Hubeiling
Hubeiling is located in the southwest of Changshan County, Zhuyang County. It has majestic mountains and erect tiger teeth, stretching for two to three hundred miles.
However, this mountain is famous in Zhuyang County not because of its mountain shape, but because of its spiritual mine.
There is a spiritual stone mine here with a storage capacity of 50 million, the largest in Shuyang County.
According to the rules of the Yunxiao Sect, the ownership of the Lingshi veins in the world belongs to the sect. For the convenience of mining, it will be entrusted to local wealthy families, and the sect will charge a certain percentage of fees every year.
Taking this mine as an example, the annual mining volume must not exceed 200,000 spirit stones - this is the standard set by the Yunxiao Sect in order to prevent fishing in dry lakes and to ensure a stable supply of spirit stones. One hundred thousand of them will be turned over to the sect, and the remainder will be mined. Party owned.
Over the past few hundred years, the Zhao family has been acting according to the sect's requirements. After deducting labor, costs, and the rental fees for the magic circle, there is still a profit of about 40,000 to 50,000 spiritual stones every year.
This number seems insignificant compared to the reserves of 50 million. In fact, this return is quite generous. After all, this spiritual stone is given to the family every year and has been continuously transfused to the family.
On this day, in a huge cave 800 feet deep under the Hubei Ridge, several luminous pearls hung high, emitting a dim light.
There are seven or eight tents on the ground. Judging from the stains and dust on them, it is unclear how many years they have been placed here.
In the tent, monks could be vaguely seen meditating or resting, and one could even hear the sound of sleeping soundly.
Seven or eight feet away from the group of tents, six people each occupied a corner and sat cross-legged. Between them was a hexagonal iron box, with a long white tube extending from each side, reaching three feet from the monk's chest.
These six monks, in different orders, will input mana into the tube at regular intervals. Then the tube will retract into the box, causing a series of rattling sounds inside, as if there are gears slowly moving. Turn.
After about thirty breaths, you will see a thumb-sized, crystal white bead squeeze out from the bottom of the box and fall into the jade plate below with a ding-dong sound.
This is the spiritual stone.
This hexagonal box is called the Condensation Array. The spiritual stones used by monks for cultivation are continuously produced from here.
In the Jade World, except for some special landforms that breed natural spiritual stones, most of the spiritual stones draw spiritual energy from their spiritual veins in this way. Then it is injected into the condensation array, fused with the mortal white jade placed in advance, and finally forms a spiritual stone.
The most important magic weapon among them is the formation disk that makes up this condensed magic formation. This item can only be manufactured by the sect and then leased to the mine for assembly. Loose cultivators or families refining it privately are a serious crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the family.
This magic circle also has a special function, which is to record the number of spirit stones generated every day. In this way, as long as the sect comes for regular inspections, it can easily determine whether the mine is following the rules and whether it is over-exploited or over-excavated.
All these are ways for the sect to control the place and seize the world's resources.
Don’t talk too much.
Besides, this condensed magic circle also has an inconvenience, that is, it requires a monk to penetrate the magic from time to time, otherwise it will not operate smoothly.
Of course, ordinary monks are not willing to do such time-consuming and laborious work, so they can only leave it to those who have committed crimes.
At this time, among the six people, there was only one boy who was pale and tilted to one side, like a shoehorn. He had just finished transmitting the mana and coughed repeatedly. He looked at the man standing next to him with pleading eyes. man.
However, his left eye was always closed, as if he was blind.
The person standing was a middle-aged man in his thirties with a sinewy face. He cursed with disdain:
"waste!"
The young man didn't argue and continued to look at him with one eye.
The man cursed and took out a few pills from his arms and threw them over.
The young man quickly caught it, took out one and swallowed it, then closed his eyes to rest, adjusted his breath and meditated.
The elixir in his hand is the Qi Restoration Pill. However, it is the most inferior kind, and there are a lot of spiritual stones in the market.
Although Gu Qi can also restore the spiritual energy in the Dantian, there are too many impurities that accumulate in the body over time, which will cause the meridians to be blocked and the cultivation to stop.
After a few breaths, the young man let out a long breath, sat down and continued to drive the formation.
A face that is even more gloomy and gloomy.
This young man is none other than Zhao Lian. He has been in this dark place for more than three years.
During his trip to Langshan three years ago, he attempted to murder Yang Zhen. Although he failed, it indirectly caused the tragic death of two family monks. According to the clan's rules, they should be executed.
However, the tenth elder said a lot of good things for him, and went to Zhao Youting, who was in charge of family affairs, and said that there was a shortage of manpower for the Lingshi mine mining, so he was finally sentenced to a punishment of being assigned to the Hubeiling Lingmine and never released.
At that time, he was lucky to have escaped with his life. It was not until he came here that he understood why so many monks would rather die than linger in the spirit stone mine.
This place is really not for people to stay!
First of all, in order to improve mining efficiency, the vast majority of Lingshi mines are built deep underground and do not see sunlight all year round. If you stay here for a long time, even a cultivator with a good level of cultivation will suffer from all kinds of diseases.
Furthermore, it is impossible to practice.
Although the spiritual eye is only a short distance away from him, it is said that the spiritual energy should be very abundant, but in fact, under the control of the formation, these spiritual energy are almost completely sent to the condensation array, leaving only a little residue, which is barely enough. You regain some mana.
More often than not, you can only use the Qi Recovery Pill to replenish your spiritual power.
But taking this inferior elixir is tantamount to drinking poison to quench your thirst!
Among the monks who were assigned to the mine, in all these years, I have never heard of anyone who could improve their cultivation!
Three full years have passed, and he, Zhao Lian, is still at the third level of Qi training.
As for the third point, it has to do with his surname.
Because his surname was Zhao, no matter what the monks who came to this mine committed, they were almost inseparable from the Zhao family. Now there is a direct descendant of the Zhao family here, and no one cares how he got in. Anyway, he has a punching bag!
If it weren't for a guard from the Zhao family here, he might have been killed long ago.
It's just that among the six people in the team, he has the lowest cultivation level. This magic circle can't operate for long, so he has to ask the guard for replenishment of the Qi Restoration Pill. Over time, the guard also despised him.
Therefore, Zhao Lian has suffered a lot in the past few years, which has made him less talkative and more depressed and withdrawn.
…
I don't know how long it took, but the condensing array that had been running suddenly made a soft sound, and the entire array gradually stopped functioning.
Except for Zhao Lian, everyone had happy smiles on their faces.
The magic circle produces six thousand spirit stones every ten days without interruption, and then it will pause for one day.
Most monks not only get a day of valuable rest, but also the magic circle is suspended, and a lot of spiritual energy will leak out of the spiritual eyes, which also allows them to practice well for a day.
This was almost their happiest moment in the mine.
However, it was not the case for Zhao Lian, he still had things to do.
"Number 31," the guard read his number and said coldly, "Go to work!"
As he spoke, a worn storage bag was thrown towards him.
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