I saw a chubby man in his thirties looking at him with a smile on his face. "Young man, you can't eat the food you picked up, and if you eat it, you will be called Hanako. ”

Xiao Tian looked at this man with an embarrassed face, although he didn't know what his name Hanako was, but he felt that it was definitely not a good word.

But he couldn't figure out what the man was going to do, and he looked approachable with a smile on his face, not wanting to be malicious to himself.

"Little brother, do you want to make a lot of gold? I'll introduce you to an opportunity to earn a lot of gold. The man didn't care about Xiao Tian's guard.

Xiao Tian thought to himself, he was really a lucky person recently, and he was thinking about where there was gold, so they took the initiative to come and tell me, it seems that there are not all bad people in the city!" "Big brother, do you know where to earn gold? I really don't have gold on me, and I'm hungry and can't do it." Xiao Tian also became affectionate to this person.

"Little brother, don't worry, what do you call me? My surname is Zhang, you call me Brother Zhang, let's go, I'll take you to eat a full meal first! Then take you to earn gold!"

"Thank you, Brother Zhang, my name is Xiaotian. Xiao Tian was a little excited, and now the problem of food and gold has been solved. Don't worry.

The man surnamed Zhang returned to the steamed bun shop with Xiaotian, took out a tael of gold, bought five steamed buns, and handed them to Xiaotian. "You have eaten enough and have strength before you can earn gold."

Xiao Tian quickly finished eating five steamed buns, he had never eaten so much, and then asked: Brother Zhang take me to earn gold, I am already full, and I have a lot of strength. ”

Next, the man surnamed Zhang took Xiao Tian to a lined line, whispered a few words to a person who seemed to be in charge, and turned around and told Xiao Tian: "You follow this team, you can do whatever they tell you to do, and you will earn a lot of gold." ”

"No problem, Brother Zhang, when I go and earn the gold, I will definitely double your gold and return it to you. Xiao Tian hurriedly thanked him. Hurry up to the back of the line. Then the man surnamed Zhang also left.

In the middle of the afternoon, the group of thirty people began to walk towards a large courtyard in the city, and when Xiao Tian entered the courtyard, he found that the courtyard was four or five miles in size, surrounded by neat rows of houses, almost empty in the middle, and only a lonely room was built in the middle of the new position. And their procession was heading towards the central room. When I entered the house, I found that there was a downward cave in the middle of the house, and the one-foot square hole occupied almost half of the room. One of the people who brought them in said loudly: "This is the gold mine of our Jinshan City, if you want to earn gold, go down to the mine, and the more you dig, the more you will earn." But before you go down, put this mark on your foreheads. With that, he took out a golden crescent-shaped thing from the stove next to him, and it was steaming hot.

Xiao Tian saw that some people seemed to be a little scared, but they didn't say anything, it seemed that it was more important to earn gold.

So one by one, they stepped forward according to the line, and they were deeply branded on their foreheads by the crescent-shaped thing of the high temperature. Then a man led him and walked towards the hole in the middle of the house, which went straight into the ground. When Xiaotian got closer, he found that there was a circle of rotating steps around the hole, and he couldn't look down all the time.

Xiao Tian walked down as they walked down, the light became dimmer and dimmer, and slowly the imprint on each of their foreheads glittered with golden light. He felt that he had been spinning four or five miles underground before he came to the end, and below him was a huge hole like a square, more than ten times larger than the courtyard above. There are already tens of thousands of people down there. There are those who dig stones at the edge of the cave with tools, some who carry the stones that have been dug down, and those who supervise the work with whips made of unknown means, and those who know that the surrounding area is full of torches, and the golden light shining in the stones, this huge cavern looks like a golden one. Let Xiaotian be amazed in his heart.

In the following days, Xiao Tian began to dig gold in this gold mine cave like everyone else, and he could only sleep here for three hours a day, because he could not see the sun and could not distinguish night from day, and when he ate and worked, there were people with whips on his side. This left Xiao Tian no longer had time to meditate and practice the Tao Te Ching. But after all, the most important thing at the moment is not to earn gold. Xiao Tian was assigned mining stones, and although he looked a little thin, he had a lot of strength and rarely felt tired. The ore mined every day is the largest among tens of thousands of people. Because he wanted to earn more gold. You don't have to worry about eating in the future.

