129: Chapter 129 You are the Fourth Prince Li Yingzhen's mortal enemy, and you are suppressing his power, aren't you?

In the mine, there was no sense of time.

Just when Zhao Yi thought he would dig until he died, the mine came to an abrupt end.

"What's the situation?"

"Approximate?"

"Woof~"

Approximate was curled up in the mine wall, his eyes hazy, meaning: "Why did you only just arrive?"

Zhao Yi...

He had already tried his best; this was his fastest speed. Couldn't they see that the excavated mountain rocks had already filled the mine tunnel? The Nine Sect Cultivators had long been left behind by Zhao Yi.

"Are there any Top-Grade Spirit Stones here?"

Approximate looked at Zhao Yi resentfully.

Zhao Yi understood in a second; it seemed that Approximate was maintaining this state with great difficulty.

"Approximation Technique,"

"Within twenty meters,"

"The Great Dao is Simple, Approximate naturally formed..."

The golden characters vanished, and Approximate returned to normal, wagging his tail frantically at Zhao Yi.

"Woof woof woof~"

"There really are Top-Grade Spirit Stones here."

"Good brother, come, come~"

"Move aside, be careful the hoe doesn't hit you."

"Big, big, big!"

He injected mana into the great sumeru treasure hoe, and the hoe instantly grew ten times larger.

The larger the hoe, the faster the speed of digging Spirit Stones, but the consumption also increased exponentially.

If it weren't for Approximate confirming that there were Top-Grade Spirit Stones here, Zhao Yi wouldn't have enlarged the great sumeru treasure hoe, because it really wasn't worth it.

"Big brother, I hope you didn't eat those ninety High-Grade Spirit Stones for nothing."

"I'll dig!"

The hoe plunged into the mine wall, mana surged, rock dust rose, and countless mountain rocks fell.

Nothing.

Zhao Yi...

Although he was a little disappointed, he didn't get discouraged. He swung the hoe and dug down again.

Mountain rocks fell, and the System notification sounded in Zhao Yi's ears.

【You have dug up a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points + 100.】

"Holy crap!"

"Dead Dog, you really do have some skills."

Zhao Yi pulled the Top-Grade Spirit Stone from the rocks and sighed: "How long has it been since I've seen a Top-Grade Spirit Stone?"

"Three years or four? It's truly not easy."

"Approximate, are there more?"

Approximate didn't answer Zhao Yi, but kept wagging his tail.

Zhao Yi understood in a second. He stopped talking nonsense and swung the hoe to continue digging.

After two more swings of the hoe, the System notification sounded again.

【You have dug up a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points + 100.】

"That's two."

"Not only have I dug back the Spirit Stones I fed Approximate, but it's doubled. This investment is worth it."

Zhao Yi's hands didn't stop; he kept swinging the enlarged great sumeru treasure hoe.

【You have dug up a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points + 100.】

"This is the third one."

Everything he dug up was a Top-Grade Spirit Stone. Instead of being happy, Zhao Yi's face became solemn.

In Zhao Yi's view, only digging up Top-Grade Spirit Stones without any accompanying High-Grade Spirit Stones was clearly not a good sign.

Just like that, with extreme vigilance, Zhao Yi dug for Spirit Stones for three days.

Why three days?

First, Zhao Yi's mana was exhausted. He was currently leaning on the great sumeru treasure hoe, with the golden palace floating jade palace floating beside him.

The Top-Grade Spirit Stones he dug up were directly carried into it by Approximate.

Three days without sleep or rest, the feeling of exhausted mana was truly too empty, too lacking in security.

Zhao Yi's legs were weak now, and his arms were trembling slightly.

Since he obtained the great sumeru treasure hoe, this was the first time he felt that digging for Spirit Stones was physical labor.

Second was the reappearance of the System notification.

【The cumulative experience points have reached the maximum value and will be recorded at the maximum value.】

Whether Zhao Yi liked it or not, the days of High-Grade Spirit Stones counting as experience points were gone forever.

From now on, only Top-Grade Spirit Stones and above would count for experience points.

Mining to add points for cultivation, in the end, not only didn't get easier, but it became harder and harder.

The difficulty of digging one hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones was probably a hundred or a thousand times that of digging Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Of course, if every time he dug for Spirit Stones it was like this, Zhao Yi was probably not far from Immortal Ascension.

