This Medicinal Pill was nothing more than an ordinary Grain-Abstinence Pill.
If the Little Girl was frugal with this bottle of Medicinal Pills, she could eat for several months.
The old man was also someone who had seen the world; upon seeing the Medicinal Pill bottle, he was about to refuse.
But Qin Xuan shook his head.
“It's fine, they are just some Grain-Abstinence Medicinal Pills, with no other special uses.”
After speaking, Qin Xuan held the soul core and examined it again.
“Old man, you said those merchant teams exchange grain for your soul cores here, do you know what they do with the soul cores once they collect them?”
Qin Xuan was a bit curious as to who would want this item, specifically needing soul cores.
“It's the Heavenly Fiend Sect; these merchant teams are all dispatched by the Heavenly Fiend Sect!”
At this point, the old man's face immediately became incredibly grim.
“Heavenly Fiend Sect?”
Qin Xuan frowned.
He had truly never even heard of this Heavenly Fiend Sect.
It seemed he was definitely very far from the main continent.
“Hmph, these accursed scoundrels will surely die a terrible death in the future.”
The old man said fiercely, gritting his teeth, looking as if he wished to flay and dismember the Heavenly Fiend Sect.
Watching this scene, Qin Xuan was momentarily stunned; it seemed this old man had a vendetta against the Heavenly Fiend Sect.
Indeed, as Qin Xuan and the old man conversed, under Qin Xuan's intentional guidance, the old man finally recounted the full story to Qin Xuan.
“You're saying the Heavenly Fiend Sect sent people to capture your son and daughter-in-law, taking them to the mining area to dig for minerals?”
“Not just you, but all the adult men in Stone Village have been captured, and even those teenage children were taken away?”
Qin Xuan looked at the old man with utter astonishment.
He had thought there was something complicated behind this matter, but he never expected it to be like this.
“If my granddaughter wasn't still so young, this old man would have fought them to the death long ago.”
The old man said, clenching his fists tightly, while the Little Girl beside him hurriedly walked over, comforting the old man with tears in her eyes.
“So that's how it is, no wonder the old man despises the Heavenly Fiend Sect so much.”
Glancing at the soul core in his hand, Qin Xuan became increasingly interested in this Heavenly Fiend Sect.
What kind of Sect would need such a thing?
The Mental Energy within a single soul core is naturally not much, but if there are enough soul cores, this Mental Energy becomes quite formidable.
“Qin Xuan, it seems this Heavenly Fiend Sect has some secrets within it, but what's with this mining business?”
Han Ye was puzzled.
Once Qin Xuan posed this question, the old man immediately told Qin Xuan.
“You mentioned mining? Young Master, you must have seen along the way that our area here is practically barren, almost completely uninhabited.”
Qin Xuan nodded; indeed, that's how it seemed to him along the way.
This desolation was no longer simply uninhabited; it was practically a land of death.
“The reason this place is so desolate is precisely because there's a huge mining field beneath our feet, and the Sects in this vicinity all survive by relying on this mining field.”
“The mining field is beneath our feet?”
Qin Xuan was momentarily stunned, completely not expecting there to be a mining field beneath them.
Moreover, what did the mining field have to do with this place being barren?
“What's below isn't an ordinary mining field; it's a Spirit Stone mining field, and it's a super mining field that can produce Top-Grade Spirit Stones.”
“What!”
Qin Xuan exclaimed in a momentary daze, almost losing his composure.
If it were just an ordinary Spirit Stone mine, that would be one thing, but this place was actually a super mining field that could produce Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
One Top-Grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to a thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones!
Beneath them was a super mining field that produced Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
The entire continent conducted transactions using Spirit Stones, so Qin Xuan naturally knew best what it meant to guard such a super mining field.
Thinking of this, his heart pounded wildly.
However, even though the mining field was beneath their feet, Qin Xuan didn't think it would be easy to enter.
A mining field must have its entrance shaft.
Besides the entrance shaft, channels into the ore vein would also need to be dug in advance...
Calm down!
Qin Xuan immediately commanded himself to calm down.
It wouldn't be so easy to enter the mining field here, he feared.
Moreover, for him right now, it was more important to first figure out how to leave this place...
“Whoosh!”
Just as Qin Xuan was pondering, a sudden gust of wind came from outside.
Is it getting windy?
He was very sensitive to wind attributes; the wind attribute in the vicinity should increase significantly before a wind picks up.
But he clearly hadn't noticed any sudden increase in wind attributes just now.
“Grandpa, the sun is setting.”
The Little Girl said anxiously.
At this moment, the sun outside the house was slowly setting, and darkness began to envelop the land.
“Quick, quickly close the doors and windows!”
The old man said hurriedly, starting to close the doors and windows.
Before the sun set, they had to close the doors and windows tightly, otherwise it would be dangerous.
Watching the two fumbling about, Qin Xuan was a bit puzzled.
However, Qin Xuan would not casually interfere with their actions.
At the edge of the world, the great red sun was now just a sliver, seemingly about to disappear completely at any moment.
The night approached from afar like a giant iron curtain.
