After walking for a month, the team of refugees finally arrived at the source of the West Mountain Mine, where the endless mountains contained a large amount of spiritual power.

The source of the West Mountain Mine is the territory of the West Valley, and the West Valley is one of the three major Fang Immortal sects in the Fang Immortal Continent, they are good at creating all kinds of magic weapons, coupled with rich spiritual ore resources, so the West Valley can be described as a rich country. No one dared to underestimate and provoke such a sect, because countless magicians could give them their lives for magic weapons and spirit stones.

Fifty miles to the east, the source of the Xishan Mine is a very large city in the Fangxian Continent, and the name of the town is Xishan Town, which also belongs to the jurisdiction of the West Valley.

Xishan Town has a large number of people, residents, miners, refugees, and magicians, with a total resident population of hundreds of thousands. At present, all the labor dispatch tasks of Xishan Mine Source are assigned to Xishan Town.

When Yan Han led the team to Xishan Town, more than 300 refugees were stopped outside the city by the city gate guards, and after asking about the origin, the guards did not dare to let them enter the city gate.

The guards reported the situation to the Taiwei Mansion, and after receiving approval, Yan Han's team was directly led to the source of the West Mountain Mine.

When they arrived at Xishan Mine, Yan Han's team was temporarily placed at the gate of the mine. After waiting for a long time, I saw the shadow of the official of the mining office.

The man was young, dressed in white, with yellow stripes on the cuffs and neckline, which looked a little weird, but it was very aesthetically pleasing. Yan Han had long heard that the West Valley was obsessed with color and belief to the point of madness. When the Nine Dragons Festival was held in Baiyun City, there were many magicians wearing similar costumes, presumably from the West Valley, so they didn't know what this yellow-striped costume meant?

Soon Xia Feng gave him the answer.

Xia Feng muttered in a low voice, "From the color on his clothes, it proves that he is the Yellow Realm Mage of the West Valley!"

Yan Han was stunned for a moment, "Could it be that the clothes of the disciples in the West Valley are so colorful, bright and eye-catching?"

"According to the cultivation level of the seven-color realm, the West Valley is issued to the disciples with seven-colored disciple uniforms, of course, it is rare to see more than cyan. ”

"Seven-colored disciple suit, this colorful silk thread, the dye is not easy to find, and it will be very expensive, right?" Yan Han muttered in surprise.

"Will the West Valley be short of money? It's all silk threads twisted from all kinds of bird feathers. Xia Feng looked at Yan Han's loneliness with contempt.

The two were chatting, but they found that the brothers and sisters in front of them had surrounded the mine official and vigorously consulted the mine about the resettlement of the miners.

I saw the mine official running to a stone platform, with an impatient and angry face, shouting at the refugee team:

"You don't have the right to protect the residents of Xishan Town right now. To work in Xishan Mine for ten years, see the performance upgrade to Xishan Town residents. ”

After listening to the words of the officials of the mining office, Hu Hao muttered: "Ten years of labor? Do you still depend on your performance? To put it bluntly, you will give them ten years of free work here! And they may not be qualified to become residents of Xishan Town." ”

"Aren't you here to be their miners?" Yan Han asked as he walked up to Hu Hao.

"We came all the way to find a good place to make a home. If we were just miners, if we didn't have residency, they wouldn't protect us, they wouldn't treat us well, and we would end up like slaves on the market. Lao Wang interjected.

After listening to Lao Wang's words, Yan Han pondered for a while, and asked loudly on the stage: "How are the miners treated?"

The official of the mining office swept Yan Han's position, obviously very dissatisfied with this question, and said angrily: "There is one ration every day, and ten red copper stones are distributed every month!"

"It's too low!" Everyone shouted.

The mining official smiled coldly: "Those who feel low can get out of here immediately! We have more than 100,000 miners here, and many of them break their heads every day to squeeze in, are there hundreds of people who miss you? Don't forget, if you become a miner, you have the hope of becoming a resident of Xishan Town, and that is the glory of your life!"

Everyone was silent.

"Captain, what do you think we should do?" asked Yan Han.

