Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 317 Black Gold

King Qin Guang and King Chu Jiang sighed, finally resigned themselves to their fate, shook hands, and made peace before departing.

"Don't go yet!" Yunyi called out to the two ghosts. "You've damaged this place badly, and many souls have been nearly destroyed by you. You can't just leave and abandon it, can you?"

"Let's clean up." King Qin Guang smirked.

"Yes." King Chujiang nodded in agreement.

"I'm going back." Meng Po waved her ladle at Yun Yi. "Day after day, the big and small ghosts never stop causing trouble." Then she swayed her willow-like waist and drifted away.

"You guys go ahead with your work, I'm going back too." Yunyi waved her hand. She had already wasted more than half an hour here, and more than a day had passed outside. If she didn't go out soon, those two guys would probably go crazy with worry.

Everyone respectfully saw off the princess.

"By the way, where is my mother now?" Yunyi turned back after taking a few steps, looking at King Qin Guang and King Chu Jiang.

"This...it's a secret of heaven that cannot be revealed." King Qin Guang looked at Yun Yi with affection. "Things in this world will naturally come together if we are destined to meet."

"That's like saying nothing at all." Yun Yi waved her hand and left through the Gate of Hell.

It was already evening of the second day outside, but the sky was still bright. You could easily spot Yun Hong and Zhao Xiaobei sleeping side by side on the big rock.

"Boss Ghost, mission accomplished." The ghosts couldn't appear during the day, so the Day Wanderer was on guard now. Seeing Yunyi come out, he happily ran over, "They're all alright."

"Are you just letting them sleep like this?"

"Yes." The Day Wanderer nodded. "They won't be afraid if they're asleep, and they won't be tainted by our bad luck, right?"

"You guys are really smart." Yunyi gave a thumbs up. "Alright, everything's fine inside now. You can go do whatever you need to do."

Finally, the door that had been hanging in the air disappeared, and everything returned to normal.

Yunyi glanced at the two sleeping people and poked them one by one.

"Huh? Why am I still sleeping?" Zhao Xiaobei woke up first, rubbing his eyes and sitting up.

"Young Miss?" Yun Hong sat up abruptly. "What happened to me?"

"It's nothing, I just slept for two days." Yunyi turned and left. "Let's go back."

Zhao Xiaobei and Yun Hong exchanged a glance. She slept for two days? What happened? But seeing that Yun Yi didn't want to talk about it, the two didn't ask any further and got up to follow her down the mountain.

They were in a hurry going up the mountain, but not so much going down. So, Yunyi led the two laborers to gather some medicinal herbs.

Besides being treacherous, Qinglong Mountain is also teeming with poisonous plants and insects. If it weren't for the ointments and medicines that Yunyi had prepared in advance, anyone bitten by a poisonous insect would have died here.

But these poisonous insects and plants are treasures to Yunyi.

"I'd heard that Qinglong Mountain was terrifying before, and now that I'm here, I've finally experienced it for myself. The first time I came in, I accidentally touched a dewdrop on a blade of grass, and my hand swelled up for two days," Zhao Xiaobei chatted as he walked. "And then I also discovered a black stream."

"Hmm? A black stream?" Yunyi suddenly stopped in her tracks.

“Yeah, that water was pitch black, full of dregs.” Zhao Xiaobei shook his head.

"Where is that stream?" Yunyi's eyes lit up.

"It's over there." After determining the direction, Zhao Xiaobei pointed and said, "In that ravine over there."

"Take me there." Yunyi glanced over there, then turned to Yunhong. "You go back and continue to oversee everyone's training."

Yun Hong also wanted to go, but then she thought about how she couldn't neglect her training, so she nodded.

Zhao Xiaobei remembered the wrong direction, so he walked through three mountain valleys before finally finding the stream.

The dark stream confirmed Yunyi's guess; the stream passed by a coal mountain.

Yunyi smiled. This coal is a good thing; at least it will promote the progress of heating and cooking in the future.

Looking at the smile on Yun Yi's lips, Zhao Xiaobei was completely baffled. What kind of treasure was this dark water?

Yunyi didn't explain, but instead followed the stream upstream until she found a pool and saw a small waterfall with a drop of only two or three meters above it, then she stopped.

The small waterfall doesn't have a large flow, but every now and then it carries down a black stone. The stone settles in the pool and then flows down to form a stream.

The pool wasn't deep, only about half a meter, and the bottom was all dark rocks.

Yunyi picked up a black stone from the edge and examined it, becoming increasingly excited. Such a huge coal mine—if it were developed, it would be simply…

"Boss, what is this thing?" Zhao Xiaobei couldn't contain his curiosity any longer.

“Good stuff.” Yun Yi glanced at Zhao Xiaobei. “Let’s call it black gold.” Black gold.

Zhao Xiaobei's eyes widened. Black gold? What can it be used for? But since the gang leader said it was good stuff, it must be good stuff.

"Can you go back by yourself?" Yunyi asked Zhao Xiaobei.

"Huh?" Zhao Xiaobei didn't hear clearly.

"I said, can't you go back to the team by yourself?"

“I…” Zhao Xiaobei hesitated. The journey had seemed simple, but he had actually discovered many poisonous creatures and beasts around him, as well as poisonous weeds and swamps on the ground. However, since he was with Yun Yi, he could just walk with his eyes closed. Letting him go back on his own… was not impossible, but it would probably be very difficult.

"I'll have Sixteen take you back," Yunyi said, summoning Sixteen. However, Sixteen didn't come along; it would take some time for him to arrive. "Just wait a moment, I'll go up and take a look." With that, she took out a grappling hook from her backpack, threw it onto the rock above the waterfall, and then used it to climb up.

As Zhao Xiaobei looked at Yun Yi's agile figure, he was thinking: How can the gang leader's backpack, which is only so big, hold so many things?

Once Yunyi reached the top, she discovered that the pool above was even larger and connected to a cave, requiring a boat to access it. Therefore, all she could do was climb over the mountain with the cave to check the situation on the other side.

After she flipped over, she couldn't help but laugh; over there was her wealth valley.

In this way, she now possessed a mountain of gold and a mountain of coal.

So, she still doesn't have enough people under her command.

But it doesn’t matter, just take your time.

When she came out of the mountains, the second round of trials had already ended. Out of the thirty people, four were eliminated, leaving twenty-six.

Stone was the most regrettable. If he hadn't been scared unconscious, passing the level would have been no problem at all. But the competition is just that cruel.