Chapter 131
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Chapter 131: Testing the Characteristics of the Spirit Mine
In the Spirit Consciousness stage, Yi Chen practiced through the third level, the fourth level, and the fifth level…
Only when he reached the sixth level did he finish his training.
After spending a few more hours maximizing the strength of his divine consciousness, he stood up and walked towards the door.
At the sixth level of Spirit Consciousness, he felt it was about time to try creating the weapon refining technique.
If it didn’t work, he could always come back to train, considering it a chance to clear his mind.
Squeak, squeak…
The Little Gold Ball jumped up excitedly, thinking it had another chance to go out and play.
…
“Yi Chen has finished his training. Is he planning to start creating a new skill?”
“If so, that would be fantastic news.”
“Indeed, during the Spirit Law stage, he only created one skill. But in the Spirit Consciousness stage, he has already successfully created the Beast Taming Technique. If he creates another one, that would mean he has two new skills, just like in the Spirit Release stage.”
“This shows that he’s not nearing his limit in creating skills, as the Experts and Scholars and the research institute evaluated.”
In the live room, as everyone saw Yi Chen finish his training, they all became excited like the Little Gold Ball.
The only difference was the direction of their excitement.
“I’ve long stopped believing those Experts and Scholars and the research institute’s evaluations.”
“The smart ones say it’s highly probable, should be, with over ninety percent chance. Some foolish ones, who think they are authorities, outright claim it’s definite, one hundred percent, without a doubt.”
“What a joke! Can words like definite or one hundred percent apply to Yi Chen?”
“Exactly! Whether he can create a new skill or not is one thing, but just look at his training speed!”
“A ton of so-called authorities present all sorts of evidence.”
“One research institute even released tens of thousands of cases of the training data from ordinary people to geniuses, claiming that even if Yi Chen is our humanity’s greatest genius, his training speed will inevitably slow down and become more challenging.”
“And what’s the result? In just over a month, Yi Chen has broken through from the second level to the sixth level of Spirit Consciousness.”
“The top geniuses they talk about fit their assumptions, taking more than half a month to progress from the first level to the second level of Spirit Consciousness.”
“It’s said that the top geniuses in the Military have access to various top-tier potions to enhance their training speed, even potions to improve their talents, yet they are still left behind by Yi Chen.”
“If Yi Chen hadn’t spent most of his time creating new skills, he would have already surpassed these top geniuses by several major realms.”
“Though it seems illogical, it feels like Yi Chen’s talent continually improves!”
“It’s only logical to apply the word ‘illogical’ to Yi Chen!”
The audience buzzed with fervent discussions, filled with admiration.
…
“Chief!”
Outside the door, as Yi Chen stepped out, the two guards bowed simultaneously.
Yi Chen nodded and glanced at the sides.
Soon, he saw the newly built stone house on his left.
He walked over immediately.
From the outside, the stone house covered an area of over three hundred square feet.
The huge iron door was tightly locked, and there were no guards at the entrance.
Yi Chen didn’t want to wait for someone to come and unlock the door.
He drew the iron sword that hung at his waist.
With a simple and swift motion, he slashed out with the sword.
Whoosh!
A wave of Sword Energy sliced the iron door’s lock into two pieces.
Squeak, squeak…
The Little Gold Ball jumped up and pushed the heavy iron door open, which was completely disproportionate to its height of about ten centimeters.
Inside, it was spacious and bright.
Along the walls, there were rows of wooden racks.
These racks held various types of spirit mines, classified and placed neatly.
In the central area stood a stone platform made from a giant rock.
Yi Chen looked at the Little Gold Ball and decided against asking it to fetch the spirit mines.
He planned to walk towards the nearest wooden rack.
A stunning figure appeared within the range of his divine consciousness.
Bai Ruo Xin received the message and arrived promptly.
“Just in time, take a little bit of each spirit mine from the racks for me.”
Yi Chen did not turn around and walked straight to the central stone platform.
“Okay!”
Bai Ruo Xin followed him into the stone house and headed for the nearest rack.
