Zhou Yang is not a professional vein exploration monk, not even an amateur.

What's more, the method of exploring the reserves of the spirit stone ore is completely different from the method of exploring the reserves of other ore veins, even the most professional vein exploration monk of the Zhou family has no experience in the exploration of the spirit stone mine.

But it doesn't matter, he has the simplest and most effective way to explore the reserves of Lingshi ore.

This method is to determine the approximate reserves of the spirit stone mine according to the degree of suppression of the divine consciousness in the spirit stone mine, as well as the degree of spiritual energy intensity inside.

It's easy, but it's not easy to do.

Because in order to measure the degree of suppression of divine consciousness in the spirit stone mine, Zhou Yang had to go all the way to the depths of the core of the spirit stone mine, and then open up a channel longitudinally on all sides for comparison, so that he could make an accurate judgment.

But no matter how hard it is, it must be done.

Therefore, after pondering for a while, he told Lu Xuewei, the apprentice beside him: "You wait here for me not to go away, I'll go in and explore the reserves of the spirit stone mine and come back!"

After saying that, he immediately released his flying sword and dug towards the spirit stone mine.

The soil and sand in the spirit stone mine have been tempered by the spirit qi for many years, even if it has not been turned into spirit gold ore, the hardness is comparable to that of fine iron.

Moreover, due to the mixed and unbalanced aura in the spirit stone mine, the Earth Escape Technique cannot take effect in it at all, and even not only the Earth Escape Technique, many out-of-body attack spells and defense spells are also easy to fail or greatly reduce their power.

Therefore, if you want to open up a passage in the spirit stone mine, you can only rely on magic weapons such as flying swords to excavate.

If it weren't for Zhou Yang's cultivation to reach the late stage of the Purple Mansion, plus the flying sword in his hand was a fourth-order mid-grade magic weapon, and there was a storage ring that could hold the excavated earth, sand and stone, it would not be easy to quickly dig out a passage that could accommodate one person in it.

And as he began to dig, pieces of crystal clear spirit stones were also picked out by him and put into his bag.

Whenever the excavated dirt and sand stone could not fit in the storage ring, Zhou Yang would withdraw a certain distance and smelt the dirt and sand stone into pieces with real fire and fill the passage behind him.

The rich aura in the spirit stone mine allowed the mana he consumed to be replenished quickly, but he didn't have to stop to recover his mana often.

After three or four days of this, Zhou Yang finally measured the reserves of this spirit stone mine.

This is a medium-sized spirit stone mine!

A medium-sized spirit stone mine means that at least 10 million lower grade spirit stones can be mined!

Moreover, in the medium-sized spirit stone mine, the number of high-grade spirit stones must not be a few, if there are not hundreds, there can be dozens of pieces.

As far as Zhou Yang knew, the Huangshamen Sect had only discovered a medium-grade spirit stone mine for so many years, and it had already been hollowed out.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the current Zhou family already had the strength to be completely unafraid of Huangshamen, even if Zhou Yang discovered such a medium-sized spirit stone mine, he might not dare to mine it openly.

Because the stakes are so great!

"If Zhang Yunpeng knew that there were still medium-sized spirit stone mines in the sand sea on this side of Rhino Horn Continent, he would probably have tried his best to get a piece of the pie here!"

Zhou Yang's eyes were full of brilliance, and he couldn't say how comfortable he was.

The development of the New Immortal Cultivation Realm was planned by him, although he only wanted to break the situation by developing the New Immortal Cultivation Realm at that time and break the Huangsha Gate's dominance over the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm.

But now it seems that although the development of the new immortal cultivation realm is time-consuming, laborious and costly, the gains that can be obtained are also huge.

You must know that the area of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm ruled by the Huangsha Gate has been trodden by many monks for thousands of years, and all kinds of resources that are easy to find have long been discovered and mined.

There are only some resources buried deep underground, and from time to time they will be discovered by immortal cultivators.

However, the new immortal cultivation world here on the Rhino Horn Continent is different, the sand sea here, few immortal cultivators have set foot in the past, even if someone has set foot, most of them just come to hunt demon beasts and find oases, and this time-consuming and laborious thing of prospecting is basically not done.

The reason is also very simple, this place is too far away from the oasis where people live, even if a vein is found, as long as it is not a vein of great value like the Lingshi mine, it is impossible to migrate people to come to mine, so naturally there is no need for prospecting.

But now it's different, now the Zhou family has decided to use Rhino Horn Continent as the family's base camp, and is willing to bless the Immortal Cultivation Family who responded to the call to go to the new Immortal Cultivation Realm to open up a family.

In this land, a large number of human beings will soon appear, and those resources that have been buried in the ground for countless years will also be discovered and exploited.

"This incident has given me a wake-up call. ”

"A piece of undeveloped land, even in the boundless sea of sand with poor resources, will certainly contain some rare resources that are rarely seen. ”

"Since my Zhou family wants to be the overlord of this new immortal cultivation realm, of course I want to seize the opportunity to discover and occupy these rare resource points first!"

"Well, when I go back, I will directly issue a mission to encourage the family monks to go out of the oasis and explore the vast sand sea. ”

With a lot of thoughts in his heart, Zhou Yang, who had finished exploring the reserves of the spirit stone mine, did not stay in the vein for long, and even returned to his apprentice Lu Xuewei.

