A few hours later, Ling Tian hid in a crack on the top of a cliff. The crack was not big, only a little over a foot, just enough for Ling Tian to go in sideways. He went deeper and found a different world inside. Unexpectedly, it was a spacious cave. However, the bats on the ceiling and the smelly bat droppings made Ling Tian hard to accept.
After a dozen fireballs were cast, the bats were scared away and fled. After a few more wind and rain spells, the smell returned to normal in a short while.
Although this place was extremely secretive, Ling Tian still felt that something was not right. He gritted his teeth and spent a few high-quality spirit stones to set up an illusion array to block the entrance.
Only then did Ling Tian breathe a sigh of relief.
"I'm finally free, after one year and eight days!"
After expressing his deep emotion, Ling Tian entered the space to process the gains he had obtained this time. Three days later, he had cleared all the large pile of ores. In total, he obtained more than 180,000 low-grade spirit stones and nearly a thousand medium-grade ones. Unexpectedly, he also obtained more than 30 high-grade ones. This time the harvest was really great.
"It's a pity that I didn't get the spiritual essence."
Ling Tian left the space with surprise. Now that he had such a large number of spirit stones, it was only a matter of time before he recovered to the great perfection of foundation building. There was no bottleneck anyway, as long as there was enough spiritual energy, it would be fine.
Although this place is still a barren land in the outer circle of the Three Thousand Worlds, the richness of the spiritual energy is not comparable to that of the world at the edge of the earth. It is at least three or four times more. This makes Ling Tian very much yearn for those rich worlds in the front. How abundant the spiritual energy there would be.
He put away his fantasy, adjusted his state, and then sat cross-legged to practice while holding two medium-grade spirit stones.
While he was practicing, a brutal sect war broke out in the mining area outside. If Ling Tian was there, he would probably vomit blood and die. This was because the source of the fight was the spiritual essence the size of an egg found inside. It was found in the place where he was digging, and it was less than half a foot deep in the cave wall. Naturally, he didn't know about this.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been six years since Ling Tian came to this new world. After spending all the low-grade and medium-grade spirit stones again, he finally returned to the peak of the foundation-building realm.
"Finally I'm back."
Ling Tian stretched his body, collected the half-shrunken high-grade spirit stones on the illusion array, crawled out of the gap, took out his flying sword and flew away.
It took him an incense stick of time to reach the mine he had been to before, hoping to see if there was another chance to make a fortune. However, when he saw that the entire area had collapsed dozens of meters, he shook his head and left.
A few days later, Ling Tian appeared in Luofeng City, one of the three major cities of Zhao State. When he first arrived, Ling Tian was so shocked by Luofeng City that he was speechless for a long time.
It is really huge, with a ten-meter-high wall stretching as far as the eye can see. It is called a city, but in fact it is just like a city on Earth. It has spacious streets and neatly arranged buildings. It can be seen that the entire city was planned and built in a unified manner. Such a magnificent design is truly awe-inspiring.
In addition to admiring this magnificent city, he was also jealous of the wealth of the Lord of Luofeng City. Every cultivator entering the city had to pay 2 low-grade spirit stones. Looking at the endless stream of people every day, this income was astonishingly large.
The reason he came here was to seek inspiration for the subsequent exercises of the Five Viscera Refining Heaven Art. Now he was stuck at the great perfection of the foundation building, and he was only one step away from becoming the greatest person of all time. However, this step was the most difficult. If he could not succeed for decades, Ling Tian would have to disperse his skills and start over.
Luofeng City is so huge that Ling Tian really doesn’t know how to find the place he wants to go, so he extends his spiritual sense.
"My lord, no!"
The hurried voice interrupted Ling Tian's use of his spiritual sense, and he looked at the middle-aged man who had just spoken with some anger.
"Sir, you must not use your spiritual sense. If you are discovered by the city's law enforcement department, you will be arrested and thrown into the sky prison."
Seeing Ling Tian's anger, the man quickly told him some of the rules in the city. After hearing this, Ling Tian broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't expect them to be so strict.
At this moment, an even more powerful divine sense swept towards him. With a cold snort, Ling Tian spat out a mouthful of blood foam. A divine thought came to his mind, "Considering that this is your first time here, I will give you a slight punishment. If you do it again, you will die!!!"
"My Lord, are you all right?"
Ling Tian wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looked in the direction where the spiritual consciousness came from with lingering fear, then retracted his gaze and looked at the man who had just saved his life.
"It's okay. Thank you for your help. What's your name, friend?"
"My lord, you are really embarrassing me by saying that. You can just call me Hunchback. Luofeng City has many rules. It's easy for first-time visitors to break the rules if they don't know what's going on. So, my lord, please be careful to avoid getting into trouble."
"If you don't mind, I will tell you everything."
Ling Tian naturally didn't think that the other party would be so kind as to help a stranger. Judging from his appearance, he must be some Aboriginal broker.
He threw a low-grade spirit stone over and said, "Well, find a quiet place to talk to me."
"Okay, please, sir."
The hunchback took the spirit stone with great joy, respectfully let Ling Tian go first, and then followed behind him to guide him.
Not long after, he was taken to a restaurant called Luo Fengju and asked for a private room.
"Sir, this restaurant belongs to the City Lord's Mansion of Luofeng City. Every colorful dish here is cooked with spiritual ingredients. The taste is extremely delicious and has great benefits..."
The hunchback proudly introduced the special features of the dishes here, and I'd have thought he frequented this place.
Ling Tian took the menu, and his lips twitched. Wasn't this a rip-off? A bowl of cabbage soup cost two low-grade spirit stones? Braised spirit beef cost five spirit stones?
In order not to show his embarrassment as an old farmer coming to the city, Ling Tian pretended to be calm and ordered a table full of delicious dishes and a pot of good wine. This meal alone cost more than fifty spirit stones, not including the cost of the private room. It was really easy to make money.
But the taste is really good. As for the benefits, they are dispensable to him. The spiritual energy is not enough to fill his stomach. However, the spiritual wine gave him a pleasant surprise and was worth the price of ten spirit stones.
After eating and drinking, Ling Tian asked the hunchback to tell him some of the rules and power distribution in the city.
An hour later, Ling Tian had a more thorough understanding of Luofeng City.
After paying the bill, I found a quiet courtyard with the help of the camel. The price was ten spirit stones a day, which was acceptable.
"Sir, is this house okay?"
"It's okay, here it is."
"Well, you can rest first. If you have any instructions, just call me outside the door."
Ling Tian nodded, threw a few spirit stones over and went into the house.
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