The night is faint, and the mountain screen is covered.

The dazzling light has dissipated, the gauzy night envelops the mountains and rivers, and there are a few stars in the sky, but somehow, the starlight tonight is extraordinarily bright, like water, and the mountains and rivers are plated with a layer of dreamy silver edges.

Ye Wither's body rises and falls, really like a ghost, floating on the bright silver tulle of this mountain and river beauty.

Although he had just cut off the gray and white divine pattern, thereby hurting the soul sea of the old man in the Transformation Realm, he could not know the severity of the injury.

Besides, with such a divine sense, concentrating on the divine pattern, the body is not visible, and the means of cutting the enemy thousands of miles away are incomprehensible.

It must be known that this layer of night certainly hides the leaves in the dark, but what about the people of the Ling family who came after them?

In Ye Ku's mind, he had gone deep into Quping for dozens of miles, and in such a deep mountain and old forest, there must not be half a human figure, but who knew that as he crossed a mountain screen again, not far ahead, there was suddenly a burst of firelight, which came into view.

Such an isolated place, after this mountain screen, changed the scene of ancient trees and no people, giving people the feeling of another village.

The light of the lamps stretched out to the sides, and in the light of the lights, the low stone houses were scattered one after another, and the stones piled up into these houses were more or less stained with gray and black, some black shadows resembling the palms of hands, and some were paste.

It's just that it's still very quiet, and there are only clusters of fires to be seen, and there is no trace of people.

"Barren mountains and mountains, how can there be a piece of houses, like a village tribe. ”

I saw that the house was like a house, and there was no human figure in sight.

Although the firelight was bright yellow, it was inevitably a little gloomy without the human crowd as a backdrop.

The mountain breeze stroked, the fluttering firelight suddenly went out for a while, as if there was a god of the underworld, covering the swaggering bright yellow, this piece of heaven and earth was dark for a while, and several fires were about to be extinguished.

Ye Ku's throat rolled, twitched the corners of his mouth, and for no reason he thought of the scene of the "Xiaoyun" clan evolved from Xuanyin, and thought of the long-haired figure in the majestic ancient hall, and the eyes of the two points devouring the two "potentials" of heaven and earth seemed to still be vivid, and there was some hair in his heart.

"It's like a ghost village. ”

Maybe it's because he has been with Shangguan Xuanqing for a long time, and he has become a little "suspicious".

Fortunately, someone finally came into view, and when he crossed the empty village, Ye Ku could see the figure of a person, all the men, with shovels, shovels, and shovels on their shoulders, and they walked towards the stone house in groups of three or five, two or four in groups.

These men have a lot of black ash on their bodies and faces, most of them are shirtless, revealing dark skin, although they also say a word or two to their fellow travelers from time to time, and laugh once or twice from time to time, but the tiredness on their faces can not be concealed, as if they have worked hard all day and returned home late at night.

This so-called "home" is nothing more than a small house, with no women or children, only a solid stone wall dyed gray and black, and a cluster of firelight fluttering in the mountain wind.

"There's a new guy coming. ”

In the cottage connected by stone houses, I don't know which man said a word.

Not far from Ye Ku, among the dense trees, a group of people were led by a bearded man, straight to this stone village, Ye Ku thought about it, changed the clothes stained with blood and mud, and one flashed, and appeared at the end of this group of big men, mixed in it.

This group of people is the same as the people who came from the other side of the stone village before, all of them are all men, the strong ones are like oxen, and the slightly inferior ones can also be called sturdy, they are all full of strength, compared with these big men, Ye Wei looks a little thin.

These people have no divine power, and real mortals are just stronger than ordinary people, and they can do more hard work.

One of them, who was only of medium stature in this group of big men, with a Chinese face, was not outstanding, and when Ye Ku mixed in with their group, he glanced back intentionally or unintentionally, and was urged by his companions behind him to withdraw his gaze.

Soon, they came to the stone village, which was isolated from the world, and there were not many new things, and the people who had lived here rushed over when they saw a new person coming, and the three layers inside and the three layers outside were gathered in one place to join in the fun.

The crowd parted ways, and the bearded man led Ye Ku and his group, striding through the separated flow of people, and came to the field.

There was a middle-aged man in the field, dressed as a writer and in an ink-colored robe, very different from the group of reckless men around him who were either bare-chested and bare-chested, or who had just found a piece of torn linen cloth and wrapped it around their bodies.

Behind him stood two small servants, one holding a book and a pen in his hand, and the other holding a round mirror in one hand, with a simple style.

The bearded man came to the scribe, bowed respectfully, and his appearance did not match his fierce figure at all, and said: "Steward Liu, this group of quarrymen brought it, all of them were voluntary, and there was no such thing as forcing it to happen." ”

The scribe glanced behind the bearded man, nodded, glanced at the two little men behind him, and commanded, "Check carefully, don't mix in with some unclear people." ”

The two little guys claimed to be yes and beckoned to Ye Ku and his party, and the group of men lined up one by one and stepped forward in turn.

