By the time Qu Liangjun returned with a group of disciples from the Heavenly Beast Sect's Tongyuan Realm, it was already getting late. He Yuanji had been waiting anxiously for a long time. When he saw that everyone had returned safely, he felt like a stone falling to the ground.
Zhao Xianyu curiously asked where everyone was going. When he learned that they had gone to the outskirts of the mountains to unload corpses, he couldn't help but said "I see" several times, which also solved the doubts in the minds of everyone in the shed.
Standing in the crowd, Liu Qingyi felt a slight shock in her heart when she noticed that Wu Yaqi and Lei Lei, who were meditating, had unsteady breaths and seemed to be seriously injured.
He followed Qu Liangjun all the way back and saw the miserable scenes of many sects on the Hengduan Mountain, with countless cries filling the area. He already felt that the losses in this battle to protect the mine would be heavy. At this moment, I saw that the two senior brothers and sisters in the sect were injured, and my experience became more concrete.
Several people couldn't help but murmur to themselves that they happened to go to the outskirts with the handyman team this time, and they didn't have to face such a dangerous battle situation. It was a great blessing.
That night, while Liu Qingyi and others were talking, they did not mention the incident of the incoming moon-worshiping monks they encountered outside the mountains.
This embarrassing behavior of being frightened by the enemy and hiding for a long time before coming out. Even before returning, everyone had already made a tacit agreement not to talk about this to anyone.
Early the next morning, several Tianshou Sect Tongyuan Realm disciples arrived early to gather at the place agreed on yesterday. They saw that the shed kiln fortifications had been restored a lot, and several teams of handymen were already sitting aside to rest.
Originally, based on the size of the day before, the handyman team should have included a few more teams, but today it turned out that it was no more than twenty-five. Liu Qingyi and other yesterday's corpse collection team have become the main force.
Yesterday, at the corpse collection team on the short mountain, Sang Chou from the Yunjian Sect and one person gathered together with several green-robed guests from the Xiaoxia Sword Sect. Bin Chao from the Tianji Sect also came with senior brother Qiu and others, but they have never shown up. This time, Chu Xiaoxian actually followed the team, and with her big eyes flashing, she paid attention to the people from Tianshou Sect.
This woman was protected by the masters of the Three Yang Realm and the Ningdan Realm in her sect. Before the war started, she hid in the surrounding mountains early and was completely confused about the entire battle situation. Yesterday, I heard people in the sect talk about the battle to protect the mine, and I only knew a rough idea. I was naturally surprised to see a few people from the Tianshou Sect standing in the crowd unscathed.
When the corpse-carrying teams gathered together, a disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect said to the crowd: "Other teams have taken over the affairs on the ground. Now that manpower is tight, we will go down to work underground."
As soon as he said this, there was a burst of whispers among the surrounding teams, and the Tianshoumen people looked even more excited. Yan Kuan lowered his voice and said: "We are finally going underground. Hey, it is our turn at last." .”
The wrinkles on Li Deqiang's face piled up like a flower, and he chuckled: "Could it be that we are going to dig up the Spiritual Essence Stone in the ground? Such a beautiful job... we have to do it well."
The excitement of the two people did not last long before a disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect began to tell everyone the rules, asked everyone to remove all spiritual treasures and storage containers, and gave each person a small storage bag.
Once everything was settled, groups of ten people were still formed, led by a Tongyuan Realm disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect, and went underground to collect the Lingyuan Stone mine.
According to the rules for underground mining workers, the Spiritual Essence Stones collected by each person are put into small storage bags and counted daily. They are all handed over to the leading disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect, and they are retrieved from the leading disciple when they leave the underground. Under this strict arrangement of his own spiritual treasures and storage equipment, there is almost no loophole to exploit.
The monks from the Holy Talisman Sect who led the team practiced a magic called 'spiritual vision'. If anyone in each team had any storage devices, bags, etc., they were all searched out.
With these lessons learned, everyone in the Tianshou Sect was dumbfounded. Thinking that they were going to do something in vain, they couldn't help but curse.
The leading disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect carried a blue cloth bag and carried all the spiritual treasures and utensils of several people in it. It made a crisp sound as he walked around.
Seeing several people staring eagerly at the green cloth bag in his hand, the disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect smiled teasingly and said: "Don't worry, the mining will be completed in one day, and I will return these things in full on the same day. I, the Holy Talisman Sect, I’m not so broke yet, so why don’t I come here to take advantage of your few low-grade spiritual treasures and storage utensils?”
As soon as this person finished speaking, seeing that there was no advantage left, Yan Kuan muttered in a low voice: "I can't believe that this joy is all in vain!"
Li Deqiang whispered, "Senior brother, if you think about it this way, it's not bad to be able to touch the Spiritual Essence Stone. It's better to go over and touch the cold corpse."
After listening to the conversation between the two, Liu Qingyi couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Yan Kuan and Li Deqiang glanced sideways at Liu Qingyi, and their laughter gradually stopped. The Holy Talisman Sect disciple began to urge everyone to get up, followed him to the entrance of a mine in a dilapidated shed, and leaned over. Go down.
Liu Qingyi and the others entered the underground and felt a lightness on their foreheads. The aura in the mine tunnel was extremely lush and lush, no less than the paradise paradise of various sects. Everyone felt warm and indescribably comfortable, and their marching pace also slowed down.
