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The Wutu Earth Spiritual Energy contained within the Earth Stone could be directly refined and used by Yang Junshan, and its effect of cultivation could be compared to consuming pills to cultivate. But pills had three poisons, and even the most skilled alchemist would find it difficult to expel the poison from the pill.

Normally speaking, every time one consumed a medicinal pill that corresponded to one's cultivation level, one would need at least three days to refine the pill's poison. In this way, one would normally need four days to consume a medicinal pill, and if one consumed another medicinal pill during these four days, causing the pill's poison to accumulate, it would not be a simple matter of one plus one. At the very least, it would take half a month or so to completely expel the pill's poison.

Four days was only the minimum. In fact, even when Yang Junshan had plenty of dan beads, he would have to spend at least five days to consume one dan bead.

For Yang Junshan, there was no such restriction in refining Wutu Earth Stones. As long as the Wutu Stone was sufficient, he could continue to refine it, until his cultivation level reached the level where the elemental energy was no longer sufficient to enhance his cultivation level.

After returning to his uncle's house, Yang Junshan went into closed-door cultivation, regardless of whether it was day or night, and had to refine one every day. When the seven Wutu Stone in his hand was completely refined, his bone marrow and spiritual cavities had finally reached the Great Perfection Stage.

Compared to the other villagers, Yang Junshan was eight to nine months late in reaching the peak of the third stage. Compared to a genius like Zhang Yueming, who had already entered the Heaven Shaking Sect for cultivation, Yang Junshan was even slower by more than a year.

Logically speaking, Yang Junshan should have already reached the peak of Mortal Realm Stage 3 by now. However, seeing everything that was happening in the Spirit Aperture, Yang Junshan himself wasn't sure if he had reached the peak of the Spirit Aperture or if he had already stepped into the Mortal Realm Stage 4.

Ever since Yang Junshan started to cultivate the Six Inner Stones Jade Annulus, perhaps it was because of the fact that there were spiritual cavities in the equipment, the inner organs were the first to sense it successfully.

Amongst Yang Junshan's three great spiritual cavities, the first one to reach the Great Perfection Stage was the gallbladder tool spirit cavities. While Yang Junshan was still working hard to absorb the pent-up earth spiritual energy and pour it into the bone marrow spirit cavities, the spiritual energy accumulated in the spirit cavities gradually became thicker and solidified. In the eyes of an ordinary cultivator, Yang Junshan had already stepped into the Immortal Foundation realm.

Normally during cultivation, only after all of the immortal spiritual cavities in the body had reached the Great Perfection Stage did the cultivator start to step into the fourth layer at the same time and simultaneously establish the Immortal Foundation. However, the three immortal cavities in Yang Junshan's body had already entered the fourth layer before the bone marrow cavities were fully formed.

Also, perhaps it was because Yang Junshan was the first one to step into the Immortal Foundation, he didn't encounter any unexpected bottlenecks when he was trying to break through to the fourth layer. Normally, when a cultivator tried to break through to the fourth layer, he would need to spend three to five months to accumulate and nurture it.

However, it was as if the process of Yang Junshan's advancement was a natural one. Starting from the [Bile Artifact Immortal Spirit Aperture], it was closely followed by the [Vertebrate Bone Immortal Spirit Aperture]. By the time the bone marrow was gradually solidifying, Yang Junshan had no choice but to temporarily slow down his cultivation progress.

This was because not only had he used up all the Wutu Earth Crystals he had, but he had also refined all the remaining pills, and the process of laying down the Immortal Foundation was originally a process of absorbing spiritual energy without restraint. In other words, once he broke through the bottleneck of the fourth level, the remaining energy would be pure accumulation, catalyzed by the formation of the Immortal Foundation, and the speed of cultivation would depend on the amount of spiritual energy the cultivator could absorb.

At this time, only a month had passed since the strike at Green Tree Village. In order to provide sufficient spiritual energy for the process of solidifying the Immortal Foundation and speed up the cultivation process, Yang Junshan had no choice but to enter Green Tree Village to dig the Earth Stones.

After the strike, Green Tree Village's deposit of the next mines and concentrate mining was reduced, and the miners returned to their jobs in the village satisfied. Other than the fact that Yang Junshan had often heard Han Xiusheng complaining that the work on the mines was getting more and more difficult, the rest of the situation seemed to be reversed, and many other miners from other villages also came to pay their respects.

At first, the clay mines of the Green Tree Village did not prohibit miners from entering. However, the last time was because Hu Diechang and his men had gone overboard and tried to change all the miners from the clay mines to outsiders. This caused a strong reaction from the villagers.

Now that Green Tree Village had been reorganized and the atmosphere in the mines cleared, the miners could earn more. Naturally, there were more miners who were willing to join.

