Chapter 230 Ten Million Spiritual Stones
Yin Yue’s proposal made Ye Changsheng ponder for a moment.
I have to say that this proposal is very tempting. Once Yin Yue becomes the incarnation of the Zhoutian Star Mirror, the power of this magic weapon will be greatly increased.
However, there is a hidden danger in doing so.
Ye Changsheng knew that Yin Yue would leave in the future. Even if he deliberately did not go to the secret realm of Kunwu Mountain, once she ascended to the spiritual world in the future, Yin Yue would awaken everything and leave.
If he did that, the sudden loss of the spirit of the weapon would undoubtedly cause great damage to his magic weapon.
Ye Changsheng has high hopes for his natal magic weapon, so he doesn't want such a thing to happen in the future.
Another thing is that once Yin Yue becomes the incarnation of the magic weapon, many things can no longer be hidden from her.
Some of Ye Changsheng's secrets would be seen by her, which was something Ye Changsheng didn't want.
So, after careful consideration, he shook his head and said, "No, you are not suitable to be the spirit of my life magic weapon!"
"However, as long as you show your value, I will not kill you easily. Now, in order to make us trust each other more, I need to place a few restrictions on you. Do you have any objection?" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
The silver giant wolf was startled when he heard this, and then said: "Silver Moon naturally has no objection. Master's concerns are correct, so please cast the spell!"
Ye Changsheng nodded, opened his mouth and spurted out a stream of blood, with which he carved a strange symbol, and then flicked his finger, sending the symbol into Yin Yue's body.
The giant wolf covered with long silver hair was instantly shrouded in a hazy blood light, and a hint of pain flashed across its eyes.
"Okay, from now on, your life and death are all in my hands. Even if you run away with the jade ruyi, it will be of no use!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
"Master is really cautious, but that's good. Only someone like you can achieve great success!"
"Once the master has cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Stage and leaves this world to reach the Spirit World, I will be able to escape the troubles of this spirit body!" said the Silver Giant Wolf excitedly.
Obviously, after being trapped in the magic weapon and acting as its spirit for such a long time, she had long been eager to escape from this sea of suffering.
Now, having met Ye Changsheng, a young Nascent Soul cultivator, her chances of escaping from these ten thousand year shackles suddenly increased a lot.
He reached an agreement with him that as long as he could ascend to the spiritual world, he could also be free.
Thinking of this, Yin Yue became extremely excited.
"By the way, speaking of which, I seem to have heard of the master's life-saving magic weapon somewhere!" The silver giant wolf suddenly said.
"Oh? Have you heard of it in the spiritual world before?" Ye Changsheng asked with a change of expression.
"I can't remember clearly. I always feel like I have some impression, but the memory is too vague!" Yin Yue shook her head and said.
"Really? If you can't remember, forget it!" Ye Changsheng said calmly, as if he didn't care about the news.
After taking two steps in the air, the silver wolf said, "I will go back to the magic weapon first. Master, I hope you can find a suitable body for me to possess as soon as possible, so that I can help you too!"
As he spoke, the silver moon turned into a ray of silver light and flew into the Jade Ruyi magic weapon.
Ye Changsheng took the magic weapon in his hand, looked at it, and placed the Silver Moon at the entrance of the cave, saying: "I will teach you the method to open the cave's restrictions. You help me take care of those gold-eating bugs and let them mine seriously!"
"In addition, if anything unusual happens on the island, please notify me in time!" Ye Changsheng said.
"Yin Yue knows!" A crisp voice came from Yu Ruyi.
Ye Changsheng nodded. With such a secretary-like assistant by his side, his life in the future would be much more convenient.
After telling Yin Yue how to open the cave's restrictions, Ye Changsheng entered the secret room to practice.
During this retreat, he planned to push his magic power to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
According to previous calculations, in order to cultivate to this level, one would need to consume about 3.5 million spirit stones.
