This cave was much deeper than Ye Li imagined, and after walking almost a stick of incense, it was not yet over.

And the further you go inside, the cavern becomes wider and wider, and it begins to sink deep into the ground.

Curious, Ye Li walked all the way to the depths of the cave, and patches of blue-gray debris began to appear on the originally ordinary rock walls around him.

These debris were about the size of a thumb cover, and Ye Li took a closer look at it, and his expression suddenly changed.

"It's mixed iron lapis lazuli, a fine casting material.

And...... Where there are veins of lapis lazuli, there must be a higher-level casting material, peacock corundum!"

Ye Li exclaimed, his eyes full of excitement.

Without hesitation, he stepped forward and ran deeper into the cave in front of him, and sure enough, after half burning incense, a dark green mining area appeared in front of him.

"Haha, I've earned it now, these materials are all of the quality above the prefecture level, I estimate that just mining and selling these materials, my income in Dongfang County will increase by several levels.

Just like the Ye family who found the vein in the first place, the development speed will definitely rise by a few steps!"

Ye Li said excitedly.

Swallow Ri looked around and said, "I didn't expect that there would be two ore veins in the lair of this giant mountain black-scaled tiger.

It seems that this demon beast area of the Black Mountain Ridge is destined to disappear!"

Ye Li nodded and said, "Well, if I want to send someone to mine the mineral deposits here, I can only clean up all the demon beasts here."

However, I won't let people mine for the time being, at least until 3,000 elite soldiers come.

After all, the Black Mountain Ridge is already close to the edge of the territory, and if you want to establish a mining area here, you must have enough guarding forces.

Otherwise, once attacked, with the 900 or so men under my command, they will not be able to defend it at all.

There are no checkpoints set up by the Tang Imperial Court near my territory, and there are loopholes everywhere that can enter and exit, which is really impossible to prevent. ”

After investigating the situation of the ore vein, Ye Xuan was also a little surprised, his luck was really good.

It was clearly a rich mineral, and the deposits were so rich that he could mine them for a long time.

With these materials, he can not only exchange ore with other mining regions, but also sell them in large quantities, and use the income from the sale to subsidize the expenses of the legion.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Ye Li quickly left the lair of the giant mountain black-scaled tiger and began to rush back.

Ye Li did not rush back to the manor, but came to the three villages that had been destroyed before to check the situation.

Ding Si had already brought two or three hundred people here to help at this moment, and knowing that the giant mountain black-scaled tiger was killed by Ye Li, he organized people to clean up the three villages.

The names of the three villages were almost slaughtered, and the originally thriving village was destroyed, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little sad in their hearts.

After organizing the survivors, rearranging their accommodations, and making a certain amount of financial subsidies, Ding Si found Ye Li.

"Young Master, you weren't injured, were you?"

Ding Si asked, and he saw that there were blood stains on Ye Li's clothes.

Ye Li nodded and said, "It's okay to suffer a little injury, and now I've fully recovered."

How's your aftermath doing?"

Hearing Ye Li's question, Ding Si said: "I just want to ask you, young master, the village that was destroyed before is no longer inhabited, should we clean up the abandoned houses there and rebuild them?"

After thinking for a while, Ye Li said, "Clean up the houses first, but don't build a village for the time being, those places, I will use them to build other things later." ”

Hearing Ye Li's words, Ding Si was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask much, just nodded.

Later, after Ye Li explained some trivial matters to Ding Si, he left the Black Mountain Ridge area and returned to his manor.

After this battle, Ye Li also discovered how important a good spirit soldier was, if he had a high-level spirit soldier, not to mention being able to easily kill the giant mountain black-scaled tiger, at least it would cause a lot of damage to the other party.

After all, human beings themselves can rise from the threat of many demon beasts, relying on tools and weapons, and on the Nine Souls Continent, the role of spirit soldiers on spirit martial artists is comparable to that of rune treasures.

However, Ye Li doesn't know much about the production method of spirit soldiers for the time being, after all, there are only runes and no spirit soldiers on the Black-Eyed Continent, and spirit soldiers are a kind of thing between runes and runes, which is unique to the Nine Souls Continent.

Ye Li thought about it for a while, and decided to wait until the caster sent by Li Rushan to him arrived, and then ask the other party for advice, and then study the principle of casting.

As long as the principle of casting can be understood, Ye Li believes that he can find a way to cast.

Half a month has passed quickly, and the three thousand elite soldiers sent by Li Rushan, as well as the casters, have all arrived in Dongfang County.

Leading the three thousand elite soldiers was a leader, and there were three deputy leaders, all of whom were cultivated in the concentrating period.

The leader is the late stage of the contemplation period, and the three deputy leaders are the middle of the contemplation period.

In addition, there are 100 people and 10 people are a few, all of whom are considered good hands.

Because it is an elite corps, the realm of soldiers is relatively high, and the lowest is the spiritual sea stage, and there is no existence of the spiritual mist period, and even most soldiers still have the cultivation of the spiritual pill period.

This level of corps was already very powerful for Ye Li, and it was faintly beyond his imagination.

After thinking about it, Ye Li directly promoted Zhang Hua to the deputy leader, and prepared to mix the gang members under them with the three thousand elite soldiers.

At this time, the military camp was already basically built, and relying on the superiority in numbers, it only took a month to build a large battalion of 10,000 people.

In the newly built barracks, Ye Li summoned the new leader and deputy leader.

"Subordinate Tenglong has seen the lord!"

As soon as he saw Ye Li, the commander-in-chief Tenglong knelt down and bowed to Ye Li.

The three deputy leaders behind him also knelt down and said, "Subordinate Lu Fang (Liu Zhuo) (Dou Siming) has seen the lord!"

Ye Li waved his hand and said with a smile: "Get up, you don't have to make such a big salute."

I'm not above the imperial court here, the rules are not so strict, and you are no longer the elite soldiers of the imperial court now, but the private army of my Dongfang County. ”

Hearing Ye Li's words, the four of them stood up, but they still looked at Ye Li with a serious and respectful face.

From the strict momentum emanating from the four people, Ye Li understood that these people were all real soldiers, and it was no wonder that they would be called elite troops.

"This is Zhang Hua, now the fourth deputy leader, after which his men will mix with your people, and then redistribute the manpower.

I don't have too many people here now, about 3,900 people in total, and for the time being, you are mainly training, but you need to arrange some manpower to take turns as the manor guards and deal with some daily chores. ”

Ye Li said to Tenglong and the others.