In an empty flat cave on the ghost cave floor, there is a camp with nearly 100 tents and wooden sheds arranged in a circle, and there are bonfires everywhere in the camp.

Boxes of neatly stacked mustard boxes are placed in the simple factory shed with wooden planks, and this camp is the gathering place that the Dry Bones Gang has opened up for mining.

There is a magic circle around the camp, and a semi-circular crimson giant spirit shield protects the entire camp in the array, and at this time it is the rest time for the miner team, and all the miners are sleeping soundly in the animal skin tent.

The camp was silent, with only a few overseers patrolling around the camp.

Liu Yupan sat in a single tent, and the tent was based on three four-grade "Peerless Talismans", and a "Hidden Talisman Array" was laid to isolate the detection of spiritual sense.

Liu Yu floated above his head a high-grade "Yin Stone" filled with faint gray smoke, constantly inhaling wisps of faint gray gas from the "Yin Stone" above his head, and was cultivating the "Heavenly Master's Mantra Dao Soul Heart Sutra".

The mining team needs to go out to mine for eight or nine hours a day, with only three or four hours of rest, and the same is true for Liu Yu, who is the mine supervisor.

This little bit of free time is not enough for Liu Yu to cultivate at all, plus this ghost cave layer is full of yin qi, but the aura of the five elements is extremely thin, and the effect of cultivating the main exercise method "Golden Earth Society Tao Sutra" is extremely poor.

Therefore, the expansion of the space in the Purple Mansion has almost stagnated in the past two months, and Liu Yu can only maintain the basic qi replenishment cultivation, absorbing the spirit stones in the storage bag to replenish the mana consumed daily in the Purple Mansion.

However, he insisted on cultivating the "Heavenly Master's Mantra and Dao Soul Heart Sutra" every day, because in this place where the yin qi was strong, the condensation of the "Dao Soul True Qi" was relatively smooth.

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At midnight, the miners emerged from their ten-person tents and walked towards the largest wooden shed in the camp, with several long square wooden tables.

Benches flanked by wooden tables that could accommodate all people, and this was the camp canteen, where miners lined up in front of the stoves to receive food.

"Here!" the man scooped out a large spoonful of white liquid from the pot and poured it into the miner's bowl, which was a kind of milk that was very popular with the people of the Northland, and then handed two pieces of scones, which resembled Yunzhou's coarse grain lumps, but they were softer, and the newly baked ones also had a kind of aroma, and the taste was good.

The miners ate only two meals a day, at the time of work and at the end of the day, and the food at the end of the day was barbecue meat and inferior spirit wine.

When Liu Yu and other overseers went out, they could bring a meal, a piece of scones, a piece of barbecue, and a small pot of inferior spirit wine, which Liu Yu never drank, and gave it to his miners.

"Old Black Cow, where are you going today?" After the meal, all the members of the old cow mining team assembled, and the team leader "Ghost Tooth" casually asked the old cow of the mine.

"My lord, let's go to the mining area yesterday, and there should still be some minerals hidden. The old cow at the head of the mine replied respectfully.

"Let's go!" Devil Fang nodded, and led the old cattle mining team out of the camp, heading in the direction of yesterday's mining site.

At this time, the other mining teams of the Dry Bone Gang also set off from the camp in different directions, and the Dry Bone Gang has fifteen sub-mining teams, which will be centered on the camp and operate and mine in an area within ten miles, not daring to go too far.

First, if the mining team is in danger, the camp can send people to rescue in time when it receives a distress message.

Second, it is too far away, and it is troublesome to carry the ore back and forth. When the ten-mile mining area is cleared, the camp will be relocated and mining will continue.

"Black Sparrow, you stay here, Xuankong, you come with me!" The mining team came to the area of the mine where they were mined yesterday, and the "Ghost Fang" took on his fist blade and walked towards the empty tunnel in front of him, Liu Yu summoned the Jincun sword, lifted the magic cover, and followed.

After the mining team left yesterday, the breath of the living people left behind will definitely attract ghosts, and before mining, you need to clean it up.

Without opening the "psychic eye", Liu Yu could detect that in this small mining area crisscrossed by caves, the ghostly aura was pervasive, and the seemingly empty mine roads were in the air, but in fact there were a large number of ghosts floating.

"Bump, bump!" The fist gloves on the hands of the ghost fangs, the cold light flashed, and two short blades bounced out of each fist glove, just like the claws of beasts, after stimulating the talisman qi, it rushed out like a sharp wind, the fist blade waved, and the mine suddenly burst out of puffs of black smoke, all of which were the ghosts that were blasted by the fist blade.

"Sand, sand!" As if stabbing a hornet's nest, a festering rotting corpse crawled out of the cave floor or from the slag piled up on the side.

Among them, there are many zombies with long hairs, both humanoid and beast-shaped, and the humanoid zombie in front of Liu Yu crawled out of the upper body from the soil hole where he was hiding, and was cut in half by a sword qi.

