Kooshima Island

  From the foot of the mountain to the top, Leng Hao gained nothing, and there was no sign of the jade crystal vein at all. If he hadn't remembered clearly that the jade crystal vein was here, others would have thought it was just an ordinary mountain range.

  Leng Hao stood at the summit, looking down at the valley and the sea of trees below, furrowing his brow deeply. "How could it not be here? With my state of mind and the divine thought that drives me, I shouldn't have been unable to locate the site of the Jade Crystal mine vein! Could I have remembered incorrectly? No way, in my past life, this was where the large-scale development of the Jade Crystal mine vein on the northern part of Guanhe Island began. This is something everyone knows, I couldn't possibly be mistaken!"

  Leng Hao's mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts, and he carefully probed the ground beneath his feet with his divine sense, but to no avail.

  "The environment here is not bad, I want to cultivate here, Qing Luan Auntie will accompany me here, and everyone else can go down," said Leng Hao, turning his head to the people behind him.

  Wang Hu and his men returned to the valley, while the three maidservants went to prepare lunch, which they would then bring up to the mountain.

  Leng Hao sat at the top of the mountain, half his mind immersed in cultivation, while the other half carefully searched every inch of land on this entire mountain range.

  "I won't believe it if I can't find it," Ling Hao was a stubborn person who would never give up until he achieved his goal.

  Inch by inch search, continue to penetrate underground, until the underground more than 20 meters place, Leng Xiao only felt the spiritual power is exhausted, had to stop the penetration, can only in more than 20 meters inside, expand the scope of the search.

  Hiding in the shadows, Xia Peng also furrowed his brow. With his cultivation, he could sense the divine thought that Leng Hao was searching for. Not to mention that Leng Hao hadn't even formed a contract yet, it was astonishing how strong his spiritual power was. Just the fact that Leng Hao was so determined to search this place made Xia Peng have many doubts in his heart.

  "This news should be very secret, only I and Ling Tian know, but now looking at Xiao Zong's appearance, it seems that there is a treasure here, could it be that Feng Ling Yu also knows the news of this place? No wonder Xiao Zong chose this Guanhe Island as his first choice," Xiang Peng thought to himself.

  Xia Peng suppressed all his breath, he was very confident that with his scattered immortal cultivation, it was absolutely impossible for him to be discovered by Leng Hao's cultivation of the Cold and Frost Realm.

  After searching for a long time, nothing was found. After dinner, until late at night, Leng Hua did not notice anything unusual, and it seemed that this place was just an ordinary mountain range.

  Leng Hao got off the mountain and returned to the valley, where he sat cross-legged on his bed, needing to think carefully.

  "This commotion in the surrounding waters, no demonic beasts on the island, all these signs indicate that there must be a jade crystal vein here, and among them, Xuan Wang is still transforming into Jade Crystal Emperor," thought Ling Hao with certainty.

  "Jade Crystal Vein is definitely not mistaken on the north side, could it be that this vein is too deep, so I didn't feel it?"

  "Let Qing Luan try tomorrow, she's still trustworthy," Ling Hao thought to himself, then put the matter aside and began to cultivate the Nirvana Technique.

  The next day, Leng Hao continued to lead people to the top of the northern mountain range, leaving Qing Luan alone again after that. Then, Leng Hao let Qing Luan try to excavate a large pit here.

  The heavenly fate of Qing Luan is a blue phoenix bird, she is a pure-blooded human tribe. Although the heavenly fate is predetermined, during the pregnancy period when the mother's body is nurturing, before the heavenly fate has taken shape, it can be influenced by some means.

  The Feng family and the later Luofeng Hai Ge had such a means to transform the Tianming Ben Xiang of all members of the clan into that of the Phoenix, while the orphans they recruited and cultivated were nurtured into this type of divine bird Tianming Ben Xiang. This kind of Ben Xiang is very suitable for practicing the skills of Luofeng Hai Ge, with twice the result for half the effort.

  Although Qing Luan was very suspicious of Leng Hua's actions, Leng Hua insisted that something was amiss here, so she didn't refuse. With a movement of her divine sense, a large blue bird appeared above her head.

  The surroundings of the Azure Luan were also emitting azure flames, and the Azure Bird followed the cold and bright designated area, sticking to its body and turning around in a circle. The land below was directly incinerated into nothingness by the azure flames.

  The depth of the big pit continued to increase, hidden in the dark, Xia Peng, who had been silently observing Leng Hua's movements, also changed his face at this time. In this situation, the formation he set up could no longer be hidden.

  Jade crystal veins exist fifteen meters underground, so Xia Peng's formation is set up ten meters below the surface. Qing Luan's substantial energy attack will definitely force this formation to appear, but Ling Hua's divine sense can't detect it.

  Xia Peng didn't want to show up and stop it, all the way until Qing Luan bird descended underground ten meters, he still hadn't thought of a suitable solution.

  Originally, Qing Luan thought that Leng Hao was just playing around and didn't take it seriously, but when she felt the sudden burst of his formation technique, her eyes shook with a hint of astonishment, for she had not expected that there was actually something extraordinary about this place.

  "Xiao Xu Mi Zhen!" Qing Luan gazed at the bursting formation and softly exclaimed.

  Leng Hao naturally also saw that it was a small Suzaku array, his past life could set up the Ten Sides Extinguishing Refining Heaven Burning Sea Great Array, and in terms of array techniques, he was not ordinary at all, enough to be called an array master.

