Yuanxiao immediately became interested.
Hoe, hatchet, crowbar, hammer, pickaxe, dung shovel... six or seven kinds of farm tools were thrown out at once, leaving Xiao Jin dumbfounded.
Yuanxiao suffers from leaving home anxiety, so his storage ring contains everything he can find in the countryside. Otherwise, how could he have picked up that dung shovel when the fat and thin duo were fighting last time?
Yuanxiao threw Xiaojin onto his shoulder, picked up the dung shovel and started digging along the small hole dug by Xiaojin. When he encountered gravel blocking the way, he used a crowbar.
Luckily, Yuanxiao had just reached the first level of Qi Refining yesterday, so today I had a place to use all my strength. If I had discovered this remaining ore the last time I came here, I might not have had the energy to dig it out!
After digging about ten feet deep, I could see the white spiritual stone ore through the small hole. After digging another foot deeper, I could see the spiritual stone ore directly.
Yuanxiao was holding a hoe, swinging it so hard it was practically smoking. As long as he swung the hoe well, there was no wall... no, there was no spiritual stone he couldn't dig up!
Gradually, a lump of spirit stone ore, about half a man's height and three feet in diameter, emerged. Yuan Xiao hollowed out the soil beneath the ore, then thrust his crowbar into the crack at the upper edge and pried it open. The entire lump of low-grade spirit stone ore rolled down.
Wow, it's about the same size as the fattest pig back home! If it were cut into standard-sized low-grade spirit stones, it would probably yield hundreds of pieces!
No! This wasn't a low-grade spirit stone at all. In Yuan Xiao's hands, it was a giant mid-grade spirit stone the size of a fat pig!
Yuanxiao couldn't remain calm after becoming rich overnight! He picked up Xiao Jin and kissed her twice, but he couldn't control his saliva that flowed onto Xiao Jin's head.
Xiao Jin used his claws to fiddle with the saliva on his head and shook it off again and again, with a look of disgust on his face!
Yuanxiao reached out to touch the spirit stone mine, and the pig-sized spirit stone mine disappeared immediately. Xiao Jin was anxious all of a sudden, and jumped to the place where the spirit stone mine was just placed, looking around for it, and then dug under his feet!
"Don't worry, it's still here!" He raised his hand and took out the spirit stone ore from the storage ring and threw it on the ground next to him. Xiao Jin was stunned! It turned out that it was not lost!
"Look carefully, I put it away!" Yuanxiao explained regardless of whether Xiaojin understood or not.
Then he put the spirit stone ore away, released it, and put it away again... After repeating this cycle several times, Xiao Jin finally understood! It really wasn't lost! Just now, he was really scared!
Yuanxiao held out a spirit stone. Xiaojin jumped onto his palm and then onto his shoulder, then began to nibble on the low-grade spirit stone. The low-grade spirit stone Yuanxiao had given him was purified by the Apocalypse Pearl. Its spiritual energy was purer, and it tasted much better than wild low-grade spirit stones.
The man and the beast returned and walked towards the platform where Xiao Jin's first small hole was located. They had a great harvest today, so they called it a day and would come back another day to pick up miscellaneous spirit stones.
Before reaching the platform where the first small hole was located, Xiao Jin had already scurried out. By the time Yuan Xiao reached the platform, six or seven spirit stones were already spread out on the ground, including the one he had just gnawed on his shoulder. Xiao Jin then turned back and crawled into the hole again. After a while, he brought out another spirit stone, all of which Yuan Xiao had thrown into the hole yesterday as a gift.
After moving this piece, he did not go back into the cave. He picked up a spiritual stone with his left hand, picked up a spiritual stone with his right hand, and held another in his mouth. However, there were still a few pieces on the ground. He really couldn't pick them all up! This made Xiao Jin very anxious. He picked up one and this one fell down. He picked up another and that one fell down.
"Xiao Jin, moving is quite troublesome for you. Watch me!" Yuanxiao said, putting all the spirit stones into the ring, leaving only the one he had gnawed.