Because in these three days, Zhao Yi had dug up eighteen Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

"System,"

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Mid-stage Integration (Can be upgraded)】

【experience points: 6400 / 6400】

【Rewards: None】

"What a pity, the experience points have reached the maximum value; I need to go out and make a Breakthrough."

"This idiot System, can't it be a bit smarter?"

Zhao Yi shouldered the great sumeru treasure hoe and walked towards the mine exit, cursing.

After walking for a while, he realized that the mine was too quiet now. Except for Approximate following behind him, it was completely empty.

"Where are the Nine Sect Cultivators?"

"Could it be that the time is up?"

Zhao Yi remembered the three-year agreement he had made with Li Yingzhen.

"This bunch of guys, did they leave without even saying goodbye to me?"

"So all those days calling me Old Ancestor were just to fool me?"

Zhao Yi took Approximate and strolled leisurely through the mine.

"Hmm?"

"What's going on?"

At the mine exit, the Nine Sect Cultivators, whom Zhao Yi thought had already left, were all kneeling there.

Surrounding them were fully armed Immortal Army soldiers and ten immortal martial divine cannons.

"Old Ancestor Zhao, save us."

"In these three years, although we occasionally slacked off, we never stole any Spirit Stones."

Facing those ten pitch-black cannon muzzles, Zhao Yi looked at Li Yingsi.

"Ninth Prince, what is going on here?"

Li Yingsi was sitting on a cloud seat, as if he had been waiting specifically for Zhao Yi.

"Mining Envoy Zhao might not know, but this bunch of guys isn't honest. I discovered Spirit Stones in the mountain rocks they moved out."

"Mining Envoy Zhao, please look~"

A mountain-like pile of Spirit Stones lay together, and they were all Low-Grade Spirit Stones; not a single Medium or High-Grade Spirit Stone was among them.

"How is this possible?"

"Approximate has never missed a Spirit Stone when picking them up..."

Speaking up to here, Zhao Yi paused.

Oh no!

It must have been during the time he sent Approximate to look for Top-Grade Spirit Stones that the excavated mountain rocks were directly moved out by the Nine Sect Cultivators.

The Spirit Stones mixed in the mountain rocks were also moved out together.

"How about it?"

"Mining Envoy Zhao, nothing to say now, right?"

"These rebels have no intention of repenting at all. What three-year agreement?"

"It's all bullshit. Come!"

"Kill them all."

Li Yingsi's handsome face was full of killing intent.

Although he didn't know why Li Yingsi wanted to start a massacre, Zhao Yi instinctively felt he couldn't let him succeed, so he blocked him and said,

"No!"

Seeing Zhao Yi block him, Li Yingsi seemed to heave a sigh of relief.

"What?"

"This matter, did Mining Envoy Zhao also participate in it?"

"The Immortal Dynasty asked you to dig for immortal fate, and you've come to steal from your own post?"

Zhao Yi...

Sure enough, Li Yingsi was aiming for him.

Looking at Li Yingsi's face, Zhao Yi suppressed the urge to beat him to death.

"I don't understand what the Eighth Prince is talking about."

"Every time the Spirit Stones were handed over to the Fourth Prince, there were records that could be checked. To say I'm stealing from my post, do you have any evidence?"

"Evidence?"

"These are the evidence."

"Records? What records?"

"I have never seen them once."

"Now, with both human witnesses and physical evidence present, how can you quibble?"

"Come, take Zhao Yi as well."

Li Yingsi waved his hand and said.

"Take me?"

Zhao Yi suspected that Li Yingsi's brain was broken.

"Naturally, it's to take you."

"Right, I forgot to tell you."

"The Anning Prefecture First Cultivation Academy has already confessed that they conspired with the Nine Sect Cultivators of the Wuxiang Sect to attempt to overthrow the Great Yin Immortal Dynasty."

"Now, the academy has been destroyed, and those teachers and students will all come to Baiyu Mountain to dig mines in a few days. By then, you will be reunited."

A High-Grade Spirit Stone engraved with 'B' appeared in Zhao Yi's hand.

"So..."

"You are the Fourth Prince Li Yingzhen's mortal enemy, and you are suppressing his forces, aren't you?"