He currently had over four million spirit stones on him, which was more than enough.
Moreover, it can be continuously mined from this Biling Island.
Ye Changsheng currently has only two kinds of elixirs needed for cultivation. One is the Yuanhe Pill that he got from the storage bag of a Nascent Soul cultivator from Dajin, and then he refined it himself.
Another one is the Lingyuan Pill obtained from the Xutian Palace.
Although there are only two types, they are completely sufficient.
Ye Changsheng had tried to copy the ancient elixir called Lingyuan Pill obtained from Xutian Palace, and one pill directly consumed 20,000 spirit stones.
It is four times more potent than the Yuanhe Pill he himself refined. It can be seen that the medicinal power of this ancient elixir is indeed extraordinary.
In comparison, today's world of immortal cultivation has undoubtedly degenerated a lot compared to ancient times.
Not to mention the lack of spiritual energy, the effects of various elixirs are also much worse.
The reason is simply that those elixirs from ancient times that are thousands or tens of thousands of years old are no longer visible in today's world of immortal cultivation.
Therefore, naturally, various pill recipes and the like need to be adjusted accordingly, and during the adjustments, the medicinal potency will also decrease.
Ye Changsheng tried taking a Lingyuan Pill. As soon as the pill entered his stomach, he immediately felt a powerful spiritual energy appear.
He immediately started practicing his skills to refine it. It took him a full forty days to completely refine this pill.
Opening his eyes, Ye Changsheng's eyes sparkled, and he thought to himself: "So, refining nine of these pills a year is equivalent to eating 180,000 spirit stones!"
"And when I refined the Yuanhe Pill before, I could only consume spiritual power equivalent to 120,000 spiritual stones in a year!"
"If I were to simply meditate and practice, even if I were to sit on the Spirit Eye Spring, I would only be able to refine spiritual power equivalent to 20,000 spiritual stones in a year at most!"
"That is to say, the speed of cultivation has now increased by nine times!"
"In about twenty years, I will be able to push my magic power to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage!"
After Ye Changsheng made some calculations, he began to practice hard by taking drugs.
In this world, he is the only one who can practice in such a luxurious way.
If it were an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, even if they had so many spirit stones, it would be impossible for them to find so many pills.
According to the conventional method of meditation and practice, it would take at least a hundred years for a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage to accumulate his magic power to the peak of the early stage.
The mana Ye Changsheng needs to accumulate is three times that of the same level. If he doesn't have elixirs, it will take him more than three hundred years.
But now, with the unlimited supply of elixirs, even if he counted the twenty years of practice before, he would only need less than fifty years to complete this step.
There is no time in cultivation. Time passes day by day, and the same scenery is repeated day after day on this Biling Island.
Hundreds of thousands of gold-eating bugs were busy day and night, devouring the sand and stones on the island, picking out the spiritual stones among them and sending them to the front of the cave.
The giant wolf transformed by Yin Yue usually lies lazily at the entrance of the cave to bask in the sun, looking at the piles of spirit stones piled up like mountains, and then putting them into the storage bag.
As the surface spirit stone mines were gradually mined out, the number of spirit stones delivered every day became less and less.
If the gold-eating bugs want to mine deep spirit stone mines, they need to devour a huge amount of rocks, which is a hard job for them.
This made Yin Yue, who lazily watched them every day, feel a little distressed, and she secretly thought that her master Ye Changsheng was really exploiting the spiritual insects too much.
Although the huge Biling Island is located in the Demon Sea, it is usually very peaceful here.
Apart from some low-level monsters breaking in every day, basically nothing else can be seen.
Occasionally, one or two level five or six monsters would mistakenly enter the island, but they would soon become food for the gold-eating bugs.
The days repeated themselves like this one after another. After the gold-eating beetles had worked hard for eight years, suddenly one day, they all stopped.
They no longer mined spiritual mines, but gathered together, fighting madly and devouring each other.
They are about to evolve again.
