Chapter 1: Humiliation
Xiao Fan didn't expect that he would encounter such a good opportunity as soon as he came to the Shenwu Continent. Originally, he felt that if he wanted to mine for others, he would be enslaved at all, and he was angry, but now he was in a different mood, not only was he angry, but he was full of expectations.
The messenger said a lot of the rules of the mining area, and then took Xiao Fan and them to the mining area. The mining area was about tens of thousands of miles away, and after the envoy took Xiao Fan and dozens of them to leave here, another middle-aged cultivator soon appeared.
The envoy said a few words to the middle-aged man, and then returned to the ruin square, while Xiao Fan and the others were led by the middle-aged man to the ancient mining area. The cultivators did not dare to speak, and silently followed the middle-aged man, and finally reached the ancient mining area one day later.
Along the way, Xiao Fan didn't see any cities, they were all passing through the ancient veins of mountains and rivers. When the middle-aged man pointed ahead and told everyone that the undulating ancient barren mountains in the distance were the so-called ancient mining areas, a sense of heaviness rose inexplicably in everyone's hearts.
The ancient mining area, where it is too barren, the mountains rich in divine crystal ore have no grass, very little soil, almost all stones, and it looks extremely desolate. Xiao Fan and the others could clearly see a large number of cultivators working hard, covered in dust, all unkempt, looking like refugees.
The cultivators of the mine are widely distributed across several mountain ranges, and they are busy inside and outside the mines. In the center of several veins, there are majestic buildings, and there are many powerful auras in them, and those are the cultivators who guard this vein.
Some overseers could be seen walking back and forth all over the veins, and some cultivators who moved a little slowly would be whipped by the Divine Whip, their skin and flesh blooming, blood splattering, and screaming in the sky. Before entering the vein area, this scene had already made the cultivators around Xiao Fan tremble one by one. They knew that they were about to enter the abyss, and they had to endure here for two years before they could leave, and during these two years, they were slaves, unconditionally helping others mine the Divine Crystal Mine.
"Why are you stunned? Don't leave quickly, every cultivator who comes to the Shenwu Continent from the Nether Realm has to go through this process. It's just that some people go to different ancient mining areas, and according to the different regions of the spatial nodes they come here, it determines where they will go through two years of enslavement after coming. The middle-aged man who led Xiao Fan and the others said, his tone was very indifferent, and from his eyes, Xiao Fan and the others could see that he regarded these people as ants at all.
Soon, Xiao Fan and the others came to the edge of the ancient mining area, the middle-aged man stood in the air, and the cultivators guarding the ancient mining area immediately discovered him, and several people immediately stepped into the air.
"People, I sent it to you, then you can arrange it yourself, I have other things to do, so I'll leave first. The middle-aged man said to a few cultivators who flew in.
The cultivators nodded, but didn't say anything more. After the middle-aged man left, he took Xiao Fan and them to a square surrounded by buildings in the center of the vein. There are piles of shiny ores around the square, exuding a faint aura of divinity and a strong and pure essence of heaven and earth.
Xiao Fan's eyes suddenly flashed with a flash of light, if all the piles of divine crystal mines around the square could be collected, I don't know how many realms this resource would be enough to improve.
"All stand still!" In the middle of the square, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face suddenly drank and gestured to a young cultivator beside him, who nodded, opened the storage ring, and took out a pile of coarse cloth clothes, which did not have any pockets.
"You guys, change into these clothes immediately, and then hand over the storage ring!" said the middle-aged man with a gloomy face. When the cultivators heard this, their faces changed greatly, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and no one made any action for a while.
"Didn't you hear what I said? change into these clothes and hand over the storage ring. You are not allowed to carry anything with storage space in the mining area to ensure that you do not hide the Divine Crystal Mine!"
The cultivators were angry, but there was nothing they could do. In the past, they were all extremely strong in the lower spirit realm, and their prestige was blazing, and they could shake three times in one area by stomping their feet. However, the glorious days of the past are gone, and the former status and majesty are gone.
When they came to the Shenwu Continent, no matter how powerful and majestic they were in the Lower Spirit Realm, they were only the weakest cultivators here, and there was no room for resistance, so they could only accept it. These cultivators who guarded the veins, even the weakest, were enough to suppress them easily, and the cultivators understood this very well. When they saw a trace of murderous intent flashing in the eyes of the middle-aged man with a gloomy face, they finally lowered their once noble head under the cruel reality and consciously took off the storage ring in their hands.
Xiao Fan also took off the storage ring, of course, he didn't take off all the storage rings. Instead, he took off a storage ring that was almost empty and had nothing in it, and the other storage rings had already been placed in the Love Immortal Furnace by him when the middle-aged man said that he was going to hand over the storage ring, and the Love Immortal Furnace was hidden in his body.
