There was a loud rumble in the mountains, the ground shook, and countless gravel flew, startling a group of birds and beasts, which panicked and fled away with sharp screams.
With a wave of the square sleeves, a gentle breeze blows away the dust.
At the center of the explosion, a deep passage was revealed. The outer layer of tumbling gravel was mixed with some fine, shiny stones.
“This is my first time mining.”
Fang Chang thought of Father Fang and the half of the spiritual stone mine that Biyun Sect owed him, and suddenly thought that he could be regarded as inheriting his father's legacy.
Yan Fei ran over to the side, picked up the shiny stones on the ground, and trotted to Fang Chang's side.
"City Lord, this is one of the associated mines of the Lingshi Mine. The Spirit Absorbing Stone is also the most common associated mine of the Spirit Mine.
It seals the spiritual energy fluctuations of the spiritual stone. As long as there is a mineral vein where the spiritual stone exists, the spiritual energy is extremely inert. Just looking from the outside, there is no difference between the spiritual mineral and ordinary mineral veins."
Fang Chang took the spirit-absorbing stone, swept his spiritual consciousness upwards, and observed carefully. Sure enough, he found that where the spirit-absorbing stone existed, the surrounding spiritual energy was vaguely pulled by it and lost its fluidity.
"After a day of exploration, can you estimate the size of this vein?"
Yan Fei took out a crude mineral vein map.
"City Lord, please look at this. This is the trend chart of the spiritual mine veins detected by my subordinates. The center of the spiritual mine is here, with one main vein and two branch veins.
According to my subordinate’s detection, the spiritual source of the spirit mine can only be regarded as low-grade, which is not far from my previous estimate. The annual output is about one million spiritual stones, and most of them are low-grade spiritual stones.”
Fang Chang looked at the mineral vein map and asked:
"What is the spiritual source?"
Yan Fei said: "The spiritual source is the source of the spiritual stone, just like the queen bee in a beehive. We can understand that the spiritual stone is born from the spiritual source.
City Lord, look again."
Yan Fei pointed to the three large ore vein lines drawn on the ore vein map and said:
"The spiritual source will produce spiritual marrow, and the spiritual marrow is like a person's blood. They will continue to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, and then crystallize to become spiritual stones.
Therefore, wherever spiritual mines exist, the spiritual energy in the environment is always thinner than in other places.
Therefore, if we want to find spiritual minerals, we usually have to search in uninhabited places where there is not much life."
When Fang Chang heard the spiritual essence, he couldn't help but think of the Infant Transformation Pill that Patriarch Biyun owed him.
The spiritual energy in the spiritual marrow is extremely pure, even worse than the best spiritual stones, and is one of the main ingredients of the Infant Transformation Pill.
Mu De, a sudden change made it impossible for him to collect many of his debts.
"In this way, the most important thing in the spirit stone mine is the spirit source."
Fang Chang's eyes lit up and he asked: "Then if I take away the spiritual source, can I artificially create a spiritual stone mine somewhere else?"
Yan Fei nodded and said: "Well, in theory it is possible, but spiritual source transplantation is very dangerous. If you are not careful, the spiritual source will be damaged and the grade will be reduced.
Moreover, it takes time to form a new spirit stone mine, so my subordinates do not recommend this unless it is a last resort.
But there is a situation where it is possible.”
"What's going on?"
"That's the spiritual leap."
Fang Chang looked puzzled: "What is spiritual source leap?"
Yan Fei explained: "The spiritual source of this spiritual stone mine is low-grade, and the derived spiritual stones are mostly low-grade spiritual stones. The high-grade spiritual stones are unique, and even one top-grade spiritual stone can be mined in a year."
Lucky.
But low-grade spiritual stones are no different than useless to a cultivator of such a high level as the city lord. The speed of practicing with low-grade spiritual stones is almost the same as cultivating by absorbing the spiritual energy in the air.
I wonder if the City Lord feels this way?"
Fang Chang nodded: "That's exactly it."
At first, the spiritual energy in the environment was thin, so he used spiritual stones to practice to reduce the impact of the low spiritual environment, but he didn't think anything of it.
Later, the spiritual energy environment gradually improved, especially with this change in the sky, many secret realms merged into the plane, and the spiritual energy concentration increased again, almost returning to the standard spiritual energy environment.
In places like Qingniu Mountain where spiritual veins are born, the spiritual energy environment has already exceeded the standard spiritual energy environment, and it is considered an elementary spiritual place.
For example, the environment around Qingxiaoshu has reached the standard of an intermediate spiritual land, with its own aura of accelerating practice.
There is almost no difference between practicing there and practicing using low-grade spiritual stones and practicing using the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
But the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is inexhaustible. As much as you use it, the spiritual energy from other places will flow in.
But once the spiritual stone is absorbed, it is really gone, so it is all wasted money.
Therefore, he no longer needs low-grade spiritual stones to practice. Only high-grade spiritual stones can benefit him to a certain extent.
