Demonic Demoness Training Project

Then, the mining machines need to be installed at each mining site.

Between the mine and the central spiritual furnace, a guiding copper wire is buried, and a relay mechanism is buried every two miles to ensure the normal transmission of spiritual energy.

The most troublesome step was burying the spirit-guiding copper wire. The spirit-guiding copper had a limited capacity for single transmission. The sect lent them several storage bags, but these bags were not only small in size but also limited in number, only able to hold five relay mechanisms at a time.

If you send a disciple out to pull the copper wire and they find that the relay mechanism is used up halfway through, they have to go back to get it, which is extremely torturous.

Therefore, both the method of laying out the lines and the arrangement of manpower gave Lu Li a great headache.

The sect will assign a score based on each team's mining output, and the score will determine their monthly salary and contribution points.

Having just arrived, Lu Li had never practiced any related knowledge of the Puppet Technique before. In the end, he could only make do with what he had. In short, he would consider it a victory if he used up all the mining tools provided by the sect.

As for how to maximize mining efficiency, Lu Li was too lazy to think about it in detail.

He didn't want to stay here for a second longer; he just wanted to change shifts as soon as possible. Compared to rotting and fermenting around the mine, it was obviously more likely to go out and explore to find spiritual materials.

Although he was busy to the point of dizziness, his status as an inner disciple was still somewhat useful. He could decide who did what work, so Lu Li indulged his selfish desires a little.

He rarely stayed at the mining site, but instead led teams to hunt red-toothed rabbits, and in the process, he consciously searched for spiritual materials.

We haven't found the Ruins Uranium and Ghost Face Flower yet, but we have found quite a few miscellaneous mutated spiritual materials.

Lu Li has little use for these spiritual materials, as he is currently short of funds. He can hand them over to the sect afterward in exchange for spirit stones.

Although the environment in the Boundless Realm is harsh, the production of spiritual materials is indeed abundant. In addition, with his superior Grade C divine sense and the special perception of spiritual ore by the Qi-Harmony Cauldron, Lu Li obtained 120 spirit stones in just three days.

In addition, he discovered a small mining site along the way, which yielded an extra thirty spirit stones, bringing his total harvest over three days to an astonishing one hundred and fifty spirit stones.

This gain was quite substantial. Apart from him, the other outer disciples also made their own gains, earning anywhere from ten to twenty spirit stones.

However, if these outer disciples manage to get out alive, they can use these spirit stones to gather spiritual materials and make one or two first-stage puppets for themselves, and their status in the sect will rise accordingly.

However, their good fortune did not last long. Under the influence of the immeasurable calamity, the disciples' health deteriorated day by day. On the sixth day, Lu Li witnessed a tragedy.

At that moment, the disciple was inspecting the mining machine while touching his chin when he suddenly let out a scream.

By the time the surrounding disciples rushed over, they witnessed the man's chin slip out of his helmet with a thud and fall to the ground...

Seeing this, Lu Li showed no particular joy or sorrow, simply waving his hand and saying:

"Help her down to rest first, you can continue to take care of things here."

"Yes."

Unexpectedly, the woman stood up shakily, supporting her chin with one hand. Her words were unclear, and her voice was very muffled.

"No, Your Holiness, I came here of my own volition."

"But your jaw has fallen off."

"Once I get out of here and I have money, I can get a better one."

"What if you can't get out?"

"Then... I humbly request Your Excellency, the Holy Maiden, to use these spirit stones to help me pay off my cultivation loan from the sect. The rest can be given to my parents. My family lives in Baishou Village."

The Boundless Realm is full of opportunities, but it is also fraught with danger. The Boundless Tribulation is constantly eroding the bodies of the disciples. Only six days have passed. Even if they can walk out alive, they will probably be half-crippled.

This secret realm opens in the first half of each year. The number of Qingzhou people who advance to the inner sect in the first half of the year is far greater than in the second half. This is because in the Boundless Realm, even mortals can risk their lives for a chance to advance.

Lu Li took a deep breath. He looked at the disciples around him and then at the mining machine not far away. The protective puppets worn by these disciples were all first-level puppets, while the mining machine was a second-level or even third-level puppet.

The basic components that make up both of these are all crafted by the outer disciples themselves. The White Moon Palace only provides the spiritual materials and auxiliary artifacts needed for crafting. Therefore, the outer disciples receive a monthly salary, while the artifacts ultimately belong to the sect.

Suddenly, two voices rang out beside Lu Li's ears. The voices were ethereal and illusory, as if they came from a distance.

"Senior sister, what is the purpose of our years of hard study and cultivation?"

"Go to the ancestral hall in my hometown to offer some fruit."

"That winter, the Boundless Realm of Yu Zhe opened. The elders all said, 'For every point you rise, you will be killed.' It's just a pity that Senior Sister was the one who was killed."

That spring, my senior sister did not return.

The voice was so real that Lu Li was stunned at first, thinking he was having a fit of hysteria. However, he quickly realized that it was not a hallucination at all, but Old Duan reciting the words that were on the wall of the outhouse back then.