"I think you asked the wrong person, I'm only responsible for bringing you here, I, the temporary team leader, it's time to hand over now, and you can choose the rest of the way!" Yan Han's voice was quite loud, and Hu Hao, Xia Feng, and the others all looked over at the same time in puzzlement.

The dumb girl also heard Yan Han's words, she came to Yan Han's side, gently tugged at the corner of Yan Han's clothes, and looked at him with a pleading gaze. In the past month, she has found dependence, safety, happiness, and a sense of belonging in Yan Han's team.

Yan Han gently touched her head, sat on the ground, poured the mud and sand in her shoes, and then shouted at the officials on the stage: "I'll sign up!"

The mining official was very satisfied with Yan Han's performance and nodded slightly.

"Then you're still not our leader?" someone in the crowd asked.

"It's not!"

Everyone was extremely disappointed with Yan Han's answer, and Hu Hao even stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar and glared angrily. The mute woman squatted directly on the ground and cried, as if she had become a helpless person again.

The official of the mining office was on the stage, not understanding the reason for the uproar of the crowd, so he said: "If you have a difference of opinion, then let your team leader speak first." ”

Everyone hesitated for a while, half-pushed and half-on-the-spot, but still let Hu Hao step forward to talk to the official.

"We join to be... But keep us safe. ”

The mining official smiled meaningfully: "No problem, we only need to charge a certain amount of protection fee at that time." ”

"Okay, then let's all join. ”

In this way, everyone signed up one after another.

After signing up, they were taken by the mine official to a halfway up the mountain, where there were fireworks and countless tents, where hordes of miners lived.

"It's time to take a break at night, so you can rest today and start work tomorrow morning, with a free breakfast every day. Come with me to get the tent and the mining tools. ”

After the official of the mining office finished speaking, he took everyone to receive the necessary items.

The refugees were placed in a corner on the outskirts of the miners' settlement. Before leaving, the official of the mining office said: "My name is Lin Feng, and I am a mine protection mage in the West Valley, you can go to the mining office to find me if you have something." ”

Yan Han only noticed at this time that Lin Feng's left shoulder was embroidered with a disciple badge of the West Valley, which was a cross pattern of a golden hammer and a pickaxe. The hammer represents crafting, and the pickaxe may represent mining, and it is clear that these two industries represent the greatest wealth of the Western Valley.

When he approached Lin Feng, Yan Han could feel the strength of his inner Dan's spiritual power. What Xia Feng said was true, he was a Yellow Realm mage, close to the more heavenly realm of the Shenxiao Sect. A small mine protection clerk, the West Valley actually hired a mage from the Yellow Realm, and it was really a big deal, and the miners were probably as weak as ants under their noses.

Yan Han has his own plans, the reason why he left the position of team leader is that he doesn't want to be the object of attention, which hinders him from hiding his identity, after all, he is a wanted figure by the Shenxiao faction. As a well-known Fang Immortal Sect in the Fang Immortal Continent, it is difficult to guarantee that it has no connection with the Shenxiao Sect. If you are not careful in the realm of the West Valley, it will be difficult for Yan Han to retreat with this little skill.

Everyone hurried to set up their tents before it got dark, and Yan Han quickly set up his tent, and then walked up to the mute girl.

After all, it was a woman, and the mute girl was so tired and sweaty that it turned out that there was a beam of the tent that couldn't be hung up. Yan Han walked over, held it lightly, and then propped up the canvas, and soon set up a brand new tent. The dumb girl felt warm in her heart, but she turned her back, as if she was angry that Yan Han had left the position of captain today.

Yan Han smiled and walked away, he went to see if the other old, weak, sick and disabled needed help. An hour later, more than 300 people set up more than 100 tents one after another.

Someone has already brought out the guy who cooks and is ready to arrange a meal for the evening. Everyone sighed that they finally didn't have to wander anymore, and their hearts fell to the ground.

At that moment, there was a commotion outside, and then the camp for refugees was packed with people. They copied the guys and surrounded the settled refugees.

They are miners who live nearby. The leader was dressed in iron-black skin, revealing a sense of arrogance all over his body.

"Let your heads come out!"

Hu Hao heard the shout, hesitated, walked out of his tent and asked, "What's the matter?"

