ragginovel Chapter 100 Top-Grade Spirit Stones
Chapter 100 Top-Grade Spirit Stones
Despite making thorough preparations beforehand, Qingfeng still stayed on Silver Sand Island for a few days.
After learning about the latest situation in the nearby seas, it slowly flew towards the northern seas.
"It's not good to be too close to the sea, nor is it good to fly too high. If the speed of flight is slightly too fast, some monsters will notice us."
After flying for so long, I still don't know when we'll find Biling Island.
"Senior Xuan Gu, haven't you been to this sea area before?"
Qingfeng tried to minimize the fluctuations of spiritual energy. Once he sensed a group of demonic beasts appearing while flying, he would stay far away.
When he encounters a lone monster, he will take out his "Sea-Suppressing Demon-Refining Tower" to refine it.
"Uh... I did visit Silver Sand Island when I was younger, but I've never been to this northern sea area before."
Xuan Gu's voice came from the box in Qing Feng's arms.
"When you were young, were you really this cowardly? You didn't even dare to come to the northern seas?"
Qingfeng sounded somewhat disappointed; he had thought Xuangu was very familiar with this area.
"Well……"
Xuan Gu remained silent.
What human cultivator would be so idle as to wander into a place where demonic beasts gather?
Although he wanted to give Qingfeng a good scolding, he could only endure it now that he only had a small wisp of soul fire left.
"Young friend Qingfeng, what are you doing venturing alone into the area where monsters gather?"
Xuan Gu couldn't help but ask.
Do you know about Biling Island? Or have you ever heard of it?
While using his divine sense to explore the path, Qingfeng communicated with Xuangu.
"Azure Spirit Island? Never heard of it."
Xuan Gu truly didn't know.
"I heard a rumor that in the northern sea area of Silver Sand Island, there is a Jade Spirit Island, on which there is a spirit stone mine."
I ventured deep into this place alone, specifically for that spirit stone mine.
Qingfeng gave Xuangu a brief explanation.
"Spirit Stone Mine, are you short of spirit stones?"
Xuan Gu was somewhat surprised.
Just how extravagant is this kid?
He squandered all the hundreds of thousands of spirit stones he left behind in his cave dwelling.
"I'm short, of course I'm short. No amount of spirit stones is enough for me."
Qingfeng sighed. Among his current cultivation techniques, there was still one book, "Yin Yang Reincarnation Technique," that he hadn't deduced yet.
This ghost cultivation technique can be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. If one can extract its essence and integrate it into one's main cultivation technique, there will definitely be a significant improvement.
Besides the cultivation technique deduction, he also had a large number of magic weapon embryos in his storage bag waiting to be combined into five.
Furthermore, the 10,000-year-old Golden Thunder Bamboo, which costs 20,000 spirit stones per branch, also needs to be ripened quickly.
When Tianlei bamboo is ripened to Jinlei bamboo, not only are bamboo shoots harvested, but also bamboo leaves.
Using the leaves of the ancient Golden Thunder Bamboo to refine Spirit Feeding Pills, along with high-age Rainbow Grass, can accelerate the evolution of Gold-Eating Insects.
Raising insects, raising monkeys, and even breeding mutated golden silkworms that can evolve into phantom flame moths all cost money.
……
Three months later.
Qingfeng searched for three months in this sea area inhabited by high-level demonic beasts.
He encountered three attacks from demonic beasts during this period, but he casually collected them into the tower and refined them.
Today, the sea fog gradually disperses.
Qingfeng's flying figure suddenly stopped, because an island appeared within the range of his divine sense.
This island has no giant mountains, but it has several stone peaks.
The stone peak is extremely high and steep, its surface smooth as a mirror, and not a single blade of grass grows there.
From a distance, they resemble several towering gray-white stone pillars reaching straight into the clouds.
The entire island is devoid of any greenery; all that can be seen is gray and white.
Qingfeng scanned the entire island with his divine sense but did not detect a single fluctuation of spiritual energy.
No spiritual veins, no vegetation, no trace of demonic beasts—a desolate island.
"Yes, that's it! This must be the place!"