"You old geezer, what are you muttering in your gibberish?"

"Hehehe, I'm just reciting it casually. Don't be impatient, calm down first. I won't recite it if you ask me. These immortal clans, especially that Ying Wange, well, they really owe Tu Tu."

"Stop stirring things up. I would have done these things even if you hadn't told me. I want to kill her, and it has nothing to do with anyone else."

"Are you really only going to kill Ying Wange? That's really boring. I'd like to see you slaughter a whole river of blood."

"Shut up!"

"Jie Jie Jie."

Old Duan chuckled three times. Just then, a crow flew over and landed on Lu Li's shoulder, shouting:

"Quack, Gengyin area is in need of help. I am Yuan Yuheng, an inner disciple. Our third-stage drill bit has accidentally fallen into the mine pit. If any fellow disciples can help retrieve it from the uranium water, in addition to the 180 spirit stones reward given by the sect, I am willing to add another 120 spirit stones as a reward."

Lu Li felt a slight stirring in his heart. He took out a map and glanced at it. The Gengyin area was right next to the Xinmao area he was in charge of.

Upon hearing about the uranium water and three hundred spirit stones mentioned by the other party, Lu Li immediately had an idea. He gave a few instructions to his disciples and then set off for the Gengyin region to see what the situation was like.

……

An hour later, Lu Li arrived at his destination.

There lay a disciple on the ground, his body swollen and bloated. He had already breathed his last. When Lu Li arrived, others were removing the two layers of armor from his body one by one.

In front of them was a mine pit filled with sewage, where a middle-aged man dressed as a butler angrily said:

“If we don’t manage to retrieve this mine today, everyone in your Gengyin region will be held responsible.”

"No, Steward Wang, the message has already been sent out, and disciples should be coming to help soon."

"Hmph! You'd better hurry up, this is the third day already. I need to check the mine before sunset today."

The price of a third-stage mining machine is extremely high. Its core component is a mining drill made of titanium steel, which is worth as much as two thousand spirit stones. If it is lost, it will be a huge loss for the sect.

If it is lost by accident, the disciple will need to pay a total of one thousand spirit stones in compensation.

Lu Li leaned closer to take a look, and all the disciples around him looked despair and were sighing.

"Seven people went down, two of them were puppets, and in the end only one came back up, and he was dead. Sigh, who would dare to fish like this?"

"Sigh, what the worst luck we've ever had is to dig up an underground river, and a uranium-filled one at that. Why didn't that damn deacon go down and fish it out himself? He sent us to our deaths."

"Alright, let's all figure out how to make up the difference in compensation."

A reward of three hundred spirit stones is no small sum, but Lu Li knew that mortals, good deeds, and not queuing were destined to never meet. Especially after hearing other people's descriptions, he felt even more apprehensive.

Therefore, Lu Li wanted to find out the situation first. He found the person in charge of this place, who was an inner disciple named Yuan Yuheng. Lu Li stepped forward and bowed. The other party looked him up and down and recognized Lu Li's identity first.

"So it's Her Majesty the Holy Maiden. I've heard so much about you."

"Ahem, the title of Saintess Junior Sister is just an empty name. I have only just entered the inner sect. Senior Brother, you can just call me Junior Sister Lu."

Yuan Yuheng turned his head to look behind Lu Li and asked in confusion:

"Junior Sister Lu, you came all by yourself? No other disciples came to help?"

"I came to check on things. They didn't come over. I'm new here and don't know much about things. Is there some kind of legend about this mine? Why haven't they been able to pull it out yet?"

Yuan Yuheng waved his hand, looking quite helpless.

"Alas, there are three main dangers down here. First, there is the immeasurable calamity brought by the uranium water, which needs no further explanation. Second, there is the enormous water pressure after diving, which is unbearable for anyone who is not a physical cultivator. Third, the visibility underwater is extremely low, and even the perception of divine sense will be suppressed. Trying to retrieve the minerals from here is as difficult as climbing to heaven."

"So that's how it is. No wonder it was so difficult to salvage."

Hearing this, Lu Li said it aloud, but in reality, his heart was burning with excitement.

Not only does he resist the erosion of the immeasurable calamity, but he also has the Azure Nether Skin and Ice Skin as protection to withstand water pressure. The Qi-Gathering Cauldron allows him to move underwater for a long time and can also help him sense the location of minerals.

In other words, this job was practically tailor-made for him!

Therefore, Lu Li said in a deep voice:

"I might give it a try."

"You? No way, junior sister, calm down. It's extremely dangerous down there. And this isn't the first time we've encountered something like this. In previous years, some deacons went down to salvage but returned empty-handed. If this happens, I can only accept my bad luck."

"Is that steward also a body cultivator?"

“Although they are not body cultivators, as you know, the physical strength of those in the Open Source Realm far surpasses that of ordinary people, making them significantly stronger than us. Even the steward can only protect himself, let alone us.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Li pondered to himself. He had two second-tier magical artifacts protecting him, and he believed that his physical strength was no less than that of an ordinary cultivator in the Open Source Realm. Even if he couldn't find them, he could still protect himself without much trouble.