Yi Chen waited in front of the stone platform for just half a minute when Bai Ruo Xin appeared before him.
“This spirit mine is one of the four major deposits discovered. It contains dense cold energy, is very hard, feels icy to the touch, and can easily frostbite the palms if held for too long.”
Since some spirit mines shouldn’t be touched directly for fear of Yi Chen getting hurt, Bai Ruo Xin gave a brief introduction to the spirit mine before carefully controlling her divine consciousness to place a fist-sized silver-white spirit mine in front of Yi Chen.
Yi Chen nodded.
His divine consciousness wrapped around the spirit mine, and he began to try to enter into it.
Before creating the weapon refining technique, the first thing he needed to do was perceive the characteristics of the spirit mine with his divine consciousness.
As his divine consciousness entered the spirit mine, he started to analyze it carefully.
The impurities within the spirit mine were completely visible.
Every tiny detail came into view.
As for the characteristics of the spirit mine, it was a bit more troublesome; relying solely on the enhanced Eye Sense was not enough.
He needed to fully activate the various functions of his divine consciousness.
At that moment, the strength of Yi Chen’s divine consciousness clearly fell short.
It wasn’t until five or six minutes had passed that he gradually began to master the various characteristics of the spirit mine through the functions of his divine consciousness.
The most prominent characteristic of this spirit mine was its intense cold energy.
Next, it was solid, flexible, and had fairly good stability.
Its biggest downside was its property of obstructing the flow of spirit power.
Nevertheless, it was a good material for refining spiritual swords.
“Record this as a second-grade spirit mine!”
After a bit of thought, Yi Chen gestured for Bai Ruo Xin to note down the grade.
The term "second-grade" was a rating he developed based on the strength of the material’s various characteristics.
The higher the strength of the material’s characteristics, the richer the contained spirit energy, and the higher the grade.
“What about the name?”
Bai Ruo Xin asked.
“Let’s call it Ice Cold Iron!”
Yi Chen casually named the spirit mine.
Bai Ruo Xin nodded and pulled out paper and pen from her animal skin bag, which was like a treasure trove, to record it.
Yi Chen didn’t feel like explaining the specific characteristics of Ice Cold Iron.
This was because the talents within his clan, as their divine consciousness strength increased, could soon reach the level to detect the characteristics of spirit mines themselves.
They would tally everything up eventually.
Seeing Yi Chen set the Ice Cold Iron aside, Bai Ruo Xin immediately used her divine consciousness to present the second spirit mine in front of him, saying:
“This spirit mine is also one of the four major deposits. Besides being hard in texture, we don’t yet know what special qualities it has.”
Yi Chen’s divine consciousness entered it.
Its major characteristic was the power of wind laws contained within, and it was also tough.
It seemed that not only could it be used as the main material for a spiritual sword, but it could also serve as the main material for a flying treasure!
Of course, this was just a rough assessment.
Whether it could serve as the main material for a spiritual artifact or treasure depended not only on the strength of its main characteristics and stability but also on how well it could fuse with the characteristics of other auxiliary materials successfully.
“Second-grade spirit mine, Wind Stone!”
Yi Chen casually labeled it.
Bai Ruo Xin nodded and recorded the material’s grade and name.
Then came the third spirit mine, fourth spirit mine, fifth spirit mine…
Yi Chen tested each one.
He first gained a general understanding of the characteristics of these spirit mines while also practicing his divine consciousness.
Different grades required varying amounts of time.
It wasn’t until half a day later that Bai Ruo Xin had a fist-sized, cream-colored spirit mine placed in front of Yi Chen.
“This is the rarest spirit mine among the fifty-one types, with only this little bit. Its hardness is ordinary, and I don’t feel it has any special features.”
Yi Chen nodded and, as usual, wrapped his divine consciousness around the spirit mine.
Then he began to probe into it.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes…
To his surprise, after more than ten minutes, his divine consciousness barely managed to enter the spirit mine.
The grade of this spirit mine was higher than he had expected.
