"You two get out of here," the men who didn't have time to take the basket because Zhao Dong brought the tiger suddenly shouted.

I saw that there was a pair of brothers in front of the basket that a few of them didn't have time to take, and they were the pair of brothers that Zhao Dong saw when he was assessing the ladder in front of them.

I saw that the elder brother of the two brothers was facing those people with a thorn in his hand that he had gotten out of nowhere, while the younger brother hid behind him timidly.

"Brother, I'm afraid. Chen Fu looked at the people surrounding them and was a little scared, Tian Zheng patted Chen Fu on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, when it's over, brother will buy you sugar gourds to eat." ”

Although Tian Zheng was stabilizing his younger brother, the thorns in his hand had already pierced his palm, and blood had already slipped down from his palm.

I have to say that those people were also taken aback by Tian Zheng's appearance and didn't dare to step forward at all, because they saw that whoever dared to go up, Tian Zheng would dare to fight with whomever he wanted.

None of them were willing to fight hard with a madman like Tian Zheng, and after the last few discussions, a representative was sent to communicate.

"We can let you go, but you must leave half of the herbs in our basket. "This is their final bottom line, if Tian Zheng and they don't agree, they can only fight.

"Okay" Tian Zheng agreed to their request, left half of the medicinal materials, and then came to the rugged man and handed over the medicinal materials.

Because most of the people in front of them have already returned, even if there are people who come back next, those people haven't gotten much medicinal herbs.

In the end, only the two brothers Tian Zheng and Zhao Dong successfully passed the assessment, which also made Zhao Dong a little surprised by the value of the medicinal herb he picked.

If the value of medicinal materials is not high, how can you pass the assessment just one plant? I just don't know how high the value is.

"Now that the people who become the miscellaneous disciples have been chosen, those of you who have not passed the assessment can go home. You can't take these medicinal herbs away from the sect, but the sect will also pay you for picking them. After the rugged man put away all the medicinal herbs, he gave the others the corresponding remuneration, but he did not give Zhao Dong any remuneration.

Zhao Dong didn't care about the rough man not paying him, after all, he had just picked a medicinal herb and was embarrassed to ask for that reward, not to mention that he still had to stay in the sect, it was not cost-effective to offend him.

When it got dark, the rugged man took Zhao Dong and the three of them who passed the assessment to a residence.

As for those who did not pass the examination, the sect has already sent people back to their homes, and I am afraid that they will be able to arrive home after dawn.

"The three of you have a good rest here tonight, and tomorrow morning I will take you to go through the formalities of the miscellaneous disciples. After the rugged man arranged the accommodation of Zhao Dong and the three of them, he left, and the three of them were tired for a day, so they fell asleep directly.

After a night of silence, Zhao Dong and the three of them woke up to the shouts of the rough man.

"Give you a stick of incense time to tidy up, and wait a minute, you will follow me to go through the formalities of the miscellaneous disciples. There was only time for a stick of incense, and Zhao Dong and the three of them were in a hurry to tidy up and wash.

After a stick of incense, Zhao Dong and the three of them appeared in front of the rugged man in a good time, and the rugged man didn't say anything but left with them.

After walking a short distance, they came to a cave, although they were a little curious about why they came to the cave, but Zhao Dong and the three of them didn't dare to ask.

Soon a man like a skinny monkey came over, and he left without knowing what the rough man had said to him.

"Are you the newly recruited miscellaneous disciples this year?" Hearing the skinny monkey's question, Tian Zheng hurriedly replied, "Senior brother, we are this year's miscellaneous disciples. ”

"Come with me. The skinny monkey turned around and walked towards the cave, and Zhao Dong and the three of them followed him into the cave.

Torches are placed on the walls of both sides of the cave, so that people can see clearly in the cave.

As you go deeper and deeper, the tunnel in the cave becomes more and more open.

After walking for a short time, I came to a square-like place where other people could be seen.

Most of these people were unkempt, and almost all of them were resting on the ground.

And around this square are tunnels that I don't know what they are used for, but it depends on the situation because it has something to do with what they are doing.

"These three are the new miscellaneous disciples, you should receive them well, and follow them, the old people, to understand what you need to do. The previous words were said to the others, and the latter words were said to Zhao Dong and the others, and after finishing speaking, the skinny monkey left.

"New here, do you know the rules?" After the skinny monkey left, someone came up to ask Zhao Dong and the others.

"I don't know," the three of them shook their heads and said, the skinny monkey didn't tell them anything, they naturally didn't know anything.

"Since you don't know anything, I'm going to give you a good explanation of the rules here. The man said with the look of a big brother.

"This is the sect's spirit mine, and what we miscellaneous disciples need to do is mine spirit stones. "For the two words of spirit ore spirit stone, Zhao Dong and the three of them were confused, they didn't know what it was.

"Cultivation requires absorbing the aura of heaven and earth between heaven and earth, and the aura of heaven and earth will become a spirit stone after thousands of years of precipitation. ”

"And the aura of heaven and earth between heaven and earth is violent and difficult to absorb, and the aura in the spirit stone has been precipitated for thousands of years, and the fury in it has been exhausted, and it is very easy to be absorbed. ”

"Therefore, the sect needs spirit stones, and spirit stones are produced in spirit mines, so our miscellaneous disciples were sent to mine spirit stones. Hearing this person's explanation, Zhao Dong and the three finally understood what they needed to do.