Seeing that Lu Li was so handsome, the people around him felt it would be a great pity if he were to be disfigured by the endless tribulations. So they all came up to dissuade him, but Lu Li waved them off.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. I happen to have some methods to deal with this situation. If anything goes wrong, I will come up immediately."

Chapter 102 The Two-Headed Gold-Eating Beast [3k]

Despite the well-intentioned advice of his disciples, Lu Li remained unfazed and spoke without batting an eye.

"My mind is made up. Please do not stop me. It is the responsibility of every disciple to serve the sect. I cannot stand by and watch the sect's assets go down the drain."

"What if you leave and never return?"

"Then I will go and never return."

Lu Li's expression was resolute, and all the disciples were shocked by his words and actions, marveling that he was indeed worthy of being the disciple personally selected by the sect leader.

Such pioneering spirit and fearlessness in the face of danger truly live up to her glorious title of Holy Maiden. No wonder the sect leader instructed them all to learn from her.

After saying that, Lu Li picked up the puppet on the ground and dived into the uranium water. In addition to wearing the puppet armor, he also had to put on a water-repellent golden robe.

People in the salvage business have a special nickname: water ghosts. The water-repelling golden silk garment is an essential tool for water ghosts. It is made of golden silkworm silk and can prevent water from seeping in.

In addition, the back of the puppet is equipped with a canister-shaped air passage mechanism called the air storage box, which stores a large amount of air to ensure that the water ghost can breathe normally underwater.

A black iron chain is fixed to the mechanical puppet, which is connected to the outside of the mine. The chain contains spirit-guiding copper, which allows the water ghost to send messages to the outside of the mine. If the situation is not right, the water ghost can be pulled up through the black iron chain.

Even after achieving this, many disciples still lost their lives as a result.

The inner disciples and stewards dared not risk their lives, and the outer disciples combined did not even have enough money for a two-thousand-spirit-stone ore. At first, they were all greedy for money and didn't care about their lives, but after several people died, they all became obedient.

At present, Lu Li happened to have a mechanical device on hand that was specifically designed for the current situation, which is why he dared to go into the water to try it.

After getting dressed, Lu Li jumped into the mine.

Under the quadruple protection of the mechanical puppet, the water-repelling golden robe, the Azure Netherworld Painted Skin, and the Ice Skin, Lu Li felt nothing unusual after entering the water, except for a feeling of weightlessness caused by uranium water.

Feeling the water around him, Lu Li was greatly disappointed.

He originally thought the uranium water was liquid uranium from the Void, but in reality, this so-called uranium water was just water filled with countless eons. He activated the Qi-unifying cauldron and exhaled a wisp of Qi, but he did not sense any uranium from the Void in the water.

Lu Li pondered that the uranium water Liu Si had soaked in back then must have been the latter, otherwise his Guixu Dao Body would have been too worthless.

After all, he could also do something like simply soaking in water filled with immeasurable eons without being affected!

As he descended, reaching a depth of about 100 feet underwater, Lu Li felt a slight pressure and activated his Azure Netherworld Skin to enter a steel-like state.

At this point, it's pitch black, and a cultivator's eyes are of little use; all they can rely on is their divine sense.

Even divine sense was suppressed in this special environment. Lu Li's usual perception range was about thirty feet in radius, but now it had shrunk to half of that.

After a hundred breaths, Lu Li descended another five hundred feet before finally reaching the bottom of the underground river. With the help of the Qi-Melting Cauldron, Lu Li could sense that the area was full of precious spiritual minerals, but none of them were the Ruins Uranium he was looking for.

Looking up at the mine shaft above, after descending to this depth, the original ten-zhang-wide mine shaft is now just a tiny, barely perceptible white dot.

The mine drill bit probably sank down along this mine shaft, so it shouldn't have strayed too far. Therefore, Lu Li began to scan the surrounding area.

Wow!

The sound of surging currents rose in the water. Lu Li closed his eyes, listened with his ears, and sensed with his divine sense, focusing all his attention on his divine sense.

Suddenly, he sensed a huge spirit ore rushing towards him. As it got closer, the shape of the spirit ore became clearer, revealing itself to be a mineral drill!

However, it seems to be more than just mining...

Wow!

The sound of flowing water grew closer and closer. Lu Li realized something was wrong. He turned around abruptly and threw a powerful punch at the enormous object crashing towards him.

boom!

After the loud bang, the two sides separated immediately. Unable to gain leverage in the water, Lu Li was thrown backward for hundreds of feet, finally stopping his momentum by stepping on the quicksand at the bottom of the river.

In the instant of the collision, Lu Li used his divine sense to see the appearance of the newcomer.

It was a huge two-headed lizard, its body covered in dark gold scales, its limbs withered and curled up like fins, and its blood-red vertical pupils flashing with a fierce light, making those who saw it shudder.