Chapter 490: Black Stone Cave

Seventy-two appeared in a dark cavern, the moonstone above their heads emitting a faint white light.

Everyone stood still, not daring to move, and whispered.

"It's coming very quickly!" A short time later, a Jindan monk walked over.

"Seventy-two! Not bad!" The Jindan monk looked at everyone and nodded with satisfaction: "Take out all your pickaxes!"

As soon as the seventy-two silver pickaxes were taken out, they immediately emitted a silvery-white light, illuminating the entire cave.

"From now on, the pickaxe is your life, and the pickaxe must not be stored in the storage bag, let alone lost, otherwise, you will die!"

The Jindan monk said a few words lightly, and dozens of black lights flew out and escaped into the silver pickaxe.

"Each of you has a mark on his pickaxe, and from now on your name is the mark on the pickaxe. If you can follow the rules, after a hundred days, you can see Granny Jinhua and get his old man's guidance!"

After the monk finished speaking, he left on his own.

Seventy-two people, looking at each other, this is something that everyone did not expect.

Everyone thought that after passing the test, they would be received by Granny Jinhua and defiled by the Dao, but they didn't expect that they would fall into the situation of being killed at will.

But at this time, there is no longer any possibility of leaving, everyone can only inject spiritual power into the silver pickaxe, check the norms in it, if one is not careful, violates a certain rule, will lose their lives.

The imprint on Ishikawa's pickaxe is forty-five. Infuse the silver pickaxe with spiritual power and read it carefully.

The mine pickaxe is densely packed with more than 100 specifications. The most important of these is that you can't fight or steal. A sufficient number of blackstones and so on must be turned in every day.

"Could it be that black stone is produced here?" Ishikawa guessed in his heart, "bring these foundation building monks here." Just to dig up the Black Stone?"

This made Ishikawa a little puzzled.

"Fellow Daoists, have you all finished reading?" said a false Dan monk as he walked towards Ishikawa.

"Thirty-nine, forty-five, seventy-one. The four of us are all False Dan Stage cultivators, and we can be regarded as the highest cultivators among the seventy-two. I think it's up to the four of us to reply to the seniors of the Jindan period. ”

"Good!" Ishikawa nodded. The other two also heard the sound and walked over.

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After walking through the stone hall, you will come to a small cave. The monk sat in the middle of the cave.

"Meet the seniors. Eleven said first.

The Jindan monk nodded, and did not say much.

"Seventy-two of us have read all the rules. You can now go into the cave and collect black stone. The monk number eleven said.

"Are you the head of the bunch?" said the Jindan monk, looking at the four of them.

"The juniors don't dare. It's just that the cultivation of the four juniors is the highest among the seventy-two, so they are elected by everyone and obey the arrangements of their predecessors. ”

"You kid, you can talk when you arrive!" "That's fine, there are five forks in it, and each of the four of you will lead seventeen people." Divide into four groups, each entering a fork in the road. For a period of one month, the person who collects the most black stone can end the mining early. At the latest, it will be extended by one month. ”

The voice of the Jindan period monk was not small, even the foundation building period monks who were hundreds of zhang away could hear it. ...,

"What our predecessors said, we naturally did. Eleven immediately returned to the crowd and began to select monks he knew well.

The other two are also monks from Huaci City. They may not be familiar with all the monks, but most of them have heard of it, and after a while, the three of them have already chosen and led the monks of their choice into the cave.

Only Ishikawa and the seventeen people who had been selected remained.

The monk of the Jindan period laughed at this and said, "You kid, you can also calm down! Now there is no choice for you, go in." ”

Ishikawa arched his hand and entered the cave. It's not that Ishikawa doesn't want to choose, it's that Ishikawa doesn't know any of them at all, and he doesn't know their details.

And in Ishikawa's opinion, the monks who can enter this place will not be too bad in cultivation.

Another reason is that Ishikawa still has a lot of doubts about the mining of black stone.

The reason why Ishikawa participated in this blackstone selection was to find out the secret of the blackstone: how the crystals in the blackstone were extracted.

But Ishikawa didn't expect that a group of seventy-two people would come to the cave to collect black stones.

What's even more incomprehensible is that the Yin Spirit didn't have any hints before.

With the character of the Yin Spirit, if he knew about this, he would definitely not fail to mention it.

Ishikawa guessed that perhaps the Jindan period monks were different from the foundation building period monks, so the Yin Spirit did not pay attention to this matter.

Ishikawa once put the black stone into the immortal mansion, and in the immortal mansion, the black stone will slowly melt like the bones of a demon beast, including the crystals in it, all of which are transformed into the spiritual power of the immortal mansion.

