Chapter 116
His purpose in coming here was to do it spontaneously, and he just wanted to mine...
Cheng Hui quietly watched the team leader committing suicide and started mining without saying a word.
His purpose of coming in was to act spontaneously. If he said he wanted to mine, he had to mine.
only……
Watching the monks around him swiftly take out a pickaxe from their storage bag, Cheng Hui, empty-handed, fell into deep thought...
"Is this your first time?" A petite girl came over.
"Yeah." Cheng Hui nodded heavily.
It was a mistake. He forgot that mining required tools and he was not prepared at all.
The little girl, who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, laughed heartily at the sight and pulled out a pickaxe from her storage bag. "Here, I'll lend it to you."
"Thank you." Cheng Hui took the pickaxe and started digging.
The girl took a look and laughed, "You can't do that... At your rate, you're definitely going to lose money."
Cheng Hui: ...
"Watch me." The little girl knocked on the wall with the back of the pickaxe, and soon found a suitable position to start digging.
Cheng Hui watched the little girl's movements and found that the way she used the pickaxe was also very special. He tried it and found that this method could indeed save a lot of effort.
The little girl watched him imitate her, chuckled, and continued to dig at the wall.
Soon, a small corner of the spirit stone was revealed. After the little girl discovered the spirit stone, she began to dig around it, and soon dug out the entire spirit stone.
She held the spirit stone in her hand and smiled slyly: "How is it? Did you learn it?"
Cheng Hui shook his head. He had indeed learned how to exert force in mining, but he didn't know how to determine the location of the ore.
The girl, eager to teach, simply began to explain everything to him. Cheng Hui listened for a moment, then suddenly interrupted her: "Are you just going to teach me your secret?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing. "Haha, what nonsense are you talking about? This is not a secret at all. Just ask anyone mining here, they'll all know this."
The people around also laughed in good faith. Obviously, the little girl was right. The secret of digging spirit stones was a basic skill for all miners, which was something that Cheng Hui, a novice, didn't understand at all.
"Then I want to thank you too." Cheng Hui said cheerfully.
What others know is their own business. The little girl taught him out of kindness, so he should be grateful for it.
"Oh, that's nothing." The little girl felt a little embarrassed by what he said. Her face turned red and she touched her nose uncomfortably.
Cheng Hui smiled slightly. He also discovered that most of these independent cultivators in the group knew each other and the atmosphere among them was very harmonious.
Cheng Hui always felt that the world of cultivation was a place where the strong preyed on the weak, with fights happening all the time, and each fight usually resulted in death or injury. Even though Cheng Hui accepted such an environment, it made him, who came from a peaceful world, very uncomfortable.
Instead, it was these poor independent cultivators who made him feel the long-lost warmth.
The appearance of Cheng Hui, the "newcomer", sparked everyone's discussion. These casual cultivators were also happy to chat in their spare time from mining. The endless chat quickly shifted the focus of the topic away from Cheng Hui.
Cheng Hui was also happy to share the gossip they were talking about, and he was very cooperative, making exclamations like "Wow! Oh? And this thing..." at appropriate times, which made them more excited to talk and also let him hear a lot of news that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.
The biggest characteristic of independent cultivators is that they have no fixed place to live, so they naturally bring news from one place to another as they move around.
Of course, due to their lower social class, the information they can access is limited. They certainly cannot access any news that is slightly more important, but they do have access to a lot of gossip.
What happened is that City Lord A has been in seclusion for a long time, and his wife is cheating on him with another man.
What a shame that the children of City Lord B were so unfilial that they sold the family treasures without their father's knowledge.
I also heard that a hundred ghosts broke out at night in a certain place, and the ghost soldiers passed through the area. The surrounding sects took a lot of effort to resolve the matter. However, it is said that there are still many ghosts left outside, and they are gathering people from the surrounding areas to encircle and suppress them.
Cheng Hui listened to the excitement, but unintentionally, he was keeping an eye on the taciturn monk.
There was something wrong with this cultivator since he came in. He would not stop what he was doing even when chatting with other cultivators, but Cheng Hui found that the cultivator also seemed to be mining on the wall. In fact, he had not gained anything at all after such a long time.
Moreover, every time he dug a place, he would just dig a few times and then change the place. It was almost impossible to find spirit stones at that depth.
So...what does this person want to do?
While chatting with the little girl and her brother, he observed the monk with distraction.
The monk changed several places, and Cheng Hui finally discovered that he seemed to have buried something in the walls where he had dug.
Just when Cheng Hui was wondering what this person's purpose was, the monk had already sauntered over to the side of the team leader.
This slightly wretched-looking man was also working hard at mining. The spirit stones given to him by others did not make him give up his work.
Just as Cheng Hui was hesitating whether to go over and take a look, he suddenly noticed that the monk slightly adjusted his direction and faced the leader's position.
Then with a loud bang, a wall of the mine tunnel exploded. The monk shouted, "Be careful!" and then suddenly pounced towards the leader.
Cheng Hui's pupils suddenly shrank, and he grabbed the little girl and her brother, protecting them behind him.
