Cultivation Simulator: Starting From The Empress' Palace

After putting the Spirit Marrow Liquid into her bag, Zuoqiu Yiren slightly raised her delicate neck and said, ”Regarding the Spirit Marrow Liquid, just pretend you didn’t see it, and definitely don’t tell the Sect.”

After speaking, Zuoqiu Yiren felt a bit embarrassed and said softly, ”It seems like the Sect doesn’t know how many Middle Grade Spirit Stones this deeper vein contains.”

Upon hearing this, the disciples exchanged glances and looked at one another in disbelief.

Elder Zuoqiu’s words implied that they could mine the Spirit Stones in this vein, and she would pretend not to know and not inform the Sect.

The disciples’ faces lit up with joy. Since the Spirit Marrow Liquid wouldn’t fall into their hands anyway, whether to tell the Sect didn’t make a difference. Now that they didn’t report it, they could mine Middle Grade Spirit Stones. How could they not understand which choice to make?

”Is there Spirit Marrow Liquid? We didn’t know.”

”Where did the Spirit Marrow Liquid come from? You must have seen it wrong.”

”Yes, yes, it was a mistake.”

In an instant, everyone seemed to have developed amnesia, forgetting about the existence of the Spirit Marrow Liquid.

Zuoqiu Yiren had a slight smile at the corners of her mouth.

Long Xiaoyao and Fang Zun, however, slightly twitched their mouths, thinking that to privately pocket the Spirit Marrow Liquid, she used Middle Grade Spirit Stones to win over the disciples, yet the Spirit Marrow Liquid wasn’t even hers.

She looked like a celestial maiden, but did things that didn’t fit the image of one.

However, neither of them wanted to offend Zuoqiu Yiren, so they nodded shortly.

Soon, the sound of chiseling and hammering echoed from the depths of the mine.

Spirit Stones are categorized into three grades: Lower, Middle, and Upper. In Primordial Heaven, the most commonly circulated are the Lower Grade Spirit Stones, because most of Primordial Heaven’s mine veins consist of Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

Middle Grade Spirit Stones also have strong circulation, but they are only used for large transactions.

A fist-sized Middle Grade Spirit Stone can be exchanged for a hundred fist-sized Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

Above this, Upper Grade Spirit Stones are relatively rare but not scarce. Among Lower and Middle Grade Spirit Stones, Upper Grade Spirit Stones are less common.

The True Qi contained within Upper Grade Spirit Stones is extremely dense and pure and can be directly absorbed.

Therefore, Upper Grade Spirit Stones are not used as currency alone but as cultivation resources. When cultivators break through realms or run out of True Qi in battle and need rapid recovery, they will use Upper Grade Spirit Stones.

The ratio of Upper to Middle Grade Spirit Stones is also one to a hundred.

While it is easy to exchange one Upper Grade Spirit Stone for a hundred Middle Grade Spirit Stones, it is much harder to exchange a hundred Middle Grade Spirit Stones for one Upper Grade Spirit Stone.

The disciples collecting Middle Grade Spirit Stones stored them, one by one, in their Qiankun Rings.

A quarter of an hour later, Zuoqiu Yiren felt it was enough, coughed, and said, ”That’s about enough; you don’t intend to empty this Spirit Stone Mine, do you?”

Upon hearing this, the disciples stopped what they were doing. If transformed into Lower Grade Spirit Stones, quite a bit had been collected, no less than two thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

Chen Mo was not empty-handed either, though he mined the Lower Grade Spirit Stones directly using the Top Grade Magical Artifact, the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Spear. Each chunk he dug out was about a yard, resulting in close to ten thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

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Zuoqiu Yiren dismantled the Teleportation Arrays set up by the Evil Cultivators in the Spirit Stone Mine, made some simple adjustments, and then used Spatial Transmission to contact the Imperial Family of the East Night Kingdom, stating the Evil Cultivators had been dealt with and the East Night Kingdom should send people to guard it.

