A hastily built rest base.
Everyone sat around a large stone table that Guizhong had just piled up with rocks.
They chatted and laughed while eating bread.
However, from time to time, everyone would glance at Xiao, who was slumped helplessly on a stone chair.
Their gazes were filled with sympathy and awe.
Especially when Xiao occasionally retched, at which point everyone's gazes would turn to pity.
After a long while, Ningguang was a bit helpless. After finishing the last bite of bread and restoring her fullness to maximum,
She then looked at Jiang Xuan and said:
"Seriously, Jiang Xuan, how could you trick the Conqueror of Demons? All this way, we've relied entirely on the Conqueror of Demons for protection."
Jiang Xuan didn't agree with a single word of Ningguang's.
"What do you mean 'trick'? I'd call that 'sharing delicious food'! Besides, I ate that carrot too, and there wasn't a single problem."
At the mention of carrots, Xiao's face changed. He immediately turned his head and continued to retch.
It seemed that Xiao never wanted to see carrots again in his life.
This made Zhongli feel a pang of sympathy, and he shook his head helplessly, saying:
"Your carrots, after all... are not something everyone can accept."
"Now this, I have to talk about!"
Jiang Xuan became interested, straightened up, and said earnestly:
"First, you have to understand the rules of bone meal fertilization. Sprinkle that stuff, and it makes crops grow."
"And the crops that grow, as long as they're harvested, don't even need washing. There's no dirt, no grime, and their size and taste are perfectly consistent."
"Your worries about bone meal residue are just because you can't get over that mental hurdle. It's not like you haven't eaten carrots just pulled from the ground before."
"Second..."
Jiang Xuan paused, then shook his head somewhat helplessly.
"I've told you many times, there are no intelligent life forms in this world, whether it's zombies or villagers."
"They're just like puppets. Their life essence is completely different from ours."
"They won't have any thoughts. You've seen it; when you kill monsters, they only leave drops and then disappear into green smoke."
"Why do you think that just because they have human forms, they are human lives? Besides, they're all made of blocks!"
"What's more, Liyue's crops should also have methods of fertilization, right?"
"You can imagine that I use slime condensate to fertilize. Although it's a bit strange, there's nothing unacceptable about it."
Everyone's expressions were a bit strange. Jiang Xuan observed their faces for a while but still couldn't see any signs of acceptance.
Regarding this, Jiang Xuan said no more.
For them, whose ideas were deeply ingrained, bone meal was indeed difficult to accept in a short time.
No matter what, it was still the bones of humanoid creatures.
If they accepted it too quickly, Jiang Xuan would have to consider if there was something wrong with their dietary preferences.
However, bone meal fertilization was an important way to solve the food problem.
Jiang Xuan naturally didn't want Ningguang and the others to avoid it because of these issues.
"How about..."
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment, took out an iron bucket filled with water, and tentatively asked:
"Wash it before eating?"
"..."
Everyone fell silent for a moment. Finally, Ganyu couldn't bear to see Jiang Xuan left in an awkward silence.
She spoke up to ease the atmosphere.
"Well... Jiang Xuan, everyone has lived in Teyvat for so long, it's definitely hard to change their minds. Maybe we should put the bone meal fertilization aside for now."
"That's right!"
Ningguang also smiled, her voice gentle:
"How about we now tally our mining gains so far? Judging by the time, it should be around three in the afternoon."
Seeing that they didn't want to talk more about bone meal fertilization, Jiang Xuan shrugged and didn't want to force them.
"Alright, everyone's rested up. Let's tally the mineral gains."
At the mention of tallying minerals, Ningguang was clearly energetic.
"First, coal ore. How many stacks do each of you have?"
Having mined until now, Ningguang was already too lazy to be enthusiastic about coal ore, even counting it individually.
Just as Jiang Xuan said.
This stuff really isn't worth much!
It appears in large patches, and after a few steps, it might be coal again.
Digging around might eventually lead to another space, filled with piles and piles of coal.
At first, everyone thought it was good.
But later...
As soon as they saw coal, everyone's faces darkened.
They came to mine, not for coal!
But this stuff, strangely enough, could be sold for Mora, and even if not sold, it could be used themselves.
Having developed to the current stage, Ningguang and the others had a unified understanding of coal ore.
A waste of time!
Keqing was the first to raise her hand:
"Ganyu and I each have five stacks. The rest, we gave to Jiang Xuan. This stuff takes up too much space."
"I, the Adeptus, have four stacks. Also, next time we encounter coal ore, can we please skip it?"
"Zhongli and I each have four stacks."
Finally, everyone turned to Jiang Xuan, who rolled his eyes and complained:
"Don't look at me! I already have nine stacks of coal, and even so, I've been constantly making torches and placing them in the mines."
"By the way, I still have five stacks of torches. Does anyone want to share some space for me? I'm almost out of space for good stuff."
As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the field chilled.
After a long while, Ningguang slowly said:
"Adding my four stacks of coal ore, that's a total of thirty-five stacks of coal ore, which converts to approximately... three hundred and seventy-two tons."
"Hmm..."
Ningguang's face also darkened.
Seven people mined for half a day and dug up three hundred and seventy-two tons of coal, and that was after wasting some on the way.
