Spirit Stone Mine

Lin Xiao immediately began to quickly grope along the nearby mountain wall.

Suddenly, his hand touched a spot. Even though it looked like his hand should be touching the mountain wall, in reality, he felt absolutely nothing!

In the next instant, a sense of weightlessness washed over him, and his entire body plummeted inside!

To think that the small opening he had just touched was actually a spatial entrance!

Guard Mo, who was following behind, saw Lin Xiao, who had just been inspecting the area, suddenly disappear into thin air.

Lin Xiao felt himself falling rapidly. It took quite a while before he finally landed on the ground.

He had no idea how far underground he was now.

However, at this moment, he was already shocked by the abundant spiritual energy inside this entrance! Sweeping his gaze around, all he could see were stone walls emitting a faint, fluorescent glow.

The spirit stones above his head had formed into the shapes of stalactites, looking as if they could drip down at any moment.

The passageway ahead was deep, narrow, and seemingly bottomless, faintly glowing with the unique halo of spirit stones.

He was dumbfounded.

This... seemed to be a spirit stone mine!

And from the looks of it, a massive one at that!

Lin Xiao felt like he was about to strike it rich.

But soon, beneath the abundant spiritual energy, a rich aura of life force also wafted over.

This finally pulled his overjoyed mind back to rationality.

There was still a matter he needed to resolve.

Keeping his Concealment Technique active, Lin Xiao walked firmly into the passageway.

He had already guessed what that kidnapper cultivator wanted to do.

For a cultivator, it was impossible not to be tempted upon seeing such a fortune. Obviously, although he didn't know exactly how the kidnapper cultivator planned to do it, abducting so many people was definitely aimed at taking this spirit stone mine for himself.

Don't ask him how he guessed it.

At this moment, Lin Xiao only had one thought in his mind: this spirit stone mine was his!

Walking all the way down, the narrow passageway gradually widened.

He actually walked for half an hour before seeing a very spacious area ahead.

However, what shocked him was the scene before his eyes.

In the massive space ahead, a gigantic circular formation was drawn on the ground using some unknown material. And suspended in the air above this circular formation was a group of half-grown children!

The life force from the children hanging high above was continuously flowing into the grand formation on the ground.

Some children seemed to have had their life force drained for a long time and were now completely unconscious. Some even had extremely livid faces, just a breath away from dying.

While some children still had a decent breath, their faces were sallow, and they seemed to have given up crying out and struggling.

Only above the center of the circle was there a youth still struggling incessantly.

"Let me down right now! You dog! With your ghostly appearance, what kind of immortal are you cultivating to be? Cultivating to be a ghost is more like it!"

The youth was dressed in fine brocade clothes, wearing exquisite attire; at a glance, he was clearly a scion of a great family.

As he struggled, he yelled with a slightly hoarse voice at a person wearing a black robe standing outside the circular formation.

The black-robed man completely ignored his curses.

After all, he had been listening to it for the better part of the day.

He only gazed at the circular grand formation with eyes full of anticipation, his gaze as gentle as if he were looking at his own child.

Very soon, he would become a cultivator sitting on a large-scale spirit stone mine!

All of this would belong to him alone!

To think that he, Xu Kefan, would actually have such a day!

He wondered who had set up a highly advanced spirit-locking formation and concealment formation at the entrance of this spirit stone mine, allowing such a massive mine to remain safely hidden here undiscovered until now.

It must be that his run of bad luck had finally ended, and the heavens were gifting him spirit stones!

However, this wasn't his territory after all. With the Shangyang Sect nearby, he felt very uneasy, fearing that this might be a backup spirit stone mine for the sect.

Therefore, he planned to take this opportunity to use a secret technique to transfer the spirit stone mine away.

He had previously obtained a spatial transfer technique by chance.

It was just that this transfer technique was quite sinister and evil, requiring forty-nine young boys and girls to be suspended above the formation to provide life force as energy.

Originally, he was short of one person, and he was just about to hurry out today to catch another one.

If he didn't hurry, the first few he caught wouldn't be able to hold on much longer.

After all, he didn't have the patience to feed and pamper a bunch of half-grown children who gave him a headache with their noise every day.

Who would have thought that just as he was preparing to head out, this brocade-clad youth would deliver himself right to his door.

At the time, the boy had fallen straight down from above, landing right into his arms just as he was about to leave.

Xu Kefan felt that heaven was truly helping him.

Once a person's luck arrived, it was truly unstoppable!

Lin Xiao, hiding behind the spirit stone wall, witnessed all of this.

He looked at the still-energetic youth suspended in the center, guessing that he was probably the "Young Master" that the guard had mentioned earlier.

But turning to look at the others who were suspended, some were truly at death's door, with only a single breath left.

He had to rescue them immediately.

Moreover, there was no telling when this formation would successfully activate.

Without further delay, Lin Xiao hesitated no more. The moment the black-robed man turned his back to him, he decisively dashed out and rushed toward him!

Because Lin Xiao used his spiritual energy, his Concealment Technique naturally deactivated.

The black-robed man noticed it and immediately turned around. Seeing a twelve-year-old boy like Lin Xiao attacking him, he was surprised but scoffed:

"Does a little brat who just started cultivating think he is worthy to challenge an esteemed Foundation Establishment expert like me?"

Who knew that Lin Xiao's speed would be so incredibly fast? Before the man's words even finished echoing, Lin Xiao had already arrived right in front of him!

Then, Xu Kefan's final conscious thought was seeing this youth he had called a little brat rapidly appearing before him, seemingly holding a talisman in his hand, and slapping it onto his body.

And then he lost consciousness.

Looking at the black-robed man sealed by the Sealing Talisman in front of him, Lin Xiao was very satisfied.

Now, his heart no longer ached over spending spirit stones. A Sealing Talisman? Wasn't it just seventy-five spirit stones!

He could get that much just by chipping away at this spirit stone mine a few times!

However, it was also thanks to the black-robed man seeing him as a half-grown child and carelessly assuming he had just stepped onto the path of cultivation. Otherwise, it might not have been so easy to slap this Sealing Talisman onto him.

Lin Xiao wasn't in a rush to deal with the black-robed man. He scouted the surroundings to confirm the man had no accomplices, then hurried to free the young boys and girls suspended from the ceiling.

He chose to release those who were running out of breath first, leaving the energetic brocade-clad youth for last.

Mo Yuanjiao was stunned when he saw a youth suddenly appear below and subdue the black-robed man. Then he watched as this boy, who was about his age, began to free the people around him.

He wasn't in a hurry to have him untie him, either.

Dangling in mid-air, Mo Yuanjiao kicked his legs to turn his body, following Lin Xiao as he moved around, and said:

"Hey, brother! How did you subdue him? That was amazing! Can you teach me?"