Mo Wuji focused on the six black stones with his spiritual will, while striking the black ground below with his Tianji Staff.

The Tianji Staff wasn't suitable for digging, and the black soil here was extremely hard. Mo Wuji could only condense his Thunder Sword onto the Tianji Staff to excavate the black soil and rocks.

"Boom, boom!" Two consecutive Thunder Sword attacks, enhanced by the Tianji Staff, slammed into the hard black ground, blasting out a pit a little over a foot deep.

This made Mo Wuji even more aware of how difficult it was to dig up these black stones. Fortunately, he could break open the black soil. As long as he continued to strike down with the Tianji Staff enhanced by the Thunder Sword, he would eventually be able to dig below three zhang.

Mo Wuji's Yuan energy was abundant, and he even had several Yuan Storage Channels, so he didn't need to rest at all while continuously bombarding the same spot.

The relentless strikes continued to fall on the same area, and the black soil was constantly blasted open by Mo Wuji. It took him an entire day to dig a pit nearly three zhang deep.

The Tianji Staff stirred up spiritual energy and gently swept aside, and several black stones appeared in the air. Before the black stones could fall to the ground, Mo Wuji waved his hand, and the stones landed in the bamboo basket on his back.

Mo Wuji grabbed the bamboo basket, and was about to take out a black stone to examine it when he suddenly froze. He had clearly discovered six black stones, so how did one mysteriously disappear?

These black stones could indeed automatically escape. He had even locked onto them with his spiritual will, but in the end, one still managed to slip away unnoticed. No wonder two people were needed to mine these black stones: one to lock onto them with their spiritual will, and the other to dig. If his spiritual will wasn't strong enough, and he didn't have the spiritual will in his Spirit Storage Channel, it would be very difficult for him to mine the black stones alone.

That Jia Qi went alone to mine black stones; it seemed he had a few tricks up his sleeve.

Mo Wuji didn't dwell on it too much. He had a Spirit Storage Channel, so finding black stones here should be relatively easy. The only problem was that digging them up was too troublesome. His Tianji Staff wasn't suitable for digging black stones in the first place, and even with the Thunder Sword enhancement, it still took him more than a day to dig up a few.

Although he gained some experience in mining the black stones after this excavation, he still felt that he should choose a spiritual tool more suitable for digging them.

He casually grabbed a black stone from the basket. The stone was the size of a fist, and felt warm and smooth in his hand, giving him an extremely comfortable sensation. When he focused his spiritual will on the surface of the black stone, he could only vaguely sense a hidden aura within, but he couldn't determine what kind of aura it was.

Mo Wuji subconsciously tried to put the black stone into his ring, but no matter how he manipulated it with his spiritual will, the black stone remained motionless in his hand.

Shaking his head, Mo Wuji threw the black stone back into the basket. It seemed that the black stones couldn't be put into rings, or perhaps his ring's space was too low-level.

Closing the lid of the basket, Mo Wuji found a semi-grade spiritual long spear in his ring. He seemed to have obtained this long spear from Hui Wei'er's ring, and since he didn't use it, he hadn't paid much attention to it.

It would be more convenient to dig these black stones with a long spear. It was a pity that he didn't know how to forge; if he did, he would definitely forge a spiritual shovel for himself.

After refining the long spear, Mo Wuji continued to search for black stones. Black stones could be exchanged for spiritual stone fragments, and what he lacked most were spiritual stone fragments.

On the fourth day, Mo Wuji found another black stone, also three zhang below the surface. It took him almost another day to dig it up and put it in the basket by noon on the fifth day.

This made Mo Wuji feel helpless. The same amount of work yielded completely different results. It seemed that if he wanted to mine a large number of black stones alone, he still needed to find places where the black stones were piled up.

Five days had passed, and even if he found more black stones, he wouldn't have time to dig them up.

Mo Wuji simply carried the bamboo basket on his back, and as he was about to leave, a loud Yuan energy explosion caught his attention. Mo Wuji scanned the area with his spiritual will and immediately saw a familiar face.

Jia Qi was fighting with one cultivator, while another cultivator was watching from the side.

Mo Wuji guessed that the fight was definitely for black stones. He wanted to see how many black stones there were here. If there were a lot, he wouldn't mind getting involved.

Seeing Mo Wuji approach, the two fighting cultivators stopped, but they didn't put away their magical treasures.

"Friend, we're fighting over the ownership of these black stones here. If you have nothing to do, please move aside," the cultivator watching from the side said to Mo Wuji expressionlessly.

It was indeed a fight over black stones. Mo Wuji's spiritual will, from his Spirit Storage Channel, had already penetrated into the black soil below. Soon, he found a black stone about one zhang deep.

Just one black stone. Even though it was buried relatively shallowly, Mo Wuji wasn't very interested. Getting involved in this kind of dispute for one black stone wasn't worth it. Just as he was about to turn and leave, Jia Qi suddenly said, "He's my companion, why should he leave?"

Hearing that Mo Wuji and Jia Qi were companions, the other two looked at Mo Wuji with hostility.

Mo Wuji was about to say that he had nothing to do with it when Jia Qi spoke again, "There's a black stone here, and I'll give you two spiritual stone fragments."

Mo Wuji quickly asked, "How many spiritual stone fragments can one black stone be exchanged for?"

