Chapter 11: The Iron Ridge Mine Mother

  "This young master will not treat you unfairly with this ore." Zhang Heng imitated Tang Feng's tone and demeanor, but suppressed the excitement and joy in his heart.

  He stretched out his hand, and Zhang Heng took out a jade bottle from the storage bag. From the jade bottle, he poured out four white medicinal pills the size of pearls: "This is top-grade Qi-replenishing pill, effective for cultivators in both the Qi-gathering phase and the Qi-refining phase. After taking it, you will have the opportunity to enter the Qi-refining phase."

  The four people below were overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, while the tall and thin young man was also extremely excited.

  As an outer disciple like them, they usually just do chores here and rarely have the opportunity to obtain spiritual pills. At this moment, being able to get Qi-replenishing Pills suitable for practitioners in the Qi-refining stage is a joy beyond measure.

  After handing over the four Qi-tonifying pills to these people, Zhang Heng drove the Lingzhu towards the depths of the mountain, and forcibly restrained the excitement in his heart.

  He didn't expect to be so lucky and actually got such a top-grade ore, Zhang Heng's heart was excited.

  If Zhang Heng was not mistaken, this fist-sized iron ore from Tie Ling mine was the essence of iron ore - Tie Mu.

  In fact, the quality of Tie Ling ore itself is not bad. Among various iron ore families, its quality is only inferior to common ores like Xuan Tie and Wu Tie. However, since this ore can be found everywhere in the cultivation world, it's value isn't high. Nevertheless, Tie Ling ore has a relatively wide application in equipment refinement.

  Of course, this refers to ordinary iron ore. In iron ore, there are also better varieties, that is, high-quality iron ore and iron ore concentrate.

  The value of high-quality iron ore is slightly higher, and it's estimated that a piece the size of a washbasin can be exchanged for one crystal stone.

  But it's different when it comes to Tie Ling mineral essence, which is the concentrated essence of this type of mineral. Generally, without thousands of years of sedimentation, it's impossible to form Tie Ling mineral essence.

  The value of refined Tieling ore far surpasses that of superior Tieling ore. In the Cultivation Realm, a fist-sized piece of refined Tieling ore can be worth several hundred spirit stones!

  Tieling mineral essence can be used to make the spiritual instruments used by foundation-building cultivators, like Zhang Heng's low-grade spiritual instrument must have contained some kind of iron mineral essence, but the amount definitely wouldn't be a lot.

  But what Zhang Heng got in his hand at this moment was not the Iron Ridge Mine, but a higher level of existence than the Iron Ridge Mine - the Iron Ridge Mine Mother.

  The formation of Tieling Mine Mother is more difficult than that of Tieling Mine Essence. Ordinary Tieling Mine needs to go through thousands of years of sedimentation under certain conditions to form Tieling Mine Essence, and after the formation of Tieling Mine Essence, it still needs to go through tens of thousands of years of growth, and finally may advance to Tieling Mine Mother.

  As for whether the Mineral Mother is the final form of the mineral, that's something Zhang Heng can't know.

  But Zhang Heng understood that he was absolutely lucky, and the rarity of the Tie Ling mine mother was something he could only know in part.

  According to Zhang Heng, refining a top-grade spiritual artifact requires the Mother of Iron Ore, and only a small amount is needed. It's worth noting that the power of a top-grade spiritual artifact has already reached 30-40% of an ordinary magic treasure. Moreover, a top-grade spiritual artifact can be barely controlled during the Refining Qi stage, and its full power can be unleashed during the Building Foundation stage.

  In addition, even the materials needed for the refining of the law treasure by the Jie Dan period cultivators require this rare material, Iron Mother!

  The preciousness of the Iron Mine is self-evident, even those high-ranking Dan-stage cultivators need this ore, and some Dan-stage cultivators are still worried about not finding the Mother of Iron Ore. After all, not everyone can be as lucky as Zhang Heng, who exchanged a few Qi-replenishing Pills for the priceless Mother of Iron Ore.

  Compared to the mother of iron ore, Buqi pills are nothing. Buqi pills were what Tang Feng ate as candy during his Qi-gathering period, but even for ordinary Qi-gathering disciples, it's still hard to get them.

  But this pill had little effect on Zhang Heng, who was now in the Refining Qi stage.

  Zhang Heng made up his mind that this piece of iron ore must be kept absolutely secret, otherwise it would definitely bring disaster upon himself.

  Something that can move the heart of a cultivator in the Condensing Dan period is absolutely priceless. If others were to find out, not only would Zhang Heng be in trouble, but the entire Feng Xing Sect would likely be implicated as well.

