This kind of ore needs to be polished off the outer skin to reveal the real spiritual stone inside. There are large and small spirit stones, and the mine slaves have to polish the spirit stones into commonly used sizes and shapes.
Walking forward again, the mine suddenly splits into three, with a hole on the left, middle and right.
Zhou Yang and his team were taken to the end of the mine on the left.
There are hundreds of people mining in the huge cave, and there are also teams of ten people, including cultivators and mortals, mixed in a ratio of one to ten. Some are responsible for digging out the ore with sharp tools, some are responsible for cleaning the excavated loose ore, and some are responsible for transporting it, but the final polishing process should not be here.
Zhou Yang's team is responsible for digging ore, and it is also the most tiring team. The captain does not get special treatment here, he must also take the lead in the work.
The Xuanfu Sect assigned each team a task, which required them to mine ten carts of spiritual ore every day. Failure to complete the task would result in a heavy penalty, and there would be a reward for exceeding the limit. Zhou Yang didn't think about it as long as he didn't get punished. They had just arrived and didn't know what the heavy punishment was, but just looking at the way those mine slaves were sweating profusely and working hard, they must have found the taste of the heavy punishment unbearable.
What was assigned to Zhou Yang was a low-grade magic weapon, which looked like a giant sword, except that the handle was very large and long. He held it in the middle, and four mortals held it on both sides. He is responsible for injecting energy into the magic weapon and then hitting the mine wall. The long sword has a single function, but with the blessing of Yuanli, its sharpness and hardness can be increased several times. Under the strong blow of the long sword, the ore fell down, and then several other mortal team members sorted it out and boarded it.
At first, Zhou Yang was curious about the process of digging the spirit stone. But within a few days, this curiosity was worn away by thousands of repetitive tasks.
There are guards and supervisors in the mines, and if they are slighted, they will be reprimanded and even whipped. This boring and hopeless labor goes on day after day without end.
Not only that, there is competition among dozens of mixed teams, and there may even be incidents of snatching spiritual ores, causing constant conflicts with each other. The mortal slave was fine, just beaten to death. However, the battle between the captains of the Xiu slave team was a matter of life and death. The guards responsible for the order of the mine turned a deaf ear to this and let it go. As long as they didn't use weapons and magic weapons and didn't cause big trouble, they would turn a blind eye and close a blind eye. Their duty seems to be only to prevent the slaves from escaping and to ensure the mining quantity.
No matter where they are, newcomers are being bullied.
The first few days were fine. Zhou Yang and several other new teams worked day and night to mine and barely completed the task. However, within a few days, a team's three carts of spiritual ore were robbed, and in a two-on-one battle, two cultivators beat the rookie team leader half to death. It was really a bully!
The rabbit was dead and the fox was sad, and the other new captains couldn't stand it any longer, so they wanted to help. However, the old captains seemed to be more united, and rushed over with a huff, surrounding several people.
Zhou Yang stopped digging the magic weapon, wiped his sweat, and frowned deeply. The mortal mine slaves beside him also clenched their fists.
"A few scoundrels have rebelled against you, are you looking for death?" The leader, a bearded slave, scolded him with his bull's-eye eyes, revealing his yellow teeth.
Before, he was the one who broke several ribs of the newcomer, causing him serious injuries. This person also had a notorious reputation among cultivators.
Several new team captains were surrounded, at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and being threatened by this person, they couldn't help but feel fear.
"We are all mine slaves, and our situation is already extremely miserable. How can you still treat your fellow slaves like this? Do you really want to do this?" A fair-looking young man asked angrily, feeling sad.
"Don't fucking tell me this. Are you a newbie in the world of cultivation? Do you understand that the weak can eat the strong? You don't know what I'm going to teach you!" The bearded man cursed. He didn't know when he had a stone in his hand, and he threw it at Bai Jing. youth.
This young man's cultivation was also at the ninth level of Kaiyuan, so his reaction was not slow. He grabbed the stone with his hand and threw it back with all his strength.
"Damn it, you dare to fight back! Brothers, let me cripple these bastards!" Bearded Beard was furious, swiped his palm to knock down the rocks, condensed a ball of flame in his hand, and rushed towards the crowd first.
A dozen people behind him also rushed forward, using various means to launch a siege, which frightened the mortals and hurriedly ran away.
"My lord, if this continues, it will definitely lead to a catastrophe. Please stop it as soon as possible!" Zhou Yang threw down the magic weapon and shouted to the guard.
Several guards glanced at him with disdain.
"You!" Zhou Yang's heart was filled with unknown anger, and his sense of justice exploded instantly. He completely forgot about the law of cultivating the world of the jungle and self-preservation, and said angrily: "Brothers, newbies, if you don't want to be bullied by those bastards, come with me! "After saying that, there was wind under his feet, he shook his palms together, and two balls of flames rose up, rushing straight towards the melee crowd.
"Boy, you're looking for death!" The bearded man had noticed Zhou Yang a long time ago. Seeing him rushing towards him, he quickly flicked out the flame in his hand, aiming directly at Zhou Yang's face.
Zhou Yang greeted him with fire, and with a "Boom!", four flames collided and suddenly exploded, radiating in a radius of several feet.
Their robes were also set on fire, but they didn't care. Before the flames dissipated, they both exchanged palms.
"Bang!"
The palms met and there was an explosion of energy. Zhou Yang was knocked back three steps, and all the flames in his body were extinguished.
"You!" The bearded man took seven or eight steps back and stared at Zhou Yang with wide eyes.
