Evergreen Immortal..

Chapter 419: The Beginning of Tongxuan
"Why is Chen Ming here?"

Li Rui narrowed his eyes slightly.

He possesses the Evergreen Qi and his perception is stronger than those of his peers, so he was able to sense Chen Ming's presence.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would have used a method to conceal his energy, which would have been difficult for ordinary martial artists to detect.

Looking at his sneaky appearance, if you didn’t know, you would think he was a demon cultivator.

Chen Ming had said before that he was looking for the spiritual mine to help his sworn brother fulfill his last wish.

But now the spiritual mine has been found, and Xia Yun’s wish was fulfilled, and the Witch Kingdom also got a lot of it.

Logically speaking, Chen Ming has no reason to come here.

Unless what is said is false.

There is no doubt that Chen Ming must be hiding something.

Li Rui was not too surprised by this.

All the excitement in the world is for the benefit.

No matter how chivalrous you are, you still have to eat.

It may be true that Chen Ming helps his brothers, but it is also human nature to covet the spiritual mine.

Li Rui did not expose it, but pretended not to see it. He turned around and walked towards the Lingkuang camp.

He just threw out a talisman.

The talisman turned into an almost invisible ant and followed Chen Ming.

Li Rui returned to the room and continued practicing.

Another five days passed.

What Li Rui didn't expect was that Chen Ming's intentions had not yet been revealed, but he had discovered a lot of people.

Each of these people is a monk.

They are all extremely powerful.

There are even some powerful people in the innate realm.

They often lurk around the spiritual mine, seemingly searching for something.

"them?"

"Just a bunch of stink bugs that smelled fishy."

Disgust flashed in Yuan Xiong's eyes.

"Oh?"

Li Rui: "Brother Yuan, tell me about it."

He did not expose Chen Ming, but told Yuan Xiong that there were powerful people lurking around the spiritual mine.

The matter of Lingkuang is of great importance.

It is not a good thing to be always being watched by others. At least you should find out the purpose of these people.

Yuan Xiong: "Brother Li was not in the spirit mine before, so you don't know that these are all spirit thieves, and they can't be driven away."

Yuan Xiong gave him a thorough explanation.

Li Rui then understood that the so-called soul thieves were simply those whose spiritual energy leaked when the soul stones were being transported from the soul mine, and they used special spells to condense it again.

Simply put, they are people who pick up scraps from spiritual mines.

Don't underestimate the scraps here. The volume of spiritual ore is too huge. Even if it is just a little bit, it cannot be underestimated as it accumulates over time.

Otherwise, those innate-level cultivators would not lower themselves to become spirit insects.

Li Rui suddenly realized.

Yuan Xiong: "In the beginning, the King of Wei also ordered the expulsion and even beheaded a few soul stealers, but later he found that he could not kill them all, and these people were also obedient and never entered the soul mine, so he had no choice but to do so."

Li Rui nodded.

It is easy to kill tigers, but it costs more to eliminate all mosquitoes than to kill tigers.

It is also a helpless move.

His heart moved slightly.

Those soul stealers outside the soul mine must also be hiding spies.

The matter involves the Yu Kingdom, the Wu Kingdom and the Qingwei Sect. It might be possible to conceal it if it happened to one family, but it is impossible to conceal it if it happened to all three families.

The matter of the spiritual mine must have been known by the immortal sects.

Many of them wanted to seize the spiritual mines.

However, due to the majesty of the State of Yu, they did not dare to be too ostentatious.

The situation for the other two companies should be similar.

However, Li Rui did not think that Chen Ming came here to steal souls, he must have other purposes.

Even Xia Yun probably doesn't know.

Li Rui said no more.

He is the guardian of the Ling Mine, but the real person in charge of the Ling Mine is the fifth prince Zhu Qian.

If he "kindly" gave Zhu Qian suggestions, the other party would not only not be grateful, but would even think that he was challenging the emperor's authority.

It's a thankless job.

Of course Li Rui would not do such a stupid thing.

Yuan Xiong: "Brother Li, have you found anything?"

Li Rui nodded: "Something is wrong, but there is no evidence. We need to wait and see."

Yuan Xiong frowned slightly.

The spiritual mine cannot always be peaceful.

The Qingwei Sect, the Yu State and the Wu State were powerful.

But it is not really invincible.

Things are different now than in the past. Each of those immortal sects has a profound foundation, and it is rumored that they may have hidden ways to connect with the upper realm, so they cannot be taken lightly.

They must be eyeing the spiritual mine.

As long as the State of Yu shows any sign of decline, they will tear it apart like tigers and wolves and share the spiritual ore.

It is not easy to guard this spiritual mine.

I don’t know how many people are watching.

Crisis is everywhere!

Yuan Xiong took a deep breath and his heart sank.

One hundred thousand mountains away.

An abandoned temple on the Wu Kingdom Plain.

It was a dilapidated scene with broken walls and the Bodhisattva's head rolled on the ground, covered with moss.

There is a saying in the State of Yu that it is better to sleep in a wasteland than to live in a dilapidated temple.

There is also one in Wu Kingdom.

Therefore, almost no one lives in this dilapidated temple.

At most, only some bandits would dare to come here.

at this time.

A young monk stepped into the deserted temple and glanced at several skeletons nearby. These were the bandits who had previously occupied this deserted temple.

Now it's just a pile of dry bones.

He walked into the Buddhist temple.

He saw an old man who looked like a skeleton, staring at him with eyes that glowed with faint red light.

"Old. Ancestor."

Even though I have seen a lot, my throat still feels dry.

The young monk saluted respectfully and said, "Li Rui has left the spiritual mine and returned to Qingwei Sect."

"Ah."

A sharp and unpleasant sound like metal friction was heard in the Buddhist hall.

