Big Data Cultivation

Chapter 163: Strive until you move yourself (second update)

Feng Jun thought through this logic, but he still couldn’t figure out why the Spirit Stone looked so unattractive.

Since he couldn’t figure it out, he decided not to dwell on it for now. He turned his head to glance in the distance and stood up to head down the mountain.

As he walked, he waved at Tian Yangni, “Come over here for a moment.”

Tian Yangni had already retreated two and a half miles away and couldn’t hear what Feng Jun was saying. However, his eyesight was excellent, and he could immediately tell that the Divine Doctor was summoning him over.

With a move of his body, he rushed over like a whirlwind. Right now, he couldn’t afford to worry about being discreet or attracting less attention.

It was simple; the two explosions just now made him realize a fact: Even if the other party wasn’t an Immortal, anyone with such means was not someone the Tian Family could withstand.

The first time they encountered each other, he had seen those explosives—one smaller and throwable, and another much more powerful, which had even left Luo Wendao in a daze.

The explosions today were even more powerful than the Divine Doctor’s battle against Luo Wendao.

In short, it seemed that the power of these explosions was cumulative and could be stacked to such an extent that, eventually, they could even blow the entire Tian Clan to smithereens.

Therefore, Tian Yangni became even more resolute in his decision to ally with the other side. He didn’t believe that spies from other powers witnessing this would be puzzled—someone with such abilities was definitely worthy of esteemed treatment.

Feng Jun walked slowly. Seeing the other person dart over like an arrow, he nodded slightly as a greeting, then asked, “Do you have the Meridian Opening Pill with you? I need to borrow one.”

“I do!” Tian Yangni replied promptly and then took out a small bottle, “Is one enough? I brought two.”

The Tian Family’s Meridian Opening Pills were not abundant, certainly not when compared to the Yangshan Gu Family. However, the Tian Clan had sent a large number of Martial Cultivators to Mount Zhige this time and had considered what to do in case of a severe conflict, so they had prepared two Meridian Opening Pills just in case.

Tian Yangni, being one of the highest in cultivation among the Tian Family and an elder to boot, naturally carried the pills.

“No need,” Feng Jun shook his head decisively and said, “One is enough.”

After accepting the Meridian Opening Pill, he waved his hand to dismiss Tian Yangni. In his seemingly casual gaze, a peculiar light flashed for a moment.

Fortunately, it was evident that Tian Laoqi had no perception of the possible presence of Spiritual Energy nearby.

Feng Jun gripped the Meridian Opening Pill as he walked into the large pit. When he was out of sight of everyone around, he planned to exit the space.

He now possessed over five hundred energy points, which allowed him to enter and exit the space over a hundred times with ease; there was no need to be overly frugal.

Especially since he was keen on acquiring another Spirit Stone, he had caused two explosions here today, and this place must have been on people’s radar. If he couldn’t quickly retrieve that Spirit Stone, it might cause unnecessary trouble.

But it was hard to judge exactly where this Spirit Stone was hidden or how deep beneath the Earth’s surface it lay.

Feng Jun could ascertain that the Spirit Stone was no more than three hundred meters from the surface, otherwise, his mobile phone wouldn’t have detected it.

For such depth, he clearly needed to get more explosives and… a substantial amount at that.

He seriously doubted whether one ton of TNT would be sufficient. In fact, considering the poor performance of TNT in blasting rock, he felt that even ten tons might not be enough.

Regardless, he had to hurry back as soon as possible, and while healing, he needed to gather enough explosives.

However, just as he was about to exit the space, a thought struck him—why not try to dig a bit further down?

Less than three hundred meters didn’t necessarily mean it had to be one or two hundred meters deep. If it were only five or six meters, that would be quick to dig through, right?

In fact, he had another concern—he worried that he couldn’t obtain that much explosive back in the Earth Realm. Despite Xu Leigang being able to get his hands on artillery shells, getting tens of tons of TNT in Huaxia without strong enough connections could potentially cause significant trouble.

With the mindset of saving wherever possible, he put away the Meridian Opening Pill, picked up the Spiritual Hedgehog’s spike, and jumped into the pit he had just dug.

The pit was more than three meters deep, but he wasn’t worried about getting out; his priority was to dig quickly.

The spike of the Spiritual Hedgehog was quite handy for excavating rock layers. Feng Jun first used the spike to trace a half-meter deep circle on the rock layer, made several cuts in the middle, then released his Inner Qi to break the stones.

He then picked up the broken stones and tossed them out of the pit. Once the half-meter of stone was shattered, he repeated the step and continued tracing circles.

Of course, this was physically exhausting and consumed his Inner Qi. If he hadn’t just advanced to the High-Rank Martial Master level, he wouldn’t have dared to do this.

He worked feverishly for over half an hour, digging another three meters into the pit. Going all out meant he was both tired and hungry, so he had to stop, jump out of the pit, and call over Tian Yangni again.