On the other hand, the other teams of handymen who entered the underground mining industry mostly dragged their feet when walking, and some even took the opportunity to meditate and practice. This made the leading Shengfu Sect monks speechless for a while. After repeated orders, they finally let go. Those who were lazy returned to the mining team.
Liu Qingyi slowly moved forward with the team. The further underground, the darker the light became. Because everyone is a monk, they are not affected by the dark mine underground. They only need to focus their spiritual power on their eyes to get a general view of the things in the cave.
After walking a little over 100 meters deep, after passing several forks, the teams that were traveling together gradually separated. The team that Liu Qingyi and others were in followed the Holy Talisman Sect monk and turned into a fork, then began to choose one alone. direction forward.
After walking about ten meters in this way, we encountered another fork in the road, and there was a faint light coming from it.
"Don't push!" Yan Kuan screamed strangely and looked at one of the three foreign monks in the same team. He saw him standing behind him, shrinking and looking into the depths of the mine, pointing to the corner ahead. He hesitated and said: "Then...there seems to be someone over there?"
The leading Holy Talisman Sect monk replied calmly: "This fork in the road is a mine source. Some people have come in to mine before. It is normal for others to do so."
The monk from the outer sect was relieved when he heard this, with a slightly embarrassed look on his face. When he passed by the forked road, he looked deep into the forked road, and saw an extremely bright cave hall. Between the small hall walls It was covered with dots of white crystals, and several people were spreading their palms on it, as if they were casting spells to peel off the white crystals.
At the outermost side of the cave hall, a female disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect was standing. Everyone looked at her and found that this girl was unusually beautiful.
When several people from Tianshou Sect passed by, they also looked deeper into the forked road one by one. Seeing the situation in the mine tunnel, everyone looked very excited.
Yan Kuan and Li Deqiang stopped to take a few breaths, with slightly excited and regretful expressions on their faces, and returned to the team in dismay.
Liu Qingyi was the only one whose attention fell on the female disciple of the Holy Talisman Sect, who was none other than Bai Xiaoxiao, a fellow villager in Lan County.
When they met suddenly in the cave, he opened his lips slightly and was about to say hello. He suddenly realized that this woman had been chosen at the beginning of the soul selection ceremony. She was not familiar with him and had not even met him. After a few times, I realized that I didn't recognize myself at all, so I gave up trying to greet her, turned around and walked out.
When Bai Xiaoxiao saw this group of people passing by, one of them stared at her carefully. She felt very disgusted and said secretly: "How can this stinky thing look at people like this?!"
She was selected into the Holy Talisman Sect at the Self-Selected Spirit Ceremony, and was cultivated by all the masters in the hall. She was able to advance to the Tongyuan Realm at an extremely fast speed, and her qualifications were indeed extraordinary. However, because of her good figure and good looks, ever since she entered the Tongyuan Realm, she always attracted such and such looks, and over time, she actually felt a little bit hurt.
The group of people passed this fork and marched dozens of meters underground. The mine became increasingly humid. Many water droplets leached out from the cave wall above and spilled onto everyone's hair and clothes. They were all shaken by a possessing energy. Spread out.
Li Deqiang, who was walking, bent over and looked at a concave mine wall not far to the right, pointing and saying: "Look, there seems to be a spirit stone on the cave wall over there." Everyone looked over and saw the sound. A bright thing on the wall of the cave was shining with white light, which was somewhat similar to the situation when I passed the fork in the road before.
The leader of the Holy Talisman Sect disciple was about to turn into a fork in the road. Hearing the sound, he turned around and looked over. After a brief look, he said: "Those are just some scattered ores, not of much mining value. Turn around this fork in the road. We are almost there, everyone, hurry up and follow us."
"Are we here?" "So soon!?" After hearing this, everyone speeded up their pace, turned around and walked ten steps forward, and saw that the surrounding cave walls were covered with shining crystals, densely inlaid. Among the various gaps in the earth and rocks.
Liu Qingyi stretched out a hand and touched the crystal stone on the cave wall, feeling the spiritual energy contained in it. The leading Holy Talisman Sect disciple urged everyone: "Everyone can start doing things. Just control the Yuan energy." Just dig out the ore lumps in the stone wall with all your strength, then peel off the stones and put them into the storage bag. Please hurry up, the ore collection is completed here, and we have to rush to the root of the ore to help."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone began to move. According to the way the Holy Talisman Sect disciple said, they were all a little unfamiliar at first, but it didn't take long for them to become familiar with it.
I saw the crystal ores on the surrounding cave walls being constantly pried up by people using their Yuan Power, and then separated the Spiritual Essence Stones piece by piece and put them into the storage bags they carried with them. Under this series of actions, there were endless sounds of 'ding-ding-rang-rang' in the cave.
Liu Qingyi held a piece of newly separated ore, and his consciousness sank into it, driving his energy to peel off the impurities that had condensed into blocks, and then divided them into regular elliptical and hexagonal stones one by one.
He looked carefully and found that these separated adult stones, both in color and spiritual energy content, were no different from the low-grade spiritual essence stones in his spiritual ring.
There was a feeling in his heart. He never thought that these so-called Spiritual Essence Stones actually required monks to use their spiritual consciousness to control their energy to separate them one by one from the large mineral vein crystals. Such a laborious and laborious task could only be done. The monks do it.
It would be impossible for ordinary mortals to extract the Spiritual Essence Stone from these tightly packed ores without damaging the ore body or destroying the stone, thus leaking its spiritual energy.
Some people died, but not completely...