His cultivation level was also at the peak of Kaiyuan, but he was much older than Zhou Yang. He didn't expect that his strength was inferior to him, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
Zhou Yang himself was a little surprised. He had thought that he had quickly improved his cultivation with the help of pills, and his Yuanli should not be so strong. Today's palm gave him a surprise, and his confidence greatly increased.
The bearded man rolled his eyes, turned around and shouted: "Big head, second set, come here!"
However, before he finished speaking, Zhou Yang's sharp palm strike arrived again.
"Boy, you!" Beardbeard didn't expect that the other party would not allow any explanation, and he would do whatever he said without any ambiguity. He was really a ruthless character. He didn't dare to neglect, and he also punched to meet the attack.
"Bang bang bang bang!" After four consecutive palm strikes, the bearded man flew away with blood bleeding from the corner of his mouth.
Zhou Yang stepped forward and used Kong Xuan's palm power to strike out again, preparing to teach him a profound lesson.
"Whoosh!" However, at this moment, two flames struck from the left and right, as fast as the wind.
Helpless, Zhou Yang had no choice but to retreat violently, and simultaneously struck with both palms to scatter the two flames.
"Big head, second set, kill him!" The bearded face turned blue with anger, and he wiped the blood from his mouth and said fiercely.
"Don't worry, brother, I'll let him know in a moment what life is worse than death!" Datou stared at Zhou Yang, sneered.
"You guys are shameless! Do you want to start a group fight? Well, all the newcomers, come together!" Zhou Yang shouted loudly, but there was no movement at all. He glanced to the side and his nose almost became crooked with anger. Instead of coming to help, the new captains started digging for ore!
"Hahahaha!" Da Tou and Er Tao looked at him like an idiot and couldn't help laughing.
"I'll make you laugh!" Zhou Yang was so angry that he shook his palms together, and the force of Kong Xuan's palms struck the two of them with strong wind.
"You bitch is looking for death!" He dodged with his head, avoiding the wind of his palm, and punched Zhou Yang in the face.
The second set passed the palm force and kicked Zhou Yang directly in the abdomen.
At this moment, Bearded Beard also came closer and did not take any action, but sneakily attacked Zhou Yang with stones.
Three Kaiyuan peak cultivators beat him alone, and Zhou Yang was immediately at a disadvantage. Fortunately, his six senses are wide open, his perception is very strong, and his movement speed is extremely fast. He has been able to avoid punches, kicks, and rocks that flew from time to time. Although he has no power to fight back, he can still parry them.
However, as time passed, his energy gradually became exhausted. Even though he tried his best, he was still restrained at every turn, and he had received several heavy blows on his body.
Zhou Yang's mouth was bleeding and he gritted his teeth. He received a heavy punch from his head and knocked the second set away with his palm, causing him to bleed on the spot.
The bearded man was startled, but he took advantage of the situation and attacked Zhou Yang from behind with the fire technique.
Although the primary fire technique cannot cause death in one move, if it burns the body, the skin and flesh will be torn, and serious injuries will be difficult to heal.
Zhou Yang had just used a heavy blow when he heard a sound behind him, and then a wave of heat hit his body. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground without thinking much.
Two balls of flames whizzed past his back, taking away pieces of his clothes and flesh behind him.
Zhou Yang gritted his teeth in pain, but he didn't dare to neglect. He turned over and jumped into the air, shooting out two balls of flames as fast as lightning, directly hitting his beard.
Seeing Zhou Yang knocking him down, Bearded Beard was about to step forward, but he didn't expect that he would suddenly burst into flames and retaliate with his own methods. Flames burst out in an instant. He was caught off guard by one of the balls and hit his lower body. He was instantly injured. Burn.
"Ah..." Bearded Beard screamed and slapped his crotch desperately.
Zhou Yang didn't bother to look at where his injuries were. He hurriedly avoided the two punches from Da Tou, but was kicked by the second set who came back to fight. He was kicked solidly in the back, and a stream of blood spurted out from his mouth. Arrow, seriously injured.
At the same time, the second battlefield was one-sided.
A dozen people surrounded six of them, and soon two newcomers were seriously injured, and the remaining ones were also knocked to the ground.
At this time, the fair young man was hit by two groups of flames, and his whole body was engulfed in fire. Although he fought desperately and used his Yuan power to force the flames outwards, as soon as he extinguished part of it, several more groups of flames hit him, and his whole body was suddenly covered in fire again. surrounded. Not long after, the smell of burnt human flesh filled the mine.
In the end, the fair young man was burned alive, leaving only a small piece of ashes.
And several others are also in danger.
"Stop, stop!" Seeing this scene, several guards did not dare to sit back and watch, and quickly rushed over.
If there were a large number of casualties and the ore mining was affected, they would not be able to explain it.
No one dared to challenge the authority of the mine guards, and everyone stopped. But before stopping, an old cultivator took the opportunity to kick the newcomer who was lying on the ground, and the kick hit the injured area, causing the man to scream in pain.
The guard captain was furious and unsheathed his long sword. As the sword glowed, the old cultivator's head flew up, and a fountain of blood spurted out from the broken neck.
Everyone was frightened and hurriedly retreated, bowed their heads and stood there, not daring to move again.
The same goes for big heads and second sets.
The bearded man used his energy to protect his lower body and beat the flames away. But judging from his pale face, the flame must have burned very hard, and it was hard to say whether his life could be saved. He gritted his teeth and glared at Zhou Yang bitterly, then stood aside unwillingly.
Naturally, Zhou Yang would not touch the guard's bad luck. He dusted off his torn robe, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stood still.
