Although the three stone puppets had soul stones placed in them, they didn't have any consciousness. They could only be controlled by Zong Shou using a few threads of his mind. To him, this was an incomparably novel experience.
At first, due to its lack of experience, the stone puppet wobbled and fell several times.
When Zong Shou slowly familiarized himself with it and understood how to control it, an hour had passed. First, he stretched his legs and stretched his arms. Then, he walked to the spot that Zong Shou pointed out and started to use his stone arms to dig.
Apart from the stone puppet's movements being slightly clumsy, it had immense strength, a full twenty thousand kilograms of strength. Each time the stone palm dug down, it could dig out large amounts of soil. In just a moment, it dug down a hundred feet. When it faced tough stone, Zong Shou would use the Lightning Tooth Sword to forcefully break it.
"This stone puppet is really not bad! The spiritual techniques of spirit masters are really exquisite and unpredictable. They have many uses and are really useful … "
However, the cost of these puppets was huge. One Grade Three beast crystal was a hundred thousand silver. In the Cloud World, it was enough to become a rich family.
Only Zong Shou, who had huge amounts of wealth in the Sanlu Bank and knew that beast crystals and soul stones wouldn't be worth much in the future, dared to squander them like that.
Ten beast crystals and two soul stones of the same grade were really expensive. However, these three stone puppets could be used for two months and he didn't need to worry about spiritual energy and essence energy running out.
It was like he had three more experts whose strength could compare to nine meridian Mythic Masters, so it wasn't a big loss.
His digging speed was really quick. In just an hour, he had easily dug to the bottom.
This was a roughly fifty feet tall natural tunnel. Below it was a shallow stream.
At this moment, his Rising Moon Lion was hiding not far away. It would naturally guard the hole outside.
Zong Shou didn't hesitate, bringing the three stone puppets and jumping down. Only to see the two sides of the tunnel shine with starlight. They were densely packed with crystals of various colors.
At this moment, Chu Xue roughly understood Zong Shou's intention. Along with Zong Shou, after jumping into the river below, he looked around in shock at the crystals that were reflecting light.
"Young Master, are these spirit stones?" Chu Xue thought to herself. If they dug out all these spirit stones, wouldn't they make a fortune? One spirit stone, even if it was the lowest grade one, was worth ten times more than a grade one beast crystal.
Zong Shou couldn't help but laugh and continue forward. If spirit stones were so easy to find, they wouldn't be so expensive.
The crystals here could also be considered as spirit stones. However, it wasn't ranked, and its effects were minimal. Even those spirit masters below the Soul Observing Realm disdained to use it.
In the eyes of others, it might be an unimaginable amount of wealth, but in his eyes, it was the same as trash. He really didn't have the time to care about it.
However, as he continued forward, he spread his Soul Remembrance in all directions, searching up, down, left, and right in this underground tunnel.
This place was underground, and although the wind blew, it didn't hurt his soul. In the past, Zong Shou could only stretch his spiritual sense out a hundred feet. At this moment, it reached three hundred feet and he didn't find it tiring. However, he was unable to go deep into the earth layer.
"I heard that an Out of Body Realm spirit master can stretch his spiritual sense ten feet into the earth. As for the Night Roaming realm, it tripled in size, reaching a height of ten meters. At the Return to Sun Realm, it can reach a hundred feet. However, at the Day Wandering Realm, it can reach a thousand feet! At that realm, one just needs to sweep with their spiritual sense to know where there are spirit stones in the spirit stone mines. It really makes one envious. However, this method is only useful in low grade mines. Large mines all have spiritual energy materialized, and even spirit masters find it hard to get close … "
Zong Shou's spiritual sense could only reach five feet into the earth layer. With such a range, the chances of finding spirit stones were really small. He spread his spiritual sense out, but he didn't have much hope.
There were many forks in this path. In just a short ten miles, there were dozens of forks of unknown depths.
When he walked to a corner of the underground tunnel, Zong Shou's eyes lit up. He ordered the three stone puppets to dig to the side. After digging about half a foot into the stone wall, a few dark blue transparent crystals appeared. There were exactly three of them, each about the size of a fist.
Chu Xue was slightly shocked. Right away, she noticed that these blue transparent crystals were different from the other crystals on the stone walls.
They were bright and transparent, and the spiritual energy within was several times that of the surrounding crystals. If one took a closer look, they would be able to see something that looked like water flowing slowly within. It contained pure essence and spiritual energy. Even if one absorbed it into one's body, one could easily refine it without any side effects.
Chu Xue was startled for a moment, not daring to confirm. A moment later, she hesitated, "Young master, are these grade 4 crystals?"
"Above grade 3 and not grade 4! However, it is already not bad! "
Zong Shou casually kept it into the bag by his waist, his expression expressionless. Grade 3 mind stones could be compared to grade 4 beast crystals. In his heart, he felt a little regretful. Although he could use these water element mind stones, they weren't the type he wanted.
