Chapter 251: The Mine is Out

"Is this Biling Island?" Chen Qiaoqian asked.

"Yes, this is Biling Island!" Sun Zecheng said affirmatively.

It's exactly the same as described in the original book! Such a big island but without any spiritual energy, where can I find the same one?
"Why doesn't it have any spiritual energy?" Chen Qiaoqian asked.

"Speaking of this, it's hard to understand. How can there be spiritual ore without spiritual energy? Spiritual stones themselves contain spiritual energy, so how could there be no spiritual energy? I, your husband, also find it hard to understand."

“This mystery is waiting for us to solve.”

At present, this island does not even appear on the nautical chart.

Because under normal circumstances, no Jindan would fly north from Silver Shark Island for several months.

This distance is far greater than the distance from the Luoyun Sect in the north of Tiannan Continent to the border between the Ten Nations Alliance and the Mulan people in the south!

Few people would fly so far to hunt monsters. There are enough monsters within a ten-day journey near Silver Shark Island.

Besides, the unexplored Demon Sea is full of dangers. The monks want to hunt demon beasts, and the demon beasts also want to devour the monks!
Therefore, Sun Zecheng was very curious about how the spiritual mine was discovered on this island in the original plot?

Since the island has not yet appeared on the nautical chart,
The ideal solution, of course, is to use a formation to conceal its true identity and make it disappear from the sight of ordinary people!

That was the original plan.

just,

"This island is so big! It's almost as big as Tianxing City! Do we need to cover up such a large island?" Xin Ruyin exclaimed.

"There are monsters on the island! And quite a few of them." Nie Ying said after sensing it.

"So a simple illusion formation is not enough. It can be broken at any time by the monsters that break in." Xin Ruyin said with a frown.

"Take it one step at a time. Go down first and talk later."

A white cloud landed on the highest stone peak. Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying flew out of the car. The golden elixir aura of the two of them immediately startled a group of monsters and they fled in all directions.

They were all low-level monsters below level four, and Sun Zecheng was too lazy to even pay attention to them.

However, Chen Qiaoqian saw from inside the car that the Jin Fuzi mother blade, who was operating the flying car, killed quite a few people.

"Ruyin, you set up the formation along this stone peak and cover the highest stone peak. Yingying and Qiaoqiao will help. Xuan'er will be on guard in the car. If any monsters get close, kill them immediately."

"As ordered!"

Xin Ruyin and the other two got busy.

Sun Zecheng fell into deep thought:
With such a big island and so many monsters, why have the monsters not yet discovered that there are high-level spiritual mines on this island?
Even though there is no spiritual energy on the surface, many of the monsters are good at burrowing into the ground.

Then, since the demons failed to discover it for so many years, how did humans discover it in the original plot?
This place is so far from Silver Shark Island.
The Jindan monks have to fly for several months.
Which Jindan cultivator is brave enough to travel deep into the Demon Sea for several months?
If the golden elixir was not discovered by Yuanying, why would he share this secret with others?
Wouldn’t it be nice to try to monopolize it?
For example, at this moment, Sun Zecheng is thinking about how to monopolize it.
So, what made him want to share this secret with others?

Sun Zecheng took out the nautical chart and examined it carefully.

Suddenly I remembered something. In the original plot, Han Erlangzi met Chen Jing of Qingyang Sect by chance, and then learned about Leikong Island. This island not only has the best spiritual veins nearby, but also is rich in several rare medicinal materials.

This island is the closest to Biling Island, only half a month away for Jindan, and two or three days away for Yuanying.

A little further away there is another Lilong Island, which also has good spiritual veins.

Or was it because Leikong Island was discovered first, and it had good spiritual veins and was rich in rare spiritual medicines, so it was Leikong Island that attracted people first, and then Biling Island was discovered?
Does this mean that Leikong Island and Lilong Island have to be covered up as well?
However, Sun Zecheng himself soon denied this idea.

The reason is simple: these islands are not small.

Just on Leikong Island, when Han Erlangzi went there, there were 30 to 40 thousand people gathered in a city on the island, but it was not crowded.

