After coming out of the Black Profound Copper Mine Cave, Chen Fei was filled with excitement and immediately rushed back to the Gate of Enlightened Deity Cave to start organizing and planning the relocation.
Due to the great battle, the Enlightened Deity Cave was left in ruins, with crumbling walls, rivers of blood, and debris. There was almost nothing left, making it unsuitable to stay... Therefore, the relocation seemed both reasonable and inevitable.
Less than a day later, all surviving members of the Enlightened Deity Cave followed Chen Fei and relocated to the Divine Origin Grand Canyon, where the Black Profound Copper Vein was located! They began to transform it, aiming to quickly rebuild a new foundation for the Enlightened Deity Cave, a new place to establish their sect.
However, as the new gate of the Enlightened Deity Cave started to be constructed, problems gradually began to surface! And they were apparent on all levels.
First of all, after the previous great siege battle, the number of members of the Enlightened Deity Cave had plummeted to only 30-40% of its peak period, which meant around a few hundred people.
Even if all of these few hundred people worked in shifts, temporarily abandoning their cultivation time, constructing a new base with sufficient scale and quality in a short period was extremely challenging and difficult to achieve.
It's not as easy as just building the new gate, the new base needs some expertise as well. Just like building a house, you wouldn't just do it randomly without knowledge, right?
Nonetheless, cultivators are inherently more capable than ordinary people, so even if they don't understand, they progress quickly once they begin learning.
Thus, the construction of the new Enlightened Deity Cave base began in the Grand Canyon with fervor! Time flew by quickly.
During this process, a new group, led by Cang Kun and Blue Whale, arrived at the new gate of Enlightened Deity Cave seeking refuge! They were the direct lineage of Cang Kun and Blue Whale from Canglan Island, carefully selected elites, qualified to come here.
This slightly relieved the awkward situation of the insufficient number of members in the Enlightened Deity Cave.
Yet another period passed, and new people came seeking refuge! This person was none other than Quann Zhenyi, who had successfully reached the Realm of Low Grade Third-Level Alchemist with Chen Fei's help!
Now, with Quann Zhenyi being a Low Grade Third-Level Alchemist, he was already a prominent figure in Azure Dragon Ravine, but even so, after much contemplation, he decided to bet on a more grand future by joining Chen Fei.
To demonstrate his sincerity and determination, he carefully selected six or seven promising talents with good alchemy potential and paid a significant price to bring them all here.
If these talents were meticulously cultivated, they would have unlimited potential and significant future prospects!
Of course, this was not particularly significant to Chen Fei or noteworthy, but he had a good impression of Quann Zhenyi, so he accepted them all, incorporating them into the Enlightened Deity Cave.
Thus, the internal structure of the Enlightened Deity Cave gradually became formalized!
Afterward, Chen Fei was pleasantly surprised to feel his cultivation realm had loosened, so he began his seclusion without hesitation!
Regarding the construction progress of the new gate of Enlightened Deity Cave, he entrusted it entirely to Cang Kun to manage.
To inspire everyone and create a better new base for Enlightened Deity Cave, Cang Kun almost came out every half month to check the construction progress and even held a day-long lecture at the new gate of Enlightened Deity Cave.
All cultivators of Enlightened Deity Cave could pause their work to listen to Cang Kun's teachings or resolve their doubts!
Although Cang Kun was a demon beast, different by nature from the Human Race, many members of Enlightened Deity Cave, even a large number, were demon beasts. To hear a Great Demon who had successfully reached the Realm of Third-Level Demonic Beast lecture was a precious and honorable opportunity!
Of course, they were overjoyed, not wanting to miss it.
As for the human cultivators within Enlightened Deity Cave, although they couldn't learn cultivation paths from Cang Kun, the combat techniques and powerful moves he taught were still treasures, making them listen intently and enjoy immensely!
Thus, time flew by quickly, and soon two to three months had passed. One day, while Chen Fei was solidifying his cultivation as usual, he suddenly sensed Blue Whale's aura outside the cave!
The aura was quite high-spirited, seemingly seeking him for something, so Chen Fei quickly came out of his secluded cave.
"Master, have you broken through again?" Feeling the different aura emanating from Chen Fei compared to two or three months ago when he entered seclusion, Blue Whale's eyes lit up with excitement as he spoke.
"Guess." Chen Fei smiled and playfully asked Blue Whale, "Tell me, what's the matter? You wouldn't typically come to me for small affairs, right?"
"Oh, oh, certainly... certainly, master, this time it's a joyous matter, a grand joyous matter." Blue Whale replied with excitement, taking out a palm-sized, crystal-clear stone block, emitting a gentle glow with abundant spiritual energy.
This crystalline stone is clearly a spirit stone, but it's somewhat different from an ordinary low-grade spirit stone!
