222: Chapter 222 His cultivation was entirely forged from 'death'

"It seems that the hoe strike from the Divine Envoy shook the Divine Stone Mine."

"It gave the Divine Stone a sense of crisis."

Zhao Yi frowned.

No wonder he couldn't dig up any Medium Grade Immortal Stone.

"How deep?"

"Four hundred meters."

"What?"

Zhao Yi was speechless; he had thought it was only twelve meters.

Four hundred meters was equivalent to recreating half of Mang Mountain.

"Where should we dig from?"

Zhao Yi was never a person who hesitated.

"Wait a moment..."

Approximate transformed into a golden light and rushed back and forth along the Divine Stone Mine vein.

After half an hour, Approximate was panting heavily.

He kept panting in front of Zhao Yi.

"Master, over here..."

"I have already calculated it; if we dig diagonally,"

"we can reach the sunken vein in three hundred and eighty meters."

"It is also strange; with this kind of work, it must be at least a Golden Immortal who could make the vein sink so severely..."

Approximate's voice grew quieter and quieter, until it was almost inaudible at the end.

Golden Immortal...

Who else could it be besides that one?

If he said any more, it would inevitably be another thunderbolt.

What Approximate did not know was that in the Chaos space outside the Great Awakening Spirit Realm, in a thatched cottage,

the Xuanpin Spirit Fox's small hands clenched and unclenched.

After several times, the Xuanpin Spirit Fox slowly calmed down.

"I will let you off this time."

On the Divine Stone Mine, Approximate shrank his head; he seemed to know that he had slipped past the line of death once again.

Therefore, whether speaking or acting, he was extremely cautious.

It almost made Zhao Yi think he had been subjected to Possession.

Until ten years later,

looking at the pale white rocks in front of him, Approximate's eyes were blurred with tears.

"Master, after ten years of effort,"

"we have finally found the vein again."

Zhao Yi, who was like a mining machine, suddenly had light in his eyes.

"Are you saying?"

Approximate nodded.

"Our good days have come."

Behind him, Luoke Bo, who hadn't closed his eyes for ten years, blinked his dry, strained eyes.

He was no longer jealous of why Zhao Yi could dig up Immortal Stone at all now.

Just the matter of digging for Immortal Stone, day after day for ten years, without stopping day or night,

let alone Zhao Yi, who was only a Heavenly Immortal; even he, a Profound Immortal, was about to break down.

It wasn't because he was tired,

but the day-after-day monotony and numbness...

Just using immortal techniques to move rocks made Luoke Bo feel like he wasn't human anymore,

let alone Zhao Yi, who kept digging and digging.

The hardships involved were truly beyond words.

Zhao Yi was full of anticipation.

With one strike of the hoe,

ten years later, the System prompt finally appeared again.

【You have dug up fourteen Medium Grade Immortal Stones, experience points + 14.】

Ten years of effort, exchanged for this moment's harvest.

Zhao Yi pulled Approximate over.

"It's been ten years."

"Approximate, I think we should finally reap the rewards of our long accumulation."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"It is time to reap the rewards."

Approximate didn't quite understand what Zhao Yi meant; he looked at the Immortal Stone from that one hoe strike.

Fourteen Medium Grade Immortal Stones, nineteen low-grade immortal stones.

In terms of total quantity, thirty-three Immortal Stones in one strike, wasn't that reaping the rewards of long accumulation?

But Zhao Yi looked at the mine wall.

"Enlarge!"

The great sumeru treasure hoe grew three times larger according to his will.

A hoe three times the size meant three times the harvest, but also three times the effort.

Of course, it could also be six or nine times the effort.

"Approximate,"

"do you know?"

"Divine Stone Mines are not common."

"Who knows when the next opportunity like this will come?"

"Therefore, now that we have this opportunity, we must seize it."

Approximate was stunned.

He vaguely felt that what Zhao Yi said was correct, but he also felt something was off.

A very contradictory feeling.

"So..."

"Master, what do you want to do?"

Zhao Yi shook his head and did not answer Approximate directly.

