When Jiang Jingyi and the elders arrived at the mine, they were met with chaos.

The guards and the miners stood facing each other on opposite sides, clearly separated.

"Jiang Wen, what's going on?" Jiang Jingyi landed next to the leader and asked coldly.

When Jiang Wen, the leader of the mine, saw that the clan chief and elders had arrived, he immediately bowed and said, "I don't know why, but the mine suddenly collapsed, and the magnetic field suppression here also disappeared. These miners have all recovered their cultivation and started to rebel."

Jiang Jingyi's brows immediately furrowed as she looked at the obviously collapsed mine shaft in front of her, her face turning ashen.

Without the suppression of the magnetic field, how could these miners from outside be at their beck and call?

The thought that the Venerable One might be here made his heart tighten, and he quickly asked, "Have you noticed any new people coming in?"

Jiang Wen thought for a moment, glanced at the other guards, and shook his head. "No."

"However, someone escaped some time ago, and we've been searching for him for a long time without success."

Jiang Jingyi shook her head, but inwardly she breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that the Venerable One hadn't come here.

But upon hearing that one person had escaped, he frowned again. "What happened?"

"Why didn't you notify the clan if someone escaped? What if something happened?"

Jiang Wen immediately lowered his head. "Clan leader, that person's cultivation level wasn't high. I thought that if he fled to the east, there would be fierce spirit beasts there, and to the west would be our clan's territory, so he wouldn't be able to cause any trouble, and I didn't bother with him."

Jiang Jingyi looked at him, her eyes cold, "Has this always been how you manage the mine?"

Jiang Wen immediately raised his head, "Please punish me, clan leader. I didn't mean to conceal it, it's just that that person is really useless..."

After observing for a while, Elder Jiang Fuling transmitted his voice to Jiang Jingyi, saying, "Clan leader, there's no use pursuing this now. The only solution is to bring these miners back to the clan territory, subdue them there, and then figure out another way."

Their tribe's ancestral lands have suppression techniques left by the Heavenly Dao. Anyone who is not from the tribe and does not have the Yi mark will have their cultivation suppressed.

This is why those who come in, despite having considerable cultivation, are all managed to be sent to the mines to work as miners.

Some were sent here directly by tornadoes. There is also a natural magnetic field here, so the Abyss Clan lives a very comfortable life here.

Their only complaint about this comfortable life was that they had to hand over all the purple-gold and black iron.

Every ten years, someone will come and take it away.

On what grounds?

Just because they are laborers, does that mean they should be so selfless?

That's why Jiang Jingyi was so excited when she heard that someone could remove the servitude marks from them.

Because she didn't want to be enslaved anymore.

Jiang Jingyi glanced at the Grand Elder, then looked at Jiang Wen and said coldly, "Go back and accept the Level 3 punishment. If you do it again, don't come to the mine again."

"Yes." Jiang Wen responded and withdrew, glancing at the Grand Elder out of the corner of his eye.

Jiang Jingyi looked at the group of miners in front of her. They weren't stupid. How could they trust them again after being deceived once?

Jiang Jingyi thought for a moment, then looked at the First Elder and said, "I'll leave them to you and the Second Elder to handle. I'll take the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder to find the Venerable One."

"Remember, make sure to leave people here to guard this place. Soon, some people will stop taking the ore."

“If we can’t hand it over, it won’t just be me, the clan chief, who will be punished.”

Jiang Fuling was stunned, not expecting her to throw this scalding hot iron rod at him.

Although he came up with the idea, he didn't want to take on this responsibility.

Jiang Jingyi didn't give him a chance to refuse. After speaking, she left with the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder.

The Second Elder looked at the First Elder, waiting to see how he would trick the man back.

The group of miners also looked at the elder, wondering how he planned to fool them.

They ended up in this state because they believed his lies.

Shu Jianyue and Chong Jiu didn't care what was happening over there; their priority was to break the seal.

As usual, Shu Jianyue was there to protect him.

Shu Jianyue's lips twitched when she saw what Chong Jiu took out.

This Chenxin really knows how to pick a form; this time he actually chose a pillar!

Chong Jiu sat cross-legged under the load-bearing pillar and began to break the seal.

Shu Jianyue then spread her mental energy outwards and observed the pillar in front of her.

The more I looked at it, the more suspicious I became that the runes on it were the root cause of the magnetic field that suppressed cultivation.

So, if she unlocks the runes on it, can she control this magnetic field at will?

Thinking about it, I started researching it, and in the end, I didn't even know that the seal had been broken by Chongjiu.

After Chong Jiu broke the seal, he did not immediately recover his sixth level of cultivation, which must be because the Daoist magic here was suppressing him.

He wasn't in a hurry. He opened his eyes and saw Shu Jianyue staring straight at the load-bearing pillar. He knew what she was doing after a moment, so he didn't disturb her. Instead, he slowly digested the little bit of energy left in his body.

Once Shu Jianyue understood the rules and operating sequence of the runes, she had already cracked most of it.

Sensing someone approaching, Shu Jianyue immediately stood up.

The heavy moxibustion device reacted quickly and retracted the load-bearing column.

Jiang Jingyi was both relieved and somewhat surprised to see them.

They breathed a sigh of relief that they hadn't gone to the mine. Surprisingly, their cultivation levels were unfathomable.

Chong Jiu and Shu Jianyue merely glanced at her indifferently before continuing to look ahead.

After a while, Jiang Jingyi realized what they were looking at.

A group of spirit beasts rushed towards this place.

Just as Jiang Jingyi was about to say something, she felt a powerful pressure coming from the side.

The Third Elder and the Fourth Elder retreated repeatedly, while Jiang Jingyi barely managed to stay in her tracks.

The charging spirit beasts all stopped in their tracks a short distance away.

Shu Jianyue looked at the person sitting on the back of a spirit beast and raised an eyebrow. This person has good recovery ability.

The man, Yuan Dongrun, jumped off the spirit beast's back, stared at Shu Jianyue for a moment, and then his eyes revealed a greedy glint.

They didn't recognize the person as the masked woman they had encountered in the Ten Domains Mountains.

"Don't you want your eyes anymore?" Shu Jianyue looked at him coldly.

Yuan Dongrun didn't take her seriously. With so many spirit beasts at his disposal, why should he be afraid of her?

Besides, there's that strange suppression here.

Yuan Dongrun thought to himself, and saw that she became even more unscrupulous.

The next instant, Chong Jiu struck out with a palm, "Since you want to die, then I will grant your wish."

Yuan Dongrun knocked over several spirit beasts before stopping, staring at Chong Jiu in disbelief, "How could this be?"

Everyone here has suppressed their cultivation to only one or two levels, so how could he still have such a high level of cultivation?

Unless, of course, he himself is exceptionally strong.

Yuan Dongrun couldn't help but feel wary of him.

Jiang Jingyi stared at Chong Jiu with bright, sparkling eyes, certain that this was the Venerable One.

That burning gaze made Shu Jianyue turn her head to look at her. "What, you don't want your eyes anymore?"