Chapter 22 Return to the Mine

When I arrived at the nephrite mine, it was already the beginning of the hour. As soon as Han Nuo entered the mine realm, three Qi refining disciples greeted him. As soon as they saw the yellow cloud robe on his body, several people immediately stopped the magic weapon under their feet and waited respectfully in place.

"It's Uncle Han?" One of them, who had the highest cultivation, asked Han Nuo.

"This is the nephrite mine?" Han Nuo nodded in response to the disciple.

"Uncle Yu, this is the nephrite mine." The disciple replied, and Han Nuo nodded, and motioned for him to lead the way.

Moments later, the group arrived at a camp set up in a clearing.

"The camp is shabby, don't worry about Uncle Wang." The disciple who took the lead said politely to Han Nuo.

Han Nuo smiled and nodded, looked up and looked around, the first thing that caught his eye was the crescent-shaped mine that had been eaten away by more than half. "That's?" Hanno pointed to the mine.

"That's the nephrite mine. Our camp was still at the top of the hill. The disciple explained.

"How long can this mine be mined?" Han Nuo asked.

"About three years." When the disciple replied, Han Nuo nodded and didn't ask anything more. The disciples took him to the largest tent in the camp, where Han Nuo would live for three years.

In fact, the so-called nephrite is nothing more than something similar to white marble. It's just that because its texture is soft and very easy to cut and process, it is often used by various sects to build pavilions and halls. The largest buyer of this mine in Tianyunmen is the Wan Chamber of Commerce, which is said to be used to build a kind of cave house that can be carried around.

Of course, the nephrite jade that the immortals could easily cut with their flying swords, but the mortals only used the most primitive mining method to cut the stone into small pieces with a steel chisel, so the entire mine had a layer of foggy dust at any time.

Obviously, this is not a beautiful job. However, Han Nuo didn't particularly mind, after all, the environment in the cement factory was even worse than here. He first tidied up his residence, and then took out some daily necessities one by one and put them away.

Just as Han Nuo was digging out his things, he suddenly noticed the portrait that Aunt Ming handed him. He unfolded the portrait and noticed that the person in the portrait seemed familiar. He looked at the portrait several times, and finally remembered who this person was.

Han Nuo immediately walked out of the tent and summoned the disciple who had led the way before.

"Zhuo Ke see Uncle Shi." The disciple respectfully saluted Han Nuo.

"Do you recognize this man?" Han Nuo directly handed the portrait in his hand to Zhuo Ke.

"This is ......" Zhuo Ke looked at the portrait and looked at Han Nuo with a puzzled expression, "Uncle Shi has been to the mine before?" ”

"This person is an old friend of mine, who disappeared a few years ago, and asked me to inquire on his behalf." As soon as Han Nuo's words came out, Zhuo Ke understood what he meant. "If Uncle Shi had come a few days earlier, I'm afraid he would still be able to see this person. Don't hide it from my uncle, this person has been in the mine longer than all our brothers and sisters here. ”

"Where is this man now?" As soon as Han Nuo heard Zhuo Ke's words, he asked anxiously. Drok didn't answer him immediately, just lightly pointed in a distant direction.

Han Nuo looked in that direction, it was the pile of bones that he almost died back then. Without saying a word, he flew towards the pile of bones, only to see a man with a blur of flesh and blood, half of his left arm already white.

Han Nuo recognized the bloodstained face of this person, it was indeed the strong man who had given him a steamed bun back then, and it was also the person named Luo Jun that Aunt Ming asked her to find, Luo Xin'er's father. Without hesitation, he lifted the man up and led him back to his tent.

For the next two days, Han Nuo has been busy inside and out. Fortunately, Luo Jun had not yet lost his breath when he found him. However, since Han Nuo didn't know how to heal spells, he had to use the same set of medical methods on Earth to deal with it.

Han Nuo first fed Luo Jun some liquid food, after all, the biggest threat to being thrown in that pile of bones was actually the lack of water and food. He was then cleaned from all over his body and all visible wounds were bandaged. As for the areas that were infected and inflamed, he tried to deal with them with a low-level healing talisman, but failed.

"Uncle Shi, this is the hot water you want." Drock entered the tent with a basin of water.