  The effect of the Xiao Xu Mi formation is to conceal one's aura, quietly and calmly sensing the operation of the formation. The details of the setup are very much in place, and the power of the formation is fully exerted. However, there are many places where the operation is obscure, and it is clear that the enemy is well-versed in this Xiao Xu Mi formation. But the setup seems to be done hastily, and should have been set up recently.

  "Setting up a small array to conceal the fluctuations of the jade crystal mine, it's clear that they're trying to guard against me. Although large jade crystal mines are precious, their attractive force is not great for ordinary powers, after all, mining requires enormous manpower and material resources, taking a long time. If Great Yan Country discovers another mine, in the future, there will be more offerings for those major cultivation sects. It seems that they must have already discovered the Jade Crystal Emperor and are planning to break through to the Jade Crystal Sovereign." Cold Hao's mind slowly turned over, thinking about who was most likely to do such a thing.

  "It shouldn't be an outsider who doesn't know the island, to set up this small Mustard Seed Array, setting it up to such a degree, must be a Loose Immortal. This kind of cultivation, directly wiping out me and erasing all lives on the island would be the most convenient way, but instead adopted this cumbersome method of array setup, seems like it's for someone familiar."

  "An acquaintance? Proficient in elementary formation, cultivation is a loose immortal. Calculating this way, there are only a few people in the Great Yan Kingdom who could have received news and sent someone here. It should be only Leng Lingtian. Leng Lingtian guards the Great Yan Island and cannot leave easily, which would arouse suspicion. So he must have sent Xia Peng here." After five hundred years of experience, Leng Hua calmly deduced the person behind the scenes.

  "It's fortunate that it was Xia Peng, if it were someone else, they might have really made a move on me under the temptation of the Jade Crystal Emperor's Liquid," Cold Hao knew that if it were the Zhao or Li family's elder, they would probably kill him to silence him and then use the liquid to cultivate their own talented clan members.

  Xia Peng has a son named Xia Fei, and he is currently in a state of cultivation. It just so happens that he can be used now. However, the brotherly affection between him and Leng Ling Tian is indeed real. When Xia Peng returned, he didn't have any other ill intentions.

  "Boom!" Just as Leng Hua was still thinking, Qing Luan let out a cold snort. With her loud shout, the Qing Luan divine bird let out a high-pitched cry and flew directly into the sky, circling for a moment before diving straight down.

  The Xiao Xu Mi array didn't have much defensive function, its main function was to cover up various energy fluctuations. Therefore, in the collision with Qing Luan Shen Niao, the Yu Jing of the array formation exhausted its energy and shattered, and the Xiao Xu Mi array was destroyed.

  The smoke and nitre had all dispersed, inside the ten-meter deep pit, there were points of crystal light flashing about. "This is..." Qing Luan said somewhat hesitantly, a look of wild joy appearing on his face, "Yu Jing?"

  Qing Luan stretched out her hand and beckoned, and the few pieces of jade crystal buried in the ground jumped up and flew into her hands. "Low-grade jade crystal?"

  Qing Luan's face didn't show any disappointment, it was clear that this place was just the outer area of the Jade Crystal Mine, only low-grade jade crystals were normal, and as you went deeper, the quantity would increase and the grade would also get higher.

  "Can you feel the passage here, Aunt Qing Luan?" asked Leng Hao. The Jade Crystal Xuan Wang required nourishment from the entire vein of ore, and for the jade crystal to form, it had to absorb enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Therefore, although the jade crystal vein was deeply buried underground, because it had been absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth for many years, it would also open up a secret passage leading to the surface.

  Qing Luan's usable spiritual power was much stronger than Leng Xiao's, she nodded at Leng Xiao and first called the other three maidservants to come here to protect Leng Xiao's safety. Then she slowly closed her eyes and began to use her spiritual power to investigate.

  It wasn't until about half a stick of incense had burned that Qing Luan slowly opened her eyes. Her face was somewhat pale, clearly having expended a great deal of energy. She needed to use her spiritual power to thoroughly investigate every inch of this mountain range, but it was an enormous undertaking.

  "There are seven channels in total, all of which are connected to the bottom. You can reach the depths of the mine by walking through any one of them. The closest channel to us is over there," Qing Luan said, pointing to a small patch of forest on the north side of the mountain top.

  "Then let's go and take a look," said Leng Hao.

  "No way, there's an array formation here, so there must be other powerful enemies present. Let's call all of Wang Hu and the others over," Qing Luan said.

  "Hmm," Ling Hao nodded, no matter what, it's better to be cautious, in case he guessed wrong, if it wasn't Xia Peng, that would be dangerous. Although Wang Hu and his men were from the Haijiao unit, which was Cold Ling Tian's elite unit, as long as he hadn't fallen out with Cold Ling Tian yet, these people would fight to the death to protect him.

  Not long after, when Wang Hu knew that the crown prince had discovered a mineral vein on the mountain top, he immediately brought everyone to the mountain top, more than 300 people, and directly occupied the entire mountain top.

  Leng Hao didn't intend to conceal the mineral vein. Every time a mineral vein was discovered, the jade crystals that were slowly dug out would be handed over to the Cultivation Sect for 80% of them. The remaining 20% would be used to support the miners, and what was left wasn't much either.

  What Leng Hua was really after was the Jade Crystal Imperial Liquid. To say nothing of a large jade crystal vein, even a mountain of jade crystals couldn't compare to a single drop of Jade Crystal Imperial Liquid.