Broken Tooth City is located in the Great Ironwood Desert, where the climate is harsh, with cold winters and hot summers. At the coldest time, as soon as a breath is exhaled, it has condensed into hoarfrost, and if people's hands and feet are left in the outside world for a few minutes, they will freeze directly. And in the hottest days, even the most thirsty pentadan camels in the desert have to spit out their long tongues and exhale to dissipate heat. Because of the polarization of climatic conditions, the vegetation on the great desert is scarce, and from a distance, the field of vision is almost a reddish world of sand and gravel, and it is difficult to find a few points of green, which forms a sharp contrast with the great wilderness in the south.

But a hundred miles away from Broken Tooth City, there is the most famous rhinoceros mountain range in the northwest of the Chidi Boundary, which winds for more than 10,000 miles. The Great Rhino Mountains traverse the northern continent of the Chidi Boundary, stretch east to the Abyssal Sea, and westward through the Domota Inland Sea, reaching the Great Plain in the west.

There are many wild beasts in the Great Rhino Mountain Range, and it is rumored that there have been demons in the deepest part of the forest, but this rumor has never been confirmed. The whole mountain range is divided into three rings, the outermost ring is an ordinary mountain forest, the middle ring is a wide and dense primeval forest, and the innermost ring is covered by the fog of ancient trees all year round, and few people know the exact situation inside.

The first reason why the Haiqi Kingdom chose to establish Broken Tooth City in the Great Desert of Iron Wood as a training camp for the Mu family's new slaves was to prevent the wild beasts in the mountains from appearing in groups and plundering them. The second reason is that because of the difficult environment here, it is the most suitable for training junior slave soldiers, and the slaves who can get out of here alive can be used. As for the third reason, and the most important one, the Ironwood Desert is rich in all kinds of ores rich in spiritual energy, and the forests of the Rhino Mountain Range are full of all kinds of spiritual herbs and elixirs, which require a huge number of slaves to pick and dig them back. As a slave city, the Mu family has arranged an iron-blooded army of 50,000 people in Broken Tooth City, managing nearly 300,000 slaves here.

After a three-month long journey, the last batch of new slaves in the year of Jiazi finally arrived at this majestic northern slave city. The original 20,000 slave troops, at this moment only more than 12,000 people remained, on the way to die of various diseases, fell off the cliff to death, was bitten to death by wild beasts along the way, on the way to the north - the Hessian swamp, the black and smelly silt and aquatic plants directly swallowed the lives of nearly 3,000 young slaves.

At this time, it is the coldest season of the Tiemu Desert, at a glance, thousands of miles of ice, everything withered, white expanse, the rhinoceros mountain range in the distance is like a sleeping ice and snow dragon, peaceful and majestic.

The gates of Broken Tooth City slowly opened, and two huge wolf statues were erected on the left and right sides of the gate, and the slaves walked under the gate ten feet high, as weak as ants.

After hastily registering their names, more than 12,000 new slaves were sent to a 100-acre slave farm in Broken Tooth City.

A scar-faced man with an open chest and exposed breasts, with only a circle of animal skins around his waist, stood on a three-meter-high stone platform in front of him, raised the long tribulus whip in his hand fiercely with one hand, and scolded: "Quiet, you newcomers! Whoever dares to make a fart make a little noise will make him regret coming into this world!"

The scar-faced man also had a pitch-black slave mark on his left arm, he was full of energy, his voice was like thunder, and the scene instantly fell silent.

In the center of the stone platform, there is only one person sitting upright, like an iron tower, eagle eyes and leopard eyebrows, and a killing aura is faintly scattered, this person is Mu Zhanhu, the city lord of Broken Tooth City.

His precepts were also very simple - "In Broken Tooth City, you only need to remember one sentence - I let you live and let you die, and Lord Yama can't save you!"

Then, according to an unwritten rule in Broken Tooth City, each newly arrived slave received ten more "killing whips" and was hurried down.

Wei Zhen and nearly 100 people were locked in a huge iron cage, wearing only a single coat, after a three-month long journey, his figure became thinner, and the person looked a lot silent, except for a pair of dark eyes that still flashed with perseverance.

At this time, he noticed that something was wrong, the people around him were all much older than him, all slaves over forty or fifty years old, and even a few gray-haired old men.

He's the only one his age.

"Maybe they're mistaken? I'm going to join the slave army. He thought silently in his heart, half comforting himself, he believed that Fan Tian would not deceive him.

After Mu Zhanhu, the lord of Broken Tooth City, gave a lecture to him, a middle-aged man with a sickly look announced the rules for the distribution of new slaves—those under the age of twenty-five joined the slave army, those between the ages of twenty-five and forty were sent to the medicine collection field, and those over forty years old were sent to the mines. This is the natural elimination regulation set by the Mu family.

This night, Wei Zhen slept very unsteadily, always half-asleep and half-awake.

At dawn on the second day, the gates of the cages were opened, and everyone was driven into small iron cages large enough for fifty men, all of which were chained to the back of chariots made of fine iron, on which were a group of slave warriors with spears, and four white-haired mammoths.