Han Nuo turned his head to look at it, nodded and motioned for Zhuo Ke to put the basin down, "Are we short of water here?" ”

"There is a bit of a shortage, and the water used on him in the past few days is the daily supply of the No. 10 miners here." Zhuo Ke glanced at the strong man lying on the bed, and couldn't understand why the new uncle was so generous to this mortal.

"You do something for me." Han Nuo took out a bunch of storage bags, "This one, there is some food in it, you arrange for someone to distribute it to those miners." Then, you take this letter and personally help me go to Anfeng City, go to a place in the city called the Han family's business name, find their person in charge, and fill all these empty storage bags according to my list and bring them back. ”

Zhuo Ke obediently took all the things, and although he hesitated, he still did as Han Nuo asked.

Not long after Drok left, Han Nuo went around the mine and found that his disciples had already distributed food to the miners. As soon as Han Nuo appeared, the miners who had received the food knelt on the ground one after another, thanking Han Nuo for his kindness.

Han Nuo ignored the kneeling people and summoned the nearest disciple. "Disciple Chen Zhao, I've seen Uncle Shi."

"Where does our water come from?" Han Nuo asked this disciple named Chen Zhao.

"Uncle Yu, it's all from a mountain spring a hundred miles away that the brothers and sisters drew from." Chen Zhao replied.

"Why don't you dig a well here?" Han Nuo asked.

"Outside the mine is the Maoxian River, and no one knows if there is any poison in the groundwater nearby. So everybody goes outside to get water, and that's how it has been for a hundred years. Chen Zhao looked at Han Nuo and seemed to understand his thoughts, "Uncle Shi, this mine can be dug for another three years at most, there is no need to bother with that thought." ”

"Well, I see, you go down first, thank you." Han Nuo frowned, "In addition, the restrictions on the miners' diet will be lifted, and everyone will be given food and water as needed. ”

"But, Uncle Shi, in this way, our supplies will not last for five days." When Chen Zhao heard Han Nuo's order, he muttered in his heart.

"I have my own arrangements for this, you just have to act according to my arrangement." Han Nuo waved his hand and motioned for Chen Zhao to do it immediately, and after Chen Zhao received the order, he summoned a group of disciples to make arrangements.

Han Nuo flew around the mine several times with his sword, surveying the terrain of the entire mine, and with the experience he had accumulated in digging wells in Anfeng City, he thought that a well should be dug in the northwest direction of the mine.

He first used one of the techniques of the Spiritual Concealment Technique to enter the underground of the mine to investigate, and he found that his Earth Escape Method could not penetrate below twenty feet above the ground, which surprised him a little.

It turned out that since he built the foundation, he could begin to practice the advanced spells in the Spiritual Hidden Arts. But I don't know if the predecessors who created this exercise used all their culture in the name of low-level spells, and the names of high-level spells were simple and straightforward. The upgraded version of Tuyin Vientiane is directly called Tu Dun, and the upgraded version of Shui Yin Bailiu is naturally called Shui Dun.

And this method of escaping from the earth, although it can allow Han Nuo to escape into the soil, it is still limited by attributes. Han Nuo speculated from another angle that there must be some kind of minerals containing metal components in the ground here.

However, Han Nuo did not rush to study the type of mineral, but explored the underground water source, and as a result, he found a very rich groundwater in the location he chose at the beginning.

In order to confirm the safety of this water source, Han Nuo escaped into the vicinity of the Maoxian River to investigate. He discovered a very strange fact, that is, all the water of the river was just right above the riverbed, and there was no river water seeping into the mud below the riverbed, let alone mixing the water of the river into the underground water source.

With this information, Hanno began to dig the well. With a sword of wind and thunder, digging a well is only a matter of moments. And as the only descendant of the Tianyun Gate Refining Elder, it didn't take him too long to make a set of well killing devices. Soon, the well was built.

After building the well, Han Nuo summoned the disciple named Chen Zhao. He taught him how to use the pressure well, and asked him to take a few disciples to build a cistern next to the well. For several immortal cultivators, this matter was also extremely easy.

It didn't take long for news of the availability of wells to spread throughout the mine. The mortal miners were afraid that the well water was poisonous, but after Han Nuo took the lead in drinking a scoop of water, everyone scrambled to taste the well water.

