CHAPTER 43: CHAPTER 41: SPIRIT CRYSTAL VEIN

The time passed quickly, and Lin Qianxuan sent Chen Long’Er back to Kyoto.

Before leaving, Chen Long’Er left some spirit crystals for Lin Qianxuan.

Lin Qianxuan didn’t take them all, only taking one piece to enhance his own understanding.

Currently, Chen Long’Er needs the resources more than he does.

As for spirit arts and such, he can share with Chen Long’Er, but it’s better not to take non-replicable resources like spirit crystals.

Spirit crystals look like a one-centimeter cubic block of white crystal.

They are not cut into shape but naturally formed this way.

The formation of spirit crystals is due to soil and rocks heavily saturated with spiritual energy naturally forming them.

Once formed, they take on this shape.

Every spirit crystal stores almost the same amount of spiritual energy; not even a bit more can be stored, so there’s no distinction of upper, middle, or lower grade.

"Spirit stones don’t have grades, poor rating!"

Lin Qianxuan complained.

Then he held the spirit crystal, and with a thought, the spiritual energy naturally flowed into his body.

Compared to absorbing spiritual energy from the heavens and earth, this is much more efficient.

After about two minutes, all the spiritual energy had entered Lin Qianxuan’s body, and the spirit crystal turned into powder.

This one spirit crystal was at least as efficient as cultivating for a whole day in a place rich with spiritual energy in the river section.

Lin Qianxuan immediately gained a clear understanding of Chen Long’Er’s cultivation progress.

No wonder she has reached the peak of the Qi Vortex Realm and is about to break through to the Condensing Essence Realm.

Having resources is wonderful!

Lin Qianxuan felt happy for Chen Long’Er.

And happy for himself too.

Sometimes he also feels like his stomach isn’t too good; if he could live off someone else, it wouldn’t be bad either.

At this moment, Lin Qianxuan noticed his phone battery was only at twenty percent, sending him an alert.

He placed his index finger at the charging port, mobilized his spiritual power, and in the next moment, an arc of electricity appeared at his fingertip.

This is one of the spirit arts he learned with Chen Long’Er.

[Charging Art].

This spirit art really is called this name.

Compared to other spirit arts that use hundreds of spiritual texts, this one uses just over a dozen, being an extremely simplified spirit art.

Its function is simple, just for charging phones and similar items.

It’s like simulating a charger.

Besides this, Lin Qianxuan also learned some other spirit arts.

Such as [Wind Blowing Art], [Flying Art], [Healing Art], [Flash Art], [Flame Art], etc.

All very basic and useful spirit arts.

The Otherworld Bureau internally foster Transcendents towards comprehensive development.

Because the situations they face are quite complex, understanding a bit of everything allows them to better handle those unusual events.

Lin Qianxuan has temporarily given up on researching the ’Little World Technique.’

That’s not something he can understand at this stage.

Not even a thousandth of it.

The only comfort he has is that he’s not the only one who doesn’t understand it; it seems all people can’t understand it.

The wisdom of that Dragon Head truly surpasses the times too much.

....

July seventeenth.

Fishing on the river.

Lin Qianxuan suddenly felt the fishhook sink, his expression immediately turned a bit strange.

Nowadays, he comes here more to absorb spiritual energy; he just takes an extra fishing rod to not look conspicuous. He didn’t actually intend to catch any fish, so he directly sank the hook to the bottom, at least twenty meters down, and didn’t even use bait.

Although it hasn’t touched the riverbed, it’s probably close.

Can he still catch a fish like this?

"The pull is quite strong!!"

The fishing rod in Lin Qianxuan’s hand shook, and in the next moment, the line snapped directly.

His expression stiffened; even the thickened line couldn’t handle it?

How big is this fish?

Lin Qianxuan’s spiritual force extended to the bottom of the water, clearly seeing the movements of fish, along with the muddied silt and sand below.

In a place buried under thick silt, a huge bulge appeared in Lin Qianxuan’s spiritual peeping, right in front of his broken fishing line.

That thing seemed to be alive and also sensed Lin Qianxuan’s spiritual power, currently emitting a special spiritual magnetic field, interfering with Lin Qianxuan’s peeping, preventing his spiritual force from landing on it.

However, its spiritual strength is clearly inferior to Lin Qianxuan’s, and despite this, Lin Qianxuan’s spiritual force easily broke through its spiritual magnetic field, penetrated the silt, and saw its true appearance.

A... frog?

It turned out to be a green-skinned frog squatting in the silt.

Quite large in size.

Even squatting, it stood about two meters tall.

Spirited creature?

Considering this place’s dense spiritual energy, Lin Qianxuan felt it’s not impossible for an animal to become a spirited creature.

It seemed due to Lin Qianxuan’s peeping, the frog became very agitated, suddenly launching itself towards Lin Qianxuan’s direction with a powerful leap.

"I don’t eat frogs! Shoo!"

With a thought, Lin Qianxuan manipulated the river water at the bottom, and an undercurrent forcibly pushed the frog back, covering it again with the riverbed.

In a place with abundant water resources, he was in his element, gaining at least a fifty percent increase in combat power.

Moreover, with the frog’s strength like that, Lin Qianxuan wouldn’t even need his Water Manipulation Ability to slap it away.

This little frog challenging him really chose the wrong opponent.

"Ribbit~!"

Pressed under the riverbed, the frog struggled, releasing a series of bubbles.