The fight lasted for more than a month, and in the end, most of the gold-eating bugs were eaten by their own kind, and only a very small number survived.
After devouring the corpses of their own kind, this small group was placed by Yin Yue in the insect room of the cave.
Not long after, they laid piles of gold-eating insect eggs and then died.
Among these gold-eating insect eggs, a considerable number of them have undergone a certain degree of mutation, and black stripes have appeared on the eggs.
This is the change that occurs after devouring the fire ant.
When all these gold-eating bugs hatched, their number reached a terrifying 200,000.
A considerable number of them appeared in the colors of gold, silver and black.
Compared with their similar two-colored gold-eating beetles, these three-colored gold-eating beetles are obviously more ferocious and have stronger momentum.
"I don't know where the master found so many gold-eating bugs, and cultivated their swarm to this level!"
"Although my memory is not very clear, I still have some vague impression of this strange insect!"
"It seems that they have a very terrifying reputation even in the spiritual world!" Yin Yue thought to herself as she looked at these ferocious gold-eating insects.
She became more and more curious about Ye Changsheng.
Not only did he cultivate so many gold-eating bugs, but he also advanced to the Nascent Soul stage at such a young age in the spiritually barren land of the human world.
Moreover, it also possesses extremely strong combat power.
When Ye Changsheng was in seclusion before, Yin Yue once asked him how old he was now.
At that time, the answer was less than 150 years old.
In other words, based on this age, Ye Changsheng should have conceived a baby when he was about 120 years old.
This conclusion shocked Yin Yue. It was rare to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage at such a young age, even in the spiritual world.
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Ye Changsheng's retreat and cultivation lasted for twenty-five years, which was a few years longer than the twenty years he had originally expected.
All this was because, in the later stages of his practice, he encountered the same drug resistance problem he had encountered before.
The effectiveness of the Lingyuan Pill obtained from the Xutian Palace gradually decreased, so Ye Changsheng had to switch back to using the Yuanhe Pill for cultivation.
So, it ended up taking a few more years.
"Calculating my age, I am already 170 years old. Time does not matter when it comes to cultivation!"
With a long sigh, Ye Changsheng walked out of the secret room.
Now he is stuck at the bottleneck of the middle stage of Nascent Soul and cannot break through.
The original plan to use Wen Siyue to break through will definitely not be used now.
Twenty-five years ago, Wen Siyue had just entered the foundation-building stage.
No matter how amazing her talent was, it was impossible for her to cultivate to the Jindan stage in just twenty years.
Without the cultivation of the Jindan stage, it would be impossible to help him break through to the middle Yuanying stage.
We have to find another way. It seems that Wen Siyue can only be kept for later and used when she breaks through to the late Nascent Soul stage.
"The notes from the Yuanying cultivator of the Great Jin Dynasty obtained from the Yinming Land actually contain a method that can help break through the middle stage of the Yuanying!"
"At the beginning, this person was looking for something that could help him break through, but he was accidentally swept away by the ghost fog!"
"However, all the things recorded by this person are in Da Jin, but I have no channels to go to Da Jin!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
Shaking his head, he suppressed these thoughts in his heart, planning to go back to the Inner Star Sea to find out if there is any way to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
Ye Changsheng walked out of the secret room and saw a pile of bulging storage bags in a corner of the cave.
After a brief pause, he realized that these should be the spiritual stones mined by the gold-eating bugs over the past twenty years.
There was a flash of light at the entrance of the cave. Yin Yue sensed that Ye Changsheng had come out of seclusion and walked in.
"These storage bags are full of spirit stones, which were mined by gold-eating bugs over the years. I roughly calculated that if the high-level and mid-level spirit stones are included, they are worth about 10 million spirit stones!" Yin Yue's crisp and pleasant voice sounded in his ears.
"Ten million spirit stones? Not bad, but it's still a little less than I expected!" Ye Changsheng said, looking at the pile of spirit stones in the corner.
