"Plus twenty thousand low-grade immortal crystals. Don't tell me you haven't saved up that much," the Lotus Avatar said.
"Twenty thousand low-grade immortal crystals? Daoist Nameless, you really have some nerve." Tu Xingyun's expression darkened. He controlled three mines, and their output of immortal crystals was substantial. Judging by the number of mines alone, he already controlled about as many as Lu Xiaotian's true self had back then. But actual output couldn't be measured by the number of mines alone.
One problem or another cropped up in every mine during excavation. Tu Xingyun was naturally nowhere near as capable as Lu Xiaotian's true self at resolving them, which had no doubt slowed the mining process considerably.
Besides, Tu Xingyun's share of the immortal crystals he skimmed was far smaller than Lu Xiaotian's. The key difference lay in their respective standing within their sects. Lu Xiaotian was already an elder. Though his strength had yet to reach the True Immortal realm, as a Pill Saint he was naturally beyond Tu Xingyun's reach. No matter how bold Tu Xingyun was, he didn't dare go too far.
Over this period, he had skimmed less than thirty thousand low-grade immortal crystals in total. Even so, it was a windfall for Tu Xingyun. Most True Immortals of lesser strength rarely had ten thousand crystals to their name. That was also why the appearance of immortal crystal veins in the Illusory Mist Marsh had drawn so many immortal sects here to excavate them on a massive scale.
Indeed, conflicts between immortal sects had already erupted in the Illusory Mist Marsh over the immortal crystal veins, leaving countless cultivators dead. The strife had become a massive whirlpool, yet the sects still rushed in one after another. The key was that obtaining sufficient resources could let a sect