Ishikawa walked slowly forward, followed by seventeen monks behind him.

"There are many unfairities in the eighteen of us together, if someone contributes and digs less, then the other seventeen people will be implicated. Let's get together the spirit stones we get and redistribute the blackstones according to the number of blackstones mined. Someone spoke.

"I don't think this is appropriate, mining black stone also depends on luck, if the luck is extremely bad and the black stone is not collected, is this trip in vain?"

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Ishikawa ignored these people's discussions, and walked forward on his own, and the more he thought about it, the more doubts Ishikawa's heart began to become.

With the status and power of Granny Jinhua, it is enough to recruit a large number of monks to collect them for her, without the need to hire such a few monks who do not know the details of the foundation building period.

Secondly, after each selection, dozens of monks entered the cave to dig for the black stones, and over the course of several decades, there were probably thousands of people who had experienced this, and these people were all tight-lipped.

As he entered the place, Ishikawa noticed that almost all of the monks had a look of surprise on their faces.

Suffice it to say that these people had never heard of it.

Ishikawa further speculated in his heart that there must be some conspiracy in this, one possibility is that none of the monks left here alive.

Another possibility is that this memory has been erased.

The Infant Monk should be able to do this.

Thinking like this, Ishikawa was a little shocked in his heart, and looking at the silver pickaxe in his hand, Ishikawa stopped and stopped walking forward.

"Forty-five, what's the matter? If there is not enough black stone to excavate, we will all suffer. ”

"Less excavation is not necessarily a bad thing. Ishikawa's eyes flashed.

"Dig for an extra month, do you think it's a good thing?" The man who spoke immediately replied: "Anyway, I don't want to stay here longer, and I don't want to stay longer, so hurry up and look for the black stone." ”

..., Ishikawa muttered and said, "Let's dig casually, and then return here in half a month." When the time comes, let's see where the most black stones are, and let's go together to disintegrate, it's better than mining together. ”

"It's fine!" the seventeen groaned, and they scattered.

And Ishikawa, return the same way. If there was only one Jindan monk here, Ishikawa would have nothing to fear.

At this moment, Ishikawa is a little nostalgic for the Yin Spirit, if the Yin Spirit is here, directly obtain the memory of this person, and he can understand everything clearly.

Now, Ishikawa can only spy on it to see if he can find a way out of this place.

Ishikawa guessed: After 100 days of mining, someone will definitely come to collect the black stone, and at the same time bring these seventy-two people to the Golden Flower Mother-in-law, preaching is secondary, and more importantly, the memory of the black stone in the minds of these seventy-two people will be erased.

The blind Jiao carried a wisp of Ishikawa's divine sense and extended out of the cave.

The Jindan monk was still sitting upright at the entrance of the cave, his eyes closed, and with his cultivation, he should not find the blind Jiao.

But out of the cave, there was an empty hall, with no sign of exit.

After waiting here for three days, the Jindan monk still did not move. And no monks entered again.

Ishikawa left the blind Jiao here and entered the fifth cave himself.

In the fifth cave, Ishikawa was the only one, and Ishikawa found a random place to collect.

With this silver pickaxe in hand, it is not difficult to collect black stone, but it is extremely spiritually demanding. After Ishikawa mined more than a dozen spirit stones, he had to take a sip of spirit wine and cross his knees to breathe for a while.

For those monks in the foundation building period, I am afraid that every time they collect a black stone, they have to rest for a while.

Most of the black stones mined were the size of a fist, and occasionally the size of a bowl could be seen.

During the process of excavation, Ishikawa also found that the number of crystals in the black stone was not the same, and some of the crystals in the black stone could cover the entire black stone, and even the surface of the black stone.

Some blackstones are extremely scarce, and some are not crystallized at all.

Ishikawa will store the crystal-rich black stone separately.

These black stones are naturally Ishikawa's things.

Ishikawa's mining speed became faster and faster, and after ten days, Ishikawa found that the difficulty of mining black stone was much less. The amount of blackstone obtained almost doubled.

Ishikawa has also accumulated more than 40 pieces of black stone with rich crystals, the largest of which is actually the size of a basin.

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Thirteen days later, the Jindan monk who was kneeling in the cave slowly opened his eyes, and he took out a small disc from his bosom, on which there were dozens of points of light, and occasionally a few moved.

"Forty-five actually ran to the fifth fork in the road by himself, it's a little interesting!" a strange smile flashed on the face of the Jindan monk.

But he didn't notice that his every move was all watched by Ishikawa's divine consciousness attached to the blind dragon.

"I see!" Ishikawa muttered and walked back.