Chronicles of Ascension: The Path to Immortality

"What on earth is this stone skin that can preserve the ancient spiritual ore until now?" Zhang Xuan asked in confusion.

"I don't know. Some elders of our Qian family think that these stone skins may be formed by the gastric juice of the divine turtle wrapped in the surface of the ancient spiritual ore."

"You can just mine these large pieces of ancient spiritual ore directly, why do you need me to cooperate?"

"Small pieces of stone skin are easy to say, but large pieces of stone skin may contain ancient spiritual ore veins, may be empty, or may contain ancient insect puppets."

"What are ancient insect puppets?" Zhang Xuan asked in confusion.

"Ancient insect puppets have been sleeping in the stone skin. Once the stone skin is cut open, these ancient insect puppets will wake up and devour all living things around them."

"This... Ancient insect puppets can survive the ancient calamity and live until now?" Zhang Xuan was shocked again.

Under the ancient calamity, even the human emperor could not deal with it.

This ancient insect puppet is still alive, which is incredible.

"These ancient insect puppets only have the instinct of devouring, and no intelligence. They can only be considered half-alive and half-dead."

"It's okay if the ancient spiritual ore is dug out from the skin stone, but if it is an ancient insect puppet, it is indeed dangerous enough."

"Yes, the half-step fourth-level formation master that our Qian family spent a lot of resources to cultivate died in the mouth of the ancient insect puppet. Without a high-level formation master, now our Qian family's 700 mines can be said to be one less."

"The mines have been drilled through. There are so many ancient spiritual mines underground. It's not so easy to mine them all, right?"

"The mines are not abandoned because the ancient spiritual mines are mined out."

"Then why?"

"These insect puppets usually live in groups and have immortal bodies. They are difficult to kill. Once the insect puppets are dug out, the only choice is to fill the mines."

"Hmm..." Zhang Xuan suddenly realized.

"We, the Qian family, originally had more than a thousand mines, but because of the repeated discovery of insect puppets in the leather stone, more than 300 mines have been abandoned."

"You asked me to come here so that I could go down the mine, detect the things wrapped in the leather stone, and open the leather stone."

"Yes."

"No." Zhang Xuan refused directly.

"Why? You haven't heard the conditions offered by my Qian family yet."

"I won't go down no matter what the conditions are. It's too dangerous down there. What if these ancient insect puppets are hidden in the ancient spiritual mines? I can't predict accurately."

Zhang Xuan said it well.

The phantom of the nine-clawed Chi beast in his Bingshu treasure map can only determine whether there are ancient spiritual mines and what kind of ancient spiritual mines there are.

It can't determine whether there are ancient insect puppets in the leather stone besides the ancient spiritual mines.

And if there are broken leather stones or ancient insect puppets that drilled from other mines, wouldn't your life be buried in the mines millions of feet deep?

"We in the Qian family will protect your safety."

"Didn't that half-step fourth-level formation master die down there?"

Xue Ji had no way to refute after hearing this.

The Qian family formation master, who had more than ten golden elixirs to protect him, still died in the mouth of the ancient insect puppet after opening it.

"You can first listen to the conditions offered by our Qian family. For every piece of leather stone opened, you will get 10 third-level pills."

"No."

"Plus 100 kilograms of Tuya ancient spiritual ore."

"Your Qian family still has Tuya ancient spiritual ore?" Zhang Xuan was shocked.

He got 50 kilograms of Tuya ancient spiritual ore from the Qian family.

He thought that the Qian family's treasury was no longer stocked.

"Our Qian family opened a large piece of leather stone, which was full of this kind of Tuya ancient spiritual ore."

"This..." Zhang Xuan was a little hesitant.

This Tuya ancient spiritual ore can be tempered into Tuya spiritual objects in the Eye of Time, which plays a great role in his practice of Nirvana Baoxiang Gong.

"In addition, it is possible to dig out complete skeletons of wild beast blood in the mine."

"Does your Qian family have complete skeletons of wild beast blood?" Zhang Xuan asked excitedly.

A complete skeleton of wild beast blood is enough to upgrade his Dao map to a higher level.

So when Zhang Xuan heard about the skeleton of wild beast blood, he was so excited.

"Our Qian family does not have skeletons of wild beast blood."

"Then how do you know that there are complete skeletons of wild beast blood under the mine?"

"My Qian family once dug out a skeleton of wild beast blood..."

"Where is it now?"

"It was about to be transported up, but unfortunately the next piece of skin stone dug out the ancient insect puppet, so the mine had to be filled up. Those members of our Qian family and the skeleton of the wild beast blood were buried in the mine."

"Alas..."

Zhang Xuan sighed, looking extremely sad and regretful.

"I can assure you, in addition to the conditions I just mentioned, if you find a skeleton of a wild beast in the skin stone, all of them will belong to you."

"For every piece of skin stone you find, 200 jin of earth tooth spirit ore and 20 third-level spirit pills. If it is a skeleton of a wild beast, all of them will belong to me."

"No problem, this is a deposit for you."

Said Xue Ji, giving Zhang Xuan a storage bag.

Zhang Xuan detected with his spiritual sense and was surprised to find that there were 20 third-level spirit pills and 200 jin of earth tooth ore in the storage bag.

This Qian family is very generous!

"When will we set off?" Xue Ji asked Zhang Xuan, who was still in shock.

"Tomorrow, I still have to explain to my people." Zhang Xuan put away the storage bag and said.

"Okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow." Xue Ji said happily.

"There's one more thing I don't understand..."

"What's the matter, fellow Daoist?"

"You are Qian Yihao's sister, and you have a high status in the Qian family. Why did the Qian family arrange you to come here to perform the beauty trap in the gambling stone shop? You even took off your clothes at that time..."

"I like to challenge the person that Fairy Yuxiang likes, is that not okay?"

"Okay..." Zhang Xuan said thoughtfully, "Girls should still respect themselves."

"It's none of your business..."

After saying that, Xue Ji left with her snow-white chest standing tall.

After Xue Ji left, Zhang Xuan immediately found Ziyuan Zhenren and Lao Youtou.

Informed them about the cooperation with the Qian family.

"Is it still a bit too risky?" Ziyuan Zhenren said hesitantly.

"My generation of cultivators is against the will of heaven. If we open a piece of skin stone, we can earn 20 third-level elixirs and 200 kilograms of earth tooth ore. This risk is worth taking."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Lao Youtou said.

Zhang Xuan glanced at Lao Youtou.

"It's very complicated down there, and we don't know what we'll encounter. I'll go alone this time."

The two wanted to say something else.

Zhang Xuan said directly: "I've made up my mind. Here are 20 third-level elixirs. If I can't get out of the mine, you can give these 20 third-level elixirs to Fairy Yuxiang."

"Are you leaving a will? Don't you leave anything for your other two concubines?" The old oily man scratched his head and asked.

"What unlucky words are you talking about? I owe Fairy Yuxiang a piece of top-grade spiritual stone. If I can't get out, these third-level elixirs will be part of her compensation."

"Oh..."

After Zhang Xuan explained to the two, he returned to his courtyard.