After leaving Puzi Master's small stone fort, Jia Qi was still a little incredulous. Mo Wuji had actually managed to get Puzi Master to take out his storage ring, something she could never have imagined before.

"I really didn't expect Puzi Master to actually give you the storage ring." After calming down, Jia Qi was filled with admiration.

Mo Wuji smiled. "This transaction benefits both of us. That ring can only work in this place. And my 'Concise Treatise on Space' is a treasure that people can benefit from endlessly."

Jia Qi nodded. Mo Wuji was right. A 'Concise Treatise on Space' was something that one storage ring definitely couldn't buy in other places.

"Friend Jia Qi, how many times a month are the mine areas usually allocated?" Now that Mo Wuji had obtained the storage ring, he immediately wanted to go out and search for black stones. He wanted to use the spirit stone fragments to cultivate and improve his strength as soon as possible. In this place, the simplest and most direct way to obtain spirit stone fragments was to mine black stones.

"In most cases, it's three times a month. Each time there will be a notification on the wristband." Jia Qi replied.

Mo Wuji glanced at his wristband. The wristband did indeed state it clearly: the mine area would be allocated in three days.

Seeing Mo Wuji look at the wristband, Jia Qi continued, "The mine area will be allocated in three days, you don't need to go so early."

"Why?" Mo Wuji looked at Jia Qi in confusion. He knew that the earlier you went, the better the mine area you would be allocated. Although he didn't plan to go to the mine area, he still didn't understand Jia Qi's words.

Jia Qi smiled self-deprecatingly, "Every organization has default rules. Even if you are the first to go, you won't be able to go to the best mine area with your qualifications. Even if you are the first to look for partners, you will find that you can't find companions to cooperate with. Under the default rules, no one will cooperate with you."

"I can look for you, right?" Mo Wuji said.

Jia Qi shook her head, "That's only once. After our first success, there will be no second time. We will soon be squeezed out of the Changsheng Gate. So going early to get a good mine area is not for everyone."

Mo Wuji was speechless. It seemed fair, but in fact, it wasn't. As expected, where there were people, there was a jianghu, and where there was a jianghu, there was no fairness.

"We can't go too late either. We can't go to the best mine area, but we can still go to the second tier mine area. As long as you can maintain that ability to find black stones, we will soon make a fortune." Jia Qi explained.

Mo Wuji shook his head and said very seriously, "Friend Jia Qi, I don't know what your abilities are like. So the specific division between us will have to wait until your abilities are demonstrated. Only then can we begin, how about that?"

Jia Qi said without hesitation, "Okay, that's what I meant too."

In fact, for Jia Qi, she also didn't know where Mo Wuji's abilities lay. It was a bit inappropriate to discuss the division of benefits now.

"I have another idea, which is that I don't plan to go to the Changsheng Gate to be allocated a mine area. I plan to go to the abandoned mine areas. I hope you can take me to see those better abandoned mine areas." Mo Wuji looked at Jia Qi and said.

"Abandoned mine areas? You want to steal ore?" Jia Qi looked at Mo Wuji in surprise. Although there were many people who stole ore, very few were actually successful. Sometimes it took days to find a single black stone.

"Don't say it so harshly, we're going to re-examine the mine area." Although he knew that stealing ore was normal here and no one would stop it, Mo Wuji felt awkward hearing it.

Jia Qi said solemnly, "Friend Mo, many newcomers have the same idea as you, but soon they will obediently join an organization and obediently mine. After each mine area is abandoned, the black stones in that mine area have basically been searched through. Even if there are some that slipped through the net, they are very few. Most ore-stealing cultivators are wasting time and effort."

"But I still want to go and see the abandoned mine areas." Mo Wuji replied.

Jia Qi smiled, "Friend Mo, you've actually entered a misunderstanding. Think about it, you have a storage ring. Even if you mine ten black stones, you only need to take out two. So, the allocation scheme of the Half Immortal Domain and the Zhengqi Gate doesn't affect us."

How could Mo Wuji not think of this? He had been to the Ren-character mine area. In a few days, he had only found seven black stones. In other words, if the allocated mine area was poor, there would basically be no good ore. He wanted to see those top-tier black stone mine areas. Even if they were abandoned, it wouldn't make much difference to him. Because beneath several zhang, it would be a completely undeveloped mine area for him.

"I just want to go and see, take me to the best mine area." Mo Wuji still insisted on his opinion.

Seeing Mo Wuji insist so much, Jia Qi had no choice but to say, "Okay, then I'll take you to Jia-character 6 mine area first. That place is one of the earliest mine areas, it has been abandoned for many years, and it's also the best mine area. It's said that someone once found thousands of black stones at once in Jia 6 mine area. Later, many people went to Jia-character 6 mine area to steal black stones, but there was almost no harvest. Because almost every inch of land in that mine area has been dug through."

