Feng Jun had never intended to keep the massive deposit all to himself. From the beginning, he had planned to cooperate with the Xuanhuang Sect.
That deposit was simply too large. It could not be fully mined in a short time, and if other Human Race cultivators discovered it in the future, cooperation would be inevitable—there might even be conflict.
So after haggling with the Fishing Elder Venerable for quite some time, they finally decided to split the major deposit evenly. They were on the same planet anyway; they only needed to mark out their respective areas.
As for the three smaller deposits, Feng Jun would offer two of them as rewards, which also counted as repayment for the slots he had been given.
The Fishing Elder Venerable's warning seemed to have failed, but granting Feng Jun slots could also be considered a form of restriction.
He then informed the other cultivators that Feng Jun had brought Energy Stones and that they could come trade for them.
Quite a few people came to trade, but nobody exchanged openly. Of the Energy Stones Feng Jun had mined, only twenty percent were traded away.
It was clear that everyone was still exploring how Energy Stones should be used alongside weapons. They were still in the experimental testing stage and had not yet reached the point of stockpiling them for large-scale application.
However, the rewards everyone offered were considerable. Just those twenty percent of the Energy Stones were enough to cover Feng Jun's mining payments, and then some.
That was only natural. On the front lines, what they lacked least were all kinds of insectoid corpses, while the mining payments Feng Jun offered did not represent the value of the Energy Stones—they were merely wages for the excavation.
After the trades were completed,