Chapter 149: Spiritual Mine

Old Zhao finished this sentence, then fainted again. It seemed this sentence was his obsession; from the moment he fell off the cliff, he held onto his last breath just to say it.

"Elder Feng!" Elder Yu quickly said.

Elder Feng went forward and looked, checking his pulse and examining his meridians. He let out a breath.

"No harm, he just fainted. Let him rest. I'll go refine some pills."

"Thank you for your trouble, Elder Feng," Elder Yu thanked him.

Elder Feng left the room, and Elder Yu's expression became solemn.

In Dàhēi Shān, there was actually a spirit mine!

Elder Yu paced a few steps in the room, then stopped and called a demon hunter. He instructed him:

"You go, notify Yu Chengyi, gather all the leading demon hunters. I have something to say!"

That demon hunter received the order and left. Mo Hua then asked curiously:

"Elder Yu, what is a spirit mine?"

Mo Hua only knew that spirit mines contained spirit stones, but he wasn't clear on the specifics.

Elder Yu saw that there was still plenty of time and that it would take time for the demon hunters to gather, so he patiently explained to Mo Hua:

"Cultivators need spiritual energy to cultivate, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is thin. Except for some famous mountains and great rivers where spiritual energy still gathers, in other remote places, like our Tōngxiān City, the spiritual energy is already too thin to support cultivators' cultivation."

"Since that's the case, cultivators can only cultivate through spirit stones, and the source of spirit stones is spirit mines."

"A so-called spirit mine is a place where, in ancient times, the dense spiritual energy or spiritual mist between the mountains solidified, assimilated with the mountain rocks, and followed the changes in the mountain terrain to be buried at the bottom of the mountain, accumulating over the years..."

"Some are formed because ancient spirit beasts, large areas of spiritual grass, spiritual things, and other energy-rich items, due to great heaven-sent calamities or many changes and upheavals, were buried underground, their spiritual energy dissolving to finally form spirit mines..."

Mo Hua nodded, and a question involuntarily came to mind:

"The books I've read say that in ancient times, great cultivators could move mountains and overturn seas, steal the sky and change the day. Was the spiritual energy also thin at that time?"

"This... I..." Elder Yu thought for a bit and said, "It is said that in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely dense. Later, it experienced a great calamity, the pattern of heaven and earth changed, and the spiritual energy gradually thinned."

"What great calamity?"

"This I just don't know. They are all legends, vague and unclear, not knowing if they are true or false."

After Elder Yu finished speaking, he said again:

"Another reason for the thin spiritual energy is that there are too many cultivators now..."

"Before the Dào Court unified the cultivation world, various forces warred year after year, the common people suffered, and countless cultivators died and were injured. After the Dào Court unified, they formulated laws, prohibiting indiscriminate killing. The cultivation world was able to multiply and thrive, and there were gradually more cultivators."

"But with more cultivators, they absorb more spiritual energy during cultivation, and naturally, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth decreases."

"By today, two tens of thousands of years later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is extremely thin, basically only able to rely on refining spirit stones to cultivate."

Mo Hua suddenly realized, and then worriedly said:

"Then if the spirit stones between heaven and earth are used up, won't cultivators be unable to cultivate?"

"They won't be used up."

Mo Hua was a little stunned. "It's impossible not to use them up, right?"

"At least they can be used for another few tens of thousands of years without a problem."

Mo Hua frowned slightly. "But we always don't have enough spirit stones..."

Elder Yu said: "That's because we don't have a spirit mine."

Mo Hua fell silent.

Elder Yu sighed. "Between this heaven and earth, from big to small spirit mines, the Dào Court occupies half, and the rest are basically all occupied by powerful families and sects. We can only beg for some spirit stones from their gaps to live..."

"Those big families and sects naturally don't lack spirit stones. Only we loose cultivators lack spirit stones."

Elder Yu looked at Mo Hua and sighed, saying:

"The Heavenly Way nurtures all things with spiritual energy; the Heavenly Way is fair, but people are not."

