Chapter 43: The Value of Di Ming Jing

  With Wen Xiyue, they settled down in the cave, of course, because they had already had rich experience in digging holes, so this time Wu Yeyu spent some thought to make their home better than before.

  "Night Rain Brother, have you been here before? How come you're so familiar with the inside? Hmm, looking at these digging marks, it seems they were indeed made by your hand! Were they prepared beforehand?" After settling down, Wen Xue Yue leaned on the table, biting into a fruit and asked curiously.

  "Uh, yeah, I did this myself when I first came to this forest. I killed a bunch of crocodile beasts and the bloody smell was too strong, it seemed to attract two high-level demon beasts. Luckily, I ran away in advance, or else you might not have seen me today~" Wu Ye Yu pinched Wen Xue Yue's little face and said, but was immediately dodged by her, who also made a ghostly face at him.

  "Haha! As it turns out, maybe it's true that good fortune follows great hardship. When I was digging my way to escape, I unexpectedly stumbled upon a small vein of precious ore! Hehe, I'd say that's a pretty decent windfall!" Wu Yeyu said with a self-satisfied grin spreading across his face.

  "Earth Essence!?! Brother Wu, you actually dug up this rare ore! Is it a small vein? This is simply unbelievable! Are you sure that's Earth Essence? Our family has been collecting Earth Essence for decades and we've only managed to get a dozen or so pieces. Some were bought at high prices on the black market, some were auctioned off, each piece is extremely valuable. Even when they were forging whips back then, they only mixed in a bit of powder, but even that raised the whip's grade significantly. This ore is not something people will easily let go of, every year our tribe only discovers a tiny amount, and each time it appears, many forces will fight for it!" Wen Xueyu said with her mouth agape, clearly disbelieving Wu Ye's good luck, thinking he must have mistaken it for another type of ore.

  "Really? Is it that exaggerated? It's just a piece of ore, isn't it said that this earth essence only has the function of increasing smelting degree? Maybe it's just randomly changing attributes, how can it still upgrade equipment quality?" Wu Ye Yu asked in doubt, secretly considering that the system shouldn't deceive itself, after all, what's the necessity?

  "Night Rain brother, you're so silly! Doesn't increasing the fusion degree mean that it can be better combined with other ores? As long as we prepare the corresponding materials, upgrading the weapon's quality is a piece of cake! Of course, the higher the level of the material, the harder it is to fuse together. You don't even know such simple logic, how embarrassing!" Wen Xiyue covered her mouth and laughed, looking like she was very pleased with herself. "As for what Night Rain brother said about randomly generated properties, I haven't heard of that before. I suppose it's because the Daming essence is too precious, so few people use a large amount of this ore to forge weapons." The little girl said uncertainly.

  "Oh, I see," Wu Ye said casually, licking his lips, "Then, how big is a piece of land considered to be one block? Is it like this?"

  After finishing speaking, Wu Ye Yu stretched out his hand and a basketball-sized piece of Dijing Jing appeared in his hand. He tossed it in his hand and flipped it over, hmm, the quality wasn't very heavy, it was light and airy.

  The result was tossed around, and it was discovered that the Dēng míng jīng in hand had already been taken by the little loli, who held it tightly in her arms, examining it carefully with an extremely serious expression, as if this angular mineral were a truly extraordinary thing. In fact, this was still one of the smaller pieces from Wu Ye Yu's space, and there were some that were the size of water buckets, which he had piled up in a corner of his space, not very convenient to take out. The larger minerals had been absorbed by the system when he dug them up, as his space was too small at the time, and it wasn't easy for him to handle, so they were disposed of on the spot.

  Wen Xue Yue raised her head, looking at Wu Ye Yu with a serious face: "It's really Di Ming Jing! Brother Ye Yu, you've struck it rich! This is the largest piece of Di Ming Jing I've ever seen. It's equivalent to the total amount our family has collected over the past few decades, and there's still some left over! What he just said was actually only about the size of a fist!" After finishing, Wen Xue Yue even took out her own small fist to compare it twice.

  "Oh, that's at least worth twenty or thirty bucks, right?" Wu Yeyu stared blankly at Wen Xiyue's fist, then looked at the ore in her arms, and carefully asked, "How much did your family pay for the Diming Jing from the auction house back then?"

  "Hmm~ I think I've been to an auction with my grandfather before, and that time our family happened to bid on a piece too. Hmm! That's right! It should be 800 million taels of gold! Yes, it was exactly that much! I even held it in my hand for a while back then, it's just like the one you have, Night Rain brother, only much smaller."

  After hearing Xiao Loli's words, Wu Yeyu's body shook violently, his mouth wide open as if he could swallow a durian whole, saliva dripping everywhere, and his throat emitted an unconscious sound. His mind was completely blank, unable to think of anything, only feeling like he had been hit on the back of the head with Sun Wukong's golden hoop rod, rendering him speechless.

