(A single spark can start a prairie fire)
There were five ores in total. The big one was twice the size of a human head, and the small one was about the size of an adult's fist. Chen Zong weighed them one by one in his hand. They were more than ten times heavier than iron ores of the same size.
Of course, with Chen Zong's strength, this weight was nothing.
"I wonder how much Spiritual Gold can be extracted from these five Spiritual Gold Mines?" Chen Zong thought to himself.
Spiritual Gold was the real treasure that could upgrade the grade of a Spiritual Weapon. With enough Spiritual Gold, one could upgrade all kinds of Spiritual Weapons. The higher the grade, the more powerful the Spiritual Weapon would be, and the more powerful it would be.
"To upgrade a Low Grade Spiritual Weapon to a Middle Grade Spiritual Weapon, one or two Spiritual Gold will be consumed. To upgrade a Middle Grade Spiritual Weapon to a High Grade Spiritual Weapon, it will consume ten times more Spiritual Gold."
To upgrade a High Grade Spiritual Weapon to a Supreme Grade Spiritual Weapon, it would not consume ten times more Spiritual Gold, but a hundred times more Spiritual Gold. After all, the difference between a High Grade Spiritual Weapon and a Supreme Grade Spiritual Weapon was even greater. Spiritual Gold itself was limited by its grade. When the grade was not high enough, it could only be made up with quantity.
In other words, to upgrade a Middle Grade Spiritual Weapon to a High Grade Spiritual Weapon would consume about one kilogram of Spiritual Gold, and to upgrade a High Grade Spiritual Weapon to a Supreme Grade Spiritual Weapon would require one hundred kilograms of Spiritual Gold.
This was not a suitable place to extract Spiritual Gold. Since it was not the right time, Chen Zong put away the five Spiritual Gold Mines.
"You don't have to put them away. I've already seen them. Are you going to hand them over, or do you want me to take them myself?" A cold and fierce voice approached from afar. After that, cold winds whistled as they blew over, causing sand and rocks to fly up into the air as a shocking aura tore open the ground, causing numerous ravines to swiftly extend out as if an earth dragon was turning over.
A figure approached like a gust of wind, and a terrible aura directly hit Chen Zong. When they were thousands of meters apart, the figure suddenly flashed and appeared behind Chen Zong by shrinking the distance. His palm was like a knife, and the edge of his palm was filled with an extremely cold sharpness. With a fierce slash, the air was cut open in an instant.
Chen Zong only felt a chill on his back. The amazing sharpness penetrated his protective Spiritual Energy and penetrated his body, as if his back was going to be torn apart.
Chen Zong's palm chopped down. His body was instantly split from the back. But the attacker's expression suddenly changed, because he did not feel that the palm chop.
Suddenly, a cold light pierced through the air from behind. It was fast, accurate, and ruthless, causing this person to be shocked. He hurriedly mobilized his protective spiritual energy and poured it all to his back, more than doubling the defense on his back. At the same time, he stimulated the power of a low-grade spiritual artifact to form a second layer of protection.
The first layer of defense was pierced through by the incomparably sharp sword light. Shortly after, the second layer of defense was pierced through as well. However, the two layers of defense bought a sliver of time for this person. His body twisted like a snake as he swam forward. Then, he twisted and turned to avoid Chen Zong's attack.
He turned around and unsheathed his saber.
"White Floating Clouds!"
A low shout sounded as white clouds rose and swirled around the blade. Thousands of clouds filled the air as the blade chopped down, condensing into white clouds that floated in the surroundings. They covered Chen Zong's eyes, and he even discovered that his consciousness was affected to a certain extent.
A shocking flash of blade light with peerless sharpness shot out from the white clouds without a sound. The killing intent was restrained, and only exploded when it was about to hit Chen Zong. It was terrifying to the extreme.
This move also proved the other's identity. He was of the earth spirit realm from the Nine Stars Continent's White Floating Palace. He was also using the White Floating Palace's famous White Floating Battle Method.
A Fatal Blow!
Who knew how many strong enemies had been killed with this move?
However, Chen Zong wasn't someone that could be compared to the strong enemies he'd killed in the past. Even if this person's cultivation level was at the initial fourth level of the earth spirit realm, Chen Zong wasn't afraid.
His eyes had lost their function, his consciousness had been disrupted, and his senses had been affected to a certain extent. If it had been anyone else, they might have been in danger. However, Chen Zong's consciousness was quite strong, and far surpassed his cultivation level. It was even stronger and purer than his opponent's.
Chen Zong had already brandished his sword the moment his opponent's blade slashed down. His sword struck the body of his opponent's blade. It was as if he had struck the weak spot of a snake, causing the aura of the blade to turn sluggish slightly. The flow of energy was also broken, causing its might to plummet.
Chen Zong's sword had only touched the blade for a brief moment, and it immediately stabbed towards his opponent, piercing through the white clouds.
The sword light was sharp and indestructible, and there was nothing it couldn't break.
The earth spirit realm expert of the White Floating Palace had a grave expression on his face as he raised his left thumb. The tip of his thumb had been dyed a jade-white color, as if it had been carved out of white jade. It emanated a shockingly concentrated aura.
As the jade-white thumb pressed forward, an imprint seemed to appear in the air. The air was compressed and condensed into substance as it rushed towards the tip of the sword.
With a popping sound, the compressed air was pierced through, and the tip of the sword instantly pierced through the opponent's jade-white thumb. The jade-white light shone brightly, blocking Chen Zong's sword.
The White Floating Palace's White Floating Battle Method was rich and varied in content. It could be used as a sword or a blade technique, but it could also be used as a fist, palm, finger, and leg technique. It was quite mysterious.
