Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
In just a few years, be it mind stones or beast crystals, they would devalue to an unbelievable level.
“Speaking of which, I should quickly exchange out the beast crystals in my hand. However, that mind stone mine?…” A bright glow shone in Zong Shou’s eyes, before quickly disappearing.
Since it was a newly discovered mind stone mine, was the mine core already taken by someone?
Speaking of which, it was time for Little Gold to swallow beast crystals once more. But if they were changed to mine stones, it would be even better…
Anyways, for the next couple of days he had to wait for a few people near here and Lian Fan had to complete the matter he asked him to, why not go over and take a look?
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When night fell, Zong Shou once again put on the Lightning Travelling Spirit Bone.
When he walked out of the carriage he subconsciously looked at the other carriage not far away, hesitating.
Li Yunniang who was guarding outside immediately revealed a wary expression, like a cat on full alert, “What do you want to do? Little Miss is cultivating!”
Zong Shou’s mind couldn’t help but think about Xuanyuan Yiren’s naked body, as well as the fiery glow she emitted, his heart shaking.
He even had a thought to rush in and do something. This Li Yunniang wouldn’t be able to block him…
He shook his head strongly. He was feeling astonished deep down; did she refine that Chill Spirit Mysterious Sense Pill so quickly? Her cultivation would most probably be able to solve the problems from before.
Not thinking much about it, Zong Shou directly jumped off, his body flashing as he flew away. Chuxue couldn’t even call out to him, only immediately follow.
Li Yunniang found it weird, and wanted to drive the carriage after them. When she saw the two of them enter the forest, disappearing into the hills, she unwillingly gave up on such a thought.
Her eyes spun as she entered deep thought.
Zong Shou’s Lightning Travelling Spirit Bone made a mechanical clacking sound as he walked, but when he fully activated it and ran, it was lightning quick and really swift. Under Zong Shou’s control, he could run a hundred feet in a breath and wouldn’t knock into trees.
However, it also used up a lot of soul power. Zong Shou’s soul ocean whirlpool could swallow spiritual energy from Heaven and Earth, as well as soul power from around him so he could replenish his at any moment. As a result, he didn’t fear anything and pushed it to full speed. Chuxue could actually keep up, like a white shadow, sticking close to him.
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However, when the two of them ran tens of miles and arrived at a mountain peak, the gap between them was evident.
Chuxue was panting profusely, all her stamina nearly used up while Zong Shou’s face was normal, only his eyes revealed a little exhaustion.
From start to finish he didn’t even move a finger, relying on the External Bone to move. As such he only consumed soul power.
This peak was seven thousand feet high, and couldn’t be considered high. At this place he could still look out and scan all the surrounding hills.
Casually taking out a spirit stone, Zong Shou made a hand sign. A circular blue talisman appeared in his eyes as everything in his field of sight increased in size.
“All the mind stone mines are located near the mountain ranges where earth energy is thick and spiritual energy veins are located. This place is a plains and the highest possibility would be this hilly region. Who knows which direction that mine is in?”
Sweeping his eyes around, he suddenly focused on the south. There seemed to be a battlefield there. Looking out, it was littered with broken armor and corpses. Who knew how many people had died in that battle, actually attracting numerous scavengers, occasionally hearing the roar of wolves. In the skies many giant vultures were circling.
Narrowing his eyes, Zong Shou searched around that area. Not long after, his eyes setled on a four thousand foot high peak.
Slightly smiling, Zong Shou charged down. Knowing that Chuxue was out of energy to follow, he picked her up and rushed across, relying on the Lightning Travelling Spirit Bone.
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The short seventy miles of road was covered in just forty-five minutes. When they arrived near that hill, Zong Shou stopped, looking into the distance.
There were actually two giant barracks in the area, clearly split up in a standstill. Each barrack had hundreds of thousands of people. At just a glance one would know that they were all elite troops. Even the lowest strength soldier was a Grade Two Martial Warrior, no weaker than his Gantian Mountain.
Injecting his soul power and looking into the distance, he could see dozens of bright energy glows charging into the sky, mixing up with the vital energy of hundreds of thousands as it filled the vicinity.
Zong Shou couldn’t help but frown. In his last life he had seen armies battle, but that was already when he was at the Ascended Realm, and he himself was a martial cultivator, so he didn’t feel anything.
Looking out now, he couldn’t help but feel astonished. There weren’t many experts here, around a dozen Xiantian Masters. But there were many experts who were good at the martial path here, they could cause Xuanwu Ancestors to think twice.
