Chapter 108, Pickaxe Gang
In the boring and monotonous days, with this white deer as his companion, Lin Yi didn't feel lonely anymore, the only thing that bothered him was that he still hadn't entered the Qi refining period.
Three years have passed, Lin Yi has become a "wild man", his hair is up to his waist, his black beard hangs down to his chest, he is wearing animal skins and leaves, and the previous set of linen clothes has long been worn and tattered, and he can no longer wear it.
Looking at his reflection in the river, Lin Yi was thinking about whether he should trim his beard and go to the small town outside the valley to buy two sets of clothes and come back.
"Yo-yo."
Bailu came to his side and arched Lin Yi's arm, Lin Yi smiled, touched its head, and said with a smile: "Brother Lu, I don't have anything good for you to eat today." ”
"Yo-yo."
Bailu blinked, suddenly bit his hand lightly, and pulled in one direction.
"Brother Deer, what are you going to do?"
Lin Yi was curious, he followed Bailu all the way, crossed a hill, crossed a small river, and finally came to a high mountain.
"Yo Yo!"
Bailu turned around and shouted at Lin Yi a few times, and then deftly climbed the mountain, Lin Yi was curious, and kept climbing up.
Halfway up the mountain, Bailu stopped, and Lin Yi found that a cave appeared in front of him.
The cave was formed naturally, but at the entrance of the cave there were two stone piers, and it was obvious that these two stone piers were originally a boulder, but they were cut as smooth as a mirror by all two sections, and it is not known who did it.
Bailu motioned for Lin Yi to enter the cave, but Lin Yi didn't dare to act rashly.
"In this cave, there may be people living in it, although I don't know if it's still there, but it's definitely not an ordinary person, maybe it's an immortal cultivator!"
Lin Yi was a little excited in his heart, but more nervous.
The world of cultivating immortals is extremely dangerous, and the ghost knows if someone has set a trap in this cave, in case he is hit, but no one can save him.
Lin Yi didn't think that the white deer would harm him, but the white deer was an animal after all, it would not understand the sinister nature of people's hearts, and only wanted to be good to Lin Yi.
Coming to the front of the cave lightly, Lin Yi looked inside, the cave was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.
After thinking about it, Lin Yi retreated again.
"Brother Lu, thank you for your kindness, I don't know the situation in the cave, I can't go in easily, let's talk about it in a few days."
Touching Bailu's body, Lin Yi turned around to leave.
"Yo Yo!"
Bailu was anxious and grabbed Lin Yi, and then it ran into the cave by itself, Lin Yi didn't have time to stop it, so he saw it run out again, with a gray porcelain bottle hanging from its mouth.
"What is this?" Lin Yi took the porcelain bottle and found that it was labeled: "Washing the Myelin Pill".
"This is an elixir?"
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, he could now be sure that this cave must be the cave where some immortal cultivator lived!
"Cleansing Pill, it should transform the physique, it will be useful to me!"
Lin Yi's heart was hot, but he didn't take it immediately, but decided to go into the cave to find out.
Bailu is fine when he goes in, and there should be no danger inside.
Lin Yi made a torch, lit it and walked into the cave, the cave is not deep, there are many small spaces in it, it can be seen which is the bedroom, which is the alchemy pharmacy, and which is the kitchen......
Lin Yi walked around and found no body, and he guessed that the owner of this cave had either abandoned this place, or died outside, or had ascended.
"Hehe, no matter where the original owner goes, he probably won't come back."
Lin Yi touched the thick dust on the stone table, as well as the cobwebs in the corner, and said with a smile: "In the future, this place will be mine!" ”
He rummaged around the cave, except for some daily necessities, there was nothing of value in it, and the only valuable thing was the bottle of myelin-washing pill that Bailu gave him.
There were three myelin-washing pills in the bottle, Lin Yi put them under his nose and smelled them, but there was no smell.
"This thing won't expire, will it? Will you die if you eat it? ”
Lin Yi pinched the marrow cleansing pill and was entangled in his heart, and Bailu shook his head, as if he looked down on Lin Yi and disliked him for being timid.
Lin Yi laughed and said, "I was despised by an animal, so it's better to give it a go than to keep stuck!" ”
After speaking, he swallowed the marrow cleansing pill in one gulp.
Afterwards...... He had a stomach stretch for a month.
If he hadn't been physically strong, he would have been pulled to death.
"Brother Deer, you hurt me!"
"Yo Yo!"
……
However, after his stomach stopped being troubled, Lin Yi found that his body had undergone gratifying changes.
He can sense the aura of heaven and earth!
As long as he closed his eyes and operated the Purple Yang Divine Skill, he could feel that there were pale green points of light revolving around him.
But when I reached out to grab it, the point of light flew to the side, and I couldn't catch it at all.
