Once they finished gathering the loose immortal stones on the surface, they needed to blast the interlocked stones apart with flying swords or spells before they could put them into their rings.
Li Dalong had it much easier. He could fit even larger chunks of immortal stone into the System Space and the Heaven and Earth Pearl. As long as they fit, he did not need to spend any effort sorting or cutting them; that would happen automatically.
But the stones still attached to the vein had to be blasted loose before he could store them. Neither the System Space nor the Heaven and Earth Pearl could take in the entire vein yet.
For a time, the roar of spells and the sounds of flying swords cutting rose and fell throughout the mine as the three of them stored away great quantities of immortal stones.
But compared with the vein's reserves, they had barely skimmed the surface.
Soon, Zhou Xue's storage ring and all her storage magic treasures were filled with immortal stones. Once she saw that she could fit no more, she began reorganizing their contents, throwing out all the low-grade immortal stones she had painstakingly mined earlier, along with some space-consuming things she had bought in the past, replacing them all with mid-grade and high-grade immortal stones.
Ye Wuxia had it much easier. She was already wealthy, and the storage ring she carried was far more advanced than Zhou Xue's, with over ten times as much space inside. So she was still putting immortal stones into it.
The immortal stone reserves in this mysterious space alone more than matched the output of all the publicly known veins in the entire Immortal Realm. If outsiders learned of it, it would certainly stir up a great war that swept across