A crack appeared in front of the team.

Six people gathered at the edge of the crack and looked down.

It was the first time for Liu Xiao to see the real situation under the Zicui Forest.

The soil layer on the ground is only less than one meter thick, and further down, there are all amethyst crystals stacked like rock layers. The roots of some plants even cling to the crystals, and it is not known whether they can absorb from these hard purple alexandrite crystals.

What is used as nutrients? No wonder the vegetation in this jungle is basically purple.

The crack goes down for more than thirty meters before it ends.

In the darkness where the holy light could not reach, Liu Xiao could see a small piece of gray-white grass.

Without the nourishment of soil, it completely relies on the alexandrite crystal for survival.

"Is that grass valuable?"

Since everyone communicated more frequently during this period, he asked without thinking.

"That's Sleeping Grass."

Fei Yin answered speechlessly.

"All right......"

Liu Xiao raised his eyebrows and sighed. It turned out that he had found a big deal. The key was that he had only heard of the name, but he had never seen it look like this and live in such a dark corner.

He originally wanted to ask if there was any danger in this crack.

After all, he was deeply poisoned by fantasy novels and subconsciously believed that as long as there were any good things, there would always be powerful monsters around to protect them.

But he didn't ask, because Jasmine beside him had already bent her bow and shot a special arrow into the crack.

The moment it was about to touch the Sleeping Grass, the arrow cluster suddenly exploded.

Wrong, it didn't explode, but turned into a puddle of gelatinous mucus, wrapping all the sleeping grass in it at once.

Jasmine twitched the thin string tied behind the arrow and quickly pulled it out.

I saw a large lump of amber-like soft glue at the arrowhead, and inside were more than a dozen gray-white grasses.

Jasmine took out a water bag and poured water on the soft glue. The thing melted immediately, and after a while, only the watery grass was left.

The whole process was completed in one go, without any delay.

With such a cool operation, even if there is a mini-boss guarding the crack, he would probably be dumbfounded.

Unexpectedly, people don’t need to go down at all.

...

As the team went deeper, the landscape inside the fierce forest really changed.

Liu Xiao was a little surprised when he passed a giant tree with a strange shape.

The tree seemed to have been disemboweled, with large amounts of alexandrite piercing outwards from the inside of the trunk.

Although his feet did not stop, Liu Xiao's eyes were always fixed on this scene that could not be explained by science at all.

Why did this mineral crystal grow into the trunk of the tree!?

Pieces of alexandrite crystals exposed on the ground grew wildly without the constraints of the soil, forming a variety of bizarre crystal forms in the forest area.

Even though no one cares about these pure purple crystals, they are actually widely used in the casting and refining industries. However, at this stage, compared with other herbal medicines, they are inferior in terms of single product value and quality and volume.

It's just not competitive. Once some large battle groups actually enter the Purple Cui Forest, in the end, the most valuable thing in this area will actually be these mineral crystals.

Chou Feng once mentioned to Liu Xiao that the fierce forest will definitely be valued by many human city-states in the future, because alexandrite has the potential to become a city currency, and the reserves here are extremely amazing, which itself is an extremely huge wealth.

Liu Xiao could understand this. After all, even Muye City, which was home all over the world and had no desires and desires, had to sacrifice for a mining area. One can imagine the importance of owning a mining area to the city.

However, this also raises a question.

How does a human city-state own an area, especially a mining area?

It’s impossible to just kill whoever gets it, right? Just like Shabak? On a dark and windy weekend night, two groups of people went on a killing spree? Whoever is more powerful in the end will get it?

No, even though the wilderness is dangerous, the order itself is not unscrupulous and people can do whatever they want, let alone the rules of the same race.

Chou Feng also answered this question.

Theoretically, everything in the human fan ring belongs to the human race, but in fact, the area where humans actually live accounts for less than 13% of the fan ring. The vast majority of this continent either belongs to the uninhabited people.

If you ask, either no humans have set foot there, or they are occupied by wild beasts or spiritual beasts.

The so-called ownership of an area is a kind of authority certified by the Human Holy Tribunal, which is equivalent to an official certificate.

To obtain the ownership of a certain area, naturally it is not what Liu Xiao imagined, but first to understand the concept of exploration degree.

