A Rare Medium-Sized Mine Vein
About half a month later, beside a second-tier earth Spirit Vein deep within the Black Mud of the Muddy Swamp Territory.
Ling Pengyun, a Golden Core True Person, was facing a patch of Black Mud in front of him, using his Object Manipulation Technique.
In an instant, a piece of Black Mud, hundreds of feet wide and tens of feet high, trembled and slowly floated up, flying towards the second-tier earth Spirit Vein not far away.
But at that moment, Ling Pengyun suddenly noticed a faint fluctuation of Spiritual Qi deep within the soil where the piece of Black Mud he had moved earlier was located.
He looked over and saw that the Black Mud had disappeared, revealing the area deep underground. There was nothing unusual about it. His expression changed, and he waved his hand, sending a burst of spiritual energy towards that spot.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous sound, the ground was instantly blasted open by the spiritual light unleashed by Ling Pengyun, creating a hole tens of feet deep.
And the Spiritual Qi emanating from this deep cave became increasingly concentrated.
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun was secretly amazed.
Then, he unleashed another burst of spiritual energy, extending the deep hole by dozens of feet. But just as the remaining power of that spiritual energy was exhausted, it struck something like metal, producing a metallic clang.
That spiritual energy also ran out of power and disappeared.
Upon hearing this sound, Ling Pengyun was overjoyed. Looking over, he immediately saw a layer of iron-rich ore at the bottom of the nearly 100-foot-deep cave, shimmering with an iron-colored luster, yellow in color, uneven, and exuding a rich earthy Spiritual Qi.
"It really is a spirit iron ore vein."
Just now, where the spiritual energy struck the iron wall, there was a groove several feet deep, and many small iron ores fell around it as a result.
Ling Pengyun used his Object Manipulation Technique to pick up a small piece of iron that had fallen from the deep cave, and examined it closely in his hand.
"Judging from the appearance of this spirit iron, it should be First-Tier Superior-Grade earth-type spirit iron, Yellow Rock Steel."
"If this mine is of a decent size, the Lineage could make a small profit by leveraging the steel's sturdiness."
"The financial strain caused by the Lineage setting up arrays for the Spirit Vein throughout the Muddy Swamp Territory can also be alleviated to some extent."
Yellow Rock Steel is an extremely sturdy spirit iron. In terms of sturdiness alone, this spirit iron ranks among the top of all first-tier earth-type spirit irons and can be considered a Higher Vehicle First-Tier Superior-Grade spirit iron.
This spirit iron, due to its sturdy nature, is most suitable for forging earth-based defensive Law Artifact.
Moreover, the defensive magical Law Artifact they forge are generally of excellent quality and are very popular in the market, so they are never short of supply.
The Ling Clan Repository has recently exhausted its already meager supply of Spirit Stone stones in order to set up formations on the more than two thousand Spirit Vein in the Muddy Swamp, which covers an area of two hundred thousand miles. All of these stones have been used to buy the materials needed to set up the formations.
Even more remarkably, six months ago, Ling Pengyun sold the Black Wind Wolf Demon's third- Golden Core Third Layer Third Rank Low Grade- grade natal Lifebound Magic Treasure "Black Fiend Wind Control Banner," to Hundred Spirits True Person, and the 250,000 Spirit Stone he received have now consumed tens of thousands of Spirit Stone.
It probably won't be long before his 250,000 Spirit Stone are all used up.
According to Ling Pengyun's estimate, it would take at least a million Spirit Stone to set up an array on each of the more than two thousand Spirit Vein in this area.
Although he was wise, this expense was enormous, and the Ling Clan's current finances simply could not afford to complete it; it was a massive undertaking.
However, if the more than two thousand Spirit Vein Spirit Vein the Muddy Swamp Territory are not re-established, it will not be long before those Spirit Vein are occupied by Demon Beast or rootless rogue Rogue Cultivator.
The Ling Clan family has few people, so if the Spirit Vein in some remote places are occupied, it will be difficult to find out in a short period of time.
Those Spirit Vein belong to the Ling Clan. Although the Ling Clan currently has difficulty utilizing those Spirit Vein, even so, the Ling Clan is unwilling to see their own Spirit Vein being occupied by others for free.
In such a situation, if those Spirit Vein were all protected by arrays, this situation could be avoided.
At the same time, with those formations in place, the Spirit Vein that the Ling Clan rents out in the future will also be guaranteed.
If the cultivators who rent the Spirit Vein do not follow the rules, they can directly use the formations set up on the Spirit Vein to kill the cultivators inside.
