Chapter 8： Gambling on stones

Chapter 8 Gambling on Stones

In the next period of time, no more customers came to the door. Seeing no one around, Long Xuan closed the stall.

Although there are still seven small strong Gu that have not been sold, I have made six middle-grade spiritual stones today, which is equivalent to six hundred low-grade spiritual stones. This is no longer a small sum for a casual cultivator. Long Xuan is very Contentment.

With a huge sum of money in his pocket, he finally had the confidence to go shopping for treasure.

Long Xuan couldn't wait to go into the depths of Fangshi to find the piece of black iron and the high-grade spiritual stone that he had always missed.

However, after a month and a half, how could we meet again by such a coincidence?

What's more, every Gu cultivator is busy cultivating and collecting resources in the wild. It is impossible to set up a stall here every day. Whether you can come across it can only depend on luck.

After searching for a while to no avail, Long Xuan could only give up in disappointment. It seemed that he did not have the aura of the protagonist.

But it doesn’t matter, there are too many treasures. One day, a bunch of new stall owners and new treasures won’t flow into the market. The treasures are endless.

The old treasure will not go away and the new treasure will not come. The new treasure flowing in may not be worse than the old treasure.

Long Xuan adjusted his mentality and walked towards a shop that occupied an unusually large area.

Some time ago, a new chamber of commerce settled here, which deals in fossils. Countless fossils were piled up in the yard of the shop.

In this world, there are many sources of spiritual insects, some are caught in the wild, and some are artificially bred.

The elixirs in the medicine garden can also produce insects, but only the insects spawned by high-grade elixirs have the value of refining gu. The insects spawned by the first-grade elixirs on the street will be beaten to death by insect killers.

Some spiritual beasts also have certain spiritual insects parasitic in their bodies, including those that may be innate in humans. They are called innate spiritual insects. Such people are often geniuses with incredible abilities.

There are also some spiritual insects that come from underground, such as earthworms, mole crickets, ants...

Even hard stones may have worms in them, and the quality may be quite high.

The ice age that the earth will enter every long cycle actually exists in this world as well, and it will be even colder.

During this period, the temperature dropped sharply, the cold current invaded the entire world, and the coldness encroached on every corner. The entire surface was covered by snow and glaciers, and the entire world entered a world of ice, covered with white snow and biting cold wind.

At this point, the earth will usher in eternal winter, and the earth will no longer experience a day of warmth for countless years.

During this period of time, surface plants were frozen to death on a large scale, and the earth would no longer produce food. All living things in the world would either freeze to death or starve to death, and all life would be cut off. I don’t know how many species would be extinct during the ice age, and there would be very few survivors.

Insects are considered to be the most survivable type of life form. When the Ice Age comes, insects all over the world will crawl underground under the leadership of high-level spiritual insects and enter a dormant period. At the same time, their bodies will be covered with a layer of... A thick layer of stone clothing is used to isolate the cold air from eroding.

Insects that enter the dormant period will fall into a state of suspended animation, all body functions will stop functioning, they can never eat or drink, their energy consumption will be suspended, their lifespan will also be at a standstill, and they can survive endless years.

Until external factors disturb them, they will wake up and slowly crawl out of the stone clothing. When they come out again, tens of millions or even tens of billions of years may have passed.

These stones with ancient spiritual insects inside are called fossils by Gu cultivators.

The spiritual insects in the fossils are too far away. It is very likely that there will be rare species, or even species that have been extinct for countless years. They are of great value. Once discovered, you can easily get rich.

However, it is impossible for all spirit insects to survive the Ice Age. Most spirit insects will freeze to death even if they have stone clothing to protect themselves from the cold. There are very few spirit insects that can survive that period. Therefore, most of the stones are filled with dead insects, which have already become true fossils over the endless years. There is not a single stone with live insects left.

In order to maximize profits, the forces that control the fossil mines sell all the fossils and transfer all the risks to others. Whether they lose or make money depends entirely on personal luck.

As a result, the stone gambling industry that became popular all over the world came into being.

One sword makes you poor, another makes you rich, and one sword cuts through linen. This industry is about heartbeat.

Even though most people lost money, the majority of Gu cultivators still enjoyed it, hoping that luck would be on their side and that they could get rich overnight by cultivating a heaven-defying insect seed. These people were all gamblers.

There are some rules in stone gambling. You can estimate whether there are live insects in the stone through the texture of the stone, so there are many stone gambling masters.

But even the most powerful stone gambling master in the world is only a few points more successful than others. No one can completely determine what is in the stone, whether it is a dead insect or a live insect.

But today there is an exception in this stone betting shop.

In Long Xuan's eyes, those stones whose progress cannot be seen naturally do not have worms, while the stones whose progress can be seen naturally have worms inside, and the stones with more numbers after the decimal point are better.

The entire Stone Betting Shop’s good stuff was just like it was given to him for free.

Long Xuan had a smile on his lips, continued to cover his face, and stepped in confidently.

This stone gambling shop is very large and is divided into several major areas. Fossils that are good-looking and have a high insect-infestation rate are concentrated in one area and sold at a high price.

Fossils that do not sell well and are more prone to dead insects are piled up in another area. This area occupies the largest area, and the fossils in this area are also cheaper.

The largest number of people gather in this area, and it is everyone’s mentality to take advantage of small things and make big mistakes.

They picked up the fossils, knocked and touched them, and studied them carefully for a long time. In the end, they had to make choices. Therefore, although there were many people here, transactions were not frequent.

The stones ranged from big to small, the small ones were only about the size of fists, and the big ones were four meters high. They were put on display in the middle of the courtyard and were called stone kings. There were a group of people watching around, touching the fossil and talking in their mouths. Amazing.

Of course, the price of this stone king is naturally the highest in the whole place. No one dares to buy it, and few people can afford it. It has been sitting there. Although there are many people watching, no one has made a move.

Long Xuan was also surprised by this stone king. How afraid of death was this spirit insect that it could form such a thick stone coat? No one would be able to freeze it to death with such a thick stone coat.

Presumably the insect rate of this stone king will be very high.

Long Xuan subconsciously activated the ability of Golden Finger, and sure enough, Stone King showed progress [82.68732%].

Good guy, there are five digits after the decimal point, which means that what is hidden inside may be a top-grade spiritual insect that has matured for more than ten thousand years, and the top-grade spiritual insect is a necessary material for refining the top-grade Gu worm.

Long Xuan’s eyes suddenly lit up and his heart beat wildly.

(End of this chapter)