Hundreds of chariots roared mightily, and the beasts roared for a long time, and rushed out of the tall gates of Broken Tooth City. After leaving the city gate, half of the chariot turned north and headed in the direction of the Great Rhino Mountains, which was the direction of the Rhino Medicine Field. The other half drove to the depths of the Ironwood Desert, which was naturally a fire and dark mine.

Wei Zhen's heart fell silent the moment the chariot rushed out of the city gate, and he didn't make any voice of defense. Any defense was useless here, and he knew it in his heart.

The perseverance in the depths of his eyes still sparkled and turned into persistence, and at the age of ten, he already had his own direction in his heart, and now his intention to walk in this direction is only more determined.

This result is also out of the imagination of another person who is far away from the world, that is, the "Flame General" Fan Tian. According to Fan Tian's expectations, Wei Zhen joined the slave army as a first-level spiritual warrior, if he was willing to cultivate diligently and had the wisp of spiritual power that he gave him, it would only take three years to stand out among the Mu slave army, although he might not be able to come to the Cold Mountain Realm, it would never be a problem to break away from the Chidi Realm.

One person who made all this happen, Mu Liancheng, the seventh prince.

Wei Zhen opened his eyes from meditation. There were people all around, and his eyes were strange, and the iron cage under his feet was not smooth on the frozen ground, but he still chose to meditate to purify his mind.

Telekinesis has always been his weakness, and this was shown when he first joined the Maoshan Sect. Master Mao Yiqing once encouraged him - "'Diligence can make up for clumsiness, and stupid birds fly first'." It is not difficult for a person to decide to start doing something, the difficulty is to persist for a long time, if you can continue to persevere, even if your qualifications are not as good as others, there will always be some gains. ”

Wei Zhen still didn't fully understand the meaning of Mao Yiqing's words, he just thought simply: "Since my mental power is weak, I will spend more time and strive to be not weaker than others." "It's like he copied that tadpole rune, if it doesn't work once, ten, hundred, thousand times, one day.

In fact, what Mao Yiqing values is the tenacity in his character.

The world that catches your eye is as red as fire, especially in the white world of ice and snow—this is the fire and dark mines of Broken Tooth City in the Great Ironwood Desert, with 100,000 miners and 20,000 garrisons.

The entire mine covers a radius of about fifty miles, and a wall of two feet high was built in the center of ten miles, and the fortress-like arrow towers were scattered in all directions, and soldiers patrolled and guarded it day and night.

The fire dark mine is rich in fire iron spirit ore, the reason why the word "dark" is added, is because there are occasional fire spirit mines with a grade of more than five grades here, this kind of ore is born with a rich fire attribute aura, which is used to forge spirit armor soldiers, which can improve the lethality of fire attribute spiritual cultivation skills, and can also partially reduce the loss of spiritual power, so it is very precious. However, because of the rampaging of the fire aura attribute, the death and injury rate of the mine slaves living here is also extremely high.

Wei Zhen was assigned to a five-person mining team, with three triplets in the team, named Zhao Da, Zhao Er, Zhao San, and an old man, Li Si.

It's not that the mine supervisor took special care of him, but that the supervisor had a dislike for the three brothers of the Zhao family, and deliberately assigned a ten-year-old child to this team.

According to the rules of the Fire Dark Mine, each team must complete a thousand catties of mining every day in order to distribute enough food, otherwise they will only go hungry.

On weekdays, this team is mainly responsible for digging by Zhao Da, and Zhao Er, Zhao San, and Li Si are responsible for carrying and cleaning, but they can barely complete the task.

Staring at the back of the overseer Zhang Song leaving, Zhao Er spat on the ground fiercely and scolded: "Dog's day, isn't this a wholehearted person? ”

He didn't even look at Wei Zhen here.

Zhao San's face was weak, and he said in a low voice: "If I hadn't been injured last time, he wouldn't have dared to do this!"

Zhao Da stopped the hoe in his hand, turned around, glanced at Wei Zhen with a smile, and said, "Are you two still manly?" By the way, what's your name, boy?"

"Wei Zhen, a native of Ziwu. Wei Zhen replied seriously. He could see that the three brothers had no ill will.

"Are you also a spiritual cultivator?" Zhao Da suddenly asked again, Li Si brought a bowl of tea and handed it to him, he took a sip and drank it clean.

At this time, it was the cold season in the middle of winter outside, but it was still hot as summer in the narrow tunnel.

Zhao Er's eyes lit up when he heard Zhao Da's question, but then he pursed his lips again, just because he heard the words "first-level spiritual warrior" come out of Wei Zhen's mouth.

Wei Zhen looked at his expression, knowing that he was disdainful in his heart, and said again: "My strength is not small. ”

Zhao Da, Zhao San and the old man Li Si glanced at each other, revealing a helpless look, thinking that Wei Zhen was just childish.

Wei Zhen didn't argue, he directly picked up a basket full of fire iron spirit mines on the ground, and walked steadily towards the outside of the mine road.