Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 100 Harvesting the Evil Spirit
The large ones are several meters wide, and their height is enough to hold up the stalactites that are hammered down; the small ones are only a pile as tall as one person; and the smallest pile consists of only a dozen or so scattered pieces.

"It seems that these gold-eating bugs are quite intelligent. They know to sort and put away the spirit stones according to their levels!" Nie Zhaonan said with some surprise as he looked at the spirit stones stacked in an orderly manner in front of him.

This saved him a lot of effort and he didn't have to spend time classifying the spirit stones.

The pile of spiritual stone ore that extended into the cave has disappeared, leaving only a huge mine hole in its place, extending deep into the soil.

Nie Zhaonan walked to the pile of spirit stones and scanned the low-level, medium-level and high-level spirit stones collected in front of him with his spiritual sense, and he was able to figure out the number of these spirit stones.

There are nearly five million low-level spirit stones, and about thirty thousand mid-level spirit stones. High-level spirit stones are extremely rare even in the mines of Biling Island, and there are only thirty-two of them in front of us.

"It seems that using gold-eating bugs for mining is quite efficient." Nie Zhaonan said with a smile on his face.

Yes, if we use the equivalent of tens of thousands of foundation-building monks as miners, how can the mining efficiency not be high?
Even the Star Palace, the number one force in the Chaos Star Sea, cannot undertake such a large undertaking. Although the Star Palace has no shortage of Foundation Establishment cultivators, after all, Foundation Establishment cultivators are the backbone of a force and it is impossible to use them for physical work like digging spirit stones.

In the world of immortal cultivation, the job of digging spirit stones from spirit stone mines is usually done by mortals.

The speed is naturally not as fast as Nie Zhaonan's mining with gold-eating bugs, so it is normal to be able to mine so many spirit stones.

The spirit stones in front of them, whether they are low-level, mid-level, or high-level, all have one common feature: the vast majority of these spirit stones are wood-attributed spirit stones, and only occasionally among the low-level spirit stones are there a few spirit stones of other attributes, but they are pitifully rare.

There is nothing strange about this. The spiritual veins on Biling Island and the spiritual energy they contain are probably biased towards the wood attribute. It is normal that the spiritual stones produced are mostly of the same wood attribute.

Nie Zhaonan stretched out his hands and slowly opened them towards the largest pile of low-level spirit stone ore. Suddenly, a powerful suction force appeared out of nowhere and acted on the spirit stones.

As expected, one spirit stone after another flew into the air towards Nie Zhaonan's hands, forming a dazzling torrent of spirit stones.

An incredible scene appeared. When countless spirit stones approached Nie Zhaonan within half a meter of his body, they suddenly disappeared without a sound.

This was of course Nie Zhaonan's masterpiece. As his realm and strength grew, his connection with the Zixiao Cave Heaven was also slowly strengthening. Now he no longer needed to get in close contact with the spirit stones, and could place the spirit stones into the cave Heaven within a range of half a meter.

As time passed, this strange scene continued to occur in the caves.

A quarter of an hour later, Nie Zhaonan finally collected all the spirit stones piled on the ground.

"The efficiency of controlling puppets to mine is too low, and the puppets must be within the range of my spiritual consciousness to function normally. It is better to take the puppets back."

Nie Zhaonan recalled the scenes of puppet mining during this period and said with a sigh.

Puppets are far less flexible than gold-eating beetles, and do not have sharp weapons like gold-eating beetles. Relatively speaking, gold-eating beetles are the most perfect miners.

He closed his eyes slightly and controlled the hundreds of spiritual powers that were sent out to mine and recalled the hundreds of puppets that were sent out to mine back to the cave one by one.

After his soul returned to his main body, Nie Zhaonan collected all the puppets with a flip of his hand.

Immediately afterwards, Nie Zhaonan followed the tunnel and headed towards the outside world.

After repairing the entrance of the cave on Biling Island and activating the Inverted Five Elements Formation, Nie Zhaonan randomly chose a direction and rode a white rainbow, shooting towards the distance.

The purpose of this trip was not for anything else but to hunt monsters. The monster pills obtained previously were not enough for Nie Zhaonan's practice in the Jindan stage.

Nie Zhaonan did not take the gold-eating bug back, but let it continue mining on Biling.

Time flies and three years have passed.

Nie Zhaonan's monster hunting trajectory in the past three years was not without pattern. In order to prevent cultivators and monsters from discovering the spiritual stone veins of Biling Island, Nie Zhaonan deliberately launched monster hunting operations around the sea area of ​​tens of millions of miles around Biling Island.

