txolops Chapter 155 Getting Rich Quick! The Plan to Seize the Spirit Eye Spring!
Chapter 155 Getting Rich Quick! The Plan to Seize the Spirit Eye Spring!
Finally, enveloped by the power of the Earth Escape Talisman, Lin Chuan's body sank down, passing through layers of hard, gray-white rock, and arrived deep inside the belly of one of the giant mountains.
This place is hundreds of feet above the ground, and the surroundings are deathly silent, with only the occasional faint humming sound coming from deep within the rock layers.
Lin Chuan spread out his divine sense and carefully sensed.
really!
Countless tiny spiritual energy nodes are densely distributed in the rock strata surrounding this mountain.
Those nodes, like stars, dotted the darkness, each representing a spirit stone!
A smile appeared on Lin Chuan's lips.
Instead of taking immediate action, he found a relatively flat area inside the mountain and used his flying sword to carve out a simple cave dwelling.
The cave was not large, only about ten feet in circumference, enough for him to stay temporarily.
Then, he sat down cross-legged and patted the storage bag at his waist.
"Splash—"
Hundreds of humanoid puppets lay densely packed on the ground.
Some of these puppets were captured years ago, while others were collected from various historical sites.
They vary in size and shape.
Lin Chuan split his divine sense and simultaneously controlled hundreds of puppets, issuing commands.
Hundreds of puppets turned around in unison and began to carve out in all directions, following the spiritual energy nodes detected by Lin Chuan's divine sense.
"Crack... Boom..."
The sounds of excavation echoed throughout the mountainside.
Lin Chuan sat cross-legged in the cave, meditating while monitoring the progress of the puppets with his divine sense.
……
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
For the past month, the puppets have been digging day and night, carving out countless crisscrossing passages in the mountain's belly, creating a vast underground labyrinth.
Inside Lin Chuan's cave, spirit stones had already piled up into a small mountain.
There are several thousand mid-grade spirit stones!
There were tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, piled up all over the ground, and Lin Chuan was too lazy to count them.
The most precious items were those dozen or so high-grade spirit stones.
Each of these high-grade spirit stones is the size of a baby's fist, with a jade-green color and a rich, pure wood-attribute spiritual energy.
They lay quietly on the top layer of the spirit stone pile, emitting a faint glow that illuminated the entire cave with lush greenery.
One high-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for ten thousand low-grade spirit stones on the market. But that's only the theoretical price.
In reality, high-grade spirit stones are priceless and have no market. If you want to exchange a low-grade spirit stone for a high-grade spirit stone, even if you offer nearly 100,000 low-grade spirit stones, it's unlikely anyone will be willing to do so.
Because the value of high-grade spirit stones goes far beyond this.
A single high-grade spirit stone can increase the power of some formations by several times! If all the bases of a formation are inlaid with high-grade spirit stones, its power can be increased several times over!
This has immeasurable value in combat, trapping enemies, and protecting mountains.
"Haha, we're about to make a fortune..."
Looking at the small mountain of spirit stones in front of him, Lin Chuan couldn't help but grin and laugh out loud, even though he was usually calm and composed.
He knew that the island primarily produced wood-attribute spirit stones.
When later generations discovered it, they named it Biling Island.
He was well aware of the preciousness of high-grade spirit stones.
In the original story, even the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, Qian the Demon, only had a few high-grade spirit stones in his storage bag.
And now, in just one month, he has dug up more than a dozen pieces!
"Keep digging."
Lin Chuan suppressed his excitement and continued to control the puppet.
But then he realized a crucial problem—to protect this spirit stone mine.
Such a vast mineral deposit, once exposed, will inevitably attract countless powerful individuals to fight over it.
At that time, let alone someone at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, even someone at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm might not be able to save him.
An array must be set up to conceal the anomaly here.
Lin Chuan took out a set of array equipment from his storage bag—the Image Retention Array.
This was an opportunity he obtained from the ruins of an ancient monk during his early travels.
Once this array is set up, it can create an illusion that is completely identical to the surrounding environment. From the outside, everything looks just like the real thing.
Even a peak Core Formation cultivator would find it difficult to see through.
Lin Chuan set up the array plates and flags of the illusion array around the cave.
Then, he took out eight high-grade spirit stones and embedded them into the core groove of the formation.