Lin Qianxuan’s spirit extended over, attempting to give an order.

"Don’t move."

Almost the instant Lin Qianxuan gave the command, the frog froze all over, then stayed there in a daze.

Lin Qianxuan found it amusing and murmured, "Does it work on amphibians too? But it dared to strike at me just now, while those fish didn’t even dare struggle against me. Apparently, it’s not completely effective, or is it because it’s stronger? Has it become a spirit?"

Thinking about it, Lin Qianxuan released the water flow suppressing it and attempted to communicate with it.

"Have you eaten humans?"

"Croak? Humans? No!"

A spiritual message was transmitted, naturally translated into something Lin Qianxuan could understand.

Unlike the instinctual responses of those fish, which barely had any thought, this frog actually seemed to harbor some thought.

It seemed to truly understand what Lin Qianxuan meant by humans.

Spirits appear to be quite intelligent.

"Why did you attack me?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"Croak~! Fighting for territory..." the frog responded.

"Fight for what! I’m just setting up a Shui Mansion, not constructing it here!" Lin Qianxuan retorted.

After a moment of thought, Lin Qianxuan asked, "How did you become a spirit?"

"Croak? Sleeping."

A simple answer, yet it seemed reasonable to Lin Qianxuan.

The spiritual energy here was abundant. Living here for a long time, it’s normal to become a spirit.

He was somewhat disappointed; he thought the frog had consumed some Treasures of Heaven and Earth.

After chatting with the frog for a while, Lin Qianxuan named it "Guagua" and ordered it to call him Dragon King.

"Alright, you can go now. Remember, don’t harm humans."

"Croak~! Got it!"

Guagua responded seriously and then vanished into the mud.

Lin Qianxuan felt a bit sentimental, not expecting to find a spirit here.

As he was thinking, suddenly he sensed Guagua approaching again.

In his spiritual perception, Guagua was carrying something and swimming quickly toward him.

"What’s up?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"Croak~! Bringing a gift for boss..." Guagua replied.

Then, as it got close to the water’s surface, Guagua opened its mouth, and a pile of items landed on the boat Lin Qianxuan had rented.

Before they hit the ground, Lin Qianxuan manipulated the water flow to catch them.

Gathering them together, Lin Qianxuan saw there were bugs, dead fish, seaweed, and... a Spirit Crystal?

Forget the rest, but what’s with the Spirit Crystal?

At this point, Guagua hadn’t left, lurking underwater and observing.

Lin Qianxuan took the Spirit Crystal in his hand, brought it underwater, and asked Guagua, "Where did you find this?"

"Croak~! Nest... a lot..." Guagua answered.

"There are many in the nest?"

Lin Qianxuan’s interest piqued instantly. He suddenly had a hypothesis in his mind, just not sure if it was correct.

But if it’s true, it might explain why there’s so much spiritual energy here.

"Take me to see it." Lin Qianxuan instructed.

Upon hearing this, Guagua immediately turned and dived toward the riverbed.

Lin Qianxuan’s spirit followed Guagua’s advance, quickly reaching a spot near the mud, where Guagua burrowed in.

At this point, Lin Qianxuan was still following with his spirit.

Guagua’s lair was large and deliberately burrowed to be somewhat winding, reaching at least three hundred meters underground. Here, the place suddenly dried up; Guagua’s nest structure blocked the water flow in other places.

Then Lin Qianxuan saw a scene that shocked him.

The surrounding soil and rocks were filled with dense clusters of white crystal blocks, uncountable, and they seemed to extend deeper without knowing how much there was in total.

"I’m rich now!!!" Lin Qianxuan exclaimed.

No wonder spiritual energy here was abnormally abundant.

Turns out there was a mine!

But soon, Lin Qianxuan fell into thought.

Monopolize it?

Quietly mining some every day, not knowing how long it can last.

This was enormous wealth.

But then again, isn’t mining veins like this illegally?

Lin Qianxuan felt somewhat conflicted.

Personal interest battled against public interest.

In the end, Lin Qianxuan sighed and decided he had to report it.

The matter would soon be exposed; it was only a matter of time.

If he wanted to live in this country, some principled matters had to be adhered to.

As for whether Guagua minded, there was nothing he could do.

After all, this was human society, and he was human, so he naturally couldn’t think too much for it. At most, Lin Qianxuan could communicate with the authorities to ensure it had a decent outcome.

Currently, the government’s attitude towards spirits was quite gentle; as long as they didn’t harm humans, they’re allowed to live naturally. In Guagua’s case, at worst, it would be driven away or relocated to another place to live.

"Reporting is reporting, but let me dig some first," Lin Qianxuan said, pursing his lips.

Then he concentrated his mind, manipulating the water flow, directing it into Guagua’s nest, sweeping through it quickly, and dug out at least ten thousand Spirit Crystals.

Although it was quite a few already, there were still many more inside; in fact, as he dug, Lin Qianxuan saw even more Spirit Crystals.

By the end of the afternoon, he had dug out at least a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

He then quickly rented a house nearby as a warehouse, used water flow to transfer the Spirit Crystals there, and hid them safely.

By the time all this was done, it was already 8 p.m.

Lin Qianxuan still wanted to keep digging, but he knew the folly of overdoing things.

Thus, he took out his phone and called Zhang Heng.

"Xiao Lin, what’s up?"

"While fishing in Long River, I seemed to have discovered a Spirit Crystal vein."

"What? Where, what happened? Can you estimate its size? Turn on your location..."