Xuan Shuang flew for half a cup of tea before landing in front of Jiang Ping'an and asked, "Sir, how is your Flight Technique?"
"Very good. With this Flight Technique, as long as you are careful enough, you can protect yourself against ordinary Spirit Aperture Realm late-stage monks." Jiang Ping'an said with a smile.
Then, he asked, "How far can it fly?"
Xuan Shuang said, "Currently it can fly around Pingzhang Mountain for more than six times."
Jiang Ping'an made a rough estimate and said with a smile, "So, it should be able to fly about twenty-five miles, which is not bad."
Xiu Yun said with envy, "Master, the slave family also wants Six-winged Golden Dragonfly Gu."
"Haha, no problem, I will take you to the market to buy it later." Jiang Ping'an said with a smile.
After entering the cave, drinking tea and chatting for more than half an hour, Jiang Ping'an took Xiu Yun and Xuan Shuang out, drove the spirit boat to Fulong Daping Valley Market, bought Six-winged Golden Dragonfly for Xiu Yun, then went shopping, and went to a restaurant to eat. Finally, when it was almost dark, they returned to Pingzhang Mountain.
After a short break and a cup of tea, Jiang Ping'an enters Cultivation Chamber of Xuan Shuang to practice Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner.
It stands to reason that with his level of cultivation, he cannot refine a high-grade magic weapon. However, Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner is a blood-refined object that needs to be refined with blood essence, so the requirements for his level of cultivation are not very high.
Within Cultivation Chamber, Jiang Ping'an used his energy to gather the essence and blood on the tip of his tongue, then bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of essence and blood towards Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner.
The essence and blood fell on Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner, and the light was immediately absorbed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner then raised a large amount of cold black mist, Yin Feng blew up inside Cultivation Chamber, and the temperature dropped sharply.
Jiang Ping'an immediately used the refining formula on Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner.
Halfway through the refining process, Jiang Ping'an realized that it was difficult to continue refining, so he sprayed another mouthful of blood essence on Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner, and then continued refining.
After spraying three mouthfuls of blood essence on Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner, he finally refined Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner.
Holding Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner in one hand and caressing the banner with the other, Jiang Ping'an breathed a long sigh of relief and said to himself, "Fortunately, there is no Yin spirit in Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner. Otherwise, with my current cultivation level, I would not be able to refine it, and would instead be swallowed by the Yin spirit in the banner."
"Okay Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner, the next step is to find an opportunity to go to Vengeful Sword Valley to capture the wronged sword spirit Ghost General."
Keep Mystic Nether Spirit Controlling Banner, Jiang Ping'an, take out Spirit Pills, take it, and use it to refine it to restore true energy and blood essence.
At noon the next day, Jiang Ping'an had recovered most of his true Qi, and less than half of his blood essence, which was basically invisible.
Under the reluctant eyes of Xiu Yun and Xuan Shuang, he drove the spirit boat away and returned to Biyou Peak Feiquan Cave Mansion.
After swallowing Spirit Pills and resting for a few days, Jiang Ping'an fully recovered.
On this day, Jiang Ping'an came out from refining Youth Preserving Pill. Ziling came forward and reported, "Master, He Zudao wants to see you."
"Please come soon." Jiang Ping'an said immediately, "Go down the mountain and ask him to come up."
It took him half a day to make the elixir, and He Zudao might have been waiting at the foot of the mountain for a long time. Therefore, he asked Ziling to fly down to the foot of the mountain to invite people, instead of letting the servants on Biyou Peak run errands.
After a cup of tea, He Zudao arrived.
I sat down in the cave hall and got on Spirit Tea. After a brief exchange of greetings, He Zudao got down to the topic and said, "Ping An, senior brother Zhu Junchen came to me a few days ago and invited me to contract a Cloud Pattern Steel Mine together."
"Do you remember Zhu Junchen? I introduced you to my Cultivation Partner at the bonding ceremony."
Jiang Ping'an smiled and said, "I remember it."
At the Cultivation Partner witnessing ceremony of He Zudao, Zhu Junchen toasted to Jiang Ping'an. Zhu Junchen is Spirit Devouring Peak Outer Sect Disciple, who is in the middle stage of Qi Refining Realm.
He Zudao continued, "Senior Brother Zhu also wants to invite you."
Jiang Ping'an wanted to refuse. He currently had no shortage of means to earn spirit stones. However, since He Zudao came to invite him, he had to listen carefully before declining.
So, he asked, "How to contract? How to cooperate?"
