The Heavenly Saint Sect has been controlling the two mines for more than twenty years, and although the Heavenly Saint Sect has been digging continuously in the past twenty years, it has not dug up much because the power of mortals is too weak.

The expansion of the mine's output was still occupied by the He family, and at first they just wanted to take advantage, so they hurriedly increased the manpower as soon as they grabbed it.

And after the Tiansheng Sect took back the mine, because of the problem of the sect's financial resources, it increased the manpower seven times in a few years and increased the output, and now there are more than 10,000 people in the two mines who are absent from work, plus crushing ore, cleaning ore, smelting manpower, and workers' families, etc., two villages and towns have been formed under the mine, with a total population of more than 20,000 people, and the prosperity level has been on par with Tian'an Town.

"Boss, the procedure of mining is like this, the absenteeism first digs out the ore from the mountain, and then sends it here to crush, after crushing, it is cleaned by the river, and after cleaning off the impurities, it is sent to the furnace for smelting, and what is smelted is the most basic refined copper, if you want to improve the quality of refined copper, then you have to forge and process it again, but that is the means of the refiner, and mortals can't do it."

"In the whole procedure, where do you need to use the means of immortal cultivators?"

"It has to be used in many places, such as mining tools, mortal steel can't be dug up, it is made of materials from first-order magic weapons, as well as crushing ore, and the formation used, otherwise it is too late to crush it simply by manpower, and the smelting side is also used spiritual charcoal, otherwise the firepower is not enough, and it can't be burned."

"Well, then try to improve the level of the tool, how to improve the efficiency of how to come"

Lin Xiao nodded, he studied liberal arts in his previous life, he didn't know anything about this kind of engineering and science things, otherwise he could also come to play an industrial leather, life or something, and greatly improve efficiency, so for now, he can only use the old way.

"Yes, boss, do you want to go to the mine to have a look?"

"No, I want to know, after 20 years of digging, how much has been dug up in this mine"

"This, the previous information has been destroyed, we don't know very much, but we asked the old miners before, it should only be about half of the digging, at the current rate, it will not be a problem to dig for another ten years"

"Ten years is too long, now the sect has more people, and a year later, more than three hundred disciples have graduated from the academy, and they don't even have the most basic magic sword, so the amount of dark iron and refined copper that the sect needs is extremely large, you have to come up with an idea, improve efficiency, and strive to hollow out this mine within three years."

Lin Xiao shook his head, ten years, I can't wait for ten years, three years, hollow it out within three years.

"Three years, the master, this can't be done at all, now there are more than 5,000 miners in this refined copper mine, plus crushing, washing, and smelting, more than 6,000, there are too many people, we can't manage it at all, if there are more people, we have to do something."

"There are too many people to manage, so there is no need to increase the efficiency of the situation, such as digging tools, use them well, the first-order lower grade is not good, then the medium grade, get a few more crushing formations, build a few more blast furnaces, and those miners, go to the Zongmen Zangjing Pavilion to find a few exercises for refining the body, and reward them for practicing martial arts, although they have no hope of becoming immortal cultivators, but after practicing martial arts, their strength has increased greatly, and they have more strength to mine."

"Yes, it's still the head of the house, but the head of the house, there is another issue that deserves our attention"

"Say, what a problem"

"The boss wants to hollow out the mine within three years, and if we do this, what will happen to these miners, if they don't have any work to do, they will have to starve to death."

"What's so difficult about this, you find some people, replant those hollowed-out places with trees, transform the environment better, and then open up farmland, and if there is no mine to dig, you will farm, and those who have hands and feet are afraid that they will starve to death, if the field is not enough, they will move to other places, and there are still large areas of wasteland waiting to be reclaimed on the other side of the White Fog Mountain."

"The head is far-sighted, and the disciples admire"

"Don't be a sycophant, do a good job in the mine, if you are hollowed out in three years, then you will be transferred back to the mountain gate as a deacon, or you can go to Fang City, now our disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect are very popular in Fang City, and many people have found female cultivators as wives"

Lin Xiao replied, Gongmingfang City is definitely a fat difference among the Heavenly Saint Sect, not to mention easy, it also takes a lot of money, and its status is extremely high, and the disciples stationed there are very popular with loose cultivators.

Once you can marry a disciple of the Heavenly Saint Sect, you can stay in the Fang Market for free and practice there, and you can buy things at a discount in the store of the Heavenly Saint Sect, enjoy the preferential treatment of the disciples, and even the rest of the shops will give certain discounts.

These treatments are extremely tempting for wandering casual cultivators, so many disciples have found wives, and Lin Xiao is ready to include the wives of those disciples in the mountain gate and become disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect, which can not only quickly increase the number of disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect, but also the probability that their heirs have spiritual roots is also extremely high, and their loyalty is also guaranteed.

When the disciples stationed in the mine heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, they had already heard about the situation in Fang City, if they could serve there as an errand boy, it would definitely be a good benefit, and they thanked Lin Xiao one after another.