By hunting down all the high-level monsters and obtaining monster cores, monster souls, and weapon refining materials, the monks who come here to hunt monsters later will find that high-level monsters are scarce here, so they will not stay here for long and will go to other places to hunt monsters, thus reducing the risk of Biling Island being discovered accidentally.

The flesh and blood of high-level monsters can be said to be a great tonic, so Nie Zhaonan naturally did not let it go. He put it into the Zixiao Cave, sealed it up, and used it for cultivating spirit beasts in the future.

During this trip to hunt monsters in the alien sea alone, Zixiao Cave Heaven provided Nie Zhaonan with an irreplaceable role.

Not to mention the fact that the colorful grass would be ripened and would attract large numbers of monsters.

Zixiao Cave Heaven is also a giant "storage bag" with a space of hundreds of miles. Whether it is the monster materials, monster pills, and flesh and blood of monster corpses obtained by Nie Zhaonan, or the massive spirit stones dug from Biling Island, they can all be stored in it.

Unlike other monks, who sometimes have to discard some less valuable gains and spoils due to limited space in their storage bags; or who have several storage bags hanging around their waists, so that other monks can tell at a glance that this person has reaped a great harvest and is wealthy.

At the same time, because of hunting monsters, every time his magic power was almost exhausted and he was physically exhausted, Nie Zhaonan could return to Zixiao Cave Heaven, an absolutely safe place, at any time to rest and restore his magic power and spirit.

There is absolutely no need to spend time looking for a suitable and relatively safe place, opening a cave, setting up magic arrays, and worrying about the appearance of monsters.

A hundred miles away from Silver Shark Island, a white light was escaping towards the island, but its speed was rather ordinary.

This is naturally Nie Zhaonan, who has been in the outer sea for ten years and is preparing to return to Tianxing City.

Two or three months ago, Nie Zhaonan returned to Biling Island and put the newly collected spiritual stones worth nearly 20 million yuan, including a top-grade spiritual stone, into the cave. He also took out some monster flesh and blood and fed it to the gold-eating insects, letting them continue to mine. Then, he returned along the way he came and arrived at Yinsha Island today.

Nie Zhaonan made the decision to let the gold-eating bugs stay on Biling Island to mine after much consideration.

First, the current strength of the gold-eating bugs has only reached the foundation-building stage. Even if they are released to fight, tens of thousands of gold-eating bugs will only pose a threat to Jindan-stage cultivators, and there is also the risk of losing some gold-eating bugs. However, with Nie Zhaonan's own strength, he can deal with Jindan-stage cultivators by himself, and there is no need to use gold-eating bugs at all. The current gold-eating bugs seem a bit useless. Secondly, leaving the gold-eating bugs on Biling Island to mine can not only continuously obtain spiritual stones, but also play a role in protecting Biling Island and feedback information. In this way, even if Nie Zhaonan is in the inner star sea, thousands of miles away, he can still know the situation of Biling Island in time through the special connection established between the spirit beast pen and the gold-eating bugs.

Moreover, after Nie Zhaonan cultivated a large amount of resources and ate and reproduced twice, the evolution of the gold-eating worm slowed down significantly. It was almost hopeless to cultivate it into a gold and silver color in a short period of time, which was a headache for Jindan cultivators. Leaving it on the island can also use this time to settle down and lay a foundation for future advancement. Moreover, the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone vein is extremely abundant, which is also good for the gold-eating worm. It will not affect the growth of the gold-eating worm, but it will be much slower than when Nie Zhaonan was feeding it roughly.

After a while, Nie Zhaonan appeared in the stone house where the teleportation array was located.

He said to a Xinggong monk who was sitting cross-legged in the corner of the stone house and practicing silently: "Daoyou, send him back to Tianxing City." After saying that, he threw seven mid-level spirit stones to him.

The newly promoted foundation-building cultivator took the spirit stone and stood up. He was slightly surprised and glanced at the not-so-bulky storage bag on Nie Zhaonan's waist without any expression. Then he looked away and began to prepare to open the teleportation array.

A dazzling white light flashed by. The foundation-building cultivator guarding the teleportation array looked at the empty teleportation array, chuckled, and mocked, "I don't know how many years you have been in this alien sea, and there is still nothing in your storage bag. You have gained nothing, but you still pretend to be a Jindan Zhenren. You just throw out 700 spirit stones and teleport alone. Isn't it better to wait for others to teleport together and share the cost? What's so good about pretending!"

Then he returned to the corner to continue sitting cross-legged in meditation and refining his Qi. These words were just a way for him to vent his boredom of guarding the teleportation array in this alien sea.

The scene changed, and in the hall of the cave where Nie Zhaonan was, Nie Ying, Chen Qiaoqian and Xin Ruyin were sitting beside a jade table, talking to a man dressed as a young master with a look of relief on their faces.

