Chapter 205 Spiritual Source and Peeping

The sky is getting whiter.

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.
To be continued...