Oh no, I accidentally cultivated three spiritual roots and became an empress!

Chapter 189 Don't Let That Spiritual Essence Get Away

The disciples of the Qingyun Sect also increased their patrols and set up layer upon layer of defensive formations.

Various minor conflicts occur every day, gradually threatening to spiral out of control.

After dealing with the cultivators trapped in the formation, Zhong Lingxin turned around and circled behind the evil cultivators surrounding the Qingyun Sect and the cultivators from the Lingyun Sect and other sects. She trapped any lone cultivators in the formation and killed them.

Amidst this chaos, a heretical cultivator suddenly received a message that the Blood Shadow Sect had also discovered a mineral vein.

Immediately, the evil cultivators and sect disciples surrounding the Qingyun Sect were all dumbfounded.

Are their sect disciples still coming?

If they weren't coming, why would they be besieging the Qingyun Sect?

Are these heretical cultivators going to join forces with the disciples of righteous sects to deal with the Qingyun Sect?

Just then, some evil cultivators discovered that several of their fellow cultivators who had been wandering around the outskirts of the Qingyun Sect with them a few days ago were missing.

Did they run away?

When the heretical practitioners sent out a communication talisman, they received a reply confirming that the heretics had indeed withdrawn.

The mineral vein discovered at the Blood Shadow Sect is also very large. Instead of fighting here, we should go there to mine it.

After all, the purpose of fighting is also for spirit stones, and with the Qingyun Sect so well-defended, they may not necessarily gain the upper hand in a fight.

The heretical practitioners all fled in a flash.

The disciples of the Beast Taming Sect, the Taixu Sect, and the Lingyun Sect were caught in a dilemma.

Let them fight. They are outnumbered, and none of their high-ranking disciples are here. They are clearly no match for the Qingyun Sect disciples.

Let's stay here; people from their sect might not come.

A Lingyun Sect disciple sent a message to Senior Brother Wen, and the reply was that they were on their way to that spirit stone mine, which was closer.

After a brief discussion, the disciples of Lingyun Sect quickly withdrew and headed to the spirit stone mine.

The disciples of the Beast Taming Sect and the Taixu Sect also received a message from their leader that people were already digging over there, so they should head over there.

Zhong Lingxin breathed a sigh of relief. The Blood Shadow Sect's discovery of this mine was timely, directly relieving them of their predicament.

The heretical cultivators and disciples from the Taixu Sect and Lingyun Sect disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The Qingyun Sect, Chaoyuan Sect, and Zixia Sect are all working hard to start excavating.

If we dig quickly, we might even be able to reach the other vein and dig a few more holes.

Zhong Lingxin didn't go back to the camp to mine. Instead, she sent a message to Liu Qiang, saying that she would walk around the spiritual vein twice to see if there were any things she should pay attention to.

Zhong Chun nagged Zhong Lingxin: "Xinxin, hurry up! The more spiritual energy formed in a mineral vein, the more good things will grow around it. You should search more quickly, and then we can get into the core of the mine before others and dig out the spirit stones inside, which will earn us more than others."

Zhong Lingxin believed Zhong Chun's words and for a whole month, she kept digging up several spiritual herbs and even collected a spiritual spring into the Nine-Story Pagoda.

Looking at this spiritual spring, Zhong Chun almost laughed his jaw off: "Xin Xin, I told you to take a walk. You already have the Jade Yang Spring, and now you have this Yin Ling Spring. One is yin and the other is yang, which is a perfect balance. The yang spiritual herbs are planted over the Jade Yang Spring, and all the spiritual herbs dug up from this ancient battlefield are planted next to this Yin Ling Spring."

Before Zhong Lingxin could even admire the two Yinling Springs, Zhong Chun urged her again, "Xinxin, dig down along this spring, straight to the center of the spiritual vein. You need to hurry, others have been digging for half a year, you have to be in a rush."

Zhong Lingxin was so frustrated she almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

I'm in a hurry.

