Soon, all the demonic cultivators in the mine died under the fifth-order mountain-protecting formation.
Mu Qingxue sighed. Never mess with a formation master. This profession is very strange. Once the formation is completed, it can rival many cultivators of the same level, and can easily kill those below the lower level.
The cultivators stationed at the mines were at most at the Nascent Soul stage. The formations that were supposed to protect them were taken away, leaving them with no choice but to await their deaths.
"Qingyu, you need to hurry. Those three Nascent Soul cultivators sent a message back before they died. Reinforcements will arrive in less than an hour."
Mu Qingxue reminded her.
"So fast? Then let's hurry, Qingxue, you lend a hand too."
Li Qingyu moved swiftly, rushing into the mine to loot it.
Helpless, Mu Qingxue could only follow closely behind. It was truly disgraceful for a holy maiden of a great sect to engage in such petty theft.
"Why are there so few spirit stones..."
"I've only been looting for a short while," Li Qingyu complained.
This is so little, who could possibly carry it all? I'm almost embarrassed to offer it to my father.
"Sigh, this is a mine, not a storage place. Many spirit stones need to be mined."
Once a certain amount of spirit stones has been mined and stored, they will be transported out; they won't just pile up here indefinitely.
Mu Qingxue explained.
"Why not mine it all at once? That would be much more convenient, and we wouldn't have to worry about other sects stealing it."
Li Qingyu asked.
"Because the number of spirit stones in a spirit stone mine is not constant, the spirit vein will continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to generate a continuous stream of spirit stones, and low-quality spirit stones will also accumulate and transform into high-quality spirit stones over time."
Therefore, every sect that discovers a spirit stone mine will choose to mine it slowly and steadily.
While explaining the facts, Mu Qingxue led Li Qingyu to the storage location.
"Look, all the spirit stones mined from the entire mine are stored here. It seems we're lucky; this batch of spirit stones hasn't been transported away yet."
The gleaming, mountain-like piles of spirit stones even tempted Mu Qingxue.
A rough estimate suggests that there are at least several hundred million spirit stones here, and most of them are of medium quality.
"It's not much, but oh well, something is better than nothing."
Li Qingyu packed the items quickly.
Mu Qingxue was speechless as she listened to the complaints. This was nothing? It was worth hundreds of billions of low-grade spirit stones.
"Qingyu, it's hard to believe you're a rogue cultivator. This huge amount of spirit stones would excite any rogue cultivator, yet you still think it's not enough."
Mu Qingxue sighed.
Li Qingyu smiled awkwardly. It was hard to explain. She had visited her father's Abundant Merchant Guild many times, and the mountain of spirit stones there was incomparable to these.
After seeing them so many times, seeing them again naturally doesn't stir much emotion in me.
It took Li Qingyu quite a while to collect the spirit stones into his pocket.
"Qingyu, we should go."
Calculating the time in her mind, Mu Qingxue reminded him.
Li Qingyu nodded: "Okay, let's go."
Suddenly, a mocking sound came from the horizon.
"Leave? Since you two are already here, why don't you stay?"
An old man exuding demonic energy appeared in their field of vision.
Mu Qingxue's pupils shrank; it was actually a Void Returning Realm expert!
No wonder the support arrived so quickly.
"You two kids have some nerve, daring to steal our Demon Sect's mine. Hmm... I feel like I've seen you before..."
The old man stared intently at Mu Qingxue, then suddenly realized what was happening.
"Isn't this the Holy Maiden of the Heaven and Earth Sect? Interesting. If we use you to threaten the Heaven and Earth Sect, will your sect leader surrender to our Demonic Sect?"
The old man was in a great mood.
I had just finished a mission and returned to my hometown when I received a request for help from Mine No. 46. Out of interest, I rushed over to check it out and was surprised to find such a pleasant surprise.
Mu Qingxue gritted her teeth: "I'll go with you, but you have to let her go."
