Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather Chapter 1909 - 1141: Emergency Measures

"Half a month!" Ma Qiuyan replied.

Half a month?

Ten days!

No time!

Yang Zhenshan stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and said, "Without connecting to the Spirit Vein and Earth Veins, how many Spirit Stones would be consumed if the array needs to operate at full power?"

Ma Qiuyan was startled, "Using Spirit Stones to drive the array?"

"That’s right!"

"It depends on the duration. If you only need to maintain it for two hours, approximately a million low-grade Spirit Stones should be enough!"

Two hours is a million Spirit Stones, one day is twelve million Spirit Stones, and five days is sixty million Spirit Stones.

The corner of Yang Zhenshan’s mouth twitched slightly; damn, this consumption is quite large!

Although over the years, the Spirit Source Land has accumulated quite a few Spirit Stones, it amounts to only five hundred million low-grade Spirit Stones.

Five hundred million Spirit Stones seem a lot, but given that the Spirit Source Land now has nine Golden Core Cultivators, on average, each person has less than sixty million low-grade Spirit Stones.

Low-grade Spirit Stones are useless to Golden Core Cultivators, and if converted to top-grade Spirit Stones, sixty million low-grade Spirit Stones are approximately equivalent to fifty top-grade Spirit Stones.

Is fifty top-grade Spirit Stones per person considered a lot?

Moreover, the Spirit Source Land also has so many Foundation Establishment Cultivators and demon beasts, and so many Martial Artists.

On average, each person only has a few hundred.

Of course, this is just the Spirit Source Land’s reserve of Spirit Stones, not to say that everyone has no Spirit Stones.

But it’s undeniable that the reserve Spirit Stones in the Spirit Source Land are not considered much.

To maintain five days will consume sixty million Spirit Stones; this doesn’t mean the battle will last five days, and after the array connects to the Earth Veins and Spirit Vein, it won’t need to consume Spirit Stones anymore.

After connecting to the Earth Veins and Spirit Vein, the array still needs to consume Spirit Stones, but the consumption will significantly decrease, likely to about twenty percent.

Even if reduced to twenty percent, that’s two million four hundred thousand Spirit Stones a day, two hundred and forty million in a hundred days, and four hundred eighty million in two hundred days.

This means the Spirit Source Land’s Spirit Stone reserves can support the front base’s array operating at full power for at most seven months.

Yang Zhenshan still hoped for the front base to last a year, evidently a bit wishful thinking.

He had some Spirit Stones himself, but they were top-grade Spirit Stones, using them for array consumption would be a waste.

Although all are Spirit Stones and there’s a fixed exchange ratio between different grades of Spirit Stones, higher-grade Spirit Stones are much rarer.

Especially top-grade Spirit Stones, equivalent to Third-stage Spiritual Objects.

If simply converting Spiritual Energy, the Spiritual Energy contained in one top-grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to a million low-grade Spirit Stones, but in terms of value, a million low-grade Spirit Stones can’t buy a top-grade Spirit Stone. At least one million two hundred thousand are needed, or luck to buy it.

Yang Zhenshan couldn’t bear to use top-grade Spirit Stones for array consumption.

"We need more Spirit Stones!" Yang Zhenshan said.

Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun exchanged glances. They had no way to obtain a large amount of Spirit Stones.

Lin Qihe pondered and said, "Actually, we can use other Spiritual Objects to substitute Spirit Stones!"

"Other Spiritual Objects?" Yang Zhenshan looked at him.

All Spiritual Objects contain Spiritual Energy; Spirit Stones are also a kind of Spiritual Object. Because they contain pure Spiritual Energy and are abundant, they’re used as currency.

Other Spiritual Objects can naturally substitute for Spirit Stones, but using them is less cost-effective.

The reason is simple; given the same order, Spirit Stones are the most cost-effective Spiritual Object by Spiritual Energy content.

"Hmm, other attribute Spiritual Objects may not be suitable, but the Yellow Earth Thick Spirit Array is an Earth Attribute array, using Earth Attribute Spiritual Objects to replace Spirit Stones should be more appropriate!"

"Moreover, we have a Yellow Earth mine in the Spirit Source Land, producing Yellow Earth Stones of the lowest grade!"

Lin Qihe explained.

After hearing this, Yang Zhenshan’s eyes lit up.

Indeed, the Spirit Source Land has a Yellow Earth mine; using Yellow Earth Stones to drive the Yellow Earth Thick Spirit Array is more suitable than Spirit Stones.

The Spirit Source Land spans ten thousand miles, containing numerous mineral veins, but Yang Zhenshan has always prohibited mining, except for the initially mined few veins, subsequent discoveries haven’t been mined.

Because the Spiritual Energy in the Spirit Source Land is limited, over-extraction of these veins would affect the Spiritual Energy concentration.

To maintain Spiritual Energy concentration, Yang Zhenshan required Ziwei Tower to periodically break some Spirit Stones in the Spirit Source Land to replenish Spiritual Energy consumption.

However, given urgent circumstances, mining the Yellow Earth mine isn’t impossible; compensation with Spirit Stones later wouldn’t be difficult.

"Then let’s send people to mine the Yellow Earth mine, quickly notify Ziwei Tower to mine at the maximum scale!" Yang Zhenshan instructed.

Using Yellow Earth Stones to drive the Yellow Earth Thick Spirit Array can enhance the array’s defense. Although not as cost-effective as Spirit Stones, regarding effect, Yellow Earth Stones are superior.

The Yellow Earth mine is only a First-order vein, relatively easy to mine, just violent mining without considering the aftermath.

In a short period, providing sufficient Yellow Earth Stones for the front base is entirely feasible.

"Master, there’s another problem!" Ning Yun suddenly interjected.

"What problem?" Yang Zhenshan asked.

"Master, haven’t you overlooked the Flying Boats and puppets? Flying Boats consume Spirit Stones, and those puppets also consume Spirit Stones!" Ning Yun said.