Arriving at an antique restaurant, Hua Qianshu ordered a table full of delicacies with ease. Knowing that Lin Bai particularly liked drinking, she also ordered a special drink from Jiuyou City.
Lin Bai looked at the dazzling array of delicacies on the table and couldn't help but sigh: "Jiuyou City is located thousands of feet below Meihua Villa, how can you still get these animal meats?"
Hua Qianshu chuckled and said: "Some of them were raised by the Jiuyou City warriors themselves, some of them were specially provided by our Meihua Villa, and some of them were hunted by the monsters around them."
Raising it yourself and supplying it at Plum Blossom Villa... neither of these aroused Lin Bai's interest. Instead, they hunted around, which made Lin Bai stunned for a moment.
"Are there actually monsters under the ground?"
Although there are not a small number of demonic beasts under the ground, Jiuyou City has been here for tens of thousands of years. Even if there are demonic beasts nearby, haven't they killed them yet?
Hua Qianshu used chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat as thin as a cicada's wings from the plate, and said to Lin Bai: "This is the backbone meat of a unique monster around Jiuyou City, called the 'Iron-Eating Worm'."
"Brother Lin, do you know about the iron-eating worm?"
Lin Bai shook his head, knowing nothing about it.
Hua Qianshu smiled and said, "Does Brother Lin know about Tiangang Rock?"
"I know this." Lin Bai said with a smile: "Isn't there a rock belt of Tiangang Rock above Jiuyou City?"
"This kind of rock can be said to be the strongest stone in the demon world. Even a warrior in the Taiyi Daoguo realm would find it extremely difficult to split it. However, this kind of rock is not suitable for alchemy and weapon refining, and is usually used for forging.
For the city’s use.”
Hua Qianshu said: "Tiangang Rock has something to do with this iron-eating insect."
Lin Bai became interested and looked at Hua Qianshu curiously.
Hua Qianshu said with a smile: "To be precise, Tiangang Rock is the excrement of iron-eating insects."
"This iron-eating insect has a pair of fangs and a belly that can melt all things. His favorite food is spiritual stones."
"He ate the spiritual stone, and after absorbing the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone, what he excreted was Tiangang Rock."
Only then did Lin Bai suddenly realize.
His eyes suddenly moved, and he asked with a smile: "Since the iron-eating insects use spiritual stones as food, and he appears here, does that mean that there are spiritual stone veins around here?"
Hua Qianshu smiled and said: "Brother Lin is really thoughtful and knows how to draw inferences from one instance to another. Of course there is a vein of spirit stone here."
"but……"
Hua Qianshu stopped talking and brought the topic back to the topic, saying: "It's too far off topic, let's talk about the purple edge stone."
Lin Bai half-squinted his eyes, and he felt that Jiuyou City seemed to hide many secrets.
Both Hua Qianshu and Ji Canghai looked like they were hesitant to speak when they mentioned Jiuyou City.
Could it be that there is not only this city but also other things hidden in this city under the ground?
This is the territory of the Halloween Mountain, and it is also the territory of the Halloween Mountain where you can dig up the remains of the cave of your predecessors wherever you dig.
Could it be that there are some incredible relics hidden deep in the ground hundreds of thousands of feet below?
"This purple edge stone can also be regarded as a kind of spiritual stone."
"But it is completely different from the currency spirit stone we use for transactions. The purple edge stone has extremely strong sealing power."
"This thing should originally exist in the form of a liquid. It melts once every ten thousand years and solidifies again a month later."
"When the purple edge stone turns into a liquid, it contains strange power. Any object falling into it will not be able to float."
When Lin Bai heard this, he took another look at the purple edge stone in his hand and said with a smile: "There doesn't seem to be anything strange about this?"
Hua Qianshu chuckled and said: "Brother Lin, does he know...this thing is extremely precious in both the demon world and the spiritual world. It is a life-saving medicine for some warriors who are nearing their longevity."
Lin Bai's heart was shocked and he looked at Hua Qianshu curiously.
Hua Qianshu laughed: "As long as enough purple edge stones can be collected and melted into liquid, a warrior who is close to his lifespan can enter it and wait for the purple edge stones to solidify, then he can fall asleep in it."
"The most peculiar thing about the purple edge stone... is that it can isolate time and space, but it is not completely isolated. It is just that sleeping inside the purple edge stone will reduce the passage of time and life span."
"That's why I told Brother Lin just now... the insects in your purple edge stone may be alive, but they may also be dead!"
"If you don't believe it, Brother Lin can try to inject spiritual power into the purple edge stone. The purple edge stone will naturally dissolve and dissolve. Then you will know whether the insect is dead or alive."
Lin Bai's face moved slightly, and thoughts were running through his mind, but he still followed Hua Qianshu's words and poured his spiritual power into the Ziyuan Stone.
But unexpectedly, a surprising scene appeared.
This extremely strong purple edge stone, the moment the spirit stone comes into contact, is like a piece of ice meeting fire, melting rapidly and turning into drops of purple liquid.
Lin Bai's expression moved slightly, and he used his spiritual power to hover the purple edge stone in his palm. As the spiritual power continued to be injected, the purple edge stone melted faster, and the entire purple edge stone was dissolved in the blink of an eye.
The insects included in the purple edge stone, after a brief recovery, began to flap their wings and wanted to fly.
"Sure enough, he's still alive."
Lin Bai was shocked. He didn't expect that the insect sealed in the stone was actually still alive.
The insect seemed to be spiritual. After reviving, it flapped its wings and looked around, then turned into a black light and flew away from the inn.
Hua Qianshu had already been prepared. He stretched out two fingers and pinched the insect in the air.
At the same time, he took out a treasure box, put the insects in it, affixed a few sealing talismans, and then handed it to Lin Bai.
Lin Bai looked at the treasure box in a daze and whispered: "Purple Edge Stone actually has such miraculous effects, but how come I have never heard of it in the outside world?"
Hua Qianshu said: "The reason is also very simple. This object is extremely rare and has almost disappeared in ancient times."
"There are very few purple edge stones that can be passed down to our current era."
"One or two purple edge stones have no effect, so they are not worth much."
"But if the number of purple edge stones reaches a certain amount, enough to accommodate the next warrior, then this purple edge stone will be very valuable."
"Generally speaking, only the ancestors of certain sects and families are about to run out of life. In order to save their ancestors, those sects and families will aggressively search for purple edge stones in the demon world to extend their lives."
While listening to Hua Qianshu's explanation, Lin Bai looked out the window of the inn, his eyes gradually falling on the dark and boundless space outside Jiuyou City.
"I found a lot of purple edge stones at the stalls on the roadside."
"Does this mean...that there are a large number of other purple edge stones in this space?"
"Maybe there is something sealed in those purple edge stones? Maybe it's an insect? Maybe it's a person?"
Lin Bai tentatively asked Hua Qianshu.
Hua Qianshu's expression immediately became unnatural. After a while, he laughed twice, changed the subject, raised his wine glass and started drinking with Lin Bai.