Chapter 139: Inner Mountains

Wu Jun smiled bitterly and said, "We were chased by the giant python before we could complete the mission we accepted this time. We want to see how serious the injuries of these people are before making any plans." Leng Youran's spiritual sense swept over the group of ten or so people, and he roughly knew the extent of their injuries. He took out two bottles of pills from his storage ring and handed them over, saying to them, "Here are two bottles of recovery pills. Let them take them to heal their wounds first!" Wu Jun took the jade bottles and thanked them repeatedly. After another quarter of an hour, everyone's injuries had recovered. They looked at Leng Youran with surprise, walked over and bowed, and said gratefully, "Thank you, Senior Ling." Leng Youran smiled and waved his hand, saying, "I'm going to the mountains for a trip. You must come with me." Wu Jun and the others nodded in delight. With a Foundation Establishment cultivator following them, their safety would be guaranteed. Leng Youran glanced at the two cultivators of the Zhang family without a trace, then walked forward. The group of people behind him quickly followed.

Along the way, Leng Youran subdued her aura. She wouldn't attack any demonic beasts she encountered, simply hiding in a tree and watching them fight. She wouldn't intervene unless absolutely necessary. Leng Youran sat in a tree, watching the fierce battle below. Beneath the tree, a group of second-tier sawtooth rats were surrounding the group. Thirteen of them formed a circle, each one diligently slaying the rats as they charged. While these were second-tier demonic beasts, there were many of them! Surrounding them were two hundred first- and second-tier demonic beasts. Leng Youran couldn't help but frown as she watched the battle below. These people were used to fighting on their own, completely uncooperative with their comrades. Leng Youran glanced at them and offered advice. "If you want to break free from this encirclement, you must learn to cooperate. Fighting alone like you're a loose sand, how can you possibly repel these sawtooth rats?" Wu Jun and the others were all shocked by Leng Youran's words. "Yes! Senior Ling is right!" They were all used to fighting on their own. If they continued like this, they would be defeated one by one by the monsters. After thinking for a while, they said, "Everyone listen up. The three of you stand back to back and work together to kill the monsters. Remember, you can't let the monsters break through from your side." Everyone agreed in unison. Sure enough, this approach was very effective. It took them another hour to kill all the sawtooth rats.

Leng Youran smiled as he watched the group of monks cleaning up the battlefield and nodded secretly in his heart. Leng Youran jumped down from the tree and said to them, "This is already deep in the outer area of ​​the mountains. Going forward is the inner area. I want to go inside and take a look. Do you want to continue your training here or go out?" The tasks that Wu Jun and his group had received had all been completed. With everyone's consent, they decided to leave the mountains and go out to hand in the tasks first.

Leng Youran smiled and said goodbye to them. After signaling them to leave, he turned and entered the inner area of ​​the mountains.

She entered the mountains this time because Lieyan discovered a small cave on a cliff outside the inner circle of the mountains. Last time, she accidentally broke in and found out that this was a small spiritual jade vein. The spiritual jade inside was quite good, so Leng Youran planned to come and take a look today, and Lieyan also brought Chiyan and Hongyi to dig there. According to the contract, Leng Youran quickly found the cave. There was a natural hidden formation at the entrance of the cave. What's more, there was a formation inside the hidden formation to block the leakage of spiritual power. Leng Youran stood at the entrance of the cave, smiled, waved her little hand, and took out a high-level formation plate from the storage ring. This is an integrated defense and attack formation. This formation plate was installed inside the hidden formation. Because the outside was a naturally formed formation, it was difficult to find.

Leng Youran looked at the formation he had set up again, summoned Yun Shang and the others out of the space, and walked in together.

This was a small cave, and the passage was wide enough for three people to walk in parallel, so they didn't feel crowded when they walked in. After walking down the passage for about a quarter of an hour, they saw Lieyan and the other two digging large chunks of raw stones. Lieyan had noticed Leng Youran when she came in just now, and walked over with the three of them. As soon as he saw Leng Youran, he took out a few storage bags from his own storage space and handed them to her. Leng Youran didn't find it strange to take the storage bags, because when a spirit beast cultivates to the sixth level, a storage space will appear in its body. Lieyan took it out from his own storage space just now, and was about to throw the storage bag into the space when Tao Yao, who was standing aside, spoke up, "Master, can you bury these raw stones directly underground in the space? The last time you buried top-grade spirit jade on the ground, those spirit jades were just ordinary items. Now those spirit jades have begun to mutate, and have slowly transformed into low-grade spirit jade crystals, and..." I feel that burying these spiritual jades in the space will also help the space." Leng Youran was stunned for a moment, then probed her spiritual sense into the space and began to slowly feel the space. After about a quarter of an hour, she was surprised to find the changes in the space. Before, she felt that the top-grade spiritual jades among the ordinary items were beginning to change slowly, and with these spiritual jades buried in the space, the spiritual power in the space also changed. These spiritual jades can also slowly improve the spiritual power in the space. The addition of these spiritual jades in the space will not only not consume the spiritual energy in the space, but also produce a faint spiritual power. This space was created by her, so she is the sky of this space. She can know any changes in the space as long as she feels it carefully. She feels that as long as the number of spiritual jades reaches a certain amount, spiritual veins will be born. With this discovery, Leng Youran suddenly reacted and realized that spiritual jade can produce spiritual jade veins in space, so why hasn't spiritual stone veins been produced when he has been putting spiritual stones into it for all these years! Her spiritual sense looked at the Five Elements Formation where the spirit stones were placed, and her face suddenly turned dark. Before, she just thought that she didn't put in enough spirit stones, but now after looking carefully, she found that the number of spirit stones placed there was really astonishing, but there was no feeling of generating spirit veins. Unable to figure it out, she felt it carefully, and after a while, she found out where the problem was. It turned out that this formation was only maintaining the normal operation of the space, and spirit veins could never be generated in the formation. Looking at so many spirit stones in the formation, she felt like crying. These spirit stones were put in and could not be taken out.

