Zhou Yang is not a professional mineral exploration monk, nor is he even an amateur.
What's more, the method of exploring Lingshi mine reserves is completely different from the method of exploring other mineral vein reserves. Even the Zhou family's most professional mineral vein exploration monks have no experience in exploring Lingshi mines.
But that doesn't matter. He has the simplest and most effective way to explore the reserves of Lingshi mine.
This method is to determine the approximate reserves of the spirit stone mine based on the degree of suppression of spiritual consciousness in the spirit stone mine and the richness of the spiritual energy inside.
The method is simple, but it is not easy to do.
Because in order to measure the degree of suppression of spiritual consciousness in the Lingshi Mine, Zhou Yang had to go all the way deep into the core of the Lingshi Mine, and then open a vertical passage on all sides for comparison, so that he could make an accurate judgment.
But no matter how difficult it is to do, it must be done.
Therefore, after he pondered for a while, he told his apprentice Lu Xuewei: "Wait for me here and don't go away. I will go in and explore the reserves of the spirit stone mine and then come back!"
After saying that, he immediately released his flying sword and started digging towards the spirit stone mine.
The soil and sand in the Lingshi Mine have been tempered by spiritual energy over many years. Even if they are not transformed into Lingjin Ore, their hardness is comparable to refined iron.
Moreover, due to the uneven mixing of spiritual energy in the spirit stone mine, the Earth Escape Technique cannot take effect at all. Not only the Earth Escape Technique, but also many out-of-body attack and defense spells are easily ineffective or have their power greatly reduced.
Therefore, if you want to open a passage in the spirit stone mine, you can only dig with magical weapons such as flying swords.
If Zhou Yang's cultivation had not reached the late stage of Zifu, and the flying sword in his hand was a fourth-level mid-level magic weapon, and he had a storage ring to hold the excavated soil and sand, he would have wanted to quickly dig out a path that could accommodate one person.
The passage is really not an easy task.
And as he began to dig, pieces of crystal clear spiritual stones were picked out and put into his bag.
Whenever the excavated soil and gravel cannot be loaded into the storage ring, Zhou Yang will step back a certain distance, smelt the soil and gravel with real fire into blocks, and fill them in the passage behind him.
The rich spiritual energy in the spirit stone mine allowed him to quickly replenish the mana he consumed, so he didn't have to stop frequently to replenish his mana.
After three or four days of this, Zhou Yang finally measured the reserves of this spirit stone mine.
This is a medium-sized spiritual stone mine!
A medium-sized spiritual stone mine means that at least tens of millions of low-grade spiritual stones can be mined!
Moreover, in a medium-sized spirit stone mine, there are definitely not a few high-grade spirit stones. There can be dozens, if not hundreds.
As far as Zhou Yang knew, in all the years since Huangshamen established the sect, they had only discovered a medium-grade spiritual stone mine and had already hollowed it out.
To be honest, if the current Zhou family had not possessed the power to be completely unafraid of Huang Shamen, even if Zhou Yang discovered such a medium-sized spirit stone mine, he would not have dared to mine it openly.
Because the interests involved here are really too great!
"If Zhang Yunpeng knew that there were medium-sized spirit stone mines in the sand sea on the Xijiao Continent, he would probably have risked his life to get a piece of the pie here!"
Zhou Yang's eyes were filled with brilliance, and his heart felt indescribably comfortable.
The development of the new world of immortality was planned by him, although he only wanted to use the development of the new world to break the situation and break Huangshamen's dominance over the boundless sea of sand.
But now it seems that although developing a new world of immortality is time-consuming, laborious and expensive, the gains that can be obtained are also huge.
You must know that the boundless sand sea area of the Immortal Realm ruled by Huang Shamen has been traversed by many monks for thousands of years, and various easily discovered resources have long been discovered and exploited.
There are only some resources buried deep underground that are discovered by immortal cultivators from time to time.
But the new world of immortal cultivators on the Rhinoceros Continent is different. Few immortal cultivators have set foot on the sand sea here before. Even if there are people who have set foot on it, they mostly come here to hunt monsters and find oases. Time-consuming and labor-intensive things like prospecting are basically useless.
No one has done it.
The reason is also very simple. It is too far away from the inhabited oasis. Even if a mineral vein is discovered, as long as it is not a valuable mineral vein such as the Lingshi Mine, it is impossible for people to migrate here to mine, so naturally there is no need for prospecting.
But things are different now. Now the Zhou family has decided to build Xijiaozhou as the family's base camp, and is willing to protect the immortal cultivating families who respond to the call and go to the new immortal world to open their own families.
A large number of humans will soon appear on this land, and the resources that have been buried underground for countless years will also be discovered and exploited.
"What happened this time gave me a wake-up call."
"A piece of land that has not been developed by anyone, even in the boundless sea of sand with poor resources, will definitely contain some rare resources that are rarely seen in ordinary times."
"Since my Zhou family wants to be the overlord of this new world of immortality, of course we must seize the opportunity to discover and occupy these rare resource points!"
"Well, when we get back, we will directly issue a mission to encourage the family monks to leave the oasis and explore the vast sand sea."
