I can gather experience beads

"During this period, Lao Chen, you can stay in my guest room."

"I'll send them to you once I've collected all the spiritual medicines," Sun Ming said.

Cao Rui politely declined Sun Ming's kindness.

Ignoring Sun Ming's attempts to keep him, he left the guest room of Danlingbao Pavilion.

Cao Rui will temporarily stay in Qingling Xiuxian Market for a while.

It's not a good idea to stay in someone else's guest room all the time.

Besides, Cao Rui needed to make elixirs, which was not convenient in the guest room.

The right thing to do is to move out of this guest room and find another suitable place to make the elixir.

The cultivation cave in Qingling Xiuxianfang City is a good place to go.

Cao Rui found the rental place for cultivation caves in Qingling Xiuxian Market.

Some inquiries.

Learned the price of the cultivation cave.

The minimum rental period for a cultivation cave is one year.

An ordinary cave for cultivation costs one spirit stone per year.

For the middle level, one gets three spirit stones a year; for the highest level, one gets ten spirit stones a year.

Cao Rui currently has no shortage of spirit stones, so he rented a cave for cultivation for ten spirit stones a year.

The cultivation cave is located on a cliff. The higher the location of the cultivation cave, the higher the level.

There is a number written in front of each cave.

"No. 4, this is the license plate for your cultivation cave." The servant at the rental office respectfully handed the license plate to Cao Rui.

"The license plate is also the key for you to enter the cultivation cave. If you don't have a license plate, or if you enter a cultivation cave that doesn't match your license plate, the alarm mechanism will be triggered and you will be expelled from the cultivation cave."

Cao Rui nodded slightly.

This Qingling Xiuxian Market is good at doing business.

A simple warning formation is not expensive, and combined with the guard service provided by the Xiuxian Market, it can indeed allow independent cultivators to live in their cultivation caves with peace of mind.

Cao Rui summoned his magic sword and flew up.

On the highest row of cliffs here, we found the No. 4 cultivation cave.

Cao Rui hung the number on his body, passed smoothly in front of the realm formation, and entered the cultivation cave.

The layout of the cultivation cave here is extremely simple, dug out from the cliff, with only two caves separated by each other.

However, this cultivation cave is connected to a large spirit gathering array, and the spiritual energy there is several times richer than that of the outside world.

It is indeed enough for a casual cultivator to go into seclusion for long-term cultivation again.

Cao Rui went to Danlingbao Pavilion and informed Sun Ming of the location of the cultivation cave he rented.

Sun Ming said that he would come here to inform Cao Rui as soon as he collected all the spiritual medicines. Cao Rui then returned to his cultivation cave and waited patiently.

......

at the same time.

A hundred miles southwest of Qingling Xiuxianfang City.

There was a loud bang.

A materialized aura rose into the sky.

Several monks dressed in the uniforms of Yunshui Sect disciples flashed out from the smoke.

"Get through!"

"There is indeed a spiritual stone mine underneath!"

"It's similar to what we predicted. It's at least a small spiritual stone mine. We can't rule out the possibility that it's a medium-sized spiritual stone mine!"

"Quick, all of you, quickly pass the news back to the sect!"

The leader looked excited.

shhhhhh!

At this moment, dozens of black-robed monks whose aura was at least in the late stage of Qi Refining came out from the surroundings.

"Who is it?" The leader of the Yunshui Sect was shocked.

"You are mining at your grandfather's house. Have you informed your grandfather?"

The leading black-robed monk was wearing a mask. He waved his hand gently and said, "Capture them, seal off the scene, and kill all who resist."

The black-robed monks rushed forward like wolves and tigers.

The people from the Yunshui Sect were flexible and when they saw that they were no match for the other side, they raised their hands in surrender.

After the black-robed monk captured the Yunshui Sect members.

Start taking action with clear division of labor.

Some people started using communication tools to pass on messages.

Someone summoned a thousand cranes and had them spread out into the distance to provide alert.

The leader of the Yunshui Sect had his magic power sealed and his body bound by magic tools. He only came to his senses when he saw the Spirit Beast Sect's signature spirit beast, the Thousand Feather Crane. "Are you from the Spirit Beast Sect?"