However, this place was really close to the mine core!
A mid-sized grade 2 mine, only the area with the most spiritual energy would have grade 3 mind stones!
Continuing forwards, roughly 900 feet, Zong Shou ordered the three puppets to stop.
The place where the cracks showed was broken was here. However, looking at this place, he couldn't find the reason why the spiritual energy split. Slightly sensing, the heaven and earth spiritual energy here was really abundant and there was no difference.
"Could it be that the ore has already been taken by someone? However, there are no signs of it being dug up, what is the reason for that? "
Zong Shou's brows furrowed, his heart filled with questions. On the stone wall, he drew another spiritual formation.
This time, the runes that were drawn were even more intricate, and the lines were even purer. He picked out 4 grade 3 earth element beast crystals and tried his best to choose the purest ones to inscribe on.
However, when he activated his spell, many cracks opened up. The thickest and biggest one still reached down and stopped halfway. Then, it spread out like it was blocked by some power and couldn't reach in.
Zong Shou's eyes constricted. The effect of this spiritual searching technique was proven numerous times in the future. A situation like this was truly abnormal.
Thinking about it carefully, it wasn't like there weren't any similar examples.
"Firstly, there is a treasure below that blocks my spell. Secondly, the mind stones here exceed grade 3 and are above grade 6. However, how is that possible? The last possibility is that there are other beasts or spirits under this layer of soil … "
Zong Shou's brows furrowed, showing a wary expression. Tens of spiritual talismans shot out from his sleeves. He chanted and caused them to burn.
Around Zong Shou and Chu Xue, an earth-yellow glow appeared. Even the 3 earth puppets had a layer of light around them. His body seemed to have become a lot more sturdy, and his strength had also increased by a lot.
Since the spiritual searching technique was unable to work, then he would forcefully dig!
The moment Zong Shoxin chanted, the Black Wave Sword charged into the air and struck downwards. Not long later, the stone below was sliced into pieces.
The 3 earth puppets were also on guard while moving the stone pieces away.
Roughly a hundred feet away, Zong Shou's eyes squinted, his right hand pressing on the lightning tooth sword in the sheath on his left.
However, when the stone puppets forcefully dug out, Zong Shou was shocked. Zong Shou couldn't help but be startled as he looked downwards.
Only to see a purple plate-shaped stone block lying below. Even his Black Wave Sword couldn't break it and was sent flying back! His Soul Sense and Intent couldn't enter either.
Then, the stone puppets dug away the sand at the side before taking out the stone.
Only to see that it was thirty feet wide, the thickest part was only a foot. One could see threads of purple gold patterns all over the stone board.
Zong Shou was slightly shocked, using his sword to touch it, giving out the sharp sound of metal clashing.
Then, his expression became really weird. It wasn't a treasure. It wasn't a grade 6 mind stone, nor was it some soul or beast. It was just a metal ore that was formed together with the mind stone mine core.
In the end, it was because he had too little experience that he made such a huge mistake. He wasted tens of talismans. Luckily, Chu Xue killed that out of body realm spirit master and replenished some.
"It is actually purple spirit iron! This item is really rare. Using this iron to craft a sword, one can craft a grade 4 spiritual sword! Such a large piece, since one can craft 4-5 swords, it is more than enough. Its value isn't much lower than grade 6 mind stones. "
Although this item was good, Zong Shou had no use for it at the moment. He had all the materials he needed, but where would he go to find a spirit refiner who could craft grade 4 spiritual swords?
Such a large piece was tough to move.
Sighing, Zong Shou let a stone puppet carry the stone board and continued to look downwards.
His eyes constricted, his pupils constricting into a needle shape. Then, he blinked his eyes in disbelief.
After a short while, he pinched Chu Xue's cheeks, using strength to pull, asking curiously, "Xue, does it hurt? Are the two of us dreaming? "
Chu Xue forcefully broke free from Zong Shou's hand, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at Zong Shou with a wronged expression, "It hurts! Young master, you bully me, why did you pull me? Xue didn't do anything wrong … "
Zong Shou shook his head, thinking that it was right to say that it hurt. At this moment, he really wasn't dreaming.
Only to see that below, a pure black, crystal-like spiritual grass was growing in the soil under the black stone board.
The leaves and roots were all black, translucent and translucent, making one suspect whether or not this grass was alive. At the end of it, there was a flower bud. Numerous thread-like black petals tightly wrapped around it, exposing it to Zong Shou's line of sight.
Zong Shou sucked in a cold breath, still not daring to confirm. A ball of flame lit up in his hand as he carefully analyzed it. However, be it the roots, leaves, or the flame, they were exactly the same as what was described in the books.
"Darkness blooming cereus, it is actually the darkness blooming cereus …" If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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