With thoughts running through his mind, Zhou Yang, who had finished exploring the reserves of the Lingshi Mine, did not stay in the mine for long and immediately returned to his apprentice Lu Xuewei.
After Lu Xuewei was told by Zhou Yang to wait where she was, she had been meditating for the past few days to heal her injuries. By the time he came back, most of her injuries had healed.
"This spirit stone mine was discovered this time, thanks to Xuewei's report. As a teacher, rewards and punishments are always clear. Xuewei, tell me, what reward do you want?"
Zhou Yang, who was in a good mood, did not forget the real hero of the discovery of the Lingshi Mine. When he came back, he directly saw Lu Xuewei talking about the reward.
When Lu Xuewei heard what he said, she felt happy immediately. She could choose her own reward. This was enough to fully show how good Zhou Yang was now.
Her mind was spinning, and she thought of many kinds of rewards she wanted in an instant.
But in the end, she knelt down in front of Zhou Yang, looked at Zhou Yang with a pleading look on her face and said: "Master Mingjian, my disciple has been looking for oases for the Lu family over the years, although I have also found one or two with second-level...
There are small oases in the spiritual veins, but the locations of those oases are too remote and are not suitable for a small family like the Lu family to establish a foothold."
"If you want to reward my disciple with something, just reward me with a small oasis not far from Rhinoceros Continent for the Lu family to use for their migration. This way, my disciple can be considered accountable to Fifth Brother and the Lu family!"
She has not forgotten the purpose of her hard work in the sea of sand, and would rather give up some treasure rewards that can greatly help her practice in order to fulfill her promise to her brother.
Zhou Yang frowned when he heard her request, as if he didn't expect that she would make such a request.
However, he always kept his word. He just hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Okay, now that you have made your decision, I will no longer advise you, and with your achievements this time, you are only a mere one."
The reward from Little Oasis is still too light."
After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment and then continued: "Let's do this. After we return, I will arrange a small oasis for the Lu family near Rhinoceros Continent, and help them raise the spiritual veins on the oasis to the third level.
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A small oasis with a third-level spiritual vein is enough to serve as the foundation of a foundation-building family.
Although this reward is still insignificant compared to a medium-sized spirit stone mine, Lu Xuewei couldn't be more satisfied after hearing Zhou Yang's words.
Overjoyed, she couldn't help but kowtow to Zhou Yang and said, "Thank you, master, for your kindness. This disciple will never forget you."
"Get up. As long as you practice well and open the Purple Mansion as soon as possible, it will be the greatest reward for your teacher."
Zhou Yang nodded slightly, stretched out his hand to lift Lu Xuewei up from the ground with a look of affection on his face, looked at her with a hint of encouragement and said: "As long as you succeed in opening up the Zi Mansion, even if you want to support the Lu family to become a foundation-building family,
It’s just a casual thing!”
"Yes, my disciple must work hard to practice and never let down your great love, Master!"
Lu Xuewei nodded vigorously and responded in a low voice with a firm face.
Zhou Yang really had nothing to say about her as his apprentice. Even the disciples of the Zhou family, no one could be so valued by Zhou Yang.
She has always been grateful to Zhou Yang for cultivating her, and secretly vowed more than once to practice hard and live up to Zhou Yang's respect.
Next, Zhou Yang and Lu Xuewei returned to the ground along the same route, and then Zhou Yang cast a spell to block the hole made by the "Earth Dragon Earthworm".
The spiritual energy in the spirit stone mine has begun to leak out along the hole. If the hole is not blocked, monsters or monks may be attracted by the leaked spiritual energy, which will cause another trouble.
Moreover, when he was digging in the Lingshi Mine previously, Zhou Yang had already detected the depth of the Lingshi Mine, which was really quite deep.
If you stand on the ground and dig downward, you will have to dig at least a hundred feet deep to dig out the spiritual stone.
Generally, the burial depth of mineral veins is within ten to thirty feet underground. Some mineral veins only need to be dug down three to four feet to extract the ore.
A vein like this requires digging down more than a hundred feet to get out the ore. If it weren't for an extremely precious vein like the Lingshi Mine, in this vast sea of sand, there would really be few families willing to invest manpower in mining it.
However, in order to excavate the spirit stone mine, not to mention more than one hundred feet, even five hundred feet, one thousand feet, it is still worth it!
At this time, several days had passed since Zhou Yang and the others went down to the cave. The golden-winged thunder eagle that followed his orders to hunt down the fleeing monsters had already returned, and brought back a piece of "Earth Dragon Earthworm" about three feet long.
The remains of corpses, as well as a giant snake corpse exuding the aura of a third-level high-grade monster.
After some exchanges with the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle, Zhou Yang learned that it turned out that the corpse of the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" was snatched from the jaws of a fourth-level mid-level monster "The Wind Fox Wolf", and that the giant snake corpse was later carried along by it.
Another trace of prey hunted.
"Very good. Since you snatched this thing from the wolf's mouth, this large piece of fifth-level demon wolf meat will be rewarded to you."
Zhou Yang patted the golden-winged thunder eagle on the head with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, he took out a half-foot-long chunk of "Heart-Eating Demonic Wolf" meat as a reward and gave it to the beloved pet as food.