"What is it, senior brother? Did you find something?" Having found nothing in his search, Fang Qianyuan turned back, somewhat puzzled.
He saw an excitement on Sun Zhuo's face unlike anything he had ever seen before. Flushed with delight, Sun Zhuo said, "If I'm not mistaken, we've really hit it big this time! Haha, junior brother, we're going to strike it rich!"
"Calm down first, senior brother. Tell me slowly." Fang Qianyuan's interest was immediately piqued, but seeing how worked up Sun Zhuo was, he hastily spoke.
"I can't help it! How could I not be excited?" Sun Zhuo laughed heartily and vaulted onto the Blue-Eyed Gray Wolf waiting nearby. "Put away your other spirit creatures and follow me, quick! We need to go over there and confirm it! That could be a spirit mine-a spirit mine!"
"What? A spirit mine?" Fang Qianyuan was stunned as well.
Grotto-Heaven Blessed Lands often contained spirit veins, where spiritual energy accumulated and nourished the surrounding land. The Spirit-Taming World had already entered the age of Dharma decline, and the outside world held, at most, ordinary blessed lands of modest size and low quality. Lesser grotto-heavens, however, often contained far larger spirit peaks, or even immortal spiritual root veins found only in ancient times. Thus, spirit mines were more likely to appear there than in ordinary places.
Everyone in the cultivation world knew of spirit mines: they were the source of spirit jade. Yet few people had actually seen one with their own eyes. It was much like the mundane world, where everyone knew of gold and silver, but very few had ever witnessed how they were mined.
Such resources were the exclusive preserves of the various powers, and it was almost impossible for an individual to own one.
Whether this newly discovered lesser