Chapter 479: Owner Kang
Before they arrived, Qingfeng Hall had sent three foundation-building monks to inquire about the news. After confirming that the matter was true, the inner courtyard issued the task.
The owner of Kang Manor led a group of people through the house and came to a reception hall. After entering, they saw three Qingfeng Hall foundation-building monks. The one sitting in the middle on the high seat was Qingyuan Sanren, the head of the Qingfeng Hall Spiritual Mine Institute, who was in the late foundation-building stage.
The head of the Spiritual Mine Institute was responsible for all the spiritual mine resources inside and outside the Qingfeng Hall. The other two were also managers of the Spiritual Mine Institute. One of the uncles was surnamed Liang, and the other was actually Brother Zhou Nianyu, who once guarded the mountain gate. However, eighteen years have passed. Brother Zhou, who was in the late stage of Qi Refining, is now a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building and has become their uncle Zhou.
Li Shengbo led everyone to greet several uncles first, and then when everyone sat down in the hall, the head of the Spirit Mine Academy, Qingyuan Sanren, said: "You all came from afar and worked hard. I wanted to wait for you to rest for a few days before talking about business, but the situation is urgent, so I had to call you here first."
Everyone understood that this was a polite remark, and Li Shengbo quickly said on behalf of everyone: "Uncle, you are polite. Everyone present is a cultivator. This little hardship is nothing to us. What's more, everyone came here for the spirit mine, and must be ready to be dispatched by uncle at any time."
Uncle Qingyuan nodded slightly, without saying anything else, then turned his head and said to the owner of Kang Manor who was sitting at the back: "Master Kang, you have participated in this matter from beginning to end, so let me introduce the situation here to everyone first."
Then the owner of Kang Manor stood up and roughly introduced the ins and outs of this matter.
It is said that thousands of years ago, Jingfeng Mountain once produced a basic refining material called refined iron. Fine iron is not expensive, but it has a wide range of uses. When refining tools, almost all magic tools and spiritual tools need to add some more or less. It is an indispensable refining material. However, after hundreds and thousands of years of mining, the fine iron here has gradually dried up.
The situation in Jingfeng Mountain is somewhat similar to that of Yuling Mountain in Liangzhou. The difference is that although the spiritual mines in Yuling Mountain have dried up, the monks did not leave, and eventually formed the Yuling City, a large city of scattered cultivators. After the spiritual mines on Jingfeng Mountain were exhausted, the monks did not stay, nor did they form a scattered cultivator city. The entire mountain and some cave mines were even occupied by monsters.
Of course, not all monks left. Some of them occupied an area with relatively sufficient spiritual energy in Jingfeng Mountain, and gradually formed a small immortal gate called Jingfeng Pavilion. There are dozens of immortal gates like Jingfeng Pavilion on the Jiuzhou Continent, which is not strange. Moreover, the development of Jingfeng Pavilion has always been relatively low-key, and no one has noticed it.
Until last year, a piece of news about Jingfeng Pavilion suddenly broke out, saying that Jingfeng Pavilion has grown so fast in recent years because they found a large spiritual stone mine in the former fine iron ore cave. After getting the news, everyone was surprised that Jingfeng Pavilion has indeed developed a little fast in recent years. In the last Chaos Demon Valley Trial Conference, although Jingfeng Pavilion was only a small immortal gate, it received nearly ten demon-seeking orders. Its strength is no less than that of many medium-sized immortal gates. If it were not for the lack of Jindan cultivators in the gate, Jingfeng Pavilion would have long been among the medium-sized immortal gates.
Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult for a small immortal gate to become a medium-sized immortal gate, or for a medium-sized immortal gate to become a large immortal gate. It often takes thousands or even tens of thousands of years of hard work. Even if a brilliant disciple occasionally appears, it is unlikely to bring the entire sect up by himself. This is because the foundation is insufficient and the successor power is insufficient. Once this disciple dies, the sect will soon be defeated.
Because of this, there were only seven major sects on the Jiuzhou continent for more than two thousand years after the Blood Demon Sect was destroyed. And Jingfeng Pavilion has grown rapidly to its current level in just a few decades. There must be special reasons.
Then the seven major sects sent cultivators in the foundation-building period to Jingfeng Mountain to inquire about the news. As a result, they found that part of the previous rumors were true. Spirit stones can indeed be dug out from the mine cave in Jingfeng Mountain, but it cannot be considered a spirit stone mine, because there are not many spirit stones produced in the mine cave, which is particularly difficult to dig, and the investment is high and the return is low. However, there is also good news, that is, the quality of the spirit stones produced here is relatively high, and it is easy to get high-level spirit stones.
Spirit stones are divided into high and low levels. The most commonly used ones are low-grade spirit stones, and the higher-grade ones are medium-grade spirit stones. There are also high-grade spirit stones and the legendary top-grade spirit stones.
The spiritual energy contained in high-grade spiritual stones is generally dozens of times that of low-grade spiritual stones, with a slight fluctuation. However, the spiritual energy contained in high-grade spiritual stones is more refined, more efficient to use, and more widely used. Therefore, the exchange ratio between high-grade and low-grade spiritual stones is fixed at 100, that is, one top-grade spiritual stone is equal to 100 top-grade spiritual stones, 10,000 middle-grade spiritual stones, and 1 million low-grade spiritual stones.
In the world of immortal cultivation, the spiritual stones used by everyone are usually low-grade spiritual stones, and middle-grade spiritual stones are particularly scarce. Because they are too useful, few cultivators are willing to exchange the middle-grade spiritual stones they have obtained with others. Top-grade spiritual stones are even rarer, and generally only those top Jindan cultivators have them. Ordinary cultivators have never seen them, let alone heard of them.
As for the top-grade spiritual stones, they are even more legendary. One piece is equal to one million low-grade spiritual stones. In the immortal cultivation world of Jiuzhou Continent for so many years, no one has ever heard of anyone getting them.
It was because of the temptation of high-level spirit stones that the seven major sects decided to take action, even though the results of the investigation were different from the rumors. No one dared to hope for top-grade spirit stones. As long as they could dig a few high-grade spirit stones in this mine, even if they spent more effort, it would be worth it.
Jingfeng Pavilion couldn't afford to provoke any one of the seven major sects, let alone all seven sects? So after some friendly negotiations, Jingfeng Pavilion gave up most of its interests.
The seven major sects were somewhat concerned about the reputation of the sects, and their eating was not very ugly. The areas that Jingfeng Pavilion had discovered and the areas where the sects were located were left to Jingfeng Pavilion, but the other places were divided into seven large areas. Each of the seven major sects did not interfere with each other, and whoever found it would be the owner.
Before, Qingyuan Sanren led the people of the Spiritual Mine Academy to divide the area with other sects. The main task of Qingyang and other inner courtyard disciples in the early stage was to eliminate the monsters in the area divided by Qingfeng Hall, explore unknown mines, draw a simple map of the area, and eliminate all nearby dangers as much as possible.