Seeing this and the benefits, Zhang Renmo immediately agreed, because he couldn't refuse at all, and his heart was already full of joy.
After reaching the cooperation, Lu Changfeng drafted a contract, and the two parties began to sign the agreement, and soon began the cooperative mining matter.
As for manual mining, the Zhang family has inherited the tradition for more than 600 years and has a large number of mortals, reaching more than 60,000. They have enough manpower to mine the veins, so they decided to send 3,000 mortals to mine.
On the Qingshan Sect side, ten monks were stationed at the mines to protect the mines.
After the discussion, the two parties started working on the matter the next day.
Zhang Renmo spent about half a month to recruit 3,000 mortals from the family town, and began to migrate to the ice dragon stone veins in batches.
Not only that, around the mines, the Qingshan Sect and the Zhang family worked together to build villages, towns and other living buildings to facilitate the work of mortals.
Lu Zhiwei, Lu Changfeng and others began to return to the Qingshan Sect, leaving three foundation-building monks to temporarily guard the place, and later sent fellow sect members to guard the mineral veins.
In this way, while building villages and towns, while mining mineral veins, time flew by in the blink of an eye, spring passed and autumn came, and three years passed.
Around the mine vein, a small town, Bingjiao Town, has been established.
The town consists of six villages, with a permanent population of about 5,000.
Half of them are working in the ice crystal ore veins, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and they receive rich mining rewards.
In order to protect these mortals, the Zhang family also sent a foundation-building monk to take charge. The officials in the town also arranged for family members with Five Spiritual Root qualifications and low cultivation levels to take up the post to ensure a reasonable distribution of personnel.
After three years of mining, the annual output of the ice dragonite vein has stabilized and can produce more than 500 ice dragon stones every year, which is equivalent to at least 50,000 spiritual stones per year.
The Qingshan Sect takes 80% of the income, which is 40,000 spirit stones a year, and the Zhang family gets 20%, which is 10,000 spirit stones a year.
The annual income of ten thousand spiritual stones is not a small amount for a foundation-building family. It is equivalent to earning one foundation-building pill per year.
Other foundation-building families would have to work hard for ten or twenty years to accumulate so much income.
Moreover, with the Qingshan Sect taking the lead, this income will be stable for a long time, and there is no need to worry about foreign enemies getting involved.
Because of the income from the ice dragon stone veins, Qingshan Sect has gained another resource industry. It has sent ten foundation-building monks to station at the mines and began to build spiritual veins.
In the world of cultivating immortals, cultivating spiritual veins requires the use of a spiritual formation, which is at least the second level.
Or, just bury 50,000 spiritual stones directly in the ground, and rely on a large number of spiritual stones to nourish the land. It will take about three years to create a first-class high-grade mineral vein.
If more spiritual stones are buried, such as directly burying half a million spiritual stones, it will be enough to create a third-level spiritual vein.
Further up, if you want to create a fourth-level spiritual vein, you can't just bury spiritual stones. Even if you bury one million spiritual stones, you can only cultivate a third-level spiritual vein at most.
To cultivate the fourth-level spiritual veins, you need to use the Soul-Embodiing Formation and a high-grade spiritual stone.
Spiritual stones are divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower, and the exchange ratio between them is one to one hundred.
Ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones are equal to one hundred medium-grade spiritual stones, which is equal to one high-grade spiritual stone.
However, because the spiritual energy contained in the middle-grade spiritual stones is far greater than that of the lower-grade spiritual stones, and the production itself is not large, the value far exceeds the exchange ratio.
There are more than a dozen spiritual stone mines in Lingxi Prefecture, and each year they can produce less than a thousand pieces of medium-grade spiritual stones. High-grade spiritual stones are even rarer, and are extremely scarce.
Basically, no one would be willing to exchange a medium-grade spiritual stone for a hundred low-grade spiritual stones. They would all keep it for cultivation, or use it as a high-level material for array formation, weapon refining, or puppet making.
High-grade spiritual stones are even more valuable and are often in the hands of Yuanying monks. They can be used to quickly restore mana and assist in breakthroughs in practice.
At the same time, high-grade spiritual stones are also the core energy of sixth- and seventh-grade formations. Their uses are similar to those of mid-grade spiritual stones, but they are more precious and have better effects.
Even if someone holds four to five hundred middle-grade spiritual stones, they may not be able to exchange them for one high-grade spiritual stone.
With an estimated ninety-year mining period, the spiritual veins will play an indispensable role and must be created as soon as possible.
Moreover, you can create it in one step, saving time.
Lu Yuanshan chose the most straightforward method and prepared to bury half a million spiritual stones around the ice dragon stone and start cultivating spiritual veins.
With so many spiritual stones buried underground, they still need to be buried according to a certain scale and layout. This is not something ordinary monks can do.
Lu Changfeng took over this task, carefully surveyed the terrain, and determined the size of the spiritual vein cultivation area and the locations where the spiritual stones needed to be buried.
Half a million spirit stones, each separated by a certain distance, can maximize the aura in the spirit stones to nourish the land. This is what the array master is best at.
It is not enough to unify them casually or bury them casually.
Lu Changfeng drew a detailed map and led fifty Qingshan Sect disciples, each with a map. They each supervised each other and carried out the work of burying the spiritual stones according to the locations marked on the map with a clear division of labor.
Due to the huge attraction of so many spirit stones, not only were there no monks outside the Qingshan Sect involved in the whole process.
Moreover, Song Minghui, Zhang Nianchuan and others were on hand to assist in supervision.
Anyone found to have embezzled spiritual stones will be severely punished.
After all, a few hundred pieces of spiritual stone can affect the level of spiritual veins that can be cultivated in the end. Naturally, it must be carried out strictly and nothing can be careless.
In this way, he continued to be busy for more than half a month. After all the five hundred thousand spirit stones were buried in their respective positions, Chen Changfeng opened his consciousness again and checked it carefully.
The deepest of these spiritual stones is 300 meters underground, and the shallowest is 50 meters. When connected together, they look like a huge and long spider web, covering an area of about 60 miles.
This range may not seem large, but in fact once the cultivation is completed, it will be enough for ten monks in the crystallization stage to maintain their daily practice here.
In the blink of an eye, spring passed and autumn came, time flies like an arrow, the sun and the moon fly by, and three years have passed.
After three years of cultivation, the spiritual energy born from the spiritual veins became more and more intense, and soon it was born and reached the third-level high-grade level, which was what was expected.
With the cultivation of the spiritual veins completed, the construction of the ice dragonite mine is almost complete. Towns, spiritual veins, and formations are all in place.
The subsequent mining work is well underway.
With the name Qingshan Sect, no one in Lingxi Prefecture dares to take advantage of the ice dragon stone veins.
After working here for more than six years, Chen Changfeng took Song Minghui, Zhang Nianchuan and others back to the sect, leaving only three Qingshan Sect foundation disciples to guard them.
Lu Zhiwei had already returned to the sect. In the past few years, she had begun practicing in seclusion and rarely appeared in public.
Central ancestral domain.
Shuanghu Mountain.
After more than six years of retreat, Lu Ping's breakthroughs have made great progress.