  Although Wu Yeyu's previous life was very unsophisticated, even less than a recluse in his previous life, at least the recluse had a computer to do graduation design, and could know everything without leaving home. But that little fat man was a thorough and complete otaku, compared with him, those who claimed to be otakus in their previous lives seemed so hypocritical.

  But even such a little fatty, also knows the gold exchange ratio of this world, one or two gold = ten silver, copper coins and so on in this world do not exist, so silver is the smallest unit of currency.

  But that's enough, 800 million taels of gold is equivalent to 8 billion taels of silver! With so much money, what else would you worry about cultivating resources? Whatever is lacking can be bought later!

  Wu Ye Yu wiped his mouth and sniffled, secretly rejoicing in his heart, "Fortunately, I didn't sell these ores back then. If I did, those gods and demons would have swooped in and turned me into a sieve! Luckily, I thought ahead and took precautions. Sigh... it was really close!"

  At this time, Wu Ye Yu felt the benefits of being in a different realm for the first time, and that was that money came ridiculously easily. With these 800 million taels of silver, he would have been considered to have achieved great success in his past life, but here it was just a prerequisite for getting stronger. There were still many treasures hidden in his space, so later on, he wouldn't need to worry about money anymore. First, let's give himself a round of applause!

  Wu Yeru adjusted his mindset and refocused, looking at Wen Xiyue who was still poking the ore with her little finger. He swallowed hard and asked: "If this thing is so valuable and has such a great effect, can your family afford to eat it?"

  "Brother Ye Wu, have you thought it through, do you want to sell it?" Wen Xue Yue looked at Wu Ye Yu and said, "You must think carefully, this thing is hard to come by, once sold, it's a thousand times harder to get back. This is something that cultivators can't find easily, it's the material needed to forge high-quality weapons, ordinary people won't sell it!"

  "Huh? That's right! Brother Wu Ye Yu, just now you seemed to say that when you first came here, you discovered a small-scale earth essence mine vein? Then how did you get such a large piece of earth essence? So-called small-scale mine veins are generally referring to very small ones, even if they're all added up, it's probably about this big! You can't have any more, right?" Wen Xue Yue asked in shock, recalling Wu Ye Yu's words just now.

  "Hmm! I do have some stock left, but I reckon it's just enough for me to use, so I won't be able to sell any more. You see this piece of land in your hand, can the Wen family really afford it?" It wasn't that he didn't trust Wen Xueyue, but rather that such a large thing would be hard for her to explain later on. If he told her that he still had a lot left, and the one she was holding onto was just relatively small, wouldn't the Wen family go crazy? They would definitely come looking for him to make trouble later on.

  "Eating down such a large piece of land... hmm, Brother Ye Yu, although I don't want to admit it, but my family really can't take it down. That's over 200 billion taels of gold! After all, apart from buying ore, our family still has many industries, and it's hard to come up with so much money in a short time, otherwise it will affect the operation of the business." Wen Xiyue frowned and analyzed.

  "That's easy! At that time, your family just needs to pay me 1 billion taels of gold..." Wu Yeyu said, pausing for a moment.

  "How can that be! Brother Ye Wu, aren't you suffering a huge loss?! I don't agree with this at all! I'd rather have you divide up such a large piece of land and sell it separately than do it like this!" Little Loli immediately spoke out in opposition after hearing Wu Ye's words.

  "Hmm! Not bad, Xi Yue is still very sensible, starting to take care of her husband so quickly, worthy of praise ~ not in vain for the husband's doting love for you! Haha haha haha!" Wu Ye Yu laughed with narrowed eyes.

  "Oh no! You're talking nonsense again! I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you!" Xi Yue's face suddenly turned red, her small fists kept hitting herself, looking quite angry and embarrassed. "If you keep on spouting rubbish, I won't bother with you anymore! You can figure it out yourself then! Hmph!"

  "Who's spouting nonsense! I'm being serious, but I hadn't even finished speaking yet and you interrupted me." Wu Ye Yu put down the ore and placed Wen Xue Yue on his lap, despite Little Ya Tou's struggles, she ultimately couldn't escape Wu Ye Yu's grasp and just let it be.

  "Well, go on then! I'm listening. See if you have anything else to say!" Little Loli's face turned red as she tilted her head and said.

  "Uh, just now I was thinking that at that time, your family only needs to pay me 1 billion taels of gold, and the rest will be considered as my dowry to your family in advance~" He whispered into Wen Xiyue's ear, feeling the delicate body in his arms tremble slightly. Then, he turned Wen Xiyue's small face around and pressed his lips against her soft, warm lips.

  "I'm not kidding, I'm telling the truth."

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