Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 205: Secretly Mining Spirit Stone Mine, Xinqihai Guide Marker
"It's a pity that my second uncle is not at home~"

Lin Limao is stationed in Fenglingfang City for a long time. In addition, he cannot be careless during the wave, so he does not go home very often.

"It's a pity that I don't have a daughter-in-law~"

Lin's mother immediately picked up Lin Qianfan's words.

Lin's mother now has everything she wants and is flattered wherever she goes, but she just lacks a daughter-in-law and a grandson, which makes her feel a little empty every time she is happy.

"Let Second Uncle get married quickly. Then you can help him take care of the children, and our family will be more lively."

"Your second uncle's business is his, I will talk to him, your business is your business, logically speaking, you need to branch out, how can this be the same?"

Lin Qianfan failed to change the subject and was criticized on the spot.

"Oh~ How did the conversation today end up with me?"

Lin Qianfan had also thought about marrying a wife to continue his family line and fulfill his filial duty to his parents while they were still alive, leaving them with no regrets.
But Lin Qianfan is not a casual person. His criterion for choosing a spouse must be a female cultivator with the potential of Golden Core. In this way, if the female cultivator can reach the Golden Core first and then the latter can reach the Golden Core, the two parties can work together for hundreds of years.
Otherwise, the gaps between the two sides in all aspects will be too great, and they will not be able to talk to each other about their lives. They will not be considered as Taoist companions, but just a simple physical couple, and they will be separated by life and death after a hundred years.

This is not just about being irresponsible in marriage, it may even create entanglements, lead to more causes and effects, and affect spiritual practice.

But it is equally difficult to find a golden elixir seed. It is impossible for someone from another family to marry you. They are their treasures and will not be married off to outsiders.

There are two in the Lin family, Jiu Ye and Lin Qianxue, but these two are obviously people who are devoted to the Tao and have firm minds. Asking them to get married and have children when the Tao is clear is a fantasy and pure nonsense.

A few days later,
Yulong Xiancheng issued a high-priority announcement:
[Comprehensive investigation of new and old mineral deposits in and around the archipelago! ]

It takes countless years for a mineral deposit to be generated naturally, and requires very harsh conditions such as plate movement and geological changes. However, the millennial waves that occur every thousand years greatly accelerate this originally long process, and new mineral deposits are formed in each wave.

Due to the current shrinking power of the Yulong Islands, the monster hunters who were supposed to go out hunting have returned early, causing the entire monster hunting-based industry to be suspended. This has led to a gradual increase in the number of idle people within the islands. The Xiancheng Lin family then issued this long-term valid "Mineral Prospecting Order" at the right time.

Anyone who discovers new mineral deposits within the Ichthyosaur Islands and the surrounding waters will receive a very generous reward.
The amount of this bounty is linked to the value of the mineral itself. If the mineral deposit is large in scale, of high value, and easy to mine, it can even directly change the fate of the discoverer.

Therefore, a wave of mineral-seeking fever immediately swept across the archipelago, and monks with certain basic conditions all joined in the mineral-seeking craze.

Not to mention, there were some lucky/capable people who found some new mineral deposits during the wave, which made them a fortune, and some even exchanged them for spiritual objects for foundation building.

With newly discovered mineral deposits, a large number of idle personnel can naturally be arranged to mine the deposits. Even though the prices of some mineral deposits have fallen due to the impact of monster materials, the Lin family can still use them for decades with its size and can survive the cycle.

Therefore, prospecting for minerals is only a small part, which is used to screen out some special talents. The real big part lies in the subsequent mining industry. If it is arranged reasonably and appropriately, this industry can even develop for hundreds of years until the mineral deposits around the archipelago are exhausted again.

Lin Qianfan, who had fully rested and adjusted at home, did not stay at home all the time, but picked up his mood and started again.

However, this time they did not set out on the Wind Rider, but set out alone with Silver Scale in a secret operation. The master and servant were going to search for secret mineral deposits in the deep waters outside the outer ring of the Ichthyosaur Islands.

Outside the outer ring of the archipelago,

There are basically no islands nearby. Even if there are a few small islands, they are basically not spiritual islands. Therefore, there are no island residents nearby, no people, and even the number of passing ships is pitifully small.

Deep water areas on the seabed,
"That's it, start digging!"

It is a fact known to everyone that Yin Lin has a keen sense of perception and Lin Qianfan has also practiced geomancy for several years, so it is normal for the master and servant to cooperate and make some discoveries.

"Are you sure? Why can't I sense any presence at all?"

"I'm sure! Absolutely sure! Even though it's just the most common copper ore, the reserves are quite good. Let's dig!"

If there were shallow mineral deposits that could be discovered solely by relying on Yin Lin's perception ability and Lin Qianfan's vein-finding technique, Lin Qianfan would mark them out directly and report them to the family after returning.

