Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Yang is not a professional ore prospecting monk, not even an amateur.

What's more, the method of exploring the reserves of Lingshi mines is completely different from the method of exploring reserves of other mineral veins. Even the most professional ore exploration monks of the Zhou family have no experience in exploring Lingshi mines.

But it doesn't matter, he has the simplest and most effective way to explore the reserves of spirit stones.

This method is to determine the approximate reserves of the Lingshi Mine based on the degree of suppression of the spiritual consciousness in the Lingshi Mine and the richness of the inner aura.

The method is simple, but it is not easy to do.

Because in order to measure the degree of suppression of the spiritual consciousness in the Lingshi Mine, Zhou Yang had to go all the way deep into the core of the Lingshi Mine, and then open a channel vertically on all sides for comparison, so as to make an accurate judgment.

But no matter how difficult it is to do, it must be done.

So after pondering for a while, he told his apprentice Lu Xuewei beside him, "Wait here for me and don't go away. I'll go in and explore the Lingshi mine reserves and I'll be back!"

After speaking, he immediately released the flying sword and started digging towards the Lingshi Mine.

The soil and sand in the Lingshi Mine has been tempered by the spirit energy for many years, even if it has not been transformed into spirit gold ore, its hardness is comparable to refined iron.

Moreover, due to the mixed and unbalanced spiritual energy in the Lingshi mine, the earth escape technique cannot take effect in it at all, and not only the earth escape technique, but many off-body attack and defense spells are also prone to failure or greatly reduced power.

So if you want to open a passage in the Lingshi Mine, you can only dig with magic tools like flying swords.

If Zhou Yang's cultivation had not reached the late stage of the Purple Mansion, and the flying sword in his hand was a fourth-order middle-grade magic weapon, and he had a storage ring that could hold the excavated soil and sand, he wanted to quickly dig out a passage in it that could accommodate one person. The channel is really not an easy task.

And as he began to dig, pieces of crystal clear spirit stones were also picked out by him and put into his bag.

Whenever the excavated soil and sand cannot fit in the storage ring, Zhou Yang will retreat a certain distance, smelt the soil and sand into blocks with real fire and fill them in the passage behind him.

The rich aura in the Lingshi Mine allowed him to quickly replenish the mana he had consumed, and he didn't have to stop often to recover his mana.

After going on like this for three or four days, Zhou Yang finally measured the reserves of this spirit stone mine.

This is a medium-sized spirit stone mine!

A medium-sized spirit stone mine means that at least tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones can be mined!

Moreover, in the medium-sized spirit stone mine, there must be a large number of high-grade spirit stones, not hundreds, but tens of them.

As far as Zhou Yang knew, Huang Shamen had established a faction for so many years, but only discovered a middle-grade spirit stone mine, and it had already been hollowed out.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the current Zhou family already had the power to not be afraid of Huang Shamen, even if Zhou Yang discovered such a medium-sized Lingshi mine, he might not dare to mine it openly.

Because the interests involved here are too great!

"If Zhang Yunpeng knew that there were medium-sized spirit stone mines in the sand sea on Xijiao Island, he would have tried his best to get a piece of the pie here!"

Zhou Yang's eyes were full of splendor, and he felt indescribably at ease.

The development of the new world of cultivating immortals was planned by him alone, even though he only wanted to break the situation by developing the new world of cultivating immortals and break the dominance of Huang Shamen over the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea.

But now it seems that although it takes time, effort and money to develop a new world of cultivating immortals, the gains that can be obtained are also huge.

You must know that the area of ​​the boundless sand sea and the world of cultivating immortals ruled by Huang Shamen has been visited by many monks for thousands of years, and various resources that are easy to find have long been discovered and mined.

Only some resources buried deep in the ground are discovered by immortal practitioners from time to time.

But the new world of cultivating immortals on Xijiao Island is different. Few cultivators set foot on the sand sea here before, and even if some people set foot on it, most of them just come to hunt monsters and look for oases. Nobody did it.

The reason is also very simple. This place is too far away from the oasis where people live together. Even if a mineral vein is discovered, as long as it is not a valuable mineral vein such as the Lingshi mine, it is impossible for migrants to come to mine. Naturally, there is no need for prospecting.

But now it is different. Now the Zhou family has decided to use Xijiao Island as the family's base camp, and is willing to protect the Xiuxian family who respond to the call to go to the new Xiuxian world to open up a family.

On this land, a large number of human beings will soon appear, and those resources that have been buried underground for countless years will also be discovered and mined.

"This time, it reminded me."

"A piece of land that has not been developed by anyone, even in a boundless sandy sea with poor resources, will definitely contain some rare and rare resources."

"Since my Zhou family wants to be the overlord of this new world of cultivating immortals, of course we must seize the opportunity to discover and occupy these rare resource points first!"

"Well, when we go back, we will directly issue a mission to encourage the family monks to leave the oasis and explore the vast sea of ​​sand."

