Chapter 224: The wealthy Fan family, a treasure trove rich enough to rival a country
"Dajin!"
After working together with the golden eagle to kill the most powerful master of the Fan family, Li Dingguo immediately said to the golden eagle beside him, "Go to the air to patrol immediately. Anyone who tries to escape from the Fan family mansion will be killed!"
"Remember not to let anyone go, so as to avoid various hidden dangers in the future!"
Li Dingguo was not a saint, nor was he a soft-hearted person. He was of course very clear that the best option for this southward raid was to wipe out the enemies in the Fan family's lair.
"Chirp..."
Upon hearing this, the golden eagle nodded its big head, kicked the ground with its thick sharp claws, stretched out its pair of big wings, flapped them vigorously, and instantly arrived in the air above the huge building complex.
Then we saw it flying down continuously, rising and falling everywhere, killing the fleeing enemies one by one, and its killing speed was extremely fast.
Li Dingguo was not idle either. He used the Yunlong Nine Turning Technique, and with the spiritual fruit garden as the center point, he quickly moved and leaped. With his mind fully open, he stabbed to death all the enemies he met with one shot.
As he and the golden eagle exerted their full power, screams shook the sky, and countless blood and wind rose up and spread everywhere in the huge Fan family mansion.
In an instant, this huge and luxurious residential area was in ruins, with corpses strewn all over the ground!
Without Fan Ming, Fan Maocai and Fan Li, the three clan masters who were at the fifth level of martial arts, none of the remaining members of the Fan family could be a match for Li Dingguo, Wan'er, Hongmei and the big golden eagle.
How could they organize an effective resistance when they were so scattered and suddenly faced an unexpected change?
Even though they took advantage of the chaos to gather some warriors, they were quickly spotted by the giant golden eagle that was flying around in the sky and on the ground. The eagle swooped down and quickly killed them all.
This one-sided massacre lasted for more than half an hour before it was completely settled.
Under the cover of night, the huge Fan family residential area with a radius of nearly 100 miles suddenly became dead silent.
Only the strong smell of blood that drifted everywhere with the night breeze told the world that a tragedy had happened here.
The tragedy that occurred in the southern part of Jiexiu caused quite a stir and was now known to the entire city.
Most of the households in the city kept their doors closed, and the common people were trembling in fear, but were also talking excitedly to each other.
Some shop owners and accountants of the Fan family business who lived outside the South City District did not believe in evil and came to check it out with some servants and guards. As soon as they entered the South City District, they were discovered by a golden eagle patrolling in the sky. The eagle immediately swooped over and quickly killed them all!
After several rounds of similar situations, everyone in Jiexiu City, including government officials, seemed to have disappeared and began to turn a deaf and dumb.
Jiexiu City is so big and Li Dingguo and his men have too few people, so it is naturally impossible for them to clean up the entire city overnight.
That's not realistic, and there's no time to do that.
Li Dingguo ordered the golden eagle to patrol the sky and hunt any magical pigeons or other flying birds that came and went from Jiexiu City, so as to delay the spread of the news that the Fan family had suffered a catastrophic disaster.
After clearing out all the enemies in the Fan family mansion, the three of them roughly searched and counted all the property and supplies here, both openly and secretly, and were all stunned on the spot!
"Brother, this huge underground vault of the Fan family, all these golden and white things in front of us, can't they all be gold and silver?"
The Fan family's underground treasure house was quickly discovered by the three people's powerful spiritual sense, and then the entrance was opened and they entered together.
After lighting the candles all around and seeing the huge amount of wealth and supplies in front of them, Li Dingguo and the other two were stunned. Wan'er rubbed her big eyes with her hands and said in disbelief.
It's not that she has never seen the world and is making a fuss here.
Over the past two years, the Fuxing Army has fought wars in the south and the north, destroyed countless enemy forces, and obtained countless treasures and supplies.