Boom boom boom——
After several consecutive earthquakes, the entire mine tunnel exploded, and countless rubbles covered the people present.
Caught off guard, these low-level monks had no time to react and were blown to pieces with blood all over their heads. A few unlucky ones even had their heads pierced by the rubble, and red and white liquids flowed all over the ground.
Cheng Hui relied on his thick skin and protected the little girl tightly, and the flying debris could not break through his defense at all.
The brother and sister he protected had lingering fears on their faces. Cheng Hui's back, protecting them, was so tall.
"How are you? Are you okay?"
When the dust settled, there was a wailing in the passage, and Cheng Hui turned around to look at the brother and sister.
"No... I'm fine..." The little girl looked terrified. She was only at the first level of Qi Refining, not much stronger than an ordinary person. If she was hit by the rubble, a bloody head would be a minor matter. If she wasn't careful, she could die.
"Sister, are you okay?" The little girl's brother was also shocked. His cultivation was slightly higher than the little girl's, but he was only at the third level of Qi Refining. It was impossible for him to escape from such an explosion unscathed.
"Thank you!" the man said to Cheng Hui excitedly.
Cheng Hui waved his hand to indicate that you're welcome, and then turned his attention to the team leader.
The leader, protected by the monks, didn't suffer any serious damage. But by then, he had already climbed up from the ground. Looking at the mess on the ground and the seriously injured monks, his face was pale and he muttered absentmindedly, "How could this happen? How could it explode?"
Those seriously injured cultivators collapsed to the ground one by one, with countless broken hands and feet. The two most unlucky ones even had their heads smashed in, leaving only two headless corpses.
Cheng Hui observed the monk calmly and found that he was comforting the leader, but the words of comfort made people uncomfortable.
What do you mean it’s all the Corpse Puppet Sect’s fault, because they failed to detect the danger in advance?
Or maybe the people from the Corpse Puppet Sect were unwilling to see such an area rich in spirit stones being discovered and occupied by the leader, so they used this method to drive them away.
Cheng Hui’s forehead was full of question marks.
In? How's your brain?
Even if you want to pass the buck, you have to follow the Basic Law, right?
My Corpse Puppet Sect collected so few spirit stones and let you in to mine them. Is it necessary to cause all this trouble?
I don’t know if he has any special means or if the leader’s brain has gone out of control. Judging from his expression, he seems to really believe it and thinks that the Corpse Puppet Sect has set its sights on him and wants to attack him.
Cheng Hui: ...My Corpse Puppet Sect refuses to take the blame!
Because of the "life-saving grace" just now, this monk successfully caught the attention of the team leader. The two of them hid aside and whispered to each other, and no one knew what they were talking about.
Cheng Hui felt that as the person in charge of the mining area, he could not let this person put the blame on the Corpse Puppet Sect no matter what.
He secretly sent his spiritual sense over, originally just wanting to listen to their conspiracy and then launch a targeted attack. Unexpectedly, after listening for a while, he found that the cultivator's purpose seemed not to be the Corpse Puppet Sect, but... the place where the associated ore could be dug as mentioned by the leader.
Cheng Hui: ...
So our Corpse Puppet Sect took such a big blame, and it was just you who did it to get information?
Cheng Hui's face darkened, but he did not lose his temper immediately. Instead, he decided to wait until the person in charge arrived.
With such a violent explosion happening underground in the mine, it is impossible that there would be no reaction from the mining area. If nothing unexpected happens, the person in charge of this small mining area will show up soon.
Sure enough, not long after, the previous supervisor came down. When he saw the tragic scene, his face was very grim. He did not immediately launch an investigation, but first organized a rescue, sending the injured monks to the ground to prevent them from bleeding to death instead of dying in the explosion.
After some trouble, everyone returned to the ground and the injured monks were treated. The supervisor noticed that Cheng Hui waved at him, and he realized that the other party did not want to reveal his identity.
So, his face turned cold: "Tell me, what happened just now? Was there someone doing something down there?"
It is strictly forbidden for cultivators to take action in the mining area. Violators will be captured by the guards of the Corpse Puppet Sect, and how they will be dealt with depends on their mood.
These low-level cultivators are weak and dare not offend the people of the Corpse Puppet Sect at all. Therefore, over the years, almost no one dares to cause trouble here.
The supervisor has been in charge for so many years, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation. He can't help but feel depressed.
It was impossible to fight. He had been working here for so many years and had a pair of sharp eyes. He could tell at a glance that each of these cultivators was an honest person and was unlikely to violate the rules of the Corpse Puppet Sect.
However, this did not prevent him from using fighting to scare these people so that they would tell the truth as soon as possible and save some energy.
As expected, as soon as he said this, many low-level cultivators were frightened. They really didn't have the courage to stir up trouble in the territory of the Corpse Puppet Sect.
Just like that, under the pressure of their supervisor, the group quickly told everything.
Of course, most of them knew nothing at all. They only heard a few loud noises in succession, and then were almost killed by the rubble. They had no time to pay attention to anything else.
Only a few people noticed that the rock wall had exploded, but they had no idea why.
The young supervisor was also a little troubled when he saw this, so he could only send someone to check and find out the whole story.
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