Opening his eyes, Gangyan saw himself lying in a cave, with crystal lamps hanging not far away. In the dim light, Su Chen walked towards him.

"You are awake? How do you feel?" Su Chen asked.

Gang Yan sat up and scratched the back of his head: "The bed is a little small."

Su Chen smiled: "You are not seriously injured, but your muscles are a little torn. I have used brute force and source technology to fight hard. This is the first time I have seen it... It's done a good job."

Gangyan smiled a little embarrassedly.

Then he turned around and saw something lying in the corner. It was the terrifying beetle. He was startled and jumped up instinctively.

"Don't be nervous, it won't hurt you." Su Chen waved his hand at Gangyan.

Maybe I got used to it. After strolling around outside, the gold-eating worm automatically returned to a corner of the cave and lay down without moving.

Gangyan sat back in disappointment.

Su Chen handed over a bottle: "When you drink it, your injury will heal faster. But at the cost, you may be weak for a day, or diarrhea or something, but there will be no big problems."

"Oh." Gangyan took it honestly and drank it in one sip.

Seeing his silent and obedient look, Su Chen suddenly said, "Why did you help me just now?"

Gangyan replied in a straight voice: "You are my master, of course I want to fight for you."

"But you are not my soldier, you are just my servant, fighting is not your responsibility. And if I die, you will be free."

Gangyan shook his head: "I didn't think about it, I just thought I should do that."

"There is no other reason? For example, if you like me as a master, do you think I treat you better than the black hand, or something else."

Gangyan continued to shake his head: "I have followed four masters, you are not the one who treats me the best. My second hostess is, she is very gentle and never lets me do heavy work, and is very nice to me."

Su Chen laughed: "You really don't flatter. So why does your former mistress want you again?"

A darkness flashed in Gangyan's eyes: "She didn't want me. She died. In a fight, she was attacked and killed by a despicable guy from behind."

"Sorry." Su Chen said.

Gangyan lowered his head and sat there without saying a word.

Seeing his silent appearance, Su Chen's heart moved.

He said: "Do you want to be my soldier? The kind that fights specifically for me."

Gang Yan Yidai: "I don't have the power of source energy."

"I can teach you."

Gangyan shook his head: "I'm very stupid. I've taught me all three masters before, but I just can't learn it."

"Do you can't learn well or can't learn?"

Gangyan thought about it and replied: "It should be because he couldn't learn well. The Rock tribe has very low ability to sense source energy and is very slow to practice."

"But I can still learn it, right? It's just slow."

"But I don't want to learn." Gangyan lowered his head: "I hate fighting and don't like killing."

Su Chen was stunned. After a while, he said, "Killing is indeed not a good thing, but only by mastering the power can you control your own destiny and avoid being killed. Don't you want to become stronger? Don't you want to avenge your dead hostess?"

Hearing the last words, Gangyan's eyes shone with a bright look.

But the next moment, the spirit disappeared.

He lowered his head and said dejectedly: "I can't beat that person. He is very strong... You can't beat him either, we can't beat him together."

"But it's just now." Su Chen pressed Gangyan's shoulder: "If you believe me, maybe I have a way to improve your cultivation speed."

Gangyan looked up in shock and saw Su Chen's confident eyes.

A heat surged in my heart, and Gangyan nodded slowly: "Okay, I'm willing to be your soldier. What do you need me to do?"

"Now..." Su Chen smiled: "I'm sorry, although your former hostess never let you do heavy work, I can't be so generous. Who made me have no one under my command now? Go and mine and dig out all the star silver mines in this mountain. When will we finish digging, when will we go out, and I will take you to practice."

"Yeah!" Gangyan put a little bit of his heavy head.

In the following days, Gangyan fell into the rhythm of mining wholeheartedly.

Although this cave is a food hole for gold-eating insects, it has a limited appetite. Once you are full, you will not eat it anymore. Therefore, the consumption of the mine is far less than that of the insatiable humans. For human miners, as long as they can dig, they will not stop grabbing.

For this reason, there is still a certain amount of star silver ore here, which are turned out in pieces under the hoe of the steel rock.

In this case, the gold-eating worm became a problem.

Whenever I was hungry, the big beetle would come over, dig in a bunch of ore, eat a lot before leaving.

There were so many ore that Gangyan had dug out with hard work that this guy had eaten. So Su Chen simply gave the ring to Gangyan and asked him to put the ore into the storage ring as soon as it was released.

The gold-eating insect couldn't steal food, so she hummed around the steel rock without attacking it, and looked more like a pug. Seeing that it was quite interesting, Gangyan sometimes secretly gave the gold-eating insect some broken ore on her back. The gold-eating insect was not picky about food, and she was extremely happy to eat, but she became more and more entangled with the steel rock.

Su Chen knew about this, but he didn't care.

He is very busy.

Now, in addition to practicing source skills every day, he also has to read Ulric's notes and learn ancient Aowen.

