The place where the spirit stones were mined was in a small basin among several mountain peaks. After a while, Lin Jin came to an open space at the foot of the mountain ahead.
"The place where spiritual stones are mined has a stronger spiritual energy than other places."
The clearing is surrounded by cave entrances that lead to the underground mining of spiritual stones. At this time, there are already many disciples of Liyun Pavilion busy in the clearing.
I saw an old man sitting in a shady place. Every time, a disciple came out of the cave and took out the spiritual stones in the storage bag and handed them to the old man. Lin Jin speculated that this old man should be the leader here.
Lin Jin stepped forward and asked: "Senior, can you exchange the spirit stones for me?"
The old man raised his head and looked at Lin Jin, rolled his little eyes and smiled.
"Hey, boy, you are quite unfamiliar. Are you a new disciple? Do you want to exchange for spirit stones? Then you have found the right person. I can exchange for more spirit stones here. What spirit stones do you want to exchange for?
Where’s the stone?”
"I have a few middle-grade spiritual stones. How can I exchange them for lower-grade spiritual stones?"
The old man pinched a small tuft of beard on his chin with his right hand and spoke maturely.
"Exchanging medium-grade spiritual stones for low-grade spiritual stones? This is the first time I have seen such a weird person like you, but old man, I will always respond to your requests. One medium-grade spiritual stone can be exchanged for fifty low-grade spiritual stones."
He took out six middle-grade spiritual stones from his storage bag and handed them to the old man.
"Then I'll redeem six."
Soon, three hundred low-grade spiritual stones entered the storage bag.
Lin Jin put away the storage bag and hoped to understand the regulations for mining spiritual stones.
"Are these senior brothers mining spiritual stones here?"
The old man placed the six middle-grade spiritual stones, and after confirming that they were correct, he began to answer Lin Jin's questions.
"Do you want to come too? Yes, as long as you give me a hundred low-grade spiritual stones every day, the rest of the spiritual stones will be yours."
Lin Jin shook his head. He just needed to understand it. He didn't really want to mine spiritual stones. Time was wasted here. When can he improve his cultivation?
"Come again if you have a chance."
The old man looked at Lin Jin walking away and smiled in an evil voice.
"Hehe, a newcomer is a newcomer, he is so easy to deceive. Wait, if he is a newcomer... now is not the time to recruit disciples. There is still one year. Could it be that he is a disciple with some background... I hope I am overthinking it.
Yes, you shouldn't get into any trouble."
Returning to his residence, Lin Jin was about to go to Xiao Zhang to explain his intention to retreat, but found that Xiao Zhang had not returned yet, so Lin Jin had to go back to the house to practice and wait until Xiao Zhang came back.
Lin Jin sat cross-legged on the bed, gradually sinking into his mind.
At this time, there was already a hazy gray-white gas slowly rotating in Lin Jin's Dantian. It seemed that there was a mysterious object hidden in the gas, waiting for the opportunity to rush out.
Opening his eyes and comparing the level of spiritual power stored in his body, Lin Jin roughly deduced that he should have entered the early stage of the Life Bridge Realm.
Although there is only a little spiritual energy in the body, it can be considered an improvement.
Lin Jin was in a daze and muttered to himself: "Mingqiao Realm, I really don't know why it is called this. I always feel that the words do not convey the meaning."
Immediately shaking his head, Lin Jin took out the low-grade spiritual stone and began to practice.
After condensing the two acupuncture points again, Lin Jin felt that Xiao Zhang was back, so he packed up and got up to go out.
He came to Xiao Zhang's door and called him out.
"How's it going? Have you exchanged the spirit stones?"
Lin Jin nodded and said: "I used six middle-grade spiritual stones to exchange for 300 low-grade spiritual stones."
"What? Are there too many middle-grade spiritual stones? Why are they so cheap? I forgot to tell you the exchange rate for spiritual stones. Damn it, that old man is cheating on you."
Xiao Zhang was so angry that he almost beat his chest and stamped his feet. This shows that Xiao Zhang must have been tricked by the old man.
Only then did Lin Jin realize that he had been tricked, but there was nothing he could do about it. Whoever called him a new disciple should just teach him a lesson.
But in his heart, Lin Jin had scolded the old man more than ten times, looking for opportunities to regain face for being disrespectful!
Later, Lin Jin learned from Xiao Zhang the ratio of spirit stone exchange.
