Ye Chen rode a low-level spirit crane, left the small peak where Xianmen lived, and flew towards the Nanhu mining area, flying in the mountains and mountains for a full day.

Along the way, the number of monks he saw became scarce until there was no trace of them.

In this mountain range, you can occasionally see wild monsters infested.

Ye Chen's understanding of the Nanhu Xuaniron Mine area almost all came from a map of the Immortal Gate issued by the beginner disciples of the Tianxu Sect, and the simple introduction on the primer manual.

The Nanhu Xuaniron Ore Area, on the outer edge of the Tianxu Immortal Gate, has gone beyond the scope of the Immortal Gate. Even the patrol guards of the Heavenly Void Immortal Gate did not come to this place.

There is an almost completely independent personnel system in the mine area that maintains the operation of the mine.

The power of the mining area is held by the general manager, who is served by three generations of disciples of Xianmen. Below them are the three powerful figures in the mining area, namely the chief director, the chief foreman, and the chief guard captain, and then there are a group of supervisors, foremen, guards and other subordinates of the mining area under them.

There are a small number of third-generation disciples of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect, who will come to the mining area to mine to earn spirit stones, or perform other tasks. They don't belong to the subordinate personnel of the mining area, and they generally don't stay for a long time, and they will leave after earning spirit stones.

At the bottom of the mining area are undoubtedly groups of miners. With the word 'slave', you can imagine how low the status is.

Ye Chen was very puzzled and curious.

How could there be a mine slave in such a big sect of immortal cultivation as the Heavenly Void Immortal Gate.

He had only heard of secular kingdoms, where there were slaves of all kinds, and that secular nations fought wars with each other, and that the people of the enemy countries were taken into slavery, and that such slaves were of a very low status and had a very low fate. I didn't expect that there were also mine slaves in the Tianxu Immortal Gate.

"This is the Nanhu Mining Area!"

Ye Chen saw a huge turquoise lake from a distance.

Near the lake, I saw a huge mining camp. The camp is built with giant trees, and the outermost fence is a sharp spiritual wood as high as three zhang and one foot thick, enclosing a large village with a range of nearly ten miles.

In the camp, on the watchtowers more than ten zhang high, there are some guards armed with strong bows and spears.

The cultivation strength of the guards in these mining areas is not high, and there are a small number of early stage Qi refining cultivators, and the highest level is not more than three layers in the gas refining stage. There are also some martial artists in the middle and late stages of body refining, with more than seven layers in the body refining period.

Ye Chen patted the spirit crane and landed.

The guards on the watchout wooden tower just looked at Ye Chen and didn't ask. The people who came here were all monks from the Tianxu Sect, and no outsiders would come. These guards are here to keep watch, mainly to drive away the demon beasts near the camp and to prevent the mine slaves from rioting.

They weren't worried that some foreign monks would eat the gall of the Ambitious Leopard and come to raid the Dark Iron Mine.

The products produced in this mining area are all raw iron ore, and the value of tens of hundreds or thousands of catties of raw ore is not high in terms of ore. After the raw ore in the mining area is dug up, it is transported to Xianmen for hoarding on the same day. Snatched a small batch of raw ore, and it wasn't worth too much. Unless a large number of ores are taken from the mine for many years, there will be a big harvest.

However, although the mine guards are low-rank, there are quite a few hundred guards, which is enough to deal with a small number of monks with bad intentions.

If there were really a large number of foreign monks robbing the mine, it would be very fast for the second-generation true disciples of the Tianxu Sect to arrive here. Robbing in the mining area of Yunzhou's premier immortal sect like Tianxu Immortal Gate is no different from looking for death.

Ye Chen flew directly into the camp, collected the spirit crane with the spirit beast bag, and looked at the environment in the camp.

There are often three generations of Xianmen disciples coming to the mining area, and it is not surprising that the people in the camp saw Ye Chen flying down on a spirit bird.

There are many wooden houses, simple and rough tents, and some idle large excavation equipment in the gray camp, and a lot of black black iron ore has been piled up in the open space, all of which have been newly dug out of the mine.

Several overseers with whips, all warriors, were urging the ragged miners to carry the heavy amount of black iron ore in huge baskets. Seeing that some of the miners had slowed down, they immediately shouted and cursed, and whipped them fiercely.

Ye Chen frowned, but he didn't say anything. This kind of beating and scolding of the miners could not be stopped, and he stopped drinking it now, and the overseers would only get worse after leaving. He turned directly to one of the overseers, "Where's the head of the mine?"

Seeing that Ye Chen was wearing the magic clothes of the three generations of disciples of the Tianxu Sect, the overseer hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, this immortal master, the head of the director is on the side of the pergola in the mine. You always have to look for him, and you can find him near the mines. Do you want a small one to lead the way?"

"Not necessarily!"

After Ye Chen finished speaking expressionlessly, he ignored the eager overseer and walked towards the direction of the mine.

On the edge of the South Lake is a large mountain range, along which a large iron ore cave has been dug out to dig deep into the mountains.

When Ye Chen came to the foot of the mountain range, he saw the entrance of a huge mine cave and a large pergola next to it.

Mine slaves, carry ore from the mine.

The ore dug up by the miners was transported out at the exit of the mine by the overseer who registered the amount of ore.

Ye Chen came to the vicinity of the pergola, and when he looked over, he saw that in the pergola, there were three mid-stage Qi refining monks, a monk with thin cheeks, a bare-chested man, and a middle-aged monk wearing a full set of spirit armor, all of whom were cultivators at the fifth or sixth level of the Qi refining period, sitting in a pergola next to the mine, eating spirit melon fruits to quench their thirst, and talking something.

