"Chuanlan Valley is a major grade-six mine with an annual output worth over a million and a half pieces of spirit jade. Its mineral vein is a grade higher than that Xuanyue spirit mine from last time, and it also lies at a weak point in the void connected to the Demon Realm. Demons frequently cross the boundary to attack!"
"If such a place isn't cleared out regularly, not only will the mine's output suffer greatly, but even the surrounding ten thousand li will rarely know peace. That's why it has always needed an Earth Rank expert stationed there. Since the start of this year, though, it seems to have been without one. The local powers fought among themselves, allowing the unorthodox path to exploit the opening. They even recalled the guardian, who was ambushed halfway back and gravely wounded, narrowly escaping death..."
"So they had a great enemy before them, yet cared only about their own interests. And unorthodox forces got involved too. What a mess!" Fang Qianyuan did not quite understand what had happened, but his master's description alone gave him a vague idea.
"So now the Chuanlan Mine has completely ceased production. For our Azure Cloud Sect, however, this is an excellent development. After all, we used to hold less than a tenth of the dry shares. Now that can change." Jiang Yunfeng spoke with a smile.
For complicated reasons involving geography, history, orthodox succession, and more, even a great sect of the world like the Azure Cloud Sect had extremely limited influence in a place like Chuanlan Valley. Being able to get a foot in the door and hold a token portion of dry shares had already been enough to satisfy it.
For a very long time, this great mine had belonged to the local powers.