The next morning, Feng Shao and Lin Xiaoran left early and arrived at a place about fifty miles downstream from the village.
To the south of this place is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, and to the north is a dense jungle.
The tributaries of Lishui River, after arriving here, made a detour at the foot of the mountain and followed along the mountain road, and then turned from their original eastern direction to the southeast.
As for the jungle in the north, according to the locals, a large number of demonic beasts of different sizes lived in it, and ordinary people could not defend against them at all. Therefore, this area is a completely forbidden area for the locals.
Between the jungle and the mountains is a plain of nearly one square kilometer in size.
The land is fertile but uninhabited.
But there’s no doubt about such a situation, after all, the demonic beasts in the jungle will run out from time to time, if they stay in the plain for a long time, they will be caught and eaten by the demonic beasts sooner or later.
The scenery here is pleasant and normally inaccessible to others, making it a good place for an outing.
However, Feng Shao didn’t come here for an outing, but to survey the local terrain.
According to the records of the ancient “Book Of Four Directions” of Qiankun Palace, directly below this place is a natural spiritual energy vein that has extremely rich reserves and is very easy to mine.But on the surface, the land here is not much different from other places.
No one would have guessed that just over four hundred meters below the ground, there is hidden a treasure bred by heaven and earth.
Although Feng Shao has no mining experience, he still knows a little bit about it.
Undoubtedly, in order to exploit the natural spiritual energy here, drilling a well more than four hundred meters deep from the surface is necessary.
Although there are no drilling machines in this cultivation world, similar effects can be achieved with some cultivation techniques.
Seeing Feng Shao looking around, squatting on the ground for a while, digging non-stop, and even holding a stone to look at it endlessly, Lin Xiaoran became more and more puzzled the more she looked at it.
In the end, she couldn’t resist asking, “Brother Shao, what exactly are you doing here?”
Feng Shao replied casually, “Ran’er, at a depth of more than a hundred feet down here, there is a natural spiritual energy vein with abundant reserves. I plan to create a deep well from here to extract the natural spiritual energy.”
“Natural spiritual energy?” Lin Xiaoran opened her eyes wide, “Could it be the kind of spiritual energy drawn from spirit stones?”
Feng Shao shook his head and explained, “I don’t know too well, but there seems to be a difference between the two. This Natural Spiritual Energy is more like a highly concentrated product of spiritual energy that permeates the world.”
Lin Xiaoran thought for a while, somewhat understood Feng Shao’s meaning, and then asked, “Then brother Shao, if the Natural Spiritual Energy is mined, can we cultivate faster by absorbing it?”
Feng Shao shook his head again, “I’m afraid not.”
“Why?”
Feng Shao pondered for a moment before saying, “Some ancient books record that due to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and secret realm manifestations, some Natural Spiritual Energy would leak out sometimes. However, the leaked natural spiritual energy does not create a spiritual holy land that is usually suitable for cultivation. On the contrary, it will turn the area into a barren land where neither humans nor animals can grow.
Spiritual energy that is too strong seems to be unable to be absorbed directly, otherwise, it will cause some unexpected changes in the body.”
After a pause, Feng Shao continued, “It is said that there are many beasts that were originally ordinary beasts, but because they absorbed spiritual energy that is too strong, their bodies changed. The ones that were able to change and adapt to the new environment gradually formed what we now know as demonic beasts and spirit beasts. Those who failed to adapt to changes in the environment died in large numbers or even went extinct.”
Lin Xiaoran realized, “According to what you said, the natural spiritual energy here cannot be extracted rashly, otherwise it will lead to serious consequences?”
Feng Shao nodded, “Actually, in ancient times, some people wanted to mine natural spiritual energy. But because they failed to deal with the leakage of natural spiritual energy, there were serious consequences. But what’s interesting is that after that, the ancients did not think that there was any problem with their mining methods, but came to the conclusion that ‘natural spiritual energy is not suitable for absorption.’
“In fact, solving the leakage of natural spiritual energy is not a problem, but many people have thought wrong and completely trusted the mining methods which had been used for tens of thousands of years, leading to thousands of deaths.”
Hearing the implication of his words, Lin Xiaoran’s eyes lit up immediately, “So, brother Shao, you have already thought of how to mine this natural spiritual energy?”
Feng Shao smiled and said, “Although the surface soil here is very soft, the soft soil is only two or three meters deep, and then there is a hard rock layer below. Although there are mountains in the south, the slope is relatively gentle and the plants are dense, which means the geological movement here has stabilized.
“I checked some ancient books and found that there are no records of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions here. In summary, if the natural spiritual energy is mined here, as long as proper methods are used, there will be no leakage.”
Lin Xiaoran was confused and couldn’t understand the technical terms he used at all. But she understood one thing. That is, the natural spiritual energy here can be mined, and the difficulty is very low.
Lin Xiaoran said happily, “So, can we mine the natural spiritual energy you mentioned in this place?”
“There should be no problem, but there are still some things we have to experiment with…” Feng Shao murmured.
Lin Xiaoran scratched her head with a dazed expression.
In the afternoon, the two flew back to Yunjian Pavilion on Feng Shao’s flying sword.
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TN: This was hard…
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