Chapter 41
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Chapter 41: Spirit Stones That Can Speed Up Training
“Chieftain, please wait. I will go get the spirit mine.”
Seeing that Yi Chen seemed very interested, the high priest quickly spoke up.
"Go ahead!"
Yi Chen nodded.
The high priest bowed and hurried off towards the spirit mine warehouse.
……
“Looking at Yi Chen’s expression just now, he seems quite expectant. However, he will probably be disappointed.”
In the live room, a viewer commented,
“I just pulled up the map and looked at the eastern mineral deposits. What a peculiar spirit mine! It’s merely an energy stone mine.”
“What is an energy stone?”
Ninety-nine percent of the viewers looked confused.
“It’s a type of mineral formed from pure energy, that is, spirit energy. When we humanity first emerged from Blue Star and found this type of stone on other colonial planets, the federal research institute even attempted to use these energy stones as a main energy source.”
One explained, “However, they quickly gave up, mainly due to its poor stability and inability to undergo multiple energy conversions. It works fine for civilian energy, but not for military energy.”
“Furthermore, the energy contained in energy stones is inferior to nuclear energy, which led the federal research institute to abandon further studies.”
“Now I understand!”
Everyone suddenly realized.
“So, this energy stone isn’t something that can be used to make weapons; it’s purely a crystallization of spirit energy?”
“Yes! Yi Chen is collecting various spirit mines, clearly planning to test whether he can use one type of spirit mine or a fusion of multiple spirit mines to craft weapons.”
“This energy stone has a melting point of over twenty thousand degrees; it’s completely beyond the current forging capabilities of the Flame Mountain Tribe.”
“Even if he manages to melt it, the energy stone will only decompose into energy, which means the spirit energy will just mix into the air.”
“Alright! Yi Chen is in for a big loss this time.”
“According to the scanner, although the Flame Mountain range contains several mineral deposits, most are deep underground. There are very few deposits on the surface.”
“Having come across a surface deposit, Yi Chen will undoubtedly spare no effort to find a way to mine this energy stone.”
“Yet the end result will be that after mining this energy stone, he won’t be able to melt it.”
“If he does manage to melt it, it will only be more frustrating because melting it will cause the energy stone to evaporate completely.”
“The savage era is indeed tough. If Yi Chen were here with us, he wouldn’t need to go through all this trouble collecting scattered spirit mines.”
“Whatever hardness of weapon he wants, whatever material he desires, any steel factory can easily mass-produce it.”
The viewers in the live room began to feel sorry for Yi Chen.
Especially the female viewers, whose hearts ached greatly for Yi Chen’s hopeful expression.
Just thinking about the disappointment in Yi Chen’s eyes in the future made their hearts feel like they were being cut by knives.
……
“Chieftain!”
The high priest quickly arrived with the energy stone that the viewers mentioned.
It was a fist-sized, milky-white stone.
As the high priest handed the stone to Yi Chen, he explained,
“This spirit mine is strange. Its hardness isn’t very high; ordinary iron tools can leave marks on it. But no matter how intense the flames are, like other spirit mines, it cannot be melted.”
“Moreover, while other spirit mines contain spirit energy, none compare to this one in abundance and purity. It feels… it feels like this spirit mine is simply a gathering of spirit energy.”
“Gathering of spirit energy?”
Yi Chen was stunned.
He took the milky-white stone.
Spirit power surged within him.
He indeed sensed that the stone had an extremely rich and pure spirit energy emanating from it, without any impurities.
Isn’t this just the spirit stones described in various fantasy novels?
Without any hesitation, he cross-legged and sat down.
He placed the milky-white stone beside him.
Soon, he entered a meditative state.
As spirit power flowed through his meridians, the spirit energy in the milky-white stone seemed to be drawn by a mysterious force, spilling out at a significantly faster rate, heading toward Yi Chen’s body.
Then, like the spirit energy in the air, it entered Yi Chen’s meridians through his skin.
As the spirit power circulated through the meridians, they traveled together and eventually entered the Qi Sea, transforming into refined spirit power.
A look of ecstasy appeared on Yi Chen’s face.
It really is a spirit stone!
A spirit stone that can speed up training!
By his estimation, with the aid of this spirit stone, his cultivation speed could at least double!
This was undoubtedly fantastic news.
With his talent, whether his training speed doubled was not what mattered.
After all, even now at the Qi Condensation Sixth Stage, he only needed a little over ten days to break through a small realm.
Although it took more time as he progressed, as the influence of the Flame Mountain Tribe continued to expand, his talent would also grow stronger.
Stronger talent would not only allow him to create more powerful skills but also enhance his training speed.
A doubling of training speed was just an extra bonus for him.
But for the Flame Mountain Tribe, it would have immeasurable benefits.
You see, most tribe members in the Flame Mountain Tribe have quite ordinary talent.
It takes them about a month to break through from Qi Condensation First Stage to Qi Condensation Second Stage.
So far, their average level is only Qi Condensation Fifth Stage.
To break through to the first level of Spirit Release, it would still take at least half a year.
With this spirit stone, it means that in about three months, the average strength of the Flame Mountain Tribe members could be raised to the first level of Spirit Release.
Once they quickly reached the first level of Spirit Release, the people of the Flame Mountain Tribe could learn the complete version of the Cloud Treading Technique and the swordsmanship being developed, further boosting their power.
An increase in the average strength of the tribe members would undoubtedly greatly assist him in expanding his influence.
Furthermore, if he were to create formations in the future, spirit stones would be an essential source of energy.
In other words, the value of this spirit stone is extraordinarily significant to him.
“Chieftain, what’s wrong with you?”
Seeing Yi Chen show such joy, the high priest was surprised, his eyes widening.
In his view, this chieftain, who boldly declared that if the tribe needed a deity, only he could be the one, belonged to the kind of person who was serious and heartless.
It was the first time he had seen Yi Chen so out of control.
……
“What’s going on?”
“Same question, what’s happening?”
The viewers in the live room were equally puzzled.
Although they knew that Yi Chen’s character, while leaning towards a bold leader, wasn’t like most harsh leaders who were cold and unforgiving,
the reason he appeared so serious in the tribe was simply that he spent all day focused on training and creating new skills, without time to interact much with tribe members.
But they also saw Yi Chen lose his composure for the first time.
To all of humanity, Yi Chen was a presence of extraordinary calm.
Even when the stunning beauty Guli actively threw herself at him, he remained solid as a rock, his heart showing no change.
Usually, the only time a smile would appear on his face was when he created a new skill.
