There are a total of seven entrances to the ore vein, and each entrance is stationed by three vein-condensing stage monks. A bamboo basket was placed in front of each of them, and a lot of small iron pieces were already installed in the frame.
Perhaps due to the influence of Qilian's family, a small market was formed at the entrance of this mine. However, most of the tools sold in this market are mining-related tools. Not only are there shovels and pickaxes, but there are even 'spirit probes' invented by the monks themselves—a tool for finding spiritual stones.
Xu Ziyan didn't know how effective this tool was. Anyway, their target was the five-element prism, and the other spirit stones were of secondary importance.
"Ah, are we going to buy a mine shovel?" Jiang Ying suddenly remembered that they had come here almost empty-handed, and had forgotten to prepare the necessary tools.
"No." Xu Zirong shook his head.
The main purpose of calling Jiang Ying and the others was to provide cover for them to dig the Five Elements Prism, but not to really ask them to dig the spirit stone, where would they need any tools.
Jiang Ying shrugged. Since the master said no, there must be other ways. As a younger brother, he just needs to keep up with the master's pace, and he doesn't need to worry about the rest.
Throwing the iron pieces into the bamboo basket, they obtained permission to enter the hole. The three of them followed Xu Zirong, and soon disappeared in the winding tunnel.
"They have entered the mine." A male repairman with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks lowered his voice and said to his companions.
"The mine? Well, that proves that they have to stay in it for at least a month." The companion replied happily.
"But I'm worried what will happen if they go out through other holes? We only have two people, and it's impossible to defend all the holes." The man with the sharp-mouthed monkey gills said depressedly.
"Uh..." His companion, a tall and strong man was also worried: "What should I do then?"
The man with the pointed mouth and monkey cheeks scratched his head, as if he couldn't think of anything for a while.
"You said that the ancestor of the demon is true, and you didn't say it clearly. You only said that there are people who came from the ghost mountain range. How many people are there, how can you tell them apart." The tall and strong man complained in a low voice.
"Shut up." The man with the pointed mouth and monkey cheeks suddenly looked sharp: "Don't you want to live? Dare to speak ill of the ancestors!"
"What are you afraid of, he can't hear it." The tall and strong man shrank his neck, but his mouth was very dissatisfied.
The man with the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks slapped him hard on the head: "Idiot, how many times have I told you that this demon ancestor is the elder of the Hehuan sect, do you know who is the one from the Hehuan sect around—" Speaking of which , he couldn't help looking around: "Those goblins' concubine? If they pass the word to the ancestors of Yumo, it will not be easy for you to die!"
"Okay, okay, I know, I promise I won't say anything again, okay? But this time, it's really strange, how come this demon ancestor actually took a piece of Gui Wuxu's guidance order in exchange for the news of those people? "
"It's not easy, because he's looking for those people not for the Acacia Sect's business, but for his own business." The man with the pointed mouth and monkey cheeks sneered: "I heard that this demon ancestor recently took in a new disciple. , fascinated him, and even his favorite Li Ji in the past was given to this disciple by him to make up, maybe this group of people offended his little lover, so he took revenge for him."
"Really?" The tall and strong man muttered and seemed to have some doubts. But these things are just some gossip to them, and it is only reasonable to be able to find the target that the ancestors of the desire demons are looking for.
This Guiwu Ruins is a very special place in Xuanyuyu, which is opened every three years. Guiwuxu is located in the Tunri Mountain Range, and is usually shrouded in a black fog. Anyone who walks into the black fog, no matter what positioning method they use, can only turn around a few times in the black fog, and then they are confused. came out.
Some people once suspected that someone had set up a huge array in this black fog, but over the years, countless monks who are proficient in array methods have come here to study, but they have never found any nodes.
All magic circles need nodes to support, and the more powerful the magic circle, the more nodes. These are the consensus of the comprehension world, but the monks could not find the nodes in the black fog. Either there was no magic circle in the black fog, or the cultivation of the people who set the magic circle was too high, and those nodes were hidden too well, so just can't find it.
No matter what kind it is, the black fog cannot be broken, but it is a fact that everyone must accept. Fortunately, every three years, the black fog will dissipate for a month, and during this month, the monks who have the Guiwuxu Guidance Token can enter the Guiwuxu to find their own opportunities.
Guiwuxu has a lot of guide tokens, but there are also many large and small sects of the magic road. After the 'negotiation' of the magic road alliance - that is, whoever has the biggest fist wins the most - a total of 120 Guiwuxu Guidance Tokens were distributed to each sect.