"It's good to have so many. The spiritual stones on this island are becoming more and more difficult to mine. If you continue to mine, your gold-eating insects will probably be exhausted to death!" Yin Yue said half-jokingly.
Ye Changsheng smiled when he heard this and didn't say much.
The later the mining progresses, the harder it is to mine spiritual stones. He has known this for a long time.
After all, his mining method was too crude and simple, and it was just digging mountains and islands.
Unlike normal spirit stone mines, the mining method is often to first ask professionals to conduct an exploration to determine the direction of the spirit stone veins.
After finding out which place is more concentrated with spiritual stones, we will dig mining holes and send mortals to mine.
Ye Changsheng knew nothing about Feng Shui and divination, so naturally he couldn't tell where there were more spirit stones and where there were fewer.
Therefore, his mining method was to dig the mountains violently.
However, although his method was rough, because he had a large number of gold-eating bugs, the spirit stones he obtained from this mining method were far more than those obtained from the intensive farming methods.
Even if such a large spirit stone mine was handed over to a force like Xinggong to develop, it would be impossible for them to dig out 10 million spirit stones in more than 20 years.
Those powerful sects tend to take the slow and long-term approach when developing spirit stone mines.
But Ye Changsheng is fishing in troubled waters!
"Ten million spirit stones should not be a big deal for the spirit stone mine on Biling Island!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
"However, my current mining capacity has indeed reached a limit. I will consider how to deal with this spirit stone mine later!" Ye Changsheng thought.
After moving all the storage bags into the secret room, Ye Changsheng said, "I'll deal with these spirit stones!"
Upon hearing this, Yin Yue showed curiosity in her eyes.
She really wanted to know how Ye Changsheng would deal with these spirit stones.
After all, this is 10 million spirit stones, and most of them are low-level spirit stones.
The space occupied by so many spirit stones is simply not enough to be contained in the storage bags of the human world.
In this corner of Ye Changsheng's cave, there are more than a hundred storage bags piled up.
These were all taken from Miaoyin Sect before he left Tianxing City.
If Ye Changsheng wanted to take all these spirit stones away, wouldn't he have to take all these more than a hundred storage bags with him?
Under Yin Yue's curious gaze, Ye Changsheng took all the storage bags to his secret room.
Then, there was a slight sound and the door of the secret room closed. Yin Yue curled her lips when she saw this scene, knowing that Ye Changsheng was keeping a secret from her.
One day later, Ye Changsheng walked out of the secret room with only a storage bag hanging around his waist.
Yin Yue looked inside through the stone door and found more than a hundred shrunken storage bags lying in the secret room.
Apparently they are all empty!
Seeing this scene, she showed surprise on her face. How could such a huge number of 10 million spirit stones disappear?
Could it be that they were all put into the storage bag on his waist?
But this is impossible. How can there be a storage bag with such a large space?
Yin Yue looked puzzled, not understanding how Ye Changsheng did it.
However, she had a vague guess in her heart that this should be Ye Changsheng's secret!
No matter how hard Yin Yue tried, she could not have imagined that Ye Changsheng could easily transform ten million spirit stones into ten top-grade spirit stones and carry them on his body without taking up any space.
And what she guessed deep in her heart was that Ye Changsheng might have mastered some kind of space-related magical treasure.
After solving the problem of carrying the spirit stones, Ye Changsheng went to the insect room again and put the 200,000 gold-eating insects into two spirit beast bags.
Then, he glanced around the cave and said to Yin Yue, "Let's go, let's leave this island!"
Upon hearing this, Yin Yue turned into a ray of silver light and drilled into the Jade Ruyi magic weapon.
Ye Changsheng put away the Jade Ruyi magic weapon, cleared out all the formation flags in the cave, and then left Biling Island.
He did not leave any arrangements on the island because he was not worried about the island being discovered by others.