After Lin Xiao walked around, he went to the Xuaniron Mine, which also encouraged them, promising to let them go to Fang City to work after hollowing out the mine in three years.

Several sources of wealth from the Heavenly Saint Sect gave Lin Xiao great confidence, and he was increasing his income everywhere, don't forget that there was also a Caiyun Mountain, there were two thousand acres of spiritual land over there, and the Heavenly Saint Sect accounted for one and a half of the shares, and there were also three hundred acres of spiritual field, and Baiwu Mountain was only five hundred acres, which was a huge income, so it was very possible to completely reach a balance in two or three years.

With the increasing scale of investment in the Heavenly Saint Sect, the disciples of the sect are also very happy, they have more and more resources in their hands, and the speed of cultivation is getting faster and faster, although most of them owe the accounts of the sect, but so what, everyone owes it, and it is not one or two people, and the sect is not a loan shark, and they will not be forced to pay it back immediately.

After being idle, Lin Xiao began to repeatedly enter and leave the academy of new disciples in the mountain gate, personally lecturing to them, and increased ideological education courses on loyalty to the sect, wanting to improve their loyalty to the sect.

It had been more than a year since they joined the Heavenly Saint Sect, and at this time, the average loyalty of all of them had reached about fifty, and Lin Xiao's point balance had broken 10,000 again, and there were already more than 11,000.

But for this point, Lin Xiao easily did not use it, and did not dare to use it to improve his cultivation, this is to improve the overall strength of the sect, Lin Xiao already has a hunch that at most two or three years, there will be a conflict with the rest of the states and counties, and good steel has to be used on the blade.

Lin Xiao only spent two thousand points on the elixir garden, and found two hundred elixirs with extremely high value to speed up their maturity, most of the maturity period of these elixirs is about ten years, and now they have been planted for two or three years, shortening the time by half, as long as there are about two years to mature and harvest, it will be of great use at that time.

On this day, Lin Xiao was giving a lesson to his disciple about the issue of integrity, but the system suddenly issued a reminder, which surprised him.

"Ding Dong, please note that the side quest is triggered, the great enemy of the sect, Bishui Pavilion, has made a plan to invade the sect, and has sent spies to inquire about the news, please frustrate the plan of Bishui Pavilion, the success of the task will reward five thousand points and a mysterious gift, the mission fails, and the host of the sect is damaged and there is a possibility of being wiped out.

Ding Dong, please note that the side quest - progress task is open, the Bishui Pavilion spies have entered the realm of the Heavenly Sage Sect, please solve the Bishui Pavilion spies, the success of the task will reward 1,000 points, and if the task fails, 3,000 points will be deducted"

The words of the system made Lin Xiao suddenly lose interest in lecturing, and found an academy teacher to take over, Lin Xiao immediately appeared in the main hall of the sect and summoned several elders to come to discuss the matter.

"Master, what are you doing in such a hurry to find us?"

"Let me ask you, have any strangers come to the mountain gate recently?"

"Stranger, no, what's wrong, boss"

"White Fog Mountain, Mine, Gongmingfang City"

"This, there are strangers coming to Gongmingfang City every day, but the mine and Baiwu Mountain don't know, boss, what happened?"

"I received news that the Bishui Pavilion of Qingshan County may invade Tianyun Prefecture, and the breakthrough is our Heavenly Saint Sect's territory, so it is possible that they have already sent spies"

"Ah, Bishui Pavilion, the overlord of Qingshan County, Bishui Pavilion, that is a big sect similar to Danyang Sect, master, is this news accurate?"

"The source is reliable, so the situation is urgent, Elder Li immediately recalled the disciples who had been trained in the Black Wind Valley, increased the defense force on the side of Baiwu Mountain and the mine, and the side of Gongmingfang City was loose and tight, let Bai Zichen be careful, if there is a suspect, you can arrest it first."

Lin Xiao said coldly, Bishui Pavilion is the overlord of Qingshan County, there is one Daogang Ancestor, three Purple Mansion monks, and the rest of the disciples are at least two thousand, and their strength is stronger than the previous Danyang Sect.

There is a distance between Bishui Pavilion and Tiansheng Sect, and the nearest should be Tianhaimen, but there are already three Zifu monks on the surface of Tianhaimen, except for Daogang Ancestor, the overall strength is just worse than Bishui Pavilion, they must not dare to blatantly invade the territory of Tianhaimen, persimmons pick soft pinch, naturally looking for Tianshengzong.

Lin Xiao is not afraid of ordinary investigations, but once Bishui Pavilion attacks with all his might, the Heavenly Saint Sect family will not be able to stop it, and even if it is blocked, it will suffer heavy losses, making Lin Xiao's years of hard work go to waste, which Lin Xiao will never allow.

Li Fengyue and the others immediately acted separately, constantly dispatching disciples from the mountain gate, and secretly stationed in various financial sources, and Lin Xiao also personally went out to inspect, at least these spies had to be knocked out first, and they must not be allowed to find out the truth of the Heavenly Saint Sect, and Bishui Pavilion would not dare to act rashly if he did not know the details of the Heavenly Saint Sect.