The Leisurely Life of a Young Man in the World of Cultivation

However, as the two continued to enter, they soon discovered a considerable amount of Xuan Kong Stone residue on the ground.

Seeing this, the two were both excited and worried.

After all, it's slag, which means that someone has been mining here, or at least it proves that it has been mined before.

Fortunately, upon entering, they discovered it was indeed a mine, though it had been abandoned for a long time. Upon learning this, Li Mingfei looked disappointed.

But the two soon discovered the problem.

"Brother Lu, have you noticed that this mine is getting smaller and smaller?"

"Logically, there should be signs of excavation around an abandoned mine, but now those signs are gone!"

"If this area has been fully mined, why is that giant octopus outside guarding it?"

In its natural environment, a fully-trained octopus, though unable to speak, already possesses a certain level of thought. If there were truly nothing of value in this place, it would absolutely not remain here.

So now there are two theories: first, there are still treasures inside the mine, but they just haven't discovered them yet.

Another possibility is that a powerful being trapped the octopus here as a bodyguard to protect the mine.

But the octopus outside is clearly not under any restrictions, so the second point doesn't make sense. Therefore, there can only be one conclusion: the mine seems to have undergone other changes.

Thinking of this, he quickly reminded him.

"There might be changes here that we haven't anticipated!"

"Look more carefully; maybe we'll find some clues!"

"I'll go down underground and take a look!"

As he spoke, Lu Changfeng pulled out a pair of golden and silver dragon scissors, each as tall as a person, from his dantian. With a light flick of his wrist, he slashed a hole in the ground and then jumped into it.

Upon seeing this scene, Li Mingfei couldn't help but swallow hard.

"Holy crap, Brother Lu, yours looks way cooler than mine!"

Lu Changfeng looked smug.

"Of course! Otherwise, what do you think I'd be doing slacking off every day?"

At this moment, Li Mingfei's desire for promotion reached its limit.

There's no way to resist treasure hunting during work hours!

"Alright!"

Li Mingfei then searched for something in the mine shaft, while Lu Changfeng searched underground.

But to his surprise, he immediately discovered a clue as soon as he burrowed underground.

"Huh, is the underground spiritual energy here really that abundant?"

Spiritual energy is far more pervasive than air, so it can be sensed even underground. However, for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the concentration of spiritual energy above ground differs from that underground by a full 20%.

This shows that there are definitely some good things hidden underground.

He quickly used the Golden and Silver Dragon Scissors to reach the place where the difference in spiritual energy was created underground.

However, as soon as he got closer, he was stunned by what he saw.

"Holy crap, a small spirit stone vein!"

That's right, Lu Changfeng discovered a small spirit stone vein.

When the miniature spirit stone veins first appeared, they could yield tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones. This small spirit stone vein in front of us can yield at least 100,000 spirit stones, and could even reach several million.

Using my divine sense to scan it, I found that there were approximately 20 low-grade spirit stones, 1400 mid-grade spirit stones, and 5 high-grade spirit stones in the core area.

Based on this calculation, this single mine is equivalent to 660 million low-grade spirit stones.

"Holy crap, we're rich! We're rich!"

Although I don't lack spirit stones, who would complain about having too many spirit stones?

Moreover, there are also mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones in this, although the ratio is one to one thousand, but in reality, it certainly can't be calculated like that.

However, this small spirit stone mine alone made their trip worthwhile.

He immediately floated up to Li Mingfei's feet.

"Golden chicken, stop looking! We're rich! We're rich!"

He was inspecting the changes in the surrounding cave walls when he heard Lu Changfeng's voice and was startled again when he saw Lu Changfeng's head protruding from the ground.

"Holy crap, Brother Lu, can't you stop appearing and disappearing like that?!"

"And when you come out, your whole body comes out, just your head, it's really scary, okay!"

Lu Changfeng didn't care about that!

"Alright, alright, stop talking so much nonsense!"

"Quick, quick, hold onto the scissors handle! I'll take you downstairs to take a look. Don't be scared to death!"

Upon hearing this, Li Mingfei's eyes lit up.

"Holy crap, Brother Lu, are those scissors of yours even capable of pulling people down?"

Although the bubbles he blows from his water-repelling pipe can also repel others from water, others can still go underwater without these bubbles, but they can't go underground!

"Of course, my precious possession is not something so inconvenient!"

"Alright, get down now!"

The moment he grasped the scissors, Lu Changfeng dragged him to the ground.

He was clearly quite surprised to see the semi-transparent environment around him.

"I didn't expect to be able to see around even underground. Although it's a bit blurry, it's already pretty good!"

Led by Lu Changfeng, the two quickly arrived at the small spiritual vein in front of them.

Looking at the spiritual vein stretching tens of meters in front of him, Li Mingfei's lips trembled.

"Holy crap, this is a spirit stone vein, but how can it be so huge?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Changfeng chuckled and began to explain.

"This is a small-scale spirit stone vein; what you saw was just a miniature one!"

"Furthermore, after inspecting my home, I found 20 low-grade spirit stones, 1400 mid-grade spirit stones, and 5 high-grade spirit stones!"

"The total value reached 660 million, how about that, awesome, right!"

Upon hearing this value, Li Mingfei's mouth dropped open in astonishment.

"Holy crap, 660 million? My dad's been going against the emperor for years and he's never found that much!"

"I got it all in one go?"

Lu Changfeng smiled and shook his head at this.

"What do you mean 'got it all at once'? Half of it is mine, you only have 330 million at most!"

Even so, this is still an astronomical figure.

The two immediately began digging. At first, they had to stay in stealth mode and could only dig with one hand, but once they had a place to stand, their digging speed immediately increased.

Two days later, the two men had completely drained the entire vein.

As the spirit stones entered their storage bags, the two finally smiled.

For Lu Changfeng, although these spirit stones were not a lot, it was very fulfilling to do it himself!

As the two were about to leave the Xuan Kong Stone Mine, a piece of plaster suddenly fell off. Neither of them paid any attention to it at first, but to their surprise, there was a spiritual energy fluctuation on the other side of the plaster.

This indicates that the wall plaster was at least made of spiritual material.

The two immediately stepped forward to inspect it, and to their surprise, these inconspicuous wall plaster pieces were actually newly developed Xuan Kong Stone.

Although it's only a thin layer, if all of it were collected, it would amount to a considerable number.

The two exchanged a glance and immediately began digging, but at that moment, two Qi Refining cultivators from the Li family were hovering in mid-air on their swords above the small island in the sea.

"According to the family map, the Xuan Kong Stone vein that has already been mined out is right here!"

"Let's go down and check it out too. Other veins have seen newly formed minerals; I wonder if this Xuan Kong Stone vein has developed any yet!"