"Time was short. Mirror Mountain had not accumulated much spirit sand in the past, and with the past two years included, there were four hundred and thirty jin in total. It's all here."
That day, Meng Jian arrived and brought out every last bit of spirit sand stockpiled by Mirror Mountain, including his own.
The entire Mirror Mountain region produced one hundred and twenty jin of spirit sand annually. It counted as a major mine, only slightly inferior to Cang Mountain.
Adding the scattered minor mines, the two lineages of Cang Mountain and Mirror Mountain could produce four hundred jin of spirit sand each year.
This was mining income.
There were thirteen Qi Refining Immortal Masters across the two mountains. Of those four hundred jin of spirit sand, Meng Nan alone claimed one hundred jin, Meng Jian received sixty jin, and only the remaining two hundred and forty jin went to the Four Immortals of Mirror Mountain, the Four Freaks, Jin Tan, and the rest.
According to cultivation and attainment, some could receive thirty or forty jin, while even the least received more than ten jin.
An ordinary Qi Refining Immortal Master generally earned around ten jin a year. This was not a low figure.
And this was only one portion of the Immortal Masters' income from the two mountains.
Beyond that, Cang Mountain and Mirror Mountain openly and covertly operated marketplaces throughout the region. No single marketplace earned much, only around ten jin of spirit sand a year.
But little by little, sand piled into a tower.
At their peak, there had been twenty-four marketplaces. Combined, they could earn more than two hundred jin of spirit sand annually.
After the Star Picking Sect arrived, marketplace business suffered a certain blow. With Southern Frontier in turmoil and the Star Picking