Qingfeng's face showed excitement; he had finally found Biling Island.
He transformed into a beam of light and flew to the sky above the deserted island.
He closed his eyes and extended his divine sense inch by inch, beginning a thorough search of the entire island.
"That's right, not even a blade of grass grows here, let alone spiritual veins or associated spirit stone mines!"
Qingfeng was overjoyed.
If there were any spiritual energy fluctuations, this island would have been discovered and excavated long ago; it wouldn't have been his turn at all.
"Top-grade spirit stones, here I come!"
Qingfeng excitedly flew towards the four stone peaks. He remembered very clearly that the spirit stone mine and spirit vein were located among these stone peaks.
Landing in the area between the four stone peaks, he took out several sets of array flags from his storage bag. In addition to the array flags of the Starry Nine Palaces Array, there were several other sets of array flags for sealing spiritual energy.
"We can't set up restrictive formations on such a deserted island, otherwise people will notice something strange. These spirit-sealing formations can prevent spiritual energy from leaking out."
Qingfeng looked around at the stone peaks. Fortunately, his array formation skills were high enough and he had brought enough array materials.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to completely seal off such a large area.
……
A month later.
From the outside, Biling Island looks exactly the same.
The four towering stone peaks remain, and the landscape is still a gray expanse where even seabirds are reluctant to land.
However, at the foot of the fourth stone peak, deep inside a cave entrance concealed by an illusion array, Qingfeng was wielding a chisel that shimmered with silver light, chiseling away at the hard stone wall.
This chisel was a magical artifact he specially crafted for this excavation. Its only characteristic was that it was sturdy enough and would not cause violent fluctuations of spiritual energy when digging.
"bite--"
Another chisel fell.
A section of the stone wall shattered, and a layer of stone dust fell down.
Qingfeng reached out and wiped away the dust, then looked through the light stone embedded in the cave wall.
After the surface layer of the stone wall peeled off, a light blue stone was revealed.
It is bluish-gray with a fine texture, and looks almost indistinguishable from ordinary mountain rocks.
If he hadn't known beforehand that spirit stones were buried here, even if he had scanned the area with his divine sense, he would have just mistaken it for ordinary rock formations.
"This is it."
Qingfeng suppressed his excitement, and with a forceful pull of his five fingers, he broke off a piece of bluestone.
One corner of the stone shattered with a crack, and powdery stone chips scattered with a "whoosh".
Among those bluish-gray stone chips, extremely fine silver particles could be faintly seen shimmering.
Qingfeng picked up a piece of stone and brought it closer to examine it.
Those silver particles were extremely small, as fine as dust, and were some kind of mineral that isolated spiritual energy.
"So that's how it is. These silver particles are a natural spirit-sealing mineral. They can completely lock the spiritual energy of the spirit stone vein deep within the stone layers, without letting any of it leak out."
No wonder this island, despite harboring top-grade spirit stone mines, has remained untouched under the noses of countless cultivators throughout history.
Qingfeng shook off the stone chips in his hand and picked up the chisel again.
"Ding—Ding—"
The rhythmic chiseling sounds echoed again from inside the cave.
Qingfeng dug more than ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) into the depths of the mountain along that layer of mountain wall.
The color of the surrounding rock strata gradually changed, from grayish-white to bluish-gray, and from bluish-gray to light green.
He took a deep breath and slowed the force of his chisel.
They then chiseled open another three feet.
The last layer of bluestone cracked open with a thin fissure.
A very faint ray of blue light shone through the gap.
Qingfeng stopped what he was doing, stretched out his palm, pressed it on both sides of the narrow crevice, and applied slight pressure with his five fingers.
"Click—"
The bluestone shattered, revealing a hole the size of a fist.
Inside the cave is a single, smooth, emerald-green stone wall!
"We've struck it rich! We've struck it rich!"
Qingfeng's hands trembled slightly because the stone wall in front of him was made entirely of high-grade spirit stones.
One high-grade spirit stone is worth 1 low-grade spirit stones!
Moreover, behind this layer of emerald green stone wall, a deeper shade of blue can be faintly seen, which is none other than a rare and top-grade spirit stone in the human realm!