  In Feng Xing Gate, there isn't a single cultivator at the Dan Formation stage who can hold down the fort. If a Dan Formation stage cultivator were to come knocking on their door, it would be no difficult task to annihilate the entire Feng Xing Gate.

  So, the news of getting the Iron Ridge Mine Mother must not be known to anyone, even the ancestor behind Zhang Heng is no exception.

  If some other low-ranking cultivators had obtained such a top-grade ore, they would definitely think of ways to secretly trade it out for spiritual instruments or elixirs that suited their own use.

  After all, such a top-grade ore is useless even if it is given to a low-ranking cultivator. To smelt the Iron Ridge Mine Mother, one must be a Dan-forming stage cultivator who uses the Three Flavors True Fire; even if it's the Innate True Fire of the Foundation Building stage, it would be very difficult to dissolve this Iron Ridge Mine Mother.

  But this ore was different for Zhang Heng, because he didn't need to use the Iron Ridge Mine Mother to refine equipment. In his hands, he possessed the most perverted technique in the history of the Immortal Cultivation World - "Refine Heaven and Earth".

  "This 'Lian Tian Hua Di' is called refining all tangible things in the world and transforming all intangible things, it's absolutely not just an empty name."

  With this piece of Tieling ore, Zhang Heng now has hope to cultivate the abnormal skill he has been craving for a long time. Now the only thing he needs to worry about is how long this piece of Tieling ore can support his cultivation.

  To know that cultivating to the initial realm of the Variant Merit requires dozens of pieces of rare and precious items at the level of low-grade spiritual artifacts.

  And this Tieliang ore is refined into a top-grade spiritual instrument, to the point where it's used as material for the magic treasure of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage, I wonder if I can let my Deviated Cultivation reach the initial completion realm.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng was both expectant and worried. The success or failure of the Deviant Cultivation Method would determine his fate in the cultivation world from now on.

  With this in mind, Zhang Heng rode the Wuling Sword to reach Feng Xing Gate's location at Tie Ling Peak. During his flight, he would often encounter some disciples of Feng Xing Gate, who couldn't help but reveal envious and jealous expressions when they saw the low-grade spiritual artifact under Zhang Heng's feet.

  However, most people here know "Tang Feng" this elegant young master. After all, the previous Tang Feng was used to being arrogant and domineering in the Wind Slashing Sect, thanks to the backing of that ancestor. Even those inner sect disciples who were stronger than Tang Feng wouldn't dare to provoke him easily.

  During the flight, many disciples greeted Zhang Heng, some of whom were fellow inner door disciples with him, while others were outer door disciples who flattered him.

  During the greeting process, Zhang Heng was very cold because he had already occupied Tang Feng's body. If he continued to interact with them too much, it would be hard not to reveal some flaws.

  After all, the one who dominates this body is Zhang Heng, and the gestures, movements, language habits of this body are all based on Zhang Heng's standards. Even if Zhang Heng imitates him again, it won't be perfect.

  Moreover, Zhang Heng has many secrets on his body, whether it is the possession of the Deviant Art or the carrying of the Iron Ridge Mine Mother, all of which are things that make people extremely envious. The less you interact with these people, the lower the possibility of these secrets being exposed.

  Soon, Zhang Heng flew to the residence of the inner door disciples, and everyone he met here was an inner door disciple.

  Here, among the inner disciples of Feng Xing Gate, only a small number of people possess low-grade spiritual artifacts, and most of them are low-grade spiritual artifacts. Compared to Xianyun Sect, the treatment that Feng Xing Gate's disciples receive is naturally much worse. According to Zhang Heng's knowledge, more than half of the inner disciples in Xianyun Sect have spiritual artifacts in their hands.

  He walked into his own private room and entered the practice room where he usually practiced.

  All inner disciples of Feng Xing Men have their own separate rooms, which is a privilege that only inner disciples can enjoy.

  Sitting on the meditation mat, Zhang Heng planned to start cultivating the Deviant Art soon and use up the Iron Ridge Mine Mother in his hands as soon as possible. This thing was a hot potato, it's better to get rid of it as soon as possible.

  Just as Zhang Heng was about to use his divine sense to enter the silver-white jade cylinder in his mind, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the door.

  Zhang Heng's eyebrows furrowed involuntarily. Cultivators most disliked being disturbed when they were in seclusion. However, this was also his oversight; he had actually forgotten to hang the "Do Not Disturb" sign before entering seclusion.

  He walked out of the room and came to the courtyard, wondering who would come looking for him at this time. It seemed that Tang Feng's relationships with the people inside the inner gate were not very good either, after all, he had entered through the back door, and there was still some resentment between him and those disciples who had entered the inner gate based on their strength and talent.