Think about it, the Huangfeng Valley, which occupies the Taiyue Mountains, had only about 10,000 people before the invasion of the six evil sects. When Han Li entered the valley, the stone house they lived in was already quite crowded.

This shows how big this Leikong Island is.

Sun Zecheng sighed. It seemed unrealistic to cover it up completely.

It’s not that it’s impossible. After all, when Tianxing City was besieged by the Nixing Alliance, the Nixing Alliance set up the “Wind, Fire and Heavenly Formation” to surround the entire Tianxing City.

However, if we want to hide Biling Island, Leikong Island and Lilong Island, the cost is too high!
Moreover, if there are only Sun Zecheng and a few others, it is unknown when the project can be completed.

"Give up the plan of covering it up completely. It will be too costly and time-consuming. It might even be exposed during the construction." Sun Zecheng quickly gave up this idea.

"What should we do then?" Xin Ruyin asked while working.

"After covering this mountain, under the cover of the formation, immediately build two teleportation arrays, one to return to Spirit Beast Mountain, and the other to return to Silver Shark Island."

"As ordered!"

"If we don't cover it up, won't it be easy for the monsters to find us?" Nie Ying asked worriedly.

"When we made the promise to pick the stars, we hadn't gotten the lapis lazuli yet. We were worried that there were too many monsters in the sea, harassing us day and night, so we used up all the 3,000 high-level talismans we had."

"It doesn't matter now. After testing the Lapis Lazuli Robe in actual combat, I am not afraid of the late Nascent Soul stage anymore."

"At most it's just a waste of some high-level talismans."

"It cannot be concealed. The only downside is that people have to stay here and be ready for battle at any time. In a sense, this is trapped by the spirit stones and becomes a real miser."

Sun Zecheng said indifferently.

"Haha! The monsters are here, it's a good time to hunt them, so we don't have to go out to sea to look for them!" Xuan'er said happily.

Xuan'er doesn't talk much usually, but when she speaks, she always hits the point.

"That makes sense! If you think about it this way, it's like exchanging high-level talismans for monsters, which is worth it!" Sun Zecheng nodded.

Chen Qiaoqian shouted excitedly: "Great! The prey is delivered to our door!"

That's right! This is a different time. The situation when we made the plan is completely different from now. Why not just use the spirit stone layout to lure the enemy?

Sun Zecheng changed his plan instantly.

They are all ready-made modules, and the mountain protection array was quickly set up. This time, in order to be quick, the "inverted five elements array" was set up.

As soon as the "Inverted Five Elements Formation" was activated, the mountain was soon completely shrouded in clouds.

Under the cover of the formation, Sun Zecheng used his giant sword and spear to dig a cave.
Xin Ruyin and others set up a teleportation array in the cave.

When the teleportation array leading to Spirit Beast Mountain is ready,

With the teleportation array, the end of the world is within reach.

"I and your sister Nie will go back to Lingshou Mountain to gather the Mulan slaves. The three of you will stay in the array and in the car. If there are strong enemies, have Ruyin go back through the teleportation array to call us."

"Hehe, I'm afraid that there won't be enough for us to kill!"

Xuan'er is feeling very proud after experiencing the battle to destroy Haoran Pavilion.

But it's true, with a flying car, lapis lazuli robes, and high-level talismans, he has the capital to be arrogant.

Leaving behind four thousand high-level talismans, Sun Zecheng took Nie Ying back to Lingshou Mountain.

He summoned Elder Huang and first asked him if anything happened in Lingshou Mountain while he was away.

Reply: Everything is fine.

It seems that fighting a battle with the Righteous Alliance is very effective.

It's good that everything is fine. Arrange Elder Huang to take 100 Mulan slaves for his own use.

In addition, Elder Huang also arranged for more than 200 Mulan slaves to go to the mines, and asked them to be replaced by prisoners of war in the Qi Refining stage, so that they could be used by him, and agreed that Nie Ying would come back to take over in ten days.

