Shen Lian, who was eavesdropping, suddenly had his eyes light up.

It turns out that the Taoist will never let down those who work hard.

…

"The miscellaneous veins are almost being dug out, and then we'll be able to determine whether it is the real thing or not."

Elder Tian responded to Elder Geng. As the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce has many years of experience in mining Dongtian Stone, it has more than 20 sealed Dongtian Stone veins spread all over the Tianzhu Mountain mining area.

The elders were also somewhat curious as to why he was in charge of the cave stone.

This thing doesn't exist in big sizes. Each grain is the size of a grain of rice and has no other use except for refining storage rings.

Although there are doubts, the methods of this generation of the leader have already convinced the elders in the association, and they firmly believe that the president can be promoted to the Nascent Soul stage.

By then, we will be able to compete with the Yunshang Sect and become the super chamber of commerce in the Tiannan Continent.

"The mineral vein in the Cloud Forest was indeed unexpected, but this kind of situation is rare after all. We have only encountered such a place in such a long time."

"That's true." Elder Geng nodded, and elegant piano music could be heard from his side.

"However, the mineral vein in Muyang Mountain can be mined. Otherwise, it is too close to the Qingyu Mine City. The mining speed of Qingyu Mine City has been getting faster and faster in recent years, and the hundreds of miles below are almost mined out."

Elder Tian did not respond. He knew that Elder Geng was not communicating with him, but was sorting out matters.

"Alright, let's talk about it later. I will report this matter to the headquarters first."

…

In the valley, Du Rufang and Yan Xuan looked at each other from time to time while watching the miners digging ore. Both of them had a bad feeling in their hearts.

I'm afraid we will return empty-handed this time.

Thanks to the busy work of the monks from the Chamber of Commerce, the size of the small mineral veins deep in the earth was also explored. They were only about two miles in size, and they were all first-level ores.

After a targeted survey of the mineral veins, no cloud crystal stone was found.

After getting this result, Du Rufang and the other man smiled bitterly and flew towards the top of the mountain.

"Reporting to the elder, no cloud crystal stone or large grains of cave stone were found."

After reporting back, Du Rufang and the other man lowered their heads and prepared to be scolded.

"You two have worked hard."

Elder Tian glanced at the two of them but did not say any words of reprimand.

"The mineral veins are the spirit of heaven and earth. Even the Yuanying ancestors cannot grasp them, let alone people like you and me."

After saying this, Elder Tian stood up and said, "Come on, follow me to take a look."

After landing in the valley and checking every mining point one by one, and even breaking a section of the ore vein, Elder Tian nodded.

“It seems that this place is really not.”

"Elder, I am guilty of reporting the matter to the headquarters without finding out the truth. Up to now, I have not found any trace of the monk involved."

Elder Tian waved his hand.

"Even if that person knows, he has probably hidden himself. Next, the two of you will continue to investigate his whereabouts."

"Here, continue mining and excavation to expand the search area."

As soon as he finished speaking, Elder Tian flew onto the Fiery Dragon.

"You two did nothing wrong this time. The leader has already ordered that the Dongtian Stone Mine in the South Sea be seized by our Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce, and rewards will be given later."

With the comfort and encouragement from Elder Tian, ​​Du Rufang and Yan Xuanzhong showed excitement in their eyes. They thought they would be punished, but unexpectedly they were encouraged.

"Brother Du, do you think you should continue to watch from here, or should I stay here?"

"Brother Yan, you and I are in the same boat. I will continue to explore the mineral veins here, and you can mobilize people to investigate the person who leaked the information."

…

Shen Lian did not see how excited the two Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce managers were when they were working, as he had already fled hundreds of miles away.

"Is there anyone visiting?"

Shen Lian, dressed like Gong Zhongze, returned to the market and asked the gatekeeper monk.

"Yes, they all left when they saw that the real person and the steward were not there."

Shen Lian nodded and returned to the market. He took out the communication jade talismans that he had collected from Gong Zhongze and Master Huo Qian, and found the one from Master Huo Yu.

After leaving a few words, he put the jade talisman away.

The Chiyang Sect is based in the Chijing Mining City. Its chief cultivator, Hongyun Zhenren, practices in seclusion on the Chijing Giant Mountain all year round, and all trivial matters are handled by the elders under his command.

As a sect's chief cultivator who practices in seclusion all year round, normally the elders in Chiyang Sect should be in chaos, but the fact is just the opposite, the Chiyang Sect is very stable.

The miscellaneous affairs here in the Red Crystal Mining City are managed by three fake Dans, including True Man Huoyu.

In the Red Crystal Mine City, Master Huoyu, who received the information in the jade talisman, muttered casually: "What the hell is Huo Qian doing?"

