Chapter 57: Taking Advantage of the Fire to Loot

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  The yam and blue valley are growing well, and the icy fruit is also slowly recovering its vitality under the nourishment of the spiritual mist.

  And under the nourishment of the fertilizer of the six giant corpses including Da Bao, Bing Han Guo is undergoing some kind of mutation. After experimentation, Gu Gua found that the mutated Bing Han Guo can give the consumer a weak ice resistance.

  And this variation is still changing constantly, as long as this process continues, then the Ice Fruit will eventually mutate into a new magical plant.

  Unfortunately, I don't have a good grasp of magic medicine yet, otherwise making some magic medicine would be a good idea too. Gua was controlling the crystal ball while thinking to himself.

  After finishing the Spirit Mist Technique, Guagua transformed all the remaining magic power in the crystal ball into a menacing ice cone outside the Black Castle.

  In the more than ten days since the Frost Giant retreated, a 5-meter-wide moat was even formed outside Pailos Castle, with countless ice cones standing upright at the bottom of the moat, shining with a murderous glow in the cold weather. In case the Frost Giant comes back and brings more Frost Giants to attack Pailos Castle again.

  After doing all this, Guagua called up the report of the Law Master's Eye and saw the situation around. It was still okay, no big problem. But when the information from the Law Master's Eye on the Frost Giant's Nest appeared on the crystal ball, Guagua's face changed a bit.

  Seeing the Frost Giant's priest, Beast Head, wearing human robes and bringing human food to bribe his own kind, Gu Gua knew that this guy must have colluded with humans in some way.

  As he watched the beast head take away those women and children, leaving the old, weak, sick and disabled in the tribe, Guagua rose up with the idea of taking advantage of the fire to loot and kill.

  Thinking of this, Guagua arranged the situation in Pailisburg and monitored the situation around the castle with the eyes of the law master. He brought all the fighting dog-headed people and ice claws to rush towards the Frost Giant's nest.

  The Frost Giant's lair wasn't too far away, just a day's journey. They set out at dawn and finally arrived at the Frost Giant's lair by noon.

  When entering the nest, those several old frost giants didn't even put up a decent resistance.

  The battle in front of the crazy Harick was a foregone conclusion, he was like a flea jumping around, swinging his giant axe into the Frost Giant's lair like a whirlwind.

  The remaining Frost Giants were old, weak and crippled, and having not eaten well for several days, they were quickly breached by Harick's defense. Under the cover of Ice Claw, the Dog Head people, who had always liked to fight with the wind at their backs, excitedly charged in, using long spears to continuously stab the Frost Giants.

  Those mighty frost giants who once were so majestic have fallen to this state today, where the tiger falls into a humble village and is bullied by dogs.

  After killing all the frost giants, Guagua even discovered that the ice claws he brought with him had also undergone mutations due to being stained with the frost giant's blood. On the body of the ice claw, a web-like network was formed, and after the frost giant's blood circulated in these networks and disappeared, it greatly enhanced the ability of the ice claw, lowered its temperature again, and increased its physical strength.

  In this battle, Gada fought alongside the warriors and took advantage of the opportunity to absorb a lot of Frost Giant's blood, and his withered body recovered somewhat. His mage level was still hovering at 0, it could be seen that while his magic pet provided him with great power, it also diverted some of his abilities, making his current growth very slow.

  Valley melon glanced at him and walked towards the depths of Frost Giant Cave as if he hadn't seen anything.

  Right behind, Gua led Bingzhao into the Frost Giant's treasury.

  Inside, apart from a large number of stinky animal hides and bones, there were many minerals and gemstones. Finally, in the coldest cave, Guagua found two things that were not quite the same.

  One was a massive damaged war drum, on which an ancient unknown giant beast was carved, opening its huge mouth, infinite sound waves spewed out from its mouth full of fangs, shattering all the enemies in front into powder. It looked like it would be very cool, but unfortunately, the surface of this war drum had rotted.

  The magic circuit drawn above is still faintly visible, but the drum surface is bursting, and it's absolutely ineffective.

  Kuwa placed his hands on the giant war drum, closed his eyes, and could feel a powerful force contained within it. It seemed as if something filled with majesty and ferocity was weakening and fading away inside.

