Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 110: Reaching The Spirit Mine

The reason why she took more time to reach Mid Stage of Core Formation was because she was behind him in the cultivation realm; she always used to practice her sword way, which created a gap between them.

Although they weren’t competing in terms of who would cultivate faster, she would definitely try to catch up with him without a doubt. Well, she would be able to now that he would practice his sword’s way.

Today he was going with Senior Huan to check the territory they had visited previously. By now, the situation should have calmed enough for them to make a safe trip.

"Let’s go."

He nodded and they disappeared.

They appeared on the edge of a cliff from where the whole valley was visible. Huan Caiyi heaved a sigh of relief as some beasts were still visible. It seemed like the territory lord wasn’t without logic and hadn’t massacred its own underlings in a fit of rage.

Now that there still existed beasts in this territory, the task of finding the spirit mine would be easier.

"Let’s try to catch one, even a weaker one will do."

They entered the valley again, and after moving for a while, they finally found a desired target: it was a rodent.

If you wanted to extract spirit stones from the mine, then these beasts were the perfect choice, so there might be a chance that this beast had gone to the spirit mine at least once.

It was at the peak of Grade 5. Huan Caiyi moved immediately; she didn’t even let it react before grabbing it by its nape. Although it was smaller in size compared to other peak Grade 5 beasts, it was still quite bigger than Huan Caiyi.

But the moment her hand caught it, it knew that it would be killed in seconds, so it didn’t retaliate in any way.

Jiang Hao came close, put his hand on the rodent, and they disappeared.

He tried to teleport at least 800 miles, but since this rodent was more than fifteen times the weight of a normal human being, he was sure it would consume a lot of spirit qi. As expected, they only teleported for about fifty miles, but it was enough as they came to the mountain with the cliff.

Since Senior Sister Meiying wasn’t here, they were going to take this rodent to the mountain they were staying at.

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On the mountain, Meiying was looking at the rodent, which was obediently staying beneath her feet.

Meiying was bigger than this rodent. She was an Early Stage Grade 6 beast after all, and even with her good bloodline, which made her shorter than ordinary Early Stage Grade 6 beasts, she was quite big compared to a Grade 5 beast.

"Skreee..."

"Twickkkk..."

Jiang Hao didn’t understand what they were talking about, but since Huan had instructed Meiying to ask about a cave from where they gathered spirit stones, the conversation between them would definitely be regarding this.

Many spirit beasts know what spirit stones are. Since this beast was already Grade 5 and also a rodent, it would definitely have good knowledge about it.

"Skree...?"

"Twickkk...twickkk."

The rodent seemed like it was nodding.

After that, Meiying told everything to Huan Caiyi.

Also, while Huan Caiyi understood what Meiying was asking the rodent, she didn’t seem to fully understand its answers were only after listening to Meiying, Huan Caiyi’s eyes lit up.

"Very well."

Huan Caiyi turned to them.

"It’s actually not inside the territory, but outside of it. In fact, this spirit mine doesn’t purely belong to them but is shared with another territory.

It is one hundred miles away from their territory on the east side, but we should take this rodent with us to figure it out.

Usually only rodent beasts are used for mining the spirit stones from both territories. This fellow had also mined there, and since spirit stones aren’t really much important to spirit beasts, there aren’t any guards or anything for the spirit mine, nor any restriction on who can mine how much.

But recently, their territory has been sending more beasts to mine. Well, it was a given since we looted their stockpiled spirit stones.

Since this rodent already knows where we live, we have to silence it. But I will give it the chance of signing a blood contract till we live here, and after that we will release it. In fact, it will be better to use it to mine the spirit stones.

This way, no one will doubt anything and we can get spirit stones easily for the time being."

Zhi Hui nodded. This sounded perfect.

After Huan Caiyi offered it the blood contract, it accepted immediately because it knew it would be killed otherwise, but it also had hopes since she had promised to release it once they left.

Although it didn’t trust humans, since they had asked for its opinion about the blood contract without forcing it, it had a little hope.

After Huan Caiyi made the pact with it, they left again for the spirit mine.

Jiang Hao and Huan Caiyi sat on its back, and it burrowed itself inside the ground. But since it had a protective shield of qi around itself which also covered them, they didn’t need to worry about dirt falling on them.

Since it was moving underground, they didn’t have to worry about other spirit beasts obstructing them. The beasts that lived underground might attack them, but the truly dangerous ones lived far deeper underground.

Jiang Hao didn’t know in which direction they were moving, as he didn’t have spirit sense. He could only see the tunnel of mud being created by the beast.

Although they were moving underground, its speed was still quite fast. After some time, they appeared out of the tunnel. They weren’t on any mountain, but on the side of a river between two mountains. Just in front of them, on the other side of the river, there was a cave going underground.

If he was correct, then this might be the entrance of the spirit mine. As expected, there were no beasts guarding it. But there was a big pile of spirit stones placed on a sheet made up of tree leaves. A hawk swooped down, dropping another sheet and picking up the sheet with spirit stones by collecting all four edges and flying away.

Jiang Hao was surprised at their efficiency. Just as the hawk left, rodents came out of the cave, filling the sheet again with spirit stones they carried in their mouths.

Huan Caiyi didn’t interfere in the mining of other beasts, or it would definitely trigger the territory lord.

Spirit mines are very big. It takes years to mine them, not to mention they keep replenishing the spirit stones. These beasts had previously only mined about seven million, which was very little. If what the rodent had described was correct, then this mine was quite big, so they could easily obtain far more spirit stones than they could imagine.

Huan Caiyi looked for a good spot on their side of the mountain and asked the rodent to create a cave.

It didn’t take long for it to do so.

"Listen, you will mine normally and fill this cave with spirit stones."

The rodent nodded.

"Good, then go and mine from now on. We will come and pick up the spirit stones from time to time."

It again nodded and went underground.

"I am thinking of capturing more of these rodent beasts. This way, we will have more spirit stones mined every day. Sounds good, right?"

Jiang Hao nodded. He knew she had already made up her mind, and since the question was about earning more spirit stones per day, she was definitely going to do it.

"Fine, let’s capture some of these rodents from the other territory."

They didn’t have to go anywhere. They just waited and kept watch on the spirit mine. With her spirit sense, it was easy to see if rodents from the other territory came here or not. freewёbnoνel.com

After some time, she finally found her first target. Once it left after mining, she followed it alone and caught it after it was far enough from the mine. It was a Late Stage Grade 5.

It was given the same choice: die or enter a blood contract with her for a certain amount of time.

After knowing that there was no other way, it accepted the blood contract.

It also dropped the spirit stone it had in its mouth. They all seemed coated in spirit qi, so they weren’t dirty with its saliva. Huan Caiyi didn’t tell it to go and mine immediately, as she waited for the first one to come.

Their first beast didn’t take long to come. It was surprised to see a new companion but was also happy that it wasn’t alone.

Huan Caiyi continued this process for two more days and caught three more rodents, making them mine the same way.

Only after this was she satisfied. Spirit stones mined directly were in raw form and not evenly shaped, but it didn’t matter to them, as they only needed the spirit qi from them. It wasn’t like they were planning to use them to buy anything. If needed, they could always exchange them at Heavenly Fortune Pavilion.

A single rodent could bring about two thousand worth of raw spirit stones, and they usually completed five rounds per day. So basically, they were earning fifty thousand spirit stones per day.

The cave was made even bigger to store them easily. After everything was done and once Jiang Hao marked this cave, they left.