Chapter 23 I'm going to the mine cave

  "Isn't this Ishikawa Shitei? How come you have time to visit the outer gate today?"

  The more anxious you are, the more likely you are to run into people you don't want to meet. As it happens, just as Ishikawa was walking out of the outer gate, he ran into Hong Baozi.

  Hong Paozi's face was as bloated as a cow dung flower, his two eyes narrowed into a line, and he said affectionately to Ishikawa: "Ishikawa Shitei, after you became Yun Changlao's apprentice, you completely forgot about me, your old brother. Today, I must treat you well."

  "Hong Shixiong is too polite!" Shi Chuan cupped his hands, although he was very anxious in his heart, but Shi Chuan couldn't show it, lest it attract the attention of this person. "Shidi, I can be accepted as a disciple by Yun Changlao, also thanks to Hong Shixiong's help. Today, I want to go back and tidy up, another day, I will definitely come to invite Hong Shixiong to the tea room for tea."

  Hong Paozi's eyes, the size of a yellow bean, turned slightly, and he also clearly remembered his previous tactics against Ishikawa. Although he knew that Ishikawa had an unusual relationship with Yun Changlao, Hong Paozi would never have guessed that Yun Changlao had accepted Ishikawa as his apprentice.

  This made Hong Baozi very puzzled, but things have come to this, and it's useless not to believe, because the whole Shuiling Gate already knows. Hong Baozi now just hopes to get along with Shi Chuan, so as to avoid Shi Chuan taking revenge on himself in the future. After all, Yun Changlao's disciples are not simple people.

  Hong's words made Ishikawa an excuse, and he directly grabbed Ishikawa, not letting him move half a step.

  He insisted on drinking with Ishikawa for several cups.

  Hong Baozi's cultivation base was not low, and he was also in charge of the entire outer gate. If Shi Chuan had to go back, it would be troublesome. After Shi Chuan left, Hong Baozi would have to go to the scrap collection warehouse to check. What if he found out that over the past half year, the amount of scrap not only didn't increase, but actually decreased? He would definitely discover Shi Chuan's secret.

  Ishikawa had no choice but to attend this lavish banquet.

  For a whole hour, Shi Chuan's heart was bleeding, Lin Feng was like a madman, constantly colliding with him. Shi Chuan would occasionally throw a Ling Stone, and in an hour, he had thrown nearly a hundred of them, which showed just how crazy Lin Feng was.

  However, Ishikawa also had to attend this drinking party.

  Half a time later, Ishikawa finally got rid of Hong Baozi and hurried to the scrap warehouse. However, on the way, Ishikawa was not at ease. Those outer door disciples saw Ishikawa and asked loudly.

  After all, Ishikawa is one of the few who have become inner disciples from outer door disciples. Even those whom Ishikawa had never seen before pretended to be extremely familiar with him, leaving Ishikawa astonished.

  In their eyes, being an inner disciple was a big deal.

  For other inner disciples, they have a congenital disgust and hatred in their hearts, but for the outer disciple Ishikawa, they are exceptionally close, and also want to get the secret of how to become an inner disciple from Ishikawa.

  Ishikawa couldn't help but respond, fortunately Lin Feng's intense collision weakened after a period of time, although it still consumed dozens of spirit stones from Ishikawa.

  Back at the scrap collection warehouse, Ishikawa went to the innermost part of the warehouse and casually picked up dozens of damaged woks and threw them into the Xianfu, only to find that the Xianfu had no quantity limit. This time, Ishikawa didn't care about anything and directly threw in hundreds of pieces.

  With spiritual awareness, it is observed that these damaged ritual objects in the immortal mansion begin to slowly disintegrate, a part directly merging into the mysterious iron ball and the refined gold ball, while the remaining parts turn into yellowish powder, merging into the yellow earth on the ground, becoming extremely spiritually powerful yellow earth.

  It is this yellow earth that can provide the spiritual energy needed for the operation of the immortal mansion.

  At this time, a special black Xuan Tie block in the immortal mansion caught Ishikawa's attention. This was a whole piece of Xuan Tie, to be precise, it should be said that it was an unrefined Xuan Tie ore. In theory, this Xuan Tie ore shouldn't appear in the scrap warehouse, but for some reason, there was one more block.

  Its decomposition speed is extremely fast, and the spiritual power it provides is very large, far exceeding those refined artifacts.

  Ishikawa could understand this point as well. After all, a refined artifact was the result of fusing various materials together, while the Xuan Iron ore was just a process of purification.

  "You damned little brat, I must kill you!" Lin Feng seemed to have gone mad, wandering back and forth within the immortal mansion, one moment fiercely striking the stone tablet, another rolling up the scattered broken artifacts on the ground and hurling them into the distance.

  It's clear that he noticed the change within the Earth Manor. The more decomposed divine instruments there were inside the manor, the stronger the seal became.

  If this continues, he will be trapped here forever. But for now, he has no other choice but to make a desperate last-ditch effort.

  With his lifespan of several hundred years, he had naturally noticed the relationship between these decomposing artifacts and the strength of the seals.

  As long as Ishikawa is given enough time, once these seals are fully dissolved, the seal will be unbreakable, which is what Lin Feng does not want to see.

  His only chance now is a fierce impact, and he cannot let the spiritual power of the immortal mansion seal form a scale.