The leader slapped the wooden stick in his hand, "There are rules for entering the mountain, hand over half of the materials in your hands, or ten copper plates per person!"

Hu Hao was not convinced, and quickly shouted with the leader. Next, Hu Hao was punched to the ground by the leader, and then one side swept towards the refugee camp with an overwhelming advantage. The scene was suddenly extremely chaotic.

Yan Han didn't make a move, he was convinced that the secret mine protector mage would never allow casualties, otherwise it would affect the output of tomorrow's labor. Yan Han will not easily expose his cultivation.

Hu Hao's people were miserable, all the supplies, including grain, dried meat, water bladders, leather, flints, etc., were all rolled up, and even some tents had a few holes. No one was seriously injured, but some minor injuries were inevitable, and Yan Han was also beaten with black eyes.

Yan Han hid to the side and happened to be bumped into by Xia Feng.

"Why don't you make a move, you're someone who can even subdue a Red Realm mage!" Xia Feng looked at Yan Han in surprise.

"That time was a fraud, if I really had those two hits, I would come over to be a miner, and I would be beaten?" Yan Han obviously had a dark left eye, but he covered his right eye, and looked at the old Wang next to him inexplicably.

Xia Feng was speechless for a while.

In the distance, there were whining cries, children, mute girls, and a few girls of the same age. The child was frightened, and the mute woman crouched on the ground and watched as her parcels were broken up and her handiwork was trampled to the ground.

Yan Han walked to the mute girl, also squatted down, looked at the black eyes, and asked, "Are you okay?"

The mute girl looked at him for a moment, and suddenly snorted. Yan Han hurriedly covered his eyes, but he covered his right eye by mistake. Looking at his funny appearance, the mute girl almost burst into tears of laughter, and gently slapped him on the shoulder before holding back.

Everyone's dinner is in the soup, but fortunately there is hope for tomorrow's breakfast. Hu Hao distributed the few food rations left among the refugees to his children.

The next day, everyone got up early in the morning and went to the mine entrance hungry to get breakfast.

There were dozens of cauldrons like tripods, placed at the mouth of the mine, steaming inside, I don't know what it was boiling, and the miners lined up to get their rations one by one.

Yan Han saw the "black boss" who led the team to make trouble yesterday, and because of his black appearance, Yan Han simply gave him this name. The black boss, like a special offering, directly cut into the queue and came to a pot, nodding at a few mine protection mages next to him. Then a chef served him two servings of porridge without hesitation.

After a long while, when Yan Han was in front of a dozen people, he was a few feet away from the porridge, but he smelled a foul smell, and he really wondered what this porridge was made of.

It was about to be Hu Hao's turn, and Yan Han found a problem, their team did not take a container for porridge, of course they didn't have it, and yesterday's water bladders and leather bags were all taken away.

Sure enough, when it was Hu Hao's turn, the chef asked directly: "What do you take to serve porridge?"

"Don't you give bowls of porridge?"

"Dream on! Eat if you want, don't eat and fuck off!"

The chef said coldly.

While Hu Hao was standing there in a daze, the chef was impatient, "Wrap up your clothes!"

"What?" Hu Hao didn't know what he meant.

The chef jumped and pulled Hu Hao aside, "Get out, get out, get out! You don't have breakfast today!"

The chef's temper tantrum scared the people behind him into a scare. The second turn was Lao Wang, he put his clothes up in an orderly manner, and the chef went down with a spoonful of porridge, which broke Lao Wang's face, and even the soup and water, dripping and dripping, kept leaking down.

What a way to eat this!

In this way, more than 300 people, with bitter gourd faces, carried porridge with their clothes, and stuffed them into their mouths with their other hands. Some of the women were embarrassed to lift their clothes and accidentally burned their bellies, and the miners next to them watched them happy, and even the mage who stood in the distance with a straight face showed a playful smile.

Yan Han didn't do anything special, even if the porridge was difficult to swallow and ugly, he had to stuff it into his mouth one by one. He could only endure and dare not have any flaws. The terrifying aura exuded by the mine protection mage here can be expected to kill oneself with any true qi emitted!

Yan Han glanced at the mute girl with her eyes, she had been burned with porridge on her clothes and burst into tears.

