The discovery of a large spirit mine had obviously attracted the attention of the sects in the North Sea. The intervention of Fa Xiang Laozu was proof of that.
At this time, the cultivators from the various sects who were proficient in surveying had gathered at the bottom of the ice cliff. After discovering the main vein of the spirit stone mine, these cultivators had to estimate the approximate output of the spirit stone mine, arrange formations, seal the spirit stone mine, and so on. They even found a vein of spirit material of ice attribute in the layer of ice that covered the spirit stone mine. They seemed to be even busier than before they discovered the spirit stone mine.
Due to the arrival of the low level Zhenling cultivators, the area that Lu Ping was guarding was handed over to these cultivators to excavate. Therefore, the free Lu Ping began to wander around the Frost Island.
Looking at the sky full of ice and snow, Lu Ping regretted not bringing Samling. At least, he should have brought Lu Ling. Lu Ling was an ice attribute Green Sea Snake. She would be like a fish in water in this place, and it would be easier for him to survey the Frost Island. Unfortunately, Samling was in the crucial period of breaking through to the Core Forging Realm. Lu Ping had placed Samling in the Golden House for seclusion.
However, the snow and ice weren't too difficult for Lu Ping. Water was the mother of all ice. Although the snow and ice weren't as advantageous to Lu Ping as cultivators who cultivated ice-elemental spells, it was still of some help to him. But in the end, it was still not as convenient as cultivators who cultivated ice-elemental spells.
Actually, there were many high level cultivators from the various sects who had the same idea as Lu Ping. The sky above the Frost Island was filled with all kinds of lights. However, the late stage Core Forging Enlightened Masters of the various sects had to guard the bottom of the ice cliff. As for the middle stage Core Forging Cultivators, even if some of them cultivated ice attribute spells, Lu Ping was confident that he would not be much weaker than them.
Lu Ping came to the back cliff of an ice mountain. Due to the terrain, this place might be closer to the ground. Lu Ping landed at the bottom of the cliff and spread his divine sense in all directions. Then, he put his hands together and slowly opened them towards the layer of ice on the ground. A layer of blue light appeared on Lu Ping's slowly opened hands.
As Lu Ping slowly opened his hands, the layer of ice on the ground began to creak. At the same time, the sound of ice cracking could be heard. The layer of ice under Lu Ping's feet began to slowly close up, as if no one had ever been here before.
As Lu Ping slowly opened his hands, the layer of ice on the ground began to creak. At the same time, there were cracking sounds of ice cracking. Then, the ice under Lu Ping's feet began to slowly close up, as if no one had been here before.
In the ice cave, as Lu Ping moved forward, the blue light in his hands grew brighter and brighter. The ice wall in front of him also began to crack diagonally downwards.
Lu Ping shook the spirit beast pouch on his waist, and a big fat rat sneakily appeared behind Lu Ping. However, it immediately shivered due to the bone-chilling cold in the ice cave.
Seeing that Dabao was so weak, Lu Ping could only shake his head. He stretched out his hand and flicked out a flame. The flame floated above Dabao's head, and a warm aura instantly filled the ice cave. The surrounding ice showed faint signs of melting.
With the protection of the flame, Dabao immediately became spirited, and his previous quick-wittedness returned. Without waiting for Lu Ping's instructions, he began to jump up and down the ice cave that Lu Ping had opened up in an attempt to discover something.
As Lu Ping ventured deeper into the ice layer, the ice that had accumulated for thousands of years began to emit a faint blue light. It gradually condensed into spiritual materials similar to the Ice Jade that could be used to forge magic tools. However, most of these spiritual materials were not of high quality, and they could only be used to forge magic tools of low grade. Moreover, they were extremely rare, so Lu Ping was too lazy to collect them. Thus, all of them fell into Dabao's hands.
Lu Ping tied a storage pouch around Dabao's neck, allowing him to collect whatever he wanted. Dabao was now a Late Blood Condensation Realm demonic beast. Furthermore, he was extremely stingy. As long as he saw something that emitted spiritual energy, he would put it into his storage pouch regardless of whether it was useful or not. Therefore, the storage pouch that Lu Ping gave to Dabao was a very expensive one.
At this time, Lu Ping had already ventured nearly 300 feet into the ice layer. It was getting increasingly difficult to continue digging the ice cave. Even though Lu Ping's cultivation was far superior to other cultivators in the same realm, and he cultivated a water attribute cultivation technique, the consumption of his True Essence still left Lu Ping feeling exhausted.
However, the deeper the layer of ice was, the more ancient it was. After accumulating for many years, many layers of ice had mutated and began to condense into various ice-attributed spiritual materials such as Icy Jade, Icy Crystal, Icy Steel, Icy Stone, Icy Liquid, and so on. Their quality was also getting higher and higher. Some spiritual materials could not only be used to refine mid-grade magic tools, but also high-grade magic tools.
When Lu Ping was 40 feet deep into the ice layer, Dabao had also changed his previous attitude of not caring about the good and the bad. Instead, he became more proactive. From time to time, with Lu Ping's help, he would dig out pieces of crystal-clear ice stones and ice diamond-like spiritual materials. Although these spiritual materials were scattered everywhere, their density was much better than the shallow ice layer. At least for a Blood Condensation Realm cultivator, such a harvest was already a windfall. However, for a Blood Condensation Realm cultivator like Lu Ping, these spiritual materials were not even as valuable as a Heaven and Earth Spirit Item.