Of course she knew she had to hurry.

But she's always busy.

Seeing Zhong Lingxin panting heavily, Zhong Chun quickly tried to soothe her: "Xinxin, we've killed so many evil cultivators, and those few who weren't really evil cultivators (in Zhong Chun and his friends' minds, cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect, the Taixu Sect, and the Lingyun Sect were all pretty much evil cultivators), we've earned enough. But, we wouldn't mind if we got some more spirit stones. We have Huanhuan and the Purple Lightning Sable, they're fast at mining spirit stones."

The purple sable hurriedly declared, "I'm not fast, I'm not fast, I'm just helping Huanhuan."

Huanhuan tossed her head and raised her little paw: "Watch this."

It plunged headfirst into the ground and began digging with both claws.

Dust billowed behind her.

Zhong Lingxin hurriedly collected all the dust into the Nine-Story Pagoda, then set up a trapping illusion array at the source of Yinling Spring before following Huanhuan down into the underground.

Zhong Chun followed Zhong Lingxin, sensing the density of spiritual energy along the way, and directed Huanhuan to adjust the direction of the planer.

Zhong Lingxin didn't care how many spirit stones she could dig up; she only cared about speed. So Huanhuan dug extremely fast.

In just three short months, they dug up the spiritual vein center.

Before Zhong Lingxin and her friends appeared a mine shaft about ten feet square.

In the center of the mine, a small, crystal-clear flower floats suspended.

Zhong Chun and Huanhuan's voices trembled with excitement: "Xin Xin, it's a spirit flower, it's a spirit flower! With this spirit flower, you'll never lack spiritual energy again."

Zhong Lingxin had only seen spirit flowers in the "Records of Extraordinary Treasures" and knew that spirit flowers were the essence of an entire vein of spirit stones. They were even more difficult to cultivate than spirit marrow.

It can be said that out of ten thousand spiritual veins, perhaps one hundred spiritual marrows can grow, but not necessarily a single spiritual flower can be nurtured.

The spirit flower may have sensed danger, as it darted around the mine like lightning.

Zhong Lingxin didn't dare waste any time and silently said, "Stop!"

The spirit flower was then stored in the Nine-Story Pagoda.

Zhong Chun hurriedly crawled back into the Nine-Story Pagoda, sending a message to Huanhuan as he went: "Huanhuan, hurry up, there must be some spirit marrow nearby. Be careful and collect all these spirit crystals, don't let the spirit marrow get away."

During this period, Zhong Chun established his position among his friends with his extensive knowledge and accurate judgment, and his friends respected his opinions to varying degrees.

Upon hearing Zhong Chun's words, Huanhuan waved her little paws, leaving afterimages, and collected all the spirit crystals in the mine.

Zhong Lingxin was also afraid that the spiritual marrow would escape, so she followed Huanhuan's little paws with her divine sense. After detecting the fluctuation of spiritual energy, she and Huanhuan blocked the two pieces of spiritual marrow and put them into their space.

Zhong Chun happily buried the two pieces of spiritual marrow, along with some spiritual soil residue, on the north side of the Nine-Story Pagoda.

While burying it, he told Zhong Lingxin, "Although this spiritual marrow does not have the five elements attribute, it has grown for too long in the ancient battlefield and has given birth to the Yin Ling Spring, so it is more or less yin. Let's bury it in the north, it's cold in the north."

Seeing that the spirit crystal in the very center had been completely dug out, Zhong Lingxin emptied out the spirit soil debris and backed away while filling it in.

Now, she's starting to think about the spirit stone mine that the Blood Shadow Sect discovered.

She was very grateful that the Blood Shadow Sect's spirit stone mine was discovered in a timely manner. She thought that the spirit stone mine had not been discovered for as long as this one, nor had it been excavated for as long as this one, so it probably hadn't reached the center yet.

Huanhuan waved her little paw and said boldly, "Xinxin, let's just go and take him down and kill all the evil cultivators."