The location of Biling Island is very remote, almost at the edge of the Chaos Star Sea. Under normal circumstances, it is basically impossible for anyone to come here.
Even if someone really accidentally broke into this place, it would be difficult to discover the spirit stone mine here.
Because all the spiritual stones in the shallower layers of the island have been mined out by Ye Changsheng.
It is difficult to repeat the situation in the original book, where humans immediately discovered the spiritual stone veins on the island as soon as they arrived here.
Even if we take a step back and say that the spirit stone mine is really discovered by someone, it doesn't matter.
Even if it was occupied by some big force and they tried to mine the spirit stone mine here, at their speed, they wouldn't be able to mine much even if they were given a hundred years.
Compared with the spiritual stone reserves on this island, that amount of mining is nothing.
So, Ye Changsheng left with confidence.
Of course, the most important reason why he didn't leave any arrangements was that the island was too big.
It was impossible for him to set up some kind of formation to hide the island.
Given the size of this island, no formation could accomplish this.
This doesn't look like the island where the ancient teleportation array is located.
Therefore, Ye Changsheng could only ignore everything and leave.
" The Biyun Sect should have found the nest of the eighth-level monster by now. After finding the monster-companion grass, I will return to the inner star sea to see what the situation is over there!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
He rushed quickly towards Qiyuan Island.
A month later, Ye Changsheng came to the sea near Qiyuen Island. After putting on the Thousand Illusions Mask, he entered Black Stone City.
He released his own aura, and after a moment, a white light rushed towards this side.
In the white light, there was a Taoist priest riding on a white crane.
Miaohe Zhenren!
Seeing Ye Changsheng appear, Miao He Zhenren had an enthusiastic smile on his face. He laughed loudly and said, "Brother Ye, I finally got you here!"
Ye Changsheng bowed and smiled, saying, "Brother Qi, how is my original commission going now?"
"Haha, Brother Ye is really impatient. Why don't you go to my Biyun Sect and have a cup of spiritual tea and listen to my detailed story?" Miaohe Zhenren stroked his long beard and said with a smile.
"Well, I will refuse it disrespectfully!"
"Haha, Brother Ye, please follow me!"
Sitting in a loft of the Biyun Gate, Miaohe Zhenren personally poured Ye Changsheng a cup of tea, and then slowly said:
"Brother Ye, we have already found the eighth-level monster's lair that you asked us to find. However, if you want to explore the monster's lair now, it may be a bit troublesome!"
As Miao He Zhenren spoke, the expression on his face became slightly solemn.
"Oh? What's the trouble? Please tell me in detail, Brother Qi!" Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes and said lightly.
"Brother Ye may have been in seclusion these years and is not aware of the current situation of Qiyuan Island!"
"A few years ago, for some unknown reason, the monsters in the abyss next to Qiyuan Island suddenly rioted!"
"The high-level monsters that were rarely seen in the past are now everywhere. Even for us Yuanying Zhenren, it is now dangerous to enter the ten thousand zhang sea abyss!" Zhenren Miaohe said solemnly.
"From what Brother Qi said, the lair of the eighth-level monster is in the abyss of the sea?" Ye Changsheng asked after a moment of hesitation.
"Yes, in fact, those of us who have a foothold in Qiyuan Island are very clear that there is no shortage of level eight monsters in the Wanzhang Sea Abyss. So when I received Brother Ye's commission, I asked the disciples of Biyun Sect to go to the Wanzhang Sea Abyss to look for the monster's nest!"
"Finally, a few years ago, we discovered the lair of a level eight blood-marked shark. Our disciples wrote down the address of the lair and reported it to us!"
"I have been waiting here for Brother Ye to come. I thought that after Brother Ye came, with his strength, it should be no problem for him to explore this nest!"
"Who would have thought that in the past two years, the monster in the abyss suddenly rioted. I'm afraid that Brother Ye will encounter great danger if he goes to the monster's lair now!" said Master Miaohe.
