Ancestor Above

366 The spirit stone mine

Lu Qing had obtained the immemorial upgrade exchange item before. It could directly upgrade one of his talents, abilities, or cultivation techniques that had an immemorial prefix by one level. If it was a five-star, then the highest level would be five-star.

This was an exchange option that could be used to make up for his shortcomings.

Lu Qing thought about it. He did not have many primordial abilities that were not five-star. He casually left this exchange tab for future use.

Then, his gaze turned to the last six-star rare exchange option.

This was the real thing that could be of great use.

Lu Qing rubbed his fists and wiped his palms as he opened it. He saw its true appearance.

six-star rare: complete exploration of the area ”

[select an area and search for all the resources in the area. [these resources will be clearly marked on the host’s map panel.]

[exchange cost: 3000 karma]

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Lu Qing was stunned.’Isn’t this just an upgraded version of resource exploration?’ How could it be considered a six-star with a rare prefix? The exchange price of 3000 karma was also ridiculously expensive.

However, after he read the explanation of the exchange option more carefully, he vaguely understood what was so powerful about it.

All the resources in the area had been explored.

All of these words were very important.

Not to mention anything else, humans had been living in a familiar land like Ji Prefecture for countless years. Although this piece of land was vast, the resources within were still limited. Logically speaking, after such a long period of time, all the resources for cultivation should have been explored, right?

But that was not the case. Within a land, there would always be some great rivers, famous mountains, and forests. There were many ferocious monsters that lived in the area all year round, or the natural environment was not suitable for human development.

These places were likely to hide some resources.

To cultivators, these resources were not explored. No one knew what was valuable inside before exploring. In addition, the risk was not small. Therefore, there were definitely some undeveloped resources hidden in many places that had not been discovered.

In fact, in the current cultivation world, there were indeed people who specialized in this kind of thing. If he found something that was not big but had some value, he might take it for himself or develop it. If he could not develop it, he could sell it to some local forces. This kind of exploration team would take relatively high risks, but they would always be able to obtain a sum of income that belonged to them.

Furthermore, there were many cultivation resources in this world, but they were not non-renewable resources. In places with rich spiritual Qi, after a long time, there would always be some special changes, which led to the emergence of some minerals. Some spiritual plants could also grow in places with rich spiritual energy, and they might even mutate and grow into a whole. Some ordinary animals with some intelligence could also turn into spirit beast resource mayflies under the purification of the rich spirit Qi.

These were all possible. Moreover, in this vast world where most mortals lived, there were many times when these changes clearly happened, but no one knew about it.

If this was the case for familiar lands like Ji Prefecture and Jin Prefecture, then it was even more so for Feiyun Prefecture, which had a relatively smaller population and fewer cultivators.

Furthermore, the new divine deer County of the Feiyun state had not been developed much. There would definitely be a lot of resources in it that no one knew about.

Lu Qing tapped on the exchange tab and took a look at the details. He discovered that this completely explored region covered about half the size of the entire Feiyun state, including the divine deer County.

Lu Qing made his decision after some thought.

Lu Qing was prepared to use this exploration function on the Feiyun state. He would definitely cover the entire divine deer County. As for those that were more wealthy, he chose to split them into two. One part was used to envelop anling Prefecture, while the other was used in the area north of the divine Deer Forest.

This area was between the Feiyun state and the Xue state, and it was a part of the North barren forest. Later on, when the development of the divine deer County was more mature, he could set up a County on that piece of land.

As for whether it would be under the jurisdiction of the Xue state or the Feiyun state, Xuanji?

It was definitely the Feiyun state.

The Feiyun state was the Lu family’s Foundation. The bigger the foundation, the better. The stronger the Feiyun state was, the more stable the Lu family’s Foundation would be.

For example, Yunxiao sect mainly controlled Wuzhou, Xing Zhou, and Pingzhou. However, Wuzhou alone was the most developed region in the entire Yan country. Theoretically speaking, the Lu clan controlled four provinces. However, the total output value of all of them might only be a little more than that of Wuzhou province. However, they still had Xing Zhou and Ping Zhou, which were two big provinces.

If they could make the Feiyun state as powerful as the Wu State, the Lu family would be able to take off. In the future, there might not be a need to rely on others every day.

Of course, it was quite difficult to achieve this just by relying on the exchange option.

But no matter what, the production of more resources would definitely have a very, very good effect.

After spending 3000 karma, Lu Qing could clearly see a large number of newly-born blue light spots on his map.

These specks of light varied in size, brightness, and darkness. Upon closer inspection, even their shapes were different.

Beside the map, the system was very considerate and gave him something that was similar to an illustration. Lu Qing could easily use the illustration to know what the light spots represented and how rich the resources were.

For example, Lu Qing saw that there was a hidden resource in the northern part of anling Prefecture’s Pingyao County, between Yuyan mountain and Pingyao County. It was an underground beetle that lived in the cave all year round. If nothing unexpected happened, they would not leave the underground environment from life to death. These underground beetles could be bred and killed regularly to obtain their shells. Their shells, after being ground into powder by a special technique, could be used to make potions for cultivation or to set up earth-element formations after some processing.

The large beetlemons were not strong. They were at the level of first-grade spirit beasts. Their shells weren’t high-grade materials, and the finished products could only be used by low-level cultivators. High-level cultivators would definitely have no use for them.

However, the market for low-level cultivators was huge. Furthermore, when low-level cultivators had more resources, they would have a higher chance of becoming a high-level cultivator.

Lu Qing compared these resources to the memories in his mind. They should all be things that had not been discovered in the past.

Relatively speaking, the distribution of the resources was similar to what Lu Qing had guessed. The density of resources in anling Prefecture was relatively sparse, but the grade of the resources did not seem to be low. However, there was a very obvious characteristic-most of these resources were in the deep mountains and old forests that no one knew about, or, like the beetle, were underground. All in all, it was very difficult to find, and the difficulty of development was relatively high.

