Chapter 21: The Life of a Miner
No matter what Ye Tian and the prisoners were slandering in their hearts, in short, the orders of the sect could not be resisted. So, after the only mobilization of the sect master, Ye Tian and the others were divided into seven teams, each team was supervised by a deacon, and led them down the mine overnight.
Ye Tian carried a newly-issued mine hoe and a backpack containing spirit stones, followed behind the others, and silently walked through the rugged mine cave.
After about an hour of downward inclination, their team stopped in a relatively open grotto. There are many small caves around the grotto, which can only accommodate one or two people to pass through. The small hole is the mining tunnel, and this should be the platform that their team has booked.
Under the order of the overseer deacon, Ye Tian and the five of them each chose a roadway and began their dark miner careers.
Ye Tian entered his alleyway and found that it was much deeper than he imagined. He had been going hundreds of meters until he reached the end of the roadway.
Looking at the hard stone walls around him, Ye Tian was very emotional, and he didn't know how many years of mining it took to dig such a long roadway.
In fact, Ye Tian didn't know that the location they had reached was only a small part of the outermost part of the entire mine, and there was a much larger area inside that had not been surveyed by the Qingyun Sect. The entire underground mine tunnel is criss-crossed, forming a huge underground labyrinth.
Ye Tian looked at the mine hoe in his hand and found that this was actually a tool of the lower grade of the yellow rank, and only such a tool could dig a hard spirit stone mine, if it was an ordinary tool, it was estimated that he would not want to dig out a spirit stone in a day.
Bang!
Ye Tian's mine hoe struck on the hard stone wall, and a spark actually appeared, leaving only a small pit the size of a walnut, mocking Ye Tian's weakness on the stone wall.
"It seems that my current cultivation is still too low, and I can only dig these stone walls if I am promoted to the fifth level of the Quenching Body Realm. Presumably, it will only take a day or two, and the outside world is only an hour or two, and the overseer should not come in to check. β
So, Ye Tian gave up continuing to dig the spirit mine, directly entered the Wuji World, and began to cultivate.
In the Infinite World, Ye Tian was sitting on his knees, his five hearts facing the sky, and his body was surrounded by the aura of heaven and earth like smoke and mist. With the operation of his true qi, wisps of pure heaven and earth aura entered his body through the acupoints on the surface of his body, and then divided into the aura of the five attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, which were injected into his dantian respectively.
In Ye Tian's dantian, there was a void space, and there was a piece of jade pendant floating in the space, and five points of light of different colors were floating above the jade pendant.
The pale green one on the left side looks like a plant seed, the pale gold one on the right side looks like a metal particle, the pale red one on the front looks like a coal, the pale blue one on the back looks like a drop of water, and the pale yellow one in the middle resembles a speck of dust.
The points of light of the five colors respectively absorb the aura of the five different attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, forming a subtle cycle in the dantian, and began to rotate slowly.
With the rotation of the five-colored light points, Ye Tian's speed of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth continued to accelerate. These spiritual energies are like five-colored silk threads, continuously transporting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into Ye Tian's dantian.
Feeling that his body and mind had reached the best state, Ye Tian directly swallowed the nine Quenching Pills. The Dan power of the nine Quenching Pills was so violent that it rushed into Ye Tian's meridians like a bamboo, and rushed towards Ye Tian's dantian arrogantly.
Thundered!
There seemed to be a tornado blowing in Ye Tian's dantian, and the five-colored points of light flickered. Under the impact of the powerful Dan force, they are like flickering candles, which may be extinguished at any time.
Suddenly, the jade pendant in the dantian rotated, forming a spiritual energy vortex, absorbing all the excess furious pill power, leaving behind the energy that was exactly the upper limit of the absorption of the five-colored light points.
Boom!
Nine more quenching pills entered the abdomen, and the pill power exploded in Ye Tian's body like a torrent. Under the violent impact of the Dan force, the meridians and dantian in Ye Tian's body became a little wider.
Without warning, the five-colored light spots in Ye Tian's dantian suddenly shook, and the volume seemed to become slightly larger. Even the absorption speed of the external aura increased suddenly, and the smoke surrounding Ye Tian's body became even thicker.
After another hour, Ye Tian exhaled and booed, and slowly opened his eyes.
"Well, it took a total of two days, and finally the fifth level of the quenching realm, this time it should be able to dig the ore. Ye Tian touched the fragrant fox Xiaobai beside him and withdrew from the Wuji World.
Sure enough, Ye Tianyi hoeed down, and an egg-sized pit appeared on the stone wall, although it was not easy to dig the spirit stone to such an extent, but it was much stronger than the power of the eight horses with the quenching body.
An hour later, Ye Tian's mine hoe made a crisp sound of "ding", and he was overjoyed, knowing that he had dug up the spirit stone. Hurriedly digging around, and after a while, a milky white light appeared on the stone wall.
Ye Tian carefully dug out the spirit stone and took it in his hand to observe it carefully.
The knowledge about the spirit stone Ye Tian once learned, the spirit stone is the crystallization of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and each spirit stone is a six-sided cube of the same size, about an inch square. According to the quality rich in aura, it is divided into four grades: low-grade spirit stones, middle-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones.