"Buzz—"
The moment the formation was activated, an invisible wave spread out.
The surrounding rock strata distorted slightly before returning to normal.
But from the outside, everything looks exactly the same as before, with no signs of anything unusual.
With the support of these eight high-grade spirit stones, the power and endurance of the Shadow Array far exceed those of ordinary arrays.
Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator or a transformed demon passed by here, it would be difficult to discern anything amiss without careful investigation.
"Now I can rest assured."
Lin Chuan nodded in satisfaction.
……
Next, while controlling the puppet to continue mining, he began setting up another array in the quiet room—
Teleportation array.
With his current mastery of array formations, setting up a teleportation array to the inner sea is no longer a difficult task.
He took out the materials he had collected from various places—void stones, black iron, spirit jade, etc.—and meticulously refined, carved, and assembled them one by one.
Six months later, the teleportation array was completed.
Six months later, the teleportation array was completed.
The cyan jade base, densely covered with runes, exudes a gentle spatial fluctuation.
Lin Chuan took out the sea chart and selected an extremely remote location in the southwest of the inner sea—there was a deserted island there, with neither cultivators nor mortals, and it was sparsely populated for thousands of miles around.
When he goes to the Inner Sea next time, he plans to set up a teleportation array on that deserted island, connecting it to the teleportation array here.
In this way, he can travel freely between the inner sea and Biling Island, which is both safe and convenient.
……
Over the next six months, the puppets continued their digging.
Lin Chuan now has dozens more high-grade spirit stones!
He put all the spirit stones into his storage bag, affixed a sealing talisman, and kept them close to his body.
Then, he used an earth-遁符 (earth-遁符, a type of talisman) to leave Biling Island.
Two months later, Lin Chuan arrived at Silver Shark Island.
They then used a teleportation array belonging to a minor faction to return to the inner sea.
……
Half a month later, Lin Chuan returned to the cave dwelling where he and Yuan Yao had previously lived.
As soon as the light descended, the cave's restrictions opened automatically, and a beautiful figure flew out from inside.
"Brother Chuan!"
Yuan Yao was overjoyed and quickly came to greet her.
Lin Chuan smiled slightly, opened his arms, and pulled her into his embrace.
The two lingered tenderly for a long time before finally entering the cave together.
"Was the trip smooth?" Yuan Yao leaned on his shoulder and asked softly.
Lin Chuan nodded and then told her in detail about the discovery of the high-grade spirit stone mine.
"High-grade spirit stone ore?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yao's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.
"And the yield is extremely high?" she asked incredulously.
"Mm." Lin Chuan nodded with a smile.
Yuan Yao took a deep breath, suppressing her shock, and then excitedly hugged Lin Chuan.
"Very good!"
……
After his excitement subsided, Lin Chuan revealed his plan:
"I plan to move there to cultivate. The spirit stone mines there are enough for us to cultivate to the late Nascent Soul stage. Moreover, that island is extremely secluded, making it difficult for outsiders to find."
Yuan Yao nodded without hesitation.
"I'll listen to you."
But then, Lin Chuan thought of a problem.
The island's spiritual veins were quite ordinary, and the concentration of spiritual energy was far less than that of the cave dwelling with the Spirit Eye Spring.
His Spirit Eye Spring remains in his cave in Tianxing City.
The Star Sea is currently in the midst of war, and Tianxing City is under martial law, so it is clear that it cannot be taken back.
We must rebuild the Fountain of Spiritual Eyes.
Deliberately seeking an unclaimed sacred spring is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Moreover, spiritual springs, being such rare and precious objects of nature, are always owned by powerful figures who would not easily relinquish them.
There's only one way then—
Rob.
With the Star Sea in chaos right now, seizing a spiritual spring won't attract much attention.
As long as it's done cleanly and neatly, no one will know who did it.
The question is, whose will they steal?
Lin Chuan's mind raced, and he quickly locked onto a target.
The Supreme Yin Ancestor.
This old guy's Yin Island must have a Spirit Eye Spring, and maybe more than one.
Moreover, Ji Yin is still after him—since the incident at the Void Heaven Palace, Ji Yin has been investigating the person who stole the Void Heaven Cauldron.
Stealing his spiritual spring is both a way to strengthen oneself and a form of revenge.
"He's the one."
Lin Chuan made a decision.