"Heh, since when do prey have the chance to bargain? Has Your Highness gone mad from cultivation? Or did your master not teach you about the cruelty of the cultivation world?"
The old man sneered.
With a single glance, Li Qingyu was sent flying backward.
"Qingyu!"
Mu Qingxue rushed out to check the situation.
"Little brat, how dare you try to do something under my nose."
He caught the thing Li Qingyu had dropped with a wave of his hand, and after examining it, cold sweat poured down his back.
"It's actually a sixth-tier talisman?!"
He almost capsized in a ditch. Although he wasn't instantly killed by a sixth-tier talisman, he still suffered some serious injuries from the sneak attack.
Just in case, the old man grabbed Mu Qingxue aside and struck Li Qingyu, who was still flying backward.
"Buzz!"
The attack arrived in an instant, and a golden barrier was activated around Li Qingyu.
The seemingly devastating attack was completely blocked.
Taking this opportunity, Li Qingyu immediately stopped.
The old man narrowed his eyes, not daring to be careless, and directly used his supernatural powers and spells.
"Innate Wood Great Capture!"
A giant hand probing from the clouds gripped Li Qingyu tightly in its grasp.
Protected by the golden barrier, it was like a glass bead being held and played with by a giant.
The old man squeezed with all his might, trying to crush the tortoise shell.
"How could this be!"
Unable to subdue Li Qingyu after half a day, the old man knew that the little guy's life-saving items were all of the sixth rank, and there was a high possibility that he had a seventh rank talisman.
Thinking of this, he dared not continue.
"Forget it, there's no point in killing you anyway. You can't afford to offend me, so just stay away from me!"
The old man controlled his supernatural powers and threw the ball of light away from the mine at an extremely fast speed.
At this moment, Li Qingyu became anxious. If she left, Mu Qingxue would surely die.
Without thinking too much, he quickly took out a seventh-tier talisman to activate it, and then used several high-tier talismans to counteract the force of being thrown backward.
Seven Killings Talisman!
"Buzz!"
The faint sound of swords clashing echoed throughout.
The old man's expression changed drastically. He felt himself being locked onto by a powerful sword technique, which was definitely an attack of level six or higher.
No, you actually have a seventh-tier talisman?
escape!
The old man pushed his escape technique to its limit, trying to break free from the attack lock, but a seventh-tier attack was far beyond what a sixth-tier man could defend against.
A flash of cold light, followed by a burst of white light.
A piercing scream echoed from the horizon.
"ah--!"
In the end, he managed to save his life by abandoning his physical body and having his primordial spirit leave his body.
The old man cursed and swore. It was a bad start. This one blow had ruined his hundreds of years of hard work. Why should he go back to settle the score?
Come on, what if they still have a seventh-tier talisman? He could really die here. He didn't dare to gamble.
"I should have realized it sooner. Someone who can follow the Holy Maiden of the Heaven and Earth Sect can't be just a nobody. She must be a disciple or granddaughter of one of the Supreme Elders of the Heaven and Earth Sect."
"Damn the Heaven and Earth Sect! Once my Demon Sect conquers the Divine Continent, I will repay this grudge tenfold!"
......
"Qingyu, are you alright?"
Mu Qingxue ran to Li Qingyu's side and asked with concern.
Even a casual strike from a Void Returning expert is not something a Nascent Soul cultivator can withstand.
Li Qingyu shook her head; the opponent's attacks were all neutralized by the defensive talismans on her body.
Thinking about this, she couldn't help but understand why her father was so cautious.
Under the command of high-level cultivators, low-level cultivators don't even have the chance to activate talismans.
If it weren't for the seventh-tier defensive talisman on her body activating on its own, giving her time to use it, Mu Qingxue would have been captured.
"It's good that you're alright. Luckily, Qingyu, you have a lot of trump cards, otherwise we would both be done for here."
Mu Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief.
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