northernbook Chapter 188 These answers are varied and diverse
Chapter 188 These answers are varied and diverse
The disciples from the sect bowed, said no more, and hurriedly sent a message to their sect, urging them to come and mine quickly!
Turning around, the disciples of the sect each found a suitable mining location.
It turns out that after the disciples who entered the ancient battlefield for the first time discovered the spirit stone mine, all the major sects and evil cultivators tacitly agreed on a principle: whoever finds it keeps it.
To avoid starting a war, when mining, don't crowd together. Find your own spot, and how much you mine depends on your own skill.
After discovering a spirit stone mine, it would be best if each sect could excavate it independently. If they could not excavate it independently, then for safety reasons, they would simply call all the sects together to excavate it.
This is especially true for smaller sects.
Now, the Qingyun Sect has discovered a mineral vein.
Liu Qiang's heart was bleeding, but he cheerfully instructed, "Fellow junior brothers and sisters, spread the word to everyone you know that a spirit stone mine has been discovered. It has just been dug, and the size is still unknown. As for the rest, it's up to them to decide."
Soon, everyone who entered the ancient battlefield received the message and rushed to the spirit stone mine discovered by the Qingyun Sect.
Zhong Lingxin intended to ambush some of the evil cultivators and Lingyun Sect disciples. She went to discuss with Liu Qiang, saying, "Senior brother, more and more people are coming, and the situation is becoming more and more complicated. Many of them are coming to wander around the vicinity of our Qingyun Sect. In the past two days, there have been quite a few conflicts between the sect disciples and them. Should we send out our guard disciples further away so that we can discover their whereabouts more quickly and the sect can take precautions in advance?"
Liu Qiang was discussing this matter with two other Nascent Soul cultivators when he heard Zhong Lingxin's words and frowned, saying, "Our Qingyun Sect is too small. Those evil cultivation sects, as well as the righteous sects Taixu Sect and Beast Taming Sect, have been loitering around our sect too much these past few days. I'm afraid they'll find an excuse to seize our territory."
Qian Shao also walked over at this time, and said angrily: "And that Lingyun Sect, they still have evil intentions. A few of their disciples who came to investigate got into a dispute with our patrolling disciples."
They're the ones causing trouble, insisting it's unclaimed land and that our Qingyun Sect patrols too much.
We only patrolled fifty li, which is too little.
Their Lingyun Sect discovered a mineral vein last time, and they declared a hundred miles of land as their territory.
Liu Qiang sighed heavily: "Tell the disciples who are mining to dig deeper quickly, but don't dig too wide. We're only a second-level sect now, and we don't have a first-level sect protecting us. They're all planning to devour us. Junior Sister Zhong is right. Send a few disciples with high spiritual sense and quick reflexes to keep watch further away and report any problems they find immediately."
Zhong Lingxin immediately pleaded, "Senior Brother Liu, count me in."
Qian Shao also said, "Count me in."
Liu Qiang nodded, then found a few more Golden Core disciples and instructed them to affix invisibility and concealment talismans and go some distance away.
Zhong Lingxin and the others obeyed the order and quickly spread out in all directions.
After walking for a while, Zhong Lingxin moved behind several Lingyun Sect disciples to listen to their conversation.
"Why are Senior Brother Wen and the others moving so slowly? The Qingyun Sect has been digging for a month already. If they don't come soon, they'll have dug up all the spirit stones."
"What's the rush? I heard from fellow Daoists of Chaoyuan Sect that they've also dug up some. This vein is huge. Right now, they've only managed to dig out a few low-grade spirit stones at most."
"That's right, that's right. When Senior Brother Wen and the others arrive, we'll find an excuse to rob the mine they dug, and all the good spirit stones inside will be ours."
"Senior Brother Wen and the others are too slow."
"Of course it's slow. We need to gather all the senior and junior brothers together. It's easier to grab things when there are more people."
"No rush. Not many people from other sects have come either. We're considered fast; we should be able to get here in about half a month."
After leaving the Lingyun Sect disciples, Zhong Lingxin eavesdropped on the conversation between the Taixu Sect, the Beast Taming Sect, and several other evil cultivation sects. They all had the same plan: to find an excuse to seize the mine dug by the Qingyun Sect. They even discussed how to prevent other sects from doing so.
Zhong Lingxin took a deep breath. It really is true that weakness is the original sin.
A few days later, a group of evil cultivators flew over from a distance.
It turns out that the evil cultivators had an advantage in the ancient battlefield, as they could run faster, so they arrived first.
Zhong Lingxin had waited so long, and finally a group of evil cultivators arrived.
Look at this group of evil cultivators; there seem to be several hundred of them.
Without saying much, she quickly set up a trapping illusion array.
After the evil cultivators entered the Illusion-Trapping Array, she silently activated the array.
However, she couldn't care less about killing these evil cultivators at the moment; she just wanted to trap them first.
People from various righteous sects and heretical sects arrived one after another.
Zhong Lingxin spared the disciples of the various minor sects and the Chaoyuan Sect and Zixia Sect.
They also spared the few evil cultivators and disciples of the Taixu Sect and the Beast Taming Sect.
She has several array plates given to her by her master, so trapping several groups of cultivators won't be a problem.
Over the course of a month, Zhong Lingxin used array plates to trap more than ten groups of cultivators.
She was dismayed to discover that her Illusion-Trapping Array was almost used up, and she needed to keep two backups, otherwise the Qingyun Sect disciples would not be able to get help if something happened.
The first few groups of evil cultivators trapped in the formation clearly sensed something was wrong. They were frantically smashing things around the formation like headless flies, trying to find the key to the formation.
These random smashings occasionally caused a slight ripple in Zhong Lingxin's consciousness.
Zhong Lingxin was also afraid that if several cultivators trapped in the illusion array simultaneously struck her, causing her consciousness to ripple and then vibrate, that would be bad.
If you count the number of cultivators trapped, there are nearly ten thousand. It's time to make a move.
Let's start with the evil cultivators who are attacking the most fiercely. She's already a skilled user of the Illusion-Trapping Array, and she can kill them very quickly.
First, the evil cultivators trapped in the illusion array were separated, starting with the weakest Foundation Establishment cultivators. Then came the Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators.
The dozen or so illusion arrays kept her busy for several months before she finally finished killing them all.
During this time, Zhong Lingxin and Liu Qiang kept in touch, saying that there weren't many cultivators they had discovered. Perhaps the ancient battlefield was too large, or perhaps the cultivators had discovered something better and were unwilling to come over.
As for the cultivators from Lingyun Sect and other sects who had already arrived, after comparing their own strength with that of Qingyun Sect, they gritted their teeth and held back, not daring to make a move.
They endured it for several months, during which they sent countless messages, sometimes receiving a reply and sometimes not.
These replies either indicated that they were on their way, or that they were currently fighting remnant souls to obtain spiritual treasures, dig for spiritual herbs, and harvest spiritual fruits...
The answers were varied.
In short: Don't rush, keep an eye out for whether the Qingyun Sect has unearthed any good spirit stones. We're on our way.
Liu Qiang has been extremely anxious these past few months.
The number of heretical cultivators and cultivators from the Lingyun Sect, Beast Taming Sect, and Taixu Sect gathered at the entrance of the Qingyun Sect's mine. Although they had not yet launched an attack, they were clearly becoming impatient.