Chapter 102: The Burning Wasteland
In the extreme west of the Canglan Continent, there is a wasteland where not a single grass grows. The depths of the wasteland are an endless ocean of magma, and its scorching temperature permanently isolates the western part of the Canglan Continent, so few creatures set foot here.
Because of the incomparably hot heat here, it is also called the scorching wasteland by the people of the Western Continent, in short, it is the nightmare land of living beings. However, the Burning Wasteland is rich in fire crystal ore and an extremely hard metal, the Flame Essence.
Fire crystal ore contains fire elemental energy, which is an essential resource for the cultivation of fire attribute physique cultivators.
Weapons made with Yan Jing are extremely sharp, and they can be sharpened like clay even if they are not engraved with divine patterns, making them an excellent material for high-level monks to craft weapons.
It is even rumored that a fire crystal source stone has been discovered in the Burning Wasteland, and it is said that this source stone contains a large amount of pure fire element energy, which can allow fire elemental physique cultivators to directly improve several cultivation realms by absorbing the pure energy in it.
Therefore, the Scorching Wasteland can always attract some monks who are not afraid of death to go to the Scorching Wasteland to mine the Flame Essence and exchange it for the resources needed for cultivation from high-level monks. They were even looking forward to discovering a legendary Fire Crystal Source Stone in exchange for permanent protection for a high-ranking Fire Cultivator.
At the very edge of the Burning Wasteland, a mining team of eight people was heading towards a known vein of Flame Essence. In order to resist the scorching heat of the Scorching Wasteland, half of the team has a water elemental physique, and has cultivated the water elemental body protection skill to ensure that everyone in the team is not invaded by the scorching heat.
An inconspicuous teenager in the team analyzed the scorching temperature of the scorching wasteland while looking at the strange appearance around him. "The high temperature of more than 200 degrees is too much for even monks below the twelve stars to bear. ”
"However, except for the Qi family disciple who led the team, these monks were all below the twelve stars, but fortunately, they took advantage of the water monk's restraint on the flames to ensure that everyone could safely move forward in the scorching wasteland. Another voice rang out in the boy's head.
"The fiery red hill ahead is where we're going. Wherever you go, you can't be scattered too far, let alone far from the water monks. If you are accidentally burned by high temperatures, you can immediately communicate with the consciousness of the wood monk and treat it. "The fire monk who led the mining operation is called Qi Feng, and he is the only large family in the Canglan West Continent, a branch of the Qi family. And the foundation of the Qi family's location in the Canglan Western Continent is the jurisdiction over the Scorching Wasteland.
Since the Qi family had long possessed the distribution route of the Yan Essence Vein and the Fire Crystal Vein on the edge of the Burning Wasteland, they had set up a rule. That is, all the monks who go to the Scorching Wasteland to mine the Flame Essence, as long as they promise to hand over seventy percent of the Flame Essence ore and fire crystal ore, they will have a special person to lead the team to open the mine, but they will bear the consequences of accidental casualties.
Monks who are willing to follow the rules and go to the Burning Wasteland to open mines and adventure will enter the ore veins with a clear route under the leadership of the Qi family's disciples. As long as you always follow the arrangements of the children of the Qi family, you can greatly reduce the danger to your life.
If some monks are unwilling to hand in the Flame Concentrate, they can also pay enough gold or equivalent resources to venture into the unexplored areas of the Burning Wasteland alone or in a group. However, the mortality rate was extremely high, and few monks were willing to risk their lives to enter the uncharted realm of the Scorching Wasteland.
However, if you are lucky enough to discover a new Yan Essence Vein Route or Fire Crystal Vein Route, you will become a guest of honor of the Qi family, and you will benefit from the thirty percent of the resources brought by this vein and the supply of other cultivation resources of the Qi family.
Under Qi Feng's leadership, the seven monks approached the hundred-foot-high fiery red hill in front of them in an orderly manner, and there were still some unsolidified magma flowing faintly on the hill. And the temperature here is also twice as high as other places, which means that the temperature within the hill range is more than 400 degrees, if there is no four water monks in the team to cool down the other four monks with water element shields, they may be burned by the high temperature instantly.
"I don't need the blessing of the body, just protect myself~" Qi Feng said to the water monk beside him who looked weak.
