138 Chapter 138 Darkness Blooming Cereus (1/2)

Although spirit stones were planted within the three stone puppets, they didn't have minds of their own. Zong Shou could only use some of his intent to control them. To him, this was a brand new experience.

As this was the first time he was doing so, the puppets were wobbly and shaky, and fell down several times.

By the time he slowly got the hang of it and understood how to control them, an hour had already passed. They straightened their arms and stretched their legs before walking to their designated positions to start digging using their stone arms.

Although the stone puppets were a little cumbersome, they had great strength, around ten thousand kilograms of power. Every time their stone palms smacked down, they would dig out huge amounts of dirt. In just a short while they had dug a hundred feet down. When they faced stone that was hard to break through, Zong Shou used his Lightning Tooth Sword to forcibly cut through.

”This stone puppet is not bad! Spirit master's spiritual techniques are really magical and dazzling, with so many uses and benefits...”

Unfortunately, the cost of these puppets was huge: one Grade Three beast crystal, which was a hundred thousand silver. In the Cloud World, that was the wealth of an average rich family.

Only Zong Shou, who had huge amounts of resources in the Sanlu Bank, knew that beast crystals would be useless in the future, which was why he dared to waste them like this.

Ten beast crystals, two spirit stones of the same Grade; this was a heavy price. However, the stone puppets could last for two months and they didn't need to worry about running out of energy.

It meant that he would have three more experts comparable to nine meridian Mythic Masters!

Their digging speed was quick, and in just an hour they easily dug to the bottom.

Here was a fifty-foot high natural tunnel, and below it was a shallow stream.

The Rising Moon Lion was hiding not far away, and the outside of the hole was guarded by it.

Zong Shou didn't hesitate, bringing the three stone puppets along as he jumped down. On the two sides of the tunnel were star-like glitters, closely placed together, all crystals.

Chuxue roughly knew Zong Shou's intentions. Following Zong Shou, she jumped down into the stream, and was in awe as she looked around at the crystals reflecting the light.

”Young Master, are all these mind stones?” Chuxue was thinking that if they dug this all out, wouldn't they earn a huge profit? One mind stone, even the lowest Grade was ten times that of a same Grade beast crystal.

Zong Shou couldn't help but smile as he continued forwards. If the mind stones were so easy to find, then they wouldn't be so expensive!

The crystals could actually be considered mind stones, but they weren't graded and had little use. Even those spirit masters before the Soul Observing Realm disdained to use them. In other people's eyes it might be a sizeable fortune, but in his it was just trash and a waste of time.

As he proceeded forwards, he spread out his soul power to search the tunnel.

This place was underground and although the Yin wind blew, it didn't hurt his soul. Zong Shou usually could only stretch out his soul power to a hundred feet, now he stretched it out three hundred and didn't find it tough, only that he was unable to go deep into the earth.

”I heard that an out of body spirit master can stretch his soul power ten feet into the dirt. A Night Wandering Realm spirit master was thrice that. When one reaches the Back to Sun Realm, one could reach a hundred feet, one thousand at the Day Wandering Realm. At that Realm, one just needs to use their mind to sweep and they would be able to find mind stones. However, that would only work in Low Grade mines. In those high Grade veins, spiritual energy would congeal and the soul power of a spirit master would find it tough to even get close...”

Zong Shou could only stretch into the dirt layer fifteen feet. At such a range, it was really tough to find a mind stone. He didn't have high hopes when he did so.

There were many branches here and the short ten mile path had at least a dozen branches.

When he walked to a turning point, his eyes lit up. He ordered the three puppets to dig towards the side. After digging five feet at the wall, a few blue transparent crystals appeared, roughly the size of a fist.

Chuxue was slightly astonished, noticing at first glance the blue crystals were different from the other crystals on the sides of the wall.

They were shiny and transparent, the spiritual energy within it was many times that of the surrounding crystals. If one looked carefully, one could see a liquid power flowing within, containing pure Essence energy and spiritual energy. When one absorbed it, one could easily utilize it and not leave any future problems.

Chuxue was astonished for a while, unable to be certain. After a while she hesitated, ”Young Master, is this a Grade Four stone?”

”Above Grade Three, but not at Grade Four! But it is already not bad!”

Zong Shou causally stashed them in the bag by his waist, totally expressionless. A Grade Three mind stone could compare to a Grade Four beast crystal. He was feeling slightly unfortunate that although he could make use of this water element mind stone, it wasn't the one he wanted.

However, this meant that they were close to the core!

A mid-sized Grade Two mine, only where spiritual energy was the most luscious would there be Grade Three mind stones!

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Continuing forwards, after another nine hundred feet, Zong Shou ordered the three puppets to stop.