Chapter 176 (1/2)
Chapter 176: Seeking Riches and Honor Amidst Danger
Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales
Tang Xiu shook his head and said, “No, I’m mistaken, absolutely. This aura definitely comes from a Fire Qilin! You can trust my guts on this, I’m a 100% sure of it.”
He couldn’t tell Shao Mingzhen that he had a powerful spiritual sense. Neither could he tell him that he had investigated to the end of the passageway of the cave with his perception and saw a Fire Qilin in deep slumber inside an enormous space. There were even several hundreds of sharply square-shaped sky sandstones neatly placed nearby the Fire Qilin, with each one of them weighing around a hundred pounds.
He also saw that there were also a small bed and a wooden table inside that cave’s space, while a glittering and translucent carved jade box rested on top of the table along with an ancient sword.
He had a lot of fortuitous encounters in the Immortal World, adventuring into a lot of Immortal Caves left by other Immortals and obtained a lot of treasures. But he never imagined that he would also come across such Immortal Cave on Earth.
However, he didn’t know whether or not it was a cultivator who left those down there.
As they retreated back above the Sky Cavern, Miao Wentang quickly asked, “How is it? What kind of harvest have you got down there?”
Tang Xiu said, “We haven’t got any for now. But we need to prepare something, so we gotta go back to Qingshan Town first. After everything is ready, we’ll enter the cave together- the three of us.”
“Brother Tang, what should we prepare?” Shao Mingzhen asked.
“Both of you, if you really want to brave the danger and hardships with me, you must listen to my arrangement. I can’t guarantee we’ll be able to come out alive from there. But if we are able to get out of there alive, I dare say that our harvest will be huge!” Tang Xiu said.
“Alright!”
“We’ll listen to you!”
Shao Mingzhen and Miao Wentang replied in unison.
Tang Xiu nodded and told his instructions, “Okay, it’s imperative that we think how will we handle this. Firstly, we need some explosives, but we don’t need too many. If we can’t find it, we can buy some fireworks, that will do. In addition, we also need more ropes and some boulders to quietly close the four entrances of the cave. But, we need to secretly deploy some traps inside before closing the entrances.”
Tang Xiu himself had already brewed the plan inside his mind. But the things that had to be prepared were quite a lot. It would be quite difficult to complete it within a couple of days once he carried out the plan.
However, he was determined to get those sky sandstones. He had once obtained this ore in the Immortal World, the stones were definitely the perfect material for refining tools. This kind of ore was very rare and was even usually regarded as treasures by the Immortals who could acquire them.
The next day. Evening.
Everyone returned back to Qingshan Town. Tang Xiu had written all the required materials on the list and handed it over to Miao Wentang and Shao Mingzhen’s men to buy them. Because some of the materials couldn’t be bought in Qingshan Town, they rushed to Cangbei City in the same night.
In the meantime, Tang Xiu also ordered some other men to buy the remaining materials that could be bought in Qingshan Town, as he then waited for them to return.
“Knock, knock…”
Someone knocked the door to the hotel’s room where Tang Xiu was staying.
As Tang Xiu opened it, he looked at Miao Wentang and Shao Mingzhen in front of the door with a puzzled expression, “Huh? You haven’t rested?”
Miao Wentang said with a smile, “Nope, we’re not tired since we’ve had our rest earlier! Anyways, we’re going downtown to have a meal and grab a drink, are you coming with us?”
Shao Mingzhen also followed and smiled, “I heard that the food stall downtown serves meat of wild games from the mountain. This place is close to the mountain and has a lot of wild games, so the taste should be quite good.”
Tang Xiu said with a laugh, “Hahaha, then what are we waiting for?”
Suddenly, Tang Xiu recalled that his mobile was out of battery yesterday and he charged it when he got back to Qingshan Town. Up until now, he hadn’t booted up his mobile, so he took the phone and followed the two men to the food stall.
On the road.
As he turned the phone on, missed calls and text messages’ sound notifications immediately rang continuously.
Tang Xiu looked at the screen. Aside from missed calls from Chu Yi and Long Zhengyu, his mother—Su Lingyun also called him. The text itself was sent by Ouyang Lulu, asking what he was doing right now.
_”Adventuring!”_
After replying and sending the text to Ouyang Lulu, Tang Xiu then dialed his mother’s cell number.
“Hello? Xiu’er?”
An anxious voice that belonged to Su Lingyun came out of the speaker.
Tang Xiu said with a laugh, “Hello Mom, sorry for not accepting your phone before. Anyways, did anything happen for you to call me?”
“Xiu’er, you told me that you were going to travel, where are you? Can you come back now? Mom has to talk to you about something urgent!” Su Lingyun quickly spoke.