The goatee led them to the east of the valley, and then they found that there were dozens of caves dug around the valley, the holes were very large, several feet high, and a huge red number was engraved above each hole, and the word "nine" was engraved on the top of the ninth hole.

When they first came, they saw many beggar-like people, but now they don't see any of them, and they probably all go into the cave to work.

Outside the cave of Cave No. 9, there stood a burly man with a meaty face, wearing the same uniform as a goatee, and holding a leather whip in his hand.

The goatee approached and smiled: "Master Yu, how can you thank me for sending you four piglets?"

Yu Dongzhu rolled his eyes and said, "Eat a fart!" Let you catch a few beautiful girls here, and you will treat it as the wind in your ears." ”

The goatee smiled and said: "Now the piglets are not easy to catch, the men can't catch them, and the women's ones are not beautiful!"

Yu Cave Master looked at the four of Qu Nian, shook his head, and said, "I don't have any strength to look at it, what kind of goods have you sent?" Counting on you, I will never be able to be a 'Shining Cave Master' in my life, and I will not be able to enter the tenderness room in my life." ”

When the goatee heard this, his face was displeased, and he said, "Blame me? Next time I don't give you a piglet, you will be at the bottom every day, and you will kowtow every day to be scolded!"

Yu Dong said: "Get out!"

The goatee took a sip and muttered, "Kowtow King."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

At this time, the cave master rushed into the cave and opened his voice and shouted: "Old ghost-"

After a while, an old man hurried out of the hole, looking that he was no longer young, with gray hair and beard, and shackles on his hands and feet, unkempt and ragged.

After the old ghost came out, he nodded at the cave master and said, "Cave master, what's the matter?"

Lord Yu pointed to the four of them and said, "These four people are new, take them in! Tell him the rules and teach them to do things." ”

The old ghost answered, and then rushed to the four of them and said, "Come with me!"

Now for the four of Qu Nian, as long as they don't die, they are not in a hurry to escape, because they don't know anything about this world, and they don't know the strength of these people, so they don't dare to make a rash move, and they already know that this is where the spar is excavated, and they came to this continent to refine the spar, so why do they have to go in to see what the spar looks like? How did it dig it?

So the four of them didn't say a word, and followed the old ghost to the cave.

As soon as I entered the hole, there were three wooden boxes on the side, one box with a hammer, one box with an iron chisel, and one box with an iron bowl, all of which were messy and not neatly placed at all.

Then the old ghost said to them, "Take the hammer and the chisel, and the bowl, each one!"

Qu Nian and the four of them walked to the box, each took three things, and followed the old ghost to the hole, and there was a sound of chiseling in the hole, dense, ping-pong, the more they went inside, the louder the sound became.

The road is very long, there are dozens of zhang, after walking the road, the inside suddenly opens up, there is a huge stone room, there are three basketball courts as big, it is in the shape of a long strip, there are people standing in a circle on the side, there are hundreds of people, all holding hammers and chisels in their hands, are knocking on the stone wall. A dozen fires were placed in the middle of the stone chamber

The basin illuminates the stone chamber brightly.

Seeing them come in, the old piglet inside was probably accustomed to it, and did not feel novel, but turned his head to look at them with an indifferent expression, and then turned his head back and continued to knock on the stone wall.

Because the stone room is very large, so nearly a thousand people standing in it does not seem crowded, everyone is a distance from each other, the old ghost led them to a slightly open place, came to the stone wall, the old ghost patted on the stone wall, and said, "The four of you are here today! ”

Qu Nian said: "How do you work? We don't know the spar refining stone!"

The old ghost was stunned and said, "No, right? you don't even know the spar refining stone. ”

Qu Nian said: "We are from other places, we don't have this kind of thing in our hometown, we have never seen it." ”

The old ghost said: "There is still such a thing?" As he spoke, he looked at the wall and looked for a while, and then he saw a refining crystal and said, "Oh, this is a refining crystal!"

The four of them stretched their necks and took a closer look, only to find that the sparry stone, only the size of a sesame seed, pure white, embedded in the black stone wall is also conspicuous, but it is too small!

Fei Fei said at this time: "Why is it so small? Is there a big one? The pig's head is so big! Don't bully us when you see us as a newcomer!"

The old ghost said: "How can there be such a big spar stone? It's basically that big, unless you're very lucky enough to let you meet a peanut as big as a peanut." ”

Fei Fei stretched out his hand and touched the refining crystal, and said, "Can this thing be cultivated directly?"