The spirit stone that Ye Tian dug up was milky white, judging by the color, it should be a low-grade spirit stone with no attributes, which is also the most spirit stone in nature, and its value is about 10,000 gold coins. However, spirit stones are valuable treasures, and ordinary people will not exchange spirit stones for gold coins.
Ye Tian put the spirit stone into his backpack and continued to dig up.
......
Bite!
Another piece of non-attribute lower grade spirit stone was dug out by Ye Tian.
A day passed, and Ye Tian only dug up three spirit stones.
"Good guy, if you go on like this, when will you be able to dig up 10,000 spirit stones!" Ye Tian walked out of the alley where he worked, received a few pieces of dry cakes and a pot of water, didn't stay too long in the big grotto outside, and returned to the alley.
Ye Tian entered the Infinite World and decided to sleep first before going out to continue working. Not only does this save time, but it's also safe and secure, so you don't have to be afraid of someone else sneaking up on you. There were some prisoners outside, Ye Tian didn't dare to be too careless, otherwise it was likely that others would rob the spirit stone, or even kill people and take money.
"Xiao Bai, look what this is!" Ye Tian was holding a spirit stone in his hand, wanting Xiao Bai to open his eyes as well.
As soon as Xiao Bai saw the spirit stone in Ye Tian's hand, his two eyes suddenly smiled into a slit, and he snatched the spirit stone and held it in his arms, saying that he would not return it.
Ye Tian was helpless, shook his head and said, "Hey, if you like it, take it, anyway, it's out of reach of the goal of 10,000 spirit stones, and it's useless to have more of this one." β
When Xiaobai heard this, he hurriedly buried the spirit stone in the soil.
Ye Tian said with a smile: "It's really a little money fan, as soon as I say it to you, I will bury it quickly, who can force you!"
"Eh, why did you dig it up again? Forget it, I'm not going to laugh at you, let's bury it. Haha!"
So, Xiaobai buried the spirit stone again.
However, as soon as it was buried, Xiaobai dug it out again.
In this way, Xiaobai dug several times repeatedly, ran to Ye Tian and bit the corner of his pants.
"Oh, you mean, you also want to dig spirit stones?" Ye Tian seemed to understand what Xiaobai meant, and asked uncertainly.
Xiaobai nodded hurriedly, indicating that Ye Tian had guessed correctly.
"Okay, when I get some sleep first, I'll take you out to mine. I see how you dig up such a hard stone, hehe!"
......
Wake up refreshed.
Ye Tian took Xianghu Xiaobai out of the Wuji World.
As soon as Xiaobai landed, he wandered in the alleyway.
After turning around a few times, Xiaobai pointed to a place on the stone wall with his claws, repeatedly comparing the action of mining.
"Xiaobai, are you asking me to dig here?" Ye Tian was curious.
Xiaobai nodded.
"Okay, just listen to you, dig here, it's the same wherever you dig anyway. β
Bang!bang......
Bite!
"Yo he, I really dug up the spirit stone!" Ye Tian was very surprised, he didn't expect Xiao Bai to really point to the right place.
Xiaobai was also very happy, and he turned around in the alley two more times, and his little paw pointed to another place.
"Okay, try again if you're not in the good spirits. Ye Tian continued to pick up the mine hoe.
Bang!bang......
Bite!
"Haha! Another piece! Xiaobai is good, come again!" Ye Tian couldn't help but laugh wildly.
Bang!bang......
Bite......
A day later, in the Wuji World, Ye Tian looked at more than a hundred spirit stones, and his mouth couldn't close with a smile.
"I didn't expect it, Xiaobai, you are still a treasure hunting fox. Now it's good, as long as you are here, it is estimated that we will be able to complete the task in half a year, and then we will be free!"
From this day on, Ye Tian was able to dig up more than 100 spirit stones almost every day. But he is not a fool, and he is not naΓ―ve to hand over all the spirit stones to the sect. Others dig up more than a dozen spirit stones every day, but they can dig more than 100 pieces themselves, isn't there nothing to look for! If people discover Xiaobai's existence, killing people and seizing treasures is inevitable.
In the outermost stone cliff cave of the mine, two sect elders stayed here. One is to guard the prisoners and miners in the mine, and the other is to prevent the warriors of other sects from discovering the secrets here.
"Elder Liu, if you find such a spirit mine this time, the sect will definitely reward you heavily! According to the rules of the sect, you can account for half of all the spirit stones in the spirit mine, Elder Liu!"
"Elder Zhou, stop kidding. If it's a thousand eight hundred spirit stones, I can definitely get half of it. But this is a spiritual mine, where will the sect give me half of the reward, then I won't be the richest man in the sect!"
"Hey, that's right, there are too many rewards, I'm afraid other people will be red. With such a large spiritual mine, when will it be dug up with only these dozens of prisoners?"
"Don't worry, I heard that the sect will soon get another batch of miners, and the output of spirit stones will at least five times by then. β
"Hopefully soon, I don't want to stay here forever. β
"Yo, look at today's harvest, that person named Ye Tian has dug up more than twenty spirit stones, and his daily output of spirit stones is almost twice that of others!"
"Really, this kid is so lucky. Elder Zhou Qingshan dealt with it casually, but there was a vicious light flashing in his eyes.