"Benefactor, you..." The little monk was at a loss for words after being scolded by Luo Chao, and habitually called him "benefactor" again.

"Shut up, you bald donkey, I told you not to call me that, and you still do! Damn..." Hearing the little monk still calling him "benefactor," Luo Chao immediately got angry, cursing loudly, and then stormed off.

"This kid's got quite an attitude..."

"He's just plain rude, what did the little monk do to him, speaking to the monk like that..."

"Damn, I thought I was a jerk, but this kid's even worse, like a rotten egg. Did the monk mess with his RB, so he cursed him?"

Seeing Luo Chao's behavior, the onlookers started cursing him. Yet, during the confrontation between Luo Chao and the little monk, they hadn't acted. Now that Luo Chao left, they began to criticize him behind his back.

"Alas, I wanted to tell you that we need to eat too. We came to pan for gold to support ourselves!" The little monk sighed silently, watching Luo Chao's retreating figure, but there was no anger on his face. Although Luo Chao had scolded him, the monk fully agreed with Luo Chao's reasoning. Unfortunately, Luo Chao didn't hear his thoughts.

Gently stepping on the sand in the water, Luo Chao felt a soft sensation underfoot. The water, up to his calves, carried sand particles that swirled around, brushing his skin like a goddess's gentle caress, feeling incredibly comfortable, even more so than the massage from those young girls at the barbershop.

"Ah, refreshing!" Luo Chao shouted, startling everyone around.

"Kid, are you looking to die?"

"Did you lose your dad, kid?"

......

"Sorry, sorry..." Luo Chao quickly apologized.

"Is this thing really useful?" Luo Chao looked curiously at the red gold-panning tool in his hand, a small red box, a red sieve. Just by its color, it seemed high-quality, but he wasn't sure how practical it was. It better not be a showy but useless vase, otherwise, Luo Chao would have nowhere to cry.

He scooped a boxful of sand and mud, then poured it into the red sieve. Luo Chao gently sifted the mud out in the river water, then placed the sieve over the box and carefully sifted through the shining grains of sand with his hands. Luo Chao realized that finding gold in such moments was incredibly difficult. In the sunlight, all the sand grains glimmered brightly.

These dazzling lights impaired judgment, and even if there were gold particles in the sieve, he wouldn't see them. After a while, Luo Chao dumped the sieve's contents into the water, then scooped another box of mud and started sifting again, but once more, he found no trace of gold.

"Damn, what a piece of junk! Panning for half a day without finding a single grain of gold—how long will it take to get rich at this rate?!" After two tries, Luo Chao felt dejected, having seen no sign of gold, and grew impatient.

It's not as simple as he thought. If they always found gold, everyone would be panning here. It's normal not to find any gold even after several hours, days, or months. If others heard Luo Chao, they'd roll their eyes and call him an idiot.

Even though he felt disheartened, Luo Chao didn't give up. He tried over ten different places for several hours, sifting over a hundred times, but still found no trace of gold.

"Damn, what's the deal? Believe it or not, I'll smash you!" Luo Chao dumped out the sand from the sieve, raised it over his head as if to smash it, but soon lowered it—how could he bear to smash it?

"I need to have a closer look at you, to see whether you're a sieve that can actually pan gold!" Luo Chao held the sieve up to his eyes and carefully examined it.

"Huh!" Tiny specks of gold flickered between the sieve's red wooden threads. Luo Chao pinched one of the golden points with his fingers, revealing small, glittering gold flakes, clearly gold. What else could they be?

At this moment, the gaps in the sieve were packed with tiny gold sands, some as small as a needlepoint, others as large as half a pea, all densely clustered.

"Wakaka, wakaka... I'm rich!" Luo Chao laughed out loud, but quickly grew quiet, slyly scanning his surroundings. Luckily, people around only glanced at him disdainfully before returning to their gold panning. Some didn't bother looking at him at all, clearly having seen this kind of thing many times.

Such matters can't be publicized. As they say, "Innocence might suffer because of wealth." The fact that the million-year-old Golden Essence Wood could attract gold sands should absolutely remain a secret. Otherwise, Luo Chao was sure he'd be a corpse before the sun rose next morning, meeting Buddha in the Western Paradise.

"Wakaka, wakaka... I'm rich! Damn, what a treasure! And I found it!" Luo Chao suddenly burst into laughter again.

This time, everyone looked at Luo Chao, noticing his gaze fixed in one direction. Following it, they saw a pair of prominent breasts catching everyone's attention—a woman not conventionally pretty but with an astonishingly large chest.

Luo Chao quickly calculated that if not constrained by clothing, those breasts would extend to at least thirty centimeters. If all women's breasts were mountains, this woman's would be two Mount Everests. Her 1.5-meter-tall frame seemed nearly bent under the weight, a true masterpiece of extraordinary assets.

"With these on top, two Mount Everests, I wouldn't be able to breathe! Damn, what a treasure, truly a treasure!" Luo Chao mused in his mind.

"Wow!" While Luo Chao was lost in thought, over half the onlookers doubled down and started vomiting.

"Damn, this is too outrageous, right?" Being by the river, Luo Chao was frightened seeing everyone vomiting into the water and quickly jumped out.

Jumping out, Luo Chao shivered and then, without hesitation, took off running, vanishing into the crowd instantly, because he'd seen the woman's icy, cold glare. If looks could kill, Luo Chao would have died hundreds of times already.

He ran like the wind, found a secluded spot, and transferred the gold from the sieve to a small box. Then he went to the Snail Gang office to pay tax. Once weighed, it was a whopping forty grams, ten percent of which he paid in tax.

Luo Chao had thirty-six grams left. With the current gold price at about 300 yuan per tael, 36 grams would be around 10,800 yuan. The Snail Gang office officials looked at Luo Chao in amazement, unable to fathom how he managed to gather such a significant amount of gold in half a day.

Not only were they surprised, but Luo Chao himself was astonished—within half a day, he'd almost made a profit of 10,000 yuan, way faster than playing gambling games in an internet cafe. No wonder so many adventurers consider gold panning a path to wealth.

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