SUS Ch 27
The ship would take one whole day to reach the spirit stone mine. Last time when Li Feng was flying in the air, he was acting to be unconscious so he had not managed to see anything. But this time, he was able to enjoy the scenery while travelling.
There were no seperate rooms for the disciples on the ship. Only the elder had a private room for himself. Other than that, there were only three rooms with a spirit gathering array inside. The mid grade disciples were monopolising those rooms. There were also 10 regular rooms but the spiritual energy there was same as the outside world. So there was a no difference between those rooms and the deck of the ship.
For that reason, Li Feng did not even try to get one of those rooms. And he was not planning to cultivate during the journey anyway. The concentration of spiritual energy was a good bit higher than normal in a spirit stone mine. So he was planning to use that place to reach the peak of the Qi gathering realm and even the foundation establishment realm.
For the time being, Li Feng was having a good time observing all the scenaries that were passing by. In a short span of time, he managed to witness many unbelievable things that were impossible to be find in his previous world.
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After travelling nonstop for more than 20 hours, the ship arrived before a large mountain. According to the information written on the mission form, the spirit stone mine was suppose to be inside this large mountain. This mountain was special and could attract a large amount of spiritual energy. Because of that reason, after millions of years of accumulation, several spirit veins had been created inside this mountain. These spirit veins were the source of the spirit stones.
There was an agreement between all the demonic sects and they were allowed to mine as much as they wanted from a mine located inside their area of influence. The other Demonic sects would not interfere with that. But that was not the case for demon and spirit beasts. The righteous sects were also always ready to pick a fight with the demonic sects. So spirit stone mine's were not completely safe.
But this particular spirit stone mine was located in the middle of the Blood Sea Sect's territory. So the righteous sects needed to go through other strongholds of the Blood Sea sect before they could reach this place. So this mine was safer than most other mines.
After reaching the location, all disciples came out of the ship and were immediately ordered to start working without any rest. They needed to mine at least five spirit stone before they could start resting. From the next day onward, they needed to mine at least 10 spirit stones everyday or they would not get any reward or might even be punished.
For mining 10 spirit stone, a disciple would be given one blood stone, basically a return of 10 percent. But alongside that they would also be given 1 sect contribution point which was quite valuable. But one disciple was allowed to only get a maximum of 5 sect contribution point in a single day.
That exactly what Li Feng was targetting. He wanted to get as much sect contribution points as he could during this mission. That way be would be able to get access to a lot of things in the sect. But for now, his target was to understand how this mine worked.
Fortunately the mountain had a lot of space so all the disciples were able to get a private cave abode. That was a very good news for Li Feng. After putting his stuff down in his cave abode, he hid Yue in his dress and went down to the mine.
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To mine a spirit stone, one needed to cover the pickaxe in spiritual energy and then they had to hit the spirit vein with all their might. Then in response, the essence of the spirit vein would start to condense and would give birth to the spirit stone. How many time one disciple needed to hit the spirit vein to produce spirit stones depended on many things like their strength, quality of spritual energy, the grade of the spirit vein and more.
The spirit vein was exposed in many part of the mine so the disciples did not need to gather in a single location. But this mine have a few Beasts who could attack a disciple working solo. So for most of the time, the low ranking disciples liked to work in a group.
But as Li Feng was not really worried about any beasts with his strength, he did not join any groups and instead went deeper inside the mine to find a location that was remote and away from everyone.
Before starting his own mining, Li Feng first observed the mining of some of disciples. This demonstration gave him a very good idea about how the mining worked. After finding a vein that had no one near it, he started his work.
Surprisingly, Li Feng was done mining more than 60 spirit stone in less than an hour. He himself was a bit surprised by his efficiency. He only needed 50 of them to get the maximum amount of contribution points, so Li Feng decided to keep the extra spirit stones for his own use.
The other disciples did not have a way to secretly store spirit stones mined here, but that was not the case for Li Feng. Li Feng had finally managed to master a technique called "Blood Space" which could be used as storage and the elder in charge of checking would not be able to find or sesech it.
So Li Feng continued mining for few more hours. He stopped only after getting more than 500 spirit stones. At the beginning, he was not giving his all in mining. But half way, he found out that mining spirit stone was a good way to pratice his spiritual energy control. So he started to give his all in mining and his efficiency increased quite a bit.
Li Feng was happy witg the profit he was able to make and immediately stored the spirit stones in his blood space. Then he checked the memories and visions from his blood clones that he had scattered all over the mine.
Soon he located where Fan Guyu was and he was delighted to find out that Fan Guyu was also mining in a remote part of the mine. Actually he was not mining but was using the rich spiritual energy of the mine to cultivate while three low grade Qi gathering realm disciples were doing all the work. It looked like those three had became Fan Guyu's henchmen.
That was the worst decision of their life. As they were with Fan Guyu, unfortunately they would be effective by what Li Feng was going to do with Fan Guyu. Li Feng had no mercy in his heart for them.
He had already made a mental map of the whole mine with the help of his blood clones so he was able to pinpoint Fan Guyu's location immediately. Then after making sure that there were no other disciples near that area, with a terrifying smile on his face, Li Feng went toward that location to take care of his first target of revenge.