You think I have mixed spiritual roots? I became an immortal through a spirit gourd, so what are you

"Sigh, my constitution is too heavy; every breakthrough requires a lot of cultivation resources." A top-grade Qi Refining Pill should, in theory, be enough for someone at the early stage of Qi Refining to break through a minor realm. However, to Chen Huai'an's dismay, after consuming this top-grade Qi Refining Pill, his cultivation only improved slightly.

The effects of top-grade pills are somewhat exaggerated.

"At this rate of refining, even after consuming 20 top-grade Qi Refining Pills, one will not be able to reach the sixth level of the mid-stage Qi Refining realm. At most, one will only be able to break through to the peak of the fifth level of Qi Refining."

In the time that followed, Chen Huai'an did not rest; he spent all his time refining top-grade Qi-refining pills to break through his cultivation level.

Three days later, Chen Huai'an had used up all the top-grade Qi Refining Pills he had.

"I'm at the mid-stage of the fifth level of the Qi Refining Realm, but I haven't reached the peak of the fifth level yet. My cultivation speed is still too slow." Chen Huai discovered that the cultivation speed by taking pills was much faster than his cultivation speed by refining spirit stones, because the higher the cultivation level, the more resources and time are required.

"The spiritual herbs inside the space grow twice as fast as outside. It seems that to maximize the effects of this purple gourd's space, I should find a place with abundant spiritual energy and cultivate in seclusion. I need to make good use of my time at the Qingyun Mountain mine," Chen Huai'an muttered to himself.

The spirit stone mine is a treasure trove. He needs to hurry and mine as many spirit stones as possible in the mine, and then send them into his space.

Once this opportunity is missed, it will be very difficult to get a bargain again in the future. The sect will become increasingly strict in its management, requiring registration to enter the mine, and the spirit stones collected from it will be centrally allocated. The sect will not allow any hoarding.

Inside the mine, you can use the spirit stones found there for cultivation, but you cannot take them away. When you leave the mine, there will be special personnel to check you and prevent you from smuggling them in.

Chen Huai'an has a spatial dimension, so he's not afraid at all. He can simply send the collected spirit stones into his spatial dimension, and when he comes out of the mine, he can just take a storage bag and let them check it.

The high-grade spirit stones in the space can be refined at any time, but the opportunity to mine spirit stones in the mine is not frequent. In addition, he has been in the mine for 4 days. He is worried that if Qin Muyao sends a message asking him to act as bait to hunt down the disciples of the Yin Sha Sect, it will be difficult to mine spirit stones again in the future.

If Su Wanying and the others hadn't deliberately targeted him, he wouldn't have gone down into the mine so quickly. Even if he wanted to go down, he would have had to register and get approval from the sect. Indirectly speaking, Su Wanying and the others doing him a big favor by targeting him this time.

Chen Huai'an discovered that the quality of the spiritual spring water in the space had improved significantly. He watered the spiritual herbs again before leaving the space.

He was about to exhaust the spiritual spring water in the space, and he needed to find a way to replenish it.

After leaving the space, Chen Huai'an did not rush to find the Yin Puppet in the mine. If they encountered it, they would be unlucky. If they did not encounter it, they would focus on mining spirit stones.

When entering the mine, Chen Huai'an also received a pickaxe for mining spirit stones.

Within this mine, divine sense can be blocked from probing. Otherwise, one could use divine sense to detect which areas of the mine contain the spirit stones and then excavate accordingly, which would be much faster.

These spirit stones are covered by a layer of impurities. Only by completely destroying this layer of impurities can these treasures buried underground be discovered.

Chen Huai'an dug a few times with the pickaxe and found that this thing was quite physically demanding. Of course, you can also infuse your magic power into the pickaxe, and the digging speed will be much faster.

These pickaxes are all spiritual weapons. Even with their Qi Refining Realm Immortal Master strength, their mining speed is not much faster than that of those Body Refining Realm menial disciples.

Once your mana is depleted, it all comes down to physical strength. It's a physically demanding job, which is why many Qi Refining disciples who mine spirit stones aren't much more efficient than those Body Refining disciples.

Chen Huai'an, however, was different. His magical power was extremely abundant, and he could pour it into his pickaxe. Every time he dug, he could dig a large pit, and each pickaxe could lift up a low-grade spirit stone. Sometimes, if he was lucky, he could lift up several low-grade spirit stones.

Such a fast digging speed is no different from picking up spirit stones.

Chen Huai'an poured his magical power into the pickaxe as if it were free, and kept digging. As for the spirit stones exposed in the impurities, Chen Huai'an didn't need to go back and pick them up. He simply activated his vine technique and used the vines to roll up the spirit stones exposed in the slag and send them directly into his space.

As for the depletion of his internal mana, Chen Huai'an used high-grade spirit stones to restore his lost mana.

The only thing that bothered Chen Huai'an was that the Yin energy in the mine was quite strong. Otherwise, he could have directly absorbed the spiritual energy in the mine to restore his depleted mana by circulating the Chaos Five Elements True Technique, without having to deliberately refine and absorb high-grade spirit stones.

"roar!"

Just as Chen Huai'an was meditating to recover his magical power, a deep, rumbling roar suddenly rang out.

Then, Chen Huai'an heard a series of clanging and banging sounds, as well as the booming sound of metal clashing.

"Could there be Yin puppets and other outer disciples in this mine?" Chen Huai'an stood up and spread his divine sense in all directions. Although his divine sense could only detect the slightest movement within a radius of a hundred meters, he still wanted to see what was happening in this vicinity.

"It really is a Yin Puppet. This Yin Puppet's strength has actually reached the Qi Refining Realm." Chen Huai'an pressed against the rock wall of the mine and discovered that an outer disciple at the Qi Refining Realm was fighting a Yin Puppet in the mine.

The combat power unleashed by this Yin Puppet was equivalent to the early stage of the Qi Refining Realm. The opponent was thick-skinned and tough, and the mine was relatively small. Although the Qi Refining Realm disciple was a small level higher than the opponent, he was frequently injured in the battle.

"Senior brother, run! There are many Yin puppets in this mine!" To Chen Huai'an's surprise, this outer disciple did not try to drag him down with him when he found him, but instead told him to run.

"I know, junior brother, you're injured. Let me lend you a hand." Chen Huai'an's temperament was that he wouldn't offend others unless they offended him, but if they did, he would punish them no matter how far away they were.

After all, he and the other party were from the same sect. Having more friends in Qingyun Sect meant having more options. He didn't believe that everyone in Qingyun Sect was as despicable and shameless as Su Wanying and Huang Kunlin. There were still some good people in this world.

"Thank you, senior brother. My name is Zhou Qiang. I'll hold him back. Let's work together to take him down, and then we'll split the spoils." Zhou Qiang was overjoyed.

Chen Huai'an knew there were other Yin puppets in the mine, so he didn't underestimate them. He used his vine technique to wrap around the Yin puppet.

What Chen Huai'an needed to do was restrict the Yin Puppet's mobility. Zhou Qiang was a cultivator with a fire elemental root.

As long as he restricts the movements of the Yin Puppet, he can easily kill it when it uses fire magic.