"Reiki! Definitely Reiki! ”
The form of the aura was recorded in the "Purple Sun Divine Scroll", which was exactly the same as what Lin Yi saw, so he concluded that he had finally entered the qi refining period!
Of course, he had only just touched the threshold.
But this has already made Lin Yi ecstatic.
[Name]: Fang Yu
[Age]: 60
[Talent]: Immortality
[Realm]: The beginning of the Qi refining period
[Exercises]: Dragon Phase, Ziyang Divine Skill......
[Martial Arts]: Twelve-style Fuhu Fist, Seven Evil Fists, Camouflage ......
[Skill]: [Mining (Starter)] (100/100)
……
"If according to the age of human beings, I am already an old man, but fortunately, I have immortality, so that I can enter the world of cultivating immortals."
Lin Yi looked at his attribute panel and sighed in his heart: "Although my physique is rubbish, I have surpassed many people, even if those people are geniuses, but in the face of the years, they will eventually turn into a pinch of loess." ”
"And I will live with heaven and earth, and shine with the sun and the moon!"
There is no time in the mountains, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Yi has been cultivating in this cave for ten years.
On this day, he sat cross-legged on the stone bed, running the Purple Sun Divine Skill, and the aura around him began to be attracted to him, and finally gradually submerged into his body, nourishing his lifeline.
Lin Yi's body emitted a faint fluorescence, reflecting the dark cave in a turquoise color.
"Yo Yo!"
Bailu walked in and called out to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi let out a sigh of relief and closed his efforts.
"Brother Deer, I'm leaving."
Lin Yi stood up, touched Bailu's head, and said, "The aura here is too thin to help me condense the aura of the sea, I want to change to a place with more abundant aura." ”
In the past ten years, he has absorbed all the spiritual energy that can be absorbed in this valley into his body.
At first, it was not a small help to his body, but as time went by, the aura became thinner and thinner, and the effect on Lin Yi became smaller and smaller, and finally now, Lin Yi could not feel the change at all.
So, he decided to leave the valley and go elsewhere in search of Reiki.
Having said that, Lin Yi didn't know where the aura was abundant, so he could only go out and try his luck.
Bailu was reluctant to let go of Lin Yi, biting his animal skin skirt.
"Hey, hey! Don't pull it, if you pull it again, I'll have a bare ass! ”
In the end, Lin Yi still said goodbye to Bailu and left this valley.
The cave of that immortal cultivator was cleaned by Lin Yi, maybe when he would come back.
Bailu stood on the peak of the mountain, looking at Lin Yi in the distance, and the cry of Yo Yo came from afar......
In a small river, Lin Yi washed the dirt off his body, and simply treated his hair and beard with a knife, at least he could see his appearance clearly.
However, if he rashly ran to the town in his current state, he was afraid that he would still be driven away as a savage, so he decided to learn from Sun Wukong and find a family to steal a piece of clothing to change into.
Passing by a house, Lin Yi saw the man's clothes drying outside, stole them, put them on himself, and then headed towards the nearest town.
Lin Yi, who has entered the Qi cultivation period, can not eat or drink for a short time, but he cannot reach the realm of Bigu, so he still needs to eat.
Coming to this small city, Lin Yi simply ate a little food, and then began to sense the aura around him.
"Well, this is not as good as the valley where I live in seclusion."
He shook his head and overheard two diners chatting next to him.
"I heard that someone in Hanxingling has dug up a spirit stone! As a result, he was snatched away, and they said that the man was an immortal! ”
"Really? Are there really immortals in this world? ”
"I'm also hearsay, but the mutton fat and black paste of Hanxingling are famous far and wide, and the price is expensive, so it's hard to find a piece!"
After that, Lin Yi didn't listen to the conversation between the two much, and his mind was now full of the word "spirit stone".
"In the memory of the original owner, there is indeed a legend that someone in Hanxingling dug up the spirit stone, but after so many years, no one has dug it."
Lin Yi pinched the wine glass and said secretly: "Could it be that the spirit stone has seen the light of day again?" ”
"Well, I can go to Cold Star Ridge and try my luck."
Although Lin Yi didn't know how much the effect of the spirit stone on the immortal cultivator was, he had never eaten pork but had seen the pig run, and he had read so many immortal cultivation novels in his previous life, and they all said that the spirit stone was very precious, and it should be about the same.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi settled the bill, packed his bags, and embarked on a journey to Hanxingling.
Returning to his home in the mine again, Lin Yi had mixed feelings in his heart.
This dilapidated wooden house has been burned by fire, and now it has collapsed, Lin Yi guessed that someone must have come to his house to arrest someone after he killed someone, but he was not found, so he set fire to the house to vent his anger.
Lin Yi walked into the ruins of the wooden house, turned through it briefly, and found his pickaxe, but the wooden handle of the pickaxe had been burned.
