Chapter 1005: Abandoned Mine Pit

"From now, there are four months left!"

Qingxuan Daoist answered He Pingsheng's question: "The trading fair will be held at the mountain gate by then, named 【Heavenly Gate Trading Fair】, and all inner sect and outer sect disciples can participate!"

"So fast?"

He Pingsheng was surprised.

Once every ten years, didn't expect it was almost time!

But for He Pingsheng, this was naturally the faster the better.

"Wang Shixiong Qingxuan!" He Pingsheng bowed to Qingxuan: "It's not that I doubt Wang Shixiong, it's just that caution is the best policy!"

"Junior Brother feels that there should be quite a few immortals in this outer sect who don't submit to Wang Shixiong Jing Lei, why did Wang Shixiong specifically find Junior Brother?"

A look of disdain appeared on Qingxuan's face, and he said: "Junior Brother, you wouldn't suspect that I have ulterior motives toward you, right?"

"Hehehe..."

He said with some dissatisfaction: "What do I plot against you for?"

"Plot against your Qiankun Bag? Plot against the few sets of sect clothes in your bag, or plot against your point card with a zero balance?"

He Pingsheng smiled without saying a word!

Who knows?

Although Qingxuan's words sounded very reasonable at first, don't forget, when He Pingsheng was cultivating, there was no array covering him at all.

That is to say, his refining of the flying sword and the third-tier mask before were very likely seen by others using secret methods.

What if they plot against my flying sword?

Of course, He Pingsheng wasn't afraid! 【1

Plotting is plotting; a mere Human Immortal is someone I could kill back when I was in the Mahayana Emperor Realm!

Why would I be afraid of you?

"Hehehe..." He Pingsheng hurriedly laughed and cupped his hands, saying, "Apologies, Brother Qingxuan, it was just my overthinking. Very well... if you don't mind, Brother, let's team up and head to the abandoned mine!"

"No rush!" Qingxuan said, "Since you are willing to go with me, I must tell you about the rules involved!"

"I'm all ears!" He Pingsheng didn't care much about what the rules were.

Qingxuan said, "First, the two of us entering the abandoned mine together is certainly to have an extra layer of security. If one of us encounters danger, the other must assist with all their might and cannot flee at the last moment!"

He Pingsheng nodded: "That's no problem!"

Qingxuan said, "Second, after arriving at the abandoned mine, we rely on our own skills and our own luck. Whoever finds something keeps it for themselves... there is no such thing as splitting it equally!"

"What do you think?"

This rule was exactly what He Pingsheng had hoped for.

Whether you find anything or not, I don't know, but I sure as hell will!

After all, there are over a hundred crafting materials inside the Treasure Basin; wouldn't it be easy to just take out two?

"That's fine!" He Pingsheng nodded with a serious expression.

Qingxuan said, "That's good. Do you need to prepare anything? If you do, I can wait for you for a while!"

He Pingsheng shook his head: "No need, there's nothing to prepare. Let's just head over now!"

Next, the two of them each turned into a stream of light and flew off, heading further away beyond the Outer Sect.

Flying side by side.

After flying for about two hours without reaching the destination, He Pingsheng couldn't help but ask: "Brother Qingxuan, how far is that abandoned mine from our Immortal Sect?"

Qingxuan said: "Six days of flight!"

I...

He Pingsheng was stunned.

Six days!

Fine!

Whoosh...

The two of them streaked past one mountain after another.

The speed was very fast!

But compared to when he was in the Spirit Realm, it was surprisingly slow.

Just as the Daoist Qingxuan had said, after flying for a full six days, the two of them arrived at the abandoned mine!

Before them lay a massive abandoned open-pit mine covering an area of over a hundred miles.

However, inside this open-pit mine, there were countless mine shafts leading into the pitch-black depths of the earth.

A deathly silence.

Yet within this silence, one could occasionally hear one or two hair-raising sounds coming from those pitch-black mine shafts.

"How much of your Immortal Essence have you consumed?" Qingxuan asked He Pingsheng with some concern.

He Pingsheng scanned his body with his spiritual sense; after flying for six days, his Immortal Essence had certainly been depleted.

But for his vast reserves of Immortal Essence, the loss was not much, only about less than one percent.

"It's alright!" He Pingsheng gave an ambiguous answer.

Qingxuan continued: "No worries. Although you don't have an Immortal Art to quickly replenish your Immortal Essence yet, once you have converted your essence, the Immortal Essence between heaven and earth will slowly be absorbed by you, though this process is extremely slow!"

"It takes about a dozen days to fill it up!"

"So before entering this mine shaft, we still have to wait a bit and enter only after our Immortal Essence is fully replenished!"

He Pingsheng gave a bitter smile and then asked in return: "Brother Qingxuan, do you need to replenish yours too? Do you also lack an Immortal Art for cultivation?"

Qingxuan's expression also turned bitter: "To be honest, brother, my luck hasn't been great. Although I've been here several times, I've never managed to get anything good each time, wasting a hundred years of time in vain, and I haven't been able to earn any points!"

"Sigh... honestly, if I were given another chance to start over, I would choose to submit to Jing Lei!"

"It wastes too much time!"

"If I had been exploited by him for a few decades, I wouldn't have ended up in this state!"

He Pingsheng said nothing!

The two of them stayed there quietly for another ten days or so. During these ten days, seven or eight other cultivators arrived, and like He Pingsheng and his companion, they all sat cross-legged beside the mine pit, beginning to recover their Immortal Essence.

Without a cultivation technique, recovery is quite slow.

With an Immortal Art, it takes about two hours to finish.

Without an Immortal Art, one has to sit in silence for ten days or even longer!

Finally, after ten days, the Immortal Essence within Qingxuan was fully replenished: "Junior Brother, how are you doing?"

He looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng spread his hands: "I'm fine!"

"Good!" Qingxuan pointed to a cave entrance: "This way... this mine shaft, someone has found good things here before, let's go in and take a look!"

The two turned into streams of light and plunged fiercely into the black cave entrance.

Looking from the void, the entrance seemed small, but when the two walked inside, they discovered that the entrance was actually dozens of feet wide.

In some places, it even reached over a hundred feet.

In the dark mine shaft, the Immortal spiritual energy was even denser than over at the Outer Sect.

He Pingsheng said: "If one were to cultivate here, it should be even better than over there!"

Qingxuan smiled: "I'm just worried about the demonic beasts here... and with people coming and going, it's really not convenient!"

"Junior Brother He... besides being able to find various first-tier or second-tier crafting materials here, one can also find quite a few Immortal Crystal fragments, and if one is lucky enough, one might even see complete Immortal Crystals!"

"If that happens, one could ascend to the heavens in a single step!"

He Pingsheng's heart jolted, and he asked: "Brother, are these Immortal Crystals very expensive?"

"Of course!" Qingxuan said: "Just this ordinary low-tier Immortal Crystal can be exchanged for 100,000 points at the trading society!"

"Of course, we Outer Sect disciples shouldn't hope for such things!"

"Unless your luck is heaven-defying and you truly discover an Immortal Crystal in the mine pit!"