Chapter 71

When the concentration of his soul reached exactly fifty times, Jiang Wei found that no matter how hard he tried to run the "Divine Casting Technique," he could not absorb any more energy. Although he had not yet reached the peak of the Spirit Gathering stage, his strength could not improve any further—“Could it be that I’ve hit a bottleneck?” Jiang Wei thought to himself.

Jiang Wei had heard before that some ghosts, despite their good cultivation, would inexplicably encounter some bottlenecks. If they got stuck at a bottleneck and couldn’t break through, their strength would not improve at all.

The thought of possibly encountering a "bottleneck," a high-level concept, scared Jiang Wei so much that he started calling out to the little golden figure.

"Little Gold! Little Gold!"

The little golden figure was originally in a deep sleep, but Jiang Wei rudely woke him up.

"What’s going on? What’s the matter? So noisy!" The little golden figure looked displeased.

Jiang Wei explained his confusion: "Why can’t my strength improve?"

The little golden figure scanned Jiang Wei’s soul: "Is that all? —That’s simple, your soul’s refinement level isn’t high enough to continue running the 'Divine Casting Technique' to increase the soul concentration!"

"Insufficient soul refinement?" Jiang Wei was puzzled.

"Practicing the 'Divine Casting Technique' requires a very high level of soul refinement!" The little golden figure explained, "Your soul was previously modified by me, so its refinement level was relatively high, allowing you to cultivate the 'Divine Casting Technique' without any obstacles; but now, your soul’s refinement level is no longer sufficient to support your continued cultivation!"

"Uh... What should I do then?" With the little golden figure around, Jiang Wei had developed a dependency, unwilling to think for himself and waiting for the little golden figure to provide answers.

"Isn’t that simple!?" The little golden figure sneered, "Isn’t there a method to refine the soul in the 'Divine Casting Technique'? Follow it to refine your soul, and then you can continue to cultivate and improve!"

"Ah... That makes sense!" Jiang Wei suddenly realized. At the same time, he couldn’t help but secretly despise himself for asking such a simple question to the little golden figure! —Indeed, being with a "scholar" can lower one’s intelligence!

"Then just practice it. I’m going back to sleep if there’s nothing else!" The little golden figure, who was just enjoying a good sleep, naturally wanted to have a good nap.

The little golden figure loved to sleep; if not disturbed, he could sleep for several years at a time! After all, the sleep state is the most beneficial for energy accumulation.

"Alright..."

After sending off this glutton and sleepaholic, Jiang Wei began to ponder again.

Refining the soul was no easy task; Jiang Wei had never done it before and didn’t know how long it would take to achieve results.

"Let’s wait until I get back to the city to refine my soul!" Jiang Wei thought to himself, "After all, in this wilderness, it’s impossible to fully focus on cultivation!"

Since that was the case, Jiang Wei decided to put aside the matter of improving his strength and instead turned his attention to the underground. He had been eyeing the soul stone mine beneath the Yunman Vine for a long time!

"I need to find a secluded spot to dig!" Thinking this, Jiang Wei delved deep into the Yunman Vine, finding a place with extremely dense vines. He parted the vines and started digging.

It must be said that Jiang Wei was very patient. If it were another ghost, knowing they were guarding a soul stone mine, they would probably have dug down in a hurry to see what was there; it’s like finding a wallet on the street and wanting to see how much money is inside. But Jiang Wei not only endured until now before digging, but also paid great attention to concealment, doing everything possible to avoid being discovered by other ghosts.

The ghost world was perilous, and those like Jiang Wei, who were patient and cautious, were best suited to survive in such a dangerous environment.

Previously, Jiang Wei had never mined, even in the human world; but as the saying goes, "Even if you haven’t eaten pork, you’ve seen pigs run." Jiang Wei’s current soul strength was already at 150 times, higher than that of a typical peak Spirit Gathering stage ghost cultivator; with such high soul strength, digging a hole was as easy as pie.

In an instant, Jiang Wei had dug several meters deep with his bare hands.

"I wonder how deep the soul stone mine is underground!" But Jiang Wei wasn’t stupid; he dug along the roots of the Yunman Vine—since the Yunman Vine existed because of the soul stone mine, its roots should logically originate from the mine.

After digging for about fifteen minutes, Jiang Wei had already descended hundreds of meters underground; fortunately, ghosts didn’t need to breathe, or Jiang Wei would have suffocated to death.

"The roots of the Yunman Vine are really long, and they haven’t even reached the end!" Moonlight couldn’t reach underground, but fortunately, Jiang Wei was already at the Insight stage, so he didn’t need his eyes to see.

After digging another few hundred meters, Jiang Wei finally dug up a hard stone emitting a faint glow. The stone was only the size of a fist, but Jiang Wei could clearly feel the enormous energy contained within; even a peak Spirit Gathering stage ghost cultivator probably didn’t have as much energy as this stone!

"Is this a soul stone?" Jiang Wei examined it.

Jiang Wei had only recently arrived in the ghost world and had never seen a soul stone before; but he had heard the little golden figure’s description of soul stones, and this one was very easy to distinguish from other stones, so Jiang Wei recognized it at first glance.

"This soul stone is enough to directly elevate a low-level ghost to the peak of the Spirit Gathering stage!" Jiang Wei marveled, "Even a high-level Soul Condensation stage ghost would likely see a significant increase in strength with this soul stone!"

Although soul stones were not currency, they were hard currency in the ghost world, because the more powerful a ghost was, the more they needed soul stones for cultivation. Even many high-level ghosts and powerful ghosts preferred soul stones over ghost coins; because once they had soul stones, it was equivalent to a boost in strength. With strength, obtaining more ghost coins was no longer a difficult task! For Jiang Wei, whenever he ran out of money, he could just rob a ghost and immediately have money!

"I wonder how many such soul stones are here!" Jiang Wei thought.

Since it was a soul stone mine, there couldn’t be just one measly soul stone; but how many soul stones there were, Jiang Wei alone probably couldn’t find them all.

While pondering, Jiang Wei dug up another soul stone.

However, it was more accurate to say he had collided with it; because the soul stone he encountered this time was even taller than he was!

The energy flowing inside this giant soul stone was so overwhelming that Jiang Wei was sure that even a peak Soul Condensation stage ghost cultivator didn’t have as much energy as this!

"Such a large soul stone, how much would it be worth!" Jiang Wei marveled.

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