After being imprisoned in the cell of Baidi City for two days, Xiang Que set off with all the arrested prisoners. In the past two days, people were sent to the cells one after another. He also figured out one thing. This Baidi
The city captured a large number of people with cultivation skills and sent them all to a mine fifty kilometers away from Baidi City, which meant that Xiang Que became a glorious but hard-working miner.
What this mine digs is not gold and silver treasures, but a kind of crystal that can help people improve their cultivation. I heard that it contains huge vitality. After extracting it, it is absorbed into your body, just like you are practicing.
It just lacks the step of cultivation, so this thing is very popular. Everyone wants to get it. However, this ore is extremely hard and ordinary people cannot dig it. Only those with cultivation can do it. The higher the cultivation level, the harder it is.
The faster you dig, the higher your yield will be.
Xiang Que never expected that after Hedao succeeded, he changed places and actually became a miner?
What about Lao Dao and Uncle Shi? They should be here too. Will there be a very bloody encounter between the three of them?
In the early morning of this morning, the cell door was wide open, and the guards of Baidi City lined up to escort Xiang Que and his party to the mine outside Baidi City. Xiang Que glanced back and forth and found that the prisoner team was crowded. This person must be at least more than a hundred people.
All the prisoners had shackles on their hands and chains on their legs. The locks were very hard. Xiang Que gave up after trying many times and couldn't break free.
"Let's go to the mines..." The people from Baidi City directed the guards to take care of a large number of prisoners and headed outside the city.
Xiang Que was mixed in with the team and followed him out with an expressionless face. He was a person who was very unwilling to be tied down. Putting aside whether he was a miner or not, my way home must not be interrupted by you.
When Xiang Que walked out of Baidi City, he looked back at this huge city. If Baidi City dared to block his return, he wouldn't mind causing trouble like the man named Lin Wenhe did ten years ago.
There will be no peace in the whole city. If the gods block the gods and the Buddhas block the Buddhas, no one will be able to do anything!
Just as Xiang Que was about to retract his determined look, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a gaze penetrating through the crowd in Baidi City and falling on him. He frowned and glanced in the direction of Baidi City, but he didn't find out who it was.
He was so sharp, but with just a little bit of hatred and unwillingness in his eyes, he was immediately targeted.
In the palace of the Lord of Baidi City, there is a tower dozens of meters high. In a dome-shaped room on the top floor of the tower, a woman in white looked down at the mining team that was leaving the city in the distance. She whispered to the two people standing behind her.
A person dressed as a maid said: "Go down and take good care of these people... There seem to be some uneasy people inside."
"Okay, Miss Second"
The woman in white looked away from Xiang Que, but she didn't pay much attention to this person. After all, among the people Baidi City had collected over the years, there were almost too many people who were unwilling to lose their freedom to become miners.
Not long after the mighty team left the city, Xiang Que saw a mountain that was almost towering into the clouds not far away. The top of the mountain was shrouded in clouds and mist, and there seemed to be snow hanging on it. The lower part was lush and green, and the mountain was endless.
Running north-south, you can't even see it. Its momentum is like a rolling river, with more than a dozen well-proportioned peaks stacked on top of each other.
"That's the place we're going to. It's called Kunling Mountain. It's a famous mountain belt on the boundary of Baidi City, and it's also the dividing line between Taixu Palace in the East China Sea." The person who spoke was named Wu Bingran, the person who talked to him about Lin Wenhe before.
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"East China Sea, Taixu Palace? Where is it?"
Wu Bingran forgot about him in surprise, and asked doubtfully: "Did you jump out of the cracks in the rocks? You have never heard of Lin Wenhe's name, and you don't know much about Baidi City. Now even Taixu
Don’t you know? Can you tell me how you survived these years?"
Xiang Que smiled awkwardly, scratched his head and said: "I just want to practice, and I don't hear anything outside the window. I have been living in seclusion in the mountains and never asked about worldly affairs. I have never heard of what you said, and I have just left the mountain."
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"Which sect are you a disciple of?"
Xiang Que thought for a while, then looked at the other person with very expectant eyes and said, "Come from Gujing Temple."
Wu Bingran snorted and said, "I haven't heard of it."
A look of disappointment swept away on Xiang Que's face. His uncle and Lao Dao must have come here after they merged together. Xiang Que was even a little excited and thought whether some of the ancestors of Gujing Guan had successfully merged themselves. If that was the case.
If so, then the name of Gujing Temple he proposed should be quite loud in this world. But what made him a little frustrated was that Wu Bingran didn't respond at all.
Xiang Que sighed quietly and said, "What's going on in Taixu Palace in the East China Sea? Tell me?"