After digging underground for two months, Xiao Tian gradually felt that something was wrong, and no one gave him gold when he saw mining. And every once in a while, a group of twenty or thirty people went down to the mine, and no one was seen going up, but there were not many people working around it, and even a few inexplicably disappeared. He wanted to figure things out.

On this day, when he was mining, Xiao Tian stopped and asked a person next to him who was holding a whip to supervise the work: "Big brother, why don't we see gold when we are mining so hard here?" ”

"What kind of gold?" The overseer was a little impatient, if it weren't for the fact that Xiao Tian dug up more money every day, he wouldn't have bothered to talk nonsense with him.

"When I came, an eldest brother told me that I could make gold by working hard here. Xiao Tian was even more puzzled.

"Boy, the people here are all sold in, why do they still want to make gold? I don't even have a chance to get out alive, and you won't be able to spend money when I give you gold! Hmph, hurry up and work, don't let me whip you!" The overseer didn't look like he was pretending to be stupid, and the other didn't figure it out, so he said fiercely.

Xiao Tian found out that he was sold by the seemingly honest and kind Brother Zhang, this can't be done, I want to run out, don't stay in this hole, no one will know if I die. After making up his mind, Xiao Tian began to think of a way, there have been many guards on the revolving steps that have come down, and he must not be able to go up, Xiao Tian has not yet been confident to fight a bloody way out of the hundreds of people. After practicing half a chapter of the Tao Te Ching, I just felt a little stronger, and I didn't find that I was so powerful that I was there, which gave Xiao Tian a little headache.

So, he kept observing, and finally found a strange phenomenon, so many ore piles dug up in the same place for two months, the pile did not seem to increase. By the way, there is a secret to the fact that the excavated ore must be transported back to the surface in the end.

So he paid special attention to the pile of ore on the side of the cave, which looked like a hill on the side of the cave, but after looking at it for a few days, he didn't see the way out, and he saw that the excavated ore kept piling up on it, but the pile really didn't seem to be any more, and no one was transported from there to other places, which was incredible.

After all the miners had fallen asleep that day, the little cat dodged the guards, climbed up the huge ore pile, and attached himself to the stone to observe it carefully, and he heard the sound of water, the sound of the rushing water hitting the stone. Yes, there is an underground river down here, it must lead to the outside, Xiaotian felt that there was a way, and he quietly moved the ore to the surroundings piece by piece on the ore pile. After a long time, Xiao Tian raised a deep pit, and the people around him could not see him, and he finally saw the river, which washed the bottom of the ore pile, and took away pieces of ore from time to time, and did not know where it led. The top is increasing, and the bottom is rushing, this is the secret of the ore pile that has always been about the same size Xiao Tian held his breath and condensed, and silently recited in his heart the second chapter of the Tao Te Ching: long and short in contrast, high and low in contrast, sound and sound in harmony, front and back, the whole body breath turned over and jumped into the underground river

Xiao Tian also accidentally discovered that when he practiced the Tao Te Ching, he could hold his breath and concentrate, almost without breathing, and he was still awake, otherwise he would not dare to risk jumping into this deep water if he didn't know water.

With this and the river drifting for almost an hour, Xiao Tian felt that the water was slowly slowing down, so he opened his eyes with his breath and found that he was still in a cave, because the cave widened, and the underground river was full, but Xiao Tian got up and sweated, only to see two hundred meters in front of him, the sound of a huge waterfall came, fortunately wake up early, otherwise fall down the waterfall and not break your bones?

Immediately he felt pain everywhere on his body like a knife, the ore blocks washed in the underground river shattered his clothes, his body was full of wounds, some of them were deep to the bone, he endured and walked to the waterfall, found that he was still on a desperate road, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, the waterfall in front of him was two or three hundred meters deep. Flowing into a deep pool, the deep pool was guarded by St. Ao's sergeants in golden armor, and there were many laborers who collected a large amount of golden sand from the perimeter of the deep pool.

In the distance, there is a boundless forest, this should be somewhere outside Jinshan City, outside the cave is a cliff, and there are four or five hundred meters above, there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no door to the ground.

