Su Yu tried again, secretly using the power close to the Great Venerable Realm.
However, it still produced a series of sparks.
Moreover, he only managed to dig a dent as thick as a finger, which was far from enough to bury a seed.
Su Yu estimated that with his current speed, it would be difficult for him to dig a hundred pits in a day.
He looked up at the female supervisor and asked, "What if I can't complete the task?"
The female supervisor said with a faint smile, "You will understand at night."
Judging from her attitude, if he really couldn't complete the task, the consequences would be quite serious.
Su Yu could only be a little more serious and meticulously cultivate the vegetable field.
At first, he was very slow, but after getting used to it, he sped up a little.
Therefore, in the evening, he successfully planted a hundred grains of Dao Rice.
He put down the hoe and looked up. He saw several old slaves who had been working in the vegetable field for a long time. They had already finished cultivating and were receiving today's Time Crystal from the female supervisor.
As Su Yu walked over, the female supervisor looked at him in surprise.
It was extremely difficult for a normal Master Huang, even if he was at the later stage of the Great Venerable Realm, to cultivate a hundred grains of Dao Rice in a day.
She had given this task to make things difficult for Su Yu, to let him understand the rules, and to bribe her with some benefits.
Unexpectedly, Su Yu not only finished within the allotted time, but also slightly exceeded it. He was almost comparable to those old slaves.
She didn't know that Su Yu's real cultivation level was that of Master Xuan.
Master Huang might be exhausted and unable to complete the task, but Su Yu would be relatively relaxed.
"The task has been completed. Today's Time Crystal." The female supervisor took out a beige Time Crystal and gave it to Su Yu. Then, she said, "Tomorrow, you will open a vegetable field in the northern region. Your task is 200 grains of Dao Rice."
Su Yu raised his eyebrows.
He thought that if he tried his best, he should be able to complete 200 grains of Dao Rice.
However, the female supervisor was obviously making things difficult for him.
His lips moved, but he finally fell silent.
He noticed that the female supervisor's hand in her sleeve moved slightly, as if she had grasped something.
She was waiting for Su Yu to resist and find a reason to attack.
"Yes!" Su Yu said calmly.
Hearing this, the female supervisor's eyes flashed with vague disappointment. She nodded lightly and said, "Okay."
After finishing the day's work, Su Yu disappeared.
Seeing a group of people walking toward a huge cave in the underground mine, he followed them.
He had just taken a few steps when someone bumped into his arm.
Turning his head, he saw a skinny, haggard middle-aged man with a pair of sunken eyes and a bitter expression.
He lowered his voice and said to Su Yu, "Fortunately, you didn't make a sound. Otherwise, you would have been whipped just now."
Even a hoe in this place was unusually hard, so Su Yu didn't think that the so-called whip was an ordinary whip.
If he really got hit by it, it would probably not feel good.
As expected, that female supervisor was indeed looking for an opportunity to punish him.
"Thank you for reminding me." Su Yu smiled and kept his distance.
In an unfamiliar environment and with strangers, it was best to remain vigilant.
"We're all people with hard lives. It's what we should do." The middle-aged man patted Su Yu's shoulder. "My name is Old Jin, and I come from an extraterrestrial world. I have been here for 9,000 years. If you have any questions, you can come to me."
Hearing this, Su Yu's mouth twitched.
Nine thousand years?
According to what the third steward had said, if one could obtain a time crystal in one day, then nine thousand years of time crystals would be enough for Old Jin to leave the Greater One Sect and roam the world, right?
Why was he still a slave here?
"My name is Su Yu. Uncle Jin, may I ask, how many time crystals have you accumulated all these years?" Su Yu's eyes flashed as he asked.
Old Jin laughed dryly. "Take a guess."
It would take at least a hundred years to cross the Dream Broken Realm and leave this area, right?
But he was still a slave, which meant that he didn't even have a hundred years' worth of time crystals.
"Do you have ten years' worth of time crystals?" Su Yu gave a very conservative number.