Lu Ping was shocked. Since large spirit stone veins had been discovered in this place, and there was also the existence of a middle-grade spirit vein, then after tens of thousands of years of being covered in ice and snow, the accumulated spiritual energy would not be able to dissipate and would accumulate in the ice and snow. This would definitely cause the ice and snow to mutate and produce many ice-attributed spiritual materials.
The reason why Daoist Master Xuanwei and the other cultivators who were proficient in mineral veins still gathered at the bottom of the ice cliff even though they had confirmed the existence of a large spirit stone vein was obviously because other than the spirit stone vein, there was also a spirit stone vein of various ice-attributed spiritual materials.
At this moment, the cultivators from the various sects had temporarily put aside the matter of the spirit stone vein and waited for the Fa Xiang Laozu to come and discuss it. Then, they focused all their attention on the mutated ice-attributed spiritual material vein at the bottom of the ice cliff.
Because it was a companion, it was difficult for the various sects to determine its value. Perhaps it was only the smallest branch of the ice vein, but the quality of the spiritual material contained in it could be a second-grade mutated spiritual material that could be used to refine magic weapons, and the vein that produced the most ores could only be used to refine some low-grade magic weapons.
Although Lu Ping was going all the way down in the ice layer, under Dabao's urging, he had already deviated from his original track. His direction was still diagonally downward, but he had already made several turns.
Seeing Dabao jumping up and down to collect more and more spiritual materials into the storage pouch on his neck, Lu Ping finally realized that under Dabao's lead, he seemed to have opened up the ice cave above an ice-attributed spiritual material vein, and the formation of this kind of pure ice-attributed spiritual material vein depended more on the underground spirit stone vein and the accumulation of nourishment over the years.
In order to deliberately avoid other people's detection, Lu Ping came to the edge of Frost Island, which was very far from the bottom of the ice cliff, to investigate. He was sure that the vein he encountered at this time was definitely not the one at the bottom of the ice cliff, so there was only one possibility for the appearance of this ice vein: there was also a spirit stone vein or a spirit stone vein under this ice surface!
Lu Ping suppressed his excitement. Because Lu Ping's ice cave did not directly connect to the ground, it was quite strenuous for him to circulate his own true essence to open it for a long period of time, even with his thick true essence.
After calculating the time, Lu Ping finally realized that more than half a day had passed. The Fa Xiang of his sect and other sects, Laozu, might soon arrive at Frost Island to distribute the mining shares of the large spirit stone mine at the bottom of the ice cliff. If he was not present at that time, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.
But when Lu Ping saw that the ice cave he had opened was only a few dozen meters away from the ground and the ice attribute spirit materials that were embedded in the layer of ice, Lu Ping took out a jade bottle from his storage ring and poured out a dark blue pill that looked like a water ball. It was a pill that Lu Ping had refined using the Spirit Water Pill Nurturing Art, a pill that could quickly recover one's true essence.
Lu Ping swallowed this precious pill without thinking. This was a new type of pill that Lu Ping had recently come up with. It could refine and recover more true essence in a shorter period of time. Of course, because Lu Ping had not fully grasped the process of refining this pill, the success rate was extremely low. As a result, it was also very valuable. Originally, Lu Ping had been saving it for a critical moment, but now he could not care so much.
At this time, Lu Ping's own consciousness was affected by the layer of ice. The deeper he went, the less effective it would be. He could only rely on Dabao's own talent to guide the direction of the excavation.
However, when there was only the last fifteen meters from the ground, Lu Ping's hands that had been wrapped in a dense blue light suddenly shook violently. The ice cave in front of him that had been on the verge of cracking also stopped.
Lu Ping's face turned cold, and then he revealed a trace of joy. An even richer blue light than before spat out from his hands. With a burst of "peng peng" sounds, the ice wall at the bottom of the ice cave finally cracked open under Lu Ping's tyrannical methods. The ice cave that had already been opened behind Lu Ping began to shake as the bottom of the ice cave cracked open, as if it would collapse at any time. Cracks appeared on the already broken ice wall. The timid Dabao had already laid down behind Lu Ping, not daring to move.
Lu Ping did not seem to care about everything behind him. His eyes were staring at the bottom of the ice cave that was cracking open. Suddenly, a black mist suddenly sprayed out from the cracks, and instantly spread towards Lu Ping.
Lu Ping was surprised at first, and then as if he had found some treasure, he showed a happy expression and said, "It's actually Mystical Ice Fiend!"
Lu Ping's body shook, and a blue protective aura spread out around Lu Ping, blocking the black Mystical Ice Fiend outside of the Water Curtain True Aura. A layer of black Mystical Ice quickly covered Lu Ping's protective aura, forming a huge black ice ball.
After the black Mystical Ice Fiend was spat out, the ice cave behind Lu Ping, which seemed to be on the verge of collapsing, suddenly stopped. At the same time, after the Mystical Ice Fiend swept through the cracks, it immediately solidified again, and was even stronger than before.
The Mystic Ice Fiend was an extraordinary item that was stronger than the Frost True Water that Lu Ping had seen before. Although both were pure ice attribute extraordinary items, the difference was that the Frost True Water was in the form of a liquid, while the Mystic Ice Fiend was in the form of a black mist. Both of them didn't appear in the form of ice.
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