In the end, the chef didn't make up the porridge for Hu Hao, and the chef really did what he said!

After all the miners had breakfast, they were taken to the entrance of the mine. At this time, Hu Hao led a few children to a mine protection mage, wanting to ask them to return to the tent, after all, they were only seven or eight years old and could not go down the mine.

"After receiving breakfast, you have to pay for a day's labor, and children are no exception!" The mage looked indifferent, "But adults can do it for you!" He added.

Then the mine protector shouted at the three hundred people behind Hu Hao:

"Seeing that you are new here, then I will repeat the rules again. Each person must bring out twenty copper stones every day when entering the cave, and children and women are no exception. Of course, adults can take the place of children to complete tasks. The excess spirit stones can be accumulated to offset your labor, and the number of days of offsetting is calculated according to the quantity.

The spirit stone is divided into multiple grades, the silver orange stone is equivalent to ten red copper stones, and the gold stone is equivalent to one hundred red copper stones. Someone who dares to hide the spirit stone and take it out of the mining area without permission, behead!"

Seeing the silence around him, the mine protector was very satisfied with his deterrent effect, and then turned his head to Hu Hao and asked, "You take these five children, who will take their task?"

There are four children who have relatives of their own, and they have taken the children's tasks. There is also a child who is an orphan, and his task, Hu Hao can only grit his teeth and follow by himself.

In this way, except for the children, these three hundred people entered the mine one after another.

The cave was damp and cold, and a long and narrow passage did not know how far underground. Every once in a while, a spirit stone lamp would be in the mine to provide them with some light.

The spirit stone lamp is a mining lamp appliance created in the West Valley, which burns spiritual power to achieve illumination, and a spirit stone lamp can maintain the illumination for half a month. This spiritual stone lamp is like a ghostly fire, flickering and dimming.

The main cave will extend down many branches, Yan Han casually chose a branch cave to walk into, and he found that the mute girl followed behind him, and also led several women.

Yan Han shook his head and smiled, it seems that I really have a woman's popularity!

There was no light in the deepest part of the branch, and I couldn't see my fingers. The young women were a little trembling.

"Brother, shall we go in?"

"Yes, there won't even be slag left for you on the periphery. What, you're afraid I'll eat you?" Yan Han didn't forget to tease.

He was poked lightly in the back, and he knew it must be a mute woman.

Yan Han took down a spirit stone lamp from the stone wall, held it in his hand and continued to walk. In fact, Yan Han has a keen sense of spiritual power, and he doesn't need this kind of lamp at all, but in order to take into account the feelings of women, there are still some lights that are better.

After walking for about half an hour, they came to the end of the mine, and a very large natural cave appeared in front of everyone. Yan Han swept around with his spiritual sense, and couldn't help but be shocked.

There are a lot of dotted spirit stones inlaid on the cave wall, there are red copper stones, silver orange stones, and there are many gold stones at the corners of the more dangerous cave tops and stone walls.

The source of the West Mountain Mineral Source is worthy of the great wealth of the West Valley! This is just the tip of the iceberg, and it already contains a huge amount of spirit stones.

Yan Han learned that the output of spiritual stone ore in the West Valley ranked first in the Fang Immortal Continent, accounting for more than 70 percent of the share, so the West Valley was the only institution in the Fang Immortal Continent that issued coins and formulated coin circulation standards.

It is said that a long time ago, the West Valley learned to process red copper stone, silver orange stone, and gold stone into a uniform size of one or two, and used it as a currency unit throughout the Fangxian Continent. Special spirit stones such as jasper, jade, blue-eyed stone, etc., can be used to create various magic weapons according to the characteristics and shape of the spirit stones.

"Brother, have you seen the spirit stone?" a woman woke Yan Han from silence.

Yan Han remembered that these spirit stones could only be seen by a powerful spiritual sense like himself, and it seemed that it was not in vain to frantically hone his mental power back then.

However, feeling the spiritual power may not be able to find the correct location of the spirit stone, the spirit stone has a characteristic that the spirit power interferes with each other to cover their own position, the more powerful the spirit stone, the more difficult it is to locate, they are like having the spirit of the spirit to release the spiritual power, chaotic direction to protect themselves.