This process can not only train and verify the abilities of both parties in this area, but also bring benefits and contribution points to the Lin family and the archipelago.

But if it is a hidden treasure that is very deep and secret and can only be discovered by Hai Huanyingyu, then it is considered Lin Qianfan's personal gain.
Among these private gains, some mineral deposits with higher market value/higher grade/larger scale will be kept for now. Lin Qianfan plans to wait until he reaches the Jindan stage before taking charge of large-scale mining. It is reasonable to explain it with the skills of the geomancer at that time, and no one questions it.

As for the remaining worthless small mineral deposits, they were mined directly with Silver Scale and put into their own pockets.
These worthless mineral deposits are worthless only because of their market supply and applicability, not because there is anything wrong with them. In front of the Hanhai Lingyin, they are all the same source of spiritual power.

"I dug it through, and there really is something~"

It is indeed a bit tacky to use a combat-type second-level spirit beast for mining, but it is very efficient, and only in this way can we collect enough spirit objects that need to be sacrificed to the Vast Sea Spirit Guide without anyone noticing.

After such a long time, Lin Qianfan thought that he should give up on the person he imagined out of thin air who might be hiding in the dark to monitor the inner sea. After all, everyone has a million possibilities every day, and the lucky guy in Lingjiao Village should have escaped from the jurisdiction of Thousand Star City long ago.

When Lin Qianfan used [Xinqi Haiyin] for the first time, he wanted to find a spiritual object that could significantly and stably improve the quality of his elixir.
After all, the Lin family is only a newly-emerged medium-sized Jindan force. It is somewhat difficult for them to obtain such a thing. Even if they get it, they will give priority to Lin Qianxue, who has ice spirit roots. Therefore, Lin Qianfan cannot completely rely on the family for help, but must look for it himself.
Although this kind of spiritual object is for cultivators at the peak of foundation building, it contains up to third-level spiritual energy. However, the spiritual objects sacrificed to the Vast Sea Spirit Guide are all first-level spiritual energy, so the required amount is very large.

Lin Qianfan had previously considered using other methods to collect worthless spiritual objects, but it was easy to leave traces more or less. Even though the price of first-level monsters has reached a historical low, and even the first-level monsters are basically thrown into the fish farm for free,
But Lin Qianfan didn't think of using money to buy, secretly collect, or secretly intercept part of the Wind Rider's harvest. Over time, the amount would be too large to withstand investigation by interested parties.

These mineral deposits mined by themselves are hidden under the deep water area of the uninhabited area. As long as they are mined cleanly and the mine is carefully backfilled, it is impossible for anyone to find any traces. Even if a bored Jindan cultivator comes to scan the map, it is not easy to find any problems.

“Alright, done~” “Good, let’s go, next one!”

With the cooperation of two second-level creatures, ordinary small-scale mineral deposits can be quickly cleared out and mined completely, as if the mineral deposit had never appeared here before.

In fact, these first-level mineral deposits hidden in the deep water will remain here forever even if Lin Qianfan does not mine them. Unless the sea turns into mulberry fields, it will be too difficult for Qi-refining cultivators to mine them, and they do not have much selling value. After deducting the cost, they will still lose money. It is a waste of effort for no Qi-refining cultivator to mine them.

"Huh? There's actually a miniature spirit stone vein here?"

Lin Qianfan rode on Silver Scale and swam in the deep water, constantly scanning the seabed, slowly moving away from the Fish Dragon Islands. The further he went, the more he gained, and he even discovered a spiritual stone vein.
As the name suggests, the spiritual stones mined from the spiritual stone veins are spiritual stones, which are directly converted into currency and do not need to be traded.

This kind of deep water area has not been visited by anyone for thousands of years. Not to mention the new mineral deposits in the last few thousand years, the mineral deposits from even older times are basically still in place, and naturally there are some larger/higher-value ones among them.

Unfortunately, this spirit stone mine produces low-grade spirit stones, which is the most common micro spirit stone mine. If it mainly produces medium-grade spirit stones, it would really make a fortune and become rich overnight. However, the production conditions are too harsh and it is not easy to appear in such a barren area.

"dig!"

After Lin Qianfan roughly assessed the difficulty of mining the spirit stone mine and its reserves, he decided to mine it himself.

Because after Lin Qianfan reaches the Golden Core stage, this micro spirit stone vein that mainly produces low-grade spirit stones will have no value to him. It is better to mine it now to replenish the Hanhai Spirit Guide and his own expenses. The only right thing to do is to find the target spirit object as soon as possible.

"Spirit Stone~Spirit Stone~Spirit Stone~So many~"

As Silver Scale continued to go deeper, regular spirit stone crystals began to appear one after another. Compared to other mineral deposits that needed to be exchanged for money, spirit stones themselves were money, and the impact was even stronger.

"Stop playing around, speed up! Improve efficiency!"