Then he took out the spirit stones and put them on the ground, and then put them away again. Xiao Jin understood this time, it turned out that this one was not lost!
"Let's go!" Yuanxiao strode towards the mine entrance, and Xiaojin caught up with him, picking up the spirit stone he had chewed. Yuanxiao patted his sleeves, and Xiaojin jumped up and slipped into his sleeves.
Xiao Jin was undoubtedly the hero in obtaining such a large piece of low-grade spirit stone ore this time. He didn't have many other treasures, but with this mine, he had no shortage of low-grade spirit stones, so providing for Xiao Jin was no problem at all.
Moreover, the spiritual medicine garden was very close to the mine, so Xiao Jin could easily travel back and forth between the mine and the medicine garden at any time. Xiao Jin could still eat the miscellaneous spiritual stones, but they wouldn't taste as good as the lower-grade spiritual stones.
The first thing I'd do when I returned to the medicine garden was to purify this large block of low-grade spirit stone ore into medium-grade spirit stone. Yesterday, I used up quite a bit of low-grade spirit stone while practicing. What would happen if I switched to medium-grade spirit stone? Would you like to give it a try?
Yuan Xiao suddenly remembered that he actually had a small, mid-grade spirit stone. It was the low-grade spirit stone sample that the sect had given him earlier, which Yuan Xiao had purified into a mid-grade spirit stone.
The herb garden was very quiet, with only the occasional chirping of insects. As soon as I entered the garden, Xiao Jin darted out from my sleeve and ran straight to the patch of spiritual herbs that had been watered with spiritual fluid last night. As expected of a spiritual beast naturally sensitive to spiritual energy, it immediately sensed that the patch was different.
It was precisely because of this that the Spirit-Eating Marten was used by the sect to search for spirit stone veins or treasures imbued with spiritual energy. Otherwise, Yuan Xiao wouldn't have this pig-sized piece of spirit stone ore in his hands today.
There were few people here, so there was no need to worry too much. Yuanxiao let Xiaojin play in the medicine garden while he went to the room, closed the door, and took out the spirit stone ore.
First, it needs to be cut. It is really inconvenient to use such a large piece.
He had used every dung shovel and hoe he could, but they hadn't made a single scratch on the spirit stone. Ordinary farm tools seemed incapable of cutting the spirit stone. Spirit stone only became brittle when its spiritual energy was depleted; before use, it was very solid.
Yuanxiao suddenly remembered the dagger he got from the unconscious Wang Yin in the mine last time. The dagger could be inserted into the stone slab on the ground if it was dropped casually. Yuanxiao was amazed at the sharpness of the dagger at that time.
After removing the dagger from the ring and unsheathing it, he saw the words "Fei Lu" written on the blade. Holding it in his hand, he could feel a surge of spiritual energy. This was undoubtedly a spiritual weapon. Wang Yin naturally couldn't possess a spiritual weapon; it was most likely loaned to him by his cousin, Wang Jin.
Yuanxiao wielded the dagger and sliced at the spirit stone. This time, without much effort, the Feilu dagger proved incredibly sharp, slicing through metal like mud. Yuanxiao casually chopped the low-grade spirit stone into small pieces, not insisting on a standard shape.
After these low-grade spirit stones were purified into medium-grade spirit stones, they were not intended to be traded, but mainly used for personal cultivation. If they were only used for personal cultivation, the shape did not matter, and uniform size was not required.
After roughly cutting them into sizes close to those of normal spirit stones, Yuanxiao threw all these low-grade spirit stones into the storage space and piled them together with the Apocalypse Pearl, allowing them to be slowly purified in the storage space, safely and securely.
Yuan Xiao casually took out the small medium-grade spirit stone. It was the same medium-grade spirit stone that was purified from the low-grade spirit stone sample that the sect had previously distributed. It was emerald green in color and full of spiritual energy.
This medium-grade spirit stone is only one-tenth the size of a normal spirit stone. So how many low-grade spirit stones can the spiritual energy contained in it match?