On the coast of the East China Sea, in the Seven Star Mountains, there is a deep canyon. The canyon is sparsely populated with small palace buildings, and the cliffs on either side are densely packed with narrow openings.

Beyond the canyon, several monks came with a large group of able-bodied mortals in the distance.

The group walked into the canyon and was greeted by a monk from the palace.

"Steward, I've been ordered to recruit miners here." A newcomer from among the monks stood up and said Sun Xing.

"Sun Xing, is this the miner brought this time? Well, it looks pretty good, better than the previous batch. The monk named Steward Hu looked at the miners and nodded in satisfaction.

"Since Steward Hu is satisfied, then I will hand over these people to you. Steward Hu, in the next farewell. Sun Xing said.

"Go, go, they'll be handed over to me." Steward Hu waved his hand at Sun Xing absently.

When Sun Xing walked away, Steward Hu turned around and carefully examined the group of people, and found that these people were all genuine mortals, and there were no space vehicles on them. He began to speak to the group of mortals in front of him.

"Wait a minute, listen up. The fact that you can come to work in our 'Tianshui Pavilion' spirit stone mine is a blessing that you will not be able to cultivate in your lifetime. You have all listened carefully to me, and you must do your best during the six hours of work every day, and if you fail to complete the basic tasks, you will be deducted from your remuneration as the case may be. This is not so easy to get paid for one silver coin a day. Of course, if you exceed your task...... "Nonsense talks about the rules."

“...... Don't blame me for not warning you. You should mine honestly, and don't touch other eyes that you shouldn't have. If someone dares to hide the spirit stone privately, once discovered, he will be executed immediately. Not only are you going to die, but all your family members and the guarantor who guaranteed you to come here will lose their lives! Do you understand? Steward Hu finally warned in a stern voice.

"Understood." There was a sparse response from the crowd below.

The butler doesn't care. What he just said was just a routine matter. Come to think of it, these mortals can't make waves under the noses of their monks.

The new miners were quickly assigned where to go. Each of the newcomers picked up a low-grade mage-level pickaxe and carried the hides and ores to their designated caves. Lin Chen, who was dressed in coarse cloth clothes and disguised as a mortal youth, was also mixed in, and followed a little monk on the second floor of Qi refining towards the entrance of a cave.

After Lin Chen left the Purple Cloud Country, he traveled all the way east, traveling 100,000 miles in more than three months, passing through seven or eight countries. During this period, he basically slept in the open on a picnic. He didn't have much time to appreciate the customs and customs on Qingyun Star.

The routes he walked were all drawn up according to the location of the caves and veins left by the treasure jade slip and the dace master

The shortest route. But the results obtained along the way made Lin Chen a little disappointed.

In this direction, he came across two caves. However, both caves have been excavated long ago and are now abandoned. The two spirit stone veins he found had also been discovered a long time ago, and they had been almost exhausted by the local Xiuzhen sect.

Lin Chen couldn't help but feel a little emotional. These two spiritual veins went thousands of feet deep into the ground, and they were all investigated. The ability of the monks on the Qingyun Star to investigate the earth's leylines is really not small.

Lin Chen, who was kept in the dark, didn't know that since the Great War three thousand years ago caused the cultivation level of Qingyun Star to begin to decline, the cultivation materials on Qingyun Star had become increasingly scarce. In particular, the output of spirit stones, the most important item for monks, has decreased dramatically. Qingyun Star Monk was forced to frantically develop the technology of exploring the leylines. Monks who have mastered this technique are revered by the monastic community as 'earth masters'.

The greatest depth that the most powerful geographers can now survey is about 1,000 zhang underground.

This led to the fact that the spirit stone mine that Lin Chen had gone to earlier had already started mining many years ago.

The Seven Star Mountain Spirit Stone Mine on the East China Sea is the third Spirit Stone Mine in this direction on the Treasure Map, and it is also the last Spirit Stone Mine in this direction.

This spiritual stone mine is occupied by the 'Tianshui Pavilion', the controlling sect of the 'Thousand Rivers Kingdom'.