Silver Scale is large in size and has great destructive power. It continues to dig deeper into the mineral vein like a large engineering machine. Lin Qianfan only needs to follow behind and cast a spell to separate all the spiritual stones, ensuring that the mining is thorough enough and erasing all traces of destruction.

The spiritual energy factors in the air are disordered, violent, constantly moving and have various properties, while the spiritual power factors in the spirit stones are controllable forces that have been domesticated by nature. They are controllable forces that are docile enough to be directly absorbed into the meridians. This is also the core value of its existence.

As a standard energy crystal, the shape of spirit stones is relatively fixed. They are not the kind that have large and small pieces and need to be divided later. That is the wrong understanding of the lower-level cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation. They have regular shapes during the formation process.
Spirit stones generally have no attributes and can only form a single attribute under special circumstances. Single-attribute spirit stones can provide some extra help to some cultivators and can reduce attribute conversion.

"There are still a few mid-grade spirit stones~"

"Oh? I wish the reserves were a little larger! They'd be very useful!"

The common spirit stones on the market are all low-grade spirit stones. They are the hard currency among Qi-refining cultivators and the most important universal currency for the operation of the entire immortal cultivation world.

However, the spiritual power content of low-grade spirit stones is too thin for foundation-building cultivators. The common currency used by foundation-building cultivators is medium-grade spirit stones, while the common currency used by Jindan cultivators is high-grade spirit stones.

The spiritual power content of a medium-grade spirit stone is one hundred times that of a low-grade spirit stone, and the spiritual power content of a high-grade spirit stone is one hundred times that of a medium-grade spirit stone.
This is just a difference in spiritual power content, not a difference in exchange ratio. When exchanging in reality, it is necessary to refer to specific circumstances such as whether the identities of both parties are equal, the rarity of local first- and second-level resources, and the actual application of local spiritual stones. It often takes more than one hundred low-grade spiritual stones to exchange for one medium-grade spiritual stone, and there is an objective premium.

It is rumored that there are top-grade spirit stones above the best-grade ones, which serve as the currency among fourth-level Nascent Soul cultivators. Because fourth-level alchemists are rarer and the corresponding fourth-level restorative pills are also rare, top-grade spirit stones have become a substitute means for Nascent Soul cultivators to restore their mana.

As for whether there is a fifth-grade currency above the top-grade spirit stones, it is not something that can be spread through rumors, and it cannot even be made up.

Although the content of this spiritual stone vein is not very large, there are still a lot of accompanying waste ores, which makes it difficult to mine. The master and servant stayed here for several days. After a lot of hard work, they finally mined all of it and checked repeatedly to ensure that it was mined cleanly without any omissions.

"So many sparkling spirit stones, what a pity~"

Yin Lin and Lin Qianfan share the same fate. Although Lin Qianfan has not introduced the Hanhai Lingyin to it separately, it knows a little about it. It is reluctant to sacrifice these shiny coins.

The Vast Sea Spirit Guide was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring the sacrifices collected by Lin Qianfan. Although it was only fed with worthless spiritual ores and low-grade spiritual stones, the total value was more than 100,000.

"It's lit! Hmm... Why are we in the southern part of the Blazing Sea? The terrain here looks familiar, like the Star-Moon Reef?"

Lin Qianfan wanted to find a spiritual object through Xin Qi Hai Yin that could stably and significantly improve the quality of Dan. The higher the quality, the better.

And set conditions: you cannot go to the homes of other Jindan forces to die, and it cannot be a death zone that foundation-building cultivators cannot touch at all. Now it cost more than 100,000 to get this mark.

"The highest quality Jindan spiritual creature! Near the Star-Moon Reef? The mysterious Red Demon Shark? Is there some necessary connection between them?"

Lin Qianfan recalled a mission he had taken on Chirong Island several years ago to exterminate the second-stage early stage demon beast, the Red Ghost Shark. That strange demon beast was obviously not a local species and possessed extremely high intelligence, which was very abnormal.

"We can discuss this later. We have to wait until Yin Lin and I have both reached the middle stage before we can investigate."

Because it was too far away, the Hanhai Lingyin only showed the target as a point near the Xingyue Reef in the southern part of the Hot Sea. Lin Qianfan needed to go there in person to show more details.

But as long as it is not a place owned by the Jindan forces, as long as it is a place that the foundation-building cultivators can enter, Lin Qianfan is very confident.

As for the issue of cultivation, Yin Lin is not far from the middle stage of the second stage. As long as the time is right, he can absorb the Ice Crystal Chilong Demon Pill and advance to the middle stage of the second stage, and then his strength will undergo a qualitative change.
Lin Qianfan was a little slower, but this kind of thing could not be rushed. It would be best to wait until he switched to his main practice.

"The water temperature has dropped significantly. Winter is almost here, so let's go back!"

(End of this chapter)