"Hehe! Alright, alright! I'll arrange it for Junior Brother right away!" The ugly man was overjoyed when he saw that Han Li had given him a mid-grade spirit stone.
It's worth noting that although the exchange rate of one mid-grade spirit stone for one hundred low-grade spirit stones is the recognized rate in the cultivation world, in reality, very few people are willing to exchange mid-grade spirit stones for low-grade ones.
Because everyone knows that mid-grade spirit stones can absorb spiritual energy much faster than low-grade ones under the same conditions. Just based on this point, everyone wants to keep mid-grade spirit stones and naturally doesn't value low-grade ones much.
Of course, the same applies to high-grade spirit stones when exchanged for mid-grade ones.
After receiving the fire attribute spirit stone, the ugly man became even more attentive to Han Li. He immediately led Han Li to a huge colorful stone door and took out a purple arrow-shaped object from his bosom, aiming it at the stone door and flashing it.
A red light flashed on the purple arrow, shooting out a blush of light that accurately hit the door, causing the colorful lights to rotate rapidly. After a few loud noises, the stone door slowly rose, revealing a black passage behind it. The passage was about ten feet high and square in shape.
"Junior Brother, after passing through this stone passage, you will reach the room with the earth fire. Let's go now!" The ugly man squeezed out a few smiles and said to Han Li, trying to please him.
"Mm." Han Li nodded without expressing any opinion and took the lead into the passage.
"Although this dockstone is not rare, it is not a common material in the secular world. Being able to find so much of it and use it to build passages and houses is the result of the efforts of several predecessors. However, it is mainly due to the unique property of the dockstone to withstand high temperatures and the strange nature of not being afraid of being melted by the earth fire. Since the opening of the land of earth fire, there has never been a major accident!" The ugly man led the way while explaining.
Han Li listened with great interest and couldn't help but reach out to touch the black stone wall on the side, feeling its smooth and cold texture.
"Where is this dockstone from? It's quite extraordinary to resist the earth fire, which is even more powerful than real fire." Han Li praised and casually asked.
"Well, although it's not too rare, it's not produced in our country of Yue. Our ancestors brought it from a foreign country in the far west, which was quite troublesome!" The ugly man explained.
With that, Han Li followed behind the ugly man and passed through two more equally tall stone doors, finally emerging from the dockstone passage into a huge circular hall.
The hall was also built of dockstone, with a diameter of about forty to fifty feet and a height of more than ten feet, which was shockingly large! Around the hall, thirty-six evenly distributed white stone doors of the same size were arranged, totaling more than thirty.
At this time, there was not a single figure in the hall, only the ugly man and Han Li who had just arrived.
After Han Li looked around curiously, he heard the ugly man say with a smile:
"This hall is directly below the gathering place of the most vigorous earth fire, so our sect has opened thirty-six earth fire rooms here for refining tools and pills. The best alchemy rooms are number eighteen and nineteen.
But number eighteen has already been occupied by a senior brother, so junior brother can use room number nineteen! Although it's slightly inferior to room number eighteen, the firepower and stability are excellent." The ugly man led Han Li to a door painted with the words "Nineteen" in gold paint, grinning.
