Hubeiling is located in the southwest of Changshan County, Zhuyang County. It has majestic mountains and erect tiger teeth, stretching for two to three hundred miles.
However, this mountain is famous in Zhuyang County not because of its mountain shape, but because of its spiritual mine.
There is a spiritual stone mine here with a storage capacity of 50 million, the largest in Shuyang County.
According to the rules of the Yunxiao Sect, the ownership of the Lingshi veins in the world belongs to the sect. For the convenience of mining, it will be entrusted to local wealthy families, and the sect will charge a certain percentage of fees every year.
Taking this mine as an example, the annual mining volume must not exceed 200,000 spirit stones - this is the standard set by the Yunxiao Sect in order to prevent fishing in dry lakes and to ensure a stable supply of spirit stones. One hundred thousand of them will be turned over to the sect, and the remainder will be mined.
All owned by Fang.
Over the past few hundred years, the Zhao family has been acting in accordance with the sect's requirements. After deducting labor, costs and the rental fee of the magic circle, there is still a profit of about 40,000 to 50,000 spiritual stones every year.
This number seems insignificant compared to the reserve of 50 million. In fact, the return is quite generous. After all, this spiritual stone is transfused to the family every year.
On this day, in a huge cave 800 feet deep under the Hubei Ridge, several luminous pearls hung high, emitting a dim light.
There are seven or eight tents on the ground. Judging from the stains and dust on them, I don’t know how many years they have been placed here.
In the tent, monks could be vaguely seen meditating or resting, and one could even hear the sound of sleeping soundly.
About seven or eight feet away from the group of tents, six people each occupied a corner and sat cross-legged. Between them was a hexagonal iron box, with a long white pipe extending from each side.
The monk has three feet in front of his chest.
These six monks, in different orders, would input mana into the tube at regular intervals. Then the tube would retract into the box, causing a series of rattling sounds inside, as if there were gears slowly moving.
Turn.
After about thirty breaths, you will see a thumb-sized, crystal white bead squeezed out from the bottom of the box and fall into the jade plate below with a ding-dong sound.
This is the spiritual stone.
This hexagonal box is called the Condensation Array. The spiritual stones used by monks in practice are continuously produced from here.
In the Zhenyu world, except for some special landforms that breed natural spiritual stones, most of the spiritual stones use this method to extract the spiritual energy from the spiritual veins. Then inject it into the condensation array, with the prior
The put in the mortal white jade fuses together to form a spiritual stone.
The most important magic weapon among them is the formation plate that makes up this condensed magic circle. This thing can only be made by the sect and then rented to the mine for assembly. Refining it privately by casual cultivators or families is a serious crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the family. This magic circle also has a special function, which is to record the number of spirit stones generated every day. In this way, the sect can easily judge whether the mine is following the rules and whether it is over-exploited by simply checking it regularly.
Overexcavation.
All these are the means by which the sect controls the place and seizes the world's resources.
No gossip.
Besides, this condensed magic circle also has an inconvenience, that is, it requires a monk to penetrate the magic from time to time, otherwise it will not operate smoothly.
Of course, ordinary monks would not want to do such time-consuming and laborious work, so they can only leave it to those who have committed crimes.
At this time, among the six people, there was only one young man who was pale and tilted to one side, like a shoehorn. He had just finished transmitting the mana and coughed repeatedly. He looked at the man standing next to him with pleading eyes.
Men.
However, his left eye has been closed tightly, as if he is blind.
The person standing was a middle-aged man in his thirties with a sinister face. He cursed with disdain:
"Waste!"
The young man didn't argue and continued to look at him with one eye.
The man cursed and took out a few pills from his arms and threw them over.
The young man quickly caught it, took out one and swallowed it, then closed his eyes to rest, adjusted his breath and meditated.
The elixir in hand is exactly the Qi Restoration Pill. However, it is the lowest kind. There are only a handful of spiritual stones in the market.
Although the spiritual energy in the Dantian can be restored, there are too many impurities that accumulate in the body over time, causing blockage of the meridians and halting cultivation.
After a few breaths, the young man let out a long breath, sat down and continued to drive the formation.
A face, but it is more gloomy and gloomy.
This young man is Zhao Lian. He has been in this dark place for more than three years.
During his trip to Langshan three years ago, he attempted to murder Yang Zhen. Although he failed, he indirectly caused the tragic death of two family monks. According to the rules of the family, they should be executed.
However, the tenth elder said a lot of good things for him, and went to Zhao Youting, who was in charge of family affairs, and said that there was a shortage of manpower for the Lingshi mine mining, so he was finally sentenced to a punishment of being assigned to the Hubeiling Lingmine and never released.<
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At that time, he was lucky to have escaped with his life. It was not until he came here that he understood why so many monks would rather die than linger in the Lingshi mine.
This place is really not for humans!
First of all, in order to improve the mining efficiency, most of the spirit stone mines are built deep underground and do not see sunlight all year round. If they stay there for a long time, even the monks who have cultivated themselves will suffer from all kinds of diseases.
Furthermore, it is impossible to practice.
Although the spiritual eye is only a short distance away from him, it is said that the spiritual energy should be very abundant, but in fact, under the control of the formation, these spiritual energy are almost completely sent to the condensation array, leaving only a little residue, which is barely enough.
You recover some mana.
More often than not, you can only use the Qi Recovery Pill to replenish your spiritual power.
But taking this inferior elixir is tantamount to drinking poison to quench your thirst!
Among the monks assigned to the mines, in all these years, I have never heard of anyone who can improve their cultivation!
Three full years have passed, and he, Zhao Lian, is still at the third level of Qi training.
As for the third point, it has to do with his surname.
Because his surname is Zhao, the monks who come to this mine, no matter what they commit, are almost inseparable from the Zhao family. Now that there is a direct descendant of the Zhao family here, they don't care how he got in, anyway,
There is a punching bag!
If there hadn't been a guard from the Zhao family here, he would have been killed long ago.
It's just that among the six people in the team, his cultivation level is the lowest. The magic circle can't operate for long, so he has to ask the guard for replenishment of the Qi Restoration Pill. As time goes by, the guard also despises him.
Therefore, Zhao Lian has suffered a lot in the past few years, which has made him less talkative and more depressed and withdrawn.
……
I don’t know how long it took, but the condensing array that had been running suddenly made a soft sound, and the entire array gradually stopped operating.
Except for Zhao Lian, everyone had a happy smile on their face.
The magic circle produces six thousand spirit stones every ten days without interruption, and then it will stop for one day.
Most monks not only get a day of valuable rest, but also the magic circle is suspended, and a lot of spiritual energy will leak out of the spiritual eyes, which also allows them to practice well for a day.
This is almost their happiest moment in the mine.
However, this is not the case for Zhao Lian, he still has things to do.
"Number 31," the guard read his number and said coldly, "Go to work!"
As he spoke, a worn storage bag was thrown towards him.