Big Data Cultivation

Master Yuanming cleared the pit and ignored Sun Rongxun, directly extending his Divine Sense.

The next moment, he frowned slightly, "Hmm?"

After observing this pit, he dug two more filled holes, finally nodding slightly, understanding the matter.

In his view, Feng Jun indeed mastered the trick of excavating the Destiny Stone. Whether it's over a hundred or several hundred meters deep, the holes were dug straight down without the slightest hesitation, even when encountering particularly hard rock layers.

At the bottom of the pit, although the Spiritual Energy had disappeared, there was still a hint of the Great Dao's evolution lingering — meaning the Destiny Stone indeed existed, and the excavation wasn't blind.

The only thing that puzzled him was that extremely subtle Fire Attribute residue remained in those pits, as if something like a Blazing Flame Talisman had been used to blast them, causing the pit walls to become somewhat loose — would someone at the Dust Cleansing Stage need Talismans?

In contrast to Feng Jun's pits, the pits dug by the people from the Hunting Alliance twisted and branched — encountering hard rock layers, they circumvented them.

It's obvious at a glance, one has a clear purpose, the other is gambling on luck.

After analyzing three pits, Master Yuanming examined other refilled pits and returned to his residence. After a day of deduction, he got some clues.

Next, he needed to verify some of his hypotheses. The following day, he roamed around Zhige Mountain, holding a Compass.

As he walked, he stopped in surprise, "Hmm, the Earth Vein here… has been guided by someone?"

Upon closer inspection, he frowned and shook his head, "Tsk tsk, isn't this nonsense? You understand nothing. If you were at the Nascent Soul stage, such actions would work, but at the Dust Cleansing Stage… I wouldn't dare do this either!"

He could tell that Feng Jun was indeed pondering the Earth Vein Technique and even found a place to conduct experiments.

He couldn't deny that Feng Jun had some understanding of Earth Veins, so there wasn't a major issue with the general direction.

However, Feng Jun's cultivation level — while the direction's correctness doesn't guarantee success, on the contrary, lacking cultivation level requires technique compensation. Without corresponding secret techniques, a correct direction is futile.

Ancient powers could guide Earth Veins with their own strength, even create Earth Veins, but for those at the Dust Cleansing or Golden Core stage in this plane, such belief is gravely mistaken — your theory isn't wrong, but you lack the requisite strength.

With Master Yuanming's eyesight, he could see at once that Feng Jun improved the local Earth Veins' grade, though limitedly, by brute force, lacking both guiding formations and efficient use of the Earth Vein's inherent power.

Under such circumstances, how much can you enhance the Earth Vein?

Master Yuanming chuckled and shook his head, lamenting the lack of a clear inheritance. Although the ideas were sound, such accomplishments can't be reached merely by effort.

However, for him, this was good news, since Feng Jun improved the Earth Vein moderately rather than using strange methods — which might affect the underground Destiny Stones.

He surveyed the surroundings, probing while pointing at the Compass.

That night, he found Feng Jun and produced a map of Zhige Mountain, pointing at it, "I want to investigate twelve to thirty-six points, respectively here, here, and here…"

Feng Jun directly took out an iPad, snapped a photo, started analysis, and activated the editing function, "I cannot agree with you on this point…"

He drew a red circle on it while speaking, "May I ask why you chose this point?"

"I apologize, but it's really inconvenient," thought Yuanming, feeling it's finally time for his rejection, "I would like to ask you instead, why don't you agree with me on this point?"

"Because this point involves Zhige Mountain's Earth Veins," Feng Jun replied crisply, "I cannot allow changes."

"I certainly know it involves the Earth Veins," Master Yuanming shook his head, amusement on his face, "If it's solely about Earth Vein Technique, even my disciples could lecture you. I assure you, nothing will be damaged."

"I'm really sorry," Feng Jun shook his head straightforwardly, "I know, Master, you have your reasons, though it's inconvenient to discuss with me… but fundamentally, this is my place. I can't enhance the Earth Vein, nor watch it being destroyed."

"Why are you so stubborn?" Master Yuanming shook his head, amused and annoyed, "My Taiqing secret techniques truly can't be disclosed, you don't need to find such excuses."

"I'm not making excuses," Feng Jun replied solemnly, "It's originally my thing. Without telling me why it won't destroy, just saying it can't be destroyed — how convincing is that? I believe with Taiqing's secret teachings, coupled with your ability, the goal can be achieved without altering Earth Veins, right?"

Master Yuanming was speechless momentarily. He could assure touching several Earth Vein points without causing any impact — even if there was some impact, he could help to enhance the Earth Vein, which certainly wouldn't be worse than the current situation.