"And how you live here, it depends on the number of spirit stones you dig, dig five spirit stones a day, you can eat enough, if you can't dig it, just wait to be hungry." Here, the food is exchanged for spirit stones, and if you can't dig up spirit stones, then no one will pay attention to you if you starve to death. ”

"And if you have more than five spirit stones, and the total number of spirit stones handed in exceeds one hundred, you can exchange for one spirit stone for cultivation. Through this man's words, Zhao Dong and the three of them understood, everything in this spirit mine depends on the number of spirit stones you dig out.

"Huzi, don't scare them. A tall man got up from the ground and patted the man on the shoulder.

"There are many tunnels in this spiritual mine, but they are all divided by us old men. I won't be able to give it to you for a while, so let's go and dig a tunnel in the west for a month. In a month we will divide it among you. ”

"Okay, then let's go. Zhao Dong hurriedly agreed, and pulled Tian Zheng and the two of them towards the tunnel in the west, when the man shouted, "Wait a minute." ”

Although they were a little afraid that this person wanted to make a move on them, Zhao Dong and the three of them still turned around and asked, "I don't know what else you have to order, senior brother?"

"Take the pickaxe and basket, are you going to dig with your hands?" Seeing the man's harmless smile, Zhao Dong felt a little panicked and hurriedly took his things and went to the tunnel.

"Boss, why are you talking to them so loudly? It's a rule to dig in the west tunnel for a month, and it's the same for newcomers. Huzi looked at his boss a little strangely.

"You know what? I just don't make it clear and I'm going to test it. One of the three people has a small spleen, and he secretly hid behind the other just now, and the other two are too short to see through, but after a long time, they can see it. Hearing the boss's explanation, Huzi realized that his boss had a deep meaning in what he did just now.

Sure enough, being the boss is completely different from what he thinks about being the little brother, otherwise how could he be the little brother and not the boss?

"Didn't you notice that when that man told us to dig the spirit stone in the tunnel here, the others didn't say anything and didn't laugh at it? Zhao Dong also said his thoughts at this time.

"I can see that there should be such a rule, but those people didn't say it just now, and it seems that they are going to test us. The three of us should be united, after all, we are all newcomers, and we should take care of each other "Zhao Dong and the three of them are newcomers, so they naturally want to unite.

"My name is Zhao Dong, I don't know what you two call it?" Tian Zheng pointed to himself and his younger brother and said, "In Xia Tian Zheng, this is the Chen Mansion of the younger brother." ”

Although Zhao Dong was a little curious about why the two brothers had different surnames, he still didn't ask, and stretched out his hand to Tian Zheng.

"We're going to stay in this mine, so we're going to help each other. Seeing Zhao Dong stretch out his hand, Tian Zheng and the two of them stretched out to shake hands.

The surrounding rocks were very hard, and even if they had a pickaxe, it would be difficult to knock down a piece, let alone dig up spirit stones.

In fact, Zhao Dong and the others didn't know that the rock in the tunnel they were in was the hardest in the entire mining area, so there was a rule for newcomers to dig for a month.

The mining area is divided into five mining areas according to the hardness of the rocks, and the number of each mining area is not necessarily, after all, the number of spirit stones cannot be evenly distributed.

However, the spirit stones in those mining areas that are easy to dig have also been almost dug up, but although there are still many spirit stones in the mining area where Zhao Dong and them are located, they can't be dug up.

So there were no people in the best and hardest mines, and everyone was gathered in the other three mines.

And every day's food requires five spirit stones to exchange, and because there is a certain difficulty in mining spirit stones, everyone is desperately digging spirit stones.

As a result, the number of spirit stones decreased rapidly, and the spirit stones dug up in the mining area every day were only enough for all the miscellaneous disciples to exchange for food.

"Look, what I dug up. Tian Zheng dug up a fist-sized cyan stone, and when the stone was in his hand, he could feel a warm feeling.

"This should be the spirit stone, work hard, you need to dig five to get enough food. After confirming that it was a spirit stone, Zhao Dong and the three of them began to continue digging spirit stones.

After two hours, Zhao Dong and the three of them sat on the ground sweating profusely and rested, and the three of them also had five spirit stones in their baskets.

After resting, Zhao Dong and the three of them walked out of the tunnel and came to the square, and the other people in the square were a little surprised to see Zhao Dong and the three of them walk out so quickly.

"Senior brother, don't you know where to get food?" Tian Zheng cautiously asked a man who looked kind.

The man laughed out loud after hearing Tian Zheng's words and glancing at his basket, and the others also came over to take a look and laughed along.

"Boy, it's good you didn't go to change the food, or you'd have been beaten half to death. ”

Hearing this person's words, Tian Zheng saluted and asked, "I don't know what Senior Brother means?"

"This spirit stone is also divided into four grades, which are the lower grade, the middle grade, the upper grade and the best grade. And the conversion of each product is exchanged for one hundred. ”

"As for the spirit stones in our mouths, they are low-grade spirit stones, and what you dig up are waste spirit stones. There is only a little bit of spiritual energy in this waste spirit stone, so ten waste spirit stones can be counted as one low-grade spirit stone. ”

Hearing this, Tian Zheng finally understood why these people laughed just now, and at the same time, he was glad that he didn't exchange it for food.

If he had been dealing with this kind of thing, I was afraid that he would have been beaten half to death as the man said.

Ten waste spirit stones are only one lower grade spirit stone, and there are only eight lower grade spirit stones in his basket, as soon as he thought of this, Tian Zheng took Zhao Dong and the two back to the tunnel to continue digging spirit stones.

However, before leaving, he thanked the man for his explanation, and the man also told Tian Zheng that they would ring the bell to call them out when they exchanged for food, and they only needed to wait in the square, and they didn't need to go anywhere.