The spiritual stones of each level are exchanged for the next level at a ratio of one hundred to one, and the difference between high-level spiritual stones and low-level spiritual stones can be at least fifteen more.
Xiao Zhang then returned to the topic.
"I see you haven't told me the important point yet?"
"Actually, I want to stay in seclusion for a year and try to improve my strength before the outer disciples' assessment."
Xiao Zhang asked doubtfully: "You want to be in seclusion for a year? The longest time I have been in seclusion was only two or three months. You, a new disciple, want to go into seclusion for a year? Wow, I am behind the times."
Lin Jin smiled and said: "Senior Brother Xiao, don't be ridiculous, I don't want to do this either, but I have my own arrangements, I believe I can catch up."
Xiao Zhang laughed and said: "You are so confident... You don't have Bigu, do you want me to ask Fatty Sun to prepare some food for you?"
Lin Jin immediately shook his head and refused.
"I've already asked him to do it."
Xiao Zhang was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Not bad, then when will you start retreating?"
"It should start tonight, but I want to go to Diange first to have a look. Are there any restrictions?"
"Only the inner disciples are allowed to go in and check the classics at will. The outer disciples are not allowed."
Xiao Zhang poured a basin of cold water on Lin Jin.
This made Lin Jin a little confused and asked: "How do they know whether I am an inner disciple or an outer disciple?"
Xiao Zhang picked his nose and spread his hands helplessly.
"You still want to pretend to go in? The inner disciples all have special identity slips."
Licking the corner of his mouth, Lin Jin could only nod and turn around to go back to his room.
"You can't stay in seclusion for too long. You have to come out for some air, otherwise it will be difficult to improve your cultivation."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Xiao, for reminding me."
After asking some more trivial matters, Lin Jin returned to his residence to prepare for his first retreat.
At this moment, two people were standing on the top of a mountain in Liyun Pavilion. They were Liu Yang and Yao Qing!
Liu Yang held the iron sword in front of him with both hands and looked at the churning sea of clouds in the distance, with no happy expression on his face.
"Qing'er, I'm sorry for dragging you down."
Yao Qing stepped forward and took Liu Yang's hand, sighing.
"How could it be? You don't have to blame yourself, just blame Xiang Tianqi for not knowing what's good or bad. He just doesn't know which senior saved you and me."
Liu Yang turned to look at Yao Qing with very firm eyes.
"As long as I break through the current level and show my strength as an inner disciple, some elders will definitely accept me as their disciple!"
"In this case, without evidence, Xiang Tianqi's master can't do anything to us! Besides, we didn't kill Xiang Tianqi in the first place!"
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At this time, Lin Jin was ready and began to enter his own retreat state.
All the low-grade spiritual stones in the storage bag were poured out. Along with the low-grade spiritual stones, there were some other things, but an item that was almost forgotten by Lin Jin attracted his attention.
Lin Jin took out the wooden box that was thrown to him from the pile of spiritual stones. It seemed that it could not be opened because of restrictions, so Lin Jin no longer had the interest to study it.
At this time, the wooden box appeared in his sight again, and his interest was once again aroused, because for some unknown reason, a corner of the wooden box was opened.
He carefully placed it on the palm of his hand and examined it. When he found that there was nothing unusual, he opened it with confidence. Immediately, a cloth bag appeared in the wooden box.
Lin Jin took out the cloth bag and weighed it a little. He found that the weight of the cloth bag was very light. It seemed that there was nothing in it, it was just a cloth bag.
Seeing that he couldn't figure out the reason, Lin Jin had no choice but to open the cloth bag.
A very small thing appeared in the cloth bag, and it turned out to be the seed of an unknown plant!
At this time, Lin Jin was both disappointed and curious. He was disappointed because he originally thought that there would be treasures of heaven and earth or something precious in the cloth bag.
Lin Jin was curious because he really wanted to know why the owner of the wooden box placed this green seed in it so solemnly. What kind of plant could the seed be?
The seeds were cold in hand, like a piece of ice. Lin Jin picked them up and looked at the light. The more he looked at them, the more frightened he became.
This seed looks like an ordinary seed in the dark, but when you look at the light, you find that the inside of the seed is crystal clear, as if there is a green viscous liquid flowing inside the seed.
Lin Jin was secretly surprised, could this thing be some kind of treasure?
Lin Jin himself also knows that if it is something good, it is best to identify its owner with blood first. Although it is only a low-level method of identifying its owner, you can still give it a try.