Chapter 36: If You Have Money, You Should Spend It

  "Good grief!"

  Huoran's face couldn't hide his joyful expression, he walked to the side of the spiritual liquid pool and pointed at the few green auras that occasionally flashed within it, saying: "The most precious thing in this dragon vein is not the thousand jin spiritual liquid, but rather the life origin essence stone at the bottom of the pool!"

  As he spoke, he squatted down and reached his hand into the pool. The spiritual liquid that had condensed from the overly dense heavenly and earthly spiritual energy in the pool entered his hand, feeling cool and refreshing, causing the pores on Huo Ran's arm to open wide, allowing the spiritual energy to seep into his body, filling his vast purple spiritual sea without needing refinement, becoming his magical power.

  "Whoa..."

  His fingers touched something at the bottom of the pool, and he suddenly grasped it, only to see a green glow in his palm, with a corner of a green crystal visible through the gaps between his fingers.

  "It's really the Yuanyuan Jing Stone!" Although the Yuanyuan Jing Stone was a treasure, it wasn't particularly rare. Su Yanzi naturally recognized it. Seeing Huo Ran pick up several of them, she hastily snatched them over and hugged them in her arms. Her lively eyes were full of laughter: "These are mine now!"

  He put away the three infant-sized Yuanjing stones and stored them in his own Dantian. As for Huo Ran, he simply shook his head and smiled, not minding at all, knowing that there were still more at the bottom of the pool. Thinking of this, he took out a jade bottle, chanted an incantation, and pointed the bottle's mouth towards the pool. The spiritual liquid in the pool seemed to be drawn by something, transforming into a stream that flowed into the jade bottle on its own. However, the palm-sized jade bottle appeared to have no bottom, having already contained an amount of spiritual liquid many times exceeding its volume, yet it still didn't overflow.

  This jade bottle is very common, with a Mustard Seed Dharani inside, can hold 100 kilograms without overflowing!

  Seeing Huo Ran's jade bottle collecting spiritual liquid, Su Yanzi, this ghost spirit, naturally did not want to fall behind. She also took out a jade bottle and pinched the "collection" finger technique to collect the spiritual liquid from the pool. In this way, the spiritual liquid in the pool continued to decrease, while the two of them changed one jade bottle after another.

  Seal!

  When the last drop of spiritual liquid entered the jade bottle, Huo Ran hastily sealed the mouth of the bottle and then stared at the bottom of the pool with wide eyes. As for Su Yanzi, she was even more exaggerated, shedding a string of saliva without any ladylike image, and the spirituality in her eyes had long been replaced by greed.

  No wonder she would do this, only because the number of Yuanyuan Jing stones at the bottom of the pool was far beyond his imagination. Huoran knew that there must be more Yuanyuan Jing stones at the bottom of the pool, but he never expected to find hundreds of them!

  Wow!

  Su Yanzi was always direct, and this time was no exception. She directly jumped into the dry pool, picked up dozens of green life essence stones with one hand, and exclaimed excitedly: "So many! Not only are there hundreds of life essence stones, but also countless spiritual stones!"

  Ling stone and ling liquid are generally the same, both being extremely concentrated spiritual energy of heaven and earth that has formed over thousands of years. The difference is that ling liquid is purely condensed from spiritual energy, while ling stone is a mixture of spiritual energy with some precious stones. In other words, the spiritual energy contained in ling stone, whether in terms of quality or quantity, cannot compare to that of ling liquid.

  Although that's the case, the number of spirit stones is really too many now, at least tens of thousands, and if calculated by extracting the spiritual energy from them, it's not less than a thousand kilograms of spiritual liquid. More importantly, on this continent, spirit stones are used as currency, which is why these two people were so shocked.

  "This dragon vein is not small at all!" After the excitement, Su Yanzi sighed and raised Huo Ran's status to a very high level in her heart. No kidding, someone who can find dragon veins can't be simple!

  After a brief astonishment, Huo Ran regained his composure and jumped into the pool, starting to sort out the green Yuanshen Jing stone and the milky white Ling stone. Half an hour later, Huo Ran gazed at the mountain-like pile of Ling stones and sighed, "I really didn't expect that a hundred-zhang-long dragon vein would produce so many Yuanshen Jing stones and Ling stones."

  "There must be some over there too, go get them!" Su Yanzi pointed towards the direction of the dragon's body, where the rocks were quite strange and formed a dragon scale shape.

  Upon hearing Su Yanzi's words, Huo Ran gave her a glance. Inside the dragon's body, there must be many spiritual stones, and the entire dragon's body added up would definitely exceed that of the dragon's head. However... to obtain the spiritual stones, one must excavate the dragon's body, which is no different from destroying the dragon's pulse! Even if Huo Ran had a million guts, he wouldn't dare do it!

