The place where Meng Zhang killed the sandworm was not far from Taiyi Gate, more than fifty miles at most.

Not long after the messenger was sent out, Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling came over on a horse chasing the wind.

Arriving in front of Meng Zhang, Tian Zhen couldn't wait to ask.

"Master, what is so urgent that you want my uncle and I to drop everything and rush over immediately?"

He glanced at Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling, who each had several storage bags beside them. There were even several storage bags placed on the saddles.

"You followed my instructions and brought all the usable storage bags in the door?" Meng Zhang asked without answering.

After receiving Tian Zhen's affirmative answer, Meng Zhang led them to the body of the sandworm, pointed at the pile of fiery red objects, and slowly explained to them.

It turns out that in addition to hunting prey and devouring blood, monsters like sandworms sometimes also eat large amounts of earth and rocks.

When eating earth and rocks, sandworms often inadvertently swallow various minerals.

The pile of fiery red objects exposed in the sandworm's stomach is copper ore.

Due to the corrosion of gastric juice, most of the earth and stone in these ores have been digested, revealing relatively pure red copper.

The knowledge that Meng Zhang acquired in the trial area was all-encompassing and covered a wide range, including a lot of knowledge about ores.

According to Meng Zhang's judgment, these copper ores should come from a copper mine.

The sandworm, which often travels underground, somehow found the red copper mine, and its natural instinct allowed it to swallow a large amount of ore.

Fortunately, red copper is relatively difficult to digest, so it can be retained in the sandworm's stomach.

If these two sandworms met Meng Zhang for a while at night, Meng Zhang would probably miss this discovery by the time the cuprite is completely digested.

The activity range of sandworms is not very large. As long as you follow the movement tracks of these two sandworms, you will definitely be able to find the red copper vein.

Red copper is a spiritual metal material often used in weapon refining, and its price is not cheap.

In the endless sand sea where all kinds of materials are barren, even if this red copper vein is just a poor ore, its value is very high.

Moreover, Meng Zhang judged from the quality of the copper ore remaining in the sandworm's belly that the reserves of this copper ore vein should be quite high.

For the impoverished Taiyimen, if they could find and mine this red copper vein, they would make a fortune.

That's why Meng Zhang felt happy.

As the head of the Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang also has a lot of pressure on him. Especially the financial situation of the Taiyi Sect is indeed not good.

Taiyimen's main income comes from the nineteen acres of spiritual land.

After a year of hard work, the income from spiritual grains, spiritual fruits, etc. can be converted into spiritual stones, no more than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones.

With such a small income, he still has to hand over 300 low-grade spiritual stones to Shuangfeng Valley every year as a routine offering.

In the past, the Taiyi Sect was unable to support the cultivation of its disciples and was very nervous.

Some time ago, Taiyi Sect experienced changes, and although it lost many disciples, to a certain extent, it also reduced the supply pressure of the sect.

However, Taiyi Sect cannot develop forever, and the number of disciples will gradually increase in the future. By then, providing for disciples to practice will still cause great financial pressure.

The things Meng Zhang counted in the Taiyi Sect's warehouse included less than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones. However, the Taiyi Sect's accumulation over the past decades was the result of the hard work saved by successive heads of the Taiyi Sect.

Living frugally and saving money is the final accumulation of the sect.

Meng Zhang would enter the trial area almost every night.

Ten low-grade spiritual stones are consumed each time. After converting the remaining materials, it costs almost five low-grade spiritual stones.

The consumption of fifteen low-grade spiritual stones each time may not seem like much, but over time, it becomes a large amount.

The materials in the warehouse are the materials in the Taiyi Sect. They belong to the entire Taiyi Sect and are not the private property of one person.

In the past, the successive heads of the Taiyi Sect all understood this very clearly.

In Meng Zhang's generation, because Taiyi Sect only had two or three big cats and kittens, and Tian Zhen, who was in charge of general affairs, was also a die-hard supporter of Meng Zhang, he allowed Meng Zhang to do whatever he wanted.

Meng Zhang also knew very well that he did not distinguish between public and private affairs. If things continued like this, it would definitely bring huge harm to the entire sect.

If he hadn't killed the three brothers of the Zhang family and obtained nearly four hundred low-grade spiritual stones, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to consume such a large amount of spiritual stones and supplies.

Now there is a red copper vein, which can be said to be a windfall, and it can solve the problems of Meng Zhang and Taiyi Sect in one fell swoop.

But Meng Zhang's thinking was still careful. After calming down, he discovered the trouble in between.

As a vassal of Shuangfeng Valley, Taiyimen must hand over at least half of the revenue from the mineral resources discovered around its territory to Shuangfeng Valley.

Moreover, Taiyi Sect currently has neither manpower nor material resources to mine this red copper mine.

After the copper ore is discovered, I am afraid that most of the benefits will fall into the hands of Shuangfenggu, and Taiyimen will only get a little leftover water at most.

This is not the worst case scenario.

After the news of the discovery of cuprite spreads, it will definitely attract many locust-like roving cultivators.

Among the casual cultivators there are many extremely vicious people like the three brothers of the Zhang family.

If some casual cultivators are really interested in making money, and wantonly loot the surrounding areas, or even directly attack the Taiyi Sect's headquarters, then the Taiyi Sect will be in big trouble. If they are careful, they will be in danger of being destroyed.

Meng Zhang thought for a moment and decided to conceal the existence of the red copper veins.

Let’s wait until the Taiyi Sect has the ability to protect itself and develop its capabilities in the future.

After Meng Zhang told Tian Zhen and Taoist Master Xuanling everything about the incident and his decision, they all agreed with Meng Zhang's decision.

Especially Taoist Master Xuanling, he felt that Meng Zhang, the leader of the Taiyi Sect at such a young age, could think things through so carefully and was not impulsive at all, which was really a blessing for the Taiyi Sect.

According to Meng Zhang's arrangement, the three of them began to use the water-making technique to create a large amount of clean water, which was used to simply clean the ore in the sandworm's belly, and then put it into a storage bag.

The sandworm has a big belly, and there is a lot of copper ore in it.

The three of them spent a lot of effort to clean all the ores and put them into the storage bag.

As for the flesh and blood of the two sand worms, apart from the large amount of blood collected by Meng Zhang, the rest was naturally cheaper than the three Wind Chasing Horses.

This was the first time since the three chasing wind horses were subdued by the Taiyi Sect that they had such a feast. They had a good meal, and each of them had a full stomach.

After eating the three wind-chasing horses, he had a long night and a lot of dreams, and he didn't want to waste it. Meng Zhang directly cast a spell to burn the remaining flesh and blood of the two sandworms, and then cast a spell to clear the ground and bury all the residue deep underground.
Chapter completed!