What is the degree of exploration? It is the degree of exploration of a human force, which can be a city-state or a war group. For the degree of exploration of an entire area, when complete exploration is achieved, this city-state or war group will be the first to complete the land-shaped pattern or water-shaped pattern.

Submit it to the Human Holy Inquisition, and the Holy Inquisition will appoint a special person to go to the area to verify and investigate. After confirming that it is correct, the ownership will be given to this force and the galactic order will be notified.

But don't think that this land-shaped pattern or water-shaped pattern is as simple as drawing a map. You are totally wrong.

This must be drawn by an elemental genius who personally traveled to every corner of the continent. The finished product is almost a condensed version of a three-dimensional regional star pattern.

Not to mention that the whole process is time-consuming and laborious, there is also a prerequisite, that is, there must be no invincible beings in this continent.

For example, in the previous Purple Green Forest, there was such a disobedient Lord Griffon. Even if there were a lot of human forces eyeing this place, there was nothing they could do.

Because to draw the pattern, a large number of elemental talents must be stationed in it, and the landforms are often surveyed and mapped for a long time to finally form a complete land pattern. This process is bound to be disturbed by wild beasts or spiritual beasts.

To be honest, Liu Xiao really didn't expect that the order's rules for regional ownership were actually like this.

Directly or indirectly encouraging human forces to explore the unknown is more reasonable than fighting each other. However, at the same time, Liu Xiao believes that there is room for various games, but based on his current level of knowledge, he still

Just unexpected.

The drawing of land-shaped patterns definitely requires a large investment of financial resources, which discourages human city-states with average strength, and there will be no large-scale enclosure of land. Some less important territories or areas will not be completely controlled by the forces.

This also gives the war group more room to be active, and there are no more direct battles between city-states, tribes, and forces.

In this way, in the Qiancheng Jue, I obtained the mining rights of two mineral veins for Mu Ye City, which are really valuable. No wonder I asked for a Three Layers of Wind, but Mu Ye did not consider it and directly agreed.

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...

I have to say that Chou Feng’s mask is quite effective.

Not only did he avoid approaching other mercenaries, he also deliberately avoided some wild beasts in the forest.

Liu Xiao's perception range is extremely wide, and almost all movements within a radius of five kilometers are under his detection.

On several occasions, the distance between the team and small groups of wild beasts was only a kilometer, and Chou Feng moved at critical moments, narrowly avoiding an encounter.

Liu Xiao never spoke. In fact, he was looking forward to a fight with the beasts in the fierce forest. At least he could experience the combat power of the beasts here head-on, and by the way, he could also evaluate the strength of the five people in Suixing City.

However, what is supposed to come will still come.

This is an extremely huge yew tree, with dozens of people surrounding it. At the bottom of the thick trunk, there is a hole densely covered with alexandrite crystals.

Facing the entrance of the cave, Chou Feng hesitated because there were messy three-toed footprints on the ground, which were the footprints of a Lin snake. This kind of four-legged snake that likes shade probably lives in the space inside the cave.

Normally, Chou Feng would choose to lead the team away immediately, but this purple shirt was entangled with a vine. This purple vine was at least hundreds of meters long. The most important thing was the silver brilliance it faintly emitted.

The five mercenaries exchanged glances and finally decided to take a risk.

This entire Thunder Vine is enough for each of the five of them to upgrade a set of weapons.

The action starts immediately, and there is almost no need to worry about Feng assigning tasks.

Jasmine patted Liu Xiao on the shoulder and pointed to a location fifty meters directly in front of the cave entrance.

Then, she took out two bottles from the leather pouch at her waist.

Quickly arriving at the entrance of the cave, a bottle of medicinal powder was sprinkled directly into the air, and a bottle of medicine was poured on the ground.

He took out two more small balls and placed them in the air at half the height of a person. The two small balls were suspended in the air, motionless.

During this period, others also acted independently and made a series of arrangements at the entrance of the cave.

Afterwards, Jasmine and Fei Yin put on a pair of special leather gloves and jumped onto the purple shirt.

Captain Chou Feng stood twenty meters in front of the cave entrance, and the twin brothers stood behind him.
Chapter completed!