  As for the things at the dragon's head, as long as they don't destroy this entire stone cave, it doesn't matter. Because any dragon vein is actually a natural formation, through the extension of the dragon's body and gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at the dragon's head, it will form spiritual liquid or life yuan essence stone.

  The two of them stared at the hundreds of Yuan Jing stones and the small mountain-like pile of Ling stones, and couldn't help but fall silent. In the end, it was Huo Ran who broke the silence, opening his mouth to say: "How are these going to be divided?"

  "Dividing spoils is a difficult thing, many people can share the bitterness but not the fortune. In the end, it's all about disagreements when distributing benefits, resulting in broken relationships and scattered loved ones. Having lived on this earth for 23 years, Huo Ran naturally knew the root of such matters. Similar situations could turn even close brothers against each other, let alone his relationship with Su Yanzi, which was like ships passing in the night. So, when he said these words, he had already secretly prepared for battle, guarding against the opponent's sudden sneak attack and sole possession of this enormous wealth."

  Su Yanzi naturally didn't know what was on Huo Ran's mind, or maybe she wasn't afraid of him. After he finished speaking, she rarely showed a slightly embarrassed expression and said: "Uh... the dragon pulse was found by you, and I just helped dig some soil, so if you don't mind, giving me 30% would be fine!"

  Upon hearing Su Yanzi's words, Huo Ran looked at the girl who had caused him trouble with a slightly surprised expression. For the first time, he felt that this girl wasn't so annoying after all, and was actually quite cute at the moment.

  "I'm Li Ran!" Huo Ran smiled and extended his right hand, saying his alias as if he had already begun to identify with this troublesome persona. Although he identified with it, the two had known each other for less than a day, and the name "Huo Ran" had long been notorious, so he naturally wouldn't reveal his true name, especially since he was wearing a mask at the time - alias, fake face...

  "Huh?" Upon hearing her own name being called out by Huo Ran, she actually stretched out her right hand. Su Yanzi was momentarily stunned and just stood there with a strange expression on her face.

  Realizing that he had actually done something friendly on Earth, he couldn't help but smile and explained: "This is a way of showing friendship in our hometown." He gestured to the other person to extend their hand, then grasped the soft and delicate little hand, saying: "It's like this, yeah, from now on we're friends!"

  After Huo Ran let go, Su Yanzi quickly withdrew her hand, a blush rising to her face as she muttered: "There's actually such etiquette, it's really strange..." She didn't know that previously when she had taken the initiative to hold onto Huo Ran's arm, she hadn't felt any awkwardness at all, but now that Huo Ran had just held her hand for a moment, why was she blushing...

  Huoran smiled and waved his hand, collecting sixty percent of the Yuanjing stones and Ling stones. He pointed at the remaining 'spoils of war' and said: "Here, these are yours!"

  "Huh?"

  From the time she met Huo Ran, to when he refused to help her get rid of that middle-aged man, Su Yanzi had labeled him with the two words "small-minded". However, at this moment, this small-minded man actually volunteered to give up 10%, which really surprised her.

  Seeing Su Yanzi's expression, Huo Ran guessed what she was thinking. Not wanting to explain this point, he only said: "Don't be stunned, hurry up and take it away, otherwise when people come, we'll become someone else's fat sheep!"

  "You're the fat sheep!" Su Yanzi, who had returned to her usual careless self, pouted and put away the remaining Life Origin Stones and Spirit Stones. She then glared at Huo Ran and said, "Don't you know that girls hate it when others say they're fat?"

  "It's a pity you're not a girl."

  Huoran burst out laughing and returned to the ground along the original path, while Su Yanzi stomped her foot heavily and followed him out.

  At this time, the sun had long since disappeared, and the high-hanging moon in the sky shed a curtain of light. The two of them seemed to have discussed it beforehand and fled westward, trying their best to get far away from this dragon vein land.

  "Haha, in the blink of an eye we've both become rich!" The two of them, who had fled thousands of miles, stopped and Su Yanzi's face couldn't hide her joyful expression as she asked: "Li Ran, where are you planning to go?"

  "Go to the nearest city!" Huo Ran thought for a moment and decided to go to the nearest Iron Mountain City. Anyway, he had nearly 30,000 spirit stones, which could be used to buy some medicine in the city that would help suppress Li Qingqing's internal cold disease.

  However, when Su Yanzi heard this, it had a different meaning. She smiled at Huo Ran and said: "Not bad, now that we have money, of course we should go and spend it lavishly!"

  Huo Ran: "......"