In many cases, it is not easy to determine whether there is a high-grade spiritual stone at the core of a small spiritual vein. Basically, it cannot be known until it is actually dug out.
The reality is that most of the small spiritual veins that are excavated do not contain high-grade spiritual stones, because it takes a long time for small spiritual veins to breed high-grade spiritual stones. Under normal circumstances, most small spiritual veins will be the first to be formed soon after they are formed. Unless the monks discovered the small spiritual veins that have been occupied by a certain cultivating force for a long time, they are more likely to contain high-grade spiritual stones.
Li Qiao didn't believe it when he said that the monks digging for spiritual veins below were sure they could dig up high-grade spiritual stones. He said it was just a matter of luck. However, this kind of small spiritual veins that appear under the desert are not easy to find, so the chance of possessing high-grade spiritual stones is still high.
Since it was possible and he had discovered it, how could Li Qiao give up so easily? The only thing he needed to consider was to explore the strength of the spiritual monks, but generally those who would do this kind of thing in such a desolate place were basically casual cultivators. The strength of casual cultivators is generally not high. You will know the details if you go down and take a look.
Finding the entrance dug by the other party was much easier than Li Qiao thought, because to dig for spiritual veins, it was necessary to dig a long mine tunnel in the mountains. When he shuttled several times through hundreds of meters of sand, he found a large number of When the gravel was broken, you knew you were not far from the entrance.
However, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, he did not search extensively here. Instead, he stayed where he was and waited.
Sure enough, not long after, Li Qiao felt the vibration of sand not far away, and then quickly disappeared. Just as he guessed, the other party piled the extracted rock fragments directly into the sand layer. This was neither safe nor safe. Easy to expose.
After waiting for a while and roughly grasping the other party's patterns, Li Qiao used the gap to get closer to the other party.
In the dark desert mountains, there is a hollowed-out area where several monks sit cross-legged. After a while, a new monk will come here to sit cross-legged, and one of the monks sitting cross-legged will leave. .
Some of these monks are responsible for excavating the mountain, while others are responsible for clearing and transporting rubble. Whenever a monk is busy for a period of time, he will sit cross-legged to rest and start to restore the spiritual energy in his body.
On the periphery of the hollowed-out area, there is a rock wall-like existence surrounded by a large number of rock fragments, blocking out the sand in the desert.
After accumulating some excavated rock fragments, monks will come to the rock wall, move a specially reserved rock, open the passage, push some rock fragments away, and then return after pushing them far enough.
These monks basically have storage bags on their bodies. They do not use storage bags to hold gravel. Instead, they use this relatively primitive method because when taking out items from the storage bag, there must be space outside, otherwise it will not be squeezed. It is also the monk himself.
For the sake of safety, these monks must sacrifice some conveniences.
"Huh?" When a monk opened the passage one time, he suddenly felt something strange, but after checking with his spiritual sense, he found nothing. He just thought that he was too tired recently, so he didn't pay attention. Unknown to them, a guy who was a disaster to them had taken this opportunity to sneak in.
Li Qiao, who was invisible when his ghost veins were destroyed, did not release his spiritual consciousness in order to completely hide his traces. In this dark environment where other monks relied on their spiritual consciousness to see, it was indeed a bit unfriendly to him. Fortunately, although There is some impact, but if the distance is close enough, a cultivator's vision can still see some things clearly.
It was in this state that Li Qiao investigated the environment here and found that there were more than ten monks here. They all seemed to be casual cultivators. Feeling the aura on their bodies, most of them were only in the Qi training period. Only The existence of a foundation-building monk.
Seeing this, he was relieved. The strength of these people was no threat to him.
Even so, Li Qiao was not in a hurry to take action. Instead, he checked along the veins dug by these monks. It turned out that these guys had not been digging for long. They did not dig deep, and they had not found the spiritual veins yet.
But you must know that spiritual veins are not that easy to find for mountains, just like blood vessels in the human body. Although they are roughly at the core of the mountains, the core range of the mountains is not small, and
There will also be some deviations.
Seeing this situation, Li Qiao did not do anything, but chose to leave quietly.