There were a total of 430 Mulan slaves, and more than 100 Mulan slaves, including dozens of people under Gui Xin Ruyin's command to make the formation, ten people each from the two Maple Forest Pavilion branches and the auction house as guards, and some driving the Maple Moon Sky Boat as power. These were not moved for the time being.

With more than a hundred foundation-building slaves withdrawn at once, the protection force of Lingshou Mountain was greatly reduced, but now no one was worried about an attack.

"Yes, sir!" Elder Huang was ordered to mobilize the Mulan slaves.

Nie Ying went to Fenglin Pavilion to collect the payment and left two months' worth of goods. In addition, Fenglin Pavilion once again put up an offer to buy Mulan prisoners of war, but the price was only half of the original price.
But the payment was made with demon pills, a Mulan prisoner with foundation-building cultivation, and a level five demon pill, which was purchased for a long term.

……

Soon, on Biling Island, the teleportation array began to shine brightly.

There was no one on the teleportation array, only seven spirit beast bags. Xuan'er waved her hand and took away the seven bags.

After a while, the teleportation array shone brightly again, and seven spirit beast bags were teleported over.

……

The teleportation array lit up fifteen times, and the last time Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying came together.

There are now a hundred slaves working.

Now, first superimpose Xin Ruyin’s improved version of the “Thirty-Six Formations of Tiangang” outside the inverted five elements formation. This is the core protective formation.

He also set up a "Spirit Binding Array" within the inverted five elements array.
There is no spiritual energy on this island, and the Mulan slaves also need to recover, so the Spirit Eye Spring from Han Li's cave is used to provide spiritual energy to these Mulan slaves. The "Spirit Binding Array" holds the spiritual energy and prevents it from overflowing, so there is no waste and it does not attract monsters.

As for the cave where Sun Zecheng and others live, a "Spirit Binding Array" was also set up, using the Spirit Eye Jade obtained from digging out the spiritual veins of Haoran Pavilion!

With the protection, set up the "Five Thunder Immortal Exorcist Array" inside.
Taking into account the huge number of monsters, Sun Zecheng planned to set up at least three "Five Thunders Immortal-Slaying Demon-Exterminating Formations"!
Distributed in a triangle,

Xin Ruyin is the busiest person now!
……

Ten days later, the two hundred Mulan slaves who were mining were teleported here, and the work could begin.
"Xuan'er, use the Green Brilliant Sword to explore the way and find out the mineral veins!"

"Okay." Xuan'er summoned the Green Brilliant Sword.

Then the three hundred Mulan slaves saw that the small green sword turned into a giant sword, turned around in the air and stabbed directly into the ground!
After easily entering half of the ground, branches began to grow from the hilt of the Green Sword, and the sword body became thicker and rounder, quickly transforming into a towering tree that blocked out the sky!

It was the first time that the Mulan slaves saw it and they were amazed.

Not long after, Xuan'er frowned and said, "I can't go down. There's something blocking it."

"It's good that it is blocked. Otherwise, how could this island have no spiritual energy at all?" Sun Zecheng was not surprised at all.

Since the Green Sword cannot go down and we have no idea of ​​its exact direction, we can only dig hard. We have to dig through this barrier before Xuan'er can investigate.

However, before digging, add another layer of soul-binding formation just to be on the safe side.

"Ruyin, set up another soul-binding formation."

"Okay." Xin Ruyin and the Mulan slaves quickly completed the arrangement.

Sun Zecheng first asked the 200 Mulan miners to nominate two team leaders.

The two people finally chosen were Slave No. 101 and Slave No. 322.

Sun Zecheng divided the 200 slave miners into two teams, asking them to lead a team each and take turns digging.

"There is no spiritual energy here, how can there be spiritual mines?" It is said that No. 101 was originally in Mulan to look for and mine minerals. He expressed doubts based on his many years of mining experience.

"You don't have to make any judgment, just dig according to my instructions," Sun Zecheng said calmly.

"Yes, I obey your command!" 101 responded loudly and quickly.

……

After digging for several hours,

The spiritual energy from the Spirit Eye Spring in Han Li's cave was too thin to supply the three hundred foundation-building slaves, and the slaves recovered very slowly.

