Chapter 963 Obtaining the Immortal Crystal
Author: Zoumaxing Changan
Chapter 963 Obtaining the Immortal Crystal
Mr. Gong witnessed the whole process and commented unceremoniously.
"If you don't control the strength correctly, it may be related to the tool you are using is a quarrying chisel. You are using too much force. Cutting down trees requires skill rather than brute force. You need to practice this well.
But your center of gravity is very stable and your balance is well controlled, so you shouldn't fall."
Xu Chunniang glanced at the cedar branch in her hand, with a smile on her face, "Thank you, Mr. Gong, for the tip."
"Hey, the sooner you master the technique of cutting down cedar trees, the sooner you can pay back the fairy crystal you owe me. If I help you, I am actually helping myself."
Mr. Gong shook his head, ignored Xu Chunniang, and went to find a thick cedar tree and started cutting it down.
Xu Chunniang withdrew her gaze, put away the cedar branch in her hand, recalled the force she used with the quarrying chisel before, pulled another branch, restrained her strength and continued to try.
Both of them were busy with their work, and for a while, the only sound heard on the entire lonely cliff was the sound of collision when the cedars were being cut down.
"Crack", there was another crisp sound, and Mr. Gong successfully chopped down the second cedar.
After swinging the ax for a long time, he broke out in a thin sweat and his face was rosy.
A gust of mountain wind blows, blowing the silver threads in Mr. Gong's head, which contrasts with the ice and snow on the lonely cliff. He really looks like a fairy with a fairy spirit.
He looked back at Xu Chunniang and saw that one-third of the branches on the cedar tree she had cut down had been cut off, so he ignored it and continued to look for the next target.
As a novice with no skills, Xu Chunniang cut down the cedar trees very slowly.
She always kept in mind what Mr. Gong said, maintaining body balance was the most important thing.
Although her speed was a bit slow, every stroke she made while quarrying and chiseling was very steady.
If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before this cedar tree is completely cut down.
Xu Chunniang and Mr. Gong stayed on the cliff for a whole day. On the second day, all the cedar trees that had grown on the cliff for more than a hundred years were cut down.
There are only a few left, some less than a hundred years old, still growing on lonely cliffs.
Mr. Gong glanced at Xu Chunniang in surprise, "Not bad, the first time I cut down the cedar trees, I was able to cut down three of them completely.
At this rate, you will be able to pay off all the immortal crystals you owe me in less than a year."
"Thank you Mr. Gong for your good teaching."
Xu Chunniang smiled modestly and took out all the harvested cedar trees. "I would like Mr. Gong to estimate the value of these three cedar trees."
Mr. Gong glanced at it and said without thinking, "These three cedar trees are all over a hundred years old. I'll take them all and count them as your thirty fairy crystals."
Do you want the Immortal Crystal, or are you prepared to pay off your debt?"
Xu Chunniang thought for a while, "I'd better get the Immortal Crystal first."
She has been in the fairy world for some time, and until now, she has never seen what the fairy crystal looks like.
After hearing what she said, Mr. Gong simply took out thirty pieces of low-grade fairy crystals and put them into a small cloth bag and handed them to Xu Chunniang.
"Immortal crystals are divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, top-grade and top-grade. This kind of fairy crystal is the lowest grade among fairy crystals.
But don’t think that low-grade immortal crystals are not good things. In Zong Dongtian and Chang Jingtian, this is hard currency, and only those wealthy immortals in the Third Heaven don’t take low-grade immortal crystals seriously.”
Xu Chunniang smiled, took the small cloth bag, felt the rich fairy energy coming from the bag, and gained a deeper understanding of the importance of fairy crystals.
It is estimated that this fairy crystal is as important to the immortals as the spirit stones in the spiritual world. It can be used as currency and for cultivation.
"Mr. Gong is joking. I worked hard all day yesterday and finally got such a little fairy crystal. How can I look down on its grade?"
"Hehe, just know it in your heart. Don't underestimate these thirty immortal crystals. Those who don't have the ability to climb so high have no way to earn some immortal crystals."
Mr. Gong walked back along the original road while pointing out something.
"Since your stone house has been built, you must have also seen those immortals who can only make a living by mining bluestone at the stone mine, right?"
Thinking of those immortals carrying heavy backpacks and wearing shabby fur clothes, Xu Chunniang nodded with a complicated mood.
"Qinggang stone is not easy to sell, but there are many immortals who mine it. They look... very desolate."
"In this Zhangwei Mountain, and even in the entire Zongdongtian, they are not the only ones who are in trouble?"
Mr. Gong's tone was disapproving, as if it was commonplace.
"I originally thought that if I became an immortal, I would live as long as heaven and earth, and I would no longer have to worry about all the disputes between heaven and earth, but the nine heavens are essentially no different from the lower world.
When you reach the immortal world, you still have to be ranked according to your seniority and your level of cultivation. How difficult is it for the immortals who live in the lower heaven to reach the upper heaven?"
Xu Chunniang was silent for a moment, "Is it difficult? Maybe, I just focus on the road under my feet, and keep walking with indomitable faith.
No matter how long the future is, or how far I have traveled, the path under my feet is the path I pursue."
Mr. Gong glanced at her in surprise. After chewing these words carefully, there was a hint of seriousness in his eyes.
"You are a little different from other ascended people I have seen."
Many ascended people, after seeing the vastness of the immortal world, found that they could only stay in Zongdongtian, living a poor and ordinary life, accumulating immortal crystals little by little.
When they were in the lower realm, all of them had been a venerable person. After the ascension, the gap was too big, and they would inevitably feel unwilling and angry.
There are also many ascended people who have stayed in the immortal world for some years. Not only have they made no progress in their cultivation, they have also failed to save some immortal crystals, and their lives are very unsatisfactory.
At some point, they may even doubt their previous choices. Perhaps it would have been a better outcome not to ascend to the fairy world but to stay in the spiritual world and become a venerable person.
"I once heard a saying that nine out of ten things in the world are not as expected. From this we can see that many things are often counterproductive."
Xu Chunniang smiled, her tone showing indifference.
"The monks who ascended to the immortal world have a long lifespan.
Because the lifespan of immortals is too long, there are more and more immortals in Zongdong Heaven, and resources are becoming increasingly tight. This is the way of cause and effect, so what is there to complain about?"
"good."
Mr. Gong nodded happily, with recognition in his eyes.
"Those people just haven't figured this out, so they fall into self-doubt and can't make any progress in their cultivation.
But they never thought that the Immortal Kings and Golden Immortals of the fourth and fifth heavens were not born to be superior, and they were just ordinary human immortals in the beginning."
Xu Chunniang believes deeply that everything in the world has cause and effect.
Now that she has come to the fairy world, she will accept everything here and work hard to make herself stronger.
Chapter completed!