Spatial Transmission consumes a lot of True Qi, achievable only by high-tier cultivators.

Chen Mo could only watch longingly.

”Alright, once the people from the East Night Kingdom come to take over the Spirit Stone Mine, we can return to the Sect.” Zuoqiu Yiren drank the last bit of wine from her gourd and continued, ”Of course, if you are in a hurry to return to the Sect, you can leave first.”

The disciples all stayed and waited, disregarding Zuoqiu Yiren’s latter suggestion.

Although the Evil Cultivators in the Spirit Stone Mine had been cleared out, it did not mean all Evil Cultivators in the East Night Kingdom had been wiped out. If one traveled back alone and encountered Evil Cultivators, it would be dangerous.

”Where is Sister Zhao?”

”Why don’t we see Sister Zhao?”

The disciples looked around but did not spot Zhao Fujin, surprising them.

Chen Mo also didn’t see her around.

After a while, Zhao Fujin and Zhao Qianyi came in together. Whatever they discussed, while Zhao Fujin accepted the situation, she wasn’t quick to forgive Chen Mo just yet.

After entering, she gave Chen Mo a resentful glance. When she saw him approaching, she deliberately let out a cold snort and moved away, refusing to stand with Chen Mo and the others.

Zhao Qianyi stayed by Zhao Fujin’s side.

”Are they having a quarrel?”

The disciples were slightly taken aback at the scene.

Fang Zun’s face showed delight.

A quarrel is good; this means he would have a chance.

With a smile, Fang Zun approached Zhao Fujin, saying, ”Sister Zhao, what’s wrong? Who upset you? Tell your senior brother, and I’ll teach him a lesson.”

Zhao Fujin’s eyes turned cold. She shook her head: ”Thank you for your good intentions, Senior Brother Fang, but there’s no need. I’m fine.”

Even though she was angry with Chen Mo, she was not as fickle as Chen Mo. Once she decided on him, she wouldn’t get close to other men.

Zhao Fujin kept her distance from Fang Zun.

But Fang Zun didn’t give up, persistently trying to converse with Zhao Fujin, showing his ’warm’ side, all the while feeling internally disgusted.

Fang Zun hadn’t straightforwardly expressed his feelings to Zhao Fujin.

So Zhao Fujin couldn’t confront him directly.

Chen Mo frowned, walked over, and squeezed Fang Zun aside to assert his dominance.

Zhao Fujin, who wanted Fang Zun gone too, didn’t act stubborn this time, allowing Chen Mo to hold her by the waist.

Fang Zun shot Chen Mo a furious glare.

Chen Mo didn’t know what Fang Zun was thinking; even under these circumstances, he still stood by as if he had resigned himself to it.

According to predictions, Chen Mo knew he would need a whole day of sweet-talking for Zhao Fujin to forgive him.

Chen Mo didn’t mind.

He indeed went too far, and wanting to have both options, how could he not put in some effort?

”Sis, have you noticed Sister Zhao bears a slight resemblance to Sister Qianyi?” Not far away, Nangong Yue’s gaze shifted between Zhao Qianyi and Zhao Fujin a few times before commenting.

Nangong Xue hadn’t noticed this observation, but upon her sister’s remark, she indeed saw a slight resemblance, in the eyebrows...

”Sister Qianyi’s last name is also Zhao. Sis, do you think there’s some other relationship between Sister Zhao and Sister Qianyi?” Nangong Yue guessed boldly.

Nangong Xue arched her eyebrows: ”What kind of relationship?”

”Sister Qianyi doesn’t seem much older than Sister Zhao, and they come from the same place. Do you think they could be sisters?” Nangong Yue liked the idea that they might be sisters, thinking that if so, she and her sister would handle it...

Nangong Xue sensed that even at this moment, her sister was still preoccupied with that thought, and she couldn’t help but glare at her: ”What nonsense are you talking about?”