The amount of spiritual energy contained in it, as well as its purity, isn't on the same level at all.
"Master, what do you think this is?" the Blue Whale asked with a smile.
"Isn't it just a mid-grade spirit stone? A mere mid-grade spirit stone shouldn't make you this excited, should it?" Chen Fei asked in bewilderment. Of course, he recognized the stone as a mid-grade spirit stone.
In the Cultivation World, spirit stones are divided into low-grade, mid-grade, top-grade, holy grade, and immortal grade! Holy grade spirit stones are also known as Holy Crystals, and immortal grade spirit stones are known as Immortal Source Crystals or Immortal Stones... However, these are all legendary items, extremely rare.
The mid-grade spirit stones and top-grade spirit stones—about a thousand low-grade spirit stones are equivalent to one mid-grade spirit stone, and a thousand mid-grade spirit stones are roughly equivalent to one top-grade spirit stone.
So, while this mid-grade spirit stone is precious and valuable, when it comes down to it, it holds about the same value as half a drop of Millennium Spiritual Milk. Logically, it shouldn't be enough to make a Great Demon like the Blue Whale this overly excited, right?
Indeed, in Chen Fei's eyes, the Blue Whale seemed overly excited. Something wasn't quite right.
"Yes, yes, Master, it's a mid-grade spirit stone, but do you know where I found this thing?" the Blue Whale teased with a smile upon seeing Chen Fei's puzzled expression.
"Where? Don't tell me you found a mid-grade spirit stone mine nearby?" Chen Fei was startled but then, with his eyes suddenly shining with clarity, he spoke.
"Oh? Master, how did you know!?" The Blue Whale blurted out, stunned for a while, not expecting Chen Fei to guess it.
"Is it really a mid-grade spirit stone mine? Where is it? How large is it? Tell me in detail." Upon hearing the Blue Whale's words and seeing his expression, Chen Fei immediately asked excitedly. With an Earth-level Spirit Vein of Spirit Grade hidden deep beneath the Great Rift Valley, it wouldn't be surprising to have a mid-grade spirit stone mine accompanying it.
"Master, you're amazing, being able to guess even this. Yes, I indeed found a mid-grade spirit stone mine nearby!" the Blue Whale then responded, his face incredibly excited.
A spirit stone mine is the most valuable of all mineral veins!
Especially since this time, what was discovered is a mid-grade spirit stone mine, capable of directly producing mid-grade spirit stones! Such a treasured mine, even if it were just the smallest scale of micro veins, its value would definitely be far more than that of a Micro Black Mystic Copper Vein! Eight or ten times more wouldn't be impossible.
Under such circumstances, how could he not be excited? How could he not be thrilled!?
"A mid-grade spirit stone mine? That Earth-level Spirit Vein underground truly is a treasure trove! If my guess is correct, the Black Profound Copper Essence Vein and this mid-grade spirit stone mine must both have been produced under the influence of that Spirit Vein," in the sea of knowledge, Zhen Jingkong also sighed.
"Eight or nine times out of ten," Chen Fei's face was full of excitement as he looked at the Blue Whale and asked, "What is the specific scale of the mid-grade spirit stone mine? Have you investigated it clearly?"
"Not yet..." the Blue Whale hadn't finished speaking when a figure flickered and appeared outside the cave entrance.
As the light around the figure dissipated, the silhouette was revealed to be Cang Kun.
"Master, the estimated scale of the mid-grade spirit stone mine has been roughly investigated," Cang Kun said respectfully to Chen Fei, his expression also extremely excited.
"Oh, what's its scale!?" Chen Fei asked, his eyes intense. At this moment, the Blue Whale's full attention was drawn, waiting for Cang Kun to reveal the answer, his heart pounding furiously.
"The scale of this mid-grade spirit stone mine is at least above small!" Cang Kun took a deep breath and slowly said.
"Gasp!" Upon hearing this, the Blue Whale took a sharp breath, his face bursting with immense excitement and surprise!
With his cultivation realm and perspective, he certainly understood what a small-scale mid-grade spirit stone mine meant.
"At least above small?" Chen Fei, upon hearing this, felt his saliva roll in his throat with difficulty. It wasn't until a while later that his eyes shone with a sly gleam, his face excitedly breaking into a crafty smile, "Looks like we've struck it rich this time!"
"Yes, we're rich! Haha, truly rich..." the Blue Whale also chimed in excitedly. If it's truly a small-scale mid-grade spirit stone mine, even a powerful top-tier force like the Pei Family of Eagle Gorge could be supported by it!
And now, this superb spirit stone mine was discovered by their Enlightened Deity Cave—it's simply, simply like pie falling from the sky! This feeling is amazing, we've truly become rich... Haha, hahaha.