Chapter 38: Mining
The one who sits in charge of the Xishan vein is an elder in the foundation building period, but under normal circumstances, this elder is cultivating in the secret room, and the specific management of the ore vein is more than a dozen inner disciples of the qi refining period.
When Meng Xiaotian and Wang Daosheng came to the Xishan Ore Vein, it was already evening, and the entrance of the Xishan Vein Cave was very wide, almost as wide as the city gate tower in Yanjing City, enough for more than a dozen people to walk side by side.
Meng Xiaotian walked up to an inner disciple wearing a white robe, handed over his identity token, and said respectfully: "Senior brother, I am Meng Xiaotian, Elder Dongfang punished me for coming to mine for a month, and I have come to receive the punishment." ”
The inner disciple checked Meng Xiaotian's identity token, confirmed his identity, and returned the token to Meng Xiaotian, and said with an indifferent expression: "Go to the left hand side to get the mining tools, all the minerals dug up must be handed over to the academy, you can get the corresponding gold coins, don't try to hide the spirit stones, otherwise the people on the flame pillar over there will be your example." ”
Meng Xiaotian looked in the direction pointed by the inner disciple, and couldn't help but feel terrified, it turned out that not far from the entrance of the crazy cave, there was a row of burning flame pillars, there were seven people who were tied to the flame pillar by iron chains and burned, these seven people let out a terrible scream, the skin and flesh on their bodies were almost burned to charcoal, and whenever grease dripped from their bodies, the flames would rise violently.
"For the sake of the same door, I will tell you that at the entrance of this Xishan mine, there is a formation to check whether the miners who enter and exit have hidden spirit stones, so the junior brother should not move the idea of hiding spirit stones." Although the inner disciple had a cold face, he was still very concerned in his words.
"Thank you, senior brother, for mentioning." Meng Xiaotian said gratefully.
"You're welcome, it's my job, after all, I don't want to see someone scorched every day." The inner disciple of that meeting waved and said, "My name is Liu Feng." You can call me Senior Brother Liu. ”
"Let me remind you again, there are a lot of people who come to this mine every day to dig spirit stones, but there are also many people who die in the mine every day, there are some mutant animals in this mine, although they are not demon beasts, but they are also much more powerful than ordinary beasts, you must be careful, in addition, if you meet other people in the depths of the mine, you must also be careful, in the depths of the mine, there are more people who kill people and rob spirit stones, many times, human mutant animals are even more terrifying, junior brother should do it himself."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Liu." Meng Xiaotian is really grateful to this cold-faced and warm-hearted Senior Brother Liu, and after Senior Brother Liu's guidance, he will avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles in the mine.
"Well, who is this?" Liu Feng looked at Wang Daosheng behind Meng Xiaotian, Liu Feng could feel that Wang Daosheng behind Meng Xiaotian was actually a monk in the Qi Refining Period like himself, and this monk in the Qi Refining Period was actually one step behind Meng Xiaotian, with Meng Xiaotian as the main character.
"Senior Brother Liu, this is my family, come with me to mine in the mine." Meng Xiaotian didn't want to say more, so he said that Wang Daosheng was his family.
Liu Feng looked at Meng Xiaotian meaningfully, it seems that this Senior Brother Meng has an extraordinary family background, the family can actually send a monk in the Qi refining period to protect him, and he has to think of befriending him, "Senior Brother Meng, you are here to be punished, just dig near the entrance of the cave for a month, although there will be no good harvest, but it is still very safe." ”
"Yes, okay." Meng Xiaotian said with a smile, and under the guidance of Liu Feng, he went to get the mining tools and walked into the Xishan ore vein.
There is an oil lamp every hundred meters or so in the vein, emitting an orange light, but many places in the vein still look very dim, the position of the cave just entered is very wide, and it is relatively safe, there are many people digging with a pickaxe, those Kunlun slaves are the most interesting, they are all black, and the light around them is not good, if it weren't for the sparks from the hoe and the mountain wall, Meng Xiaotian wouldn't have seen that there was anyone there at all.
Meng Xiaotian didn't stop at the entrance of the cave, and directly took Wang Daosheng along the zigzag path in the vein, and walked inside, the entrance of the cave is safer, but it is difficult to have a harvest, wealth and wealth are in danger, how can you have a harvest without taking risks.
As he walked inside, the number of people who mined became scarce, but the people who dared to mine in the depths became stronger and stronger, Meng Xiaotian saw at this moment that there were three cultivators with eighth-level cultivation in the refining body, and they were mining in a group, and when Meng Xiaotian walked by, the three monks stopped and looked at Meng Xiaotian with bad intentions.
Wang Daosheng's body shook, and a coercion of Qi Refining Period cultivators emanated, and the three Body Refining Stage cultivators instantly became honest, bowed slightly to Meng Xiaotian, and continued to dig up the mine.
"Damn, this cultivation realm really relies on strength to speak, if it weren't for Wang Daosheng, it is estimated that he would have been looted just now." Meng Xiaotian thought in his heart that he wanted to improve his strength more and more, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to protect himself, let alone protect his family.
Then walked inside, and after crossing a corner, Meng Xiaotian felt as if he had crossed a range, and there was a cold air wafting in the air, and there was an oil lamp not far from Meng Xiaotian, but it couldn't give Meng Xiaotian a trace of warmth, and the slightest cold breath continued to invade Meng Xiaotian's body, so that Meng Xiaotian couldn't help but tighten his clothes.
"That's it, you can't go inside, if you go inside, you will probably freeze to death." There were very few people mining in this area, so Meng Xiaotian chose a remote corner, took out his tools and began to dig.
"Ding!" Meng Xiaotian wielded the crane's beak hoe and dug the mountain wall, and the tip of the crane's beak hoe rubbed a little spark from the mountain wall, and there was also a small stone that fell down.
Meng Xiaotian shook his wrist, and the force of the anti-shock from the crane beak hoe just now was two or three hundred catties, which made the unsuspecting Meng Xiaotian's wrist shake a little painful.
"The mountain wall in this vein is too strong, and the cultivation of the sixth layer of my body refining has more than six hundred catties of strength with a flick of my arms, and I actually dug down such a small stone." Meng Xiaotian looked at the stone that was only the size of a child's fist, and smiled bitterly, "It seems that it is not easy to make money by mining." ”
Wang Daosheng on the side also took a pickaxe, and with a hoe, he could dig down a stone the size of a watermelon, much faster than Meng Xiaotian.
"Jingle Bell!" The two of them wielded a pickaxe and dug hard at the rock wall, and after a while, Meng Xiaotian felt that his arms were numb, and he was tired.
"Boy, there are no spirit stones at all in the place you dug." Qinglong's voice sounded abruptly.
"What? There are no spirit stones, why didn't you say it earlier? Meng Xiaotian listened to Qinglong's words, he was very disappointed, he didn't waste half a day's effort, and suddenly his heart moved, how did Qinglong know, could he detect where there were spirit stones, if it was true, then he was not going to get rich, he could dig up a lot of spirit stones casually, and his future cultivation would not be smooth sailing, thinking of this Meng Xiaotian was excited.