World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 1175 - 527: Astonishing Treasure! Huge Harvest!_2

Chapter 1175: 527: Astonishing Treasure! Huge Harvest!_2

At this moment, the Near-Human Tribe woman felt as if Lanling had become a completely different person.

Previously, he was so ruthless and cold-hearted, but now he had become so gentle and affectionate. Perhaps that little Yaya was his daughter?

If he didn’t have the Beast Origin Elixir to enhance his cultivation, he might die in the duel. But even so, he could not bear to sell his daughter’s pet.

Furthermore, at the first sight of Suo Mo, she felt waves of warmth in her body, filled with a sense of warmth.

Anyone who met Suo Mo for the first time would feel the intense masculine aura emanating from him, such a straightforward and brave demeanor that it nearly hit you in the face. It made people instantly trust him after seeing him.

"You want Gold Coins, right?" The Near-Human Tribe woman suddenly spoke.

Previously, Suo Mo’s eyes were fixed only on Lanling, but now he finally noticed the woman dressed in leaves behind him and glanced at Lanling inquiringly.

Lanling said, "She is one of the people captured by the Mirror Demon King, but she woke up the earliest and is willing to join our tribe. For that, she even helped me kill her companion."

Suo Mo immediately nodded, expressing his agreement.

The Near-Human Tribe woman said, "The Mirror Demon King has a treasure vault filled with numerous Gold Coins."

Lanling couldn’t help but be taken aback; the Mirror Demon King was merely a spiritual entity, always hiding in mirrors. What would it want Gold Coins for?

However, Lanling recalled the dragon in "The Hobbit," which wanted Gold Coins for no reason other than hoarding countless Gold Coins.

The Near-Human Tribe woman said, "After the Mirror Demon King captured everyone, the first thing he did was have them throw away the last Gold Coin from their pockets. Because he said that in his empire, Gold Coins were the lowest of things. Each one of us had to become a noble Demon General, Demon Marshal, with clouds of servants and luxurious lives; using Gold Coins was laughable. Thus, everyone he captured threw their Gold Coins and silver coins into a pool. In these past few decades, the people he has captured have numbered in the thousands, so there should be quite a few Gold Coins."

Lanling said, "People who flee here should be penniless, right?"

The Near-Human Tribe woman said, "Most people are penniless, but some are very wealthy. For instance, some tribal leaders, minor Chieftains, they flee here as a last resort, with money in their pockets but still homeless and with nowhere to go."

Indeed, in the Barbaric Wilderness, Gold Coins are far from mainstream.

Because goods in the Barbaric Wilderness are extremely underdeveloped; food and meat are distributed by the tribe. Gold Coins are only used to buy clothes, objects, and some rare items.

If a person is without tribal protection, they would be left with no options even if they had countless Gold Coins.

Lanling asked, "Where is that pool?"

The Near-Human Tribe woman said, "I will take you there; it is a very, very deep pool."

Suddenly, Lanling thought that the number of people captured by the Mirror Demon King far exceeded just a few thousand. Even though he had only encountered a few thousand, the Mirror Demon King had existed for thousands of years; who knows how many thousands of people it had captured over the years.

The Mirror Demon King continuously captured slaves, but these slaves had lifespans, dying after a few decades.

This meant that from beginning to end, the number of people captured by the Mirror Demon King might well exceed hundreds of thousands.

Among these hundreds of thousands, most might be penniless, but just having a tenth of them carrying Gold Coins would be a significant number.

The Near-Human Tribe woman led Lanling and Suo Mo through the mountains and valleys.

They came to a narrow, enclosed ravine.

This ravine consisted entirely of rocks, and upon entering, they found a mountain cave.

Entering the cave, they quickly discovered a dark lake!

"If my memory is correct, everyone who was captured had to throw their Gold Coin into this pool," the Near-Human Tribe woman said.

This was actually a dark lake; on the surface, the water appeared narrow, with a diameter of no more than three or four meters, but inside, it should be much larger. The Near-Human Tribe woman didn’t understand, so she referred to it as a pool.

"Uncle, my spiritual power is strong; I’ll go down," Lanling said.

Suo Mo nodded in agreement.

Lanling suddenly jumped down.

The water here was very cold, very deep! Very, very deep!

Indeed, the more Lanling went down, the deeper it got...

He descended ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

At the very bottom was an endless dark lake.

Furthermore, Lanling’s spiritual power easily sensed countless underwater creatures, regular fish, and other large underwater beings.

Moreover, these underwater creatures weren’t afraid of humans; perhaps they had never even seen a human before.

Lanling released his spiritual power to sense how large this underground dark lake was, and it exceeded the range of his spiritual power, likely having a diameter of more than a hundred miles.

He started to sense the size of the surrounding underwater creature group, which also exceeded the range of his spiritual power.

Perhaps this was a vast interconnected underground water system.

Lanling was instantly overjoyed, even more so than having found Gold Coins.

Originally, he worried that a hundred-mile diameter mountain range might be too difficult to sustain a tribe purely through hunting.

But now, there was an underwater dark lake, with countless fish and underwater creatures.

Not to mention supporting two to three thousand people, even supporting over ten thousand people might not be a problem.

The place was simply perfect!

Not only was there enough area to build a tribal fortress, but there was also a plentiful food supply.

In the Barbaric Wilderness, food is always the most crucial.

However, this dark lake was very deep.

Lanling continued diving deeper, deeper.

Fifty meters, seventy meters, ninety meters...

It’s a good thing Lanling had the unparalleled Golden Demon Body; otherwise, he would have long suffocated, and it was entirely devoid of light, making it impossible to see anything.

But Lanling’s unmatched spiritual power still allowed him to see relatively clearly.

Finally...finally, he reached the bottom!

Lanling reached out and grasped a handful of something cold, flat, and round.

He picked it up to look!

Indeed, it was a Gold Coin from the Barbaric Wilderness!

Casting was very crude, but the weight was definitely substantial, completely hefty.

Then, Lanling took out a glowstone from his bosom.

The light from the glowstone was just a bit stronger than a firefly and was almost invisible to the naked eye.

But with just that small amount of light, Lanling could see very clearly.

And then...

He was utterly stunned!

The bottom of this dark lake was like a funnel-shaped depression, about a few hundred square meters.

And these few hundred square meters of the lake bottom were all covered with Gold Coins, silver coins, and Copper Coins!

It wasn’t just money; there were also various gemstones, weapons, and more!

Whether or not they were treasures, there were countless items here, completely filling the few hundred square meters of this funnel-shaped lake bottom.

Truly piled up like a mountain.

Then, Lanling thought of the Mirror Demon King, which had been around for not just a few thousand people, but several tens of thousands of years.

During these tens of thousands of years, how many people had fallen into his spiritual trap and been captured by him?

The number was astronomical, perhaps far more than the previously estimated hundreds of thousands.

The Barbaric Wilderness is not like the Human World; in the Human World, the post-civilization history is merely a few centuries.

In the Barbaric Wilderness, thousands of years ago, it was like this, and it remains unchanged now, with no progress or regression, just stagnant.

So how many people did the Mirror Demon King capture? Only heaven knows.

How many people tossed Gold Coins and treasures into this dark lake? Only heaven knows.

Like the dragon in the movie "The Hobbit," it hoards countless Gold Coins and treasures but can’t spend a single one.

The same was true for the Mirror Demon King; it hoarded countless treasures, yet could not spend a single one.

However, now this astronomical amount of treasure entirely belonged to Lanling and the tribe he was about to establish.

Staring at the scattered Gold Coins, Lanling couldn’t help but feel a bit breathless.

How many Gold Coins were there exactly?

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