The old ghost said: "No! It must be processed by the Crystal Refining Division and refined into a pill before it can be cultivated, so you don't have to fight this idea, if it is found to be privately hidden, you will directly cut off your head, and there is no room for maneuver." When you have dug up the spar, put it in this little bowl and hand it in at night. ”

Qu Nian said: "How much do you have to pay?

The old ghost said: "Oh, I forgot to tell you the rules, you must pay one tael a day, this is the basic task, if you are less than one tael, you will be punished, one less money and ten whips, it will not taste good." ”

Fei Fei said: "One or two? Am I not mistaken? Isn't one or two of you here different from one or two of our hometown? Aren't these two tasks chiseled out casually?"

The old ghost smiled and said, "If it's really that easy, there won't be so many piglets here!" Let me tell you, this is not an ordinary stone, or it is not a stone at all, but a metal, dozens of times harder than ordinary stones, or even more than that, it is impossible for ordinary people to chisel a piece of crumbs, you will know when you chisel later, you come on the first day, you have no experience, one or two tasks are difficult for you to go to the sky, you will definitely be whipped today, basically everyone who comes on the first day will be whipped, dig well, dig a little more can be less whipped!"

When the four of them heard this, their hearts were cold, especially Fei Fei, who was going to be whipped at night, and broke out in a cold sweat!

Qu Nian reached out and touched the wall, found a corner and pinched it, with his cultivation, if it was a stone, it could be completely crushed by him, but this edge and corner were extremely hard. Qu Nian said, "Then this wall is so hard, will we chisel this spar stone to pieces?"

The old ghost said, "Not so much. The spar is better than this stone wall

It is dozens of times harder, and it is impossible to chisel it. ”

Qu Nian suddenly asked, "Senior, what are you cultivating?"

The old ghost said: "Twenty realms!"

Qu Nian was stunned and said, "What kind of cultivation is the Twenty Realm?"

The old ghost said: "It's above the twentieth order, below the thirtieth order!"

The four were taken aback.

Qu Nian said: "With such a high level of cultivation, you can actually be a pig here?" ”

The old ghost looked at them and said, "It seems that you are really a group of frogs at the bottom of the well! Are the twenty realms very high? Most of the piglets here are above the twenty realms, and the piglets below the twenty realms will be exhausted to death after working here for a long time! Listening to your tone, it seems that there are no twenty realms?"

The four of them were a little embarrassed and didn't speak.

The old ghost sighed: "Do it well! Don't think about escaping, running away is a dead end, if you don't escape, you can live for a while." With that, he stepped aside, picked up the hammer and chisel, and began to chisel the wall, clanging.

Only four people remained, staring at each other.

Chu San dared to say at this time: "Master, what should I do?

Fei Fei said: "Chisel a jb! We all fell on Situ Mei's dog day, and said that this place was so beautiful, it made me yearn for it, and it turned out to be a big hole." We don't do it as a good king at home, but we want to run over to be piglets, isn't this a crime?"

Qu Nian said: "Let's work first! We didn't come to enjoy it, everything had to start from scratch, compared to last night, we thought we were going to be eaten by others, and it was considered to have picked up a life, there is nothing to complain about." No matter what time it is, opportunities and risks coexist, there is no good thing that falls from the sky, just let us directly encounter the spar stone, for us, luck is quite good!"

Fei Fei approached Qu Nian and whispered, "Do you have a way to escape?"

Qu Nian said: "Why are you running away? If you want to go out, you still have to find the refining crystal, since there is here, why should we go far away?"

Fei Fei said: "But this is not a human life! If you can't complete the task in one day, you will be abused by others, and even if you finish it, you will have to hand it in." ”

Qu Nian whispered: "As long as it is done, there is any superfluity, it is ours." ”

Fei Fei remembered that there was infinite space on him, so he nodded and said, "Then let's try it." ”

The four of them put the bowls in their hands on the ground, lined them up, and began to chisel the stone wall.

Qu Nian was standing on the far left, and to his left, there was another person, who had been standing there before they entered the cave, and had been busy digging the stone wall, without even turning their heads, when Qu Nian approached her, the other party turned his head and glanced at Qu Nian.

Qu Nian happened to look at him too, and to his surprise, this person turned out to be a woman, because he was also unkempt, so he didn't care about it. The woman's face is full of scars, one on the left and one on the right, dense, and her scalp is numb, and to put it bluntly, she really looks like a ghost.

Qu Nian said at this time: "Are you a woman?"

Fei Fei stood on the edge of Qu Nian, as soon as he heard that there was a woman, it was like beating chicken blood, and he even forgot the identity of his piglet, so he stretched his head over and said, "Where is there a woman!" When he said that, he had already seen the woman's face, and he also felt that his scalp was numb, and exclaimed: ", so ugly!"