"Sister Yuling, thank you very much for your help earlier, otherwise our Treasure Pavilion would have been..." Nie Ying was interrupted by a voice before she could finish her words.

"But what?"

Hearing this familiar voice, the three women all stood up in surprise and looked towards the door with expectant eyes.

Until the figure that had been haunting them walked into the hall, the three women immediately stopped being reserved and gathered around him, pressing their delicate bodies tightly against Nie Zhaonan's.

While jogging, she called out in surprise, "Husband~", her joy beyond words.

Ling Yuling looked at the person who came and took a closer look. She saw that he was wearing a dark black robe and had a handsome face. He also gave off an otherworldly aura and a steady gaze, but his expression was a little weathered. There was also a hint of murderous intent between his brows, which destroyed the sense of harmony.

Despite this, Ling Yulin had to admit that the man in front of her could be described as 'unparalleled in the world'.

Nie Zhaonan stretched out his big hands, went straight to the waist, and hugged the three women in his arms.

Then he asked with concern: "What did you talk about before?"

In Tianxing City, it is strictly forbidden for cultivators to fight. Before leaving, Nie Zhaonan also told the three girls not to leave Tianxing City. I believe Nie Ying, Chen Qiaoqian and Xin Ruyin will remember it and will not ignore it. Moreover, whether it is the store in the Treasure Pavilion or the cave house they rent now, they are protected by the inverted five elements formation. As long as the Yuanying cultivator does not take action, there should be no problem.

Nie Zhaonan couldn't think of what the problem might be for a moment.

The three girls looked at each other before Nie Ying explained the situation and said slowly:

"They are three Jindan cultivators from the Star Palace. They saw that our Treasure Pavilion was doing a booming business and there was only one Jindan cultivator, my husband, and he hadn't been out for a long time. After several attempts, they found that my husband was not in Tianxing City, so they threatened us three sisters and wanted to occupy the Treasure Pavilion."

Hearing this, Nie Zhaonan was immediately furious. A bloody light flowed between his brows, and a thin bloody mist permeated his body. There was a murderous intent floating in the entire hall.

Fortunately, all of this was only fleeting, and everything returned to normal. The women in the hall were not affected at all, but the previous feeling of being on the edge of an abyss was deeply imprinted in their minds.

"How could this person be so murderous? How many cultivators and monsters must he have killed for the evil spirit on his body to condense into a physical entity? Could he be a killing god? But when I talked to my three sisters about their husbands, the descriptions they gave were not like this!" Ling Yulin's face became solemn for a moment, her mind changed, and she secretly became alert.

Ling Yuling naturally didn't know that the evil spirit that had just emerged was just the tip of the iceberg in Nie Zhaonan's body.

Although Ling Yuling was somewhat shocked, she was not too panicked.

During the ten years that Nie Zhaonan spent in the outer sea, thousands of high-level monsters died at his hands.

This inevitably produced a strong evil spirit, but fortunately Nie Zhaonan practiced the Ming Wang Jue and had already cultivated to the fourth level. Even though there was a huge amount of evil spirit in his body, it had no effect on him, so he was not in a hurry to refine it.

This is also because the evil spirit now has no significant effect on the practice of Ming Wang Jue. Even if it is refined, it is just like eating and drinking water for ordinary people. There will not be any obvious improvement. Therefore, Nie Zhaonan did not waste time on this matter and prepared to refine it after returning to the cave.

"Husband, are you okay?" Xin Ruyin's soft voice sounded, full of concern.

"It's okay, I was just very angry at the time, which affected my practice a little." Nie Zhaonan said lightly.

Hearing this, Nie Ying and Chen Qiaoqian also put down their worries. From the previous scene, they thought that something had happened to their husbands in the outer sea.

"Don't worry, my husband. The matter of the Treasure Pavilion has been resolved now." After Nie Ying said this, she remembered that there was another person in the hall. She quickly broke free from Nie Zhaonan's arms and stood aside.

Xin Ruyin and Chen Qiaoqian felt Nie Ying's actions and left Nie Zhaonan's arms with blushing faces.

Although they had been close to Nie Zhaonan for a long time, sister Yuling was present after all, and it was still a bit rude to throw herself into her husband's arms in front of her.

“It was all thanks to sister Yuling who stepped in and used the power of her family elder, who is the Grand Elder of the Star Palace, to make those three people give up their plan to rob the Treasure Pavilion. Speaking of which, we sisters have not yet properly thanked sister Yuling for her help.” As she spoke, Nie Ying gestured to Nie Zhaonan with her eyes to Ling Yuling who was sitting at the table.

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