The system is unreliable, the host can only save herself

As far as Gu Lili knew, the cultivation of demon beasts mainly depended on their own inherited bloodline. Some of the lucky ones could devour natural treasures.

The monsters will devour each other, but they cannot directly absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stones to practice.

"Alas!" The old turtle sighed, a little weirdly.

"Master, I know you are from a big sect when I see you. You don't understand the plight of us casual cultivators..."

Gu Lili was speechless, "Speak properly!"

The old turtle had no choice but to reorganize his language.

"What the old turtle meant is that we also like the spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual stone. It is more conducive to our cultivation in a place with abundant spiritual energy. Also,"

The old turtle secretly glanced at Gu Lili, and made up his mind.

"I used to transform into a human form and secretly went to Wanfa City several times, exchanging the spiritual stones I dug for some cultivation supplies.

I was very careful, but I didn't expect that later, for some reason, I was still tricked by the monks in the city..."

Gu Lili thought for a moment and asked, "Did you just take the spiritual stones you dug and exchange them for things?"

"Yes! Isn't it?"

Gu Lili rolled her eyes and said, "You idiot, if you use the raw spiritual stones to buy things, it would be a miracle if you don't get discovered!"

The shapes, specifications, and sizes of the spirit stones dug out from the spirit stone mines are not uniform. If they are to be used as currency spirit stones in circulation, they need to be cut and broken down.

Generally, when a cultivator's cultivation reaches the middle stage of foundation building or above, he can turn his spiritual power into blades. Most of them can cut spiritual stones by themselves, which only requires a little spiritual power at most.

When the old turtle heard what Gu Lili said, he suddenly realized.

"No wonder when I used my spirit stones to exchange for supplies, they were so happy and enthusiastic.

And the way he looked at me was so strange, I thought my disguise had been exposed!"

Gu Lili: I really don’t know how this old turtle, who is so stupid, can survive until now?

As if he had seen through Gu Lili's inner thoughts, the old turtle laughed awkwardly.

"We, a family of three, originally lived in the North Sea, but our nest was later occupied by a vicious dragon.

We had no choice but to move to the outskirts of the city. We encountered many attacks from high-level monsters and human cultivators along the way. In the end, I was the only one left in the family.

I was hiding all the way and accidentally discovered this place with abundant spiritual energy. This place is close to Wanfa City, so high-level monsters won't come here. Also, because it's close to the open sea, low-level cultivators dare not come here, and high-level cultivators are too reluctant to come.

It is thanks to the abundant spiritual energy in the underground cave that I have achieved my current level of cultivation."

After hearing what the old turtle said, Gu Lili could only say that the old turtle was still somewhat lucky.

Usually, when the spiritual stone veins have not yet fully formed, the spiritual energy on the surface of the place where the veins are located will be very rich.

However, once the spirit stone vein is fully formed, the spiritual energy on its surface will shrink and will not be so rich.

If you are not a monk who is well versed in the science of mineral veins, it would be difficult to tell whether there are mineral veins underground just by looking at the surface.

Furthermore, the spiritual stone veins are usually buried hundreds or even thousands of feet underground.

If Gu Lili hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that there were such shallow mineral veins on this island.

What Gu Lili didn't know was that this island was once a mountain several hundred feet high.

During the formation of the mineral vein, it exuded a strong aura, attracting the nearby sea monsters.

In order to occupy this place for cultivation, the sea monsters fought countless battles. The dust and rocks on the hill were constantly shattered and fell into the sea.

Over time, the island became shorter and shorter during the fighting.

Later, as spirit stone veins were formed and the spiritual energy on the surface converged, the concentration of spiritual energy on the surface of the island became almost the same as the surrounding area, and this place no longer became a fighting place for sirens.

After the old turtle occupied this place, with its super strong defense and the deterrent power of the breath of high-level monsters, those low-level sea monsters dared not set foot here again.

Gu Lili called Zhao Xuanyi over, "This is Lingshi, the universal currency in the cultivation world.

The spirit stone is rich in spiritual energy, and cultivators can also absorb the spiritual energy from it to practice.

Dig some for yourself and put it away for future use."

After Gu Lili finished speaking, she handed him a storage bag and asked him to put the spirit stones he had dug up into it.

Zhao Xuanyi knew that this was Gu Lili taking care of him, and he didn't act pretentiously. He was penniless now, and he would repay her when he had the chance in the future.

The old turtle, who was originally trying to be lazy, saw that Gu Lili actually called outsiders to dig spirit stones. Suddenly, his waist and legs were no longer sore, and he became full of energy again.

Gu Lili manipulated the Li Luo Divine Sword to dig out spiritual stones. This time, she also controlled her spiritual power while digging, and divided the spiritual stones directly.

Zhao Xuanyi and the old turtle were picking up the spirit stones below. One had just started to draw Qi into his body and had not yet started to learn the spells, and the other was a monster that did not know any spells at all, so he could only pick up the spirit stones in the most clumsy way.

Gu Lili couldn't stand it anymore, so she taught the two of them a few small magic tricks, and treated it all as a magic teaching.

When their spiritual power was exhausted, Gu Lili took out the spiritual pills and gave each of them one to continue working. Zhao Xuanyi hadn't practiced fasting yet, so she gave him another fasting pill.

The three of them worked for another three hours before they finally cleaned up this small spirit stone mine.

Gu Lili and the old turtle were fine, after all, they had high cultivation and their spiritual power recovered quickly.

Zhao Xuanyi was almost exhausted, but the one who barked the loudest was the old turtle. Zhao Xuanyi did not say a word and worked to the end.

After the three of them were out of the crypt, Gu Lili swung her sword and chopped down the entrance to the crypt, sealing it up.

Perhaps many years later, a new small spirit stone vein will be born here again, which will be an opportunity for those who come later.

After returning to the camp, the three of them went back to their own rooms to rest. There was no need to cook dinner today, so everyone just went to rest.