Chapter 656 Jinxia Ridge

Since many years ago, Zhang Zhixuan has sent a large number of sect monks to explore the mine.

The Zhang family of Tiantai Peak is his closest power, so they will naturally make great efforts to support his decision and implement it without compromise from top to bottom.

After more than 20 years, countless manpower and material resources were consumed, and the Zhang family monks finally hit the jackpot and discovered a spiritual stone vein.

The location of this spiritual stone vein is still in the wilderness, more than 20,000 miles away from Lushan County, which is twice as far as the Chaoyin Mountain spiritual stone mine.

The location of the spiritual stone mine is in Lushan County, not too far from the vast sea, and taking the water route can save a lot of costs.

The barren mountain where the spiritual stone mine is located originally had no name. Because of the brocade glow in the early morning, it was named Jinxia Ridge by the Zhang family monks.

Zhang Zerui, who was in charge of the family, received the news, but he did not rashly mine the vein and steal spiritual stones like Ma Jimin did back then.

Instead, he hurried to Qingxuan Sect and reported the matter to Qingchan for decision.

Zhang Zhixuan had just come out of retreat. After receiving the news, he immediately went to Jinxialing with Qingchan and Zhang Zerui.

There were more than ten Zhang family monks near Jinxialing, and the leader was Zhang Xianteng, who was at the third level of foundation building.

This man was a prospector trained by the Zhang family. He had an ugly appearance, dark skin, and a pair of protruding ears that gave him excellent hearing.

It was his meticulous and thoughtful exploration of the terrain that discovered the abnormality of Jinxialing. Under his strong insistence, the Zhang family monks dug in this barren mountain for more than two years before they mined the spirit stone.

This man can be said to have made the first contribution to the discovery of this spirit stone mine.

Zhang Zhixuan did not care about his ugly appearance, and happily patted his shoulder and said, "You have made the first contribution to the discovery of the spirit stone mine this time. When you go back, Zerui will reward you heavily."

Under the leadership of Zhang Xianteng, everyone entered the gloomy and humid mine cave.

The mine cave was winding, and special torches were lit every few dozen steps.

This torch uses low-grade Xuanyang wood and can burn for several days and nights.

After the Zhang family controlled the spiritual veins of Liucheng, they increased the planting of Xuanyang wood. The annual output of Xuanyang wood is as many as tens of thousands.

This low-level spiritual wood has already flowed into the mortal world in large quantities. Officials, nobles, and innate cultivators in the mortal world even use Xuanyang wood for heating and lighting.

As the mine cave gets deeper and deeper, a trace of spiritual energy seeps out of the mine cave.

Zhang Zhixuan used his spiritual sense to sweep and found that occasionally one or two low-grade spiritual stones were hidden dozens of feet deep in the rock wall. Judging from the density of spiritual stones in this mine vein, it is not as good as the Chaoyin Mountain mine cave.

Although Qingchan's formation water quality has not recovered to the level of the previous life, it has also reached the fifth-grade upper grade.

She turned around in the mine cave, and then continuously took out a formation flag and hit it into Jinxialing. Explore the scope of the spiritual stone mine and determine the trend of the ground vein. As the exploration gradually came to an end, she showed more and more smiles on her face.

"How is it? Is the range of the vein very large?"

Qing Chan nodded and said: "Brother Zhixuan guessed correctly. Although the distribution of spiritual stones is sparser than that of Chaoyin Mountain, the range is much larger than that of the spiritual stone mine in Chaoyin Mountain. According to my estimation, according to the mining intensity of Chaoyin Mountain, it can be mined for at least two thousand years. Because the range of the vein is very large, multiple excavations can be adopted. Looking at the terrain nearby, there are enough 200,000 people to open the mine. Once it is on the right track, the number of spiritual stones mined in a year can reach about 50,000.

However, the preliminary preparations are complicated, especially the safety issues, which must be taken with great care. Jinxialing is already the edge of the Southern Wilderness. If the fourth-level spiritual vein is cultivated, it will not be able to stop the demon king from spying. Cultivating the fifth-level spiritual vein and arranging a Jindan-stage cultivator to sit in charge is not possible by the Qingxuan Sect alone."