"How did you know there was a mineral vein here?"

No one responded to him, and the disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect began to quickly set up the formation that had been prepared long ago nearby to prepare for the upcoming conflict.

The leader of the Yunshui Sect was horrified.

I didn’t expect that the Yunshui Sect had been secretly planning for so long, but it was still discovered.

The Spirit Beast Sect, which is thousands of miles away, had actually noticed the real situation on the border long ago and kept it secret.

After waiting for the Yunshui Sect to successfully open the entrance to the mine after great efforts, they took action, went straight to the vital point, and took away all the achievements of the Yunshui Sect.

However, the Yunshui Sect has already established the Qingling Xiuxian Market nearby.

The Spirit Beast Sect will not succeed so easily.

......

Qingling Xiuxian Market.

In an attic that casual cultivators are not allowed to approach.

This attic is the secret base set up by the Yunshui Sect.

It was for the sake of that spiritual stone mine that the Yunshui Sect quietly made efforts to set up the Qingling Immortal Cultivation Market, which was an open market for immortal cultivation. Secretly, they set up a Yunshui Sect stronghold in the market and deployed a large number of personnel there.

"Hmm? There's a distress signal coming from the mine."

"what happened?"

"Hurry up and send the emergency team to the mine!" The monk from Yunshui Sect who was in charge of alert quickly discovered the abnormality at the mine.

A large number of monks soon emerged from the depths of the attic.

The original purpose of Yunshui Sect in arranging these monks was to ensure the safety of the spirit stone mine.

There was a crisis at the mine at this time, so naturally everyone went out in full force.

Two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators and forty Qi Refining Stage cultivators from the Yunshui Sect quickly headed towards the mine.

A distance of a hundred miles can be reached quickly for a monk.

Within half an hour, the monks of Yunshui Sect arrived near the mine with all their strength.

The cultivators of the Yunshui Sect discovered that the mineral vein had been blocked and a formation had risen up below it.

As soon as the monks from the Yunshui Sect approached, the formation began to produce faint magical fluctuations.

The leading Foundation Establishment cultivator quickly gave the order: "Attack this formation with all your might!"

Led by two Foundation Establishment cultivators, a large number of spells and magical weapons began to attack the formation.

Rumble.

After a series of roars.

The purple shadow of the formation kept flashing, blocking several waves of attacks from the Yunshui Sect monks.

Inside the formation, Xu Ye, the head of the Law Enforcement Institute, personally presided over the formation, while the other disciples of the Law Enforcement Institute were scattered throughout the formation to assist Xu Ye in controlling the formation.

Relying on this top-level 2nd-order integrated offensive and defensive Zixiao Yuanjian formation, Xu Ye and more than disciples from the Law Enforcement Institute blocked the attacks of the Yunshui Sect's cultivators who were several times more powerful than themselves.

Because the Spirit Beast Sect is too far away from the mine, and the Yunshui Sect doesn't know when it will be able to open the mine, the Spirit Beast Sect cannot send a large force here.

Therefore, the personnel deployed by the Spirit Beast Sect here have always been small teams that keep watch and rotate, and the number of people is not large.

The second-order formation is the core, used to delay time.

We don't need to seize the mineral vein, we just need to delay the opportunity.

"The Sect Master has already started taking action."

"We just need to hold out until the main force arrives."

Xu Ye transmitted his voice to the Law Enforcement Academy disciples around him.

This time, the Spirit Beast Sect and the Yunshui Sect are bound to fight.

War is the prerequisite for peace talks.

Before that, there was the unclear death of the former head of the Alchemy Institute in Liang State, which will be the bargaining chip in the negotiation between the two sects over the interests of the spiritual vein this time.

How long has it been since a spirit stone mine was discovered in the southwest of Yunzhou?

In the past, every time a spirit stone mine was discovered, there would be considerable dispute.

This spiritual stone mine has rich reserves, mainly due to its special geographical location, located on the border of Liangyue.

It is indeed a fantasy for the Yunshui Sect to want to secretly occupy this mineral vein.