"I saw it, but we weren't sure where it was, so we needed to dig them down and look at them. ”

In this way, everyone dug up and down, and Yan Han only made up enough of his share of spirit stones in the afternoon. Yan Han couldn't help but sigh, this is really a chore, he really doesn't know how others complete the task?

Sure enough, when Yan Han looked back at the fruits of the women's labor, he almost fainted and fell to the ground!

The five women spent half a day digging five piles of waste ore with great interest! Not a single one! Not a single one! Yan Han jumped violently and poked their little heads one by one with his fingers.

The mute girl's innocent eyes looked at Yan Han, revealing a pitiful appearance, which immediately extinguished Yan Han's anger.

Good men don't care about women. Yan Han sat down and thought calmly. If he continued to dig at this rate, he wouldn't be able to make up five people's spirit stones until dawn, so he had to change his method.

He took out a piece of red copper from the pile of spirit stones, and thought to himself, since the spiritual power of the spirit stones can sense and interact with each other, can the location of the hidden spirit stones be sensed by using the characteristics of the spirit stones themselves?

However, the mutual induction of spiritual power was very weak, and even with Yan Han's telekinesis, he could not detect the fluctuation of this induction, so he needed a spiritual power induction amplifier.

Thinking about it, Yan Han immediately came to inspiration, and he quickly arranged a layer of dao patterns on this red copper stone to capture the fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual power.

Later, Yan and Han tried to see the effect of this layer of Dao pattern, but the result was not very ideal. The fluctuations of the interaction of spiritual power are only faintly amplified by it. Yan Han was at a loss.

After a while, Yan Han suddenly thought: If there were multiple layers of such dao patterns, would it amplify such a spiritual power fluctuation signal?

After all, it is not an easy task to arrange multiple layers of dao patterns, and the number of layers of dao patterns that Yan Han depicts the most at present is only three. First, the mental power should be very strong and delicate, which Yan Han has confidence in; second, the spirit stone should have enough resistance strength to keep it from being destroyed by the Dao pattern carving; third, the spirit stone must have enough spiritual power to support so many Dao patterns.

Experiments are more meaningful than dreams. Yan Han picked up a red copper stone and spent half an hour carving three layers of dao patterns on it, and when the fourth layer was carved, the red copper stone shattered, flowing like sand through his fingertips.

Three times in a row are the same result, and at this point, time is lost another hour.

Seeing the five anxious girls in front of him, Yan Han took out the jasper stone in his arms. This is the most valuable item on his body, not only is it of high value, but it also has a pure Dao pattern for life-saving, and at the same time, there is a kind of shielding Dao pattern on this jasper stone to hide the spiritual power it emits, so that the master will not be aware of its existence.

Yan Han gritted his teeth and erased the dao patterns on the jasper stone, and then began to re-depict the dao patterns layer by layer.

Time passed little by little, and it was close to the end of the mine, and all the women had the idea of crying.

The mute girl's eyes looked at Yan Han who was meditating there without blinking, her teeth biting nervously on her lips, and she was about to ooze blood.

Thirteen layers of Dao Patterns! This was the limit of Yan Han's mental power, and his eyes were about to bleed. In the end, this jasper stone did not crack because it carried the powerful Dao pattern energy, and it was still intact. Yan Han didn't know that he had inadvertently made a touchstone!

If Di Niu knew that Yan Han had completed a top-level touchstone in such a short period of time, he would have to go crazy. Compared with the intermediate touchstone on Di Niu's body, the touchstone made by Yan Han is more than one level higher, but that intermediate touchstone is already a treasure that Di Niu is proud of.

Yan Han woke up and saw everyone's desperate expressions, knowing that time was running out.

When Yan Han picked up the jasper stone and sensed the direction of the spirit stone again, he smiled confidently...

"Listen to me... The upper left body is far from the excavation... Excavation in the upper right half of the zhang... Median excavation... The lower right body is far from excavating..."

In this way, the women were busy for less than a moment, and they dug up four pieces of silver orange stone and dozens of red copper stones.

At this time, the bell of the mine outside the cave rang, deep and long.

Yan Han calculated that the number of spirit stones around him was just enough for the number of tasks for Yan Han and the women, so he led the women out of the mountain.