Chapter 206 – Spiritual Stone Vein (2/2)

Milliped said, “What’s nice?” He pointed at the blue butterflies. “You can eat those, but they’re disgusting!”

Li Qingshan smacked his head. “Do you have anything in your head apart from eating?” Even if they were delicious, he probably could not bring himself to eat such a beautiful thing!

Milliped rubbed his head and continued to smile foolishly. He did not have the grandeur bearing of a Daemon General at all. Since Li Qingshan agreed to go underground with him, he had never stopped grinning foolishly. He even forgot about the matter of being harassed by the other Daemon Generals.

“Stop smiling. Be serious. It’s no wonder others would harass you and that you wouldn’t get any sweet potatoes with how you act!” Li Qingshan scolded. Since he had made up his mind about reclaiming Milliped’s lost territory, they were no longer just drinking buddies, but comrades-in-arms who would fight alongside each other. He had to rely on Milliped’s power later on, so he could not help but scold him after seeing how foolishly he behaved.

Milliped stopped grinning in a hurry and said sternly, “Stay! No sweet potatoes is fine too!” For once, he expressed himself clearly.

Warmth flooded Li Qingshan’s chest. He was touched. “How can my friend go without sweet potatoes to eat?” Milliped was not particularly bright, but he treated him with absolute sincerity. He had a high cultivation, but he did not capitalise on it. He was much better than those arrogant, sixth or seventh layer Qi Practitioner mongers.

This was the first friend in this life that he recognised from the bottom of his heart. He would never disappoint his friend.

“Friend?” Milliped pondered the word.

Li Qingshan patted his shoulder and smiled. “Good friends!”

“Good friends.” Milliped patted Li Qingshan’s shoulder. He seemed to understand something and chuckled loudly.

Friends were better than sweet potatoes.

They crossed through the sea of flowers and alarmed countless blue butterflies. Soon, they arrived at the centre of the open area. There was a huge, stone platform without any vegetation. It was thirty feet long, twenty feet wide, and six or seven feet tall.

Milliped laid down on there and spread out his limbs. His dazed face became relaxed as he exhaled happily. After looking at Li Qingshan and Xiao An, he rolled over to one side, opening up some free space.

Li Qingshan had no idea how to react. “You’re inviting us to sleep?” Afterwards, all he heard was snoring. This guy had already fallen asleep!

Li Qingshan and Xiao An looked at each other.

Was this stone bed really that comfortable?

Li Qingshan climbed onto the stone platform with Xiao An in his arms before trying to lie down. However, he soon sat up like he had been struck by lightning. He was stunned. For a moment, he did not feel like he was lying on some tough rock, but a pulsing sea of spiritual qi.

He rubbed the surface of the stone platform with some strength and studied it carefully. Resplendent light seemed to flicker underneath the platform, like the most beautiful gemstones of the world had fused together into one. This did not seem to be the first time Li Qingshan had seen its magnificent colour.

His heart skipped a beat, and he fished out a spiritual stone hesitantly. He compared it to the stone platform and finally confirmed. “T- this is a bed of spiritual stone!”

He probably felt like a regular person who had just found a bed made out of gold. His first reaction was disbelief, but he immediately understood why Milliped chose to make this place his dwelling out of all the places available to him in the vast subterranean world.

The first instinct of all daemons was not to eat or drink, but to search for a place rich in spiritual qi so that they could absorb more of the spiritual qi of the world.

The bed of spiritual stone was large, but it definitely could not last for decades or even centuries while it was being drained away by a Daemon General!

A thought that Li Qingshan struggled to believe in appeared in his head. He arrived beside the bed and pushed aside the soil beside the bed. He had guessed correctly. This was not a bed of spiritual stone, but a spiritual stone vein.

This stone platform was just the tip of the iceberg to the vein.

If a bed of spiritual stone was enough to incur the jealousy of cultivators, then a spiritual stone vein was enough for two cultivation sects to go to war, enough for noble cultivators to die like regular people.

The principle that greed could lead to death applied to the cultivation world as well.

This spiritual stone vein was the natural crystallisation of the spiritual qi of the world, often condensed above spiritual veins.

Most of the spiritual stone veins above ground were under the control of powerful organisations and were guarded by powerful cultivators. However, not only did spiritual stones serve as currency, but they were consumables too. Over thousands of years, many of them had been excavated and used up by humans. Some of them had even been drained dry, directly severing the spiritual vein.

However, deep underground where spiritual veins were most abundant, daemons did not have the habit of using spiritual stones to trade, nor would they use spiritual stones in formations, puppets, and artifacts. Unexcavated, daemons would rotate through these spiritual stone veins, allowing the spiritual veins to constantly absorb spiritual qi from the surroundings and nurture countless daemons and spiritual herbs.

Li Qingshan thought, Truly a fool’s luck. Originally, he thought that Milliped was broke, which was why he came to him every day to eat and drink his things. Never did he think that he slept on a bed of spiritual stone every single day. He lived an utterly extravagant life.

Milliped had freeloaded food and drink, so now it was his turn to freeload sleep from him. If he did not take advantage of a holy land for cultivation like this, he would be shamefully wasting it.