The new disciples have been on the island for nearly three months, so very few people come to the Pioneer Hall to receive new tasks. The Ning Yuan Realm disciple in charge of the hall sat listlessly on the chair. Occasionally chat with other fellow disciples.

A female disciple in the middle, with a delicate face, was combing her hair with her slender fingers, and when she picked the corner of her eye, she saw two people walking in. Quickly sat up straight and looked at the two of them with a serious face.

"May I ask this 'Jurchen', what other tasks can be received now? Of course, it is better to be the one that is both easy and well-paid. Can you specify one or two? ”

"You are Dugu Yangming?"

Actually, you don't have to make a fuss, I already knew that your decent disciples were secretly plotting against Young Master Ben. When Dugu Yangming said this "famous and decent", his tone was extremely heavy, obviously with provocation and contempt.

"Hmph! You're really tongue-in-cheek, slippery tight!" The girl paused, and then said, "It's been three months, so there's an easy task for you?"

"Don't listen, let me ask you what you're doing? Am I idle? Bored!"

The girlish anger didn't come out, and she glared angrily: "Linggeng, can you? Demon hunting, can you? Make talismans, will you?" A series of questions were imposing.

"Beast feeding, alchemy, array protection or something, is there still a quota?"

The girl giggled, shook her head, and said, "You are really whimsical! These tasks you mentioned are not something that a poor boy can cultivate and participate in. ”

"Oh, why? Could it be that rich beasts can cultivate and participate?"

The girl was choked by this, and she was speechless for a while, and the sentence "you ......" in her mouth never came out.

At this time, a man walked by and said slowly: "Dugu Yangming, don't you scold people? You know the specific situation of these tasks tomorrow morning, don't you have to find us? There are some things that we don't have the final say." With the current path of the two of you, if you don't have too much work, you can go to Yanghuang Island to dig crystal ore. ”

"This brother is quite knowledgeable! May I ask Brother Tai, what is the theory of this crystal mine, can you elaborate on one or two? ”

The man shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Yanghuang Island is an island second only to the main island. There is a spirit crystal mine on it, one is the place where the disciples of the sect are trained, and the other is for the demon clan on Kaizhe Island to dig with us and get along with us, and each takes what he needs. The sect stipulates that no matter how many new disciples dig up, half of the income needs to be handed over to the sect. ”

"What if it's singular?"

"The extra one is your own!"

"Thank you, brother, how to move Yanghuang Island, what tools do you need to dig the spirit crystal?"

"When you go out to the east and come across a ship, just say where you're going. As for all the tools used in the task, they need to be solved by themselves, and the sect is not responsible. ”

Dugu Yangming said "thank you". First glanced at the wooden planks of different colors, and then left with Ling Huxu.

When he got out, Ling Huxu was asking, "Second brother, do you really want to dig crystal mines?"

"Is that still false? Now, it's not yet time, so let's go over and familiarize myself with the route. Tomorrow, start digging again. Dugu Yangming looked at the fourth brother with doubts on his face, and saw him ask: "Second brother! Actually, crystal ore is very difficult to dig. Those who are lowly in the Tao can't even dig up a single one a day. Therefore, some people who practice the Tao would rather go to hunt demon beasts than mine. ”

"If it's easy to dig, these thieves will force the demon clan to dig? Besides, you and I are not the eldest young master of a family, and we haven't suffered any hardships? ”

Ling Hu Xu knew that what the second brother said was reasonable, so he didn't answer, followed closely behind him, and walked towards the shore.

Yanghuang Island, located in the east of Kaizheng Island, is more aura on the main island. The edge of the island is covered with bamboo, which wraps the island tightly. There is only one passage where three people can enter and exit in parallel.

After a while, two people walked out of the entrance, and one of them said with a smile: "I come to collect and inspect the spirit crystals every seven days, and the harvest is really a lot!" The other said: "The sect has been founded for more than ten thousand years, if it is not lying on the spirit crystal beds, how can it last for a long time? This Yanghuang Island, for my True Martial Palace, is just a little bit of skin." Someone before said, "This is for sure! How can this small crystal mine compare with the crystal mine guarded by the senior brothers of the divine realm!" The two laughed and drove away.

A boat that came with three people on board. After landing on the shore, a man about thirty years old said slowly: "Two junior brothers, it is now more than half of the time, and I will come back after the middle of the time." If you miss the hour, you can figure it out for yourselves!"

"Thank you, brother!"

Dugu Yangming and Ling Huxu walked in side by side, only to see that they were leaning on a circle of bamboo, and a lot of grass sheds were built. One person was alone at the door of the largest grass hut, and when he saw the two of them coming, he stood up slowly and said, "Two junior brothers, but you are here to mine?"

