Chapter 52: Secrets of the Mine

Qi Yunxian's flaming sword flashed, and before Zhuo Wei could react, he had already cut off his right hand, and blood splashed and dyed his clothes red.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! You dare..."

Zhuo Wei howled in pain while holding the wound on his right shoulder,

"I won't let you go, you bastard, just wait for me."

"Shut up!"

Zhuo Hu shouted at his brother,

"Are you the two guardians of the No. 1 mining area? Next, I need to ask you a few questions. If you hesitate, the consequences will be more than just a broken hand."

Qi Yunxian took away all the ore magic tools in front of the two people without hesitation, and said with a playful look,

"Daoyou, please ask, I will tell you the truth."

Zhuo Hu had long been stunned by Qi Yunxian's mood swings, so he didn't dare to have other ideas.

His brother Zhuo Wei also fainted due to excessive blood loss, but the physical fitness of immortal cultivators is far superior to that of ordinary people. Even if he was so seriously injured, he would not worry about his life for the time being.

An hour later.

Zhuo Hu finally sent away the evil guest named Lin Yun, and then he dared to pick up the storage bag belonging to the two brothers on the ground. Looking at the empty storage bag in his hand, he wanted to cry but had no tears.

This unexpected disaster not only made the two brothers lose all their money, but even the younger brother Zhuo Wei was seriously injured and broke an arm.

Although the limbs are not impossible to recover in the world of immortal cultivation, the spiritual medicine required is beyond the affordability of two casual cultivators.

What is more important at the moment is that the share of ore that the two brothers should hand over to Boss Qiu every month was taken away by the cultivator named Lin Yun. There are only two days left, and it is too late even if they rob.

He looked at his brother lying in a pool of blood with a flickering look in his eyes and walked over slowly.

Zhuo Wei was seriously injured. The broken right hand was secondary. The most important thing was that the penetrating wound on the left chest had damaged the internal organs. Even with the strong physique of an immortal cultivator, if he could not get treatment, there was only one way to go, death.

Zhuo Hu trembled as he placed his hand on Zhuo Wei's injured left chest. Looking at his injured and unconscious brother, a trace of struggle appeared on his face, but it was soon replaced by a ferocious look. With a sudden force, blood gushed out of Zhuo Wei's injured left chest.

Zhuo Wei woke up due to the severe pain, and saw this scene. He didn't understand what was going on. He was about to beg for mercy when Zhuo Hu covered his mouth and nose.

Zhuo Hu was already in tears at this moment, until his brother under him stopped moving.

"Second brother, I will definitely avenge you. I will take your share of the immortal road that you have not yet completed."

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Qi Yunxian also returned to the cave he had opened before after getting enough ore to hand over.

He had also learned a lot about the mine from Zhuo Hu before. As an old miner, Zhuo Hu had been working for the Huangshi Island mine five years ago, but the mine was managed by the Liu family at that time.

The mine boss he followed was named Qiu Tian, ​​a cultivator of the ninth level of Qi Refining. His nickname was Qiu Laogui, and he was insidious and vicious, and he did things without scruples. He was the most unprovoked person in the mine, and he also led the largest force in the mine.

What surprised him was that Wang Fang, who had recruited him before, also became one of the three major mine boss forces in the mine. Although it was only the weakest force, it seemed that this person was quite capable.

These were actually irrelevant news to Qi Yunxian. After all, Qi Yunxian did not take cultivators below the foundation-building stage seriously at all. Only cultivators who practiced the same heavenly-grade skills as him could be looked up to by him.

However, in the corners of this overseas cultivation world, the probability of encountering such cultivators was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

What caught his attention was another strange thing that Zhuo Hu said.

A long time ago, in Yunxia Mountain, in addition to more than a hundred casual miners, there were also some members of the Liu family who could not make it and took the initiative to enter the mine to mine.

At that time, the Liu family still managed the mine, and the management was relatively relaxed. There was a rotation time every two months, and I could ask for leave from the Liu family if I had an emergency.

Until half a year ago, the mine management suddenly became the Black Water Gate.

Everything began to change. All the previous Liu family members disappeared, and no one knew where they went.

A few days later, the supervisor of the Black Water Gate distributed a new mine map to everyone. The general terrain did not change much, but there was a black area in the map, which was the restricted area of ​​the entire mine. Anyone who entered it would disappear in the mine.

The map distributed by Qi Yunxian and others when they entered the mine was the revised new map.

No one knew what the so-called restricted area was, but no matter who it was, as long as they entered this place, they never came out again. Over time, no one dared to explore this place.

Immediately after the Black Water Gate completely took over the Huangshi Mine, it cancelled all the previous rotation systems of the mine and told all miners in the mine that they were not allowed to leave the mine within three years.

How could the old miners who had worked in the mine for a long time accept this? In the end, the monks from the Black Water Gate gave them a severe lesson and suppressed the matter.

After that, Huangshi Island, contrary to its usual practice, recruited a large number of workers and doubled the salary, which doubled the number of monks mining in the mine. However, the behavior of Huangshi Island Mine that only took in but did not leave was still seen by some people with ulterior motives.

People who hang out in the world of immortal cultivation are not fools. The Huangshi Island Mine is so large that it should have been fully staffed long ago. It is still recruiting miners. There must be something fishy here. Over time, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit miners in Huangshi Island.

This is one of the reasons why Qi Yunxian was summoned to the mine by the Liu family manager and was rewarded with a lot of spiritual stones.

After that, there was a Black Water Gate Foundation Building Elder sitting at the entrance of the mine, which made everyone in the mine completely stop thinking about leaving until the Longmen Gorge incident.

It was because several Black Water Gate Foundation Building cultivators left that the Liu family ancestor temporarily sat in charge of the Huangshi Mine.

Qi Yunxian looked at the black restricted area on the map in his hand, thinking.

"It seems that the Black Water Gate is lucky! They actually encountered a companion ore born in a first-level ore vein. The probability of such a thing is one in ten thousand."

Based on these clues, Qi Yunxian has roughly guessed the reasons behind the series of abnormal actions of the Black Water Gate.

It turns out that in the world of immortal cultivation, these naturally formed minerals are all formed by the earth veins after thousands of years of nurturing.

The power of nature is mysterious and unpredictable. In the process of ore formation, there is a very small chance that another associated ore will be born.

The yellow-brown stone is an earth-attributed ore, and the most common associated ore is the second-level gold source stone.

The gold source stone is a second-level ore with gold attributes. It is a good material for refining gold-attributed magic tools, and its value is far higher than that of the yellow-brown stone.

According to the size of the restricted area on this map, this gold source stone vein should be a small vein, but its value is higher than that of the large yellow-brown stone vein. No wonder the Black Water Gate will completely take over the Yellowstone Mine. It seems that even the Black Water Gate will be tempted by this benefit.

This can also explain where the missing Liu family members are, and whether the missing miners really disappeared, or were taken to the gold source stone vein to mine ore.

Qi Yunxian sneered. Since he knew this secret, he would not let the Black Water Sect have their way. If he wanted to leave here, he had to rely on this secret to have a little hope.

Although he was not afraid of Liu Laozu with his current strength, he had no way to deal with the third-level Yunxia Jinguang Formation. However, as long as this secret was spread, this wealth would be enough to make some cultivators take risks. As long as there was chaos outside, his chance to escape would come.