But deducing the formation of Destiny Stones without touching the Earth Veins makes it exceedingly difficult; while not impossible for Master Yuanming, it may not be exceptionally effective, and importantly… it would require a lot more time and effort.

However, it wasn't possible for him to explain this to Feng Jun, "How about this, if there is any damage, I'll help you enhance the earth vein by fifty percent?"

In such a place, doubling the earth vein isn't difficult. The difficulty lies in the long time it takes to enhance it.

Master Yuanming didn't have that much patience, but in his view, enhancing it by fifty percent was quite good already. The concentration of spiritual energy wouldn't be much less than in the Cultivation World, and the loss in the Spirit Gathering Array would be greatly reduced, which would be a long-term benefit.

Feng Jun, however, was noncommittal, "Let's talk about this later. Let's discuss this point again…"

As he spoke, his hand quickly swiped across the iPad's screen, then his fingertips spread apart, directly enlarging the screen.

"Huh?" Master Yuanming was surprised when he saw this and couldn't help but let out a cry, "This ordinary object is quite interesting. Feng Xiaoyou, do you have another one?"

In the Cultivation World, there were many means to capture images, which could be cultivation techniques, talismans or magical devices, and even specially made imaging stones. As for the means to magnify parts, there were also quite a few.

But for an ordinary object to achieve this was already quite remarkable, not to mention it was also very convenient to operate.

"I can give you one, but it needs to be charged," Feng Jun was quite generous with Earth Realm's goods. Of course, he didn't have too many of them. No matter what the item is, giving out too much of it might lead to overuse or reliance.

"I know this," Master Yuanming nodded, "You have many ordinary objects here that use electricity… Electricity is also a good thing. I've heard that your sect is going to install a communication system, but I actually feel that walkie-talkies…"

"Master, take a look at this point," Feng Jun interrupted him voluntarily, pointing to a spot and drawing a red circle, "This place can't be moved either… You're going to drill diagonally into the mountain's belly, if I'm not mistaken?"

Master Yuanming gave him a strange look, pondered for a moment, and asked, "There's a Destiny Stone below, right?"

The reason he chose this point must have been for a reason. Some needed to be verified along the earth vein, and others he had to see if there was a Destiny Stone below. After excavating many points, he could basically figure out the mechanisms producing Destiny Stones.

——As for why it's only "basically," that's because… even Golden Cores aren't omnipotent!

This showed that Master Yuanming's level wasn't just bluster. Relying on deduction and his understanding of the Earth Vein Technique, he could predict that certain places might shell out a Destiny Stone.

Of course, the Destiny Stones he could predict were only a few, far less than the ones Feng Jun, who had them in hand, but that was still quite impressive, wasn't it? If Si Xiaoguang and the others had Master Yuanming's abilities, they could've dug out ten Destiny Stones.

However, at this moment, Master Yuanming was inwardly praising Feng Jun: This guy's deduction ability is really abnormal!

An expert can tell with one glance whether someone is skilled or not; indeed, he had pointed out his excavation direction, and that was definitely not a guess.

In fact, Feng Jun was quite impressed with Master Yuanming as well. After all, this person calculated it with true skill, so he gave a thumbs up, "That's right, Master, your deduction is indeed quite proficient."

Master Yuanming's face turned black upon hearing this, "What do you mean by this? You can deduce it, so I shouldn't have this ability?"

However, there was no point in arguing over such matters. Those with real skills indeed deserve respect.

So he could only laugh dryly, "I don't know how deep that Destiny Stone is?"

Feng Jun tilted his head to glance at him, wanting to ask——how deep did you deduce it to be?

But in the end, he thought it's better to hold a hint of reverence for a Golden Core Master, "Between eighty to a hundred zhang."

In truth, he had a deep impression of this piece of Destiny Stone, knowing that drilling diagonally downwards, it was just over two hundred and seventy meters, less than two hundred and seventy-five meters. Among the remaining Destiny Stones, it was relatively shallow from the surface.

However, extracting from this location could make quite a noise——in fact, the two pieces of Destiny Stones Si Xiaoguang excavated also resembled this situation. Considering the impact, Feng Jun didn't rush to extract these few pieces, not expecting them to be deduced out instead.

Since it was like this, he didn't want to hide it, but when it came to the exact depth, he reported a wider range, not because he was concerned about reporting inaccurately and losing face, but he didn't want the other party to see through his actual capabilities.

"Eighty to a hundred zhang?" Master Yuanming raised his eyebrows; this depth was shallower than his calculations——he thought it should be between one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifty zhang.

This was actually influenced by Feng Jun; the pits that Feng Jun dug had depths of less than a hundred meters to more than five hundred meters, and he subconsciously felt that Feng Jun had already excavated the shallow Destiny Stones and was drilling deeper.

With such a psychological suggestion, when deducing, he would definitely calculate more.

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