Such a miracle deserved commendation.
But Ningguang couldn't be happy.
Knowing full well that coal wasn't worth much, those who didn't know might think the seven of them were professional coal bosses!
"Three hundred and seventy-two tons of high-quality coal, whether sold to the market or kept for our own use in Liyue, is a pure profit."
Keqing spoke slowly, then changed her tone and said softly:
"However, we didn't come here to mine coal, so I propose that this is enough coal, how about it?"
"Any more, and neither Jiang Xuan nor we can carry it. We can't let coal waste our valuable carrying space."
As soon as her voice fell, everyone raised their hands in unison.
"Seconded!"
"This Adeptus also agrees!"
"Therefore, please do not continue mining coal ore if you encounter it again."
Everyone ganged up, completely knocking the exalted status of coal ore into the abyss.
Jiang Xuan had long anticipated this.
Coal, this stuff, he really didn't value it!
In his previous life, when he played games and went mining, he hadn't found diamonds, but his backpack was full of coal.
However, digging up so much coal this time wasn't without its benefits.
Jiang Xuan's experience level had risen to forty-seven, which was enough for him to perform a few simple enchantments.
However, Jiang Xuan's level was useless to him; it could only be used for enchanting.
Perhaps it could also be used when the Battōjutsu Sword mod was enabled in the future.
But for Keqing, Ganyu, and the others, experience points were much more useful.
Half of those experience points went to Jiang Xuan, and the other half went into their Visions, strengthening their elemental power.
Although the improvement was limited, there was still the principle of accumulating small amounts to make a large one!
Moreover, Xiao could also use experience points to suppress his karma.
This was also why everyone was so enthusiastic about mining coal.
Speaking of elemental power, this made Jiang Xuan a little envious.
Although his fists were hard, in Teyvat, even the Heavenly Principles would get a punch to the face from him.
But being able to command the elements was itself a human dream!
Jiang Xuan had mentioned it to Zhongli, asking him to help him get a Vision. He didn't care if it was strong or not, at least it would look cool to wear.
Zhongli said he would help look into it, but Jiang Xuan felt it was hard to say if it would work out.
The Vision, this thing, wasn't issued by the Seven Archons themselves, as some people in his previous life had speculated.
Seeing Zhongli's cryptic demeanor, it was probably related to the Sky Island or the Heavenly Principles.
But none of that mattered.
What truly mattered was that he, Jiang Xuan, had set his sights on the Vision!
Heavenly Principles or Sky Island, if they were sensible, they would give him a cool Vision.
If not, Jiang Xuan would give them a middle part.
That's how confident he was with a big fist.
However...
Ganyu and the others' experience points all went into their Visions, so how would they enchant their weapons?
Could it be?
He'd have to use his own experience points to help them?
That would be too ridiculous!
…
"Jiang Xuan! You're spacing out again."
Suddenly, Ganyu's breath brushed Jiang Xuan's face, interrupting his thoughts.
Snapping out of it, he saw Ganyu staring at him helplessly under the dim torchlight.
They were very close, so close that Jiang Xuan could see every detail on Ganyu's face.
There were no fine hairs, like a pure white jade.
Tender, slightly alluring under the flickering light.
Ganyu seemed to feel that she was a little too close to Jiang Xuan, her face flushed, but she didn't retreat, just glanced around nervously.
"Sorry."
Jiang Xuan smiled, looking away and saying:
"I was thinking about coal just now. What were you talking about?"
Ningguang took in Ganyu and Jiang Xuan's little interaction.
But she said nothing, her expression unchanged, as gentle and elegant as ever. She was a woman who never showed flaws or weaknesses.
No one could ever know her true thoughts.
"We said, we've tallied the iron ore. So far, all the iron ore we have combined is five and a half stacks. What about you?"
At the mention of iron ore, everyone felt a bit of pity.
Unlike coal, if iron ore was like coal, Ningguang and the others would happily clear out all their inventory slots and fill them with iron.
For no other reason than, iron was truly valuable!
In this world, Jiang Xuan needed a large amount of iron to make tools, armor, rails, pistons, and mechanisms.
All of this required massive amounts of iron to support.
And in Teyvat, Ningguang had already figured out the market for iron ore in this world.
Iron ore produced in the MC world, due to its excellent quality, if disassembled and smelted, would be about ten percent more expensive than normally circulating iron.
But if whole iron ingots were packaged and sold, the price would be a hundred times that of Teyvat's Magic Ore!
Because one iron ingot, though only about the size of a palm, weighed nearly a ton.
Both the properties and the quality and weight of the iron ingots justified this price.
In other words, the five and a half stacks of iron ingots in Ningguang's hands alone weighed three hundred and four tons.
Worth hundreds of millions of Mora!
Of course, Ningguang had no plans to sell the iron ingots for now. This stuff was too scarce for pioneering. She would consider it once miners arrived.
Moreover, it had been agreed upon that these resources would be prioritized for Jiang Xuan's use.
Jiang Xuan was stunned for a moment when he heard Ningguang say she had five and a half stacks of iron ingots.
But he immediately started rummaging through his inventory, then chuckled, sounding a little happy:
"I have a full stack of iron ore here!"
"Six and a half stacks! We're rich now!"
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