The three of them are already considered to be highly cultivated in this mining area, and their status is obviously much higher than that of other supervisors and foremen in the mining area.

Several overseers and foremen around stood aside, diligently handing over the spirit melon fruit and currying favor with them.

"Director You, who is the new chief manager this time, does he have a background? I'm afraid we won't have a good time in the future!"

The bare-chested man said with some concern.

"This appointment came so suddenly. Yesterday, the former Grand Governor was abruptly removed from his post and replaced by a new Grand Governor. I received instructions from Senior Uncle Feng of the Miscellaneous Servant Palace, a senior brother from the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Period was appointed as the chief manager, and he would probably come to take office in the next few days. As for the origin, who knows, there are so many high-level people in the Tianxu Immortal Gate, maybe they have gone through the path of the second-generation true heir uncle. He can squeeze out the original chief of the mining area, and I'm afraid it will have some weight. ”

The thin monk shook his head.

"At the eighth level of the Qi Refining Period, the cultivation of the new chief manager is actually so high. It's a cut above the three of us! This person has a backstage, and his cultivation is so high. If he were to monopolize power in the mines, we wouldn't even be able to drink soup.

The bare-chested man exclaimed.

"Chief Foreman Wang, you are too worried. No matter how high his cultivation is, he will have to rely on the three of us and a large group of overseers, foremen, and guards to control these thousands of unruly mine slaves! Can he still do everything by himself? As long as he relies on us to do things, we will be able to reap the benefits. ”

The skinny monk laughed, "You don't have to worry about that. Uncle Feng said on the note of Qianli Chuan, what the new chief manager wants, we will give him, and the valuable third-order and above dark iron ore in the mining area will be taken by him. But all the evidence must be preserved. ”

"What does Uncle Feng mean by this? This manager is his own person? Let us obey the arrangement of the new manager and get benefits together?"

The bare-chested man scratched his head.

"Not necessarily!"

The slender monk smiled coldly, and the corners of his mouth sneered, "Otherwise, Senior Uncle Feng would not have deliberately hinted on the transmission note that we should keep the evidence of the new Grand Administrator's corruption." This thing is a handle, if it is discovered by the Xianmen Law Enforcement Palace, it will be unlucky. Uncle Feng may want to use this evidence against him. ”

"Uncle Feng asked us to deal with the new chief manager secretly?"

"But what if the new chief manager doesn't accept these greedy benefits?"

The bare-chested man, as well as the middle-aged man in the spirit armor, were all shocked.

"No way. Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water. The new head of the Qi Refining Period, the Eighth Monk, is not staying in Xianmen, why did he come to this mining area where birds don't? If he doesn't reap the benefits, what will he use to cultivate?! As long as we desperately give him the spirit stone, stuff the high-grade Xuaniron ore, and feed him with fat, he will only turn a blind eye to our affairs. As for the aftermath, let's just hand over these evidence of his corruption to Uncle Feng. Uncle Feng holds the evidence in his hand and pinchs the handle of the chief manager, which has his own use. We little people, just obey orders, no matter how they fight!"

The slender monk was full of confidence and waved his hand.

"That's what Director You said!"

"Let it be arranged! When the new governor takes office, we will do so. If this is done well, Uncle Feng may be happy, but it is not necessary to promote us. ”

The bare-chested man rubbed his hands excitedly and said.

Ye Chen stood near the pergola, listening to the three of them discussing how to deal with him.

Many overseers and foremen in the pergola saw him, but no one paid attention to him.

Ye Chen was not in a hurry, he was amused in his heart.

The slender head had actually noticed a young disciple of the third generation of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect standing outside the pergola. But Ye Chen's youth was excessive, which made him very uncomfortable. The young monk who was only seventeen or eighteen years old actually had a sixth-level cultivation in the Qi refining period.

He was in his fifties, and he was only at the sixth level of the Qi refining stage. It's really unpleasant, let's let it dry for a long time.

After the slender monk surnamed You finished discussing with the bare-chested man and the middle-aged monk, he looked at Ye Chen and asked with a shout, "Hey, boy, you're here to mine, right?"

Director You is also a third-generation disciple of the Xianmen, a sixth-level monk in the Qi refining period, but he has real power in this mining area and is used to commanding his power. He didn't need to speak politely to an ordinary third-generation disciple of the Immortal Sect.

In the Tianxu Immortal Gate, occasionally there are three generations of disciples of the Immortal Sect who come to the mining area to mine and earn some hard-earned money. Before the new Grand Governor arrived. On the territory of this mining area, listen to him, the director.

Ye Chen didn't deny or admit it, he groaned for a while, and said, "I don't know how to calculate the wages for this mining?"

"No matter how high or low your cultivation is, dig a thousand catties of raw ore and give you a spirit stone! You can only bring a shovel and spiritual weapon into it, and you can't bring a storage bag or anything like that. ”

Director You said.

Ye Chen didn't say anything, took a spiritual weapon shovel, and buried his head in the Xuaniron Mine Cave to see the situation in the cave.

Riots are said to be frequent in the mining area.

He wants to be the manager of this Nanhu Xuaniron Mine and spend two years in peace, and if he wants to grasp the situation here, he must go and check it out in person. As for these fat and oily directors, chief foremen, and captains of the general guard, they are completely unreliable and cannot be counted on.

(To be continued)