After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 262 Spirit Stone Mine

It's no wonder she lost her composure; the colorful crystalline stone brimming with spiritual energy before her was truly astonishing.

What else could this be but a spirit stone?
How come there are so many spirit stones underground in Xiaozhushan?

Song Miaozhu had wondered before whether, since there were such things as spirit stones, there might be spirit stone veins hidden underground, just like in the previous cultivation era.

However, the little servants monitoring the Spirit Investigation Bureau had already sent back a message that the Bureau had the same suspicions. So, since the spiritual energy revival, they have been trying various methods to detect the changes underground.

However, nothing was gained.

Since Song Miaozhu didn't have a magical object like the Drilling Paper Shuttle that could burrow into the ground, she gave up on searching for it.

Could it be that a spirit stone vein has actually appeared in a place that no one has discovered?
Song Miaozhu's mind started racing, but soon, after looking around the perimeter of the spirit stone mine, she noticed something was amiss.

Why does this spirit stone mine look so much like a 'mountain'? The shape of the mountain is even similar to that of Little Bamboo Mountain.

Even more coincidentally, it abruptly ended at the "foot of the mountain".

Song Miaozhu fled down to the ground along the edge, emerging at the exact boundary of the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage's spiritual energy lock at the foot of the mountain.

All these coincidences prove that this mountain-shaped stone mine is not a natural formation.

Song Miaozhu immediately thought of the spiritual water and rain that seeped into the ground.

Then they burrowed all the way from the top of Xiaozhushan Mountain to the underground.

They watched helplessly as the spiritual rain flowed deep into the earth and seeped into the spirit stones, causing the spirit stones to glow even brighter.

The case is solved! The unused spiritual energy turned into spiritual rain and flowed underground, forming a spirit stone mine!
The spiritual energy inside a spirit stone is much easier to absorb than the spiritual energy in the air.

Although all these spirit stone mines combined couldn't compare to the several mountains of top-grade spirit stones she had stored in the Ghost Shop's vault, they were still enough to surprise her.

After learning how the spirit stone mine beneath Xiaozhu Mountain was formed, Song Miaozhu realized that it was probably impossible for natural spirit stone veins to form in their cultivation era.

It is said that spiritual energy must be so concentrated that it seeps into the ground in liquid form and undergoes catalysis over time before it can become a spirit stone.

Looking across the entire world, since the revival of spiritual energy, apart from the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage that locks in the spiritual energy and Xiaozhushan, where the spiritual energy bestowed by heaven and earth continued to gush forth for five whole years after her advancement, there is probably no other place that can accumulate liquid spiritual energy to flow into the ground.

After all, even when spiritual energy appeared frequently in the past and the supply of spiritual energy in the world exceeded the demand, there was no place where the concentration of spiritual energy was so high that it could form spiritual rain or condense into spiritual dew.

It always gets almost completely depleted during the subsequent calm period.

In this era of cultivation, the threshold for cultivation has been lowered considerably compared to before, but the flow of spiritual energy is much more stingy.

Under such circumstances, it becomes even more difficult to truly reach the pinnacle of cultivation and become a legendary immortal.

Only by doing everything possible to obtain more cultivation resources can one hope to elevate their cultivation level and get closer to becoming an immortal.

Song Miaozhu didn't know what the legendary immortals were like, and she had never seen an immortal who had achieved success in cultivation during the past era. However, she thought that she should at least try to build up the spirit crystal steps in her spiritual platform space to the height that could reach the seven-colored light gate, and see if the seven-colored light gate that had been in her spiritual platform since the beginning of her cultivation was indeed the world of immortals.

Song Miaozhu didn't touch the spirit stones beneath Xiaozhu Mountain, as the spiritual energy wasn't yet scarce. What she needed to do now was to be as fast as possible, and if she could reach the location of the seven-colored light gate before the spiritual energy in the world disappeared, that would be best. If not, she had to get as close as possible so that she could reach that height before using up all the top-grade spirit stones she had hoarded.

In order to accumulate more spiritual energy, Song Miaozhu intercepted another batch of Spirit Gathering Lucky Babies and used the Earth-Drilling Paper Shuttle to drill directly into the ground of Xiaozhu Mountain, burying the Spirit Gathering Lucky Babies in the soil, spreading them all over the entire Xiaozhu Mountain.

They absorb spiritual energy from all over the world, which gathers in the paper bowl. Once the paper bowl is full, the energy dissipates.

Ultimately, they were gathered together by the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage, converging at the mountaintop to form spiritual rain, which dripped down and became part of the underground spirit stone mine.

When Song Miaozhu first brought those cultural relics back from abroad, she thought it was too much.

However, the actual consumption of her spiritual energy for research is also enormous.

It took more than two million spirit souls to come up with a new method of spirit initiation and a new paper offering, finally bringing the white spirit crystal steps in Song Miaozhu's spiritual platform space to near perfection.

As she continued to research new paper offerings and new methods of spirit invocation, attempting to advance further, the good news released by the Chinese Spirit Investigation Bureau finally mentioned that a master had reached the Blue Spirit Rank and broken through to the Yellow Spirit Rank.

On the day the good news was sent out, Song Miaozhu also took some time to check on the global surge of spiritual energy. The result was very disappointing; his advancement did not trigger a global surge of spiritual energy.

"It seems that only those at the White Spirit Rank or above can trigger a global surge of spiritual energy."

This is really bad news.

The difficulty of advancing to the Yellow Spirit Rank is less than one ten-thousandth of the difficulty of advancing to the White Spirit Rank.

In this way, once the spiritual energy tide enters its later stages and there are no more naturally occurring global surges of spiritual energy, it is likely that there will be no more global surges of spiritual energy triggered by advancements.

Even if it's still the late stage of the spiritual energy tide, and no one advances, the concentration of spiritual energy worldwide will only drop rapidly. Once the spiritual energy is exhausted, it will be almost the same as the Dharma-ending Age, which has no spiritual energy at all.

It's a vicious circle.

Song Miaozhu sighed and continued collecting spirit souls.

Fortunately, she is about to advance to the next level. This advancement will surely bring about another global surge of spiritual energy, gradually warming up the global spiritual energy.

Xiaozhushan can accumulate another batch of spiritual energy and condense more spirit stones, and other cultivators can also take this opportunity to further improve their cultivation.

After collecting enough spiritual essences and starting to design new paper offerings, Song Miaozhu clearly felt that this breakthrough was more difficult than before.

However, she was not flustered. If one new paper offering and one new method of spiritual infusion were not enough, she would use two. If two were not enough, she would use three, eight, or ten.

She also possesses many cultural relics and spiritual artifacts that helped her advance further.

With dedicated effort and accumulation, everything will fall into place naturally.

When the first raven-black spirit crystal condensed above the white spirit crystal steps in her spiritual space, the global spiritual energy erupted, putting the cultivators who were worried that the intervals between spiritual energy eruptions were getting longer and the amount of energy was getting smaller to rest assured, and they were immersed in the joy of the spiritual energy gushing out.

The spiritual energy gushing from Xiaozhushan was so great that it directly formed a cloud of spiritual energy, which was locked inside Xiaozhushan by the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage, covering the entire mountain. The spiritual rain fell in a continuous drizzle, eventually flowing into the ground as streams.

The spirit stone mine deep underground in Xiaozhushan has reached a new level of quality under the nourishment of spiritual rain.