  But the power inside was not willing to perish, it crazily yearned for blood and soul to fill its emptiness.

  "Indeed, it's a magical instrument. Its power should be considerable." He drew some of the Frost Giant's blood on the giant drum, and the spirit within the massive war drum was slightly invigorated, producing an almost imperceptible resonance with his own mage aura.

  Gua's heart moved slightly, and he let the Ice Claws carefully carry out this old war drum as a spoil of war to bring back to Pailos Castle.

  Then, he continued walking deeper into the cave.

  Another treasure revealed its true face.

  A single frost plant that looked like it was made of crystal grew like a sunflower, gently swaying in the cave of the Frost Giant.

  A faint water-based magical power is being emitted from this frost-covered plant, enveloping the entire Frost Giant's lair, cleansing and tempering the Frost Giants' bodies, increasing their physical strength and resistance to magic.

  At this moment, this water-based magic has become very thin and can no longer provide much bonus to anyone.

  Gua suddenly understood that this frosty plant was something similar to the spiritual vein and spiritual eye of his previous life. Generally speaking, this kind of plant is an important sign for distinguishing spiritual veins, and at the same time, it is also an important medium for converting spiritual veins into spiritual energy that cultivators can use.

  Valley melon leaned down, lightly sniffed this frost plant, before he could react, the entire frost plant was like countless ice butterflies, turned into a fluttering piece, flying towards his mouth edge's two whiskers!

  This change shocked Gua, and before he could dodge, the ice butterflies had already landed on his beard, gradually turning into countless light spots. In an instant, a piercing coldness surged up his body, freezing him completely in place! Instantly, Gua's entire person was like a crystal craft, fully revealing a dog-headed man with a beard, frozen in the moment of lowering his head in surprise and dodging.

  The spiritual vein under the Frost Giant Cave had been completely absorbed by this ice frost plant, which was also the root cause of the decline of this tribe.

  Now that Ling Mai and Ling Yan have found an object that can take them away, they immediately exert their last strength and fully attach themselves to it.

  A piercing chill spread from his beard to the bottom of his heart, and he was frozen to the core, almost to the point where his thoughts stopped.

  In this extreme silence, Gua felt that there was something in his soul, something so familiar, yet only a thread, but full of pure power and aura.

  What is this? This is the strand of hair with the Heavenly Dragon's aura that the Heavenly Dragon Princess gave him!! The strand of hair has been struck by the Heavenly Tribulation and has become somewhat disheveled, no longer having the smooth luster it had when it first appeared, but instead a dull and limp appearance. However, the pure and true aura within still hasn't faded in the slightest.

  He was like a bystander, watching the green thread in his soul leisurely stroll to the side of his two whiskers, and suddenly merge with them like hot soup melting into snow.

  Suddenly a scalding feeling made Gua scream! It was as if a ladle of boiling oil had been poured directly onto his face, especially those two weak mustaches!!!

  To the dog-headed men who were searching the giant cave, their respected shaman simply smelled a flower and then the flower suddenly disappeared. The shaman let out a loud cry and fell to one side, rolling about in agony.

  A terrible heat wave surged around Gua, and the glacier under his body melted at a visible speed, turning into misty steam.

  "Hurry! Move everything out!" Guagua shouted loudly. As they watched Guagua rolling around in pain, the situation around them became terrifying again, and the Dog Head people didn't know why, but subconsciously obeyed Guagua's command, moving all the spoils of war out, including the eight corpses of the old Frost Giants.

  The melon rolled on the ground, and the ice under its body melted quickly. Soon it had melted all the ice under its body clean, then its body felt light, and it fell from the ice cave to the solid ground.

  After the severe pain and convulsions subsided, Guagua got up from the ground with a big sweat, only to find that he had fallen into a deep hole.

  He looked up to find that he had already burned a large hole in the Frost Giant's cave, and fallen onto the solid ground beneath the glacier. The Frost Giant's cave above his head had collapsed, buried under countless pieces of shattered ice.

  Gua unconsciously twirled his mustache, suddenly let out a loud cry of pain, and was shocked to find that his mustache had swollen up like it had been scalded in boiling water. Instantly, his dog-like face fell.