Lin Chen inquired a little and knew that this spirit stone mine had been mined for less than a year. According to the map, this spiritual stone mine was originally buried at a depth of about 1,500 zhang underground. However, the earthquake caused by a large tsunami more than half a year ago brought out some of the spiritual stones underground, which made Tianshui Pavilion pay attention to this place and demarcate a site to start mining.

Tianshui Pavilion chose the excavation site in the canyon because it was closer to the spirit stone here, which could save a lot of things.

After Lin Chen came to Qianjiang Country and found that the spirit stone mine here had been occupied, he was a little disappointed. With his current strength alone, he couldn't fight against Tianshui Pavilion at all. Not to mention anything else, he couldn't deal with the two ninth-level Qi refining monks of the Tianshui Pavilion Sect guarding the ore veins in the canyon.

In those days, Lin Chen was around to investigate the situation and think of a way. After comparing the map and probing, Lin Chen found a situation that was very favorable to him. That is, the location of the main vein of the spirit stone mine was too deep from the ground, and Tianshui Pavilion couldn't figure out the specific situation of this spirit stone mine, so they chose the location of the canyon and started excavating.

In fact, the canyon is basically at the tail end of the vein. The main part of the vein is far beyond the canyon.

Lin Chen therefore came up with a more thoughtful method. He disguised himself as a mortal and went to the place where Tianshui Pavilion recruited miners to enlist. Because otherwise, he wouldn't be able to blend into the canyon protected by the formation.

It's not that he can't dig straight down outside the formation. But that's easy to notice. Or blend into the gorge

Valley, it is better to excavate from the underground transversely towards the main part of the vein.

With the help of seeds to restrain the aura, Lin Chen's disguise is naturally foolproof. He walked into the mine without any danger.

The narrow cave is very curved, and the downward slope is very large, and if you are not careful, you will roll straight down. On both sides of the mine, there is a luminous stone inlaid on the cave every few tens of zhang away. The glow-in-the-dark stone emits a ghostly glow that illuminates the tunnels.

After walking down for about two or three thousand zhang, Lin Chen estimated that he had plummeted to a depth of one thousand or three hundred zhang, when the sound of a 'clanging' mining pickaxe hitting the rock came from his ears.

As the miners walked down the passage, Lin Chen felt that the concentration of spiritual power in the air was getting higher and higher. When he heard the sound of the mining pickaxe striking, an extremely rich aura suddenly rushed to his face.

This aura was so strong that it stimulated Lin Chen to almost want to let go of his breath and absorb it. Fortunately, he didn't do that after all. Otherwise, it will alarm the guardian monks here, and his theft of the spirit stone mine will inevitably be a complication.

The new miners soon found themselves in a huge cavern. The glow-in-the-dark stones in the cave are inlaid a lot, and the light is relatively abundant. In the corner of the cave, there was a fifth-level Qi refining monk sitting there with his eyes closed.

In front of the monk was a long table, surrounded by a pile of supplies.

Elsewhere in the cave, there were many beds with quilts.

There are many small holes on the other two sides of the chamber. There was a constant stream of percussion sounds coming from inside the hole.

"Alright, you guys are digging here. You can choose any place on the wall of the cave to start work, or you can go into those small holes and choose a place to start work. The monk who had sent the miners down the mine said loudly.

"This is where you pay your spirit stones, and this is also where you exchange spirit stones for food supplies. The spirit stones you paid are all recorded in detail, and after you go out, you will exchange them for silver coins. If you want to work more and earn more money, you don't have to go up every day, just rest here. The monk escorting the miners said.

Lin Chen couldn't help grinning. The management of the miners in the Tianshui Pavilion is really humane, and it is not at all as brutal as it is said in the Earth Fantasy.

But when you think about it, this is actually to be expected. The little supplies that mortals needed were nothing to the monks. Isn't it the best of both worlds to provide better conditions for miners and make them work a little more energetically?

Tianshui Pavilion is not forced to recruit miners, who is not the miners who come here and want to earn a little more silver coins?

"With this kind of management, even if there are a few fewer people, it will not attract attention in the short term. That's where I get started. Lin Chen couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart.