"What a tiring job."
Early in the morning, Li Mo stretched and put the memory metal away.
In one night, only three hair-thin impurities were extracted. It would take at least half a year to completely extract all the impurities from the memory metal.
But Li Mo wasn't in a rush. Even if he finished now, he wouldn't add it to the magic tool he was refining. Memory metal was meant to be added when the magic tool was finished.
Li Mo took out the jar shaped magic tool embryo. He wanted to refine it, but felt tired and gave up.
Li Mo put away the water jar and stepped out of the door.
Zheng Hualong stood at the door, watching Li Mo, who snorted when Li Mo's gaze landed on him.
'What's the meaning of this?'
"Overdrawing your lifespan to use chief's magic tool may have won, but you can't make up for your lost lifespan."
Zheng Hualong sneered and left.
He misunderstood. He saw Li Mo's wobbly steps and pale face, thinking Li Mo used his lifespan yesterday.
"If using this magic tool costs lifespan, then wouldn't I have died a thousand times over using the Staff of Origin?"
Li Mo shook his head.
At noon, Wang Yexing held a banquet for all members of the inspection team.
Zheng Huahu used some kind of spiritual medicine, but after a night's rest, his body was mostly healed. He still couldn't use too much strength, but he could walk on his own.
Zheng Huahu glared at Li Mo. He didn't want to admit defeat.
"Both of you, come, come, sit!"
Wang Yexing stopped the two from looking at each other and kept them far away from each other.
Wang Yexing sat in the main seat with Zheng Hualong on his left and Li Mo on his right. Next to Li Mo was Silver Heroine Lin Qingrou.
Lin Qingrou was still wearing her mask and sunglasses, hiding her face.
Zheng Huahu squinted at Lin Qingrou and snickered, "Silver Heroine, I'm curious. How are you going to eat in that state?"
Lin Qingrou sat back, showing that she didn't eat.
Zheng Huahu laughed heartily. Teasing Lin Qingrou improved his mood quite a bit.
Wang Yexing toasted a glass of wine and cut to the chase.
Wang Yexing's explanation was simple. The ancient ruins were real, but the Dragon Transformation Grass and the Farmer God Cauldron were fake and didn't exist.
"If you don't believe me, I'll bring you to the Ancient Ruins tomorrow. You'll know when you get there."
Zheng Hualong replied, "It's not that I don't believe you, but seeing is believing. President Wang, we will investigate this matter on our own. I hope that you can cooperate with us as much as possible."
"Of course."
Zheng Hualong said, "Since that's the case, then let's set off for the ancient ruins now. There's no need to wait for another day. What do you think, President Wang?"
Wang Yexing's expression didn't change. He smiled and said, "Of course, I'll go prepare now. We'll set off in an hour. Leader Zheng, what do you think?"
"Sure." Zheng Hualong nodded.
Wang Yexing ordered his subordinates to prepare a carriage. He did not leave but continued to chat and laugh at the banquet.
An hour later, everyone left the Wang Residence. When they arrived at the entrance, they saw Wang Le and Wang Ying still kneeling in front of the electric three-wheeled motorcycle.
The surroundings were filled with onlookers, pointing and laughing from time to time.
Zheng Hualong frowned, "President Wang, yesterday was just a misunderstanding. There's no need to do this, is there?"
"Whether there is need or not depends on them, but team leader Li."
Wang Yexing smiled at Li Mo, "Then kneel."
Wang Le and Wang Ying shuddered at his words.
Li Mo was never one to indulge those who came looking for trouble. Now he was pleading for them?
Would they appreciate it?
Not at all. Then why would he plead for them?
Li Mo, Zheng Hualong, and Zheng Huahu got in Wang Yexing's car, followed by the rest. As the car drove off, Wang Le let out a roar of grief and anger.
The car left the city and got on the highway. Two hours later, Zheng Hualong asked, "President Wang, is the Ancient Ruins far from the capital?"
"Very. It's on a mountain near the Wang clan's ancestral residence."
Li Mo's heart jumped.
Others might not know where the Wang clan's ancestral residence was, but Li Mo did. Wang Yexing's ugly son, Wang Huan, lived in Huanglong Mountain.
"My Wang Clan's ancestral home is located on the Yellow Dragon Mountain, and the ancient relic is also on the Yellow Dragon Mountain. However, under normal circumstances, whether it's an ordinary person or a Mutant, it's difficult for them to discover the entrance to the relic. The reason why my Wang Clan was able to find out about it was due to a coincidence. This story starts from my grandfather's grandfather's generation.
Wang Xingye's story was not complicated. Back then, his grandfather's grandfather collected herbs for a living. One time, he went to the Yellow Dragon Mountain to collect herbs and accidentally entered the ancient ruins. It was also from the ancient ruins that his grandfather's grandfather collected a large number of herbs and earned a large amount of wealth. In the end, he became rich and established one of the three great families in Chuan Province, the Wang Mansion.
It was then that the method to enter the Ancient Ruins became the Wang clan's greatest secret. For hundreds of years, the Ancient Ruins was the Wang clan's foundation.
"Team leaders, you may not know this, but if it weren't for the fact that the herbs in the Ancient Ruins dried up, I wouldn't have ventured into the depths of the Ancient Ruins. I had no other choice."
Zheng Hualong asked, "What's with the ba serpent?"
Wang Yexing's face didn't change, "The Wang clan's Dragon Herb and Farmer God Cauldron may be false, but the ba serpent is real in the Ancient Ruins."
Wang Yexing smiled bitterly, "For ten years, I tried everything I could, but all I could do was drive the ba serpent into the deepest part of the Ancient Ruins. Killing it was impossible."
"What's the Ancient Ruins?"
"It's at the center of the ancient ruins. There's an unknown poisonous pool there, and near the pool, there are all sorts of poisonous flowers and plants. Don't even mention picking them, just smelling the poisonous gas emitted by the flowers and plants is enough to instantly kill a Level 4 expert."
"Antidotes won't work, nor will gas masks. The poisonous gas from the plants can even corrode gas masks. It'll only take a few seconds for the gas mask to fall apart."
"What kind of poisonous plant is this? It's so poisonous!" Zheng Huahu was tongue-tied.
"With my Wang Clan's knowledge of medicinal herbs, we can only recognize the names of three or four types of poisonous herbs. As for the types of poisonous herbs that grow in that area, I can roughly remember that there are more than twenty of them."
"But don't worry, the poisonous gas will only gather near the pool. As long as we don't get close, there won't be a problem!"
Zheng Hualong and Zheng Huahu kept asking Wang Yexing about the ruins, while Wang Yexing closed his eyes and dozed off.
In the Zheng brothers' eyes, Li Mo's behavior was that of overdrawing his lifespan.
Wang Yexing looked out the window and pointed at the mountain.