At this moment, Han Nuo's imperial sword flew up and said to the people below in a small but audible voice from the air, "Everyone here, listen to me. My name is Hanno, and I'm going to be working in this mine for a few years. From today onwards, the mine will no longer distribute food and drink according to the amount of mining, and everyone's daily mining contribution will be entered into the account book, and when you leave in the future, you can use the contribution here to go to the Han family business in Anfeng City to receive some silver taels as a reward. I promise you that with me here, you will have food and clothing. ”

As soon as Han Nuo's words came out, the miners who were accustomed to being oppressed first hesitated, couldn't believe what he said, and began to discuss in twos and threes. However, Chen Zhao immediately flew towards Han Nuo, "Uncle Han, the people here are all felons we bought from the government, even if a few of them came in unjustly, there is no possibility of teaching them to leave alive." Is there something wrong with Uncle Shi's move? ”

"It's okay, I'll take care of any problems." Han Nuo smiled and said, "There are dozens of spirit stones here, you can take them and share them with your senior brothers." At that time, you will also rotate, just one mine, I don't want to spend too much time looking at these mortals. ”

Chen Zhao took the storage bag, transferred the spirit stone into his pocket, and returned the empty storage bag to Han Nuo. "Since Uncle Shi has his own arrangements, the disciple will obey his orders."

Han Nuo smiled, didn't say anything, and fell back to the ground, "Are there any of you who can read and keep accounts?" He asked the crowd.

"If the immortal master doesn't dislike the contemptible old man, I can do it." A skinny man in his fifties stepped forward.

Han Nuo looked at the old man, took out a pen and paper and asked him to write down his name, and then nodded, "You will be in charge of the accounts of this mine in the future, and you must be fair and just, and there must be no favoritism." ”

"Obey the orders of the Immortal Master." The old man knelt down ecstatically and bowed to the ground.

"Then go on with your work. Remember, 10,000 cubic meters of nephrite ore per month, this is the target given to me by the sect. As long as you don't embarrass me, I promise you'll be better off than before. Han Nuo dropped a word and flew away.

It was only at this moment that those miners believed Han Nuo's words, and everyone knelt on the ground and shouted thank you in the direction where Han Nuo flew away.

Over the next two days, Tak returned from Anfeng City and brought back a large amount of supplies. Each miner was given two new sets of coarse cloth clothes, as well as some gloves and shoes.

Zhuo Ke was taken aback when he heard what Han Nuo had said to the miners at first, and prepared to report the matter to the sect. But later, after getting his share of the spirit stone, and finding that he only needed to arrange one or two people to inspect the mine once a day, and the rest of the people could concentrate on cultivation, he was content with the status quo.

Han Nuo, on the other hand, found two people who knew a little about medical skills among the miners and arranged for them to take care of Luo Jun. With the medicine he brought back from Anfeng City, Luo Jun was able to save his life and occasionally wake up for a while.

After everything was arranged in the mine, Han Nuo began to practice the Five Elements Thousand Transformations. It turned out that in the experience of Aunt Ming's ancestor about the cultivation of the Five Spirits, this Five Elements Thousand Transformations Technique was a very key exercise.

First of all, after cultivating the Five Elements Thousand Transformations, the transformation between spiritual powers of different attributes can be realized, so that many exercises that are subject to the attributes of spiritual power can be interoperable. Secondly, when the Five Elements Thousand Transformations Technique is cultivated to a certain level, the spiritual power of different attributes can also be combined and transformed, such as combining the two attributes of gold and wood, and the thunder attribute can be born.

For Han Nuo at this time, the biggest use of this exercise was that it could make up for the lack of spiritual concealment, after all, he was still ready to explore the bottom of this mine.

On a moonlit night half a month later, Chen Zhao came to Han Nuo's tent, "Uncle Han, the flying boat sent by the sect to fetch ore has arrived. ”

"I've only been here for a long time, why is it time to deliver?" Before he could get out of the tent, Han Nuo's voice came out first. He came out to look at Chen Zhao and found that there was still a person sitting outside the tent. He took a closer look and found that it was Luo Jun.

"This flying boat usually arrives on the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day of each month, and the disciples don't know why the sect has arranged it this way." Chen Zhao replied.

