Since he was already here, how could Lu Ping return empty-handed after entering a treasure mountain?
Lu Ping rubbed his chin and began to think about how to make a fortune without anyone noticing.
If he wanted to enter the vein, the two cultivators guarding the vein were an obstacle.
At this moment, someone outside the cave called out, "Senior Brother Wen, Senior Brother Tian, what's the matter down there?"
"What's wrong? What happened?" The two cultivators guarding the vein knew that there were 12 cultivators guarding the cave entrance, but now they asked if something happened in the vein. Obviously, there was something wrong on the ground. The two hurriedly ran out of the cave and asked.
"Here's my chance!" Lu Ping was delighted. He grabbed Dabao's whiskers and leaned against the stone wall. One person and one mouse once again crashed into the stone wall. The two Crystal Palace cultivators who ran over did not notice that Lu Ping was hiding behind them.
After the two passed by, Lu Ping came out of the wall with Dabao and quickly walked toward the vein.
Spirit stone veins were a peculiar existence. The peculiar thing was that under certain conditions, they could be regenerated, and the cycle of this regeneration was generally about 500 years.
Therefore, whenever a spirit stone vein was discovered, cultivators would often estimate the reserves of the spirit stone vein and set a daily mining volume with a cycle of 500 years. Then, mining and backfilling would be carried out at the same time. This way, the spirit stone vein could continuously produce a fixed amount of spirit stones every day.
Of course, all of this was under an ideal situation. The process of mining and self-regeneration of the spirit stone vein was always accompanied by the dissipation of spirit qi. Therefore, in fact, the spirit stone reserves in the spirit stone vein would eventually become less and less. It was just that this time would be delayed for a long time.
And the other dissipated spirit qi, under the magical effect of nature, would form new spirit veins again in a specific environment for cultivators to rediscover and excavate.
This medium sized vein had a total of 20 vein veins. Now, only four had been mined. The spirit stone miners inside were all Blood Refining Realm cultivators, and the clanking sounds were everywhere.
It seemed that the Crystal Palace's plan was to mine every four vein veins in 100 years. After backfilling, they would mine the other four veins. After this cycle, exactly 500 years would have passed, and the first four veins could be mined and backfilled again.
Without needing Lu Ping's instructions, Dabao stepped forward and chose a vein that it thought was of the best quality among the 16 unmined veins. Then, it plunged into it.
Just as the two Crystal Palace cultivators outside the cave were about to return, Dabao finally came out of the vein and disappeared again with Lu Ping.
"Those fellows outside are truly good-for-nothings. To think that they would allow a cultivator to reach the entrance of the cave before realizing it. Although the spirit stone mine is not exposed, our Crystal Palace has made a great discovery on an island within the Three Families Alliance's territory. This news will likely spread throughout the entire Fallen Pocket Zone in no time at all." Senior Brother Wen's face was extremely ugly to behold.
"The Wang Family is so bold to set a trap for the Crystal Palace. Aren't they afraid of being exterminated?" Brother Tian scolded fiercely.
"The Wang Family may not have the courage. This disciple of the Wang Family must have acted on his own. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that someone is impersonating him." Brother Wen thought for a while and calmly analyzed.
At this moment, a voice transmitting talisman floated in front of Brother Wen. He grabbed the talisman and listened to it for a while. Then, his expression changed. He snorted coldly and passed the talisman to Brother Tian next to him.
When Senior Brother Tian heard the message from the voice transmission talisman, he mumbled, "How could they have escaped? Even if the other party had someone to support them, how could so many brothers not be able to stop two people?"
Brother Wen said coldly, "After they left the nameless island, they didn't return to the Bright Moon Island where the Wang Family is stationed. Instead, they fled in the direction of the 27th outer island. Some brothers have already chased after them. Brother Ma, who is on duty there, has already informed Kunshan Zhenren. I think Kunshan Zhenren will catch up with them soon. Once they are caught, let's see what the Wang Family will say!"
Brother Tian said gloatingly, "Brother Ma is doomed. He not only let the spy in, but also failed to stop them. I heard that he has long wanted to condense the four spots for the Hundred Flowers Killing Aura. Kunshan Zhenren is also considering it. Now, not to mention the spots, he will have to face the wall for at least 10 years. If the news of the medium-sized spirit stone vein on the island is leaked, he will die!"
Dabao was indeed a master of digging holes. In a moment of effort, he had made a space for Lu Ping to squat down in the vein. Although there was a stone wall between them, and Lu Ping's spiritual sense was greatly weakened, but Lu Ping still clearly heard the conversation between Brother Wen and Brother Tian.
However, Lu Ping didn't care about this now, because all his attention was on the spirit stone vein in front of him.
A medium-sized spirit stone vein was already a mixture of low-grade and medium-grade spirit stones. But more importantly, a medium-sized spirit stone vein would occasionally be mixed with some high-grade spirit stones, although the probability was very small.
For the sake of long-term considerations, cultivators generally planned a spirit stone vein for a period of 500 years, and then used this to determine whether the output of the spirit stone vein was small, medium-sized, or large-scale. But this didn't mean that the spirit stone vein couldn't be overexploited. On the contrary, once overexploited, a small spirit stone vein could easily produce the output of a large-scale spirit stone vein in a short period of time, but the consequence was that the spirit stone vein was likely to be exhausted after a few decades.
What Lu Ping wanted to do now was to exhaust the goose that laid the golden eggs. The reason was very simple. In the game of the various forces in the East China Sea, his name would not be on the list of the owner of this spirit vein.
Since it was not mine, why should I care about him?
Lu Ping's idea was very simple. He asked Dabao to continuously dig several cave spaces along this spirit vein, and then let his pets go together. In each space, he let two spirit beasts dig spirit stones from two opposite directions. This way, it would be fast, the harvest would be big, and it would save time.
His six demonic beasts, plus Lu Ping, made a total of seven laborers. In this spirit vein, apart from cultivating every day, they were constantly digging spirit stones.
In order not to arouse the vigilance of the cultivators in the Crystal Palace, Lu Ping deliberately let Dabao continue to dig several deep holes in the depths of the spirit vein. In this way, even if there was a Core Forging Sage to investigate, Lu Ping would not be afraid of being discovered.
Lu Ping opened the Qian Zhong Su, so that his demonic beasts could freely enter and exit this spatial artifact. Then, a steady stream of spirit stones was piled up in a corner of the artifact.
However, Lu Ping specifically told them that once they found a high-grade spirit stone, they must give it to him alone. Lu Ping put it in his own storage ring. The use of high-grade spirit stones was far above its value.
In a trance, half a year had passed. Suddenly, there was a rumbling vibration on the ground, and a strange force was being transmitted along the spirit vein, as if to completely seal the area where the spirit vein was located.
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