On the other hand, the situation in divine deer County and the large area to the North of divine deer County were completely different. The unexplored resource points in this large area were obviously much more concentrated, and many of them were very easy to develop. It even included a few open-air mines.

Among them, Lu Qing saw a spirit stone mine that was the brightest and had the highest level.

A spirit stone mine!

As the name suggested, this thing could be used to directly dig out spirit stones. With a little polishing, it could be directly used for cultivation and even circulated in the market.

There were not many spiritual stone mines in the Feiyun state, and they were mainly of low quality and low production. The spirit stone mines in the Feiyun state were basically under the control of the Qingfeng sect in the past, including the two in anling Prefecture. They were directly managed by the Qingfeng sect and no one was allowed to interfere.

Of course, that was a different matter. After so many years of operation, the Lu clan’s right to speak in the Qingfeng sect had reached an unshakeable level. It was no longer that important who was in charge of the spirit stone mine.

However, the spirit stone mine that he had found through the ‘complete exploration’ exchange option was a completely different matter.

Lu Qing noticed that the level of the resources in that place was very high. According to the system, it was considered a four-star resource.

At the same time, the Feiyun state’s bi ‘an was not limited to just the Feiyun state. Even if one counted the spirit stone mines in the Ji and Jin States, most of them were Grade 1, and there were very few Grade 2 Spirit stone mines.

It was usually more difficult to excavate a level-one Spirit stone mine. After digging out a mine in a large mountain, hundreds of mortals would work inside every day to dig out some bits and pieces. After processing them, they would produce hundreds of spirit stones a year. Even if it was more, it would be considered good if they could produce three to five hundred spirit stones. This wasn’t actually a bad way to earn money, it was mainly by finding a middle-grade spirit stone by chance. As long as they could fish out one piece, it would be a huge profit.

A level 2 spiritual stone mine was basically one of the foundations of some major forces. It would be considered good if it could produce a few thousand spiritual stones a year.

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At this level of resources, even some major forces would pay very serious attention to and maintain it.

As for a level 3 spiritual stone mine, it was enough for some major forces to fight each other to the death.

A level-three spiritual stone mine could produce tens of thousands of spiritual stones a year. How much was the annual income of the Yan Kingdom? A mine vein that could produce nearly one percent of the country’s income would definitely be worth a lot of money.

There were no level 3 spiritual stone mines in the four provinces controlled by the Lu family. The only one was discovered many years ago in the Wu and Ji provinces. It was estimated that it could produce about 30000 spirit stones a year. Then, ten years after that place was discovered, it was divided into the Wu state’s territory.

And now, on the Northwest border of the divine deer County, a grade four spirit stone mine was discovered.

Lu Qing became excited when he saw it.

Even his state of mind had to be excited.

If they really developed it well and created a spirit stone mining industry with an annual output value of hundreds of thousands, wouldn’t that be a huge profit? More importantly, he did not need to spend much effort on the profits of this sum of money. It was unlike starting a business where he had to put in a lot of effort. If he did not do it well and the market was flat, the profits would drop and he might even lose money.

For spirit stone mines, however many were excavated seriously, they would be counted.

However, after he calmed down, Lu Qing thought of some problems. It was easy to develop this thing, but could it be guarded?

Back then, Yunxiao sect shamelessly took away a grade-three spirit stone mine that was discovered at the border of Ji Province. By right, the central Dynasty of the Yan Dynasty at that time was much stronger than the Lu clan now. After all, there were at least two or three nascent soul cultivators in the dynasty who took orders from the Emperor. Lu Qing was the only one in the Lu clan dynasty. To the Yunxiao sect, it was a weak royal family.

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They were already tempted by a Grade 3 spirit stone mine, let alone a Grade 4 one.

If the news were to leak out, Lu Qing reckoned that Yunxiao sect would definitely be unable to suppress their greed and would force the Imperial court to hand over the level-four spirit stone mine to them.

If that were to happen, Lu Qing had to admit that it would be very difficult for the Lu clan to reject him.

Rejected? Could it be that he wanted to fall out with Yunxiao sect?

He had to be very careful about this. He had to develop it secretly and not be discovered. The fewer people who knew, the better.

After thinking about it, Lu Qing still felt a little uneasy.

He decided to go and check it out himself.

Of course, he wasn’t going with his real body. He couldn’t go that far anyway.

After thinking about it for a while, he gave an order to have the clan send out an initial enlightenment stage cultivator to go over and take a look in the name of investigating and inspecting the development of the divine deer County. At that time, Lu Qing would activate the training mode and teleport over.

He wanted to take a good look at the mineral vein in his consciousness form.

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Half a month later, Lu Qing’s consciousness was already at the mine.

Things were quite tricky.

The mine was located in a mountain.

Of course, the northern wilderness forest was not just a flat area with trees. The land here was vast. The entire area of the North barren forest was about three or four times the size of the Feiyun state, which was almost one-third of the Yan Kingdom. From east to west, it was probably more than a hundred thousand miles. It was so far away, and the terrain was very complicated. There were mountains, rivers, and lakes.

And this place was a nameless mountain, it was a spiritual vein land with Grade 3 spiritual veins.

However, this was only on the surface. When Lu Qing’s consciousness body passed through the mountain and entered the interior, the density of the spirit Qi inside increased greatly.

This place should have been a level five spirit vein, but because the heaven and earth here had a special effect of locking down the spirit Qi, it was locked inside the mountain and could not come out.

Lu Qing guessed that it was very likely that this was the reason why such a high-level mine vein had formed in the mountain after being immersed in dense spirit Qi for many years.

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