The snow bears slowly climbed down from the wooden box and obediently moved aside. While moving their huge bodies, they looked at Ye Feng with silly looks.
Ye Feng observed secretly and found that after a night, the spirit stone in the snow bear's mouth had become much darker in color, as more than half of its spiritual power had been absorbed by them.
This spirit stone is only the size of a thumb, but after they absorb all the spiritual power inside, it is enough to raise their demon essence to a small level, allowing them to rise from a level five primary ferocious beast to a level five intermediate beast.
Ye Feng smiled and warned: "Be good in the valley and don't make trouble. When this spirit stone has absorbed all its spiritual energy, I will give you another one."
The pair of snow bears were very intelligent and understood what Ye Feng meant. They raised their hands above their heads as if they were cheering.
Ye Feng regarded them as harmless, but Lu Dayou and the other three remained wary of the two huge monsters.
However, the pair of snow bears behaved well. Like good kids, they sat quietly in the valley playing, chewing tree bark, and digging tree holes without disturbing others who were working.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that humans and ferocious beasts could coexist peacefully.
Among the four people mining, Lao Sun has the easiest job. He is mainly responsible for operating the excavator, digging the raw stones out from the mountain walls, and sending them to the open space where the raw stones are stored via a conveyor belt.
The most tiring job belongs to Lao Zhou. His job is to pick up stones and move the valuable raw stones that have been mined onto the conveyor belt to Lu Dayou, who will then cut the stones with Lao Chen.
Everyone’s work is very important and is a key link. If there is a problem in any link, it will affect the progress of the entire mining process.
Lao Zhou's job of picking stones is the hardest. He does not have any tools to rely on and it is all done manually, which is also the slowest of the several processes.
Old Zhou laboriously moved a raw stone onto the conveyor belt. The raw stones were of different sizes, most of them were one meter square and weighed fifty to sixty kilograms. After moving only a few pieces, Old Zhou felt so tired that his back and waist ached.
Lao Zhou pounded his waist hard and felt like there was a tendon in his waist, which was sore and painful. When he bent over, the stinging pain gradually spread around his back.
Yesterday, when I ran out of the tent to avoid a snow leopard, my waist hit the table. I didn't feel anything at the time, but the injury was revealed when I bent over to work.
He frowned and said, "Oh, I twisted my waist last night and can't work. This is bad. Lao Chen, we have to change positions."
Old Chen placed a piece of raw stone that had just been polished in a wooden box. A disdainful smile appeared on his face. When he wanted to be lazy, he would say that he was injured and couldn't work. They often used this trick.
He mocked Lao Zhou, "Lao Zhou, are you too old to move just a few stones? Aren't you known as a little excavator? You hurt your waist, and I was heartbroken last night."
Old Sun, who was driving the mining machine, did not forget to interject: "Old Zhou, looking at your condition, you can't walk before you are 60. You are not old, you are lazy."
Lao Zhou complained: "You people are so heartless. You see my backache and don't care about it. You just make fun of me. My back hurts so much. Ouch, I can't even bend over."
Lu Dayou smiled comfortingly and said, "If you are tired, take a rest. It seems that your small excavator is out of oil. You need to add some oil."
Seeing that Lao Zhou looked painful, Ye Feng knew that his back pain was severe and he was not pretending.
The divine eye of knowledge took a quick glance and found a faint black gas on the right side of the lower back. It was obvious that the muscle was sprained and the blood vessels were blocked, which caused the pain.
Lifting up the clothes around Lao Zhou's waist, Ye Feng said, "Let me help you. It will be fine after a few rubs."
Lu Dayou smiled and said, "Old Zhou, you are lucky. We have Brother Ye here. Not to mention your twisted waist, even if your waist is broken, I can guarantee that you will recover quickly."
Old Zhou glared at Lu Dayou and said, "How can you talk like that? You just broke your waist."
Lao Zhou's words caused everyone to burst into laughter.
Everyone had heard from Lu Dayou that Ye Feng was an extraordinary medical skill, and had also read about Ye Feng's miraculous deeds on the Internet. They had seen the news about Ye Feng, but none of them had seen Ye Feng treating anyone with their own eyes, so they curiously put down their work and looked over.
There was divine power hidden between Ye Feng's fingers. He gently rubbed Lao Zhou's wound a few times. The divine power quickly penetrated into Lao Zhou's blood vessels, opening up the blocked blood vessels, and the black gas gradually dissipated.
Old Zhou first felt that Ye Feng's hand was a little cold, and then he felt a warm current flowing out of that hand. Wherever it passed, the pain in his waist was obviously improved, and that warm current seemed to make every part of his body feel extremely comfortable.
The improvement was immediate and very rapid.
Two seconds later, Ye Feng retracted his fingers and said with a smile: "Look, can your waist still move?"
Lao Zhou tried twisting his waist, bending over, and then tried to move a piece of raw stone onto the conveyor belt. Not only did he not feel any pain in his lower back, he also felt that his whole body was full of strength than before.
Ye Feng's magical power opened up part of Lao Zhou's blood vessels. Wherever Ye Feng passed, his blood and qi were replenished, which greatly increased his strength.
Old Zhou grinned and gave Ye Feng a thumbs up: "Brother Ye is really a living god. Not only can he perform magic, but he can also cure diseases. I admire you so much."
Seeing that everyone stopped what they were doing and watched the fun, Lu Dayou clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, keep working and stop watching the fun."
Lu Dayou's slap not only urged everyone to work, but also attracted the attention of the two big snow bears.
Mine a piece of raw stone, cut it into pieces, and finally put the cut spiritual stone into a wooden box. The whole process is not too complicated, but each step must be done with caution. If you are careless in any step, it will cause incalculable losses, waste the resources, and destroy a priceless spiritual stone.
It doesn't take much effort to mine a piece of raw stone, but the Death Valley is rich in spiritual stone veins. The entire vein contains tens of thousands of tons of raw stones. It is a huge project to mine all of these raw stones. It will take at least several years for Lu Dayou and four others to do it.
Lu Dayou and the others also wondered why Ye Feng asked the four of them to control the mine. To mine this kind of mineral vein, a mining team of at least dozens or even hundreds of people would be needed.
Ye Feng didn't say anything, and they didn't ask.
Ye Feng only trusts Lu Dayou and the other four, and does not plan to find anyone else to mine the spirit stone ore.
The mineral veins here are not ordinary jade, but vitality stones that contain a large amount of spiritual energy. They are extremely important items for practicing ancient martial arts, increasing cultivation, and upgrading the level of ferocious beasts.
An ordinary thumb-sized spirit stone can improve a level five ferocious beast by one small level and is priceless. Such a large area of vitality stone mines with tens of thousands of tons will inevitably cause ancient warriors to scramble frantically.