Shang Manfu's death did not affect everyone's itinerary. Everyone continued to move towards their destination. However, in the days that followed, everyone never stayed in hotels in the towns along the route, but chose to stay in the open air.
After camping, we gathered together and were alert to each other. In this way, no dangerous situation happened again, and we arrived at Huangyan Hill safely.
Huangyan Gang is hundreds of miles across. This area is also full of mountains. The mountains are high and the roads are dangerous. The spiritual energy is particularly abundant in the area. Many low-level monsters live there. Small Yuanshi mines are located among these high mountains.
When everyone got there, they saw many deep caves dug out on the cliff face of a large mountain, which led directly to the depths of the mountain.
But most of those caves are abandoned, and only four of them still have people coming and going from time to time to carry stones. These people's cultivation level is below that of a martial artist, and they can obviously only be regarded as some of the most ordinary warriors.
Huang Yue turned around and said to the people behind him: "Let's go to see Elder Pei Yanxue first and hand over to the other brothers who are on duty here. After saying that, he walked towards the mountain aside, and everyone followed closely.
Came to the top of the mountain.
I saw a unique courtyard built among the trees, and there was a martial artist on duty at the door. When he saw everyone looking very excited, he was the first to call: "Brothers, wait a moment, I will go and report to Elder Pei right away."
Huang Yue cupped her hands and said, "Then it's up to you, junior brother."
The man went in for a while, then came out again and said to everyone: Come in quickly, Elder Pei is waiting.
Everyone walked through the door and came to a beautiful house. They saw a burly middle-aged man sitting in the center of the hall, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, a square face and a broad mouth, not angry or intimidating.
Everyone who paid homage to Elder Pei followed Huang Yue and bowed in obeisance.
Pei Yanxue asked in surprise: Why are you missing one person?
Huang Yue had to tell him the story of Shang Manfu's murder.
Pei Yanxue nodded and sighed: Unexpectedly, such a change would happen as soon as you arrived. I will contact the sect as soon as possible and ask them to send another person over.
However, the work still needs to go on. You should quickly make a handover with the other disciples. During this period, the Huanggang sect's group of guys have been active and attacked continuously. Five disciples have been killed one after another in the past six months, so you must be more careful and be on guard.
their attacks.
Huang Yue, you have already had the experience of working in our Huangyanggang twice, and the position of general manager of the Huangyanggang Mine will be handed over to you.
It's Elder Pei, he will definitely fulfill his mission. Huang Yue answered with cupped hands.
Pei Yanxue continued: Now we are mining mainly four tunnels. Two disciples are required to guard each tunnel, while other disciples are responsible for guarding the surrounding areas. The disciples responsible for guarding must pay attention, especially at night, as soon as they are discovered
If there is any suspicious situation, use the fireworks in your hand as a signal to sound the alarm. When the time comes, I will personally greet the invading enemy. Do you understand?
Everyone understood and replied in unison.
Huang Yue, in addition to arranging the daily duty of personnel, is also responsible for patrolling the surroundings to prevent any accidents.
Yes, the disciple understood Huang Yue replied.
Okay, you all should leave now, hand over immediately, and get to work as soon as possible.
Huang Yue led everyone out of the door, to the mountain, and handed over to the disciples who were on duty there, so everyone began their duty life in Huangyangang Mine.
Time flies, and more than two months have passed in the blink of an eye. Up to now, Zhan Chen has basically adapted to life in the mine. Although Huangyan Gang is only a small Yuanshi mine, it produces a lot of Yuanshi.
, it can produce more than 100,000 pieces of low-grade primeval stones every month, and it often produces some medium-grade primeval stones, which can produce at least several thousand pieces a month.
The mine adopts a job rotation system, which means that sometimes he stays in the mine as a supervisor, and sometimes he has to go to the mountains to be on duty.
Being a supervisor in a mine requires a lot of work. You have to deal with the monsters that appear from time to time in the cave, and you also need to pay attention to the miners' hands. If they are not careful, they may hide a piece of Yuan Stone somewhere and arrange it at the same time.
The two supervisors also want to supervise each other.
The sect imposes heavy penalties on those who secretly steal Yuan Stones. Any miner who is caught stealing Yuan Stones, regardless of the number, will be executed. If a supervisor is found to have stolen Yuan Stones, once discovered, no matter the number, he will be expelled from the sect.
, and also provide high rewards to whistleblowers.
Under such a high-pressure policy, everyone is very cautious. Even those who enrich themselves do not dare to do it on a large scale in broad daylight because it will cost a heavy price.
Patrolling outside is relatively easy. Generally, no one dares to break in blatantly during the day. You just need to be more careful at night. Zhan Chen often practices secretly during his patrols, relying on the abundant aura in the mountains.
No one discovered it.
In this way, he stabilized his cultivation level at the peak of the primary level of martial arts master, and was only one step away from breaking through to the intermediate level of martial arts master.
However, after becoming a martial artist, the breakthrough is not as easy as that of a martial arts disciple, and the bottleneck becomes extremely solid. Some martial artists have reached it long ago, but unfortunately they are unable to take that final step.
A martial artist's breakthrough often requires an opportunity. This is not a problem for the children of aristocratic families or the disciples trained by large sects. They only need one pill.
But for ordinary inner disciples of small and medium-sized sects like Zhan Chen, it becomes extremely difficult.
Early that morning, Zhan Chen went to Huang Yue's place to report as usual, but he was assigned the task of supervising the work, and the other person was Wang Jie, whom he hated the most.
Wang Jie looked at his back, but behind him he smiled arrogantly and said to Zhan Chen in a hoarse voice: Junior Brother Zhan Chen, we need to take more care of each other.
A chill ran down Zhan Chen's spine, and he couldn't help but be extremely vigilant.
The two came to the No. 3 tunnel they were responsible for and patrolled the cave as usual. During this period, Zhan Chen turned his head from time to time and secretly observed Wang Jie with the corner of his eye.
Every time at this time, Wang Jie would give him a lewd smile, making people shudder.
Zhan Chen was always worried about what was going on behind him. He seemed to have a misconception in his mind that Wang Jie would suddenly pull out his sword and strike him from behind. However, looking at the busy miners around him, he felt that his worries were
Superfluous.
In this tunnel full of people, if Wang Jie made a move against him, everyone would definitely see it, and once someone spread the news, Wang Jie would be charged with murdering his fellow sect members, and he would be a dead man anyway.
Time passed in just these minutes. The light in the cave was dim, and it was extremely quiet and monotonous. Only at intervals, you could hear the sound of the miners tapping the stones rhythmically.
Zhan Chen could even hear his heart beating loudly, as if something was about to happen at any moment.
Just then, I suddenly heard a few exclamations from deep inside the cave: Wow, help!
Zhan Chen's pupils shrank suddenly, and he couldn't help but rush towards the depths of the cave.