However, this would also bring trouble to Yang Junshan in his excavation of Wutu Stone. Because these new miners were not familiar with the situation of the mines, there were often people who came to these mines when they were searching for a vein, causing Yang Junshan to have to be even more careful.

In fact, in his previous life, the Earth Stones were first discovered. It was because some of the miners were not familiar with the mines, but they found something unexpected when they randomly excavated them. After that news was sent over, the situation slowly became uncontrollable.

These days, besides secretly digging the Wutu Stone, Yang Junshan tried his best to cultivate. Because of the treatment on the mine, it was now impossible to bring the Wutu Stone out, so he had no choice but to bury the eleven Wutu Stone in the pile of slag at the bottom of the mine.

In fact, in the past few days, due to the continuous mining, Yang Junshan's training had to be interrupted. The only good news was that after the Chu brothers saw Yang Junshan leaving the mine, they left another set of concentrate ore for him.

"Young Master Yang, please forgive me, it's not easy to cultivate in this world, these people following Old Chu are all bitter and ha-ha brothers. Previously, they fought a martial arts cultivator like Hu Siping with their life on the line to win over me, and in order to filter out more good mines for these brothers, they passed through the method that you gave to us brothers without Young Master's consent, it's truly a sin."

Looking at Chu Chuang's guilty look, Yang Junshan smiled and said, "Brother Chu, you and I are still brothers, I am only the son of a villager, I can't bear the title of young master. Those methods of selecting ores are yours, you decide who you want to pass them to."

Chu Chuang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Yang Xiao, haha, Brother Yang is indeed magnanimous, we, Old Chu, owe you a favor. Hehe, in the next few days you no longer need to mine, you only need to guide us to mine a few more mines, and we will definitely leave you the best ones."

Yang Junshan had already dug out more than twenty Earth Stones. In his previous life, he had dug out more than fifty Earth Stones from two mines in Green Tree Village, and almost all the Earth Stones in this tunnel were already dug out. Yang Junshan had been digging in this mine for a whole day and night, but he still hadn't gotten a single Earth Stone.

"According to the memories of my past life, among these two mines, there were a total of three Wutu Essence Stones. One of them was dug out, while the other two were dug out." According to the memories of my past life, there were a total of three Wutu Essence Stones.

The Wutu Earth Essence Stone was a treasure that was more pure and vigorous than the soil essence that was condensed from Wutu Stone. If the Wutu Essence Stone had great benefits to mortal cultivators, then the Wutu Essence Stone was equally useful to martial cultivators.

However, this was not the most important thing. The true value of the Wutu Essence Stone was that it could assist cultivators in breaking through the shackles of the fifth level of the Mortal Realm, as well as help them in breaking through to the Martial Human Realm. Not only that, it could assist them in breaking through bottlenecks in the Elementary and Intermediate Level.

There were only about a few hundred people in a village who could start their journey of cultivation. Among these people, there were only two or three that could become Martial Disciples, but the proportion of people who were stuck at the fifth level of the Mortal Realm would usually reach a quarter or even a third of the number of people in the village.

From this, it could be seen how important a treasure was to those cultivators at the fifth level of the Mortal Realm. Breaking through this barrier not only meant an increase in strength, status, and wealth, but also meant a longer lifespan and a higher possibility of obtaining it. Furthermore, this treasure also had a positive effect on breaking through to the early stage of the Martial realm!

Although the Wutu Earth Essence Stone was formed from the essence of the earth element and was only useful to cultivators who cultivated in earth-attributed techniques to break through, Yu Prefecture was controlled by the Heaven Shaking Sect and had the most cultivators cultivating earth-attributed techniques.

Because of the appearance of the Wutu Earth Essence Stone, the competition for the Wutu Earth Essence Stone had increased rapidly. The Martial Disciples that had rushed over had joined the competition without hesitation, and those cultivators at the fifth level of the Mortal Realm were risking their lives fighting as well. More and more Martial Disciples came over, and the battle quickly became a massacre for the cultivators of the Mortal Realm.

However, after this huge battle, the several factions in Mengyu County quickly stepped in and took control of the entire mine. However, they didn't manage to excavate a single Wutu Essence Stone. Even normal Wutu Essence Stones had been dug up as well; from the beginning to the end, only three Wutu Essence Stones had been excavated from the two mines.

Yang Junshan had dug this tunnel deep enough, but not only was he unable to find the legendary Wutu Essence Stone, he had not even found a single ordinary Wutu Stone. This made Yang Junshan feel discouraged.

Could it be that he had heard the wrong news in his previous life, that there was no Wutu Earth Essence Stone in this tunnel?

Yang Junshan swung his hoe down, and with a 'pu' sound, the hoe sank into the ore. Yang Junshan was stunned for a second, and then subconsciously used his hand to pry. A huge piece of stone cracked open, and a three feet long natural stone cave appeared behind it.