When Chen Yuanqing dug for about four hours, he was finally exhausted and no longer had the strength to continue digging the spirit stone, Chen Yuanqing didn't waste time, and immediately sat down on the spot and ran the exercises.

When Chen Yuanqing led the qi and blood to run along the path of the exercises, he found that the power of qi and blood at this time was less than half less than before, but the speed of running was slower than before.

When the cultivation ended, the effect was only half of what it used to be, Chen Yuanqing thought that with the improvement of cultivation, the body's endurance capacity became stronger and stronger, so the intensity of training became higher and higher, and the training intensity of mining was only barely up to the requirements.

However, Chen Yuanqing was also pleasantly surprised to find that after running the exercises every time, he would not feel tired, and all aspects had basically fully recovered, as long as he ate a little food, he could continue to mine.

Later, Chen Yuanqing learned that the recovery ability is a unique ability of the wood attribute exercise, which can be activated as long as the exercise is run, and this is also the only ability in the early stage of the mortal realm.

After working like this for a day, Chen Yuanqing dug up a total of twelve pieces, which felt pretty good, but after three days, Chen Yuanqing found that he couldn't save much money at all.

Because with the continuous improvement of his cultivation, Chen Yuanqing found that his food consumption was also increasing, and he had to eat well every time, and if he ate poorly, his already slow cultivation speed would be even slower.

There are six taels of silver spent on food every day, and after only three days of digging, the iron pickaxe is broken and can no longer be used, and after three days, Chen Yuanqing has only saved ten taels of silver, which is only enough for one day of cultivation.

But Chen Yuanqing has no better way, cultivation is too expensive, slow cultivation, it's better than not being able to cultivate, so Chen Yuanqing didn't complain about anything, and continued to work hard to mine, maybe with good luck, he could dig a few medium-grade spirit stones.

Suddenly, there was a vibration sound from deeper into the mine, as if the mine had collapsed, and then I saw a middle-aged man with tattered clothes and a pitch black body shouting, "Run, there are monsters." ”

Before the words fell, I saw a monster that looked like a mouse and had the size of a person chasing the middle-aged man, and its speed was also very fast, and it was getting closer and closer to the middle-aged man.

When Chen Yuanqing saw this scene, he was stunned, and he couldn't hold the iron pickaxe in his hand, and then ran in another direction without looking back, fortunately, Chen Yuanqing was already a monk at the second level of the mortal realm, and his running speed was not slow, and the monster just now was not chasing him, so Chen Yuanqing easily got rid of the monster.

After getting out, Chen Yuanqing identified the direction and walked towards the entrance of the cave, but after walking for a while, he met another monster, which was chasing an old man.

Chen Yuanqing was so frightened that he immediately covered his mouth, found a place to hide, didn't dare to make a sound, and held his breath to watch all this.

Although the old man was quite strong, because he didn't have cultivation, his escape speed was not very fast compared to the monster, and sure enough, he didn't run far before he was caught by the monster through the chest and died.

When the old man died, his face still showed a frightened expression, and his body was eaten by the monster in a few bites, and then the mine beast continued to chase forward, seeing this scene, Chen Yuanqing's hands and feet trembled even more, and he couldn't stand up.

Chen Yuanqing calmed down, stood up, walked in the other direction, and after taking two steps, Chen Yuanqing found that there was a bag next to the broken corpse of the old man just now, thinking that it should be filled with spirit stones.

Chen Yuanqing quickly picked up the bag and put it in his arms, and then ran in the other direction, hoping not to encounter monsters again, get out of this mine hole quickly, and save his life.

But it backfired, this time Chen Yuanqing didn't have time to hide, only to see a young man who cultivated to the second level of the mortal realm was being chased by monsters, and the direction he ran was the direction of Chen Yuanqing.

Chen Yuanqing saw that the situation was not right, and immediately ran away, but the speed of the monster was too fast, and the distance between the monster and the young man was gradually shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When Chen Yuanqing turned a corner, he was dumbfounded, because there was a dead end in front of him, and he had no way to escape, at this time Chen Yuanqing really felt what despair was.

There was no way, so I had to fight with that monster, but Chen Yuanqing didn't recklessly rush up with an iron pickaxe to fight with the monster, after all, the mine was too small, only one person wide, and it couldn't be used.

But fortunately, the mine is nearly two meters high, Chen Yuanqing supports the wall of the mine with his hands and feet, and his back is against the top of the cave, the light here is dim, and although the monster is the same size as a human, it is only less than one meter high because it is on all fours, and Chen Yuanqing should not be found.

The middle-aged man turned around and saw Chen Yuanqing sticking to the cave wall, and then looked at the dead end in front of him, and understood, he lowered his head to avoid Chen Yuanqing, and continued to run forward so that the monster could be introduced.

The monster rushed directly towards the middle-aged man as if it was crazy, and at this moment, Chen Yuanqing fell from the top of the cave and smashed the monster's head with an iron pickaxe. The monster's head isn't very hard, but the pickaxe only smashes into it.

The monster was in pain, let out a sharp scream, and its body writhed violently, Chen Yuanqing grabbed the iron pickaxe tightly, wanting to pull out the iron pickaxe and give it another blow.

But the monster writhed too hard, Chen Yuanqing's body was thrown against the wall, and he was hit with a lot of meat, and finally even the pickaxe was thrown off.

The young man no longer hesitated, took the iron pickaxe, shouted, and smashed it towards the head of the monster, the monster suffered again, knocking the young man away, but it could be seen that the monster's strength was much less.

Chen Yuanqing immediately smashed the monster again with an iron pickaxe, and the monster twisted its body again, trying to throw Chen Yuanqing off again, but because it received two heavy blows, it didn't have much strength and failed to throw Chen Yuanqing down.

When Chen Yuanqing saw the opportunity, he immediately picked up the iron pickaxe again and smashed it down, and the young man also picked up the iron pickaxe and smashed the monster's head hard, until the monster stopped moving, Chen Yuanqing and the young man stopped.

Chen Yuanqing and the middle-aged man sat on the ground, gasping for breath, the two glanced at each other, and both of them laughed heartily.

"This little brother, my name is Ding Sheng, thank you just now, I don't know your name", the middle-aged man relieved himself and said to Chen Yuanqing.

"My name is Chen Yuanqing, I just wanted to save my life just now, no thanks, I don't know what kind of monster this is, how can it appear in this mine?" Chen Yuanqing said the question in his heart.

"This is called a mining beast, usually there will be one or two in this mining cave occasionally, but it is the first time that there are so many like today, but don't worry too much, there will be guards to deal with these mining beasts in a while, and the mining beasts are as simple as killing chickens for the guards, so we just need to hide here now to save our lives," Ding Sheng said.