78: Chapter 78 Oh my god, top-grade spirit stones!

【You have mined a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, experience points + 10000.】

【The accumulated experience points have reached the maximum value and will be recorded as the maximum value.】

【First time mining a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, reward: Spirit Stone Traverse Art】

"My goodness."

"A Top-Grade Spirit Stone?"

Zhao Yi tossed the great sumeru treasure hoe aside and immediately started rummaging through the rocks he had just dug out.

Sure enough, amidst the rocks lay a Spirit Stone the size of an egg, surrounded by swirling clouds.

"Good heavens."

"One Top-Grade Spirit Stone is worth one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, which converts to ten thousand Medium Grade Spirit Stones, or one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones."

He didn't realize it until he calculated it; the result was shocking.

"Is this one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones?"

Zhao Yi's hands trembled slightly; he had been poor for too long.

"It's also ten thousand experience points."

"Wait, that's not right. I seemed to hear something about a maximum value earlier."

After the maximum value appeared last time, Low-Grade Spirit Stones stopped granting experience points, but it appeared again this time.

Zhao Yi felt a sense of foreboding and hurriedly summoned the System panel.

"System."

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Nascent Soul Initial Stage (Can be upgraded)】

【experience points: 6400 / 6400】

【Reward: Spirit Stone Traverse Art】

"Damn it!"

Sure enough, just like last time, the experience points stopped increasing at 6400.

This meant that mining Medium Grade Spirit Stones in the future would no longer grant experience points.

Zhao Yi was numb. He was only at the Nascent Soul Initial Stage right now; even if he achieved a Breakthrough, he would only be at the Middle Stage of Nascent Soul.

If only mining High-Grade Spirit Stones granted experience points, when would he ever be able to achieve a Breakthrough?

"You damn System, aren't you going to explain?"

The only answer Zhao Yi received was his own echo.

"Fine, you win!"

Zhao Yi put away the Top-Grade Spirit Stone and looked at the mine. He had three things to do now.

First, clear the rocks from the mine.

Second, achieve a Breakthrough and reach the Middle Stage of Nascent Soul.

Third, claim the System reward, which was that Spirit Stone Traverse Art.

"I'd better clear the rocks; there's almost no room left to stand."

"Silly Dog, stop guarding the food; let me put these Spirit Stones away."

Well, that was the fourth thing.

This day, not counting that Top-Grade Spirit Stone, Zhao Yi had actually mined five High-Grade Spirit Stones, thirty-one Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and two hundred and eight Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Unfortunately, these 531 experience points simply vanished, wasting a whole day.

"If I had known there was a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, I wouldn't have bothered digging for anything else."

Zhao Yi grumbled as he tallied the harvest from the last two days.

1 Top-Grade Spirit Stone, 6 High-Grade Spirit Stones, 172 Medium Grade Spirit Stones, 971 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

"Not bad."

"In terms of mining speed alone, I must be number one in Anning Prefecture, right?"

Zhao Yi felt a bit smug.

However, his hands didn't stop, and he continuously used the great sumeru treasure hoe to push rocks into the Teleportation Array.

"I'm busy!"

At this moment, a figure appeared in the mine.

"A-Da?"

Realizing his mistake, Zhao Yi quickly corrected himself: "Senior!"

Internally, he was complaining bitterly.

"Where is the Xuanpin Spirit Fox? To actually let A-Da enter the mine, she is truly unreliable."

A-Da looked around the mine.

"Fourth Master's judgment of people is truly accurate. In such a short time, the Lushan Spirit Stone Mine has already begun to take shape."

"How is it?"

"How many Spirit Stones have you mined recently?"

A-Da's gaze was aimless, and Zhao Yi couldn't understand what he was thinking at all.

But Zhao Yi certainly wouldn't tell the truth. Could he really tell A-Da, "An hour before you arrived, I just mined a Top-Grade Spirit Stone"?

That would be pure stupidity, wouldn't it?

"Senior, this Spirit Stone mine has just started excavation. We haven't even reached the vein layer, so I've only mined a few Low-Grade Spirit Stones."

"Is that so?"