Every time someone passed, the bronze mirror in the little man's hand shot out a jade light, and the appearance of the man was reflected in the mirror.

"Passed. ”

At this time, another servant with a pen and paper will make a note in the book, make a note for the person who passes, and arrange a place to live.

When the leaf withered, it was hanging at the end, but by this time it was already in the middle of the line.

When it was his turn, it was not a problem to use his means to fool this side of the rough round mirror, but after the jade light was gone, the little guy holding the round mirror glanced at Ye Ku and said, "How come everyone has it, such a weak body and bones, can do the work of quarrying?"

"I've been able to endure hardships since I was a child, so I'm fine. Ye Ku hurriedly smiled, Xu was too lazy to care, Xu couldn't stand the muddy rancid smell and blood on Ye Ku's body, this little guy waved his hand and sent him away.

The group quickly passed the inspection, and the little man presented the book to the scribe, who sighed lightly and wondered: "Didn't you say that there were only one hundred and thirty-seven people who participated in the quarrying this time, how can there be a list of one hundred and thirty-eight people in this book?"

This scribe has a cultivated body, and he can see ten lines at a glance, and he only glanced at it and found out the flaws.

Ye Ku felt a sigh in his heart, and he was not very afraid, among these people, only the middle-aged scribe and the bearded man who led the team had cultivation, and they had not yet cultivated that breath of natal true qi, if his whereabouts were revealed, no one would stop him if he wanted to leave.

"Forget it, forget it, there will inevitably be some leaks when there are more people, and there are more than fewer people before, so let's go back to the room." The middle-aged scribe frowned, waved his hand, and let everyone disperse.

The so-called room is an independent stone house, small and cramped, and it is naturally incomparable with the annex of Yishan Pavilion.

Every stone house has a stone door, and it takes some effort to open and close, of course, this amount of effort is nothing for a grown strong man.

"The Ling family didn't even send out a cultivator from the Transformation God Realm, and it seems that they don't care much about the Xuanyin on my body. ”

Ye Kupan sat on the stone bed, silently using the Taixuan Yin and Yang Method, warming the divine consciousness and physical body.

Nothing was said all night.

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Following.

The fish belly did not vomit, and the forest was still groggy, and someone in the stone village knocked on the gong, urging people to wake up from their dreams.

One by one, the men pushed open the stone door from their respective stone houses, resisted their respective guys, and were led by a foreman to go down to the stone pit not far from the stone village.

The grayish-black stone is mixed with reddish-brown and is much harder than ordinary rock formations, making it difficult to excavate.

After getting down the stone pit, the sound of tinkling dong in his ears sounded one after another, and Ye Ku waited for the person who supervised the work to leave, and then asked an "old mason" beside him for advice.

"Old" means that this person's qualifications, he came much earlier than Ye Ku.

The old mason's hand kept stopping, and the force coming from the iron hoe made his whole body tense, and he exclaimed: "Your body is similar to a bamboo pole, you don't know anything, and you come to eat this mouthful?

"There is no way, the family is too poor, the pockets of rice have bottomed out, and when I heard that there is food to eat and money to earn, I signed up for this mountain in a daze. ”

When the old masonry heard this, he sighed helplessly, and did not dare to stop in his hands, and at the same time explained to Ye Ku.

It turns out that this is the stone quarry of the Li family, specializing in the flint square, this flint square is an indispensable thing for those powerful and rich people to spend the winter, used to lay the ground dragon, once a year, the house can be warm as spring.

Although this flint stone is good, its mining is all based on the brute force of mortals, digging with a hoe and hoe, and moving the waste stone out with a spade, how can a monk bother to do these things by surrendering his identity.

Quarrying is a very hard thing, the Li family has five stone quarries in this Quping Mountain, and the other four are located in the deeper part of this Quping Mountain, they are the outermost stone quarries, and the leaf withering is assigned here, and the old masonry praises the leaf withering is lucky.

"We've seen people here who have worked for a full hour and left with the agreed money, but in the other stone fields, we have never seen people go in, and never seen people come out. The old masonry preached with trepidation.

If you want to go to the other four stone fields, you must pass through their stone village, and the old masonry has seen more than a dozen groups of people rushing to the four stone fields one after another.

"Don't look at the hard work of digging this flint for those rich officials here, but what you have to pay is only physical strength, and there is money to take, and if you go to four other stone pits, then maybe you will have to put your entire bamboo pole into it. ”

"Maybe they just came out of somewhere else, you don't know. Ye Wei said disapprovingly.

When the old masonry heard this, he smacked the iron hoe in his hand, squeezed out two glances from the oily shiny face, glared at Ye Ku and scolded: "The little doll just doesn't know!"

The old masonry looked around, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he beckoned to Ye Ku and motioned for him to come over.

"In those stone pits, there are evil things. ”