The earth spirit realm expert had practiced the White Floating Battle Method for many years and had long since grasped most of its mysteries. He used his finger to block Chen Zong's sword, and the longsword in his right hand chopped down fiercely. The jade-white light of the blade was incomparably concentrated and ferocious. The killing intent was enough to make one's heart tremble, and the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees.
In the instant that the light of the blade broke through the air, the earth spirit realm expert suddenly shook his thumb and broke apart Chen Zong's sword. His body leapt up slightly, and his leg chopped out viciously like an enormous axe. The shadow of his leg transformed into the light of a jade-white axe, and crashed towards Chen Zong as if it could split a mountain in half.
One had to say, this earth spirit realm expert of the White Floating Palace had an abundance of battle experience. He'd deployed such an astounding attack in the blink of an eye, and it was hard to defend against.
Chen Zong's expression didn't change in the slightest. Although the opponent's attack was a bit unexpected, it was still within his grasp.
The Heavenly Will Sword, which had been pushed back, trembled as it broke through the air like a bamboo in the wind.
Immediately afterwards, a spark of dazzling light flashed through the air.
Although there was a great gap between their levels of training, Chen Zong wasn't the slightest bit inferior to his opponent when it came to the purity and density of the earth's spirit power. In fact, he was even superior.
The speed of this strike was exceedingly fast, and it arrived first even though it had been launched later.
Urgent as a Spark!
It could be said that Urgent as a Spark was the fastest strike out of all the sword techniques that Chen Zong had grasped, and it contained an astounding amount of power.
The earth spirit realm expert of the White Floating Palace was shocked and wanted to dodge, but he discovered that his body, which was normally completely under his control, seemed to have become more than ten times heavier. His movements became slow and stiff, and even his thoughts seemed to have become rigid. Everything in front of his eyes turned dark, as if he'd entered the night. Only an extremely blinding red light rapidly approached.
With a pop, the space between the earth spirit realm expert's brows was pierced, and the frightening power of the Spark burned his brain to ashes at the same time, killing him on the spot.
His opponent's long blade was also a mid-grade spirit weapon. Although it was relatively ordinary, it still had some value. Together with his mustard seed bag, they became Chen Zong's spoils of war.
After searching through the mustard seed bag, he found nothing more than some pills, spirit medicines, spirit sources, and martial arts. However, they were nothing special, and he didn't find anything that made Chen Zong's eyes brighten.
"Unfortunately, there's no spirit gold mine." Chen Zong thought to himself, but he didn't really feel that it was a pity. After all, it wasn't so easy to find a spirit gold mine.
Glancing at his opponent's corpse, Chen Zong made his move. With a swift and fierce sword qi, he dismembered the corpse, preventing it from being invaded by evil thoughts or turning into an evil corpse. Then, he sighed with emotion.
Early fourth level of the earth spirit realm!
If this was on Chaotian Island, he would be a true first-class expert, and even the kind that could challenge those of a higher level. On the Blue Waves Continent, he could also be considered a first-class expert, but he died under his own sword.
Sure enough, the strong were the strongest, and strength was limitless. Only by constantly improving oneself would one be able to face even greater difficulties and dangers, and face even stronger enemies. Otherwise, there would be a day when one would become a dead soul at the hands of another.
His figure flashed and turned into a flowing light, rushing forward. Chen Zong planned to look for other spirit gold mines.
Although he didn't know how much spirit gold could be extracted from the five spirit gold mines, no one would complain about having too much.
… …
"Is this a spirit gold mine?" A ninth level Earth Spirit Realm expert of the Nine Star Sky Sect was holding a gray ore the size of a human head. There were faint golden threads on the ore, and it was very heavy.
Soon after, a wave of blazing aura spread out from the body of this ninth level Earth Spirit Realm expert. With a whoosh, blazing fire energy flowed from his body to his palm along his arm. A ball of light blue flame emerged and wrapped around the entire spirit gold mine.
The blazing light blue flame emitted an extremely high temperature, as if it could burn and melt everything between heaven and earth.
However, the spirit gold mine stubbornly held on.
"Oh …" The ninth level Earth Spirit Realm expert was slightly startled, and immediately increased the power of the flame. The light blue flame turned green as the temperature rose rapidly, and the spirit gold mine began to soften.
After a few dozen breaths, the Spirit Gold Mine had completely softened into a puddle of liquid. The liquid was greyish white and seemed to be a little mixed. Within the greyish white liquid, there were traces of light gold that moved around like spirit snakes.
The gray liquid gradually evaporated under the blazing heat, reducing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Only the light gold threads grew brighter and brighter, turning into a gold color and gradually condensing into a ball.
When the gray liquid had completely evaporated, the green flame had also been extinguished. A tiny speck of gold lay quietly in the ninth level Earth Spirit Realm expert's palm. It was a very small speck, like an ordinary sesame seed, and it emitted a dazzling golden light.
"So little, only about a coin." The ninth level Earth Spirit Realm expert couldn't help but frown.
All he had were mid rank spirit weapons. If he could obtain an upper rank spirit weapon, then his strength would increase. However, to upgrade a mid rank spirit weapon to an upper rank spirit weapon, he would need to consume about a kilogram of spirit gold, which was ten taels or a hundred coins.
In other words, he had to obtain a hundred pieces of spirit gold as large as the one in front of him.
In addition, he had to give half of the spirit gold he obtained to the Sect in order to obtain a chance to enter the secret realm. Of course, the Sect wouldn't take it for free, but would give it back to him in the form of contributions to the Sect.
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