Have you given up? No, but the spiritual veins have not been dug out yet. If these monks are killed, who will dig out the spiritual veins? If Li Qiao were to dig it out by himself, he didn't know how long it would take.
For monks who practice Qi or build foundations, it is not that easy to dig mountains. If you consume your own spiritual energy, the speed must be very fast. But after the spiritual energy is consumed, a slow recovery process is required, and the speed of digging is also very fast. will slow down.
Li Qiao estimated that the more than ten monks who took turns digging would have to continue digging for another year or two. If they were not lucky, it would be possible in two or three years.
This situation also made Li Qiao hesitate. Should he leave temporarily, continue his wanderings, and come back to check when the time is almost up, or wait here and harvest when it is about to be excavated!
But in the end, I thought that two or three years is not a long time. It would be a pity if something delayed my time after I left and I couldn't come back in time.
After all, there is hope of getting a high-grade spiritual stone. If I can get it, it will definitely not be a loss to wait here. Moreover, while waiting here, I can practice and study formations at the same time, which also reduces the possible dangers of wandering into the world of immortality, so I finally decided to wait here. here.
And in his heart, even if there is no harvest in the end, it is okay for Li Qiao to kill this group of Qi practitioners and a foundation-building monk. It can not only replenish the coldness, but also harvest the opponent's storage bag. As for this kind of He didn't think there was anything wrong with killing other monks at will.
Just like if he took something that was spied on by a high-level monk, and was discovered by a high-level monk, he would definitely not be able to survive. If you want to get something in the world of immortality, it is normal to kill or be killed. If Li Qiao didn't survive in the end, After beating the group of monks below and being killed in the end, he wouldn't have any complaints, it's just that his skills were inferior to others.
In order to prevent being discovered by these monks and to be prepared, a relatively secret place was chosen as a temporary cave, and then the boring training process began.
If you were more generous, you could just keep practicing regardless and wait until the monks finally came out from below before taking action. However, Li Qiao was a thoughtful person. After thinking that the other party had succeeded, he immediately dispersed from under the desert. After all, although this option is troublesome, it is safe, so every once in a while, Li Qiao will carefully go down to investigate and confirm the progress of the excavation.
This continued for more than two years, until one time when I went to check, the situation changed.
Every time he checked before, the entire passage was open, but when Li Qiao arrived this time, he found that the passage was blocked by a layer of rock.
Because I have been here many times, I know the number of monks here, and I found that the people left outside the passage are all Qi-training monks, but the only Foundation-building monk is not there, and is obviously inside the passage.
Li Qiao didn't know whether this arrangement was because the foundation builder was guarding against these Qi-training monks, or whether he had left some traces during his previous investigation to alert the other party, but no matter what, looking at the current situation, the matter could no longer be delayed. .
He came to a Qi-training monk invisibly. Before the opponent could react, the sword light flashed and killed him instantly.
Since he chose to take action, these Qi-training monks must not be allowed to stay, so Li Qiao acted without mercy and cleanly.
The sudden movement and exposure of the body caused other Qi-training monks here to suddenly become angry and panicked.
"Who dares to touch me, a Qingxia Sect monk?" While someone was fighting back, there was also a Qi-training monk who shouted.
After succeeding in a sneak attack, Li Qiao became invisible again and went straight towards a monk who was obviously panicked. He easily killed the opponent again without any effort. These casual cultivators were also shrewd people and seemed to have predicted Li Qiao's target. When he took action again and revealed his figure, the low-grade flying sword he launched changed a slight angle in the air and headed straight for his back.
It's just that this kind of flying sword attack from the Qi Practitioner poses no threat to Li Qiaolian. After killing the target, the flying sword turned around to block the blow, and then moved his steps.
, and went straight to the next target.
At this time, Li Qiao also heard the words "Who dares to touch my Qingxia Sect monk", but as his mind was turning, he didn't take it seriously at all.
If a monk who doesn't understand the situation in the world of immortality suddenly hears such a sentence, he might be shocked, but Li Qiao doesn't believe it at all!
