“Alright, seeing how sensible you all are, Xing Bo, you can arrange some simple tasks for them later.”
After speaking, Song Bin patted Qin Xuan’s shoulder and turned to leave.
“Young Master!”
Wang Laobo looked at Qin Xuan, very anxious.
“Laobo, there’s no need to rush. With me here, nothing will happen.”
Nodding at Wang Laobo, Qin Xuan said with certainty.
Seeing this, Wang Laobo, though very worried, still stopped.
“Very good. Since you are all so cooperative, I won’t waste any more words. Follow me inside. I’ll tell you about the situation here in our mining area.”
As he spoke, Xing Bo took out a token and walked to the Formation.
As the token entered the Formation, the massive Formation that had been obscuring the surroundings revealed a passage.
“Come over, I’m telling you, this is the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s Formation passage. If you don’t want to die, don’t wander around here in the future, or I won’t be able to save you then.”
After warning the few people, Xing Bo then led them into the Formation passage.
The moment they entered the Formation, the surrounding scenery immediately changed dramatically.
In front of them appeared a large expanse of stone houses built with stones.
The stone houses were connected in a continuous stretch, but at this moment, no one was entering or exiting.
Qin Xuan’s gaze swept towards the distance, and then he was slightly shaken.
Not far from the stone houses, huge mine shafts appeared one after another.
People flowed in and out of these mine shafts like an ant colony, ceaselessly.
Along with the flowing people, countless stones were also moving in and out.
These grayish-brown stones were all sent to a huge warehouse built of stone nearby.
Not only was Qin Xuan somewhat shaken, but Wang Laobo and Nannan beside him were also astonished, looking at this scene in disbelief.
They had never imagined that the mine here would be so vast.
Although he didn’t know how many mine slaves there were, looking from here, Qin Xuan could confirm that there were at least tens of thousands of people currently entering and exiting.
“There are two hundred thousand mine slaves here. They are all Mortals from the Burial Spirit Land or other places.”
Xing Bo said, also looking ahead with a sigh of emotion.
There were Formations on the mine shafts and mountains ahead.
These Formations were used, on one hand, to restrict the dissipation of Spiritual Qi from the mine shafts, and on the other hand, to protect the Spiritual Vein, preventing it from collapsing.
Using this method could ensure the safety of the mine shafts.
After all, the mine shafts extended hundreds of feet downwards, and if they accidentally collapsed, it would be troublesome.
So using this method was naturally not a problem.
“Follow me, I’ll take you to where you’ll be staying.”
Xing Bo led the three to the stone houses, circled several times, and then stopped in front of a somewhat dilapidated-looking stone house.
“Alright, this is where you’ll be staying next. Later, I’ll arrange for someone to take you down to the mine.”
“Here, with the protection of this Formation, you don’t need to worry about anything else. However, I bought you from Song Bin, so now you are all my mine slaves.”
“From now on, each of you must dig out at least ten Spirit Stone raw ores every day, otherwise, don’t even think about eating.”
Spirit Stone raw ores?
Qin Xuan was a little surprised.
He only used Spirit Stones and had no understanding of these Spirit Stone raw ores.
“The so-called Spirit Stone raw ores refer to Spirit Stones that are initially wrapped in a stone skin. These Spirit Stones wrapped in stone skin are called raw ores.”
“It seems the mine slaves here are responsible for digging out the raw ores from below and sending them to the surface. As for the specific task of extracting Spirit Stones, that’s not something a mine slave should meddle with.”
Han Ye explained to Qin Xuan.
Hearing that they had to dig out ten Spirit Stone raw ores at once, Wang Laobo was about to say something, but Qin Xuan spoke first.
“Ten raw ores, right? For the three of us, that’s thirty. Don’t worry, not a single one of these thirty raw ores will be missing.”
Xing Bo had originally thought he would have to spend some effort persuading them, but now it seemed it wasn’t that troublesome. He patted Qin Xuan’s shoulder with satisfaction.
“Not bad, very sensible!”
“You all tidy up first. I’ll send someone to take you down to the mine later.”
After Xing Bo left, Wang Laobo grabbed Qin Xuan, tears almost flowing out.
“Young Master, I’m just an old bag of bones, but Nannan is so young, how can she…?”
Qin Xuan smiled and shook his head.
“Laobo, you don’t need to worry about these thirty raw ores. Since I let you follow me, I won’t let you suffer any losses.”
“Just leave these thirty raw ores to me.”
Hearing Qin Xuan say this, Wang Laobo was so grateful for a moment that he didn’t know what to say.
“No matter what, since you took me in back then, I will naturally repay that kindness. I’ll handle the raw ores. Laobo, you should go look for your son and daughter-in-law. Weren’t they also taken away to mine?”
This was a mine shaft of the Heavenly Fiend Sect, so everyone brought here by the Heavenly Fiend Sect should be here.
Thinking this way, Wang Laobo’s son and daughter-in-law should be mining here.
If that was the case, Wang Laobo might as well go look for them; he might be able to find his son and daughter-in-law.
“That’s right!”
Hearing this, Wang Laobo immediately nodded excitedly.
He hadn’t thought of that point.
“Once you all reunite, I’ll take you away.”
Qin Xuan smiled and rubbed little Nannan’s head beside him, then he walked out of the stone house, preparing to familiarize himself with the environment here.
“Did you deliberately come to this mine shaft to reunite their family?”
Just then, Han Ye suddenly transmitted his voice to Qin Xuan.
“Naturally, that was a consideration, but...”
Qin Xuan had certainly considered that point.
However, this was merely him doing it as an afterthought.
He had other purposes for coming here.
“Mine shaft, there’s another secret to the mine here.”
Qin Xuan transmitted his voice to Han Ye.
“Although I’m not yet clear what secret lies beneath this mine shaft, linking it to what I heard these people say before, I’ve always been very suspicious that there might be something extraordinary down there.”
From what he had heard from those people earlier, Qin Xuan roughly deduced that there must be something underground here.
That was why Qin Xuan had been pretending to be foolish.
In fact, if he wanted to leave, he could do so at any time.
Leaving aside other things, with the Array Pattern Disk in hand, crossing tens of thousands of miles was no problem for him at all.
“No wonder you didn’t make a sound when that Song Bin made you a mine slave, but are you just going to let that Song Bin off?”
Hearing this, Qin Xuan sneered.
“Although he’s just a small fry, I’m a vengeful person. I’ve already planted a Qingfu Insect mark on him. Once things here are done, I’ll kill him.”
Qin Xuan would absolutely not let Song Bin off.
After circling around a few times and familiarizing himself with the surroundings, Qin Xuan easily hunted two Spirit Beasts.
Because the Formation was vast, some Spirit Beasts also lived within the Formation.
However, these Spirit Beasts were very weak, so Qin Xuan easily caught a few Spirit Beasts, preparing to have some meat.
After roasting the Spirit Beasts, Qin Xuan returned to the stone house with the Spirit Beast meat.
