"Seems like we'll get to take more than just the spirit stones now." Lin Mu spoke.
"Indeed… I don't even know if I'll be able to carry all this. Combined with the materials I already have in the workshop, I definitely don't have enough space in my spatial storage tools." Jing Luo replied.
"Ah, you don't need to worry about that. We got plenty," Lin Mu said before withdrawing a literal fistful of spatial storage rings.
"Uh… I guess we will not then!" Jing Luo said, feeling stunned at first and then excited.
What Jing Luo did not know was that this was barely the tip of the iceberg. Lin Mu's mysterious ring was large enough to probably store the entire mountain if he had the power to do so.
Still, the spatial storage rings and other spatial storage treasures he had obtained from the Tri Cauldron Peony sect were already enough to store quite a lot of things and it was unlikely that they would be needing any more.
"We'll get to them later. First, we should see the spirit stone mine." Lin Mu spoke.
"Of course, not like they are running away." Jing Luo agreed.
The two continued and realized that the area was getting wider as they went further. Even the ores and materials embedded in the wall were increasing in number. Eventually, they reached the end of the path and were greeted with a wall of translucent white crystals.
"This… I didn't expect it to be this kind of a spirit stone mine…" Jing Luo muttered.
~gulp~
"Senior… I don't think I'll be able to finish this alone…" Lin Mu muttered.
"No, you should be able to… it will just take more time. Besides you can also store it for later use. Putting it in the ring will count as depleting the spirit Qi of the minor plane too. The only change is that the spirit stone mine is a high grade one." Xukong replied.
That's right, the entire wall of crystal in front of Lin Mu and Jing Luo was actually made of spirit stone. This was a rare occurrence as a crystal as big as this was immensely difficult to form even for high grade spirit stone mines.
"If this really is a fragment of the Sacred grounds as you said, then the part of the sacred grounds that was carved out was probably very important." Jing Luo spoke.
"Yeah," Lin Mu replied, still feeling stunned.
But then upon hearing Jing Luo's words he was reminded of something that he had heard while he was in the Ripple Mist sect. He had ignored it at that point as it wasn't really useful, but now it was linked to the current situation.
'Wasn't the reason why the elders of the Ripple mist sect were so concerned about the sacred trials because there had not been any significant gain in the past forty years? They were preparing the disciples such that they would reap the most benefits.' Lin Mu recalled.
"Seems like you may have unknowingly helped me Jing Luo." Lin Mu spoke.
"What, how?" He asked.
"You detonating the prototype spirit took carved out a major important part of the Sacred ground such that they have been suffering for the past forty years. When I was out there, I heard that the sect did not gain many resources from their sacred grounds when they sent in disciples.
They couldn't even go to check in, as the formation of the sacred grounds prevents those in the Nascent soul realm and above from entering. They just thought that their disciples were unlucky, but in reality one of the major sources of spirit Qi has been taken away from it." Lin Mu replied.
"NO WONDER! I always wondered why there was such a high concentration of spirit Qi in this world along with many resources. Not this just confirmed it." Jing Luo said out in joy.
To him, he had dealt the Ripple mist sect which had forced him into a hard situation along with other sects a bad hand. He couldn't help but feel happy about it and felt like he should take full advantage of it while he was here.
"How do we deal with this though? Mining spirit stones directly can be problematic." Jing Luo spoke.
"I think I can deal with this part." Lin Mu spoke.
Lin Mu was originally going to absorb all the spirit stones to further the plan, but instead of that he reckoned just storing it all in the ring would be much more efficient. Not only would he be done quicker but he would also have spirit stones for the future.
"Umm, are you going to use the same method as before?" Jing Luo asked, hinting at the use of Meld.
Lin Mu simply nodded his head and extended his hand. Jing Luo took the cue and took a few steps back. By now he had already understood that the skill Lin Mu was using was a spatial manipulation skill.
Jing Luo knew how precious and hard to learn skills such as those were. In his clan, there was actually a skill that allowed a certain level of spatial manipulation but no one had been able to learn it.
The source of the skill was also quite important as it was obtained by one of his uncles during the Great war with the Northern tribes in the past. It was rumored that it was one of the skills the northern tribes had obtained from the invaders by letting them into the world.
Many people from his clan, both old and young had tried to learn the skill but no one had succeeded. This had already affirmed the fact that no one in their clan had an affinity with one of the three primordial elements of the universe, the spatial element.
Even the few elders that were able to manipulate space due to their high cultivation base only did so with the assistance of spirit tools.
Lin Mu looked at the large mass of spirit stone and uttered. "MELD!"