"Normally, ten," Jia Qi wanted to use Mo Wuji's help this time, so he wasn't as stingy as before.

The other two cultivators turned their gazes to Mo Wuji. Mo Wuji looked like an ordinary mortal, without any spiritual energy leaking out. However, the two didn't underestimate Mo Wuji because of this. Anyone who could enter the Half Immortal Domain, or even appear in the mining area, was a Heaven Immortal expert.

Once Mo Wuji and Jia Qi joined forces, they would have to fight a major battle before they could divide the black stones.

"Sorry, I'm not interested," Mo Wuji said, and turned to leave.

He was supposed to risk his life for two spiritual stone fragments? That was looking down on his labor too much, right? What disappointed Mo Wuji a bit was that black stones, which were so difficult to mine, were actually so cheap. One black stone could only be exchanged for ten spiritual stone fragments. He had dug up six black stones, which was only sixty spiritual stone fragments.

Forget it. With these sixty spiritual stone fragments, he could at least cultivate to the Late-Stage Human Immortal Realm. He will think about this next time. If he couldn't be assigned to the mining area, he would go out and steal black stones. To him, stealing ores and mining black stones in the mining area were not much different.

His spiritual will could penetrate more than six zhang underground, which was an advantage that many cultivators couldn't compare to.

"Your companion is gone. Do you still want to fight us? There's still half a day left. If we fight, we won't have just one person watching," the cultivator who had been fighting with Jia Qi said coldly, seeing Mo Wuji leave.

Jia Qi bit his lip, stamped his foot, and turned to chase after Mo Wuji, quickly leaving.

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"Wait a moment," Jia Qi quickly caught up to Mo Wuji.

"What is it?" Mo Wuji asked calmly.

"Don't you know that without spiritual stone fragments, even if you're from Changsheng Sect, you won't be able to last long? Don't you even want to live? I know your cultivation is relatively low, but they don't know. Plus, we're about to leave this place soon, so a fight is definitely going to break out. At most, we'll split the loot evenly. Even if we split it evenly, you'll be able to get a spiritual stone fragment," Jia Qi said angrily.

Mo Wuji said unhurriedly, "Friend Jia Qi, even if I don't come to this mining area, no one will kick me out of the Half Immortal Domain, right? Although I'm new here, I'm not that easy to deceive. I've heard that as long as you have a hand ring, you can settle down in the Half Immortal Domain. You don't need any spiritual stone fragments at all. At worst, I just won't cultivate."

His tone was sarcastic. Although Lang Hao didn't tell him many things, there was one thing he was sure of: as long as you had a hand ring, you wouldn't be kicked out of the Half Immortal Domain.

Jia Qi's sarcasm was even greater than Mo Wuji's. She sneered, "You actually believe Lang Hao? That's right, he didn't lie to you. To settle down in the Half Immortal Domain, you don't need spiritual stone fragments as long as you have a hand ring. But did he tell you that living in the Half Immortal Domain requires Dissolving Wood Pills? Did he tell you that the reason why everyone prefers to live within the Half Immortal Domain rather than outside isn't mainly because of the danger and cultivation, but because the sharp wood aura outside is too strong and will cause people's spiritual channels to become woodified over time?"

Dissolving Wood Pills? Spiritual channels becoming woodified? Mo Wuji stared blankly at Jia Qi. He really didn't know about these things.

Jia Qi didn't stop, continuing to say sarcastically, "Did he tell you that besides the basket, you also need a black stone shovel to mine black stones? Did he tell you that most of everyone's spiritual stone fragments aren't used for cultivation, but to buy Dissolving Wood Pills? You don't know anything, and you actually dare to say you can survive in the Half Immortal Domain?"

Mo Wuji's expression turned serious. He knew that he had probably been tricked by Lang Hao again. That bastard was indeed ruthless when it came to tricking him. He had always been grateful to Lang Hao for helping him get a hand ring, and those ten spiritual stone fragments that cost one black stone.

"Thank you, Friend Jia Qi. I really didn't know about these things. May I ask what Dissolving Wood Pills are?" Mo Wuji's face was very ugly.

Seeing that Mo Wuji didn't continue to refute her, Jia Qi calmed down a bit. "The Half Immortal Domain has a serious sharp wood aura. This aura is constantly permeating the spiritual channels of every cultivator. If you don't find a way to resolve it, it won't be long before your spiritual channels are woodified by the sharp wood aura, and you'll silently perish."

"So Dissolving Wood Pills are pills that resolve the sharp wood aura?" Mo Wuji asked.

Jia Qi nodded. "That's right, only Dissolving Wood Pills can resolve the sharp wood aura here, and Dissolving Wood Pills can only be bought in the Half Immortal Domain. Although the conditions here are relaxed, and there's no oppression, it's not easy to survive here. Dissolving Wood Pills are essential."

"Why don't other alchemists refine them? Do you have to buy them in the Half Immortal Domain? Is it because there's no pill formula?" Even as he asked, Mo Wuji already sensed something was wrong. The water here was really deep, so deep that he was drowning and didn't even know it.

"Because Dissolving Wood Pills must be refined by alchemists with gold spiritual roots. Tell me, how many alchemists with gold spiritual roots have you seen?" Jia Qi asked indifferently.