Even Wan'er is someone who has seen the world.
However, this huge vault that stretched as far as the eye could see, hiding a vast amount of gold, silver and other valuables, left Wan'er and Hongmei dumbfounded!
In the world of cultivators, buildings like vaults and secret rooms, due to factors such as manpower and material resources, the grade of building materials, and the support of various formations, the quality and scale of their construction after completion are far beyond the mortal world of Li Dingguo's previous life.
Especially for wealthy merchants like the Fan family, their wealth is so huge that the scale of the family's underground vault is very scary.
As far as the eye can see, the area of this underground vault is at least several miles in radius and nearly fifty or sixty feet high.
However, such a huge vault secret room was actually filled with massive amounts of wealth and supplies!
Just looking at the dozens of gold and silver mountains in front of him, the combined weight of those gold ingots would definitely exceed the gold reserves in the Federal Reserve vault in Li Dingguo's previous life.
That’s tens of thousands of tons of gold!
There were so many golden ingots piled up to form mountains of gold, which were dazzling to the eyes. Even Li Dingguo felt a little dizzy.
It is indeed a world that is countless times larger than the Earth in the previous life, and the reserves of gold, silver and jewelry are too much.
Well, I want to be quiet!
Li Dingguo took a few deep breaths and finally calmed his wavering mind.
He estimated that the Ming Dynasty's treasury probably did not have even one percent of the wealth here, including the royal treasury.
This is what it means to be rich enough to rival a country.
Not to mention that there are more mountains of silver than these mountains of gold!
"Let's go in and take a closer look."
Li Dingguo did not care too much about the gold and silver treasures. He said something to Wan'er and Hongmei, and then they each picked up a large lantern placed on the side, lit it, and strode into the depths of the huge treasury with the lanterns in their hands.
About an incense stick of time later, Li Dingguo and two other people stood in front of a large pile of wooden boxes that were as tall as a person's head. He used the spear in his hand with great anticipation to open the lid of a large wooden box, and what caught his eyes was a box full of soul beads.
"The Fan family has several large-scale treasure fleets, and they do have a lot of reserves of this kind of spiritual energy crystals."
When Li Dingguo saw what he wanted most, his eyes lit up and he used his spear to pry open the lids of more than a dozen large wooden boxes nearby. He discovered that the treasures stored inside were either soul beads of various levels or the inner core of demon beasts, and even spirit stones.
Even the legendary medium-grade spiritual stones, Li Dingguo saw a full box. God knows how the Fan family got these extremely precious treasures.
There are about three hundred large wooden boxes here that contain these treasures.
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo was so happy watching this that he couldn't help but chuckle.
"Brother, there are so many treasures and valuables in the underground vault of the Fan family. Where can we get them away?"
"If we continue to keep them here, wouldn't it be like going deep into the treasure mountain and returning empty-handed, and having fun for nothing?"
Wan'er's voice rang out at the right time, her tone full of unwillingness.
She was right. The base camp of the Renaissance Army was 200,000 miles away from here.
There are so many treasures here. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the three of them to move them back to their base.
They will not stay in Jiexiu City for long and will leave soon.
There are too many treasures and wealth here, not including the large number of spiritual root fruit trees in the spiritual fruit garden. There is even a large-scale spiritual medicine cultivation and planting area near the spiritual fruit garden, where a large number of spiritual herbs and roots are cultivated and planted.
With so many good things, only the Fusion Army can really get them unless they come and occupy the Jiexiu City.
As for ordering the Fuxing Army to enter the pass and capture Jin Province now?
As long as Li Dingguo is not crazy, he will not do this.
No, the time has not come yet.
With the current size and combat effectiveness of the Fuxing Army, it does not have the qualifications to occupy Jin Province for a long time.
The new force formed by Li Dingguo can only be regarded as a good force at best. It is impossible for it to confront the Ming Dynasty head-on.