Are these sect monks? Are you kidding me? If these were all sect monks in front of him, he would definitely run as far as he could and would not stop here, let alone take action.
In addition to the normal sects such as the Yi Mie Sect, there is also a kind of unpopular sect in the world of immortality. Because the world of immortality is so big, there are always some people who don’t know the heights of the world, and there are always some that normal forces cannot take care of. place.
Some foundation-building or golden elixirs pull up some monks and dare to call themselves a certain sect because there are no forces nearby. Some casual cultivators are not the opponents of such group-based monks because their own knowledge is limited, and they often fall into this unconventional sect. The monks in the door will also have a feel-good mentality.
Maybe he thought that his sect's name was very famous, so he shouted out, but in the world of immortal cultivation, strength speaks for itself. Unless someone among this group of qi-training monks suddenly broke out with the strength of the golden elixir stage, Li Qiao would He said, let alone calling him a sect monk, even calling him a great monk in the Tribulation Stage, he wouldn't even blink an eye.
Killing two people in a very short period of time somewhat caused other monks on the scene to react. Various magical attacks or magical weapons during the Qi training period successively attacked the place where Li Qiao appeared.
If there were just one or two attacks, after being easily dodged, they might still follow. However, the chaotic attacks of a group of monks and the mutual influence of various spiritual consciousnesses, especially the crushing of Li Qiao's spiritual consciousness, caused some attacks to fail. And cancel each other out.
The magical weapons attack quickly and can change direction at any time. However, Li Qiao's close-quarter sword skills, which are as fancy as a performance, cannot get close to Li Qiao's body at all. Especially some so-called magical weapons, even lower-grade flying swords. It's not as good as anything else, the speed and attack are much worse.
As for spell attacks, although they have a wide attack range, given the level of these Qi Practitioners, Li Qiao had already judged the general direction and range of the attack as soon as the spell was formed, and either easily dodged it or just scratched the edge. , the spiritual shield he used for defense blocked it very easily.
"He is a foundation-building monk!"
"The opponent's flying sword is only a middle-grade flying sword with average strength. He will hold on until the sect master comes over to avenge Hall Master Zhang and Elder Xiao!"
"careful……"
While fighting, various voices also sounded one after another.
As for only using middle-grade flying swords, it's because Li Qiao's high-grade flying swords are full of cracks, and he won't touch the low-grade flying swords unless necessary. This thing is a hidden danger, so hurry up. It is safest to take it back to the family and smelt it.
As for the fact that the other party was both the sect leader and the hall master and elder, Li Qiao thought for a while and understood. It seemed that the unknown foundation-building monk was the sect leader, and the two qi-training monks he had just killed were the hall master and the elder... …
Li Qiao did not use magic attacks. Although magic attacks can be dealt with more easily, relatively speaking, they consume more spiritual power. There is no need to deal with these weak Qi training monks.
In just a few breaths, one-third of the more than ten monks on the scene fell. Some of them were more afraid of death and reacted quickly. Seeing this situation, they attacked indiscriminately and began to run away. go.
Some were running outside, and some were looking for the foundation-building cultivator inside, but their choice only made Li Qiao more relaxed and free-spirited. Immortal cultivators kill people extremely quickly, and some of them ran a certain distance away. Qiao didn't chase it himself, but let Ah float away for a while.
Facts have proved that Ah Piao is still very stable against the Qi Practitioner, and he can basically kill the opponent with just one pass.
Soon, corpses were left on the scene, and more than ten Qi Practitioners were all dead.
Li Qiao did not leave immediately, but first absorbed the coldness wafting from these monks. This thing only appeared on the newly dead monks, and disappeared after a long time. After all, there was another monk of the same level inside. , if the delay is long, wouldn’t it be a loss?
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As for the storage bags of these Qi Practitioners, they are not in a hurry. Carrying more than ten storage bags at the same time will affect the performance of their strength to some extent. If they are left here, they will not be lost!
The main reason is that the storage bags of these Qi cultivators are not of much value. If it were replaced by a storage bag of a Golden Elixir or Nascent Soul cultivator, Li Qiao would feel it was a sin to let it stay on the ground for any longer.