Although there are a large number of these ghosts and zombies, they are facing two people in the foundation building period, they are all ants, Liu Yu and "Ghost Tooth", the two of them are like chopping melons and vegetables, cleaning up the ghosts in this small mining area all the way.

When it was about to be cleaned up, with a dull beast roar, a beast-shaped bone demon with white bones and a ghostly aura rushed out from a corner.

The bone demon is a general term for ghosts such as bones, which are born in the body and bones, and there are both human and beast shapes, and the formation of such ghosts and ghosts is very different from that of ghosts and ghosts.

Yin souls and zombies are all ghosts before death, leaving remnant souls, stimulated by yin energy, which slowly absorb yin energy and form acquired ghosts.

The conditions for the formation of bone demons are even more harsh, they are the bones left behind after the death of living creatures, in the place where the yin qi is rich, eroded and nourished by a large number of "initial yin erosion qi", and over the years, slowly condense a wisp of "ghost fire", and come back to life, which can be regarded as a kind of semi-acquired ghost thing.

Because this wisp of "ghost fire" born in the first yin erosion qi can be regarded as a special spirit body similar to a living soul, it is also called "soul fire".

At first, this wisp of "soul fire" was thin like smoke, but as it continued to absorb the "Initial Yin Eclipse Qi" independently, the "soul fire" in the bone demon's body became more and more condensed, and finally it was no different from the "living soul" in the Living Soul Mud Pill Palace.

Although the "soul fire" in the bone demon's body is the condensation of heaven and earth, and it has nothing to do with the living soul that has long dissipated after death, the broken bones that shelter the "soul fire" are still left behind before death, so they are classified as semi-acquired ghosts.

Because bone demons are difficult to form, relatively speaking, it is not common, and it is only in this underground ghost cave layer that this kind of ghost thing is occasionally encountered.

Once the bone demon awakens, its combat power will not be low, and this ghost thing has a special preference, so as to collect the bones of various demon beasts, and slowly smelt them into their own demon bones through yin qi to become a part of themselves.

If you are lucky enough to incorporate the spirit bones of some powerful demon beasts, you will even bring some special abilities to the bone demon itself, greatly increasing your combat power.

Therefore, the body shape of each skull demon is strange, and it is different, some have several heads at the same time, there are many hands and legs, and some are covered with bone spurs.

Like the skull demon in front of him, judging from the general size, it should be a four-legged beast such as a tiger and a leopard before his death.

Now there is a long tailbone sticking out of the iliac bone behind him, which at first glance was refined later, because this is a scorpion tail, and there is a huge barb at the end, and the barb bone is sharp and inky black, and it is highly poisonous at a glance.

This skull demon has a tall scorpion tail, and the demon bones are filled with a trace of black smoke, and the original rotten skeleton is filled with a dignified and truthful black evil aura.

The beast's skull is huge, a mouthful of white animal teeth, grinding up and down creaky, sunken and hollow eye sockets, lit up with two red blood pupils, which are hidden in the skull "soul fire", reflected by the spiritual light.

"Bump!" the beast-shaped bone demon pounced on the "ghost fang", opened the hideous skeleton beast's mouth, and bit towards the "ghost fang", the "ghost fang" dodged, and the bone demon rushed nonstop, crashing all the way to the stones on the ground.

"Wind Blade Shadow!" "The ghost fang followed closely behind the bone demon, and the qi passed through the acupuncture veins, and a fist blade technique was struck, and nearly a hundred spirit blades with soul-breaking mana attacked the bone demon like a ghost.

I saw that these spirit blades hit the bone demon in an instant, but only a few of them hit the skeleton, and most of them passed directly through the gaps between the bones, only dispersing some of the evil qi of the bone demon.

And the spirit blade that hit the bones of the bone demon only left a shallow white mark on the dark gray bones, the bones of the bone demon have been tempered by yin qi for many years, and the hardness of the bone is not weaker than some defensive spirit weapons, this blow did not cause any damage to the bone demon.

"It's a big trouble!" Ghost Fang couldn't help frowning, the ghost thing like a bone demon has always been extremely difficult, a skeleton has no skin and no flesh, and he doesn't know the pain at all, plus the bones have been tempered by Yin Qi for many years, and the defense is extremely strong, so it is very difficult to deal with.

Even if a few are cut off, it will not be painful for the bone demon, unless it is broken and collapsed most of its bones in a short period of time, or its entire skeleton is shattered and scattered.

But judging from the aura emanating from this skull demon and the evil aura of bone condensation, it is equivalent to the foundation building period of the monk, even if the deputy gang leader is here, it will take some work to dismantle this skull demon in a short time.

Now I can only try, smash the skull of the beast head of this bone demon, and scatter the "soul fire" hidden in it, which is also the biggest weakness of all bone demons.

"Wind of Shadows!" The ghost tooth instantly activated the state of "Crazy Spirit Overlord", the speed of his body increased greatly, turned into a dark shadow, and flew towards the rushing bone demon, dodging a beast claw, and the spiritual power poured into the fist blade, and the tip of the blade shone brightly, facing the skull of the bone demon beast head, and it was about to stab down.

