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Qingqiu was afraid that Cao Ke would come up with something unexpected and unexpected, so he hurriedly responded with a solemn and cautious face: "Since we are already partners who can be born and die together, then if you have any questions, just ask them now! What new problems will arise in the future, it will not be good for all of us!"

Cao Ke nodded thoughtfully, peeked at Jessica, and found that Jessica was still preoccupied with recovery, Cao Ke let out a sigh of relief, leaned over to Qingqiu's side and whispered: "That, can you Qingqiu clan divide male and female......?" After all, you want to be my daughter-in-law's fighting partner, if you were a father-in-law...... You know, it's a lot of inconvenience, isn't it?......"

Looking at Cao Ke's embarrassed appearance with a smile on his face and wanting to speak, Qingqiu couldn't help but giggle, and responded: "Of course, our Qingqiu is also male and female...... But don't worry, I'm a female, and I don't think anything wrong about your daughter-in-law!"

Cao Ke snapped his fingers happily when he heard this, and said excitedly: "Then there will be no problem at all! I hope you and my daughter-in-law Xiaoka will get more and more tacit understanding! The strength has also improved by leaps and bounds, and it will reach above the Heavenly Dao one day earlier...... Oh! Look at me, I welcome you to join, I haven't officially introduced myself yet! My name is Cao Ke, if you want, you can call me Brother Cao!"

As he spoke, Cao Ke also pointed to Jessica next to him and continued: "Her name is Jessica, and she is my daughter-in-law...... You can call her Xiaoka, don't look at me as a human, Xiaoka is an elf, after all, we can all be said to belong to the Tongtian Empire......"

When Cao Ke said this, Qingqiu couldn't help but interject: "I know! You are all the people of the first army in the mainland to kill the star! Especially you, Cao Ke, are the founder and supreme ruler of the killing star! You led the human alliance to help the elves defeat the dragon clan, even I have heard of it for a long time in the mountains and lonely! I just didn't expect that in this poor and remote place where birds don't, I can actually meet you two dragon slaying heroes!"

"Oh?" Cao Ke smiled slightly, "I didn't expect our reputation to have reached the ears of the Divine Beast......! And what's your name? Why are you here? Don't you have any relatives around?"

In the face of the three questions thrown by Cao Ke in a row, the expression on Xiao Qingqiu's face couldn't help but darken slightly, and it took a long time before he said softly: "My name is Xiao Li, and I haven't seen my biological parents since I can remember! I was raised by a source beast called the Gray Li, which gave me all the knowledge about this continent and helped me awaken my natural skills! However, one night not long ago, the Gray Lily left me forever due to illness! Without the care of the gray lily, I really walked out of the mountains and stepped into the world!"

"I clearly remember that the gray lily told me several times before his death, telling me that neither humans nor the elves can be trusted! Human beings have been intriguing and fighting since ancient times, and the elves have basically given up their previous closeness and love for nature because of the relationship between the dragon clan, and have become like humans, and they have become as reckless as humans!

"So, after I left the mountain, although I heard about your victory over the dragon, I didn't take you too seriously, thinking that your victory was nothing more than the victory of one military group over another! Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"As for why I'm here, it has to start with a racial talent of our Qingqiu clan, and this racial talent is treasure hunting!"

"Treasure hunting?!" Cao Ke's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said hurriedly: "You mean, in this elven outpost, there is your so-called treasure, and it is through your treasure hunting skills that you secretly found the door?"

"That's right!" Qingqiu, that is, Xiao Li didn't hide anything, and nodded very simply: "When I traveled to the continent and passed by here by chance, I found that there was a very rare phantom steel buried under this elf outpost! For our Qingqiu clan, this phantom steel is definitely not a mineral in the pure sense, but also a very nutritious food! It can improve my strength to a certain extent, and even help me hit the bottleneck of cultivation!" It's precisely for this Phantom Steel that I use hypnosis to stun the guards at the outpost every night, so that I can come in and steal a little Phantom Steel, but I didn't expect to meet the two of you today......"