Seeing that Fang Chang agreed, Yan Fei continued: "Only high-grade spiritual stones, the best spiritual stones can help monks like the Lord of the City.
But how much spiritual stone does an ordinary spiritual stone mine produce in a year, and how many high-grade spiritual stones are there?
A low-grade spiritual mine cannot support up to ten golden elixir monks.
When you reach a higher level, even mid-grade spiritual minerals cannot satisfy you.
However, top-grade spiritual minerals are difficult to find, and countless soul seekers will never be able to see them. In other words, there is no such thing as a naturally-raised spiritual mineral in this world.
That's why there is a spiritual jump.
Feed the main spiritual source with medium and low-grade spiritual sources, increase its origin, and make the level of the spiritual source jump up to the top level.
By then, the output of spiritual stones from a top-grade spiritual mine will be more than enough to support one hundred thousand golden elixirs."
Fang Chang nodded again.
It turns out that even spirit stone mines can be cultivated.
He has an inexplicable sense of mission to cultivate the best spiritual minerals. This is probably the most essential and pure pursuit of a gamer.
"Please write down a detailed charter regarding the spiritual source's ascension. From now on, we in Qingxiao City will also have our own top-quality spiritual mine."
Fang Chang gave instructions to Yan Fei, and then led the way into the mine he had just dug with his own hands, which was only more than ten meters deep.
It's very dark inside the mine, but a single lighting spell can make the hole as bright as day.
Most of the walls inside are made of stone, mixed with a little bit of soil, and are very solid. If an ordinary person were to dig, they would probably dig out a small piece at most even if they had to dig for a whole day.
Fang Chang stretched out his hand and dug out, and a hole was dug out of the stone wall like tofu.
When he took his hand back, he already had an irregular piece of raw spiritual stone in his hand. It was dusty and could be held in one hand.
The raw ore is not yet a real spiritual stone. Only by cutting the outer skin of the raw ore can you see the spiritual stone inside.
Moreover, the surface of the raw ore has the effect of blocking spiritual consciousness, just like gambling stones. No one knows whether the spiritual stones in the raw ore are big or small.
But what is certain is that there will be spiritual stones in the raw ore, so there is no need to worry about it being empty.
When you rub it with your long square fingers, the hard raw mineral skin falls like foam.
His luck was not bad, there was a spiritual stone the size of an adult's fist inside, it was as white and smooth as jade, and its spiritual energy was restrained.
If cut into standard spiritual stone blocks, this thing can probably be cut into seven or eight pieces.
As for Lingshi leftovers, they can be ground into powder and used for composting.
Of course, it can also be used for practice. It is no different from ordinary spiritual stones. At most, it looks ugly.
Fang Chang casually put the first spirit stone he dug out into the storage ring and said to himself:
"This place is too far from Qingxiao City, and the road has not been repaired. If ordinary people were to mine, just transporting people here would take a lot of time, not to mention the losses on the road.
Using practitioners to mine spiritual stones would be more efficient, but the wages would not be high, and who knows if they would line their own pockets.
No, it’s not whether it will happen, it will definitely happen.
Even if their storage equipment is collected, they can just stay in it and absorb the spirit stones directly. After absorbing the spirit stones, they will be just a pile of ashes, and even no evidence can be found.
Human nature cannot stand the test.
Calculating it this way, it’s still more cost-effective to use ordinary people.”
Fang Chang thought about it carefully and finally sighed.
"Although this spiritual mine has an annual output of only one million, which is only a hundred high-grade spiritual stones, but with this little jealousy, I don't care about making more dumplings.
Anyway, sooner or later it will all be mine.
Let the eldest brother bring more people, as well as tax collectors, to first seize the land leading to Qingxiao City, then build the road, and make transportation more convenient. It won’t be too late to start digging again.”
Thinking about it, Fang Chang had already taken out the thangka and sent a message to Li Hu.
Although it was a bit hasty, he has now refined the Eye of the Demon and has some magic skills. This thing is just like the Three Corpse Brain Pill. It is not too convenient to use to control people.
He only wants people and money, and doesn't care about loyalty or not.
With this thought in mind, Fang Chang did not stay in the mine any longer.
Just as he was about to walk out, his spiritual sense suddenly moved, and an extremely strong wave of spiritual energy erupted outside, and then quickly subsided.
Fang Chang's spiritual sense was detected, and it was like a high-precision satellite scanning quickly, and he saw Fang Tie Zhu kicking an ice lump down.
He quickly walked out of the mine.
"what happened?"
"Brother, he was spying on us outside. I found him and wanted to run away, so I caught him."
Fang Tiezhu pointed at the people inside Bingtuo and said.
The person in the ice mass was a man, about thirty years old, wearing a gray gown, with a frightened expression and his mouth wide open, as if he wanted to say something but had no time to say it.
Fang Chang rubbed his brows and said helplessly: "We made such a big noise just now. It's normal for someone to come by and take a look. You should untie him first.
Well, just let go of one head."
