Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 365 - 365 0273 Three-dimension Map_2

Chapter 365: Chapter 0273: Three-dimension Map_2 Chapter 365: Chapter 0273: Three-dimension Map_2 Moreover, anyone who joins the treasure hunting team must treasure hunt here for at least three days before they find a mining shovel. Those who do not fulfill the three-day period are not allowed to leave the team. After fulfilling three days, only then would they have freedom to leave and would be eligible to receive the minimum daily wage of five spirit stones.

After the convoy arrived at their destination, Qi Tian and the other treasure hunters got off the vehicle. After He Miao gave his final instructions, he let Qi Tian and the others disperse.

Qi Tian looked around at the towering garbage mountains and the Gold Core Stage cultivator circling in the sky, overseeing them. He gathered the tools distributed by Wanjie Commerce and moved towards one of the trash mountains.

No one knew that since the moment Qi Tian left South City, the Heavenly Dao Engine had been transmitting a deep craving to devour to Qi Tian. The Heavenly Dao Engine devoured indiscriminately, not caring whether an object was intact or shattered; it only cared if it contained Spirit Qi. Many discarded wastes, either made with expensive materials or containing remnants of formations and runes, were invariably rich with Spirit Qi, making it completely normal for the Heavenly Dao Engine to want to devour them. Qi Tian even suspected that if there weren’t people around, the Heavenly Dao Engine might devour every single piece of trash within several hundred miles, sucking out all their Spirit Qi, before spitting them back out, turning them into real trash.

If no one was watching, Qi Tian might have given it a try. But for now, Qi Tian could only proceed with caution. Of course, this didn’t mean that he wouldn’t give the Heavenly Dao Engine any chances to devour, he simply had to wait for the right time. If the opportunity presented itself, Qi Tian wouldn’t mind letting the Heavenly Dao Engine ingest more treasures.

In order to make Qi Tian wholeheartedly seek treasures for it to devour, the Heavenly Dao Engine consistently transmitted its devouring desires, while simultaneously transmitting the location information and Spirit Qi intensity of various treasures it sensed.

Qi Tian was pleasantly surprised to find that previously, the Heavenly Dao Engine only provided him with vague information. However, perhaps because the Heavenly Dao Engine has undergone multiple upgrades, it now provided him with a three-dimensional map that centered around him, reflecting the locations and Spirit Qi intensity of treasures within a twenty-meter radius. Beyond twenty meters, the Heavenly Dao Engine would provide vague information, just like before.

For a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator like Qi Tian, twenty meters wasn’t much. However, when precise information within twenty meters was combined with vague information, it was potent. It could allow Qi Tian to accurately locate treasures, leaving out only those that didn’t primarily contain Spirit Qi. Unless Qi Tian didn’t want them, there was hardly any chance of missing any treasures.

The changes in the Heavenly Dao Engine were undoubtedly beneficial to Qi Tian. He decided to hunt for treasures here. Even if he couldn’t find an Innate Spirit Treasure Level mining shovel, he could still increase his strength.

Wanjie Commerce had recruited many people to search the garbage mountain, and Qi Tian’s group wasn’t the first wave. Many places were already occupied by people, who cast unwelcoming glances at Qi Tian when they saw him coming. Maybe the mining shovel would not fall near them, but what if it did and only due to Qi Tian’s revelations? Wouldn’t they be at a loss then?

In such situations, Qi Tian chose to just walk away. With such extensive garbage mountains, there had to be places that were unclaimed and filled with treasures. There was no need to provoke a conflict at this point.

With the assistance of the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian quickly found a treasured spot, which was an older trash mountain. Time had turned the waste material into a hill covered with soil and rocks, and plants sprung up all over it. To dig here, one needed to penetrate about half a meter of earth and rock before reaching the waste underneath.

After the seller of the mining shovel was arrested, although he did not give a specific location where he’d discarded the shovel, he did provide a rough area. This garbage hill was not within that area. In addition, due to the long-standing accumulation of garbage, the hill had become exceptionally solid. Moreover, because much of the garbage inside had decomposed over time, the value of this garbage hill could be said to be the lowest.

Those who were aware of these characteristics would not choose such a garbage hill. Even if they weren’t here for the Innate Spirit Treasure Level mining shovel, they would still hope to find some high-value garbage useful to them through their own labor. They could then sell it to Wanjie Commerce in exchange for cultivation resources beneficial to themselves.

Qi Tian selected a place, took the iron shovel allocated to him by Wanjie Commerce, and began digging. The iron shovel could be considered a pretty decent Low Grade Human Level Spirit Treasure, worth a considerable amount. Only a company like Wanjie Commerce would provide such shovels to each treasure hunter to facilitate finding the Innate Spirit Treasure Level mining shovel as quickly as possible.

Qi Tian quickly dug through the layer of rocks and soil on the surface of the garbage hill and reached the garbage underneath. When the rock and soil layer disappeared, revealing the old garbage below, a pungent odor wafted out. It almost made Qi Tian vomit out the breakfast he’d eaten at the inn. He quickly took out a damp towel and covered his face with it. This was also one of the items provided by Wanjie Commerce, which could effectively eliminate unpleasant smells.

Sure enough, this method was useful. Although the pungent smell did not completely disappear, it was reduced by ninety-nine percent, and what was left was barely bearable. Qi Tian picked up the iron shovel again and continued digging.

Qi Tian dug rapidly. Before long, following the indication of the Heavenly Dao Engine, he dug up a broken box. He directly used the iron shovel to crack open the broken box, in the compartment of which he found quite a few things. Most of them were ordinary goldleaf used by worldly people, as well as a stack of thoroughly rotten gold notes. Besides, Qi Tian found a jade pendant.

This jade pendant was not a regular one, but a trinket used by cultivators. It was engraved with several excellent runes that provided fireproof and heat-resistant effects, which were quite effective. Wearing such a jade pendant, even if one jumped into a fire, one could endure it for more than ten minutes without any harm.

Qi Tian smiled and put his findings into his basket, then continued digging.

Before he knew it, Qi Tian had been digging for nearly half a day. He had dug more than a dozen holes in the garbage hill, found dozens of so-called trash items. Some were like the first jade pendant, unintentionally discarded by their original owners, but more were broken and discarded because they had no repair value.

All these things were valuable, but their value hadn’t reached the point where Qi Tian would risk letting the Heavenly Dao Engine devour them secretly. A basket full of garbage, when added up, contained Spirit Qi equivalent to about a Middle-grade spirit stone, which was not worth the risk for Qi Tian.

At this moment, someone struck a gong at the bottom of the garbage hill. This was a reminder to the treasure-hunting cultivators that it was noon. If anyone wished, they could rest at the foot of the garbage hill and have something to eat or drink. However, since all the cultivators’ space equipment had been sealed or handed over to Wanjie Commerce for safekeeping, it was basically impossible to sustain oneself. If they wanted to eat or drink, they had to consume the food provided by Wanjie Commerce, which was not free and had to be paid for with spirit stones.

Qi Tian headed down the hill with his basket on his back, following the sound of the gong towards the camp provided by Wanjie Commerce. By the time Qi Tian arrived, a line had already formed at the entrance to the camp, and every treasure hunter entering the camp had to be checked.