shopkeepers.

Just like that, because of Tang Jie's idea and Zheng Shufeng's impromptu plan, the whole Wenxin country inexplicably set off a wave of auditing. Tang Jie had no idea that Zheng Shufeng would make such a big show, and Zheng Shufeng had no idea how popular Tang Jie was. The result of extraordinary assistance is an action beyond the plan. An action to check the accounts has unknowingly begun to show signs of an anti-corruption storm...

In Wenxin's country, the wind and clouds are rumbling, and the undercurrent is surging at the bottom of Yongsui Mountain.

Tang Jie, who still knew nothing about all this at this time, returned from the waterway after explaining what Yiyi was going to do, and came to the foot of Shimen Peak. The duplicate Tang Jie also came in the name of a walk. Waiting at the foot of the mountain, Tang Jie disappeared at the same time as Tang Jie appeared, and Tang Jie went back to the house to sleep all the way.

This time the expedition was uneventful and there were no setbacks. Except for a pair of underwear, Tang Jie had nothing to lose.

Good night's sleep.

The next time, Tang Jie has to do much easier.

After figuring out what Shi Jingzhai and the others are up to, all Tang Jie has to do is to stay here, using himself as a bait to attract the main force of the Shimen faction as much as possible, and not giving them the chance to chase after Xi Remnant .

So next, Tang Jie wandered around every day, getting acquainted with every Shimen disciple as much as possible, especially those who were above the mortal state, he would not let go of any of them. What no one knew was that during the contact process, Tang Jie had silently placed some small things on them.

These small things are either just a leaf, or a stone, or just a piece of dust.

The only thing they have in common is that they are all made by duplication.

Through these replicas, Tang Jie can clearly understand what each disciple has done, and thus determine the real target sent to hunt Xi Remnant.

At this time, Tang Jie will appear at the right time, as if meeting by chance, and say with a surprised look, "Huh? Why are you here?" "What a coincidence" "Yes, let's go shopping together" "You are busy I can help you, you are all friends, you are welcome."

Occasionally there are ignorant ones.

At that time, this ignorant friend probably lost his life without even finding the trace of Xi.

Of course, when all this happened, Tang Jie could find a hundred witnesses to prove his alibi.

The next night, Yu Wanniang came back.

The three elders of Shimen Peak gathered together again.

Looking at the faces of Shi Jingzhai and Liang Xingbang, Yu Wanniang looked solemn:

"They admitted that it was their fault."

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