This time, he requested food and drink, indicating that he would need to heal for a while and hoped the other party would bring more over.

Tian Yangni readily agreed, and then it took him less than ten minutes to have three horses quickly arrive, bringing a large amount of food and clean water, and even seven or eight Foundation Establishment Pills.

Speaking of Foundation Establishment Pills, they really were good stuff. After swallowing two, Feng Jun felt his Inner Qi rapidly recovering. Although it was only about one-fifth of his peak level, the effect was truly immediate.

He ate and drank a lot of food, rested for a while, and then re-entered the pit.

The Tian Family members could only watch from afar with great curiosity but dared not approach. Tian Yangni didn’t forget to instruct his kin to guard the surroundings, to prevent certain people from sneaking in and disturbing the Divine Doctor while he healed.

In Tian Laoqi’s opinion, although he didn’t know what the Divine Doctor was doing today, the fact that he was willing to borrow supplies and pills was a delightful sign—it meant that the two parties were growing closer.

Feng Jun dug and dug. Whenever he got tired or hungry, he would come up to eat something and rest. He dug tirelessly from noon till dusk and managed to dig another twenty or so meters deep.

Such speed was truly astonishing. The volume of stone he’d excavated had reached forty or fifty cubic meters. To average people of the Earth Realm, it was simply unimaginable.

Towards the end, there was hardly any place to throw the excavated stones. If carelessly discarded, they might roll back into the pit.

Looking up at the dimming sky, Feng Jun sighed and felt a sense of helplessness.

It seemed that man’s calculations were inferior to those of heaven’s, and it looked like he would need to go to the Earth Realm for explosives after all.

To work hard all day and come to this result was truly disappointing.

In the end, he made up his mind to dig one last time and then… head straight to Earth for explosives.

With the soreness in his body and healing his wounds, he could do all those on Earth anyway—the marble here doesn’t move, what’s there to fear?

However, fortune favors the persistent. Just as he was breaking through the rocks once more, his wrist suddenly began to warm up again.

This was simply terrific! Suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, he carefully felt it out and discovered that his digging was somewhat off-course, which meant he had to start digging on the side of the pit again.

Because he was digging from the side, he could throw the broken stones directly into the pit. This quickened his pace. After slantingly digging more than three meters and just as it was about to get completely dark, he finally unearthed the second Spirit Stone.

This Spirit Stone was rather ugly too, slightly smaller than the one he had harvested in the morning, and its color… seemed to be a bit darker—not that he could see it very clearly, as it was quite dark.

What puzzled him though was that this Spirit Stone contained energy that seemed stronger than the last one—based on his senses, at least by half.

Quite interesting, worth pondering over. The thought flashed through Feng Jun’s mind, but in the next moment, he discovered that the dissipation rate of spiritual energy from this Spirit Stone was also stronger than the last.

This is bad! Feng Jun took out his mobile phone, and without a second thought, he clicked into WeChat and first checked “People Nearby.”

There was no one close by, so he checked “Nearby Spirit Stones.”

The search results showed that apart from the Spirit Stone in front of him, there were no other Spirit Stones nearby.

This meant that once he dealt with this Spirit Stone, even if someone else came here and became suspicious of the pit he’d dug, they wouldn’t be able to find any more Spirit Stones—at least not within a radius of three hundred meters.

Realizing this, Feng Jun immediately felt relieved. Now, he had to quickly figure out this Spirit Stone and absorb it rapidly. There would be no proof left.

He had just been musing whether those bright and luxurious Spirit Stones could be inside these ugly rocks.

So he picked up a quill of the Spiritual Hedgehog, aimed at the outer side of the Spirit Stone, exerted his Inner Qi, and stabbed at an angle.

Spirit Stones were much harder than ordinary rocks, but with his Inner Qi fully summoned, he still managed to make a small incision about two inches deep.

And then… trouble arose. The energy inside the Spirit Stone, or the Spiritual Energy, started gushing out frenziedly through the notch.

The originally invisible energy seemed to have taken form, and one could even faintly hear a hissing sound.

It was like Feng Jun’s External Release of Internal Qi, but this was the Spirit Stone releasing Spiritual Energy instead.

Disaster! Feng Jun immediately realized that if he didn’t stop it, the sound could draw others’ attention.

In fact, even if it didn’t attract attention, he couldn’t just stand by and watch. The whole reason he’d been scouring the world for Spirit Stones was for the energy contained within them, right?

If all that energy were to “release” itself, he’d cry himself to death.

Therefore, Feng Jun didn’t even stop to think. He stretched out his left hand and used his palm to block the opening.

Following that, a muffled groan was heard. If someone had been outside the pit at that moment, they might have assumed that someone was struggling with constipation while doing their business, grunting and straining in the process…