Since Xiao Fan was in the crowd, the middle-aged man and the other cultivators guarding the veins did not notice his movements, so naturally he hid a few storage rings.
A young cultivator stepped forward and quickly put away the storage items in the cultivators' hands, and then asked them to change into the miner's coarse cloth clothes. The cultivators could not resist, so they had to take off their clothes in broad daylight in humiliation, and then change into miners' uniforms.
"Good, two years passed quickly. I hope that you can keep to yourself in these two years and concentrate on mining the Divine Crystal Mine. After two years, you will be free, if anyone is greedy and secretly hides the Divine Crystal Mine, then what awaits him will definitely be death!" The middle-aged man's eyes were very sharp, like a knife cutting through his skin, making the cultivators' bodies tremble and chill all over their bodies.
After the words fell, the middle-aged man looked at one of the people beside him and said, "Put shackles on them!"
"Yes!" the man replied, and soon dozens of anklets and bracelets were brought. These chains were all made of inferior divine iron, and it was impossible for a person at the peak of the Three Flowers Gathering Peak Great Perfection to open them, and even a cultivator of the Heavenly Martial Secret Realm One Heaven would be difficult to break them down in a short period of time.
"You can't treat us like this, although we have mined the veins for you for free, but we are not slaves after all, you can't do this!" The cultivators were furious, they had never been so humiliated, they felt that their dignity had been trampled on to the point of decentness.
"You have no choice!" The middle-aged man's gaze swept over Xiao Fan and everyone else, his eyes were very indifferent, his condescending posture seemed to be looking at a group of low-level ants, this gaze deeply pierced the hearts of the cultivators, and the anger in their hearts was burning.
However, no matter how angry and humiliated they are, what can they do? The law of the jungle is eternal, and the cultivation realm is the same as the animal realm, where the strong are respected, and the weak can only be eaten to the point that there are no bones left. In this case, there are only two options: one is to obey for the sake of life, and the other is to die for the sake of dignity.
Dignity is important, but how many people are willing to give their lives for it? Everyone has the instinct to live, and who wants to choose death if there is no way to live? Of course, there are not no such people, but there are too few.
Xiao Fan has been silent in the crowd, no matter how unwilling and angry the cultivators around him are, his expression has always been very calm. He endured and endured today's humiliation, and he will definitely get it back again in the coming day.
Xiao Fan is not a person who is afraid of death, but he wants to live more, and he will not show his anger in this absolutely weak situation, and for him, being in this mining area is also a great opportunity, and it is the first turning point in his life when he comes to the Shenwu Continent.
A young cultivator walked out beside the middle-aged man, looking arrogant, and glanced at Xiao Fan and the others with cold eyes. Said: "From now on, I will number you, starting from the left of the first row, the first number is nine-five-two-zero, and so on." Now you memorize your numbers, register them one by one, bring your bracelets and anklets, and then stand aside and wait for the overseer to take you to the veins to mine the Divine Crystal Mine.
One by one, the cultivators stepped forward, their hands and feet were shackled, and there was a loud noise between movements, and everyone's faces were filled with endless humiliation. Before coming to the Shenwu Continent, they were full of expectations and yearning for this world, and they never thought that it would be like this. This is not the paradise they yearn for, but a dark and boundless abyssal hell.
The first few cultivators put on shackles and registered their numbers, and it was finally Xiao Fan's turn. He walked over to the young cultivator, wrote down his number, and then reached out and asked the young cultivator to shackle himself.
At this time, the middle-aged man's eyes glanced to this side, and this casual glance made his face change slightly, his eyes narrowed, and said, "You!
"Me?" Xiao Fan turned his head to look at the middle-aged man, his gaze was always calm. The middle-aged man's eyes flickered coldly, and he just looked at Xiao Fan, and after a while, seeing that Xiao Fan's expression had always been very calm, without the slightest fluctuation, he immediately sneered: "Very good, there is a kind! You can actually not change color under my gaze, and your mind is tougher than all of them! I am curious, how did you, a low-level cultivator who is less than the peak of the Three Flowers Gathering Peak Great Perfection, break the space and come to the Shenwu Continent? Could it be that you used any special weapons?"
Xiao Fan looked at the middle-aged man's eyes, listened to what he said, was shocked, had a bad premonition, and saw deep doubts and curiosity in the eyes of the middle-aged man. Just as he was still thinking, the middle-aged man spoke again and said, "Judging from your aura, you are a little different from them, obviously not from those small spirit realms, are you from the Yanhuang Continent?"