Chapter 1006

The two walked all the way into the depths of the mine shaft.

The further down they went, the darker it became.

There was also a fishy stench permeating the surrounding air.

He Pingsheng asked: "Brother Qingxuan, what kind of materials are mostly produced in this place?"

He did have quite a few low-tier crafting materials on him.

But if he were to rashly swap them out and take out something not produced locally, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

So He Pingsheng needed to fish for information to find a reasonable excuse for his future swapping, so that others wouldn't have any other suspicions.

"Many!"

"And very mixed!"

Qingxuan said: "It is said that there are over twenty types in total, but they are mainly 【Earth Dragon Blue Gold】 and 【Immortal Profound Red Copper】!"

"Junior Brother, you must be careful in your prospecting, especially with that Earth Dragon Blue Gold; if you don't look closely, it's very easy to mistake it for an ordinary stone!"

"Understood!" He Pingsheng nodded and said: "Many thanks for the reminder, Brother Qingxuan!"

The two walked along the downward mine shaft for about the time it takes to burn two sticks of incense before they saw a fork in the road.

One passage had become two.

"Go this way!" Qingxuan chose one at random and continued downward.

Thus, every so often, they would face a fork in the road.

After walking to about the seventh or eighth fork, they saw two smaller secondary mine shafts that were only three feet wide.

Qingxuan said: "We've arrived... we've reached the secondary mine shaft entrance... I will search in this secondary mine shaft, you take the other one!"

"Once these secondary mine shafts extend out, generally speaking, there are no more forks, and since they are close to the mineral core area, they are also the easiest places to find ore!"

"Just search them one by one like this; this large mine shaft is enough for us to search for a month!"

"Fine!" He Pingsheng nodded.

Then the two walked into different cave entrances.

Qingxuan's voice came again: "Junior Brother He, if you discover a demonic beast later, call for help immediately, and I will come to help you at the first opportunity!"

"The 【Black-Backed Centipedes】 here are highly poisonous, and it's not easy for one person to deal with them!"

"Understood!"

He Pingsheng responded, and the two began to explore separately.

After exploring for four consecutive days, He Pingsheng had found nothing, and at the same time, he had thoroughly searched this secondary mine shaft.

Nothing!

There were absolutely no ores at all.

After he returned to the fork and waited for another day, he saw Daoist Qingxuan also walking out of that secondary mine shaft, dejected.

"Don't be discouraged!" He even comforted He Pingsheng, saying: "It's not that easy, let's go... to the next one!"

The two walked back, returned to a previous fork, and walked into the other branch.

When they reached the end of this fork, they discovered two more secondary mine shafts.

"Let's continue..." Qingxuan said: "The one on the left is for you, the one on the right is for me!"

"Fine!" He Pingsheng nodded in agreement; it didn't matter to him.

Searching through the secondary mine shafts one by one like this, by the time they reached the sixth one, He Pingsheng guessed that by now, that fellow Qingxuan must have put all his energy and spiritual sense into searching for ore and wouldn't be using it to pay attention to him.

Thus, he secretly took out two blue-gold stones from the Ju Bao Pen.

These things were first-tier Immortal materials, but they looked almost no different from ordinary stones.

They matched the description of 【Earth Dragon Blue Gold】 given by Daoist Qingxuan earlier.

Of course, for He Pingsheng, the best thing wouldn't be to take out ore materials, but to take out a low-tier 【Immortal Crystal】 directly.

What if I just say I found an Immortal Crystal in this mine shaft?

100,000 points would be in the bag.

But the problem is, he doesn't have one!

The previous forty-eight low-tier Immortal Crystals were all upgraded to mid-tier by the Ju Bao Pen back in the Spirit Realm.

If he were to take out a mid-tier Immortal Crystal for trading, it's hard to say whether the crystal would still be his, but He Pingsheng could be certain that his life would likely no longer be his own.

"How is it, Junior Brother He?" Qingxuan's expression was a bit bitter: "Did you find anything?"

It had already been over twenty days, and they still had nothing to show for it.

He had expected He Pingsheng to have a bitter expression as well.

But He Pingsheng nodded and said: "I found some!"

After saying this, he even took out a blue stone and asked Daoist Qingxuan: "Take a look, is this the 【Earth Dragon Blue Gold】 you mentioned?"

"I... I... I... Holy crap..." Daoist Qingxuan held back several times but finally couldn't resist, and a curse word exploded out.

"This... this is Earth Dragon Blue Gold... and this damn thing is top-tier?"

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..." Qingxuan was completely stunned: "Brother... your luck is too good, isn't it?"

"Top-tier Earth Dragon Blue Gold, I don't know the price, but ordinary ones sell for over ten to twenty thousand points; yours is worth at least thirty or forty thousand!"

As a result, He Pingsheng added another sentence: "I dug out two pieces!"

"Look!"

He took out the other piece as well.

"Holy crap... holy crap, holy crap..." Daoist Qingxuan's mouth was watering with envy: "Your luck is just too good, isn't it?"

"Where did you dig it up?"

"Take me to see!"

"Let me see if I can get one too!"

"Let's go!" He Pingsheng turned his head and walked toward the secondary mine shaft.

Qingxuan, following behind, had a face that turned gloomy several times; his heart was pounding, and he took extremely deep breaths to adjust his state, wanting to launch a sneak attack, but in the end, he didn't make a move!

Just at this moment, a series of sizzling sounds suddenly came from the darkness!

Then Qingxuan looked behind him and saw a black demonic beast over ten feet long lunging toward them.

"Not good!" Qingxuan shouted loudly: "Fellow Daoist He... there's a demonic beast!"

"This is... a Black-Backed Centipede!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Qingxuan turned and dodged.

The Black-Backed Centipede didn't hit Qingxuan, but continued forward, lunging toward He Pingsheng's body.

He Pingsheng didn't flee, but turned around directly and smashed out with a fierce punch.

Now, without his innate true objects—such as the Heavenly True Thunder which had fallen into the family world—and without Immortal Arts, he couldn't use the divine abilities from the Spirit Realm either.

So all he could use was the simplest Immortal Essence breathing and physical strength.

Yet even so, this punch, when unleashed, smashed fiercely onto the head of the Black-Backed Centipede, erupting with a powerful energy fluctuation that surged in all directions.

Bang...

The Black-Backed Centipede was knocked over to the ground, twitched a few times, and died instantly!

"Careful... there's another one..."

Qingxuan, who was already hanging on the wall of the mine shaft above like a gecko, shouted to He Pingsheng.

Another Black-Backed Centipede was attacking him from behind.

Having just easily killed one, He Pingsheng was now extremely calm at heart.

He leaped lightly to dodge the centipede's attack and then landed on the back of the Black-Backed Centipede.

He smashed a punch directly onto its back.

The second centipede, dead!

Clean and efficient, killing two centipedes in a row.

But He Pingsheng was annoyed to discover that the energy ripples from his attack on the Black-Backed Centipede couldn't even shake the surrounding mine shaft.

This...

The rules of the Immortal Realm are truly powerful!