A week passed easily inside the mine where Alex actually spent his time mining.
He had set up a base deep inside the mine and had mined there for a week. As someone who had been to the Endless Tunnels where the strong Starforged Tungsten ore was damn near impossible to mine, the Golden mine felt like a walk in the park.
All he had to do was heat up the wall in front of him in a small radius up to a certain temperature and the gold would simply melt down the wall, forming clumps in the bottom.
Once the gold was out of the mine wall, Alex could use just a bit of Qi to strip the wall of any other material, clearing it up, and showing a new wall behind it.
He continued doing this for an entire week before he stopped. He had collected plenty of gold and he didn't feel like he needed any more of it.
The Yin Qi in his dantian was also piling up and he needed to take care of it.