The knowledge left by Ulric is very complicated and lacks a system. He was entirely exploring it alone. But it is precisely because of this that Su Chen is better understood. Because these notes record in detail the entire process of a person pursuing the ancient arcane way, from not knowing anything to achieving something small. If it were really those profound and complex things, Su Chen might not be able to understand it. Only this kind of continuous exploration and exploration, full of personal guesses and imagination, makes Su Chen easier to understand.

The process of following Ulric's notes was Su Chen's exploration of ancient arcane techniques, and he soon became immersed in it. Through those words, Su Chen had a relatively deep understanding of the former Aoshi Empire. The magical country that once created 30,000 years of glory had made countless great discoveries and countless inventions.

The powerful source forbidden puppet that can fly and escape from the sky; the energy device that can extract source power from the air as power; the unheard of life transformation and bloodline extraction techniques, as well as various magical and magnificent ancient arcane techniques, etc., were all invented and circulated by the Austrian tribe in that era.

The blood system on which people rely on for survival now is just a small branch of countless studies of the Aoshi Empire.

When Su Chen thought of this, he felt unparalleled shock.

Unfortunately, these studies eventually disappeared into the dust of history with time. Now even the Ao tribe itself cannot do it to recreate its former glory.

When he was free, Su Chen called Gangyan over and taught him the technique of absorbing the dart frog.

I have to say that the Rock Clan is really stupid, and they probably have stones in their minds. A simple darting frog absorption technique, Steel Rock was used for four nights before barely able to use it. I think he could use it skillfully in one night.

In terms of comprehension, the Rock Clan's comprehension is about half that of the normal human race.

But perhaps it is precisely because they are all a bunch of stubborn minds that the Rock Clan is so loyal.

There are losses and gains, you can never expect a person to be smart and flexible and absolutely loyal to you. Such a person actually does not exist.

After understanding this, Su Chen felt relieved.

Today, Su Chen was studying an experiment in his notes, and suddenly heard the sound of Gangyan outside: "Don't come over, I can't give this to you!"

Su Chen walked out and saw Gangyan holding a star-silver ore and the gold-eating insect ran after the ore in Gangyan's hand. It was not malicious, but the pair of giant sickle-like jaw teeth were really terrible, chasing Gangyan around.

"Why don't you put the ore into the ring?" Su Chen asked.

After the ore is inserted into the ring, the gold-eating insects will not smell it and will not make trouble.

"The ring is full, I can't put this high-purity piece, and it keeps chasing me." Gangyan replied distressedly.

"Then give it."

Although he was a little reluctant, Su Chen didn't want Gangyan to be chased like this.

The Star Silver Mine drew a beautiful arc and flew into the distance. The gold-eating insects were like a well-trained hunting dog. They rushed over and bit the ore and swallowed it in one bite.

The satisfied gold-eating insect no longer tangled with steel rock. First, he rubbed the mountain wall in the corner a few times. After pulling out a few lumps, he shook his head and went to sleep on the other side.

Gold-eating insects are life, and life naturally has physiological needs. Su Chen doesn't care about this. Anyway, this guy was transferred by Ulric and taught him, and knew that he would find a corner to solve the problem, so he didn't have to worry about Su Chen and the others. Just when Su Chen was about to go back to the cave, he saw some light flashing by in the feces of gold-eating insects.

Su Chen was stunned and walked over.

Because the gold-eating insects swallow a large amount of metal ore, their feces are not smelly, and they are mostly hard slags, supplemented with a small amount of clay, which at least doesn't look so disgusting.

Su Chen smashed the clay gravel dung ball wrapped outside, and a piece of silver-white light shining inside was revealed, looking like star silver but not star silver's strange metal.

"Star Silver Essence?" Su Chen exclaimed in surprise.

The essence of Star Silver is a high-quality metal that re-smelted and refined into a large amount of Star Silver. It is specially used to make high-quality source devices and can increase source energy conductivity. It is no longer accessible to source gas gurus of Su Chen's level.

Su Chen didn't expect that something like Star Silver Essence would appear in the feces of the gold-eating insect. At that moment, the first thought that flashed through Su Chen's mind was: Is this a coincidence? Or is it normal?

Thinking of this, Su Chen suddenly smashed the dung ball in front of him to see if he could find a second piece.

No, no, still no.

He looked up and rushed into the darkness where there were chunks of feces left by gold-eating insects everywhere.

Bang bang bang bang bang, and in the continuous knocking, finally, another light flashed.

Su Chen picked up a silver-white metal ball that was obviously much smaller, and his eyes showed excitement.

"Master?" Gangyan walked over in confusion: "What are you doing?"

He couldn't understand why Su Chen suddenly became interested in the feces of the gold-eating insects.

"Nothing." Su Chen suppressed his joy in his heart and said, "It's just that next, you have a new job to be busy."

"What job?" Gangyan asked.

"Sweep the manure." Su Chen replied.

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Chapter completed!