"Then you need to work harder."

As he spoke, A-Da's gaze finally landed on the hoe at Zhao Yi's feet.

"This hoe looks quite familiar, doesn't it?"

"It's exactly the same as the one you offered to Ninth Master."

Zhao Yi...

Robbery is robbery, why call it an offering?

Once A-Da said this, Zhao Yi knew his purpose for coming.

"Is it?"

"Senior, you should know that I am a Death Cultivator and a miner. A hoe is a necessity, and I am used to using this style of hoe."

"It's quite normal to have another one made just like it."

"Of course, if Senior likes it, I can give this hoe to you."

Zhao Yi looked sincere, without a hint of evasion or reluctance.

"Oh."

"Then I thank you."

"Ninth Master also quite likes this kind of hoe."

A-Da's expression was calm. When Zhao Yi handed over the hoe, he suddenly whispered: "Do you have a way to make it return to your side?"

"Ignoring space and time, that kind of forced return?"

"What?"

"What did Senior say? I don't understand."

Zhao Yi looked confused.

"Pretend, go ahead and pretend."

"I'm taking this hoe, and I will keep an eye on it personally. If I catch you in any schemes..."

"Hmph!"

Zhao Yi...

After a long while,

he sighed softly and rubbed his stiff face. He had almost been exposed.

Mahayana Stage Cultivators seemed to be able to see through people's hearts. Zhao Yi felt as if he were naked in front of A-Da.

Everything was seen clearly by the other person.

"Damn it, luckily I'm about to go into seclusion to achieve a Breakthrough from the Nascent Soul Initial Stage, and I won't be using the great sumeru treasure hoe for a while. Otherwise, it would really be troublesome."

"Right, before going into seclusion, I need to go order a few more identical great sumeru treasure hoes."

The next day, Zhao Yi first went to Anning Prefecture City.

He ordered dozens of hoes identical to the great sumeru treasure hoe from several different Magical Artifact shops.

It cost twenty Medium Grade Spirit Stones.

Zhao Yi didn't know if it was expensive or not. After agreeing on a time to pick up the Magical Artifacts, he found a cultivation room in Anning Prefecture to prepare for his Breakthrough.

As for the courtyard at the Cultivation Academy, it had already been repossessed when Zhao Yi faced Li Yingtang.

"System, upgrade cultivation!"

This cultivation room was even more extreme than the one at the Lesser Strange Spirit Stone Mine. It only had a prayer mat inside and was less than three square meters in size.

With Zhao Yi's large build, once he sat down, hey! It was full.

Fortunately, the Spiritual Qi inside was almost condensed into liquid, which made Zhao Yi feel a bit more balanced.

Otherwise, spending these one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones would have been too much of a loss.

Zhao Yi, sitting on the prayer mat, had a heart as still as water.

His entire Sea of Consciousness was filled with mysterious Qi.

The Primordial Spirit, which originally only had instincts, 'came alive' as Zhao Yi's consciousness descended.

Once it came alive, those mysterious Qi rushed in like sharks smelling blood.

Theoretically, the Primordial Spirit should be without desire, color, or scent, but Zhao Yi's Primordial Spirit actually smelled a faint sweetness in this mysterious Qi.

"What is this thing?"

"Mmm, comfortable~"

Zhao Yi's Primordial Spirit closed its eyes, feeling a tingling sensation...

It was actually a hundred times more comfortable than cultivating with a female Cultivator. This feeling...

Even though Zhao Yi was a Spirit Transformation Cultivator, he was lost in it.

In the Sea of Consciousness, there was no recognition of space or time.

It wasn't until a cold sensation struck that Zhao Yi was startled awake.

Looking at his strong Primordial Spirit, Zhao Yi exclaimed: "This kind of minor Realm Breakthrough is still the most comfortable. You close your eyes, and when you open them..."

"I am already at the Middle Stage of Nascent Soul."

As his consciousness withdrew, Zhao Yi also woke up in the cultivation room.

The moment he opened his eyes, a beam of white light shot out, straight into the wall of the cultivation room, causing the Formation of the entire cultivation field to tremble.