Lin Yi remade a wooden handle, repaired the pickaxe, and then carried it towards the Cold Star Ridge Mine.
At this time, Hanxingling was no longer controlled by the Black Dragon Gang, but was replaced by another gang called the Pickaxe Gang.
This pickaxe gang is blacker than the Black Dragon Gang, and the miners need to hand over a piece of white jade money every month, and they must sign a deed of sale with the pickaxe gang, and they will be slaves of the pickaxe gang for the rest of their lives!
When Lin Yi first arrived, no one cared about his background and background, as long as he was willing to sign a deed of sale and pay money, the pickaxe gang would welcome him.
Seeing Lin Yi stupidly press his handprint, Wang Ping, the manager of the Pickaxe Gang, sneered in his heart: "Another idiot has taken the bait!" ”
"You have to pay a piece of white jade every month as a part of the money, you just came, you won't accept it, but you must pay it next month!"
"Haole, thank you Pingye!"
Lin Yi nodded and bowed, looking humble.
In fact, he felt funny in his heart, he could destroy the entire Pickaxe Gang with a single move now, but he felt that he was an immortal cultivator, and it was a bit of a loss of identity to kill these ordinary people.
It's like an adult going to abuse a child of a few years old, too boring.
"I'll stay here for a while to see if I can feel the aura, and if I don't, I'll leave here and continue to look for a place with aura."
With such a plan, Lin Yi stayed and became an ordinary miner in Hanxingling.
Every day, he followed other miners to work in the mine, and after decades of war, after the baptism of war, the old miners fled from the dead, so now they meet all fresh faces.
However, for the sake of insurance, Lin Yi still used a false face to show people.
He felt the aura while working, but after half a month, he didn't gain anything.
"Rumors are rumors after all, this Cold Star Ridge has no aura, and it is impossible to have spirit stones."
"Stay for another month at the end, and if you haven't harvested yet, leave."
Lin Yi shook his head secretly, thinking of leaving.
On this day, when it was time to hand over the money, the miners lined up in the square and handed over the white jade in turn.
Wang Ping sat on the Taishi chair, posing like Chen Bahu back then, drinking tea, and looking comfortable.
Several of his men kept accounts and collected the miners' jade.
"Li Liu's white jade piece, the money was settled last month!"
"A piece of dog protein jade, the money was settled last month!"
……
Lin Yi has "Jin Shi Zhi" with him, not to mention digging a few pieces of white jade, even mutton fat and black paste are not a problem, but he only dug two or three pieces of white jade to deal with the difference, and even if the others are encountered, he is too lazy to dig them.
He has now begun to cultivate immortals, and the treasures of the mortal world are becoming less and less useful for him.
After he completely became an immortal cultivator, the gold, silver and jewelry would be dung.
"Fang Yu and white jade, the money was settled last month!"
Wang Ping smiled and nodded to Lin Yi: "Brother Fang, do a good job!" ”
"Yes, Master Ping!"
Lin Yi nodded.
At this time, a thin young man standing behind him stepped forward, with a sad expression, and said in a low voice: "Master Ping, can I pay this month's share of the money next month?" ”
Wang Ping raised his eyebrows, stared at the young man with unkind eyes, and said in a weird manner: "Yo, isn't this the descendant of the lord of the Chen Kingdom, the eldest prince of Chen Bin?" You already owe me money last month, and I gave you a month of grace, why, do you owe it again this month? ”
In the face of Wang Ping's ridicule, Chen Bin's face was red and white, he was dignified with the royal blood of the Chen Kingdom, and now he has fallen into such an end, it is simply not as good as a pig and a dog.
But in order to survive, he had to beg in a low voice: "Master Ping, don't laugh, what a big prince, I am an unlucky miner...... I haven't dug up the white jade, so please give me another month, and next month I promise to make up all the money I owe. ”
Wang Ping sighed and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you are really a complete waste!" In the past few months since I came, I couldn't dig a piece of white jade, and I looked at Fang Yu, and I handed over the money in the first month. ”
"What about you, don't blame me for being ruthless, the state has national laws and gang rules, you can't pay the money for several months, I can only punish you according to the rules."
"Come on, serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and eat the whipping!"
Suddenly, two big men walked up, one on the left and one on the right, set up the thin Chen Bin, and walked towards the execution rack in the center of the square.
"Master Ping! Spare me! I'll make up all my money next month! ”
Chen Bin begged for mercy, but Wang Ping turned a deaf ear and continued to drink his tea.
Lin Yi stood aside, watching Chen Bin being beaten to the ground, and shook his head secretly: "This person has been pampered since he was a child, where has he ever suffered this kind of hardship, this whip is down, and half of his life is estimated to be lost." ”
But it had nothing to do with him, and he turned and returned to his quarters, a rebuilt cabin.