"Zhou Huan, Fang Zheng, why have you two been cultivating all the time, Senior Brother Zhan said that you will be in the mining area in a few days, and your cultivation is not bad for a few days." Pang Zhengyuan said to the two people who were sitting cross-legged and cultivating beside him.

"Senior Brother Pang, you should have heard of my qualifications, if you are not diligent, you may be able to cultivate this little bit in this life." Zhou Huan opened his eyes and said with a slight self-deprecation. Blinking his eyes to Fang Zheng, he saw that he was still cultivating silently, so he didn't continue to say anything.

Zhan Ping, the leader in front, silently manipulated the flying boat, and said: "Although the three of you have limited qualifications, you can make up for your clumsiness with diligence, don't be as lazy as your senior brother back then, you can't even protect the people you want to protect in the outside world, and only now have this kind of cultivation." ”

After hearing this, Pang Zhengyuan immediately replied: "Senior brother, I know, so I will also start cultivating diligently. As he spoke, he began to sit up, but of course he didn't know if he really listened.

After listening to what the senior brother said, Zhou Huan wondered if the cultivation realm was so cruel. He was more than ten years old and had not experienced anything too dangerous, and Senior Brother Zhan's words at this time reminded him that the cultivation realm outside the sect might not be as peaceful and indisputable as he thought, leaving a sense of caution in his heart.

Three days later, as the flying boat slowly slowed down, Zhou Huan and the four of them came to the Nanqing Mining Area under the jurisdiction of Xuanji Peak. As far as the eye can see, the entire mining area is very large, and as far as the eye can see, there are undulating mountains and mountains.

In the southeast, there is a large lake, and the surface of the lake is sparkling, like a silver mirror. There are many mines between these mountains, and the mortal miners below are constantly entering and exiting the various mines, transporting ore out in an orderly manner.

Nanqing mining area is located in the north of Ningchuan country, mainly produces hematite, the output is very large, Biluo Zong Xuanji Peak has nearly half of the hematite consumed here.

Hematite is the main material for the forging of weapons of low-level qi refining disciples, containing extremely weak aura, only slightly better than mortal iron, and it is not a precious ore.

Many mortal miners in Ningchuan would choose to come here to make a living, and for mortals, even if there were occasional small dangers in the mines, it was still within the affordable range compared to the good wages they received.

As the flying boat descended, Zhou Huan's four people's respective identity jade cards lit up, and they were sensed by the protective array in the center of the mining area, and then the four of them stepped on the stone road on the ground and waited in place. After a while, the disciples of Xuanji Peak, who had been waiting in the central hall of the mining area, walked quickly towards the four of them.

"In front of you, is it the junior disciple from the sect who came to rotate?" With a loud and joyful voice, everyone saw the four disciples who had been stationed in the mining area before. The man at the head looked to be in his thirties, and his face was happy, and the faces of the three people behind him were almost the same.

"This senior brother, in Xia Zhanping, came today with all the junior brothers behind him to hand over the supervision of the mining area." Zhan Ping replied.

"Okay, then senior brother, I won't talk too much nonsense, let's start now."

After a few incense sticks, Zhou Huan saw the four senior brothers leave on a flying magic weapon and fly quickly in the direction of the sect.

"Okay, I've finished handing over to my previous senior brother. For the next six years, the three of you will rotate on duty, and this is the permission token of the mine, and you will hold it. According to what Senior Brother Liu said before, there will be no danger in the mining area, at most it is a first-order demon beast, and you should be able to deal with it. If you really encounter a demon beast above the second order, notify me to deal with it. Zhan Ping said as he handed the token to Zhou Huan and the others.

"Now you can familiarize yourself with the various matters to be dealt with in the mining area in the future, and then go to Xiaoyan Peak in the east to find a place to live." After instructing the three of them, Zhan Ping walked towards the stone house courtyard of Xiaoyan Peak in the east.

Soon after, after getting familiar with his responsibilities in the mining area, Zhou Huan took the token, and Pang Zhengyuan and the two of them also came to the house area on the east side of the mining area, and each picked a stone house.

Zhou Huan walked into the stone house, and what caught his eye was a bed, a wooden table, a few wooden stools, and some small objects, although they were not as good as those in the sect, they were also clean and comfortable.

After cleaning up the whole house, Zhou Huan sat up in the house and said to himself: "This place is quiet halfway up the mountain, and the sound of the miners mining is not heard at all. Don't think about it too much, let's take a look at the cultivation speed here. Then he closed his eyes and began to silently run the five elements of the Biluo Sect's foundation.

In the following days, the three of them began to supervise the affairs of the mining area, and Zhou Huan and the three of them discussed, and one of them rotated for a month.

said that it was management, but in fact, it was just a few mortal supervisors who went up the mountain every day to inform Zhou Huan and others of the daily situation in the mining area, such as ore output, personnel deployment, and loss of utensils, there were not many things, most of the time, and the life and cultivation in the sect were no different.

A month later, in the stone house, Zhou Huan looked down at a low-level spirit stone that had completely turned into powder in his hand, smiled silently, and then touched his low-level storage bag.

There were also nearly a hundred low-level spirit stones in it, some of which had been saved by the sect every month over the years, and the rest had been lent to him by Duan Gaojie and Zhao Feng before leaving.