In order to speed up the recovery, Sun Zecheng even took out the "artificial spiritual veins" transformed from the two Boshan furnaces on the flying car and invested dozens of spiritual stones in each.

Suddenly, spiritual energy emanated from the Boshan furnace, and soon reached the spiritual energy concentration of Lingshou Mountain.

The Mulan slaves dug hard under the supervision of their master.

……

The excavated stones were placed aside in order of depth.
At first, it was black stone.
After the black stone is a light blue stone.

When reading the original novel, Sun Zecheng guessed that the spiritual stone mine should be surrounded by lapis lazuli, so the spiritual energy was concealed so tightly.

But now the real thing is in front of me, except for the bluish color, the other materials are exactly the same.

Sun Zecheng shot out a Qingyuan sword. Although the spiritual energy could not penetrate it, it did not disappear.

Not lapis lazuli.

It is obviously an unknown substance that cannot absorb spiritual energy, but has an isolating effect on spiritual energy.

Remembering that in the original novel, Han Erlangzi crushed the bluestone and saw some silver particles, Sun Zecheng followed suit, rubbing his hands together and rubbing the bluestone into powder.

However, Sun Zecheng's eyes were not as bright and clear as before, so he couldn't tell the difference.

Sun Zecheng thought for a moment and took out a brass bottle, which contained the spiritual spring water that he had collected to catch sand lizards in the desert.

Sun Zecheng poured the dust into the brass bottle. Sure enough, it soon separated into layers. Some of the dust quickly sank, while some of it floated in the spiritual spring.

Sun Zecheng used a magic to turn the water in the brass bottle into ice. He cut the ice into pieces and took it out. There was a strange layer of wet soil underneath that did not freeze.

Sun Zecheng took out the Tianluo Red Furnace, put the wet soil on it, and called Nie Ying: "Yingying, come, help me refine this."

Nie Ying took over the Tianluo red furnace, put in the elixir fire, and began to refine it.

There is very little stuff, so the smelting is quick.
An hour later, the wet soil finally began to emit a metallic silver glow.

"What material is this?" Nie Ying asked while refining.

"I do not know either."

Sun Zecheng looked at the silver metal that shone like stainless steel.

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he said, "This thing isolates spiritual energy and separates it into layers. Let's call it chrome gold essence."

"What use can it be?" Chen Qiaoqian asked.

"I don't know, but it can block spiritual energy. At least we can try applying it on magic tools to see if it can prevent the evil spirit from contaminating the tools."

"The mine is out!"

"The mine is out!"

As he spoke, there was a cheer from below.

It turned out that after digging through the bluestone layer, they found the spiritual stone mine.

Soon, the essence of spiritual energy rushed towards him through the tunnel.

Nie Ying, Xuan'er and Chen Qiaoqian all became excited at once.

"Yingying, continue to refine. I'll go down and take a look." Sun Zecheng was not very excited. After all, he knew very well that
"Qiaoqiao should go down too!" Chen Qiaoqian is more enthusiastic than anyone else when it comes to things involving treasure and gain.

"Xuan'er has never seen a high-level spirit stone." Xuan'er said and followed her down.

"Hey, I haven't seen high-level spirit stones either!" Nie Ying said.

Who wouldn’t want to take a look at the ore of high-grade spiritual stone that has been dug up?

"Don't worry, this spiritual mine will take ten or eight years to mine out. There will be plenty of opportunities to see it." Sun Zecheng comforted Nie Ying.

Walking down the mine, with the help of the light of the moonstone, it is clearly visible that the opening in front of you is full of spiritual stones!
There are low-level spirit stones and quite a few mid-level spirit stones, among which there are three particularly large ones with particularly rich spiritual energy. You can tell at a glance that they are high-level spirit stones!
Chen Qiaoqian picked up a high-level spiritual stone and looked at it carefully: "Is this a high-level spiritual stone? This is the first time I've seen one."

Sun Zecheng picked up one of the pieces and said, "I'll go up and show it to your sister Nie!"

(End of this chapter)