"We'll go to Jia-character 6 mine area, and we'll go now." Mo Wuji decided immediately. He really wanted to know if there were still black stones beneath several zhang in those good mine areas.

Mo Wuji had demonstrated his strength and ability. Jia Qi wanted to cooperate with Mo Wuji, so she naturally wouldn't object to such a thing. Moreover, there were still a few days until the next mine area allocation.

...

Three hours later, Mo Wuji and Jia Qi stopped. In front of him was still a piece of black soil. The only difference was that there were some vaguely reddish mud and stones in this piece of black soil.

"This is Jia-character 6 mine area?" Mo Wuji looked at the blackness in front of him and asked. This black soil seemed to have really been turned over once.

Jia Qi replied, "Yes, the Jia-character mine area is the best mine area, and the earlier the number, the higher the black stone reserves. Jia 6 mine area was once one of the top mine areas in the Half Immortal Domain."

Mo Wuji had already entered the mine area. His spiritual will swept out to confirm that there were no other cultivators around.

Mo Wuji's spiritual will from the Storage Meridian was also penetrated into the black soil under his feet. After half an incense stick of time, Mo Wuji discovered the first black stone. However, this black stone was stored nearly five zhang under his feet, and Mo Wuji didn't tell Jia Qi.

He really didn't have much interest in digging for black stones five zhang below this kind of black soil.

Jia Qi just followed behind Mo Wuji, she didn't even penetrate her spiritual sense to search for black stones. She wouldn't do such useless work in this place. When Mo Wuji felt that no ore could be found in the abandoned mine area, she would discuss with Mo Wuji what kind of mine area to obtain in the Changsheng Gate in three days.

Mo Wuji walked neither fast nor slow. In this way, an hour passed quickly.

This place was indeed worthy of being a Jia-character mine area. In a short time, he discovered seventeen black stones. He didn't have such a dense amount of black stones when he was in the Ren-character mine area.

What disappointed Mo Wuji was that none of these seventeen black stones were what he wanted. The shallowest of these black stones was also more than three zhang, close to four zhang. He felt that it was very uneconomical to dig like this, it was too much of a waste of energy. Mo Wuji was thinking of finding a large area where black stones were concentrated in the same place, so it would be more time-saving and labor-saving.

"Friend Mo, even if you spend a few more days searching, it will be the same here. This place has already been turned over again and again, and it's difficult to find new black stones..."

Seeming to sense Mo Wuji's disappointment, Jia Qi, who was on the side, advised again.

Mo Wuji was just about to say that he had already found black stones, but they were too scattered, when a snowflake-shaped arrangement of black stones appeared under his spiritual will. After a rough count, there were actually thirty. And it wasn't deep, just more than four zhang, close to five zhang.

"Start digging here." Mo Wuji locked onto the thirty ores with his spiritual will and pointed to the spot under his feet.

"Ah..." Jia Qi looked at Mo Wuji in confusion. This place had obviously been dug through once, and he still wanted to start digging from here?

Mo Wuji didn't explain. He had already taken out the black stone shovel and started digging the black soil. Driven by the Yuan energy, the effect of the black stone shovel was indeed much stronger than his Tianji Rod and spear. It could dig out a square foot of black soil at a time, and it didn't need to be blessed with spells.

Seeing Mo Wuji start digging, Jia Qi could only follow behind Mo Wuji and dig.

With Jia Qi's first shovel, Mo Wuji knew that Jia Qi was much stronger than him in digging black soil. He could only dig out a square foot of area at a time, while Jia Qi could dig out more than two feet.

The deeper you dug, the more difficult the black soil became, and the more solid it became. Jia Qi was very experienced, and she could always dig at the most suitable place for the shovel to go down. Mo Wuji followed behind her shovel, which saved a lot of time and effort.

Not bad, this partner was okay.

Originally, it took Mo Wuji a day to dig three zhang into the black soil by himself. Now that he and Jia Qi were together, it only took them more than an hour to dig three zhang. Not only that, but Mo Wuji also used much less energy.

"Friend Mo, wouldn't it be too much to dig like this..." When they dug more than three zhang, Jia Qi couldn't help but say.

This was the first time for her to dig black soil without any purpose.

Mo Wuji continued to dig black soil while saying, "Don't worry, we'll know when we dig to about five zhang."

"Five zhang?" Jia Qi's hand almost trembled. In the entire Half Immortal Domain, anyone whose spiritual will could penetrate two zhang under this black soil was considered a sought-after ore-seeking expert. If one could penetrate three zhang into the black soil, they would be a top-tier ore seeker here. They wouldn't even need to do it themselves. Just moving their mouths would be enough to give them a pile of black stones. Only a very few strong people could penetrate three and a half zhang under the black soil, but they definitely couldn't last long.

Mo Wuji said about five zhang? Was he lying to her or talking nonsense?