Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 500 - 59: Fortune Spiritual Treasure, Royal Favor (6K)_3

Chapter 500: Chapter 59: Fortune Spiritual Treasure, Royal Favor (6K)_3

"Mm, I’ll handle it first," Zhao Xing said.

His teacher had allowed two people to enter.

Today, he had also released two slots.

Including Prince Xin’s son, that made it the fifth.

But he didn’t have to return, for with the existence of the Self Grassman, it would suffice to instruct the Grassman left behind in Yang City to fetch Liu Yong’s son.

"Have Old Chen and Mr. Ji found anything?" Zhao Xing looked ahead toward a waterfall.

Below the waterfall, there was a cold pond.

As the Grotto Heaven was upgraded, natural wonders evolved; they had found this cold pond by following these marvels.

Of course, tasks like earth and water evasion were more suitable for a Master.

Thus, martial artists like Long Xiao and Xia Jing stayed on the boat to keep watch while Zhao Xing, busy handling matters, didn’t dive in himself to search.

"They’ve been down for two hours now," Xia Jing said, "no telling what the situation is."

"Stay here and don’t move," Zhao Xing instructed, "I’ll go down and have a look."

Buzz~

Zhao Xing stepped on a cloud and swiftly flew to the bottom of the waterfall mountain.

"Water without roots comes from the heavens; this waterfall cannot be seen from the outside."

Zhao Xing felt the terrifying pressure of the Water Element Technique.

Boom Boom Boom~~ The waterfall over a hundred meters tall crashed down, falling into the deep pool below, its waters also emitting bursts of cold air.

"Splash~"

Zhao Xing jumped into the water, against the negative pressure, groping towards the bottom.

The Divine Movement Protection enabled Zhao Xing to move through the water, though much slower than under the ground.

Cold—the chill incessantly eroded the Octagonal Palace.

The deeper the descent, the greater the pressure, and the higher the spell consumption.

"Hmm?"

As he sank to a certain depth, Zhao Xing suddenly spotted dots of blue light emerging in the dark, profound cold pond.

"What’s that?" Zhao Xing swam towards it.

Moments later, he was close.

"Thousand-year-old ice crystals?"

"So many?"

Zhao Xing observed the surrounding blue glimmers.

"Old Chen, Old Chen."

Zhao Xing transmitted a message through the pulsations in the water vein to Chen Shijie.

Before long, ripples spread through the water, striking Zhao Xing’s Octagonal Palace with a unique frequency.

"Why did you come down too?"

"Come to my direction, you and Mr. Ji, to collect the thousand-year-old ice crystals."

"Alright."

Fifteen minutes later, Chen Shijie and Ji Ziyun had swum to Zhao Xing’s side.

Among them, Ji Ziyun was holding a spherical water shield, while Old Chen was enveloped in a pale blue light membrane clinging to his body.

"Really, thousand-year-old ice crystals! And so many?" Ji Ziyun was also astonished. "How lucky are you, just diving in and finding these? We searched for so long and only found some hundred-year varieties."

"My luck has always been good," Zhao Xing chuckled.

Actually, this wasn’t merely a matter of luck.

Zhao Xing was also skilled in divination and extrapolation.

Underwater, he activated "Five-Finger Destiny," and this fate-related spell had a ’fortune boosting’ effect. With Zhao Xing’s fortunes spread in four directions, combined with "Five-Finger Destiny," it would have been really odd not to find them now that he was on the spot.

"Quickly collect them, don’t waste time," Zhao Xing said.

"Alright."

The three quickly started to gather the thousand-year-old ice crystals at the bottom.

Half an hour later.

"Woosh~"

The three emerged from the cold pond, each surrounded by blue starlight.

Cold vapors surged, bursting violently.

Then all returned to silence, and the cold pond lost its wonders.

"We’re up!" Xia Jing and Long Xiao’s eyes lit up, and they hurried over.

"How is it?"

"At last, a significant harvest," Ji Ziyun said.

"Not bad," Zhao Xing spoke simultaneously.

"Not bad?" Ji Ziyun opened her eyes wide. "These are sixth-order thousand-year-old ice crystals."

Ji Ziyun increasingly felt that Zhao Xing’s standards were too high; having searched with him for two days, she felt more and more as if Zhao Xing was the Prince and she seemed like a naïve country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

"Thousand-year-old ice crystals are materials for refining. We can’t absorb much," Zhao Xing said.

Thousand-year-old ice crystals, when used in cultivation, could enhance one’s natural gift for ’cold ice spells’ and increase resistance to the Cold Ice Power.

Among the five people, Zhao Xing absorbed two and a half, Ji Ziyun two, and Old Chen one and a half.

Long Xiao and Xia Jing each absorbed only half.

"My Water Element Technique has greatly improved," Ji Ziyun exhaled a breath of cold air. "It’s indeed a good thing."

Thousand-year-old ice crystals were hard to come by, requiring a thousand years to form.

And now, here were over three hundred of them!

"We can only absorb a couple of them, but these can be used to fulfil Investigator tasks," Zhao Xing said.

"Investigator tasks?" Ji Ziyun was puzzled, being new to Ten Suns Cave Heaven and not quite understanding the ins and outs.

"Mr. Ji may not know, but these Investigator slots aren’t handed out for nothing," Zhao Xing explained. "I presume that the Military Realm will soon issue tasks to the various Investigator teams and groups."

"Having this title means we have to do the work. And what should an Investigator do? Of course, it’s to find treasures and submit them."

"Every few days, a submission is required. If the task is not completed, demotion follows. If a Junior Investigator gets demoted, they have to leave."

Ji Ziyun suddenly understood, "Right, that makes sense."

Zhao Xing continued, "Being an Investigator is essentially a tough job. Dean Fan once toiled for three years in the Dao Feng Mountain Range and eventually changed a piece of land entirely, managing to produce native seed fruits continuously, and was rewarded with 1 billion points."

"Apart from his kind of elite team, other Junior Investigators and Intermediate Investigators actually lead mediocre lives."

Think about it, someone like a Sixth-rank Mechanism Master like Gao Ming has to do courier work, check the arsenal inventory, and hold posts in the Board of Rites.

In the Military Realm, earning points isn’t that easy.

Officials under Emperor Jing don’t enjoy high benefits. Whether you want a better life or to ascend in rank, you have to work hard and outperform others.