Seeing that Jiang Ping'an did not refuse immediately, He Zudao introduced expectantly, "We, Azure Origin Sect, have a vast sphere of influence and a huge industry. Among them, there are many small spiritual mines. The sect usually does not mine them by itself, but contracts them to its disciples."
"The Cloud Pattern Steel Mine we are planning to contract is also a small mineral vein, about 4,500 miles away from the sect, and was only discovered some time ago. The contract conditions are that 10,000 kilograms of high-quality Cloud Pattern Steel will be handed over every year, a deposit of 2,000 spiritual stones, and the contract period is fifteen years."
At this point, he asked, "Ping An, do you know Cloud Pattern Steel?"
"About that." Jiang Ping'an replied.
The Cloud Pattern Steel Mine stone is blue-gray in color, with naturally silvery-white textures similar to Liu Yun on the surface. After the metal is refined, the color turns to dark blue, and the moiré pattern turns into the inner Liu Guang, which will appear faintly when the spiritual power is stimulated.
Cloud Pattern Steel is an excellent conductor of spiritual power. It is extremely friendly to the primary spiritual power in the Qi refining stage and can reduce the loss of spiritual power. It is an ideal skeleton for refining low-level Magic Tool.
Moreover, Cloud Pattern Steel also has basic "form memory". After repeated sacrifices with specific techniques, the formed Cloud Pattern Steel Magic Tool can slowly absorb the holder's spiritual power when the damage is not serious, repair minor cracks on its own, and gradually become more in line with the owner's spiritual power characteristics.
Therefore, Cloud Pattern Steel has a relatively large demand in the world of immortality.
However, Cloud Pattern Steel is not a high-end refining material. It is only suitable for refining lower and middle grade Magic Tool, and can barely be used to refine top grade Magic Tool.
The market price is about two pieces of spiritual stones per pound.
He Zudao continued, "Senior Brother Zhu has personally inspected that Cloud Pattern Steel Mine, and it is estimated that there are more than 300 million kilograms of medium and high-grade Cloud Pattern Steel Mine, and can refine more than 300,000 kilograms of Cloud Pattern Steel."
Jiang Ping'an made some calculations and said, "That sounds good. Why did Brother Zhu come to me?"
"Senior Brother Zhu means that your identity is needed to suppress Xiaoxiao." He Zudao said, "The investment in contracting to mine the spiritual mine is huge. After it is put into production, it is easy to attract jealous people to forcibly pick the fruits, or disguise themselves as robbers to break into the mines and rob them, etc."
"Your identity is enough to prevent someone from forcibly picking the fruit."
Jiang Ping'an nodded slightly in agreement.
He was Registered Disciple who was personally accepted by True Lord Xuan Luo. Although his cultivation level was not high, ordinary inner disciples would not dare to provoke him, let alone rob him of his things.
He Zudao continued, "Senior Brother Zhu is good at planting various Evil Plant poisonous plants, and we are good at formations. If we join forces, we can stop most bandits trying to rob only by using formations and Evil Plant, and can save a lot of guard power."
Jiang Ping'an asked curiously, "What about the people who mine and refining?"
"Of course we will recruit some handyman disciples from within the sect, and some casual cultivators, and let them mine and refine the ore." He Zudao introduced, "We don't need to do it ourselves."
"What we have to do is manage and sit back."
Seeing that Jiang Ping'an was really interested, He Zudao continued to introduce it enthusiastically, "If we contract the Cloud Pattern Steel Mine and pay ten thousand kilograms of Cloud Pattern Steel every year, the remaining Cloud Pattern Steel will be ours. We can sell it to the sect in exchange for spiritual stones and good deeds, or we can sell it to other monks."
Jiang Ping'an couldn't help but become interested after listening.
It is certainly better to have others earn spiritual stones and good deeds for you than to do it yourself and work hard to refine elixirs and magic circles to earn spiritual stones and good deeds.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ping'an said, "I'm a little interested."
He Zudao said happily, "There must be money to be made. If Senior Brother Zhu's detection of that Cloud Pattern Steel Mine is true, I have estimated that, after deducting all expenses, there should be more than 150,000 spiritual stones to be earned. Assuming that it is divided into five parts, each person can earn more than 2,000 spiritual stones per year!"
"If you are willing to invest, you will definitely get more spiritual stones!"
"Ping An, when are you free? Let's meet and have a talk." He Zudao showed a pleading expression.
Jiang Ping'an smiled and said, "Then let's get together tomorrow."
"Okay!" He Zudao said happily, "Tianxiang Immortal Building will see you at noon tomorrow!"
Jiang Ping'an: "See you or see you."