Chapter 480 Exploring the Mine
Then the Spiritual Mine Institute of Qingfeng Hall will set up a base here, and then organize the disciples of the outer courtyard and the miscellaneous courtyard to come and mine. At that time, the tasks of the inner courtyard disciples such as Qingyang will be much easier, as long as they ensure the safety of the base and the mining disciples.
Before coming, everyone only knew that the spiritual stone mine was discovered in Jingfeng Mountain, and they didn’t know many details. Now that they have heard the detailed introduction of the situation by the owner Kang, everyone knows the ins and outs of the matter. For such preliminary work, it is a bit of a waste to find a foundation-building cultivator, and it is too dangerous to find disciples from the outer courtyard and the miscellaneous courtyard, so it is suitable for the inner courtyard disciples to do it.
After Master Kang finished introducing the situation, Qingyuan Sanren said, "The area assigned to our Qingfeng Hall is hundreds of miles in radius. The task is still very heavy. Other sects have already started operations, and some have even found spiritual stones in the mines. Our Qingfeng Hall cannot fall behind. Let's get ready today and officially start the action tomorrow."
After Qingyuan Sanren arranged the tasks, he kept silent. Then Uncle Liang and Uncle Zhou also explained a few words to each other and sent them away. Then Master Kang led everyone out of the reception hall and took them to the residence that had been prepared long ago.
No one spoke that night. Early the next morning, Master Kang rushed over with several descendants, and then left the Kang Family Manor with everyone and walked towards the depths of Jingfeng Mountain. As for the three uncles in the foundation-building period, these trivial matters were naturally not their turn to do.
Master Kang is worthy of being a local snake near Jingfeng Mountain. He knows the situation here very well. He introduced it while walking, so that everyone has a general understanding of the entire Jingfeng Mountain.
The area assigned to the Qingfeng Hall is located in the northwest of the Jingfeng Pavilion. The entire area is hundreds of miles in radius and is close to the Yinyang Sect and the Zhenmo Hall. Considering that there are countless underground mines in such a large area, even if they have fifteen people, they cannot explore it in a short time.
After some discussion, everyone decided to divide into three groups, with Li Shengbo and two inner courtyard disciples at the ninth level of Qi Refining as the captains of the three teams. The entire area belonging to the Qingfeng Hall was also divided into three parts, and each of the three teams was responsible for one part.
There were five people in each group. Qingyang and Chen Biwang were both assigned to Li Shengbo's group. The other two team members were only at the seventh level of Qi Refining, one named Zeng Shuisheng and the other named Miao Baoye. People from Kangjiazhuang served as guides, one for each group, and the owner of Kangzhuang was also in Qingyang's group.
Then the three teams acted separately, and Li Shengbo brought Qingyang and others to the area they were assigned. Although it was divided into three large areas, the area that each team needed to be responsible for was not small, with a radius of two or three hundred miles. It was easier to explore above the ground. They just walked through it and dealt with ordinary low-level monsters easily. If they encountered stronger monsters, they would not cause them too much trouble. They would just call out and others would come to cooperate.
However, it was more difficult to explore the mines below the ground. The mines were dark and could not be seen by the eyes. They could only explore with the mind of the Qi-refining cultivators. Moreover, the underground mines were extremely complex and connected in twists and turns. Especially when they encountered some special places where spiritual stones might appear, they had to try to dig them. Therefore, their speed was not fast at all. In the blink of an eye, three or four months had passed and they had explored almost half of the area.
After three or four months of getting along, Qingyang and several other teammates were relatively familiar with each other. However, they were all cultivators with their own thoughts and were very wary. Unless they were old friends like Qingyang and Chen Biwang, they rarely communicated with each other.
Only the owner of Kang Manor was an exception. He liked to chat with others when he had nothing to do, especially taking care of Qingyang. In fact, this is normal. Master Kang has already left Qingfeng Hall. For the sake of his descendants, he must make friends with the disciples of Qingfeng Hall no matter what, especially those who look promising, and Qingyang is the most promising one among them.
Among these five people, Li Shengbo and Chen Biwang are not to be mentioned. One is nearly 60 years old and the other is over 50 years old. Although they are powerful, they are also older and have limited potential. Zeng Shuisheng and Miao Baoye are in a slightly better situation, but their cultivation is not as good as Qingyang.
After three or four months of continuous searching, several first- and second-level monsters were killed, but no spiritual stones were found. The other two teams did not send any useful news, and it seemed that they were the same as them, and they also got nothing. I don’t know if Qingfeng Hall is not lucky enough and was assigned a completely useless area, or if they didn’t find the right place.
That night, after exploring an underground mine and returning to the surface, Zeng Shuisheng ate some food to replenish his energy. Seeing everyone's exhausted appearance, Zeng Shuisheng couldn't help but speak up, "Brother Li, more than three months have passed, and we haven't found anything. Could it be that there is no spiritual stone mine in the area assigned to our Qingfeng Hall?"
Li Shengbo was also unsure, but as the captain of several people, he could only say: "It shouldn't be. Uncle Zhou sent a message two days ago, saying that other sects have successively discovered mines with spiritual stones. It is impossible that only our area has nothing."
Chen Biwang next to him said: "These are mines that have been abandoned for thousands of years. If spiritual stones are easy to find, the miners in the past would have found them long ago. Why would they wait until we come to find them? I feel that we didn't go deep into the mines to search carefully. If we dug deeper, we might have found something."
"But if that happens, there won't be enough time. We have been busy here for more than three months, and we have only roughly checked the part above the ground. We have not found out half of the underground mines. If we have to dig deep into each mine, I am afraid that two more years will not be enough." Zeng Shuisheng said.
Li Shengbo said: "We don't have to worry about the deep digging. Our task is not to prospect for minerals, but to find out the surrounding environment, eliminate the dangers in this area as much as possible, and create conditions for the Spiritual Mine Academy to set up a base here. When Uncle Zhou came last time, he also said that the disciples of the External Court and the Miscellaneous Court mobilized by the Spiritual Mine Academy will arrive soon. When they start working, they will find the underground spiritual stone veins sooner or later."
"But if that happens, there will be nothing for us..." Zeng Shuisheng muttered in a low voice a little unwillingly.
It's not that he cares about the interests of the sect, but because if they find spiritual stone veins, the Spiritual Mine Academy will give them extra rewards, and they will be given according to the situation of the spiritual stone veins found, and the amount of rewards is generally not too small.