It’s not like he hadn’t sent a message to Huo Qian before, but after the message was sent, there was no response at all, not even a single wave of movement.

After putting away the communication jade talisman, Master Huoyu continued to busy himself with his own affairs.

Half a month later.

Now that he had some free time, Master Huoyu wanted to take his granddaughter to Huogu Market, but he found out that he had no idea where his granddaughter had gone.

To this end, he directly flew out of the Red Crystal Mining City and headed towards the Fire Valley Market.

"Senior, please come in."

Outside the Huogu Market, as soon as Master Huoyu landed, the monk guarding the gate came to greet him.

"Manager Gong said that you can just go to the main building."

Taoist Huoyu raised his eyebrows, and his mind was ready to plunge into the valley at any time.

Suddenly, the forbidden spiritual light in the peaceful valley became brighter, and bells rang everywhere.

Seeing this scene, True Man Huoyu gathered his spiritual thoughts and flew to the outside of the main building in the valley.

"Huo Qian, what the hell are you doing?"

As he spoke, Master Huoyu's spiritual consciousness rushed into the main building, and the bells hanging in the building rang in series.

"What's wrong with you?"

Under the cover of divine consciousness, True Man Huoyu saw Gong Zhongze, who was seriously injured and weak, walking slowly towards him.

"Please don't blame me, Senior. I am really seriously injured."

Shen Lian smiled bitterly.

When Master Huoyu saw this scene, he forgot about the unpleasantness just now, "What happened? Why was he injured so badly?"

"Hey...where's Huo Qian?"

Master Huoyu sent out his divine sense again, searching for the trace of Master Huoqian.

"Master, there is no need to look for him. My master is not in the valley. Please take a seat and listen to me in detail."

After Shen Lian led Huoyu to sit down, he casually took out the bell he had made before.

Before Shen Lian could finish his words, True Man Huoyu grabbed the bell and began to examine it carefully.

"Eh, it really is the eighteenth and a half level of restriction. Huo Qian's weapon refining skills have really improved."

After carefully checking the bell, he saw several small dents on it. Master Huoyu did not care about it. He thought these were minor matters and could be repaired after nurturing them.

Now that Master Huo Qian is able to refine the embryos of magic weapons, his status is now different from before.

"Huo Qian really worked." Taoist Huo Yu repeatedly looked at the embryo of the magic weapon in his hand, and finally muttered to himself.

"My master has gained a lot of insights into refining tools recently. After refining the embryo of a magic weapon for him, he wanted to try to continue refining another magic weapon. But I don't know why he couldn't control his temper when he was close to the critical moment. This is how I got injured."

Shen Lian smiled bitterly and continued, "I don't know why, but after the fire broke out, my master left a message and said he was going out for a walk and then disappeared."

Shen Lian's reason is not an exaggeration at all. The most common thing for cultivators is to feel like moving after being too quiet, and to want to go out for a walk.

"It seems that Daoist Fellow Huo Qian has a deep understanding."

As expected, Master Huoyu nodded.

"Senior Huoyu, my time is almost up, and I have been seriously injured. Even if I want to recuperate, it will take me ten or eight years."

After looking at Huoyu, Shen Lian continued, "Can the mineral transaction with your clan be delayed for a few years, until my injury gets better and my master comes back?"

As he spoke, Shen Lian took out a small red sword that was half a foot in size.

"Is this also a magic weapon embryo?"

"Before leaving, the Immortal said that he had not visited your sect's Immortal Hongyun for a long time. Thanks to your sect's protection over the years, this red sword is the embryo of the magic weapon that the Immortal refined for the first time, and it can be regarded as a gift to your sect."

"Fellow Daoist Huo Qian is being too polite."

Grabbing the small red sword, Master Huoyu smiled and spoke. Only he and the sect's top leaders knew about the deal between him and Huo Qian.

"Fellow Daoist Gong, just rest and recover. We can discuss the trade of some low-level ores after Master Huo Qian comes back."

A quarter of an hour later, Master Huoyu left happily with the embryos of two magic weapons.

Above the market town, Shen Lian looked at Huo Yu flying away, told the monk guarding the gate that he was in seclusion and refused to see visitors, and then returned to the market town.

Giving Master Huoyu an extra magic weapon embryo was something Shen Lian had thought carefully about. The two magic weapon embryos were to tell Huoyu and the Chiyang Sect behind him that it was not a fluke that Huo Qian was able to refine the magic robe embryo.

The fact that he has produced two pieces in a row shows that his skills are already very mature. Now that he has produced another piece, it is very likely that he has had an epiphany and has made further progress.

For the Chiyang Sect, making friends with a master craftsman who can refine magic weapon embryos will also be of great benefit to the sect.

Other sects may not know about this, but the Chiyang Sect has a deep understanding of the quality of magic weapon embryos.