"Guess what?"

When this person heard this, he snorted, laughed, and said, "This junior brother, it's so interesting!" Then, pointing to an entrance to the underground, he said, "The crystal mine is right down here." The two of you just go down and dig, that's it. In addition, when the spirit crystals on the body come up, they are all dug by themselves. Suddenly, he proudly picked up something that looked like a mirror, and said, "Whether you have any spirit crystals on you, I will know as soon as I check them." ”

Dugu Yangming glanced at it in disgust and took the lead in walking towards the entrance. After walking a few steps, I heard the sound of "clang" and some "gurgling" sounds, but I couldn't understand it. Stuffy walked straight down. Linghu Xu couldn't help but shout, and the demon clans who were sweating like rain stopped and looked over in unison.

Dugu Yangming hugged his fists and said, "Friends of the Niu Clan in the sea, my two brothers are also here to mine, please take care of me!"

These demon clans are the phantom tooth cow clan among the manatees, born with divine power, incomparably powerful, but very little spiritual intelligence. Specially cultivated by the Terrans, their working patterns can be fixed.

When the Phantom Tooth Cow Clan saw someone coming, a big cow with a gray beard stepped forward, learned to hug his fist, and said in human words: "Two little friends are coming, you can choose the hammer place by yourself, don't worry about us." ”

"This Uncle Niu, we have no hammer or drill, can we borrow one or two. ”

The leader of the Niu clan was very hearty, and as soon as he beckoned, he walked up and handed Dugu Yangming a hammer and a stainless steel drill. The two cow clans didn't pay much attention to it and turned to leave.

Dugu Yangming picked a safe corner, sat down slowly, and watched the Niu clan collect spirit crystal ore without moving. I saw the young and powerful, wielding a hammer, beating it in a small circle according to the drawing, knocking down the crystals, and then by the older or younger cow clans, carefully beating into a spirit crystal the size of a thumb belly.

Dugu Yangming looked at it, it was more than an hour. Ling Hu Xu was upset and said in a low voice: "Second brother, you don't mine, and you don't go back, what are you thinking about?"

"I thought about how to take the knocked-down spirit crystal out without the mirror discovering it. ”

"It's too dangerous, and if you find out, you might find out. ”

"What can it be? They had people check in the mirror outside, and they had people take them out, and they blamed them for their incompetence. us! You're not good on your legs, just stay here, I'll go take a look. ”

Dugu Yangming, when he was five years old, his parents died, and his mother entrusted him to his second uncle's house before she died. The second uncle's family has always treated him as a wild child and scolded him all day long. When he was six years old, he escaped alone and wandered the world. In the past seven years, he has experienced several life-and-death situations, and he has also cultivated a vision that far exceeds ordinary people's observation.

I saw him walk to a pile of rocks, pick up a stone casually, and after making a gesture, he said in a low voice: "It's slightly bigger than the spirit crystal, and it is produced in the spirit crystal mine, why is there no spiritual power at all?"

The old cow didn't raise his head, and said, "This is the black stone, a kind of dead stone that can't absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the spirit crystal mine. Old Newton paused, and then said: "It also has a function, which can seal the spiritual energy in the space, so that the living stones can be slowly absorbed, and then become the spirit crystals that can be used by your human race." ”

The phantom tooth cow, who seemed to be the patriarch of the clan, said: "Little friend, if you like it, you can take it to play with it at will." ”

"Thank you, uncle!"

Dugu Yangming's fingers kept rubbing the stone, his brows furrowed, as if he was thinking about a difficult problem in the extreme. Thinking about it, he grabbed more than a dozen of them and put them in his arms. He returned to where he had been sitting and began to look at the crystal wall. In his eyes, the chaotic patterns formed by the spirit crystals on the wall seemed to be intentionally woven by someone. Suddenly chuckled.

"Second brother, what are you laughing at?"

After Dugu Yangming mysteriously whispered a few words, he began to hit the mine wall with a hammer. He doesn't use brute force like the manatees, but every time he hammers down, it's always gentle. An hour later, only the walls of the mine were knocked less than a foot square. I saw that he gently pried it with an iron drill, and a spirit crystal came down. On the wall of the mine, which was less than a foot long, thirty-six spirit crystals fell.

Dugu Yangming quickly used the strip of cloth and black stone that Ling Hu Xu was preparing to divide the thirty-six spirit crystals into two parts, wrapped them tightly from the outside with the same amount of black stones, and carefully wrapped them around the waists of the two. After everything was cleaned up, he whispered to Ling Huxu: "In order not to make any thief suspicious, go out early today." By the way, I'm guessing right!"