  Then, relying on his excellent communication skills, he communicated with the ice claws outside and ordered them to rescue themselves.

  Just as he was about to shift his attention entirely to his whiskers, he suddenly felt a shock and discovered that all the dragon vein blood in his body had gathered on these two whiskers. As for the dragon clan's bloodline alone, it could already be considered 100% pure dragon clan level.

  Just by feeling the pulse of blood on these two whiskers, Gua felt a dizzying sensation, he held his own head, involuntarily closing his eyes, as if wanting to squeeze out that throbbing pain from his brain.

  Just as he closed his eyes, golden stars flashed before him, then formed a long river of light that flowed quietly beneath his feet.

  Gua opened his eyes again, and with the dog-headed person's dim vision, he could see clearly on the ground in the dark cave without any light. He casually flipped over a few cold stone blocks on the ground, revealing two stones with iron-red color.

  Gizzard swallowed the two red stones like licking candy, corroded into dregs in gray acidic liquid, spat out, and then re-refined the effective components in the gel-like part.

  It turned into a silver-gray pure iron piece the size of a fingernail, seemingly still a mysterious iron.

  Does this seem like a vein of mystic iron ore? Or an open-pit rich mine!

  Gua closed his eyes again, carefully looking at the light river in front of him, and then compared it with the mineral vein in front of him. It seemed that he had grasped something important. Was it possible that this whisker of his could allow him to sense the existence of the mineral vein?

  Now it's settled, you should know that the Dwarves are a born mining race! As for other artistic cultures and so on, the Dwarves are just a backward and ignorant race. But when it comes to innate talent in digging holes and mining, apart from the Dwarves, no other race can be mentioned in the same breath, not even the despicable and shameless Halflings!

  After walking a few steps, Guagua judged that this mineral vein was about 500 meters wide, and the length was not very clear. The mineral deposits were extremely rich and could be mined for many years! With this mineral vein, as long as it is properly mined, the economy of Dog Head people will inevitably be greatly improved, and if they also learn smelting skills, it will be even more incredible!

  Thinking of this, Gua even started smiling wryly, and with that smile, his mustache twitched again, making him hurt even more.

  He is now in a state of weakness due to high fever, with all his energy concentrated on the two whiskers, and these two whiskers have inexplicably merged with that heavenly dragon hair, leaving him unaware of how this body of dragon blood will evolve.

  Should I become a powerful and domineering body like the dragon tribe of this world, or a elegant and mysterious physique like the Eastern Heaven Dragon clan?

  While he was indulging in his fantasy of his future dragon body, the voices of Tu Duo and Tu Ba came from above: "Boss!!! Boss!!! You fell into the hole?!!"

  Gua shook his head, somewhat helpless about the low IQ of these two brothers, and turned to walk down towards the entrance. It seemed that Bingzhao had already dug through the collapsed Frost Giant's cave.

  A rope came down, Guagua tied the rope to his waist, made a knot and shouted: "Pull up!" The several-meter-high cave was quickly finished, and Guagua returned to the surface of the glacier again. Finally, after it was almost dark, he brought the dog-headed people back to Pallasburg.

  This time, the most harvested were animal hides and bones. These had no great use and were divided among the villagers of Gokou. After being washed and dried, they were made into leather goods for the Dog Heads to sew into clothing. The animal bones were carved into tools, while the animal hides and bones with magical powers were collected and stored in a warehouse.

  The corpse of the Frost Giant was also brought back, and after being drained of its last drop of blood, it was buried under the castle as fertilizer for the farmland.

  Secondly, there are some unpolished gemstones. The most valuable one is that damaged big drum, which was placed on the second floor of the Fa Xiang Tower for Gu Ya to carefully examine. There's also that ice and frost plant marked with spiritual veins, which has now been absorbed by Gu Ya's beard, causing his whole body to feel dizzy and hot, falling into a state of high fever.

  Sitting cross-legged in front of the crystal ball, he slowly absorbed the magic within it to replenish himself due to the sudden growth spurt of his whiskers that caused dizziness. At the same time, he sent out the Mage's Eye to follow closely behind the Frost Giant's ceremonial beast, monitoring its actions from a distance.