After Lu Xuewei was told by Zhou Yang to wait in place, she had been meditating and healing her injuries for the past few days, and when he came back, most of her injuries were healed.

"This time I was able to discover this spirit stone mine, thanks to Xue Wei, you reported the news, as a teacher, there has always been a clear reward and punishment, Xue Wei, tell me about it, what reward do you want?"

Zhou Yang, who was in a good mood, did not forget the real hero of the discovery of the spirit stone mine, and when he came back, he directly looked at Lu Xuewei and talked about the reward.

And when Lu Xuewei heard his words, she was immediately happy in her heart, and she could choose the reward by herself, which was enough to fully explain how good Zhou Yang was now.

Her mind was spinning, and in an instant, she thought of many kinds of rewards she wanted.

But in the end, she knelt down in front of Zhou Yang, looked at Zhou Yang with a pleading face, and said: "Master Mingjian, the apprentice has been looking for oases for the Lu family over the years, although he has also found one or two small oases with second-order spiritual veins, but those oases are too remote to be suitable for a small family like the Lu family to gain a foothold. ”

"If you want to reward the apprentice with something, reward a small oasis not far from the Rhino Horn Continent for the Lu family to migrate, so that the apprentice can be regarded as having an explanation for the fifth brother and the Lu family!"

She had not forgotten the purpose of her hard work in the sea of sand, and she would rather give up some treasure rewards that would greatly help her cultivation, and fulfill her promise to her brother.

Zhou Yang also frowned when he heard her request, as if he didn't expect her to make such a request.

However, he has always been a man of words, but after a slight hesitation, he nodded and said, "Okay, since you have made a decision, I will no longer persuade you as a teacher, and with your merits this time, the reward for a small oasis is still too light." ”

After speaking, he paused, and after a little muttering, he continued: "In this way, after going back, the teacher will arrange a small oasis close to the Rhino Horn Continent for the Lu family, and help them raise the spiritual veins on the oasis to the third order." ”

A small oasis with a third-order spiritual vein, which was enough to act as the foundation of a foundation building family.

Although this reward was still insignificant compared to a medium-sized spirit stone mine, Lu Xuewei couldn't be more satisfied when she heard Zhou Yang's words.

She was overjoyed, and couldn't help kowtowing to Zhou Yang and said, "Thank you, Master, for your great kindness, you will never forget." ”

"Get up, as long as you practice hard and open up the Purple Mansion as soon as possible, it will be the greatest reward for being a teacher. ”

Zhou Yang bowed slightly, stretched out his hand to help Lu Xuewei up from the ground with a hint of affection, looked at her pointedly and encouraged: "As long as you succeed in opening up the Purple Mansion, even if you want to support the Lu family to become the Zhuji family, it is just a casual thing!"

"Yes, the apprentice must work hard to cultivate and never disappoint your love, Master!"

Lu Xuewei nodded vigorously and responded in a low voice with a firm face.

Zhou Yang really has nothing to say about her apprentice, even if she is a child of the Zhou family, no one can be so valued by Zhou Yang.

She has always been grateful to Zhou Yang for cultivating herself, and has secretly vowed to practice hard more than once to live up to Zhou Yang's attention.

Next, Zhou Yang and Lu Xuewei returned to the ground the same way, and then Zhou Yang cast a spell to block the hole made by the "Earth Dragon Earthworm".

The aura in the spirit stone mine has begun to leak out along this hole, if the hole is not blocked, there will be demon beasts or monks attracted by the leaked aura, and then it will be another trouble.

Moreover, when he was digging in the spirit stone mine before, Zhou Yang had already detected the depth of the spirit stone mine, and this depth was really not low.

If you stand on the ground and dig down, you have to dig at least more than 100 zhang deep before you can dig out the spirit stone.

Generally, the burial depth of the veins is within 10 to 30 zhang underground, and some veins can be mined as long as they dig down three or four zhang.

If it weren't for a vein like this that needed to be excavated more than a hundred zhang down to produce a mine, if it weren't for an incomparably precious vein like the Spirit Stone Mine, in this vast sea of sand, there were really few families willing to invest manpower to mine.

However, in order to dig the spirit stone mine, it is worth it to say that it is more than 100 zhang, even 500 zhang or 1,000 zhang!

At this time, it had been a few days since Zhou Yang and the others went down to the cave, and the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle who had gone out to hunt down those fleeing demon beasts had already returned, and had also brought back a corpse of the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" about three zhang long, as well as a giant snake corpse that exuded the aura of a third-order high-grade demon beast.

Through some communication with the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle, Zhou Yang learned that the corpse of the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" was snatched from the mouth of a fourth-order mid-grade demon beast "Wind Fox Wolf", and the corpse of the giant snake was the prey it later hunted along another trace.

"Very good, since this thing was snatched by your wolf's mouth, then this large piece of fifth-order demon wolf meat will be rewarded to you. ”

Zhou Yang patted the head of the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, he took out a large piece of "Mind Eater Demon Wolf" that was half a zhang long and gave it to this pet as food as a reward.