Not to mention that he and the Fuxing Army couldn't do it, even the Later Jin Tartars, who were so powerful, couldn't do it.
Although the Ming Dynasty is crumbling now, its power is still there. If it makes a desperate effort, even the Later Jin Tartars will have to take a detour.
Jin Province is located in the heart of the capital of the Ming Dynasty. No matter which faction in the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for them to watch it being occupied by others and remain indifferent.
Once Li Dingguo chose to do so, it was foreseeable that these major forces, including the royal family, officials and gentry, would come to besiege him with a common hatred of the enemy.
"Wan'er, don't be anxious."
Li Dingguo calmly waved towards Wan'er.
His two innate divine artifacts have not been completely unsealed yet and cannot exert their true power. In addition, his current cultivation is too poor, so he cannot even use their storage function.
As long as it is not one of one’s natal items, now that the artifact is sealed, even if it is stored in the artifact space, it cannot be stored into one’s own sea of consciousness, including ordinary magic tools.
Li Dingguo had already made his own plans. He said to Wan'er and Hongmei who were looking at him, "We really can't move all the wealth and materials in this huge treasury."
"But just because we can't move them doesn't mean we can't move them and hide them."
"Things that ordinary people can't do, but we can easily do with the ancient special five elements magic we have mastered."
"The earth spirit technique I've cultivated has reached the great perfection stage. I can accurately control the movement of soil within the range covered by my mind. With my current initial cultivation of the fifth level of martial arts, the range of a spell can reach about a hundred feet in radius."
"We will need at most one whole night to move this huge Fan family treasure to a place deep underground outside the city and hide it using the Earth Spirit Technique's precise control over the soil."
"When our army enters the country in the future, we can take out these huge amounts of wealth and materials and use them."
He was right. Things that seem extremely difficult to ordinary people can, under the influence of magical spells, be done in ways that are incredible.
With the earth spirit technique that he had cultivated to perfection, it was enough for him to transfer the huge amount of wealth of the Fan family to the outskirts of the city and hide it deep underground in just one night.
"That's right! Just because ordinary people can't do something doesn't mean we can't do it using the corresponding earth-attribute spells."
"Brother Dingguo, we don't need to go through so much trouble. We can just use the Earth Spirit Technique to move the Fan family's treasures to the depths of the ground beneath the nearby Spirit Fruit Garden and hide them there. There's no need to go through so much trouble to move them outside the city."
"Use the Earth Spirit Technique to transfer the large amount of treasure here to the deep underground below the spiritual fruit garden. My minor Earth Spirit Technique can also help!"...
As soon as Li Dingguo finished speaking, Wan'er and Hongmei's eyes suddenly lit up!
The Earth Spirit Technique can control the soil within the range covered by one's spiritual thoughts, and make it flow accurately and freely. It is simply a magical skill to use it to move things on the ground.
Although limited by their own cultivation, the three of them can only operate within a short distance, but it is completely easy to transfer the vast amount of wealth of the Fan family to the spiritual fruit garden not far away and hide it deep underground.
Li Dingguo gave the two girls new ideas, and they immediately started shouting excitedly and put forward many suggestions of their own.
Hongmei's suggestion was the most labor-saving. There was no need to transfer the Fan family's massive treasures out of the city. That would be too time-consuming and labor-intensive. They only needed to transfer them to the deep underground of the spiritual fruit garden and hide them there.
Afterwards, all traces of the treasure's transfer were eliminated, and no one would have thought that these huge amounts of wealth and materials that had disappeared were hidden dozens of feet deep underground beneath the spiritual fruit garden.
Under the fixed thinking of ordinary people, it is inevitable that the light is dark, which should be hidden from all outsiders.
After all, the ancient five elements magic has become a legend since the end of the Xian Qin era.
In today's world, no one could have imagined that Li Dingguo, Hongmei and Wan'er had learned this kind of magic, so they would naturally be confused.
(End of this chapter)
