Chapter 20 Battle of Xuanqi Island

At the moment when the Guardian Circle was shattered, two lights flew out of it. Immortal Senior Liu and Immortal Senior Du who were standing in the air flew up to them. Then all kinds of magic methods and magic weapons clashed and collided, sending out a deafening sound. Fortunately, the four of them went farther and farther while fighting, and gradually left the sky of Xuanqi Island, which made all the disciples feel relieved. With a loud shout, they rushed into the building on the island, went up to their opponents separately, and fell into a fight with them. Lu Ping was angry and wanted to get even with the cultivator who attacked him surreptitiously with the round bead magic weapon. However, there were only a few disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect. With the individual cultivators of the "Tongxiu League" who had escaped, there were at most thirty people on their side… In contrast, there were more than forty disciples of the True Spirit Sect, including the disciples who were stationed on Xuanhua Island. When Lu Ping was finding that cultivator purposefully, the others had chosen their opponents and fallen into a fight with them. So, he had no opponent! Looking at all the senior disciples who were fighting against the enemies bravely, Lu Ping wondered which one of them he could help. Suddenly, he saw a figure flashing by behind an attic. He certainly wouldn't turn a blind eye to it, but seeing that the other party was acting secretly, he immediately hit upon an idea and quietly followed that person. The man in black in front of him was obviously anxious and panic. The attic was built on a high place in the cove. The man in black ran directly to a cliff in the distance. After he got close to the cliff, he took a turn. At the end of a piece of artificially leveled land, there was a mine cave. Dozens of ordinary miners were sitting at the entrance of the cave. Obviously, they had known what was going on outside. They looked worried, but the fight between cultivators usually wouldn't implicate ordinary people. Therefore, they did not run around, but just sat and waited for the result quietly. Seeing that the miners didn't run away, the man in black was very happy. He asked in a hurry, "Where are the spiritual stones you guys got these five days?" One of the miners who looked like the leader stepped forward and handed two storage bags to him. The man in black snatched the storage bags from his hand eagerly, opened them, put on a happy look, and then turned away. When the man in black passed by the cliff and was still immersed in the joy of getting unexpected wealth, he suddenly felt a murderous aura. A chill came from his head. He looked up, and a black object was coming at him with strong momentum. Before the man in black could show a look of despair, he was bashed into the earth to a depth of a meter by "Landslide". Lu Ping was a little surprised. This man was unprepared. How many spiritual stones could make a cultivator completely relax his vigilance in such a dangerous situation? Lu Ping put away "Landslide". It was a good thing to kill people and seize goods. If his cultivation improved in the future, this magic weapon also needed to be upgraded to meet his needs. Lu Ping picked up the two storage bags and the one owned by the cultivator in black. He looked around and saw no one was nearby, then he quickly checked the three storage bags. In the storage bag of the cultivator in black, there was a low-level magic weapon, Jade Ruyi, more than sixty spiritual stones, two bottles of elixirs which were used by the cultivators at the ninth level of Blood Refining to increase cultivation, several jade slips, and a map of Xuanqi Island and its adjacent waters. The rest were some spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, and miscellaneous items. When Lu Ping opened the other two storage bags, he was shocked before he could be delighted. This was not a simple matter! There were too many spiritual stones, more than one thousand and eight hundred! Earlier, Lu Ping heard their conversation clearly in the corner. This was the output in five days. On average, more than three hundred spiritual stones could be dug out in one day. This was a small-scale spiritual mine! Spiritual mines for cultivators were equivalent to gold for ordinary people! As far as Lu Ping knew, among the spiritual mines discovered in the cultivation world over the past tens of thousands of years, 95% of them were miniature mines, and more than 3% of them were small-scale mines. Medium-scale mines, large-scale mines, and even legendary giant mines accounted for less than 2%. Only twelve large-scale mines and six giant mines had been discovered. To possess a small-scale spiritual mine, a sect with Grandmasters at the Dharma stage needed to send out Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage to fight for it. To possess a medium-scale spiritual mine, Grandmasters at the Dharma stage needed to work on it in person. However, two or three sects would usually develop the mine together in the end. Only a giant sect could possess a medium-scale spiritual mine exclusively like Xuan Spirit Sect dominated the northern seas alone! Lu Ping had never heard of whom the large-scale spiritual mines and giant spiritual mines belonged to or which region they belonged to. Such spiritual mines must be developed jointly, but he didn't know how many sects would share them. Miniature spiritual mines had an average daily output of less than two hundred spiritual stones. Small-scale spiritual mines had an average daily output of less than five hundred spiritual stones. Medium-scale mines had an average daily output of less than one thousand spiritual stones. Lu Ping didn't know what the output limit of large-scale spiritual mines and giant spiritual mines was. Perhaps only the Grandmasters of the sects who participated in the development of those mines knew that. Lu Ping didn't know why Xuan Spirit Sect only sent cultivators at the Blood Dissolving stage to guard such an important spiritual mine. Maybe they didn't want to attract attention. Their True Spirit Sect probably hadn't known this, otherwise, they would not attack Xuanqi Island so rashly. If the matter was about several small islands, the Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage of each side might enter into a discussion, then fell into an argument, and at most sent out several disciples at the Blood Dissolving stage to deal with it. However, this small-scale spiritual mine could directly turn them against each other! No matter what the purpose of the True Spirit Sect's action was, there must be Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage behind it. They would discover the spiritual mine soon or later and could only ask their disciples to take measures in advance. Otherwise, these disciples would be killed by Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage of Xuan Spirit Sect who were rushing here before Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage of True Spirit Sect could take any actions! But he didn't want to hand in the spiritual stones for nothing. He had to think of an idea! Lu Ping, who had figured out the cause and effect, needed to make up a lie to hide this windfall. A good idea occurred to his mind at the crucial moment. He quickly cleaned the traces of the match and pretended that he had just found this place. He turned the corner of the cliff. Seeing the miners at the entrance of the cave, he asked with a curious look, "Huh? There is a mine cave here. Excuse me, what kind of mine cave is it?" ... The rest was simple. Lu Ping, who was wary, searched valuable things in Xuan Spirit Sect's encampment on the island on his way back. However, those disciples who were stationed on Xuanqi Island probably had packed up their things before True Spirit Sect attacked the island. Lu Ping almost found nothing. He only found dozens of one-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in a place that looked like an alchemy house. They were probably worth hundreds of spiritual stones. One of them was a five-hundred-year-old spiritual herb that could be used to refine blood dissolving elixirs, which made Lu Ping very excited! He returned to the magic circle. True Spirit Sect had already gained the upper hand. Lu Ping helped several senior disciples to capture the remaining enemies, then he watched Immortal Senior Liu and Immortal Senior Du team up to fight against Zhao Lingqiao of Xuan Spirit Sect and Zhang Zhihe, the leader of "Tongxiu League" in the distant sea with other disciples of the True Spirit Sect. The others were looking at the fight in the sky with reverence, but Lu Ping was absent-minded. The disciples at the Blood Refining stage hadn't cultivated Divine Mentality Coercion. They couldn't benefit from the fight between them at all. They were just watching it for fun, and they enjoyed it. An idea occurred to Lu Ping. He took out the map he got from the cultivator in black and read it in a covert place. Unexpectedly, Lu Ping's greed was aroused in an instant!