"Then thank you, Team Leader Qi Feng~" Fang Xingchen knew that Qi Feng was a fire cultivator, so when he was in a group with Qi Feng, Qi Feng asked him not to waste energy to cool down his blessed water element shield.
"This young man, since Team Leader Qi Feng doesn't need blessings, you will follow my sister and me~ If you are injured, I can also treat you immediately~" The only wooden monk in the team is a woman with a lively personality and a charming appearance. Seeing that Qi Feng didn't want the blessing of the water cultivators around her, she immediately stepped forward to attract the other party to join her group.
"Eh~ This little brother should follow our group, I am an earth monk, and I have a hand in mining ores, so I can let you get more benefits when the time comes~" Seeing this, another earth monk also stepped forward to win over Fang Xingchen.
But the rules are the rules, and in the end, Fang Xingchen was still in a group with Qi Feng. It's just that Qi Feng is a member of the Qi family, so naturally he won't share the Yan Essence ore mined equally with Fang Xingchen.
After entering a dug mine in the hill, Fang Xingchen found that there was a faint fiery red light emitting from the inside, which seemed to emanate from the rock layer. With this faint light, the monks can see everything inside the mine through their extraordinary eyesight.
"These glimmers are emitted by the fine igneous crystal ore fragments remaining in the rock formation, but these fine igneous crystal ore fragments do not have much mining value, so please don't be nostalgic here, follow me to the Yan Concentrate ore mining area, complete the mining task as soon as possible, and leave here safely." Seeing that everyone was attracted by the faint light on the rock wall of the cave, Qi Feng reminded everyone strangely.
"It does contain fire elemental energy, but it is not pure energy. Even so, it's much easier than absorbing the free energy in the space~" Fang Xingchen thought in his heart that he must absorb the fire element energy contained here. However, the most important thing at this time is to mine the Yan Concentrate ore and steal the smelting method of the Yan Concentrate Ore.
Under the leadership of Qi Feng, the group finally arrived at the rock formation where the Yan Jing ore was distributed. Qi Feng pointed to the particles of red light reflected on the rock wall, telling everyone that these particles were Yan Jing, but the rock formation around Yan Jing was very hard, and it was extremely difficult to mine. Therefore, the Qi family specially refined a mine hammer containing Yan Essence, so that the monks who were willing to hand over seventy percent of the Yan Essence ore could use it as a mining tool. However, if you are an earth-type monk, you can easily mine through earth-based magic skills, even if you don't use a special mining hammer.
Due to the sparse distribution of the size of rice grains in the rock formation, according to the requirements of the collection of the ore of the essence, the length, width and height cannot exceed one inch, otherwise the ore contains the content of the essence. If you are lucky enough to be able to collect more than one inch of the whole flame essence, it is not required.
As for the bag for storing the Yan Concentrate ore, it is a kind of storage bag, with a nine-foot radius inside, which is kept by Qi Feng and is responsible for collecting and sorting the Yan Concentrate ore mined by everyone.
As for the existence of the storage bag, Fang Xingchen also knew about it for a short time, and it seemed that its principle was imitated according to the Void Bead. However, it is far from the nine-zhang space in the Void Bead, and the space in the Void Bead will also become larger due to the increase in the user's consciousness, and the root is not comparable to the storage bag.
As for how the storage bag was imitated, Fang Xingchen also went through some investigation. In the end, it was discovered that it was from the Holy Family, and was given by the Holy Family to the major families, but its number was extremely rare.
In order to get the storage bag, Fang Xingchen personally led the three major protectors to the Holy Family to ask for it, and finally forced by the strong strength of the three major protectors of the Lingxiao Sect, as well as the peace agreement promised by Fang Xingchen and the Holy Family, he gave Fang Xingchen ten storage bags and the refining method of the storage bag at one time.
When Fang Xingchen obtained the refining method of the storage bag, he realized that the storage bag was not something that everyone could refine, because there was a lack of an important ore called the Void Stone, and it seemed that only the gods could get this kind of ore.
However, Star Rail told Fang Xingchen that the Void Stone was actually an ore containing spatial energy, and Fang Xingchen himself had the ability to collect spatial energy. Therefore, even if there is no Void Stone Fang Xingchen, you can refine the storage bag, and now the strength of the Ling Xiao Sect is above the eighteenth star of the earth, and almost everyone has a storage bag.