"Then our current inventory, is it enough for delivery?" Han Nuo asked.

"Uncle Yu, we currently have 20,000 square meters of inventory, I just came to ask Uncle Shi whether to hand over all of them, or keep some of them for delivery next month?" Chen Zhao replied.

"Then give them 12,000 square meters." Han Nuo released his divine sense and glanced at it slightly, "Brother Luo is recovering from his serious injuries, don't wait for me here, go back to your tent first, and I'll come back to visit you later." After saying this, Han Nuo flew away in the direction of the northeast.

The flying boat that came to transport goods looked very similar to the boat that crossed the immortals. It's just that there are a lot of cabins and a lot more strange cage-like things. The person in charge of escorting the flying boat was a foundation building monk with four Qi refining disciples, and Zhuo Ke had already brought two junior disciples to meet the five of them for Han Nuo. As soon as he saw Han Nuo coming, the foundation monk greeted him.

"Han Nuo has seen Senior Brother." Before the two met, Han Nuo bowed his hand first.

"Senior Brother Han, don't come unharmed." The foundation building monk was actually a female cultivator who had a relationship with each other on the cloud refining platform back then, and as soon as she saw Han Nuo, she looked him up and down with a pair of big flickering eyes.

"Hey, it's Senior Sister...... Han Nuo smiled awkwardly, "I have helped Senior Sister before, and I haven't invited Senior Sister Fang Ming." ”

"My name is Nan Qian." This woman is also straightforward.

"It turned out to be Senior Sister Nan, the conditions of the mine are limited, and I can't pick up the wind and wash the dust for Senior Sister, I hope Senior Sister will forgive me." Han Nuo summoned Zhuo Ke, passed on a few words to him, and then chatted with Nan Qian again.

It turned out that the cage-like thing on the flying boat was specially used to hold ore, and the nephrite ore of 12,000 square meters was packed without a few cages. Han Nuo guessed that it was some kind of space-type magic weapon, but it was obvious that Nan Qian didn't know how it worked.

Nan Qian, on the other hand, was more concerned about how Han Nuo had cultivated to the perfection of Qi refining in just one year, and had successfully built a foundation in the Cloud Refining Platform in such a special way. The two exchanged some cultivation experiences, and several Qi refining disciples next to them also listened to them carefully.

After all the nephrite mines had been placed, Zhuo Ke and Chen Zhao brought five gift boxes with them. "Fellow Daoists, this is a gift from Uncle Han to you." Zhuo Ke handed the gift box in his hand to Nan Qian.

"Huh......" Nan Qian swept the gift box with her divine sense, and there were some rouge and ornaments inside. What does Senior Brother Han mean by this? ”

"He ran a business in a layman's house, and occasionally had rare goods of good condition. Although immortal cultivators should abandon mundane things, it is harmless to occasionally enjoy a little thing that is good to mortals, so please don't dislike it. Han Nuo arched his hand.

"Since that's the case, I won't shirk it, so as not to hurt Senior Brother Han's heart." Nan Qian waved her hand and put the gift box in her pocket, and the rest of the disciples also put away the things given by Han Nuo when they saw this.

After receiving the gift and exchanging a few words, Nan Qian left with the four Qi Refining disciples in the flying boat.

"Uncle Han, you are so generous, aren't you afraid that the huge family business will be dissolved?" Seeing that the flying boat was far away, Zock leaned over and asked.

"You are also a person who cultivates immortals, does the silver two mean to you and me? If you could make me spend more time meditating every day with just a few things, wouldn't you be willing to? Han Nuo said as he looked in the direction of the flying boat's departure.

"But according to what Uncle Shi said, why don't you just run the business of the immortal cultivation world like our family?" Chen Zhao also asked.

"If all the things you earn are beneficial to your cultivation, are you willing to use them to give them away?" Han Nuo asked rhetorically, and everyone was immediately enlightened. "Well, follow me, there will be meat to eat." Han Nuo smiled and threw a small porcelain bottle to Zhuo Ke, "There is a little Yiyuan Pill in it, which is of some benefit to your current cultivation, so take it and share it with the senior brothers." With that, he left, leaving a few disciples to thank him.