Before the Luoyang shovel appeared, normal prospecting required digging vertical shafts or inclined shafts, especially inclined shafts, and then using wooden sticks and wooden boards as supports to prevent landslides. In this way, the amount of work would be very large, because whether a vertical shaft or an inclined shaft is dug, the water source must be dug out

These are all normal things. After removing the water source, you must either find a way to drain the water and continue, or change the location.

After the Luoyang shovel appeared, all you had to do was keep drilling. It didn't matter whether there was water in the ground or not. The soil and rock composition in the ground would be brought up by the Luoyang shovel, and you could tell whether there was any cargo by looking at the cross section.

It can be said that this Luoyang shovel is a pioneering reform in the geological exploration industry.

Zhang Cheng's cyclone shovel is a magic weapon. Not to mention cutting iron like mud, drilling into a rock formation after infusing it with magic power is as easy as cutting tofu.

After going down the mountain, Zhang Cheng deployed his Fengxing technique and started running. Unless he had a flying magic weapon during the Qi training period, he would not be able to fly.

Zhang Chengji could not afford a flying magic weapon, and the flying magic weapon during his Qi training period was not much faster than the Fengxing technique that he often used when he was on the road.

When he stopped at noon, he was already hundreds of miles away from Taisumen Mountain Gate. Zhang Cheng took a pill of essence and blood for satiety, drank water and rested for a while under a big tree. He took out a cyclone shovel and dug it in

Start digging diagonal holes under the tree.

The headquarters of Taisumen Mountain Gate is actually located on a giant spiritual stone vein. The inner spiritual stone and secondary mineral veins have not been completely excavated for tens of thousands of years.

Lingshi veins can be seen as the aura of heaven and earth. They are mined non-destructively and are renewable. For example, the giant Lingshi veins at the Taisumen headquarters must be sealed for hundreds of years every few decades to allow them to continue to breed more.

of spiritual stones and secondary mineral veins.

The spiritual energy of the nearby heaven and earth was concentrated in the direction of Taisumen. Unsurprisingly, digging the forty-foot-deep inclined shaft yielded no results.

Zhang Cheng just hit one shot if there were dates but no dates. When the sun was no longer so poisonous, Zhang Cheng used the Fengxing technique again to rush forward, and the direction was the direction of his home.

When it comes to familiarity with the terrain, I am most familiar with the place where I have lived for more than ten years. This is more likely than visiting caves all over the world.

After nearly half a year of internship at Taisumen and having personally gone down several mines, Zhang Cheng felt that there might be mineral veins in several places in the topography of his hometown.

Of course, it's just a possibility.

In fact, according to the intelligence analysis of the Taisumen Lingshi veins, the Lingshi veins are both in the mountains and at the bottom of the lake. Relatively speaking, the Lingshi veins are the most abundant in the plains and deserts.

When he came to Taisumen, Zhang Cheng only had the second level of Qi training, so it took him three months to travel. A year later, when he returned home, it took Zhang Cheng, who had already practiced the fourth level of Qi, thirty-five days to return to his hometown of Zhangjia.

Set nearby.

During the thirty-five days on the road, Zhang Cheng also explored seventy caves at the rate of two per day. But all of them found nothing.

For example, it is normal for a prospector to fail to find a spiritual stone vein for several years or even a lifetime. This is also the reason why Taisumen merged the prospecting department into the Intelligence Hall.

After all, when you go out, even if you can't find the spirit stone veins, you may still find some information about monsters or beasts, or geniuses, magic medicines, and herbs. Even if you find information about evil cultivators, if you report it to the sect for verification, you will be rewarded accordingly.

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The Taisu Sect has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, and it has occupied only a hundred or dozens of spiritual stone veins. On average, one spiritual stone vein is discovered every few hundred years.

He returned to his hometown, but Zhang Cheng did not go home. He had only been away for a year, so there was no need to think about the changes at home. Besides, in the storage bag, in addition to dozens of bottles of Essence and Blood Pills distributed by the Intelligence Hall and a Thousand Miles Message

It smells good, and I didn’t bring any gifts for my brothers and sisters.

It's embarrassing to go home empty-handed like this.

When he left home to join the Taisu Sect, Zhang Cheng was full of confidence and ambitious, and he played very well.

In a word, it is difficult to put a shameful knife into its sheath.

Zhang Cheng finally chose to live in a logging cabin near Haohan Lake, which is more than 600 miles away from Zhangjiaji. With Zhang Cheng's current walking distance on the fourth level of Qi Refining, he could return to Zhangjiaji in less than a day using Fengxing Technique. However,

According to the travel distance of Zhangjiaji people, there is a one-way route of three or four days.

Moreover, the vast lake covers a radius of more than a thousand miles, so it is not so easy to encounter.

This vast lake was the first prospecting spot decided by Zhang Cheng.

Because there are two spiritual stone veins in Taisumen that are at the bottom of the lake. There are also several spiritual stone veins that are also close to the water source. There may be spiritual stone veins hidden under this vast lake.

Of course, this is still just Zhang Cheng’s personal conjecture.

Another advantage of choosing here is that there are very few monsters around here.

After all, monsters are regularly cleaned up near the family gathering place. There must be aquatic monsters in the vast lake, but Zhang Cheng will not go into the water.

At the fourth level of Qi refining, with a cultivation level that has just entered the middle stage of Qi refining, coupled with the Luoyang shovel weapon which has little offensive power, he cannot defeat monsters when encountering them. On the contrary, he is more likely to deliver food.

Now one of the few things Zhang Cheng relies on is the Luoyang shovel in his hand. For others, it would take several days to dig a 100-meter-deep inclined shaft, even with a magical weapon, but the Luoyang shovel can easily dig a four-meter-deep inclined shaft within an hour.

An inclined shaft or shaft ten feet deep.

Another reliance that I don't rely on is the geological prospecting knowledge I learned in my previous life. However, no one knows the reason for the formation of the Lingshi veins, so the geological prospecting knowledge in my previous life is not very useful.

The exploration in Haohan Lake lasted for one and a half months, a full forty-five days. Zhang Cheng drilled four or five inclined wells every day, and drilled more than 200 inclined wells in a circle around Haohan Lake. What he got was mud, sand and stones.

All the fossils of aquatic life have been found, but no veins of spirit stone have been found.

After exploring the vast lake, Zhang Cheng was not discouraged at all. He just painted the area from his home to Taisumen and the vast lake in red to represent the explored area on the map of Taisumen's sphere of influence that he copied.

This is the stupidest elimination method, but the stupidest method is also the most effective. The more places that do not have spirit stone veins are excluded from exploration, the greater the possibility of digging spirit stone veins in the future.

Zhang Cheng believes that his greatest wealth in the future will not be how many spirit stone veins he has found, but this map.

After leaving the vast lake, Zhang Cheng went to the wasteland south of Zhangjiaji. It is a hilly landform with thick bushes. Every year, the Zhang family monks hunt here in the autumn. This is the source of meat for hundreds of Zhang family members for most of the year.

Zhang Cheng's first killing was also done here a few years ago - Zhang Cheng still remembers the pheasant whose neck he broke.

It's spring now, and almost no one from the Zhang family will come here.

After living a boring life of digging holes all the way south, one day a few months later, Zhang Cheng saw from a distance the Zhang family members who were hunting wild animals in the place he had previously explored.

However, it has been almost two years since I left home. Except for my own family, no other clan members should remember me.
Chapter completed!