With a lot of thoughts in his mind, Zhou Yang, who had finished exploring the reserves of the Lingshi mine, did not stay in the mine for too long, and even returned to his apprentice Lu Xuewei.

After Lu Xuewei was told by Zhou Yang to wait in place, she had been meditating for the past few days to heal her injuries. When he came back, most of her injuries had healed.

"I was able to discover this spirit stone mine this time. Thanks to Xuewei, you reported the letter. As a teacher, rewards and punishments are always clear. Xuewei, tell me, what reward do you want?"

Zhou Yang, who was in a good mood, did not forget the real hero who discovered the Lingshi Mine. When he came back, he looked at Lu Xuewei and talked about the reward.

When Lu Xuewei heard what he said, she was immediately overjoyed. She could choose the reward by herself, which was enough to show how good Zhou Yang was now.

Thoughts swirled in her mind, and she thought of many kinds of rewards she wanted in an instant.

But in the end she knelt down in front of Zhou Yang, looked at Zhou Yang with a begging look on her face and said, "Master Mingjian, my apprentice has been looking for oases for the Lu family these years, although I have also found one or two with a second-level oasis." There are small oases in Lingmai, but those oases are too remote, and they are not suitable for a small family like the Lu family to gain a foothold."

"If you want to reward Tuer with something, you can reward a small oasis not far from Xijiao Island for the Lu family to use for migration. In this way, Tuer can be regarded as an explanation to the fifth brother and the Lu family!"

She did not forget her purpose of working hard in the sea of ​​sand, she would rather give up some treasure rewards that could bring great help to her practice, and fulfill her promise to her brother.

Zhou Yang frowned when he heard her request, as if he didn't expect her to make such a request.

However, he always keeps his word, he just hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Well, since you have already made a decision, I will not persuade you anymore as a teacher, and with your achievements this time, a mere one The reward for Little Oasis is still too light."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, then continued after a moment of pondering: "Well, after returning, I will arrange a small oasis for the Lu family near Xijiao Island as a teacher, and help them raise the spiritual veins on the oasis to the third level. .”

A small oasis with a third-order spiritual vein is enough to serve as the foundation of a foundation-building family.

Although this reward was insignificant compared to a medium-sized Lingshi mine, Lu Xuewei was already satisfied when she heard Zhou Yang's words.

Overjoyed, she couldn't help but kowtow heavily to Zhou Yang and said, "Thank you, Master, for your kindness, I will never forget your great kindness."

"Get up, as long as you practice hard, opening up the Purple Mansion as soon as possible is the greatest reward for being a teacher."

Zhou Yang nodded slightly, stretched out his hand to lift Lu Xuewei up from the ground with a hint of affection on his face, looked at her pointingly and encouraged and said: "As long as you succeed in opening up the Zifu, even if you want to support the Lu family to become a foundation-building family, It’s just a casual thing!”

"Yes, this disciple must work hard to cultivate, and will never let down your great love, Master!"

Lu Xuewei nodded vigorously, and responded in a low voice with a firm face.

Zhou Yang really had nothing to say about her as an apprentice, even if it was a member of the Zhou family, no one could be valued so highly by Zhou Yang.

In her heart, she has always been very grateful to Zhou Yang for her cultivation, and more than once secretly vowed to practice hard and live up to Zhou Yang's attention.

Next, Zhou Yang and Lu Xuewei returned to the ground by the same route, and then Zhou Yang cast a spell to block the hole made by the "Earth Dragon Earthworm".

The spiritual energy in the Lingshi Mine has already started to leak out along the cave. If the cave is not blocked, monsters or monks will be attracted by the leaked spiritual energy, and it will be another trouble at that time.

Moreover, when digging in the Lingshi Mine, Zhou Yang had already detected the depth of the Lingshi Mine, which is really not low.

If you dig down from the ground, you have to dig at least a hundred feet deep to dig out the spirit stone.

Generally, the burial depth of ore veins is within ten to thirty feet underground, and some ore veins can be mined only by digging three or four feet down.

If it weren't for such a precious ore vein like Lingshi mine, few families would be willing to invest manpower to mine it in this vast sea of ​​sand.

But in order to excavate the Lingshi mine, not to mention more than a hundred feet, it is worth five hundred feet or a thousand feet!

At this time, a few days had passed since Zhou Yang and the others went down to the cave, and the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle who obeyed his order to hunt down those fleeing monsters had already returned, and brought back a section of "Earth Dragon Earthworm" about three feet long. Remnants, and the corpse of a giant snake exuding the breath of a third-tier high-grade monster.

After communicating with the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle, Zhou Yang found out that it turned out that the remains of the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" were snatched from the mouth of a fourth-order middle-grade monster beast "Gail Jackal", and that the corpse of the giant snake was the one that it followed along Prey caught by another trail.

"Very good, since you snatched this thing from the mouth of a wolf, then I will reward you with this large piece of fifth-order demon wolf meat."

Zhou Yang patted the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle's head in satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, he took out a large piece of "Heart Devouring Demon Wolf" meat that was half a foot long as a reward and gave it to this beloved pet as food.