"I understand."

The young monk retreated in panic.

After the young monk had completely left, the old man smiled, and a low laugh could be heard faintly in the Buddhist hall.

"This small cave is really great. It actually has a spiritual mine of such quality."

"Very good."

Not bad.

He was a person from the Immortal Cultivation World. He had just arrived in this world and had been hiding to recover his cultivation until recently.

When he heard about the emergence of a spiritual mine, he immediately became greedy.

He knew that there were powerful people in this world whom even he could not afford to offend.

Therefore, there is no intention to monopolize the spiritual mine, as long as enough benefits can be obtained, it is enough.

So I asked around.

Finally, Li Rui was chosen and he wanted to turn Li Rui into a puppet, so that it would be easier for him to grab the spiritual ore.

No one will find out yet.

As for why Li Rui was chosen.

One is that Li Rui is often not in the spirit mine, so it is easier to set up the formation. The other is that Li Rui is the weakest in that stupid martial arts evaluation.

These two points are enough.

The only drawback may be that because he is often not at the spiritual mine, it takes a long time for the formation to completely refine Li Rui.

But it doesn’t matter.

He has always been very patient.

After inspecting the spiritual mine, Li Rui returned to Changqing Peak.

The main reason was that the Small Five Elements Formation could no longer suppress the Evil Puppet Formation, so it had to leave.

He had to admit that the evil formation master was indeed powerful.

Being able to block the third-order evil formation with the fifth-order five elements formation for such a long time is already his limit.

There is a way to continue blocking it.

But even if we are discovered by the evil array master, the wisest thing to do is to leave.

Back to Evergreen Peak.

Life became normal again.

Just practice.

Li Rui spent most of his time in the room practicing hard. The Eternal Green Technique continuously condensed his spiritual energy, and with the addition of his immortal spiritual roots, his realm increased steadily.

There is no bottleneck at all.

This happened.

That's one year.

"Brother, big brother."

Li Rui, who was meditating in the house, suddenly heard Ning Zhongtian's voice coming from outside.

He pushed open the door.

Then I saw Ning Zhongtian walking in.

"Fourth brother, what's wrong?"

Ning Zhongtian: "A big incident happened at the Human Spiritual Mine yesterday. A group of demon cultivators teamed up to break into the mine and try to steal the spiritual stones."

Li Rui's eyes narrowed.

Sure enough, he still came.

"With the great formation in place, most of those demon cultivators were killed."

"But a lot of spirit stones were still taken away."

"The Fifth Prince is furious. He is now ordering General Yuan to hunt down those demon cultivators, and he has also ordered us to go with him."

Li Rui groaned and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Fourth brother, take some people over first, I will follow."

"Ah."

Ning Zhongtian immediately turned around and left.

Just not long after Ning Zhongtian left.

Sang Kong went up to Changqing Peak.

"Brother Li, I heard that your country's spiritual mine was attacked?"

Li Rui: "Brother Sang is well-informed."

Sang Kong asked seriously, "Brother Li, do you know where those guys came from?"

Li Rui shook his head.

He roughly guessed the purpose of Sang Kong's visit.

The situation of Wu State and Yu State is roughly the same. Yu State's spiritual mine was attacked, so maybe it will be Wu State in a few days.

If it were really just those demon cultivators joining forces to attack, it would still be easy to deal with.

But if there are other immortal sects behind the scenes manipulating it, we have to be on guard.

Sang Kong sighed softly.

He was in a similar situation to Li Rui and also had the duty of guarding the spiritual mine.

With great power comes great pressure.

"Brother Li, no matter what happens to other families, we two should keep in touch with each other."

Sang Kong said.

Intelligence is extremely important.

The most troublesome thing is not to be afraid of a strong opponent, but to be afraid of not even knowing who the opponent is.

"Brother Sang, when have I ever hidden anything from you?"

Li Rui said.

Sang Kong then smiled: "It's still good to be the elder brother."

Subsequently.

He left with satisfaction.

Li Rui saw Sang Kong off and left Qingwei Sect at noon that day.

He used the tracking talisman to capture more than ten demon cultivators.

All the corpses of the demon cultivators were hung on the walls of the Lingkuang City as a warning.

The effect is very good.

There had been no more attacks from demon cultivators for several months in a row, and even those soul-stealing people had become much more restrained, and had become more respectful of the Yu Kingdom's soul mines.

of course.

There are fewer soul stealers in the State of Yu.

The Wu Kingdom and the Qingwei Sect suffered.

There were unexpected incidents of evil cultivators and spirit thieves sneaking into the spirit mine to steal. Seeing the other two families making fools of themselves, the Fifth Prince Zhu Qian felt much better.

It was rare that he praised Li Rui.

The spiritual mine entered a brief period of calm.

Li Rui made great contributions, but he still went to the Ling Mine for inspection every three months as usual.

Every time, I still use the small five elements formation to block the evil formation.

The effect was good, and the evil array master didn't notice it.

As the guardian of the spirit mine, Li Rui can obtain far more spirit stones than other people of the same level. He is guaranteed to get medium-grade spirit stones almost every day, and sometimes he can even get a high-grade spirit stone.

With the support of spiritual stones, one's realm will naturally rise rapidly.

Less than two years.

I have actually seen the threshold to the initial stage of Tongxuan.

This day.

Li Rui quietly descended Changqing Peak and came to a remote valley deep in the Shiwan Mountains.

"Draw the spirit into the body to communicate with the heavenly way."

Li Rui was muttering to himself.

He sat cross-legged on a huge rock.

at this time.

The Taoist figurine in Dantian is no different from him.

The whole person's momentum reached its peak at this moment.

The initial stage of Tongxuan!

(End of this chapter)