Now let's start slowly accumulating spiritual stone veins! Alas! She is destined to be a hard worker!

After her spiritual consciousness exited the space, she told the many spirit beasts about her discovery. Tao Yao thought for a while and said, "In this case, we can bury the raw jade stones directly around those spirit jades. When they accumulate enough, we can produce spirit jade veins. Then we can slowly accumulate spirit stones in another direction. When the time comes, we can directly drive these things deep into the ground. Once they accumulate to a certain amount, we can produce spirit stone veins." Yun Shang thought for a while and said, "Master, if this is the case, then the various ores we get in the future can also be driven into the ground and accumulated slowly. Then, the master will have a lot of ores to use, and many high-level ores can also be produced." Leng Youran nodded and thought it made sense, but then she reacted and wailed. She was back to the time before liberation, and everything had to start from scratch.

He sighed and handed all the storage bags in his hands to Tao Yao, and said with a look of despair, "I'll leave this matter to you. From now on, I will just work hard to accumulate spirit stones and various minerals!" When several spirit beasts saw their master's appearance, they all showed a gloating expression, and Leng Youran was so angry that he wanted to beat someone up.

Looking up at the raw jade stones, Yuzhu called out to the spirit beasts behind her to begin mining. She glanced at the stones and said to Leng Youran, "Liuyun and I will use our wind power to pry them out, while Lieyan and Yunshang will move them out. This way, we'll be faster." Leng Youran nodded and led the red-clothed beasts to dig in another direction. When she'd arrived earlier, she'd hung a wooden sign on the shop's door, announcing that the owner had been forced to close the shop for two weeks, so she settled in as a small miner. Thanks to the cooperation of the spirit beasts, and because this jade mine was only a tiny vein, she had already unearthed all the jade within in just two weeks. The quality of the jade was quite good. Burying this jade in space wouldn't yield a jade vein, so she'd keep working! "Well, I'll definitely visit the secular world someday!" Although there are many ordinary jade veins in the world of immortal cultivation, they are basically occupied by large families and sects, because these ordinary jade veins will produce jade crystals. Although the number of jade crystals produced by a jade vein is not large, jade crystals are very rare. A large and top-grade jade vein can only produce a few jade crystals at most. If you can find a crystal vein, you can get high-grade and top-grade jade crystals.

This is also the reason why those big families and big sects are interested in the spiritual jade veins. Although ordinary spiritual jade veins take many years to evolve into spiritual jade crystal veins, those big sects and big families have plenty of time to wait. Even if they cannot become spiritual jade crystals, those ordinary spiritual jades are still very useful.

After collecting all the spiritual jade raw stones into the space and handing them over to Tao Yao, Leng Youran entered the space and felt the spiritual jades that were thrown into the ground. Those spiritual jade raw stones immediately sank into the ground after entering the space. Leng Youran felt those spiritual jades entering the space and felt that it would take many years for them to produce spiritual jade veins. If he wanted to produce veins sooner, he had to accumulate more spiritual jade raw stones. It was really a long way to go! Leng Youran came out of the space and checked the cave carefully again. After finding nothing, she used a special method to eliminate the breath of their previous existence, and then put the several spirit beasts into the space before leaving the cave. She casually put away the formation she had set up and turned to leave. She did not destroy the formation at the entrance of the cave, so that those people would find this place later. She took out her flying sword from the storage ring, and quickly left here. She caught several second-level monsters and two high-level monsters in the inner area before leaving and returning to Heze City. She continued to guard the exchange and lived a life day after day. During this period, she also inquired about the Zhang family's affairs. She planned to wait for a while and then change back into women's clothes to go to the Zhang family.

Leng Youran, who was living a leisurely life, didn't know that half a month after she left the cave, a group of more than ten people hurried to the Heze Mountains and headed straight for the cave where Leng Youran had stayed before.