The vital energy strength from hundreds of thousands of people countered spirit masters. If one wasn’t at the Back to Sun Realm, once any spirit techniques got close, it would be dissipated by the vital energy.
Looking at this for a short while, Zong Shou laughed bitterly. This huge army was a big problem. The reason why he didn’t choose the easier disguise method to avoid assassination after he woke up that day and instead chose to travel in the grand and eye-catching carriage was because of this.
The Cloud Stepping Foals were really quick and the carriage could travel in the air. Even if others knew their tracks, it was difficult for them to mount an attack. Without the same level of mounts, anyone below Xiantian could forget about following him. Moreover, even big powers like Gantian Mountain didn’t have many Cloud Stepping Foals.
However, if one was found in disguise, thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers would work together to surround and kill him. Even with ability, one would still die.
This was the most dangerous region and also the last leg on his return to Gantian Mountain.
That Yunxia Mountain and Blazing Flame Mountain’s power were only in the west. They were hundreds of miles away from Sudian Mountain range, and even if they wanted him to die, they had to send many elites.
Once he arrived in their territory, with their abilities, it wasn’t an impossibility for them to send millions to attack him.
To return safely, he needed to find more Windrider Foals to use.
Totally giving up on the thought of using disguises and sneaking in, he still didn’t give up. A mind stone mine stretched for tens of miles, and this might not be the only entrance.
Retreating a few miles, Zong Shou started to arrange a formation. There was an army camp nearby with many Xiantians, so he didn’t dare to make too much noise. He only placed a few dozen marks and twelve Grade Three beast crystals around.
Chuxue had already recovered some stamina as she stood quietly beside him. Although she was quiet, she didn’t say anything, watching Zong Shou chant some phrases and incantations. Suddenly his legs shook and the ground suddenly split into dozens of cracks. With Zong Shou’s spiritual formation centered on his legs, the foundation spread out. A few of them were thicker and stretched south, the opposite direction from the two army camps.
The twelve earth element beast crystals burst apart, and Zong Shou stopped his incantation and hand signs. His expression was solemn as he looked at the cracks.
A few hundred years from now, the connections between the Cloud Continents and other worlds would start to open up.
Some of the specialties of the Cloud World would start to spread to other worlds and the secret techniques of other places, spiritual spells, and other special items would also be grasped by people of the Cloud World.
Currently the one Zong Shou was using was a spell belonging to another world, an earth element Spirit Searching Technique. It didn’t have much other purpose than to differentiate mind stone mine veins.
The mind stone mines found in the Cloud World during these last few hundred years would mostly wither and dry up in just three thousand years.
The reason why there were occasionally mind stones appearing during this time was due to trading with other worlds and by relying on this technique to find some small-sized mines.
“…it is actually a Grade Two mine vein!”
Zong Shou was deep in thought, looking at where the two camps. He was thinking to himself that these few hundred thousand people couldn’t even accurately see where the veins were at, just starting to kill based on one branch vein.
After he smiled, Zong Shou focused as he continued to look at the cracks.
The mind stones here were really scattered, so he didn’t want to waste efforts finding them, only searching for where the core might be.
The outcome was a happy one. Every mine core existed where a whole line of mine vein Essence was gathered. The area around it was often filled with mind stones and huge amounts of spiritual energy.
Through these cracks he could pretty much see everything. He could easily determine where the abundance of spiritual energy was. There was only one place where the core could be located at.
However below that was a crack, and what was behind it couldn’t be seen.
“Seven hundred feet down there is actually an underground river…” Zong Shou couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on. Luckily he had confirmed the location, it was just that he had to spend more effort.
He was quiet as he crossed the forest, only when he reached twenty miles did he stop.
Chuxue was totally lost. All night she was running all around with Zong Shou, who knew what he wanted to do?
Zong Shou raised up his sleeves, and just as he was about to pull out his Lightning Tooth Sword to start digging, he suddenly remembered that he was an Out of Body spirit master. Why would he need to personally bother himself?
His thoughts changed slightly as he found three human-sized relatively good quality granite stones. He used spirit ink to draw talismans while burying five Grade Three earth element beast crystals and two beast spirit stones.
He started chanting and formed a hand seal. These three granite pieces broke apart and revealed heads and hands. In just a short moment, three tall stone puppets stood up from the ground. They were about twenty feet tall, built burly and muscular.
