Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

On the way back, Lu Yan touched his pockets and found that he only had less than five low-grade spirit stones left.

The hundred low-grade spirit stones I earned from the gambling den have long been spent, and even the low-grade spirit stones I had accumulated before are almost gone.

Shopping can really be very harmful.

After returning home, Lu Yan ignored everything else and took out the Mine God's Pickaxe to take a look.

After all, it is a divine weapon, even though it is only in its most primitive stage now.

Looking at the Mine God's Pickaxe lying on the ground, Lu Yan felt it was ordinary and nothing special about it.

So Lu Yan prepared to pick it up and try, but found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't budge it at all.

Like Thor's hammer, it looks ordinary, but it won't do without recognition.

Having no other choice, Lu Yan could only begin refining the artifact according to the established process.

But as soon as he started refining the spiritual energy stored in his body, it vanished instantly like a river bursting its banks.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yan was greatly alarmed and quickly took out a mid-grade spirit stone for it to absorb.

Even so, the spiritual energy in a mid-grade spirit stone disappears very quickly.

Left with no other choice, Lu Yan had to take out all his savings, including his first unused mid-grade spirit stone and the two spirit-restoring talismans.

Half an hour later, the Mine God's Pickaxe finally stopped after absorbing the last shard of spirit.

Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the ground. He was so close. If things had continued like this, he would have either lost all his cultivation or died.

I am grateful to the Fruit of Luck for saving my life.

Lu Yan struggled to get up and began to meditate to recover. It took him an hour to recover somewhat.

Then they began to test what was so special about this God of Mining Pickaxe.

"Wow, it's so heavy! This weight is more in line with its appearance." Lu Yan used all his strength but could only pick it up. Swinging it would probably be much more difficult.

No wonder it's called the pickaxe of the mining god; how could you not get some exercise swinging from it every day?

"Huh? What's this?" As soon as Lu Yan picked up the Mining God's Pickaxe, a flood of memories rushed into his mind.

Lu Yan had experienced something like this before. The last time the Pearl of Inheritance passed on its memories of talisman making to Lu Yan, it was in this situation. It seems that this should be the memory inheritance of the God of Mining.

"Young man, I have spent my entire life mining. Through mining, I have tempered myself, honed my will, and cleared away my troubles. That is why I am so adept at using a pickaxe."

"I have created the unique skill 'The Eighteen Styles of Pickaxe,' which has made me undefeated against any enemy since then. I now pass it on to you, hoping that you will carry on the tradition of the miner." A powerful voice entered Lu Yan's ears.

Holy crap! This pickaxe actually has some tricks up its sleeve, it's fucking amazing.

However, Lu Yan was somewhat troubled when the mining god asked him to promote and develop the mining profession. How could he promote and develop this profession? Was he supposed to start a riot?

The cultivators who go mining are all of extremely poor aptitude, with no future to speak of, and they can't develop their careers even if they want to.

Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time and see what the eighteen styles of this pickaxe are like.

Lu Yan opened the panel and found that the words "Eighteen Styles of Pickaxe" had appeared below the phantom of the Pickaxe of the Mining God.

Lu Yan clicked, and then eighteen lines of smaller text appeared below the large characters. The first line read "One pickaxe settles the world", and the second line read "Whirlwind Soul-Chasing Pickaxe".

As for the rest being all unknown, it seems my strength is insufficient to make it manifest.

Lu Yan first clicked on the first technique to learn.

Then Lu Yan seemed to see a giant wielding the pickaxe of the mining god, swinging it downwards with all his might.

In an instant, even the void began to shatter, and then the pickaxe tip struck the ground, causing a massive explosion.

After it was over, an introduction echoed in Lu Yan's mind.

"One pickaxe decides the fate"

There's a saying that brute force can break through all laws, but a single pickaxe can also break through all defenses. One swing of the pickaxe can shatter the void and reduce everything to dust. There's nothing a single pickaxe can't solve; if there is, then just use another pickaxe.

Then the method of using the pickaxe to decide the fate of the world was incorporated into Lu Yan's mind.

He's impressive, but with Lu Yan's current physical condition, even wielding the God of Mining's Pickaxe would be a problem, let alone using it to decide the outcome of a battle.

Lu Yan continued to click on the second move, the Whirlwind Soul-Chasing Pickaxe.

It was the same giant, who was fighting a group of terrifying monsters. Suddenly, he threw the pickaxe of the mining god with all his might.

The pickaxe spun rapidly in the air, shattering space and dissipating everything in its path. Thousands upon thousands of those terrifying monsters vanished in an instant.

Whirlwind Soul-Chasing Pickaxe

When I throw the Pickaxe of the Mining God in my hand, nothing can stop it; their bodies and souls cannot escape its pursuit and vanish into the world.

After integrating the Whirlwind Soul-Chasing Pickaxe, Lu Yan also realized the power of this move.

Together, they can decide the outcome with a single pickaxe strike; one is a close-range attack, and the other is a long-range attack.

But Lu Yan soon discovered that these eighteen styles of pickaxe techniques were only eighteen unique skills; he still needed to figure out the moves himself.

It seems I still need to seriously study my knife and axe techniques and eventually integrate them into my pickaxe.

After dealing with the matter of the Mine God's Pickaxe, Lu Yan began to review his gains over the past two days.

First, there's that metal box. I don't know what it's made of. I can't open it no matter what I do, and I don't have a key. Do I really have to wait until later?

Suddenly it occurred to me that my mining pickaxe was indestructible.

Want to try it?

Without further ado, Lu Yan placed the iron box on the ground, then took out the Mining God's Pickaxe, lifted it with great effort, and struck the iron box.

"Clang~"

With a clang, the iron box was completely destroyed, and a bronze ring rolled out of it.

"Is this a storage ring?" Lu Yan was overjoyed when he saw the ring. He had seen it earlier that day when he passed by a magic item shop in Zhongcheng District.

I was envious for a long time, but I never expected to get one myself that night. My luck is truly indescribable.

Lu Yan picked up the ring and connected it to his divine sense. He immediately sensed a space inside that was about three zhang long, wide, and high.

(For ease of reading, this text is written in units of 3 inches and 10 centimeters, 3 feet and 1 meter, 30 feet and 10 meters. Please do not use typos.)

"I've got it! I've got it!" Lu Yan was overjoyed to learn that the space inside was so vast.

Keep in mind that even the cheapest storage bag in the market, with an internal space of only two feet, would cost more than ten spirit stones.

This area, measuring three zhang square, would contain at least several thousand spirit stones.

For twenty-five spirit stones, I got something worth several thousand spirit stones, a profit of several hundred times.

Lu Yan quickly refined the ring, then put it on his hand. With a sweep of his divine sense, the abandoned iron box on the ground immediately disappeared and appeared in his spatial ring.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Yan put all the valuables in the house into the ring.

But Lu Yan felt that the ring had other effects as well.

Lu Yan tried to control the storage ring. With a thought, the storage ring suddenly disappeared, leaving only a faint mark on his finger, barely noticeable unless you looked closely.

I never expected my storage ring could make me invisible. I was just wondering how to bring spirit ore from the mine, and now this is perfect.