Ye Chen and the others walked down the stone steps to the most densely populated gathering place of monks on the first floor of Earth Flame Mountain.

Ye Chen looked at the environment here.

This is a huge karst cave, thousands of zhang long and wide, and the surrounding cave walls are simple stone chambers carved out by monks.

At a glance, a rough count showed that there were no less than hundreds, and at least hundreds of monks planned to live and cultivate here for a long time.

Let's not talk about whether the fire-type spirit treasure can be found in this Earth Flame Mountain. The abundant fire aura here alone is very suitable for cultivators with fire spirit roots. The intensity of the fire aura here is higher than that of Qingshan Lake in Tianwu Immortal Yuan City. Of course, it's just that the fire aura is higher.

This small gathering place, the resident monk population is estimated to be hundreds of monks, mainly Fire Spirit Root monks, monks from other departments can't stay here for a long time, so they can only come occasionally to see if they can find the Fire Spirit Treasure. If you count these monks who come here occasionally, the number should be ten times more, at least thousands of monks entering and leaving this Earth Flame Mountain Spiritual Land.

Ye Chen was surprised by this estimated amount.

In the spacious place in the center of the cave, a small flat square was opened, and there were dozens of low-level monks in the Qi refining period, who set up stalls here to sell all kinds of spiritual objects.

"They set up stalls here to sell things, can they sell them? All day long, I'm afraid they won't be able to make a few deals!"

Immortal Master Kong was very surprised to see some monks selling goods from a distance.

"Exactly. If the monks here can find spiritual objects in the Earth Flame Mountain, they can just find them themselves, so why bother to buy someone else's!"

Venerable Wu was puzzled.

The Confucian monk shook his head and smiled, "If the monk buys it, he may not use it for his own use, and he may transport it to other places to be sold separately." Many monks specialize in reselling spiritual objects in various spiritual places, and the spiritual objects produced in this Flame Mountain will definitely be bought by someone, and they will not worry about not being able to sell them. ”

"Let's go, go and see!"

Ye Chen said and walked over with them.

The dozens of monks who set up stalls, their business was light and a little leisurely, and they were chatting in twos and threes. Seeing Ye Chen and his party coming, he hurriedly greeted him warmly and asked if he wanted to.

Ye Chen took a quick look, and the dozens of stalls were all selling fire-type spiritual objects. Of course, there are also some low-level elixirs, spirit wine, and the like, which are probably sold to monks cultivating here.

"These are all spiritual creatures from this Earth Flame Mountain?"

Ye Chen picked up a fire-colored spirit vine from a stall.

"Yes, these are all spiritual objects found in the karst cave on the first floor of Earth Flame Mountain. This is a third-order fire python spirit vine, which is used to refine the fire python pill! These are all picked by myself, if you want to buy more, the price can be cheaper. ”

The monk hurriedly said, "And this is a third-order red flame stone, which is used to refine a high-level fire spirit weapon!"

Ye Chen thought about it, asked the price, and spent dozens of spirit stones to buy one of each of the several low-level living spirit herbs on the ground. Although he has already built a foundation, the low-level spirit herb sect has little effect, but in the future, it may be put in the immortal mansion.

Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu saw the various spiritual objects on the stall and talked in a low voice, their expressions extremely excited.

Their cultivation is extremely low in the Qi Refining Period, and they are just getting started in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, so their requirements are not high. The second- and third-order spiritual objects are all good things of a very high grade to them.

The spiritual objects on this stall were all found in the cave of the Earth Flame Mountain. If they can also find a few low-level spiritual objects here, it will also be a fortune, and it will not be in vain.

The monk who set up the stall heard their conversation and laughed, "You want to find spiritual objects here, but you are too late! But now, every corner of the first floor of this cave has been turned over countless times, and almost all the spiritual objects that can be found have been found, and the spiritual vines like the ones on my stall cannot be found at all. There are only a few hard low-rank igneous ores left. However, digging this ore is too tiring, and the low-grade ore is not worth much, so no one wants to dig it. ”

"Didn't the guards in the outer passage say that they are digging the mountain, and they will soon be able to dig through the second layer of the Earth Flame Mountain?

Immortal Master Kong hurriedly said.

The monk who set up the stall shook his head and said, "It's the second layer of the Earth Flame Mountain, of course, you can still find spiritual objects, but the deeper you go to the Earth Flame Mountain, the more dangerous it becomes." In the first layer of the cave closest to the surface of the Earth Flame Mountain, there were monks who once encountered third-order fire demon beasts when they were looking for spiritual objects, and even several monks died at the beginning.

Dig down, the more the fire aura is stronger, you will definitely encounter stronger demon beasts, and it is not uncommon to encounter fourth-order demon beasts. Besides, the cultivation of the two of you is too low, don't talk about you, even in the middle stage of Qi refining like me, I may not dare to investigate at will on the second layer of Earth Flame Mountain. Waiting for the second level of passage to open, I will definitely have to find an accomplice to look for it. ”

"What, there are still monsters here?!"

"Wouldn't a third-order demon beast have the strength of a late-stage Qi refining cultivator?!"

When Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu heard this, their faces suddenly turned pale, and they glanced at each other, revealing a look of horror. If you encounter a demon beast, the demon beast is not as easy to talk as a monk, and if you are soft, you will let them go.

"When will this second layer be dug up?"

"It is estimated that it will only be within ten days and half a month, and as soon as this second layer is dug up, there will definitely be a large group of monks from all over the country who will come to explore the spiritual objects!

Ye Chen chatted with the stall owners at the stall in the small square of the cave for a while, and then left the cave square with the Confucian monks He Feng, Kong, Wu and others to check in the depths of the cave.

Following a crooked crack in the ground and a man-made stone path, they came to a digging site inside the cave.

I saw a large group of thousands of shirtless miners, wielding shovels, digging hard in a crack. This underground fire aura is vigorous, they are all martial artists, and their resistance to fire aura is not high, and they are sweating and their mouths are dry.

The ground was so hard that a shovel could only smash a small pit an inch deep.

More than a dozen low-level monks in the early stage of Qi refining, wearing the clothes of the Fire Gate, were waving whips and urging the miners to dig down.

From time to time, you can see that there are mining slaves in the team who suddenly faint and fall to the ground. The surrounding miners were numb to this, and did not react. Soon someone came to carry the unconscious miner away.

In addition to the overseers and miners, there was also a group of dozens of monks dressed in fine clothes, embroidered with the fire-worshipping door logo, who were watching the progress of the excavation at the excavation site.

Among these monks, the first few were monks in the foundation building period.

In the middle of this group of monks was a young foundation-building monk with a slightly pale face, and next to him was a middle-aged foundation-building monk with a gloomy expression.

One of the overseers was respectfully explaining the progress to the pale-faced monk, "Young Master, we have selected the thinnest stratum to dig, and we can already see the next layer of karst cave from the cracks in the ground. It's just that this crack in the ground is too small, less than a foot wide, and it takes about seven days to dig a passage to accommodate several people at the same time!"

"This Flame Mountain is related to my plan to worship the Fire Gate, hurry up and excavate! Let the miners take turns to dig, and in a few days the sect will send another batch of miners over, don't worry about the lack of manpower!"

The young monk nodded.

"If this Flame Mountain is properly managed, it can increase a lot of income for my Fire Worship Gate, and second, it can cultivate a large number of disciples here, and the strength of my Fire Worship Gate will definitely increase a lot. The young master ascended to the position of the master of the door the next day, and there must be no objection in the door!"

The grim-faced monk laughed.

The pale-faced young monk laughed and was about to say something, when he suddenly noticed that a monk was coming in their direction, and he couldn't help but stop talking and looked over.

The young monk's gaze swept over Ye Chen and the other four, and he stopped on Ye Chen and He Feng for a moment, frowning slightly.

But then when he saw Kong and Wu, who were traveling with him, he couldn't help but sneer lightly, and he no longer took the four of them to heart. Walking with such a low-level cultivator, I think it's just an ordinary monk who came to this Earth Flame Mountain to hunt for treasures.

Ye Chen came to the mountain digging site and couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he saw the young monk, the Yin Owl monk and others. It seems that there are high-level monks in the Flame Gate in this place.

"Let's go!"

Ye Chen didn't want to meet more with the foundation building monk of the Fire Gate, lest his true cultivation be seen through. The cultivation of the Qi refining period is easy to mix with ordinary scattered cultivators, but the cultivation of the foundation building period is too attention-grabbing.

He shook his head, turned and walked away quickly

Ye Chen discussed with He Feng and the others, and simply stayed in the first layer of the cave in this Earth Flame Mountain for a few more days, waiting for the second layer of the Earth Flame Mountain to be dug through.

He found a place and opened up a stone room for temporary cultivation.

Of course, Ye Chen didn't let Kong and Wu be idle. Let them inquire about the situation, find out the size of this Flame Mountain, what kind of ore is produced here, how many ordinary monks, how many disciples of the Fire Worship Sect, as long as it is useful information, they will collect it. Kong and Wu's cultivation is too low, and they are sleek, but they will not be wary of the monks of the Fire Gate.

The Confucian monk also found a stone room to live in temporarily.

The Confucian monk was a little worried. If you dig like this and open up the karst cave below, this Earth Flame Mountain will only spew out more fire aura. The drought in Xingzhou County will also be more severe. However, the Flame Worship Sect cultivators and hundreds of scattered cultivators who were cultivating here were not at all something that a small mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator could stop. In fact, few monks would care about that. Digging up the underground cave of the Earth Flame Mountain and finding spiritual objects in it is what the monks are most concerned about.

A few days later.

Earth Flame Mountain was visibly lively, and the number of monks active here increased rapidly.

Monks from the outside world kept pouring in from all over the world. Those monks who had been cultivating behind closed doors in the stone room also came out one after another to check the progress of digging the mountain, waiting for the second layer of the passage of the Earth Flame Mountain to be dug through, so that they could go in and explore the higher-level spiritual objects.

(To be continued)