  Ishikawa's expression changed slightly, these damaged artifacts were decomposing at a very slow speed, completely unable to keep up with Lin Feng's attacking speed, Ishikawa had no choice but to throw in a piece of spiritual stone every now and then to ensure the seal was secure.

  But in the long run, this is not a solution. This state makes Ishikawa unable to practice with peace of mind, carrying a time bomb on his body, and Lin Feng may burst out at any time.

  Only by completely getting rid of Lin Feng can Ishikawa be at ease.

  At this time, the original ore of Xuan Tie in the immortal mansion had been dissolved. Ishikawa hesitated for a moment and made up his mind. Three days later, Ishikawa decided to take on the mission from the Menpai to go to the mining cave.

  Although Ishikawa had no experience in mining, with the strength of his sixth layer of Qi training, the speed of mining shouldn't be too slow. On the premise of completing the sect's task, it shouldn't be a problem for him to hoard some raw ore.

  This is also a helpless measure, because apart from using the spirit stone, there is only this one way to go. No matter what, try wearing it or decide to give it a try.

  He let out a light sigh, and Kishikawa tossed in another spirit stone. Looking at the now halved pile of scrap artifacts, Kishikawa rearranged things inside the warehouse, placing empty crates inside and piling up the scrap artifacts outside. From the outside, it shouldn't look too different.

  Just as he walked out of the scrap warehouse, the chief executive of Lianqi Workshop, Cui San, was standing at the door. After becoming Yun Changlao's inner door disciple, Shi Chuan had already become accustomed to these "special treatments".

  "Choi Jae-soo!" Ishikawa saw Choi Sam staring at the junk warehouse and knew what he was thinking.

  Ishikawa became an inner disciple and still came to this junk warehouse, it's strange if he didn't attract Cui San's attention.

  Ishikawa hastily said, "Director Cui, please go inside! I still have some trash here that I just got back and need to clean up. I was just about to visit Director Cui and then head back to the inner gate."

  "Shi Shidi became Cui Zhanglao's beloved disciple, and as his senior brother, I should have gone to congratulate him. Who would have thought that Shi Shidi has returned? It seems he hasn't forgotten about me, his senior brother." Cui San glanced at the neatly arranged broken spiritual artifacts inside and slightly curled up the corner of his mouth, thinking to himself, "This Shi Chuan is really idle with nothing better to do, what's the point of messing around with these damaged spiritual artifacts every day?"

  Cui San was also an inner door disciple before, he didn't follow those outer door disciples in the same way. Ordinary inner door disciples were not even looked at by him. But Yun Changlao's entry disciples were different, as the highest ruler of Shuilingmen, Yun Changlao controlled a large number of resources, and his disciples would not be too bad either.

  Sui Yi Cui San secretly thought that the Ishikawa family should have some connection with Yun Chang Lao. In any case, getting along well with Ishikawa is much better than having a falling out.

  Ishikawa chatted with Cui San for a while, and it wasn't until half a day later that he was able to extricate himself.

  After arriving at the inner gate, Ishikawa went directly to the Inner Gate Servant's Hall to receive his mission from the Servant's disciple.

  "Are you Ishikawa?" the disciple asked, apparently having a good understanding of Ishikawa.

  "Is that so, Brother Shishio also knows me?" Ishikawa smiled wryly and shook his head. It seemed that even if he wanted to keep a low profile, these people who had never seen him before were still able to recognize him. Ishikawa directly stated his intention: "I'd like to receive the sect's mission."

  "Any recommendations?" the disciple asked.

  "Recommendation? I don't have one." Ishikawa was taken aback, he really didn't know what a recommendation was.

  That disciple looked embarrassed and hesitated, saying: "Shi Shidi, it's not good to do it this way. The tasks of guarding the gate and managing affairs within the sect are already fully assigned, one radish in one pit. If there is no recommendation, I also don't have the right to adjust other people's positions."

  This steward disciple must have thought that Ishikawa wanted to come and take over the management, but these matters were all ordered by the elders, and he was only in charge of collecting spiritual ore and spiritual grass here, and his final say didn't count.

  "It's like this, I'd like to take on a quest to go to the mine." Ishikawa said with a smile.

  "Go to the mine?" The steward's disciple frowned slightly, only those ordinary inner door disciples who didn't have a backing, couldn't afford to pay for spiritual grass and spiritual ore, would go to the mine to dig. After all, it was dark in the mine without a glimpse of daylight, and working hard every day didn't necessarily mean finding spiritual stone ore or raw ore.

  Ishikawa as Yun's junior disciple had ten thousand reasons not to go, so it was only when Ishikawa went out of the mine cave that he was shocked.

  "Is there something wrong?" Ishikawa asked.

  "Could it be that Ishikawa has gone to do chores, the first layer of Qi training is a bit too low?" The disciple of Guan Shi thought secretly in his heart. However, these words were not spoken out loud, as it was best to speak less within the sect, who knew what arrangements Yun Lao had made.

  "No problem, I'll handle the formalities for Shi Shidi right now." The managing disciple took out a jade token and handed it to Shi Chuan Dao: "This is Shi Shidi's sect contribution token. Once you arrive at the mine, just hand it over to the person in charge there."

  "Stone, if you're going to the mine, make sure to bring enough elixirs, or else you'll run out while cultivating inside and waste your time. Also, I've heard that the mine isn't very peaceful, many disciples form gangs. Your cultivation level is not high, so it's best to be careful."