After obtaining the first piece of Qinggang Stone, Xu Chunniang did not rush to cut it. She casually placed it in her little world and continued mining the next piece.
The temperature inside the stone mine was not much higher than outside.
Because the mine tunnels connected to the outside, cold wind would pour in along the passageways.
Therefore, she and Little White had to excavate enough Qinggang Stone before the Immortal Qi in her body was depleted.
The two worked with their heads down. For a time, there was no sound in the mine except the chipping of stone.
Only after they had mined all the Qinggang Stone in this mine, stored every piece of Qinggang Stone and both stone picks in the little world, did Xu Chunniang leave with Little White and return to the mine passage in search of another tunnel.
In the mine passage, the two would occasionally encounter other immortals mining Qinggang Stone.
They wore thick fur coats and carried enormous baskets on their backs as they traveled back and forth through the passageways.
Xu Chunniang noticed that most of the immortals' fur coats were old and tattered, bearing many patches.
Only a very small number of well-dressed immortals held handy tools in their hands.
Seeing that neither Xu Chunniang nor Little White wore fur coats, and that neither carried a basket on their backs, these people could not help giving them a few extra looks. Yet no one spoke to them.
Xu Chunniang was more than happy to keep a low profile. Previously, she had not known better and had assumed stone picks were nothing valuable, displaying them casually.
Only after discovering that the vast majority of immortals in the mines did not have stone picks did she realize that three hundred immortal crystals