Finding that he was in such a desperate situation, Xiao Tian calmed down, he looked at this dark river cave, a person high place is three or four hundred meters inside, both sides of the dark river are washed clean by water, but when he looks up, he finds that there is a green and yellowish plant growing upside down on the top of the cave, and the lush branches and leaves seem to make a green roof for the cave. Xiao Tian jumped up and grabbed a leaf and stuffed it into his mouth, it was a very bitter taste, but after a while, a trace of cool air seeped into Xiao Tian's meridians, and there was no other uncomfortable feeling, Xiao Tian felt that these leaves could be used as food, so that he would not starve to death in this hole.

Since he couldn't get out, Xiaotian sat down cross-legged in the water, and found that the water reached his chest when he sat down, so he immediately calmed down to prevent being left by the water to run away. Begin to practice the third chapter of the Tao Te Ching, humble its heart, strengthen its belly, weak its will, strong its bones. When the cultivators were hungry, they got up and plucked the leaves from the plants on top of their heads to satisfy their stomachs, and when they were thirsty, they drank the river water. After a month, Xiaotian began to think about the fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching: Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs, and saints are unkind, and people are used as dogs. Other people may be puzzled or shocked when they see such a sentence, but Xiao Tian thought deeply about the two sentences based on the previous historical memory. Alien creatures called gods by humans, while blinding humans to understand their own universe, deceive humans over and over again the power of blind faith. Playing with human beings like slaves in the palm of their hands, those powerful monarchs who are revered as holy kings by humans, in order to satisfy their greed for power, wantonly slaughter and slaughter externally, and exploit and oppress internally. Even the great scientists worshiped by mankind have opened the Pandora's box of so-called advanced technology like a demon, accelerating the extinction of mankind. The humble people of humanity often have no control over their own destiny.

What makes Xiao Tian puzzled is that since Li Er has seen this layer thousands of years ago, why can't human beings prevent the extinction of human beings, is human greed really invincible?

The mantra used for cultivation in the fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching is; Void but unyielding, moving and getting more and more. Xiao Tian began to try to collect the breath in his body to the index finger of his left hand, trying to launch it, Xiao Tian found that the two months of cultivation had made the breath of self-discouragement stronger, from the original hair to the current finger thickness. And every time I prick the leaves on my head, I feel refreshed, and my body seems to be lighter, and there are a few times when I almost rush off the cliff by myself. After many failures, Xiao Tian finally forced his breath out of his fingers, and the light blue qi sword was still very weak, only laying a leaf on the top of his head, which made Xiao Tian already excited, at least proving that he was still able to practice qi like Li Er, not just with great strength. can have a chance to make himself stronger, which has made Xiaotian, who was born poor, have a higher goal.

When Xiao Tian almost ate the leaves on the top of his head, he happened to practice the sixth chapter of the Tao Te Ching, the god of cereals immortality, which is called Xuan 牝 (pìn). The gate of Xuanqi is the root of heaven and earth, which is continuous and does not use it diligently. This chapter is the cultivation of the art of Bigu, and if you cultivate completely, you can turn external energy into your own energy, and you can survive without food for a long time. Xiao Tian constricted his breath and felt the external energy, but he couldn't feel the energy in the air, and vaguely only felt the breath that could be measured in the water under his body, so he stretched the meridians, turned the water into qi, slowly guided into the body, and mixed with his own breath, making it stronger and stronger, and slowly saw Xiao Tianpan sitting in the water as if floating on the water, let the water impact but not move a bit, the fist also erupted with breath, and the stones on the top of the head more than two meters high were knocked down from time to time.

When he began to practice the seventh chapter, Xiao Tian could no longer find the feeling, and repeated attempts made no progress. In desperation, he had no choice but to stop cultivating, calculating that he had been cultivating in this cave for nearly ten months. So I decided to go outside and have a look. I saw him come to the entrance of the cave, turn over and jump upward, jumped up more than two feet high, close to the stone wall of the cliff, stretched out one hand, easily inserted into the stone wall, pushed down, and jumped up two lengths under the force, and repeatedly reached the top of the cliff after dozens of back and forth, all this was silent, and the golden armor guards below were unaware.