Several months ago, the Ling Clan killed more than 200,000 Demon Beast in the Muddy Swamp Territory and obtained 210,000 Demon Beast corpses, which were quite valuable. However, the materials from these Demon Beast were difficult to convert into cash in a short period of time.
Firstly, the White Cloud Mountain Range are teeming with Demon Beast Demon Beast. In recent decades, the other five sects of the Yan Kingdom have also killed many Demon Beast. The artisans within those five sects have used materials from those Demon Beast to refine many of these spiritual items and put them into the market.
As a result, the market for these spiritual items has become saturated.
Even if the Ling Clan refined all the materials from those 210,000 Demon Beast into spiritual items, it would still take at least a hundred years to sell them all and exchange them for Spirit Stone.
Secondly, the Ling Clan has few skilled craftsmen, so it would take at least a hundred years to refine all the materials from that huge number of Demon Beast into spiritual objects.
If the two are combined, it will take at least two hundred years for the Ling Clan to truly turn those Demon Beast corpses into cash.
For various reasons, the Ling Clan's finances are becoming increasingly strained.
Ling Pengyun shifted his gaze from the piece of "Yellow Rock Steel Ore" in his hand to a small, unseen piece of Yellow Rock Steel Ore in the deep cave below, a look of anticipation rising on his face.
Then, relying on his powerful Golden Core Realm Divine Sense, he entered the deep cave that revealed the Yellow Rock Steel Ore and gradually explored the scale of the vein by following its direction.
His Divine Sense was comparable to that of Golden Core Third Layer expert, and could cover a radius of 3,000 feet.
Before long, he discovered the true scale of the Yellow Rock Steel Mine.
To his surprise, the Yellow Rock Steel Mine stretched for over 2,500 zhang and was about 500 zhang wide, making it a very rare "Medium Vein".
Based on his experience, this vein contains at least 500,000 jin of Yellow Rock Steel Ore.
Ten kilograms of Yellow Rock Steel Ore can be refined into one kilogram of Yellow Rock Steel.
First-Tier Superior-Grade Yellow Rock Steel is more expensive than other spirit iron of the same grade due to its higher price. On the market, one pound of Yellow Rock Steel costs about thirteen Spirit Stone.
Based on this calculation, the value of this medium-sized Yellow Rock Steel Mine alone is as high as 650,000 Spirit Stone.
If these ores are refined into earth-based defensive magical Law Artifact, their value will increase several times, or even three times.
"With the sturdiness of the defensive Law Artifact forged from this spirit iron, and the scale of this mine, the reputation of our Lineage in artifact forging will surely be renowned throughout the entire Yan Kingdom."
"In the future, the Ling Clan family will probably monopolize all the first-tier earth-type defensive magic Law Artifact in the Yan Kingdom."
"At that time, a great many Spirit Stone will surely enter the clan."
"It's just a pity that tedious tasks like mining spirit iron can be made up for by relying on Mining Puppet."
"Defensive magical Law Artifact made by Yellow Rock Steel are quite popular in the market and there is no shortage of demand."
"However, the Lineage currently has a limited number of Artifact Refiner. It will be difficult to refine all of this batch of ores into magical Law Artifact in a short time. Like the Lineage's huge batch of Demon Beast materials, it will take a very long time to fully realize their value."
"We still need to pay more attention to the art of weapon crafting within the Lineage, as well as to all other crafts. Otherwise, even if fortuitous opportunity are presented to the Lineage, it will be difficult to seize them."
"These kinds of skilled individuals also need to be recruited in large numbers. We need to rely on outsiders to first solidify the Lineage's foundation and wait for the family members to grow."
Ling Pengyun gazed at the Yellow Rock Steel Mine inside the deep cave, his face full of smiles, but there was also some helplessness in his eyes.
There are only three Artifact Refiner in the Ling Clan: Ling Pengyun, a Second Rank High Grade Artifact Refiner; Wen Nianling, who recently broke through to become Second Grade Middle Rank Artifact Refiner; and a member of the Cheng Generation from the five generations of the Lineage: Yun, Xiao, Peng, Cheng, and Wan.
The clansman of the Cheng Generation was named Ling Chenggang. He was the twenty-fifth in the Cheng Generation and was forty-eight years old. His cultivation had reached the Qi Training Ninth Layer, and his weapon crafting grade was First-Tier Superior-Grade.
Such talent in cultivation and weapon crafting is quite good, making them one of the key members of the Ling Clan currently being cultivated.
In the past, Ling Chenggang had always stayed in the Clan Mountain, refining magical Law Artifact for the Lineage.