"I have never been there, but I have heard..." Wu Bingran said: "This side of Kunling Mountain is the boundary of Baidi City, and there is a sea on that side. There are several islands in the sea that belong to Taipei."
Xudian, Taixudian and Baidi City each occupy one side with Kunling Mountain as the boundary. I heard that Taixudian is a group of idle clouds and wild cranes. They have no rules and regulations. They just meditate and practice all day long.
, not very interested in external affairs. It is composed of many practitioners. It is said to be an organization but in fact it is an alliance. Everyone just manages their own affairs and rarely interferes in matters outside themselves."
"A plate of loose sand?" Xiang Que asked curiously.
Wu Bingran rolled his eyes at him and said: "Everyone is in charge of their own affairs, not a piece of loose sand. Although they are in charge of their own affairs, when there is a foreign enemy who wants to offend Taixu Palace, these idle clouds and wild cranes will all self-disciplined to get together and twist into a rope to fight against each other.
It's still very good, and you have to understand that up to now, I haven't heard of anyone who dares to have the idea of Taixu Palace. There may be some, but it definitely doesn't exist anymore, because Taixu Palace is still there."
"Baidi City and Taixu Palace are so close, only separated by a mountain. There should be many conflicts between the two parties, right? What's more, there are treasures in this mountain?"
"So close?" Wu Bingran sneered and said, "It's just a mountain away. Most people can't cross Kunling Mountain. I heard that few people can walk from one end of the mountain to the other.
Less than one percent of Kunling Mountain has been developed, and the rest is uncivilized and untouched territory. I heard that there are many dangers in the mountain. I don’t know how many people have wanted to cross Kunling Mountain through the ages but have failed to enter.
After that, none of them came out again, and their bones were buried inside. Only those who ask God or above may have a chance to cross over."
Asking God is a state after Hedao. Xiang Que always thought that Hedao has come to an end. At this time, it seems that this practice is far from the end. He even thinks that after Asking God, there may be more?
A few hours later, the mining team arrived at the foot of Kunling Mountain. As they got closer, you realized that the majesty of Kunling Mountain was far greater than what could be seen from a distance.
As soon as one stood at the foot of the mountain, he felt a strong sense of oppression. Xiang Que had been to many famous mountains and rivers, but there was no mountain that had ever given him a feeling of oppression.
It’s really nice to live in Kunling Mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a small city. Calling it a city is a bit general, but it is just a simple town. This is the headquarters of Baidi City's mining in Kunling Mountain. A large number of people from Baidi City are stationed here to manage it.
The miners collect the crystals and send them back together.
The team of prisoners, every twenty people were organized into a group and supervised by two guards from Baidi City. Then each person was issued a tool similar to a hoe. Manual mining relied entirely on manpower, and the hands and feet were still used.
With shackles to prevent their escape.
The day I arrived at Kunling Mountain, my identity as a miner had already begun. There was no time to get used to it or to breathe. Xiang Que followed the team and started to enter Kunling Mountain.
I don’t know how many years this mountain has been mined. As I walked up the mountain road for more than 200 meters, many deep caves appeared on the hillside. Wu Bingshan said that it was all after years of digging spar.
For those who stay, they will dig deeper into these caves.
Twenty minutes later, the group arrived at their destination, about 300 meters above sea level. There were many fewer caves here. When they walked nearby, they could still hear the sound of digging coming from the caves. The supervisor led
They entered a cave.
"Go inside, and you will reach the place when you reach the end. Everyone's daily goal is five crystal stones. If you miss one crystal stone, you will be punished once. If you don't dig out one crystal stone, then it is of no use to you. There are all of them in the mountain.
Where the corpses are buried, the more digging is considered a reward," the two overseers ordered, holding soaring whips in their hands.
Xiang Que suddenly asked: "What's the reward?"
"Reward you with a full meal"
Xiang Que was immediately confused and asked: "In normal times, don't we have enough to eat?"
The monitor smiled coldly, lowered his head and took out two black steamed bun-like things from a basket beside the entrance of the cave and threw them at his feet. Xiang Que didn't lie at all. He even heard a "bang" sound.
Did he tell me that this is all we eat in one day?
"If you exceed the task limit, a crystal will give you an extra piece of food. If you can't complete the task, you will starve and receive a whip."
Xiang Que pursed his lips and gritted his teeth. The treatment of workers in black mines in China is much better than this!
"Stop looking, get out of here... If you look again, you won't have anything to eat tonight, get out of here."
Wu Bingran pulled Xiang Que and whispered: "Let's go, let's go."
The cave is fifty meters deep, and I can barely see with my eyes. I can vaguely see several stars of light flickering on the walls around the cave.
This is what Xiang Que and the others want to dig out, the goal of working twenty-four hours a day!