Journey to the head

Back in the city, Lu Gan first took out Han Wen's body. At this moment, the enemy's corpses had just been gathered together and were about to be burned together. If Lu Gan had been a step later, he might not be able to tell who was who.

"Thank you for having a good wife, otherwise you would just be thrown into the river to feed the fish." Lu Gan thought to himself, and then added, "Of course, you are also a good husband."

They found a quiet mountain forest outside the city, cut a giant tree into a coffin, and buried the bodies of Han Wen and Sanniang together.

Han Wen died at the end of his life. What was once a big mountain of meat has now turned into a dry and stooped old man. He was placed together with Sanniangzi's equally skinny body, covered and buried by layers of loess.

No matter how profitable the hegemony is established, no matter what kind of influential figures he is, the rolling water of the Yangtze River will eventually return to dust, dust to dust, and be buried in the dust of history.

Therefore, the most precious thing is not the past or the future, but the present.

At least Han Wen could be with the love of his life when he died.

Jiang Qingfeng looked at the raised new grave and sighed quietly. She suddenly remembered a poem that Lu Qian once said.

Ask the world, what is love, directly teach life and death?
  Gu Nichang thought silently, Han Wen was willing to sacrifice his life in order to let Sanniang live. But what he got in exchange for his life was not what Sanniangzi wanted. The third lady just wants him to live well.

Lu Qian once said that love is the most difficult word to leave. If people are ruthless, life will be meaningless. This is indeed the case today.

Standing in front of their graves, Lu Gan picked up the jade slip that the third lady gave to him.

"Master Lu, since you can see this letter, you must have promised to send my wife back to the city underground. I will never forget your great kindness and virtue..."

Lu Qian sighed slightly, you and your wife should stay together in the secluded place.

He continued to read carefully, then raised his head: "Let's go, call Senior Brother Yang and Senior Brother Wang, and let's go into the underground of Lingsha City to find out."

After a while, the five people stood in a corner of Lingsha City, where there was a dark statue of Qilin.

Lu Gan detected his spiritual power and pressed the buttons on the Qilin's tail, back and top of its head as stated in the letter.

There was a soft clicking sound, and the Qilin slid to the side, revealing a circular cover on the ground.

Wang Yu sighed: "Han Wen is really thoughtful. This mechanism uses pure machinery. It is a mortal's mechanism without any fluctuations in spiritual power. Naturally, ordinary monks will not notice anything strange here. This cover on the ground is also I don’t know what kind of material it is, but it can actually block the perception of spiritual consciousness. In this way, if you don’t know the inside story, it will be difficult to discover this tunnel.”

Lu Gan nodded and opened the cover. It was pitch black underneath. He didn't know how deep it was, but there was a faint blue light in the deepest part.

"Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister, the light down here is harmful to people, and only foundation building can provide some protection. I, Senior Brother Yang, and Elder Gu will go down, and you will wait above."

Jiang Qingfeng looked nervous, but had no choice but to tell Lu Qian to be careful.

"Use spiritual protection to block blue light." Lu Qian said to Gu Nichang and Yang Jiye.

The three foundation builders filed down. The passage was not wide, but very deep. The three of them flew down for a hundred feet before touching the dry and hard ground.

As soon as he landed on the ground, Lu Qian followed Han Wen's records and played a series of spells, unlocking one layer after another of prohibitive traps.

When I looked up, I saw another relatively spacious passage in front of me. After walking a dozen steps, I suddenly felt that a huge irregular space appeared in front of me.

Just as Yang Jiye was about to move forward, Lu Gan stopped him and unlocked the five-layer magic circle in a very hidden place.

"The Shahe Gang has put up a lot of protection here. If you don't know the ropes, you might be easily injured."

Lu Qian made an invitation gesture, and several people moved forward. As far as they could see, there was a dazzling blue light everywhere. "Strengthen the protection of your spiritual consciousness." Lu Qian warned again. From just now, his spiritual consciousness surged out of Niwan Palace, forming a tough and powerful defense around himself.

He could clearly sense that this blue light was very corrosive, and his consciousness was constantly being swallowed up.

The most important thing is that this blue light is very strange and cannot be protected by spiritual power or spiritual weapons. It can only be resisted with spiritual consciousness. Moreover, ordinary foundation-building consciousness cannot resist for long, only a stick of incense.

After feeling it for a while, Gu Nichang was a little surprised: "Rotten Soul Ghost Iron?"

Although the rotten ghost iron ore is very harmful to the souls of monks, it is also a rare mineral material that can be used to create rare magic weapons, spiritual weapons and even magic weapons.

However, because it is difficult to protect the soul from harm, it is difficult to transport and cannot be sold on a large scale.

"Yes, it is the Fuhunyou Iron Mine." Having learned all the secrets from Han Wen's jade slips, Lu Gan nodded, "But it is just a companion mine."

Associated mines?
  Yang Jiye was a little confused. The associated ore was just a derivative of a certain mineral vein. The Fuhunyou Iron Ore was an associated ore, and the main vein was——

He looked intently and saw that under the cover of a faint blue light, clear and clear ore was vaguely revealed on the rock wall. The familiar fluctuations made Yang Jiye's eyes almost pop out.

"Spirit Stone Mine."

Gu Nichang said slowly.

This is a spiritual stone mine!

And the reserves are huge!

Han Wen said in the letter that after more than a hundred years of mining, tens of millions of spiritual stones were mined, and they have not been exhausted at all!
  Lu Gan walked to a cluster of ore clusters, and among the scattered but dazzling Rot Soul Ghost Iron Ore, he used his plait sword to knock off a piece of raw spiritual stone.

This irregular piece of raw ore is clear and transparent, emitting a clear light. When viewed with the naked eye, there are very few impurities, and the spiritual energy fluctuates continuously.

Excellent quality!

Lingshi raw ore is the condensed crystallization of spiritual energy between heaven and earth. It is speculated that the birth of the spirit stone veins was most likely because the spirit veins appeared directly deep underground, and the spiritual energy could not escape, so it condensed into minerals.

After the spirit stone veins are generated, they will in turn block the spiritual veins, causing the spiritual veins to gradually shrink and disappear.

From this logic, the larger the scale of the spiritual stone mine, the higher the level of the spiritual veins that once appeared here, so that they can last until a large vein of mineral veins is born before finally disappearing.

But because spiritual veins are inherently mysterious and can only be studied by Void Refining monks, all this is just speculation.

The raw spirit stone ore has strange properties. Although it contains spiritual energy, it cannot be used directly.

It must be transported out after mining, then melted in a special furnace, removed of impurities and then condensed to form a spiritual stone that can directly absorb spiritual energy.

For [-] years, in order to facilitate carrying and counting, monks have used molds to condense the spiritual stones into small squares one inch square.

This is the origin of "a spiritual stone".

(End of this chapter)