Ling Hu Xu asked worriedly, "What if it is discovered?"

"Crow's mouth, go to the stone staircase and wait for me!"

Dugu Yangming walked up to the patriarch of the Niu clan with a hammer and a drill in his hand, and said respectfully: "Thank you, uncle! Tomorrow, my two brothers still need to borrow it, I don't know if it's convenient?"

The patriarch laughed dryly twice and said, "Just put it where you knocked, welcome to come at any time." Here, no one has come down for fifteen years. It's the first time you've experienced it. ”

"Thank you, uncle, and the clansmen for taking care of my two brothers!"

Dugu Yangming took three steps back, then turned around and left, took the lead out of the crystal mine, walked forward with a big grin, stretched out his hands, and asked which fellow disciple to check. Someone walked over with a smile, and a mirror was an inch away from his body, carefully wrapping around. After a long time, "Haha" laughed out loud and said, "Digging crystal ore is not an easy task, two junior brothers, let's go on other tasks! Of course, you can go now!"

Dugu Yangming then complained: "Damn, this crystal mine is too difficult to dig." My arm hurts when I dig it!" As he spoke, he and Ling Huxu were slowly walking out of the forest, and just as the boat also sailed over, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The two who returned to the cave house laughed wildly. After the laughter gradually stopped, Ling Hu Xuzheng asked: "Second brother, how did you discover this secret? Teach me! If you don't move, just look at the kung fu for one or two hours, and I will never learn it." ”

"Fourth, if you are a manatee, are you willing to be driven to do this hard work? If you don't want to, will you be lazy, or secretly collect some?"

"Second brother, this is impossible! When you stared and observed, I didn't miss a glance, why didn't I notice the abnormal actions of the manatee clan?" Seeing that Dugu Yangming seemed to think about the problem again, he asked again: "Second brother, shall we go tomorrow?"

"Go, we have to go! And, for the next three months, we can't afford to leave a day behind. In my opinion, the manatees must have found a chance to escape. In less than three months, there will be a great turmoil on this island. Dugu Yangming's eyes suddenly showed a fierce light, and he said coldly: "Today, I'm a little too smart! I shouldn't be in a hurry to ask about the role of the black stone." That old cow, who is profound, noticed it at once. As long as we don't go, they will inevitably be regarded as our informants, and in this way, it will bring them extinction. ”

Ling Hu Xu was lining his thighs and said, "Second brother, did you use the black stone to seal the spirit crystal, did you deliberately show it to them?

"Little Fourth, yes, there is progress! We have to take advantage of this opportunity to save as many spirit crystals as possible for three to five years of cultivation. ”

Since then, Dugu Yangming and Linghu Xuzheng have been digging crystal ore every day, rain or shine.

In the first six days, the two of them could only bring out one spirit crystal a day, which was just enough for their personal cultivation; in the second ten days, they could bring out two spirit crystals a day, and after handing in one, the income would still be the same as before; and later, they could bring out three or four spirit crystals a day, and they never had more.

It went on like this for three months, and everything was so normal. There are many colleagues on the island who scolded the two for being extremely stupid. However, no one dared to scold Dugu Yangming to his face, because they all knew that arguing with him was purely self-inflicted.

One day three months later, the two went to the beach as usual, intending to dig for crystal mines. Which senior brother who drove the boat said: "Two junior brothers, last night, the guardian array of Yanghuang Island was broken through a gap by the Phantom Tooth Cow Clan, and they have fled into the deep sea. After the elders of the sect came down to inspect in person, they determined that it was the disciples of the sect who were negligent in protecting the formation, which caused the Phantom Tooth Cow Clan to take advantage of the gap. Now, the sect has banned Yanghuang Island, and no disciple is allowed to go there. ”

Dugu Yangming scolded loudly: "How is this possible? We finally got acquainted with it, and the sect deliberately cut us off from our cultivation! Is there any heavenly reason for the fuck? There is really nowhere to reason." Suddenly, he said forcefully: "No, I have to go over and see! What kind of elder is it, who can't seal this or that at every turn, and people can't live!"

Senior Brother Zhangchuan shook his head and said solemnly: "Senior Brother Dugu, don't speak inappropriately. The two of you should hurry up and go to the Pioneer Hall to have a look, maybe the sect has a new task down! Staying here will only be a waste of energy. ”

Dugu Yangming scolded a few more words, and then Ling Hu Xu was half-pulled and half-pulled towards the development hall.