Though five months' worth of divine stones wasn't a particularly large amount, wasn't the rate of consumption a little too fast?
Fifteen days!
It had only been fifteen days.
"Fifteen days have passed. We should be leaving."
"Keep up the good work. When Fan Jian gets here, tell him to arrange for people to take over those fifteen mines along the route I took."
"Understood. We'll inform the sect master."
After giving his instructions, Chen Changan took Mu Yunyao and the others and left the mine.
Watching Chen Changan and the others walk away, Shen Muzhou cried out mournfully, "Godfather, you have to miss me!"
"I'll think of you every single day."
"Whatever you do, don't forget about me!"
Chen Changan's silence and lack of response left Shen Muzhou heartbroken. He murmured, "He really is going to forget me."
"Looks like I'll have to work hard. Otherwise, I won't even be qualified to be his adopted son."
Half a year later
Heavenly God Pavilion
"Someone tell me: what exactly is going on?"
"Why haven't several mines submitted their divine stones?" the Heavenly God Pavilion Master asked, his face dark.
Over the past six months, five mines should have submitted divine stones. Yet so much time had passed, and not a single one had turned anything in.
"Why are you all silent?"
"What are you people even doing all day?"
"This is so important. Did none of you notice something was wrong ahead of time and check on the situation?"
"Don't you know how important these divine stones are to our Heavenly God Pavilion?"
"Don't you know what I'm preparing to do?"
"Speak up! Have you all gone mute?"
The Heavenly God Pavilion Master's fury left the Elders below trembling with fear.
Normally, the mines delivered the divine stones on their