"Although my spiritual root qualifications are very poor, and it is very slow to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and now I have changed to directly absorb and transform spiritual energy from the spiritual stone, but the progress of cultivation is still much slower than in the sect."

"This is the third spirit stone consumed this month, I didn't expect to use spirit stones to assist cultivation, the consumption is so large, even if you add more than ten spirit stones that the sect sends disciples to the mining area every year as a supplement, it will not be able to make ends meet." Zhou Huan sat on the futon and frowned slightly, sighed, and silently calculated, according to his cultivation progress, these spirit stones may be used up in less than three years.

Time passed day by day, in addition to daily cultivation, Zhou Huan often discussed cultivation problems with the other two, and the three of them were about the same age, so they gradually became acquainted.

And Zhan Ping may be due to his personality, except for the previous way to the mining area, he communicated with the three of them, and rarely appeared in front of the three after the official handover of the task.

In the exchanges from time to time, Zhou Huan learned about the general situation of the two classmates, and it seemed that they were sympathetic. They are also from a monk family, and like Zhou Huan, the ancestors were the deacons of the outer gate of the sect before, and they did not break through to the foundation building period, so they spread out in various towns hundreds of miles away from the sect, leaving their bloodlines in the hope that future generations can light the lintel.

But it can be seen that the monk family with spiritual roots will also be inherited with the bloodline, and the probability of appearing is getting lower and lower, not surprisingly Pang Zhengyuan and Fang Zheng's generation, there are only two of them left in his two respective families.

Both of them are four spiritual roots, that is, pseudo-spiritual roots in the cultivation world, and their cultivation is extremely slow, if they can't make a name for themselves in the next ten years, they will basically have no chance to cultivate the truth.

For the human race, the spiritual root is the seed of cultivation, no matter whether it can blossom and bear fruit, at least those who have the spiritual root have the possibility of longevity.

According to the attributes of the spiritual roots, there are five kinds of spiritual roots, according to the number of spiritual roots in the monk's body, there are five kinds of spiritual roots, and if one of the attributes is missing, there are four spiritual roots, and so on.

The fewer the spiritual root attributes, the better the qualifications, and the faster the cultivation speed. Among them, the double spirit root cultivation realm is called the earth spirit root, and the single spirit root that is rare in a hundred years is the heavenly spirit root. In addition, there are also alien spirit roots such as Ice Wind Thunder Poison, which are mutated from the attributes of the Five Elements, which should be very rare.

Legend has it that it only takes one Jiazi for a Heavenly Spirit Root monk to cultivate to the Jindan realm, and for the vast majority of monks, this entry is beyond reach.

"Speaking of Zhou Huan, where are you from? It's been six months, and I haven't asked you yet. Pang Zhengyuan held a small grass in his mouth, sat on the stone pier in the yard and said to Zhou Huan on the side.

"Springs Town." Not long after Zhou Huan finished his daily practice, he was pulled out of the room by Pang Zhengyuan to chat.

"I know this place, I know, it's less than a hundred miles away from my hometown, and I think that if we enter the country too slowly and are driven down the mountain, we can still come and go often." Pang Zhengyuan said with a grin.

Then he turned his head and went in the other direction, and continued with a pout, "Anyway, Fang Zheng is too hard, he has been cultivating in his own room for the past few days, and he has also posted Brother Pang in front of the door Do Not Disturb." ”

Zhou Huan smiled after listening to it, and continued without a word.

In less than a stick of incense, Fang Zheng opened the door of the house and walked out, walked towards where the two of them were, and after sitting down, he said with a faint smile: "I heard that Brother Pang is talking about me, isn't this coming." ”

"You can figure it out, it's boring to practice all day long, and Zhou Huan is the same. If you want me to say that with our qualifications, we can't basically break through the middle stage of qi refining before the age of twenty-five, and the sect has given us this task, so it's better to have fun in time, and go home after a few years, and be a rich man in the world. ”

"Brother Pang's words are wrong, the spiritual root qualifications are not all, hard practice and chance are equally important. When I was a child, I read it in the miscellaneous books at home, and it is said that 10,000 years ago, there was a monk with four spiritual roots who stepped into the realm above the legendary Yuan Ying. Fang Zheng said with some yearning with memories.

"It's fun to listen to it, our great Biluo Sect is only one great elder. Okay, don't talk about that, can you go fishing with me today? Pang Zhengyuan said that compared to cultivation, he still often spends time on his own preferences when he is a teenager.

"I just broke through to the third layer of Qi refining today, so it's good to relax." Fang Zheng replied.

"Congratulations to Brother Fang, it seems that Brother Pang and I are also going to hurry." Zhou Huan was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile.

"Oh, I'll just say how can you come out, it turns out that something good has happened, good, go fishing, with this good luck, you will be able to hook up a big deal today." As he spoke, Pang Zhengyuan took out a fishing rod from his storage bag and pulled the two of them towards the big lake in the southeast.

The next day, under the stimulation of Fang Zheng's breakthrough to the third layer, Zhou Huan began to cultivate more diligently, but Pang Zhengyuan still went to Dahu from time to time to practice his so-called fishing skills on Dahu.

There is no time for cultivation, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.