"Ah? Brother Gu Yuan, are you still planning to build your own power?" Chi Yuer looked at Gu Yuan and asked in surprise.
What moved Gu Yuan was that there was no mockery in Chi Yuer's eyes. Instead, apart from a hint of surprise, Gu Yuan saw more of delight.
Gu Yuan scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "Hehe, I'm just saying this now. After all, with my current strength, it's hard for me to protect myself. Those are the forces of the future."
Chi Yuer smiled, walked closer to Gu Yuan, and said, "Brother Gu Yuan, please don't underestimate yourself. Take your time. I believe that Brother Gu Yuan can do it!"
"Yeah! But these are things for the future, it's still early!" Gu Yuan said with a smile.
Then Gu Yuan looked at Zhang Youzhi and a dozen other people, thirteen to be exact.
"Zhang Youzhi, from today on, you are the leader among you. I want you to lead them to continue your previous work. The more spirit stones you dig up, the greater your reward will be, and there is no upper limit! Do you understand what I mean?"
Hearing Gu Yuan's words, Zhang Youzhi and others' eyes flashed with surprise. There is no upper limit, which means that if you dig out 100 pieces a day, you can get 10 spirit stones! That's not a small amount.
But the feeling that followed was a bit of loss, because if Gu Yuan had not suddenly arrived, what they had dug up would now be theirs.
"Okay, it's settled. Remember, don't be lazy. If you are lazy, not only will you lose the spirit stones, you may also lose your life. Do you understand?" Gu Yuan shouted.
"clear!"
Gu Yuan showed a satisfied smile and said to Chi Yu'er, "Let's go in and take a look. I haven't seen what a spirit stone vein looks like yet."
"Okay, Brother Gu Yuan." Chi Yuer nodded obediently.
"Sir, sir, I will lead the way for you."
Zhang Youzhi hurriedly ran to the front, nodding and bowing as he walked in front.
Gu Yuan smiled and said, "Alright, be normal. Although my words may sound very heartless, as long as you do your job well, I won't embarrass you for no reason!"
"Thank you, sir!" Zhang Youzhi replied quickly.
Walking into the door, there is a wider space, but the light gradually becomes dimmer.
"The further we go in, the richer the spiritual energy in the space feels. It's indeed a spiritual stone vein!" Chi Yuer said to Gu Yuan.
"Can you roughly determine the scale of the spirit stone vein?"
"It's impossible to judge the concentration of spiritual energy in the space just by looking at it. We need to get closer to it," said Chi Yuer.
As he continued to go deeper, Gu Yuan could see fresh soil beginning to accumulate on both sides.
The spirit stone veins are not all piled together. They are mixed with rocks and soil, just like ordinary iron, so it is more troublesome to dig. Therefore, it is usually done by spiritual practitioners. Ordinary people have no way to dig spirit stones.
"How many days have you been digging here?" Gu Yuan looked at Zhang Youzhi and asked.
Zhang Youzhi replied, "Not counting today, it's five days in total."
"Five days? I am confused, why this underground spirit stone vein was not discovered by the Demon Emperor, but was discovered by you instead?" Gu Yuan asked with a frown.
"Um... I discovered this by chance. I don't know anything else." Zhang Youzhi explained hurriedly.
"I'm a little surprised too. Logically speaking, Demon Emperor Kas is already a ninth-level Demon Emperor. They have been running the Huoyun Sect for so many years, but they haven't discovered the mineral vein here. It's a bit abnormal." Chi Yuer also frowned, looking quite puzzled.
"That won't be a problem, right?"
"It shouldn't be. It may be because the content of top-grade spirit stones here is too small. You have to know that for people of our level, spirit stones below the top grade have no effect at all. The top-grade spirit stones are actually troublesome to carry, so this may be the reason why they have not been developed." Chi Yuer guessed.
"Well, this is possible!"
Gu Yuan nodded, feeling a little relieved. He was now afraid that something unexpected would happen, otherwise wouldn't this spirit stone mine be wasted?
"Sir, we're here!"
Arriving at a rather spacious cave, Zhang Youzhi stopped and reminded.
"Is this where you mine spirit stones every day?" Gu Yuan asked.
"That's right, we started mining from here. The ore veins and stones here are connected together, and each mining requires a lot of consumption. So for these five days we basically mined while resting, day and night. So although it was only five days, our mining volume was actually quite a lot." Zhang Youzhi said with a smile.
Walking to the uneven stone wall that had been dug, Gu Yuan looked at the white crystals with a hint of turbidity mixed in the stone. He reached out to take it down, but to his surprise, it didn't move at all.
"Sir, you need to use spiritual energy to mine it. Otherwise, given its strength, there is really no way to mine it."
Gu Yuan nodded, and the spiritual energy in his hand slowly flowed out. Gu Yuan clenched his fist and slammed it hard towards the white crystal, then kept shaking the white crystal. After a long time, he took out a piece of white crystal with mud on it.
"Is this the true appearance of the spirit stone?"
Looking at the crystal with irregular edges, Gu Yuan seemed a little curious.
Chi Yu'er walked up to Gu Yuan, looked at the spirit stones in his hand, and said, "The ones we usually use are all standardized by the banks on the mainland. They divide them up for mainlanders to use, and this is the original form of the spirit stones circulating in the market."
"Wow, there are so many strange things in this world. Not only is there fire born between heaven and earth, but there are also various elixirs and mineral veins. Nature is really amazing!" Gu Yuan exclaimed.
Chi Yuer smiled, then approached the carved stone wall and gently placed her palm against it.
Spiritual energy was mobilized from the body, and Chi Yuer also mobilized the power of his soul to survey the approximate size of this vein.
After dozens of breaths, the fish in the pond opened its eyes.
"How is it? What's the scale of this vein?"
"It's not a very large scale, but for you, Brother Gu Yuan, it's enough for you to use for a year or two!" Chi Yuer said with a smile.
"Enough for me to use for a year or two? That's quite a lot!"
Gu Yuan is not a greedy person, and this result is already very good.
"So what should we do next?" Gu Yuan asked.
"I think the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone veins here may not be rich enough to produce top-grade spiritual stones, so I don't plan to explore it further." Chi Yuer said with a smile.
"Shall we go back?" Gu Yuan asked.
"Well! Before that, I think I need to take some measures."
After Gu Yuan and Zhang Youzhi explained the situation, Chi Yuer and Gu Yuan returned to the cave entrance.
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