As a large-scale sect of Demon Dao, the Hehuan Sect has obtained more than ten guidance orders, and as the elder of the Hehuan Sect, the ancestor of the desire demon naturally has the right to obtain several guidance orders for his apprentices, and take out one of them as a reward. No one else could say anything.
The man with the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks and the tall and strong man coveted this instruction, so they tried their best to find the target of the ancestor of the demon. And the reason why they have such ambition is mainly because the man with the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks has a rat-like spirit beast. This spirit beast has a very sensitive sense of smell, and the smell that ordinary people can't smell at all, but there is nothing to hide in it.
Those tall trees that grow in the ghost mountain range are a plant called shady trees. This plant will emit a very light smell during these months of the year to attract other monsters to spread pollen for it. This special smell can adhere to the human body for a long time, and the man with the sharp-mouthed monkey gills The spirit mouse you have can easily smell this smell.
Since Ancestor Yumo issued the wanted order, this man with pointed mouth and monkey cheeks has been guarding the city gate to the west. Anyone who comes from the Guiji Mountains, unless they make a big circle, will definitely enter the city through the west gate. And by relying on this method of standing still, he successfully targeted three groups of people, including Xu Ziyan and the others.
All of these people have the fragrance of shady trees. According to the intensity of the fragrance, he can guarantee that these people must have stayed in the ghost mountain range ten days ago.
It's just that the conditions given by the ancestors of Yumo are too vague, so this man can't determine which group it is. In the end, he had no choice but to report these three groups of people to the people of the Hehuan Sect. As long as the person Yumo ancestor wanted to find among them, then Yumo ancestor would definitely honor his reward!
Xu Ziyan and the others, who had gone deep into the mine, didn't even realize that a Nascent Soul cultivator had been eyeing them...
At this time, they were closely following Xu Zirong, following the road in his memory, looking for the mine where the Five Element Prism was excavated.
Because of the sensation caused by the excavation of the Five Elements Prism at that time, this mine of Qilian's family became famous in the entire Xuanyu Domain in a short time. Although they banned the mine, they still couldn't help a large number of monks swarming here. .
There were even those exaggerated cultivators who were frantically digging in the mine tunnel next door, trying to get through there, but they were discovered by the guards of the Qilian family, which stopped them from such helpless behavior.
At that time, Xu Zirong was only a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, and he was also looking forward to this lucky mine. Unfortunately, the results were not satisfactory. He only dug up a thumb-sized piece of fire essence, which was barely a return.
"It's here." Xu Zirong suddenly stopped and said softly, pointing to a narrow fork.
Xu Ziyan looked at it, and only then did he understand why that desolate cultivator was so lucky to discover the Five Element Prism.
This abandoned mine stretches for hundreds of miles. After so many years of excavation, the mine tunnels inside are as dense as spider webs. However, most of the mine tunnels that can excavate spirit stones are usually the relatively large mine tunnels that have been opened up. As Xu Zirong pointed out, this narrow passage that only allows one person to pass through, at first glance, there is no harvest in it, and it is an abandoned mine tunnel. .
Come to think of it, the desolate cultivator did not dare to snatch those places that were easy to gain because of his lack of strength, so he chose such an inconspicuous mine. Who knows that it is such a thin area of spiritual energy, but there are even hidden companies underneath. Nascent Soul, the treasure coveted by the spiritual cultivators...
"Let's go, don't waste your time." Xu Ziyan walked in first, Xu Zirong followed closely behind him, while Jiang Ying and Fang Tianrui were left by them near the entrance to prevent anyone from entering by mistake.
All the sites in the mine are open, but there are places where monks in groups of three or five will occupy some places with a high probability of producing spirit stones.
In fact, no one would compete with them for such a narrow mine tunnel, but Xu Ziyan kept Jiang Ying and Fang Tianrui near the entrance just in case.
"Brother, I'm here to find one." Xu Zirong smiled slightly, flicking his fingertips, and a bloody arrow shot out. After the blood arrow landed, it immediately transformed into a large number of blood lice, and drilled into the rock walls on both sides of the mine.
Xu Ziyan was speechless, well, what can my brother do better than me, this is definitely not a blow to his self-esteem as a brother!
The work of finding the Five Elements Prism was done by blood lice, but no one knew how long it would take to find the Five Elements Prism.
Although this mine is relatively short, it is still several hundred meters long. When Xu Zirong came here, the place where he found the Five Elements Prism had already been filled, so he could only search within the entire mine.
"Brother, time is precious." Xu Zirong's eyes were shining.
"Then..." Xu Ziyan raised his eyebrows in surprise, why did Zirong suddenly say such a sentence
"So, let's practice."
