Lake Cave, Spirit Stone Mine

After subduing Da Jin, it became a bit more affectionate towards Wei Zhong. Wei Zhong could also use the connection between them to exchange some basic information.

"Let's go, show me where you came from."

Wei Zhong flipped over and rode on Da Jin's back. The smooth scales made it a bit unstable, so he simply grabbed its whiskers.

Da Jin wasn't angered by Wei Zhong's actions and dove fiercely into the lake.

By this time, the turbulence in the lake had calmed down, with only strings of bubbles emerging from the bottom.

Picking up the surrounding Spirit Stones, Wei Zhong was in a great mood.

The Spirit Stones he picked up at the bottom of the lake were already worth eight or nine hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, exceeding twice the entrance fee.

Moreover, there might even be a Spirit Stone Mine below.

Wei Zhong was extremely excited just thinking about it.

The man and beast continued to delve deeper into the lake. The dark lake bottom had almost no sunlight. It was difficult for Wei Zhong's naked eyes to see the surrounding scenery, and only the runes of the Spirit Seeking Art could reveal the various shapes of spiritual light.

Suddenly, a deep ditch appeared before Wei Zhong, like a seabed fissure, stretching almost across the entire lake bottom.

Wei Zhong's eyes narrowed, but he calmed down and followed Da Jin deeper into it.

Looking around, Wei Zhong even discovered some unfamiliar Spirit Herbs growing on the rock walls of the fissure. He grabbed a few handfuls of the Spirit Herb, which were full of spiritual energy, and stuffed them into his Storage Bag.

After diving an unknown number of feet, Da Jin made a turn and entered a passage. There was some light in the passage, and some of the rocks on the walls emitted a faint glow.

They actually contained a bit of spiritual energy.

Wei Zhong prepared to pluck some, but the glowing stones seemed to be stuck to the rock wall. Wei Zhong was worried about triggering another underwater earthquake, so he didn't choose to dig them out forcefully.

As Da Jin continued to move inside, there were more and more of these rocks, and some were scattered on the ground of the passage.

"It's all come without any effort."

Wei Zhong happily collected them.

After traveling a few more miles, he came to a wide Lake Cave, which was as bright as day and full of spiritual energy.

"This is where Da Jin lives."

Wei Zhong looked around and found that this Lake Cave was even larger than the lake in the forest above.

It was just a bit stuffy. Although there were stones emitting light above, they were ultimately sealed by rocks, and the sky could not be seen. No wonder Da Jin was so happy to be outside.

Aquatic plants grew in the cave, especially the clump in the center, which was the largest.

Da Jin made a strange cry. As its master, Wei Zhong understood its meaning, roughly saying that this was its home.

It used its whiskers to push aside the obstructing aquatic plants, inviting Wei Zhong to enter.

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Wei Zhong's eyes. There were actually two golden Spirit Herbs in the aquatic plants.

One was tall and the other short. The surface of the Spirit Herbs seemed to have golden scales growing on them, somewhat similar to the scales on Da Jin's body.

The abundance of spiritual energy made Wei Zhong speechless. Unfortunately, Wei Zhong didn't know much about spiritual plants and only recognized the appearance of a few common Spirit Herbs.

Looks like I'll have to cram a bit after leaving the Secret Realm.

Could it be a Rank Two Spirit Herb?

Wei Zhong wondered.

Da Jin saw Wei Zhong staring at its Spirit Herb and nudged him with its fish body.

It was indicating that it was its possession, and Wei Zhong wasn't allowed to take it.

Sighing, Wei Zhong stroked the fish's head:

"Good boy, I'll keep it for you first, then take you out, and return it to you later."

A hint of hesitation appeared on Da Jin's fish face, but it still trusted Wei Zhong, allowing him to dig out the two Spirit Herbs along with the soil beneath, and then put them into the Storage Bag.

Afterward, Wei Zhong took out a Spirit Stone:

"Where have you seen this kind of thing?"

Da Jin led Wei Zhong to a corner of the cave, its fish whiskers pointing to a hole below, indicating that Spirit Stones would spurt out of it every so often.

Wei Zhong looked at the small hole, only big enough for one person to pass through, and hesitated. He turned to look at Da Jin, whose body was several times larger than his, and took out the Spirit Beast Bag, intending to put it inside.

Although Da Jin was somewhat reluctant, it still obediently entered the Spirit Beast Bag.

He was infiltrating this place, and he didn't know if he could return. If the Secret Realm closed and he didn't have time to retrieve the Spirit Beast he subdued, it would be left here.

After putting away Da Jin, Wei Zhong squeezed into the small hole.

Inside the mine, Azurewood Sect disciples were using various tools and magical artifacts specially used for mining Spirit Stones, chipping away.

In a remote, unmanned mine cave, Wei Zhong emerged from a small pool on the ground and saw Spirit Stones emitting spiritual light on the rock wall.

As expected, it's a Spirit Stone Mine.

Suddenly hearing the sounds of hammering and shouting, Wei Zhong suppressed his aura to the lowest level and carefully followed the direction of the sound.

He caught sight of many Azurewood Sect inner disciples wearing blue and white Daoist robes.

It really is the Azurewood Sect.

As the master of this Secret Realm, it was not surprising that the Azurewood Sect knew about the resource points within the Secret Realm.

What Wei Zhong didn't expect was that this Secret Realm actually had such a Spirit Stone Mine, and it was a medium-sized mine with Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Good heavens, the Azurewood Sect has mined an unknown number of Spirit Stones here over the past hundred years. No wonder they can surpass Hanzhu City and become the number one Golden Core force in Mangyuan Prefecture.

They truly are a great sect with hundreds of years of heritage.

Just as Wei Zhong was sighing in his heart, he suddenly heard a cold snort.

Someone had actually discovered him.

A sword light flew towards Wei Zhong, and before he could think about how he had been exposed, he hurriedly summoned the Rank One High-Grade shield he had just bought.

The small sword stabbed into the small shield, almost piercing a hole through it.

Wei Zhong couldn't care less about his shock and heartache, because the next sword light was about to arrive. Moreover, he also felt that the enemy who had discovered him was rushing in this direction.

Taking out his magic sword, Wei Zhong struck at the second sword light, using the force to retreat.

Looking at his hand, he saw that a notch had already appeared on his Rank 1 High-Grade magic sword.

Wei Zhong felt extremely distressed. Those two flying swords were definitely Rank 2 magic artifacts, otherwise they wouldn't have half-destroyed his magic artifact shield and flying sword in one encounter.

Who exactly from the Azurewood Sect is here, to actually possess two Rank 2 flying swords at the same time?

And such terrifying spirit sense, to discover me who was doing my best to conceal my aura.

Inside the mine, chaos had already broken out.

"An enemy has infiltrated, fellow disciples be careful..."

Wei Zhong was also busy fleeing, already unaware of where he was.

"They're following too closely."

Wei Zhong could feel the chill coming from behind him. As long as he slowed down, a flying sword would catch up to him.

Lu Yibin in the rear was also very surprised:

"Such speed, it seems that this time it's a tricky character."

However, Lu Yibin still didn't take it to heart. With his strength, he had never allowed a mere Qi Refining rogue cultivator to escape.

It was just that observing the direction in which that person was escaping, it seemed to be towards the Inheritance Hall above.

Wei Zhong continued to flee, finally seeing the light of day.

"Finally out!"

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