Mo Hua's expression was solemn, and he involuntarily thought of a sentence:

The Heavenly Way, damages the excess to supplement the insufficient; the Human Way, damages the insufficient to offer the excess.

"Can we occupy the spirit mine in Dàhēi Shān?" Mo Hua asked.

Elder Yu frowned and said: "According to convention, ownerless large and medium spirit mines belong to the Dào Court, and the mined spirit stones are used to benefit the cultivators of this state—of course, they say it is for benefit, but there is a high probability they will still embezzle them privately..."

"As for small spirit mines, generally it's first come, first served."

Mo Hua asked: "Then is this spirit mine in Dàhēi Shān considered first occupied by us, or first occupied by the Qián family?"

"That's hard to say."

Elder Yu said, then raised his eyebrows and said to Mo Hua, "However, generally, whoever has the biggest fist is the one who occupies it first."

Mo Hua was stunned.

Half a *shí chén* later, demon hunters gathered in the courtyard of Elder Yu's home.

Those who came were generally leading demon hunters from the demon hunter teams, and their cultivation levels were all at the ninth layer of refining energy. Mo Shan was also among them.

Elder Yu sat steadily in the center, and the others sat on either side.

Mo Hua also wanted to know the follow-up to the matter, so he moved a chair and sat to the side to listen.

The demon hunters on both sides involuntarily looked at the ten-year-old Mo Hua.

This was a discussion among demon hunters, was it really okay for Mo Hua, this child, to be here...?

But they didn't dare ask.

Because Elder Yu's temper wasn't very good when he came, and now his expression was solemn, like the mountain rain was about to come. Everyone dared not speak more.

If they touched Elder Yu's eyebrows, even if they were at the ninth layer of refining energy, they would be scolded bloody.

Forget it, since Mo Hua is here, he must have Elder Yu's approval. They just pretend not to see him.

At this time, Mo Hua was not far from Elder Yu, sitting on a high chair, swinging his little legs back and forth.

Everyone looked at him, and their hearts were all somewhat complex and difficult to express.

Elder Yu indulged this child too much...

Though he indulged him, let him indulge him. Anyway, they didn't dare say anything.

Elder Yu saw that Mo Hua was also there, and felt somewhat gratified.

In his view, with Mo Hua's talent, he would definitely be an array master in the future, and perhaps even pass the fixed grade and become a first-grade array master.

Array masters were unattainable for loose cultivators like them.

It was naturally best that Mo Hua cared about the affairs of the demon hunters.

Elder Yu thought silently.

When everyone had arrived, Elder Yu spoke about the spirit mine.

The whole room was shocked.

This was a spirit mine, an ownerless spirit mine!

Thinking again that Old Zhao had almost died at the hands of the Qián family, a demon hunter scolded:

"This group of beasts from the Qián family, not only did they steal and dig the spirit mine, but they also wanted to kill people to silence them!"

"Old Zhao's life was almost gone!"

"Damn it, this group of bastards from the Qián family!"

Another cultivator suddenly thought, "Could it be that Old Sun's disappearance before was also done by the Qián family?"

Everyone was slightly stunned, and immediately their faces clouded over.

It wasn't just Old Sun, but also several other demon hunters who had disappeared before.

They had thought they had slipped and fallen off a cliff, or been eaten by demon beasts. Now, looking at it, it was possible that the Qián family had killed them for the sake of silence.

"Son of a dog!"

"They're too much of a bully!"

The demon hunters all cursed loudly one after another. For a time, public sentiment was excited.

Elder Yu frowned, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then began to instruct:

"Gather all the demon hunters in the late stage of refining energy. We'll also take advantage of the dark night to go up the mountain, search the mountain little by little, and find the location of the spirit mine."

A demon hunter asked: "What if we encounter Qián family cultivators?"

"Capture them and interrogate them carefully."

"What if we encounter a large group of Qián family cultivators?"

Elder Yu's expression turned stern. He angrily slapped the table and said:

"Then just kill them!"

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