The big bell on the top of the mountain in the center of the Red Crystal Mining City was left behind by the previous generation of the first cultivator of the Chiyang Sect. At the beginning, it was also a magic weapon embryo. It was advanced all the way to the third-level mid-grade along with the previous generation of the first cultivator of the Chiyang Sect.

If the previous generation's chief repairman had not died at the hands of the demon king, perhaps this bell instrument would have been upgraded to the third-grade top grade by now.

More importantly, Shen Lian hoped that under the protection of the Chiyang Sect, no one would bother him during the next period of time, so that he could concentrate on creating the embryo of his own magic weapon.

…

Time flies.

Five years passed in the blink of an eye.

In the secret room in the center of Huogufang, anger was boiling.

Flames were rolling around Shen Lian from time to time, and in front of him there appeared a scarlet spirit ship, which was one foot in size.

Different from common spirit ships, his spirit ship had eight secondary and one main mast, with a total of nine masts. According to the plan, it needed to hoist eighty-one sails, but since suitable materials had not been found yet, there was still space.

Of course, this is only the first form. The second form can fold up all the sails, which is similar to the appearance of most spirit ships.

In terms of active defense, Shen Lian built 365 soul-forbidden towers along the spirit ship.

A third-order soul-forbidden magic array will be placed in each soul-forbidden tower, ready to produce qualitative changes through quantitative changes, and to seal the airspace around the soul ship at special moments.

It is not easy to gather so many spiritual materials for the formation.

In addition, the Forbidden Spirit Tower and the mast are equipped with double spiritual detection formations and talismans to detect whether there are any hidden enemies in the surrounding void.

As for the attack, Shen Lian did not add those spiritual forbidden cannons on the ship. He directly prepared to use the flying sword, the flying sword embedded with the Tianyan Jade Talisman.

There are vertical flying sword launch cabins at the front and back of the spirit ship.

The core inside the spirit ship is the five elements alchemy furnace of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. There are five circular grooves on each alchemy furnace, and a total of twenty-five places to inlay compasses and magic mirrors.

The entire magic weapon embryo used more than two thousand jin of third-grade five-element spiritual materials, but in terms of its strength, it is already on par with a third-grade magic weapon.

“Crack.”

Looking at the spirit ship floating in the golden and white fire area, Shen Lian stretched out a hand, grabbed the mast in the middle of the spirit ship and pulled it down. The five elements of spiritual light flashed and turned into a long sword.

Afterwards, the five lights dispersed and separated into five spiritual swords of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which were caught in the hands of the Five Elements Spirit Puppet.

"Come."

Another ray of spiritual light flew out from the spirit ship and turned into a red alchemy furnace. Five compasses of five different colors on it were suspended in front of Shen Lian, forming a rotating defense.

"go."

In the blink of an eye, a spiritual light emerged from the spirit ship, and with a whoosh, it crashed into a ship-shaped groove on the red alchemy furnace.

"Disperse."

A crackling sound was heard, and the entire spirit ship flew out and began to break apart piece by piece, turning into different small parts, which quickly formed into a long sword.

In the middle of the sword, there were five holes that looked like alchemy furnaces, and the Five Elements Alchemy Furnaces flew in and fit perfectly.

"Change it again."

The long sword broke apart and reformed into a five-colored alchemy furnace. On the round belly of the furnace, there happened to be grooves for five alchemy furnaces, and the five alchemy furnaces fit perfectly inside.

"return."

The magic weapon embryo changed again, forming a one-foot-long talisman pen with a button in the shape of an alchemy furnace on it.

It’s just that there’s no hair down there.

The main reason was that Shen Lian couldn't find a suitable wolf hair brush. The second-grade one was too low in quality. He originally wanted to use 20,000 worth of hair, but unfortunately 20,000 was too low at the current level.

Shen Lian casually threw the hairless talisman pen, and cracks appeared on the pen. The pieces formed a compass that was one foot square.

There are five concave circular pits on the outer edge of the compass. Five alchemy furnaces are slowly rotating in the circular pits. In the middle is an extremely smooth mirror, shining with colorful light.

"call……"

After letting out a long breath, Shen Lian slapped the compass on his forehead, and immediately the embryo of the magic weapon was attached to his head and became a helmet.

The armor helmets in the mortal world all have a feather on them, but Shen Lian's has an alchemy furnace on it, which can rotate slowly.

Don’t think it’s fun to see the magic weapon embryo changing all the time. Shen Lian almost killed himself because of it.

He is probably the first person in the entire cultivation world to refine magic weapons by assembling puppets.

For this purpose, he refined more than 6,000 components. In order to achieve a balance of the five elements, more than 80% of the components included gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Rather than calling it a magic weapon, it would be more appropriate to call it a magic weapon puppet.

(End of this chapter)