The Earth Spirit is indeed quite interesting; not only does it act confusedly, but it also likes to wildly speculate.
It hasn't fully explored this sphere yet, but it has discovered that the places it has experienced have rather thin spiritual energy... almost nonexistent, so it has equated this place with an abandoned land.
It subconsciously believed that such a place couldn't have Spirit Stones, so when it heard Feng Jun say there was a mine here, it thought he was trying to deceive it—do you have some misunderstanding about the intelligence of the Five Elements Spirits?
Thus, it asked what experts were here.
However, upon hearing Feng Jun's answer, it quickly remembered something else—the earth vein of that mountain was forcibly plundered by someone, and a cultivator capable of such an act must at least be of Nascent Soul level.
In this way, many things fall into place, and it's clear that this isn't truly an abandoned land, which is why there's a Spirit Stone mine.
