The crowd began to disperse. Wang Yin saw two young men with fierce eyes talking not far in front of him. They were both strong and sturdy, about fifteen or sixteen years old, one tall and one short. Wang Yin immediately had an idea!
"You two, can I join? All the spirit stones we earn will belong to you two, and I have only one request!"
Of course, these two fierce young men had an impression of Wang Yin. After all, only four people passed the second test of the spirit pillar and became inner disciples, and Wang Yin was one of them. Of course, the others were impressed.
"What are your requirements?" The tall boy wasn't easily fooled. While the premise was tempting, the requirements were certainly high.
"Come, let's talk over there!" Wang Yin knew something was going to happen when he heard the other party's reply, so he pulled the two of them away from the crowd.
"You two also know that I have been qualified to be an inner disciple. So it doesn't matter to me who is the top three in collecting low-grade spirit stones this time. So if I can find low-grade spirit stones, I will give them all to you two. Even if we can snatch low-grade spirit stones, we can give them to you two!" Avoiding the crowd, Wang Yin began to speak temptingly.
"And my target is only one person, Yuanxiao! If he finds a low-grade spirit stone, then we will snatch it from him! Even if he doesn't find it, I will still duel with him. All you need to do during the duel is to help me a little and control him. The fighting will naturally depend on me! Or if others intervene, help me stop them. That's all you two need to do!"
"The person you mentioned is not easy to deal with. He has exploded ten stars! It is still unknown whether we can find low-grade spirit stones in the mine. It seems not worth it for us to do such a dangerous thing for an uncertain promise!" The tall boy was also good at calculating and said slowly. After listening, the short boy nodded frequently.
Yes, maybe there is no low-grade spirit stone to be found in the entire mine. Even if you want to steal someone else’s, they may not have it!
"What if we add the mantra for the third level of the Qi Chain Period? As outer disciples, you only have the mantras for levels 1 to 2, but we who are inner disciples can get the mantras for levels 1 to 3 immediately. On the road to immortality, one step slow leads to every step slow. If you can get this mantra for the third level, you will be the same as us inner disciples. How about this condition?" Wang Yin threw out another heavy bait.
"Then let's do it! Remember to fulfill it after receiving the Qi Refining Formula!" The two young men, tall and short, finally made up their minds!
And Wang Yin had secretly noted down the mine that Yuanxiao chose to enter!
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Yuanxiao chose a mine tunnel on the mountain that extended forward. The mine tunnel was two meters high and three meters wide. If several people walked in, it was quite spacious.
The reason why we did not choose the mine leading to the underground is because most people chose the mine leading to the underground. After all, the possibility of finding low-grade spirit stones underground is greater.
At the end of the mine, at the site where excavation finally stopped, there was a greater chance of missing low-grade spirit stones. Whether this was actually the case was unknown, but many people shared this idea. This speculation was also very reasonable, so the largest number of people went to the underground mine, including Fatty and Xu Ying.
Yuan Xiao chose to go to the mine in front of him, mainly to avoid the crowd. Yuan Xiao's ultimate goal was to conduct an experiment to purify the miscellaneous spirit stones with the Apocalypse Pearl, not to search for low-grade spirit stones.
When this mine was being mined, people came and went, making it almost impossible for any low-grade spirit stones to remain. After it was abandoned, it was impossible for new low-grade spirit stones to form even after a hundred years. Furthermore, due to the sect selection trials, it's likely that people have visited more than once, making the possibility of low-grade spirit stones remaining in the current mine even lower.
Instead of wasting time searching for something that was unlikely to exist, it was better to complete the most pressing experiment at hand. If the experiment was successful, then he would have no shortage of low-grade spirit stones.
The most important task now was to get rid of everyone, especially Wang Yin. No matter what, Wang Yin and the others couldn't discover the secret of the Apocalypse Pearl. Even if he wanted to duel with Wang Yin, he had to wait until the experiment was completed.
Yuanxiao walked forward quickly, holding the night pearl. As he walked, he found a surprise: the mine was not completely independent. For example, there was a fork in the front, turning one mine into two mines.
Yuanxiao chose the mine on the left and walked in. After walking for a while, he found another surprise. It turned out that this mine was intertwined with other mines, and the two mines became one, still extending forward.
In this case, it would be difficult for Wang Yin and others to track him, because these mines are like spider webs, with many forks and fusions, just like a maze. It is easy to walk into different mines and not meet each other.
Yuanxiao touched the storage ring, put away the night pearl and threw it in. The surroundings immediately fell into darkness, but this could reduce the chance of exposing himself, allow him to hide himself better, and make it easier to observe others approaching.
Ever since Yuan Xiao had his marrow cleansed by the I Ching of the Apocalypse Pearl, his hearing and eyesight had been sharp, and his sensory abilities had been greatly enhanced. Even in the darkness, he could vaguely see things ahead, though they weren't as clear. Slowing down his pace a bit, he could see them without any problems, without any difficulty.
Now that he had just arrived at the second intersection and fusion point, Yuanxiao suddenly had a bold idea, which was to stop moving forward and instead follow the fork in the road that had just merged in and return to the square at the entrance of the mine.
Wang Yin and others were probably chasing him along the mine he had first entered. No matter which fork they chose, as long as they continued to move forward, and he was now following another fork back to the square at the entrance of the mine, the distance between the two would only get farther and farther.
Even if Wang Yin wakes up at some point and comes back to chase him, he just needs to return to the square at the entrance of the mine in advance and choose another mine to enter. There are hundreds of entrances there, and it is impossible for Wang Yin to find him in one day.
Yuanxiao made a quick decision and walked back along the fused mine, groping in the dark. After walking for about an incense stick of time, he returned to the square at the entrance of the mine. Before exiting the cave, Yuanxiao carefully observed the square for a while. At this time, there was no one in the square. What a good opportunity!
Yuanxiao immediately jumped out of the cave and chose a mine that sloped upwards, and ran in madly. If the purpose of going there was to find low-grade spirit stones, I believe no one would choose a mine that sloped upwards, because the length of the upward mine was limited, and it was one of the earliest mines excavated, and it was also the cleanest mine that had been searched, and it was even less likely to leave low-grade spirit stones.
But this is exactly the effect Yuanxiao wants, no one else is better.
After walking for two incense sticks, I still didn't see anyone else.
After passing several forks in the road, sometimes choosing left, sometimes right, Yuanxiao estimated that he was far away from the square and relatively safe. Only then did he take out the night pearl from his ring and carefully observe the surrounding situation.
While rushing on the road just now, Yuanxiao had discovered that every few steps in the mine, a small platform would be dug out on the mountains on both sides. It might be used for the transfer of materials or spirit stones. There would be a lot of gray miscellaneous spirit stones left in these places.
The opportunity to experiment has arrived!