Xu Ziyan:…
With a slap in the face and a slap on Zi Rong's head, Xu Ziyan's heart ran wild! No matter how serious Xu Zirong's expression was, he couldn't hide his dirty heart!
"Be serious!" Xu Ziyan scolded with reddened cheeks. Could this little brat still be serious! Under such circumstances, he actually wants to practice? ?
Don't think that he can't understand this kid's mind, the practice he talks about is definitely not the kind of practice that sits and meditates and absorbs spiritual energy!
"Oh." Xu Zirong lowered his head in disappointment, the cloud above his head almost turned into reality.
Xu Ziyan slapped him on the top of his head with another slap in the face of hating iron and steel: "Can you still make a little progress! Thinking about that kind of thing all day long!"
"What kind of thing?" Xu Zirong said with an innocent expression: "I'm talking about cultivation. Since you want to cultivate, of course you have to choose the one with the best effect."
Xu Ziyan was speechless for a moment. Well, in such a thin environment, it is true that dual cultivation is the most efficient way to cultivate, but the problem is that there are two great living people next to Nima! What are you going to do? Force them not to turn back? ?
fall! Whose family is this bear child? ? Hurry up and bring back my obedient, shy and blushing baby brother! !
"Okay..." Knowing that his request was absolutely impossible to get his brother's approval, Xu Zirong finally gave up, but he wrote in the notebook in his heart: The location is not the problem, the problem is that there must be no one around. 【Key points】! Then, under this sentence, he listed a series of dating sites he had heard of in his two lifetimes...
The group of people dug day and night in this barren mine tunnel. Jiang Ying and Fang Tianrui even doubled the width of the mine tunnel at the entrance, but still did not find half a piece of spiritual stone.
The reason why the aura of this mine is thin is naturally because the Five Elements Prism needs a huge amount of aura to nourish itself before it is formed. Although this is a spiritual stone ore vein, how could it be possible to condense into a spiritual stone in the vicinity with such a large family that swallows spiritual energy like the Five Elements Prism.
If it weren't for the characteristics of the Five Elements Prism, I am afraid that this place would have been dug up by those monks who were looking for spiritual stones and dreamed of becoming rich overnight, and it would not be Xu Ziyan's turn to pick up the bargain.
After being stunned for twenty days, the blood lice controlled by Xu Zirong died one after another. It was not until the morning of the twenty-first day that he noticed something unusual in the feedback from the blood lice.
"Here!" Xu Zirong pointed to a boulder near the end of the passage and said, "It should be under here."
"Okay, I'll dig! You can rest for a while." Xu Ziyan immediately prepared to dig, but Xu Zirong shook his head and smiled, "How easy it is to work on such a small thing, brother, I'll just come."
After he finished speaking, he threw out a few drops of blood essence, transformed into several sharp-clawed mice, and began to dig down.
Xu Ziyan was deeply depressed. Although his thunder spells were not as easy to use as these blood beasts in this kind of place, since Xu Zirong completely exposed his true colors, he felt that he was becoming more and more useless. Is it swollen? What happened… ＿(:з”∠)＿
Xu Ziyan naturally wouldn't be bored with things he wasn't good at doing, and besides, with Xu Zirong's blood beasts around, there was absolutely no need for him to do such coolies.
The two waited quietly, and Xu Ziyan carefully set up a magic circle to isolate spiritual power fluctuations. When the Five Elements Prism was dug out, a strong wave would erupt. How that desolate cultivator brought the Five Elements Prism back to Sun-Swallowing City has always been a mystery.
Because the place where the Five Elements Prism grows is very deep, Xu Zirong controlled seven sharp-clawed mice, and it took a full day and night to dig the place.
"I found it!" Xu Zirong, who had been closing his eyes for a while, slowly opened his eyes and jumped down the big hole dug by the Sharp-clawed Rat.
Xu Ziyan was naturally unwilling to be left behind, and jumped down after him.
Because the soil of the spirit stone vein is very hard, there are still some waste spirit stones that have not absorbed enough aura, but have been formed. These waste spirit stones are very hard. In order to save energy, the passages dug by the sharp-clawed rats are bypassed. The place where these waste spirit stones are concentrated.
The passage twists and turns, extending down about a hundred feet. From time to time, one or two pieces of relatively good ores will be exposed on both sides of the passage. It can be seen that if the cultivator was not ignorant of the goods, he would definitely take all these accompanying ores away.
"Get the Five Elements Prism first." Xu Ziyan knew very well what the focus of their trip was. Of course, these associated mines were very valuable, but if they delayed getting the Five Elements Prism for these things, it would be worth the loss.
Xu Zirong nodded, and the two continued to walk forward.