"Not good!" Suddenly, a cold light struck, and the ghost tooth secretly said that it was not good, and it was the scorpion tail on the tail of this skull demon, and the ghost tooth immediately withdrew his hand, stimulating the talisman qi to the strongest, and at the same time, a pair of fist blades were crossed in front of him.

"Poof!" Ghost Fang was hit by this scorpion tail, and his body was shot out like a cannonball, slamming into the thick stone wall behind him, sliding backwards, and spitting out a mouthful of blood, and at this time the bone demon had opened the mouth of the skeleton beast and pounced on the "ghost fang".

At this time, Liu Yu arrived, held up a rock shield, and blocked in front of the "ghost fang", and the bone demon "touched" and hit the rock shield hard, breaking many bones, but the skull demon didn't know the pain at all, and immediately pounced on Liu Yu again.

"Rock Shield, Explosion!" Liu Yu's hands turned the magic seal, and the heavy rock shield that had been cracked exploded in an instant, shaking the bone demon back, and then the magic seal of both hands changed again, and as soon as the Purple Mansion Spirit Gate opened, a large amount of "Golden Meaning Earth Yuan True Qi" was injected into the ground under his feet from his feet.

I saw that the large and small stones scattered in all corners of the mine road ground floated up one after another, and quickly smashed towards the bone demon, hitting the bones and immediately shattering.

The bones of the bone demon are as hard as cold iron, although they are not afraid of the impact of stones, but there are too many large and small stones scattered on the ground, flying in all directions, although they can't hurt the bone demon, but they bury the bone demon, only revealing a hideous huge beast head.

"The poor road can't last long, do it quickly!" Liu Yu said to the "ghost fangs" behind him while driving a large amount of true qi into the hill-shaped stone pile, firmly pressing the bone demon buried under the stone pile so that he couldn't move.

"Soul Breaker!" Ghost Fang knew that the opportunity could not be missed, and immediately jumped up, and all the true qi in his body was injected into the fist blade of his right hand, and he exerted the strongest killing move, the tip of the fist blade pierced the head and skull of the bone demon, only to hear a piercing sound of grinding teeth, and the fist blade pierced the bone demon's skull.

"Boom!", the small mountain stone pile and the bone demon below exploded together, obviously this fist blade, has exploded the bone demon's "soul fire", the explosion of the spiritual energy storm, instantly swept in all directions, bone slag, gravel flying, dust filled the entire mining area.

"Ghost Fang, are you alright?" When everything calmed down, another mine supervisor, "Black Sparrow", led the rest of the mine team to come forward, looked at the mess in front of him, and asked with concern.

"Ahem, ahem, it's okay!" Ghost Fang breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and walked up to Liu Yu and said gratefully: "Thanks to Xuankong Daoist Friends for helping!"

"You're welcome! the nearby ghosts have been emptied, and the poor road will go to guard the fork on the west side as it was yesterday!" Liu Yu smiled back.

Ghost Fang nodded, and then said unceremoniously to the old black bull and the others: "Don't rub it off, let's get started!"

Looking at the back of the Xuankong Daoist walking away, to be honest, before this, he looked down on this Zhongzhou Daoist who was usually alone and silent, plus this Daoist was an outsider who was recruited, and when the deputy gang leader arranged this person to the mining team, he also specially told him to keep an eye on this person at ordinary times.

In the past two months, this Xuankong has not only spoken little and is not social, but also abides by the rules, and has not found any small movements, I have to say that since this person came, the casualties of the mining team have dropped a lot, this person is really good, plus Fang just helped, "Ghost Tooth" couldn't help but have a trace of friendship in his heart.

"Bull head, look at that!" the sharp-eyed Liuzi pointed to a collapsed stone wall not far away, and said happily.

"Go and see!" The old black cow looked in the direction, only to see a stone wall not far away that had collapsed due to the fierce fight, revealing a layer of dark cyan rock with a cold light inside, which looked like a layer of cold iron ore rock, and hurriedly walked over.

"Great, Niutou, it's a cold iron ore!" the sixth son was the first to run over, and immediately shouted loudly.

Then the old cattle mining team was in full swing, this layer of cold iron ore rock is very deep, rich in mineral deposits, has been mined for most of the day, before the mining is completed.

Obviously, the amount of ore mined by the old cattle mining team will not be low today, otherwise, after the camel team in the camp arrived, the "spirit mustard box" was filled with several large boxes.

After returning to the camp, Liu Yu received a dispatch order to escort the transport caravan tomorrow to transport the boxes of ore piled up in the camp back to the mine located dozens of miles away in Niuguo Town.

This kind of transportation is very frequent, once every half month, and the escorts will take turns to be drawn from each sub-mining team, but Liu Yu has never received an escort task in the two months since he joined the Dry Bone Gang, nor has he ever been to the mine of the Dry Bone Gang.