Instead, he silently said,

"System, claim rewards."

When it appeared in his eyes,

8:23:59:59

the countdown for the good luck card, he said slowly,

"I want to..."

"If you can't dig yourself to death, then dig like you're dying to!"

"Damn it!"

"Dig, damn it!"

Zhao Yi's immortal power surged out.

The dazzling golden Law of Money was imbued onto the great sumeru treasure hoe, turning the great sumeru treasure hoe into a pure golden hoe.

Dust flew everywhere.

Rocks fell like a landslide.

Approximate...

Luoke Bo...

The man and the Dragon looked at each other.

What kind of madness is this?

But when the Immortal Stones emitting white light fell along with the rocks,

how could the man and the Dragon sit still?

Pick them up!

Under the blessing of the good luck card,

the Immortal Stones dug up with every hoe strike by Zhao Yi were two or three times more than the previous strike.

Some were even five times more.

The System prompt kept ringing in Zhao Yi's ears.

【You have dug up forty-two Medium Grade Immortal Stones, experience points + 42.】

【You have dug up fifty-six Medium Grade Immortal Stones, experience points + 56.】

Just these two hoe strikes were enough to dig up the experience points for Zhao Yi to make a Breakthrough to True Immortal.

The countdown of the good luck card was still continuing, and Zhao Yi's great sumeru treasure hoe continued strike after strike.

Approximate and Luoke Bo felt like they couldn't even pick up the Immortal Stones fast enough.

Nine days passed in this extreme state.

With a clang,

Zhao Yi threw the hoe away, unable to hold on any longer.

His body was empty; let alone immortal power, even his physical strength was exhausted.

He lay in the rocks, gasping for breath.

It was as if he was suffocating.

"System,"

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Heavenly Immortal Late Stage (Can be promoted)】

【experience points: 12658 / 100】

【Rewards: None】

Looking at the experience points, Zhao Yi opened his eyes wide, as if he had stopped breathing.

It took a long time for him to react.

"Cough, cough~"

In nine days, he had dug up 12658 experience points.

The good luck card was terrifyingly effective.

Zhao Yi suddenly realized that even the most ordinary things, as long as they were System rewards, could always bring unexpected surprises.

Over twelve thousand experience points, to what level would it push his cultivation?

Zhao Yi didn't want to calculate.

Right now, his mind was blank, and he just wanted to sleep.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

Zhao Yi jumped up.

He had slept for a full three months.

When Zhao Yi moved, Approximate and Luoke Bo, who had been sitting cross-legged behind him, were startled.

"Master, are we going to continue digging down?"

Zhao Yi shook his head.

"Ten years of effort, nine days of a great harvest."

"I have gained some insights..."

Before Zhao Yi could finish his words, Approximate's face turned green.

He cut in before Zhao Yi,

"Master, are you going to have a Breakthrough again?"

Zhao Yi glanced at Approximate and smiled.

"Correct, the one who knows me best is Approximate!"

"The time given by Ling Xiu is eight hundred years."

"As long as we dig out the Divine Stone within eight hundred years, it will be fine."

"Besides, my cultivation Breakthrough doesn't affect digging for the Divine Stone."

"The higher the cultivation, the faster the speed of digging for the Divine Stone; delaying this little bit of time is to dig for the Divine Stone faster in the future."

"Fellow Daoist Luo, don't you agree?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Luoke Bo nodded his head like a chick pecking at rice.

In these ten years, he had accumulated a massive amount of five hundred thousand low-grade immortal stones; now, whatever Zhao Yi said was correct.

But Approximate's eyes were dull with despair.

Following Zhao Yi was great,

he never lacked Immortal Stones or cultivation,

it was just that these cultivation Breakthroughs made Approximate fearful.

Every time there was a Breakthrough, there was inevitably an Undergoing Tribulation, and they were always the kind of deadly tribulations.

He stretched out his Dragon claw and looked at his own cultivation.

Approximate sighed heavily.

In the past, he didn't know how his cultivation had broken through,

but now, Approximate finally understood: his entire cultivation was literally 'Died' out.