"Phantom Steel, it's actually Phantom Steel!" Xiao Li said this, Cao Ke finally figured out the true meaning of what the Qilin Fire Spirit said, "The appearance of Qingqiu, the benefits may not be limited to Qingqiu itself"! It turns out that Xiao Li's real goal is Phantom Steel! Looking back now, Cao Ke is afraid that the commander-in-chief of this outpost has also discovered that something is wrong with the outpost recently, and he himself has no way to find out, so he will take the opportunity of Jessica and Cao Ke's arrival to find a reason to keep them, and let Cao Ke and Jessica help him solve the mystery!

This may be the real reason why Cao Ke felt that there was something wrong with this outpost in the first place!

As for the phantom steel in Xiao Li's mouth, if it was placed on other people in the Lingtian Continent, they would not understand its true function and significance! But Cao Ke was different, because Cao Ke had seen an introduction to phantom steel in the wordless heavenly book that Zhou Fan gave him!

According to the wordless Book of Heaven, all the minerals in the three worlds of the heavenly realm, the dead realm, and the living realm can be divided into three categories, the first of which is the immortal mineral deposits! The reserves of this kind of immortal mineral deposits are very small, and most of them are found in the heavenly realm, and there are also a few discovery records in the living realm, which is the most basic raw material for forging an artifact-level weapon with great power! And this phantom steel is one of the immortal mineral deposits, and it is said that the heavenly machine mirror among the ten major artifacts is made of this phantom steel as the main material!

Now, Cao Ke was shocked to hear that there was still such a good thing as phantom steel hidden under this remote outpost, and his heart was not happy? He was worried that there was no material to upgrade the dragon girl's demi-artifact to an artifact, wouldn't the appearance of this phantom steel just solve his urgent need?

Looking at Cao Ke's obscene appearance at this time, Xiao Li knew that he was fighting those phantom steel ideas, and hurriedly said: "That, according to my observation, the phantom steel deposits under this outpost are very limited, and all of them are mined, and there are only so many tens of kilograms...... In this way, can you give me half of these dozens of kilograms of phantom steel? In that case, when I finish digesting this half of phantom steel, my cultivation will almost reach above the Heavenly Dao!"

"Half?" Cao Ke heard Xiao Li say this, first hesitated slightly, and then laughed: "Half is half! These phantom steels can not only help you rise above the Heavenly Dao, but also upgrade Long'er's Heaven Covering to the artifact level, the best of both worlds, why not!"

After speaking, Cao Ke waved his hand at Xiao Li and said, "Let's go, while it's still early, you can take me to the phantom steel mine first!

Xiao Li was stunned: "Are you going to throw Xiaoka alone in the cold wind at night?"

Cao Ke waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, Xiaoka is very safe here! She has entered a state of calm, what can the cold wind do to her?"

In fact, what Xiao Li couldn't see was that not long after they left Jessica, a faint figure suddenly floated out of Cao Ke's body, and this figure came to Jessica's side unconsciously under the cover of the hazy night, standing silently, quietly guarding Jessica......

Naturally, this figure was none other than Cao Ke's other spirit body, the Spirit of Qilin Fire!

Jessica is so important to Cao Ke, how could Cao Ke really be willing to leave Jessica here alone to recover? In order to hide people's eyes, to better hide his strength, and to use the limited time to do more things, it is undoubtedly an excellent strategy to use the spirit of Qilin Fire to protect Jessica's Dharma......

Putting aside the idleness on Jessica and the Qilin Fire Spirit's side, let's just talk about Cao Ke and Xiaoli, after seven turns and eight turns, they finally found a small hole one meter round under the base of a mountain next to the outpost wall!

"This is it!" Xiao Li glanced at the small cave and said to Cao Ke: "Because this cave was secretly dug by me before, so that its size is closer to my figure, if an adult man like you wants to enter the cave, I am afraid that the environment in the cave will cause a great obstacle to your actions......! There is only one drawback to this method at present, that is, the process is relatively slow, according to my estimates, there is no way for me to move out of the phantom steel in less than ten days!"

Cao Ke touched his chin and thought for a moment, and said, "Well, this is indeed a problem, for more than ten days, I don't have so much spare time to spend in this deserted place! We still have to come up with a way to get twice the result with half the effort!"

"Why don't I find a way to dig the hole bigger, so that we can two of us go into the hole and mine together!" Xiaoli asked Cao Ke tentatively.

Just when Cao Ke was at a loss, Huo Wu, who was hidden in the ruby necklace around his neck, suddenly spoke: "Or, let me try it first?"