After making an appointment with Ye Feng for a meeting time and place, Zhou Hao went to his nest.

Halfway through, Zhou Hao thought about it, went to Tianque Fang again, spent three low-grade spars, and bought five pots and a full one hundred and fifty cold iron agarwood arrows. With Zhou Hao's current net worth, he can completely use the cold iron agarwood arrow to completely eliminate the armor-piercing arrow.

In the early morning of the second day, after saying goodbye to the Qinyin girl, Zhou Hao rode the hissing wind beast to the agreed meeting place.

The location agreed with Ye Feng is at the entrance of Tianque Mountain Canyon. Zhou Hao saw from a distance that the dozen or so people were already waiting there.

When he got closer, Zhou Hao hugged his fists and said, "Senior Brother Xiang, Senior Brother Ye, I didn't expect you to come so early!"

Xiang Wentian saw Zhou Hao coming as promised, and a hint of joy appeared on his cold face: "Senior Brother Zhou, it's really good to have you with you! I've been at the peak of top martial artists for a while, and I'm unwilling to exchange for low-level exercises, so I want to go to guard the spirit stone mine of Quarry Rock! Originally, I wasn't much sure that I would be able to come back alive, but now that I have you with us, we're a lot safer!"

Zhou Hao grinned: "Senior Brother Xiang, you think too highly of me!"

"No, no! With Senior Brother Zhou's strength, even if he encounters a master in the early stage of Lingwu Heavy Heaven, I'm afraid he won't be left behind! Most of the people who came to attack the Lingshi Mine were the outer disciples of the Heaven Breaking Sect. And there are only a few inner disciples above Lingwu Xiu, so with Senior Brother Zhou here, our confidence has increased greatly!"

Zhou Hao touched the back of his head and changed the topic: "Senior Brother Xiang, how far is it to go to Quarry Rock, how many days will it take?"

"Quarry Rock is located three thousand miles northwest of Zongmen, at the junction of Northern Yan, Western Qin and Desert Barbarians, which is extremely sinister. If the trip goes well. I'm afraid it will take about three or four days. ”

While speaking, a few more people arrived one after another, and seeing that everyone had arrived, Xiang Wentian waved his hand: "Let's go, it's time to go on the road!"

More than a dozen horsemen rushed out of the long canyon of Tianque Mountain. Head straight to the northwest.

Along the way, there is still a desert scenery that is endless.

It's July, the hottest month of the year, and it's even hotter in the desert.

More than a dozen children of Liaodong County, all of whom are top martial arts cultivators, are not afraid of this scorching heat. But the mounts underneath him couldn't withstand the heat.

These dozen or so people are different from Xia Mubai and others, they are just ordinary disciples of the outer gate, and their net worth cannot be compared with Xia Mubai and other elite disciples. Most of the mounts were just ordinary horses, and even the beasts were only four or five.

After coming down in the morning, after walking only two or three hundred miles, they found that the mount could not withstand the exposure of the midday sun, so the group had to stop and rest.

Until the sun sets in the west. Zhou Hao and the others went on the road again, and before the sky was completely dark, they rushed for another 300 miles.

After five days, a group of more than a dozen people rushed to the quarry rock three thousand miles away.

Climb over the last hill. The appearance of the quarry rock is under Zhou Hao's eyes.

It turns out that this quarry rock is actually a bare mountain!

This mountain is only two or three hundred zhang high, but it stretches for more than 100 miles, and at a glance, it looks like a huge green cow lying in the desert!

On the hillside, there is no grass, and all you can see is a hard blue-gray rock.

saw Zhou Hao's gaze. Ye Feng smiled and said, "Senior Brother Zhou, you can't think of it! Where this bird doesn't, there are extremely high-grade spirit stones buried underground!"

Zhou Hao nodded: "Spirit stones are only produced in places where spiritual energy is extremely abundant. I really can't imagine that such a barren place actually produces spirit stones!"

Ye Feng explained: "It is said that countless years ago, the aura in this place was also extremely abundant, but later the dragon vein changed direction, and then it gradually became barren. But the countless spirit stones that were bred in the dragon veins. But it was preserved. ”...,

A dozen people said as they walked to the quarry rock. One walked away in the mountains. The scorching heat in the desert suddenly weakened a little. The sun is still scorching, but it's not so unbearable.

After walking dozens of miles into the mountains, I finally arrived at my destination, the spirit stone mine of the Mixed Yuan Sect!

The so-called Lingshi Mine is a deep mine with a width of five or six zhang located on the mountain wall!

Outside the mine, there are thousands of large low-rise tents scattered around the area. And hundreds of zhang away, there are more than 100 small stone houses made of blue-gray stone, looking at the regulation, it is actually a little similar to Zhou Hao's nest in the sect.

In the mine, there are constantly teams of miners in ragged clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, holding mining tools.

Each team of dozens of miners must be accompanied by a few overseers with leather whips in their hands, constantly pumping the leather whips in their hands towards the miners who are a little slower.

Zhou Hao frowned, and found that most of these miners were ordinary people, and only a few were second- and third-rate martial artists. The cultivation of those overseers is not high, and most of them are only first- and second-rate cultivation.

Zhou Hao looked at these poor miners and couldn't help but ask, "Who are these miners?

Ye Feng replied: "I heard that many of these miners are prisoners of war! There are prisoners of war from the Western Qin Dynasty and prisoners of war from the desert barbarians. The rest of the people are criminals assigned by Beiyan! Don't look at them pitifully, if you let them out, they will all be murderous stars without blinking. ”

When Zhou Hao heard this, he was relieved and said: "It seems that the Mixed Yuan Sect, as the backer of the Northern Yan Kingdom, is not done for nothing! There must be tens of thousands of miners here, right?"

"Hehe, what are the 10,000 famous coolies? Counting all the miners in the other more than ten spiritual stone mines in the sect, as well as the coolies who do other jobs, at least hundreds of thousands of people are selling coolies for my Mixed Yuan Sect! Otherwise, tens of thousands of people up and down the Mixed Yuan Sect will have countless resources to consume?"

While he was talking, several figures shot out of the stone house in the distance, running towards Zhou Hao and the others.

When they got closer, those people hugged their fists at Zhou Hao and Xiang Wentian, who were in the lead, and said, "Are you the senior brothers of the sect who are here to carry out the guard mission?"

Xiang Wentian also hugged his fists and said: "I'm waiting for exactly!"

The disciples of the Mixed Yuan Sect breathed a long sigh of relief, and said with joy on their faces: "It's really good! I have been looking forward to it day and night, and I have finally brought you here." Now that you're here, we can finally go back!"

Zhou Hao said curiously: "How many senior brothers have been here for three months?"

The face of the first disciple of the Mixed Yuan Sect on the opposite side darkened: "Yes, I waited for about twenty people, and I came here to guard three months ago. Three months later, only six of us were left! The rest of the brothers and sisters all died in this hellish place. ”

Looking at the sad expressions on the faces of several people opposite, Zhou Hao, Xiang Wentian and the others glanced at each other, and their hearts suddenly struck!

"Let's go, I'll introduce the outer sect elders and sect deacons here for you!"