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 cooperative mining matters.
As for manual mining, the Zhang family had a legacy of more than six hundred years and had a large number of mortals, reaching more than 60,000. They had enough manpower to mine the veins, so they decided to send 3,000 mortals to mine.
On the Qingshan Sect's side, ten monks were stationed at the mines to protect them.
After the discussion, the two parties started working on the matter the next day.
Zhang Renmo spent about half a month recruiting 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 Qingshan Sect, leaving three foundation-building monks to temporarily garrison, and later sent fellow sects to garrison 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.
A small town, Bingjiao Town, has been established around the mineral veins.
The town consists of six villages and has a permanent population of about 5,000.
Half of them work in the ice dragonite veins, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and they get 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 over the job to ensure a reasonable distribution of personnel.
After three years of mining, the annual output of the ice dragonite vein has stabilized. It 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 spirit stones is not a small amount for a foundation-building family. It is equivalent to earning one foundation-building pill a year.
Other foundation-building families would have to work hard for ten or twenty years to accumulate so much income.
Moreover, with Qingshan Sect taking the lead, this income will be long-term and stable, and there is no need to worry about foreign enemies getting involved.
Because of the income from the ice dragonite mine, Qingshan Sect has gained another resource industry. It has sent ten foundation-building monks to station at the mine 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 fourth-level spiritual veins, you need to use the Yunling 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 they can produce less than a thousand medium-grade spiritual stones every year. High-grade spiritual stones are even rarer and 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 high-level materials for forming formations, refining weapons, or making puppets.
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-order and seventh-grade formations. Their uses are similar to those of middle-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.
It is expected that during the 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 divided the size of the cultivation area of the spiritual veins, as well as 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 clear division of labor.
Due to the huge attraction of so many spiritual stones, not only were there no monks outside the Qingshan Sect involved in the whole process.
Moreover, *** Song, 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 final level of spiritual veins that can be cultivated. 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 spirit stones is three hundred meters underground, and the shallowest is fifty meters. When connected together, they look like a huge and long spider web, covering an area of about sixty miles.
This range may not seem large, but in fact, as long as the cultivation is completed, it is enough for ten monks in the crystallization stage to maintain daily practice here.
In the blink of an eye, spring goes and autumn comes, 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 it was soon conceived and reached the third-order high-grade level, which has reached expectations.
With the cultivation of the spiritual veins completed, the construction of the ice dragonite mine is almost complete. Towns, spiritual veins, and formations are already in place.
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 being busy here for more than six years, Chen Changfeng took Song Dafa, Zhang Nianchuan and others back to the sect, leaving only three Qingshan Sect foundation-building 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.