Fang Tiezhu pointed his finger on the ice lump, and saw the ice melting rapidly, revealing the man's head.
After he was untied, he first took a deep breath, and then begged for mercy before Fang Chang could ask questions.
"Senior, have mercy on me. I'm just passing by. I have no intention of prying. I didn't see anything."
Fang Chang showed a gentle smile: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people."
The man had a look of fear on his face, but when he saw that he had a gentle expression on his face, his mood seemed to have calmed down a lot, and he forced a smile.
Fang Chang said with a smile: "Come, look into my eyes. Are you sincere?"
The man heard the sound and looked over, and saw a pair of deep eyes, which seemed to have infinite magic power, and he fell into them instantly.
"You are safe now. If you have anything to say to me, I can help you."
The inner demon method controls the seven emotions, using the fear in a man's heart as a guide to make him fall into the illusion he weaves.
Soon, the man revealed his identity and purpose.
His name is Yan Jun, and he comes from a force called Baihutang.
He indeed heard the noise and came over to take a look, but the reason why he ran away was because he wanted to inform Baihu Hall.
He felt that there was a treasure in the mountain, so he wanted to inform the leaders of Baihu Hall.
And Baihutang is a notorious den of bandits. The most common thing they do is to rob the Tao, rob the Tao of cultivators, and rob major practicing sects.
In terms of identity, he is similar to the sky pirates from the Flower World that Fang Chang encountered before.
But they are more organized and powerful.
Similarly, they also come from a secret realm, a secret realm called the Hill Realm.
When the space vortex appeared, the third master of their White Tiger Hall happened to be holding a double cultivation ceremony and a big banquet. Hundreds of people in the entire village gathered together, and then they were all taken away from the pot.
There are three heads of Baihu Hall, all of whom are in the Golden Core realm.
The first master's golden elixir is in the late stage, the second master's golden elixir is in the middle stage, and the third master's golden elixir is at its peak, which is only one step away from the Nascent Soul realm.
There are also twenty-eight big bosses, all of whom are good at the Foundation Establishment Realm and have unique skills. The rest are ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm and Qi Refining Realm monks.
In terms of strength, it is even worse than Biyun Sect, the first sect in Annan Road.
They have been in this world for more than two months, from dormant at first to slowly extending their tentacles to explore the surrounding environment.
The man is one of the spies. He is still a small boss in Baihu Hall and is in the foundation-building realm.
After hearing the man's confession, Fang Chang frowned.
This White Tiger Hall is not on his map.
There are members of the Xing Sect in the front, and there is the White Tiger Hall in the back, and they have all appeared in the past few months.
And the Wanli map in his hand was drawn by Li Hu a few months ago, so it was naturally impossible to record them in place.
Fang Chang felt that the small worlds of the major secret realms were like sieves, and space vortices appeared one after another, pulling in people from those secret realms and enriching the plane environment.
No, they are not necessarily humans, there may be other alien races as well.
This means that new people or alien races are joining this new dimension all the time.
In a sense, these guys are all time-travelers, that is, since they all come from the same background, their advantages are greatly reduced.
Now is not a peaceful time, otherwise being a civil servant would have been a very comfortable life.
The only good thing is that the ability of the space vortex is not strong enough to withstand Zhong Shan's overhaul of the God Transformation Realm, otherwise he wouldn't have to play now.
Just wait for it to be collected.
But just because you're not strong now doesn't mean you won't be strong enough in the future.
Fang Chang felt a little more urgent.
"elder brother."
The girl came closer and seemed to know what Fang Chang wanted to do.
Fang Chang knocked the man unconscious with a slap and said with an upright face:
"As a cultivator, but not engaged in production and thinking about robbing others all day long is really a shame for cultivators like us.
As a local pioneer, I have the responsibility and obligation to lead them on the right path."
Why don't we use so many strong laborers to build roads?
Reform through labor is also reform.
It saves those monks in Qingxiao City from talking about him, the city lord, for not treating them as one of his own all day long.
Now that they are here to serve as supervisors, we can no longer say that we have treated them badly.
Moreover, after registering them in the gold register, he can get dozens more experience points for free every day.
It's such a waste of money.
Thinking about this, Fang Chang quickly confessed: "Tie Zhu, when the fight breaks out later, try to catch as many alive as possible. Only the alive ones are valuable.
Also, don’t show off, our eldest brother is in charge of the leaders, we are responsible for plundering the formation and picking on the weak ones.”
But the girl shook her head and said: "I want to fight. If I don't fight, I can't make progress."
Fang Chang coughed slightly, his face reddening slightly: "Okay, okay, you can fight if you want. Anyway, there won't be any problem as long as I'm behind you to comb the formation for you."
The atmosphere became awkward for a moment.
Two hours later.
Then he saw Li Hu flying over with two golden elixir monks on his left and twenty or thirty foundation-building monks behind him, and a mighty array of royal weapons.
The one who came was the first legion of Qingxiao City.