The closer you are to the Five Elements Prism, the more associated minerals are exposed on the surrounding rock walls, from the most common fire essence, wood essence, to the later Chilian fire essence, blue molten wood essence, and even further water spirit crystals, Earth Spirit Crystals, there are many of them, and the combined value may even faintly exceed the Five Elements Prism.
"It's here." Xu Zirong stopped, Xu Ziyan followed, and saw not far ahead, a few sharp-clawed rat blood beasts squeaked around a huge rock.
"This is the Five Elements Prism?" Xu Ziyan asked curiously, having never seen the Five Elements Prism.
"This should be the original ore of the Five Elements Prism." Xu Zirong had seen the Five Elements Prism once in his previous life. It was owned by a Nascent Soul cultivator, but it was the size of a fist, and the cultivator treated it like a treasure.
This five-element prism is wrapped in a thick rock shell. If it is seen from the outside, it is a foot in diameter. Even if the shell is removed, it will definitely not be too small.
This time, it was really worth it. Even if my brother Fang Gejun couldn't use this treasure, when they have enough strength to exchange it for other things, there are definitely a lot of high-level cultivators willing to come up with top-quality materials to exchange with them.
"Can you do it now?" Xu Ziyan didn't know what taboos were there for digging the Five Elements Prism, so he had to ask Xu Zirong.
Xu Zirong thought for a while: "I only know that there will be big fluctuations when the Five Elements Prism is unearthed, but I haven't seen the specifics."
"Okay, I'll do it."
Xu Zirong did not object. So far, I have not heard of anyone who had an accident due to the excavation of the Five Elements Prism. Most of them died in the process of competition.
Xu Ziyan took a deep breath, and, in order to prevent this from happening, even covered his hands with Lei Lingli.
As it turns out - it's completely superfluous.
In the last life, the desolate cultivator was able to take the Five Elements Prism without any accident. It can be seen that there are no traps on this thing at all.
After the huge rock left the ground, it began to gradually crack, and pieces of the broken shell fell to the ground, gradually revealing the crystal-transparent five-element prism inside.
"It's so beautiful..." Xu Ziyan couldn't help feeling at the crystal clear five-element prism in his hand. As expected of a spiritual source that can replace the five ultimate treasures of the Five Elements, in this transparent five-element prism like a crystal, there are five streamers of different colors swimming back and forth along a mysterious trajectory.
Those five streamers seemed to have a special charm, making people unable to restrain themselves from wanting to pursue their tracks. After only watching for a while, Xu Ziyan was dazzled, his mind was dizzy, and his body swayed slightly before falling into Zirong's arms.
The Five Elements Prism in his hand was taken away, Xu Ziyan still felt a little weak, he rubbed his forehead hard, just as he was about to say something, he heard Zirong's voice: "Cross your knees, meditate, and run your Zixiao nine transformations. once."
Xu Ziyan did not hesitate and immediately followed his instructions. As soon as he entered the cultivation state, the Five Elements Prism in Xu Zirong's hand immediately emitted a layer of faint light, slowly revolving around Xu Ziyan's body.
Seeing this, Xu Zirong smiled slightly, sat cross-legged, placed the Five Elements Prism on his knees, and also entered the state of cultivation.
This practice is three days. During these three days, the two have been immersed in a strange state. The spiritual power dissipated from the Five Elements Prism is not wasted at all, and it is all absorbed by the two of them. The cultivation base has also made a leap forward.
Since Xu Ziyan devoured the Zixiao Shenlei, the spiritual power in his body has reached a bottleneck. After that 'forced' double cultivation, although he did not want to admit it, Xu Zirong was able to use the double cultivation to break through the bottleneck of the pulse condensation stage. , how could he have nothing to gain
After thoroughly refining the remaining spiritual energy of Zixiao Shenlei, he has completely sold it into the middle stage of condensing veins, and this time, through his understanding of the Five Elements Prism and absorbing the spiritual energy it provides, he actually directly Breaking through the bottleneck in the middle stage of Pulse Condensation and entering the late stage of Pulse Condensation.
Although Xu Zirong had also achieved something, he had already experienced the Five Elements Prism once in his last life, and this time the effect was much worse than Xu Ziyan, but he also took advantage of this opportunity to break through the middle stage of Condensation Vein.
Opening his eyes again, although he was still in the dark crypt, Xu Ziyan seemed to have a different perception of the whole world.
"Is this... Jindan?" he murmured.
"Brother also felt it?" Xu Zirong absorbed less spiritual energy than Xu Ziyan, and naturally woke up faster than him.
"Yeah." Xu Ziyan lowered his head and said nothing, trying to jot down what he felt at that moment.