He took three chunks of mystic dark golden sand ore.
Though he was a Foundation Establishment Celestial, the strongest of the mining cultivators below-the manager-was only at the early Spirit Calamity stage. With his strength, seizing the ore by force would have posed no problem.
But karma was something best avoided where possible. Taking things by force was not the way.
Besides, Zhang Yuan was not that sort of person. After a moment's thought, he shook his sleeve, and spirit stones brimming with spiritual energy began tumbling from its broad folds.
The Qi Sea Uniting Spirit Dao refined and united all the qi beneath the heavens, so its need for heaven-and-earth spiritual energy was less pressing than that of the Beyond-the-World Qi Refining Path. But now that the Five Realms had become one, spirit stones had long since become a universal currency. Using them to trade posed no problem.
Zhang Yuan had no idea how much mystic dark golden sand cost. Fortunately, he had emptied the sect treasuries of several major powers in succession. His Dao Domain currently lacked all manner of things, but spirit stones were the one thing it had in abundance. He simply took out a volume of spirit stones equal to the three chunks of ore, dropping them onto the ground in three small hills.
The Mine Manager and the mining cultivators stared, their eyes shining with an eerie green gleam.
These mining cultivators worked themselves to the bone for an entire day at the mine and earned only ten spirit stones. Even the smallest of the three hills before them equaled ten years of mining wages.
After dropping the spirit stones, Zhang Yuan drew his sleeves together and prepared to leave in search of the next heavenly material and earthly treasure he lacked: cinnabar glow