Mining spiritual stone mines requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Even if the Qingxuan Sect is now much stronger, it is still difficult to mobilize 200,000 people from the mountain gate to Jinxialing.

Besides, the Zhang family has spent a lot of manpower and material resources on prospecting, so it is not suitable to leave them out.

Zhang Zhixuan thought for a moment and said, "It is impossible to arrange the fourth-level spiritual vein without solving the Qingtong demon king. Once the demon king attacks, the Purple Mansion cultivators can't defend the mountain gate at all. I think it is better to let Tianchan Cave and Huanshui Sect participate, cultivate the fifth-level spiritual vein, arrange the teleportation array, and then occupy a part of the shares."

In the past sixty years, Zhang Zhixuan has been quietly integrating the power of the three sects.

The Kongming Stone Mine in Qingli Sea has extremely high returns, which are also divided equally among the three sects.

The profits from killing low-level ghost cultivators in the Evil Ghost Cave will also be shared by Tianchan Cave.

Although Jinxialing is the territory of Qingxuan Sect, it still cannot stop the demon king and Yang Xuanzhen without the support of Tianchan Cave and Huanshui Sect.

Qingchan pondered for a moment and said, "This is good. I will go to Gu Yan and ask her to take out a sum of spiritual stones, and you go to Huanshui Sect to find Yunfeng. Tiantai Peak just happens to occupy the remaining 10% of the shares."

Cultivating the fifth-level spiritual vein requires an investment of one million spiritual stones. Arranging the teleportation array to communicate with Qingyang Mountain and Lingjing Mountain also requires an investment of more than 200,000. In addition to building the main hall gate and setting up a defense formation, a total of more than 1.4 million spiritual stones will be invested. In the future, it will also cost a part to open up spiritual fields and plant spiritual medicines.

Even if the Zhang family occupies one-tenth of the shares, they will need to pay 150,000 spiritual stones at one time.

This number is also a headache for Tiantai Peak.

In the past few years, the Zhang family saved tens of thousands of spiritual stones, but unfortunately, they used up all the savings in the treasury to exchange for foundation-building pills.

In recent years, the family treasury has only saved 30,000 spiritual stones.

If you want to buy shares, you may still need to mobilize the power of the clan members and need to apportion.

Zhang Zerui has just taken charge of the family, and he wants to apportion a lot. In this way, I am afraid that his prestige will be seriously damaged.

Seeing Zhang Zerui's depressed face, Zhang Zhixuan laughed and said, "You don't have to worry too much. If you don't have spiritual stones at home, can't you borrow some from the Wu family and the Liu family? Although Tiantai Peak has become prosperous, we should still visit more with the old neighbors in the hometown. Now we are in the prime of our life. As long as we give a good interest rate, the Wu family and the Liu family will still help us. If you borrow 20,000 or 30,000 spiritual stones from each family, your burden will be relieved a little.

In addition, Xianlong, Ziqing, Ruizhen, and Ruibao are not short of spiritual stones. As long as you can save face, each of them can lend you 3,000 or 5,000, and they can bear part of it. In addition, Sihong and Lanniang must do their best. The three of us Jindan cultivators can also support you with 30,000. If the foundation-building cultivators at home contribute a little, we can make up the capital for the investment."

After instructing Zhang Zerui, Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan split up. Zhang Zhixuan went to Huanshui Sect, and Qingchan went to find Liu Lingjun.

Although Liu Lingjun had used up almost all of the spirit stones in her hand, she was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and a lean camel was bigger than a horse. She took out more than 400,000 spirit stones easily without any embarrassment on her face.

The Huanshui Sect had invested a large amount of spirit stones in cultivating the evil ghost cave spirit vein for more than 20 years, and the treasury had been used up many years ago.

In the past 20 years, the sect treasury had only accumulated hundreds of thousands of scattered spirit stones. In order to invest in the spirit stone mine, Chen Yunfeng gritted her teeth and raised funds by selling some precious cultivation resources to vassal families, and finally gathered more than 400,000 investment funds.