206: Chapter 206 Could the Primordial Scripture really aid in mining?

"System,"

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm (Insufficient experience points, cannot upgrade)】

【experience points: 47 / 800】

【Reward: good luck card (three days)】

"I need to mine 753 Immortal Stones to achieve a Breakthrough to the Late-stage Earth Immortal Realm."

"It is fortunate that this Lower Profound Sect has an Immortal Stone Mine."

However, come to think of it, if not for this Immortal Stone Mine, Zhao Yi would not be able to stay in the Lower Profound Sect.

Inside the Immortal Stone Mine, Zhao Yi gripped the great sumeru treasure hoe. How should he put it?

He had just dug a few times with the hoe, but he kept feeling like something was wrong.

"Strange, what is wrong?"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He tried digging a few more times.

A flash of inspiration hit Zhao Yi, and he suddenly recalled that line from the Primordial Scripture:

"The source has a nature, like clouds rolling and unrolling, gathering naturally according to fate."

"Damn it, Spirit Stones have a nature, gathering naturally when there is fate."

"I was wondering what was wrong; isn't this just the Primordial Scripture?"

He swung the hoe again, and the System notification sounded in his mind:

【You have mined a low-grade immortal stone, experience points +1.】

Zhao Yi picked up the Immortal Stone from the rocks.

"This..."

It seemed like mining Immortal Stones was much easier than before.

"Could the Primordial Scripture assist in mining?"

Zhao Yi immediately banished the ridiculous thought from his mind.

The Primordial Scripture!

Anyone with a little bit of cultivation knowledge knew what those two words represented.

Thirty days later, the exhausted Approximate finally flew back just in time.

He did not return to Fuyu Palace but instead dove straight into the Immortal Stone Mine.

Only then did the Cultivators of the Lower Profound Sect realize that Zhao Yi had been gone for ten years.

"Hehe!"

"Master, I have returned."

"It will only be a full month tomorrow; I have returned a day early."

"Oh, that's right!"

"I even brought you a gift!"

Approximate opened his mouth and spat out two female Cultivators.

The female Cultivators, soaked in saliva, had exquisite figures, and their faces, in particular, were as delicate as if they had walked out of a painting.

Seeing Zhao Yi stunned, Approximate was quite proud.

"How is it?"

"Do you like them?"

"You scoundrel!"

Zhao Yi took out the great sumeru treasure hoe and, without the slightest hesitation, smashed the female Cultivators in front of him into pieces.

Two balls of Yin Qi floated out, attempting to entangle Zhao Yi, but they were blocked by the great sumeru treasure hoe.

"Damn it!"

"How did you see through it?"

"However, since you dared to kill the Netherworld Envoys, just wait for the Divine Envoy to annihilate the Great Awakening Spirit Realm."

Zhao Yi shuddered, feeling as if he had been targeted.

"This is all your doing."

Approximate...

"I..."

"This..."

"Master, I meant well."

"I saw them floating on the sea and saved them; who knew someone was plotting against you behind the scenes?"

Zhao Yi...

"Strange, Netherworld Envoys—judging by the name, they should be from the Netherworld Hall. Why was that a cross-realm targeting just now?"

"Oh, that's right."

"What did you just say?"

Approximate stammered and repeated what he had just said.

"Good, good, good!"

"What a loyal Dragon serving its master."

Zhao Yi smashed Approximate into pieces with one swing of the hoe.

"You idiot Dragon, I'll be killed by you sooner or later!"

Just then, the nervous One Who Listens to Emptiness entered the Immortal Stone Mine and happened to see Zhao Yi smash Approximate with a hoe.

"I..."

His originally aggressive demeanor instantly deflated.

"Do you have business here?"

"Disciple..."

"Disciple just came to take a look."

Seeing One Who Listens to Emptiness hesitating, Zhao Yi couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him and started mining Immortal Stones directly.

The sounds of bang, bang, bang echoed incessantly in the mine.

Watching Zhao Yi mine, One Who Listens to Emptiness forgot the purpose of his visit.

His eyes were fixed only on Zhao Yi's movements of lifting, digging, and pulling. The spiritual light around him fluctuated violently, and he muttered to himself,

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is!"

"Hahaha!"

One Who Listens to Emptiness suddenly burst into laughter, the sound echoing in the mine, causing the rocks to fall with a rustling sound.

His eyes were bloodshot, as if he had experienced an Epiphany of the heavenly secrets, and he trembled as if possessed.

"I understand! I finally understand!"

He knelt down abruptly, kowtowing crazily towards Zhao Yi, his forehead striking the rocks, completely unaware of the blood streaming down.

"Thank you, Ancestral Master! Thank you, Ancestral Master!"

"I will never forget your great kindness, Ancestral Master!"

"When I Undergo Tribulation and achieve Immortal Ascension, I will return to thank you, Ancestral Master."

One Who Listens to Emptiness came inexplicably and left like a madman.

Zhao Yi...

"He's crazy!"

He had just been mining Immortal Stones; he hadn't given any pointers at all.

"Approximation Technique!"

"Stop playing dead, hurry up and come out to see which direction has Immortal Stones."

"And help me clear away the rocks while you're at it."

As for that cross-realm Divine Envoy, Zhao Yi shrugged; he would worry about it once they found the Great Awakening Spirit Realm.

Approximate, who had reappeared, kept his head down and dared not look at Zhao Yi, but his eyes shot out a purple light, scanning the entire Immortal Stone Mine.

"Master, the southeast direction."

"Good!"

Having determined the direction, Zhao Yi took another look at the System.

"System,"

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm (Insufficient experience points, cannot upgrade)】

【experience points: 68 / 800】

【Reward: good luck card (three days)】

In this month, he had mined twenty-one Immortal Stones, an improvement of several dozen times compared to before.

Now that Approximate was determining the direction, Zhao Yi decided to bet big.

"System, claim the reward."

Then, he recited the Primordial Scripture,

"Chaos first opened, the Primordial manifested..."

A red countdown also appeared in his eyes: 2:23:59:48

This should be two days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes, and forty-eight seconds.

He swung the hoe, and the System notification sounded:

【You have mined a low-grade immortal stone, experience points +1.】

【You have mined a low-grade immortal stone, experience points +1.】

Approximate, behind Zhao Yi, opened his mouth wide, his eyes staring straight ahead. The Immortal Stones in the entire Immortal Stone Mine seemed to come alive, 'swimming' one by one to Zhao Yi so that the great sumeru treasure hoe could dig them out.

"Holy crap!"

"Holy crap!"

"What kind of Immortal technique is this?"

"I want to learn it!"

Approximate was already envisioning his future good life.

"Shut up!"

"If you dare to waste my time, see if I don't slice you again!"

What a joke; at the current speed of mining Immortal Stones, Zhao Yi felt that accumulating enough experience points for a Breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm would be no problem at all.

The three days and three nights of extreme exercise passed in a flash.

After the countdown ended, Zhao Yi sat down on the crushed rocks. Even with his Mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm cultivation, he was exhausted after continuously performing the Immortal technique for three days and nights without rest.

This kind of exhaustion was not physical, but mental.

Over there, Approximate was counting the Immortal Stones.

"Seventy-seven, seventy-eight..."

Zhao Yi shook his head. If Approximate could count the Immortal Stones correctly in a short time, then he would lose!

"System,"

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm (Insufficient experience points, cannot upgrade)】

【experience points: 799 / 800】

【Reward: None】

"Damn it!"

Looking at the System panel, Zhao Yi was speechless.

Seven hundred and ninety-nine experience points—he was still one point short of a Breakthrough to the Late-stage Earth Immortal Realm. Although he had used the Primordial Scripture and the good luck card over these three days to madly mine seven hundred and thirty-one Immortal Stones, being one point short meant being one point short; without that one point, he could not achieve a Breakthrough to the Late-stage Earth Immortal Realm.

Turning around, Zhao Yi was startled.

"What is going on?"