"Hehe …" Old Jin shook his head and bitterly extended nine fingers.
Su Yu was surprised. "900 is not a lot."
Compared to 9,000 years of labor, 900 was indeed too little. It was far from enough for him to leave the Greater One Sect.
"It's nine!" Old Jin said painfully.
Even though Su Yu had mentally prepared himself, he couldn't help but be shocked.
Nine thousand years had passed, and he had only managed to accumulate nine?
Wasn't this number too unbelievable?
Did the Greater One Sect not keep their word? Su Yu thought to himself.
"No! The Greater One Sect still abides by the rules, never delaying a single time crystal, "Old Jin said slowly.
How could this be?
"Follow me and you'll find out." Old Jin brought Su Yu along with the huge crowd into the giant cave.
He saw that it was overcrowded. Slaves were all queuing up in front of a counter to buy a roll of paper.
"What's that?"
"It's your resting room tonight," Old Jin said. "One scroll corresponds to one resting room. The price is … half a time crystal."
That was equivalent to half of a day's labor.
"Is it compulsory?" What would happen if he didn't buy it?
Old Jin shook his head. "It's up to you whether you want to buy it or not. But if you don't buy it, I'm afraid you won't survive the night."
Why was that?
"This mine runs through the Nine Underworlds. It's fine during the day, but at night, the Nine Underworlds Evil Wind blows. Once you're hit, your life force will be greatly reduced," Old Jin said. "It's fine if you have a strong life force, but if you don't, you'll die that night!"
The Nine Underworlds?
Did the Nine Underworlds really exist in this world?
In the past, Su Yu wouldn't have believed in the existence of the Nine Underworlds.
But everything about the eight-star civilization had changed Su Yu's understanding.
So, he still had reservations.
"Even Master Xuan doesn't dare to stay in the Nine Underworlds Evil Wind?" Su Yu asked.
Old Jin said, "Master Xuan can, but he won't last more than three days. After that, he'll definitely die."
Is that so?
As they talked, they came to the counter.
Su Yu hesitated for a moment, then spent half a time crystal to buy a scroll.
After buying the scroll, Old Jin said, "Let's go eat."
Su Yu hesitated. "At our cultivation level, we don't need to eat, do we?"
Looking at the large group of people walking towards another cave, Su Yu felt that there must be something else going on.
"In the outside world, we might not need to eat, but in this mine, we won't last more than a few days without food!" Old Jin said.
Su Yu was skeptical, but he followed her lead and came to another wide counter.
Many martial artists came forward to buy food.
The food was simple and coarse, without any Taoist aura. It could even be called dog food.
However, all the martial artists were fighting to buy it, afraid that they would fall behind.
Old Jin also joined the fight, spending half a time crystal to buy a portion. "Brother Su, if you don't buy it, you will feel very uncomfortable tomorrow morning."
Looking at the dark food, Su Yu shook his head.
No matter how uncomfortable it was, it was better than eating this food.
The two chatted for a while, and Su Yu obtained information that many new people didn't know. Holding the scroll, he went to the resting room he had bought.
All the resting rooms were side by side, and there was a barrier outside.
Using the scroll, one could open the barrier and enter the room to rest.
When he opened the resting room, he was surprised to find that the owner of the resting room next to him was the young man on the platform who had asked questions enthusiastically.
Su Yu remembered that the young man seemed to have won the mining lottery.
Compared to the relaxed Su Yu, the young man seemed like a completely different person.
His clothes were very messy, and he looked very haggard and tired, as if he had experienced countless life-and-death situations.
His eyes were heavy and powerless.
He turned his head to look at Su Yu and forced a smile. "Hello."
Then he moved his heavy legs and opened his resting room with great difficulty.
"Is it really that bad?" Su Yu grinned. He had thought planting rice was very tiring work.
Now it seemed that mining was several times more difficult.
Shrugging his shoulders, Su Yu entered the resting room.
The room was empty, except for four walls made of mysterious purple ores.
"So, under normal circumstances, it is basically impossible to get the Time Crystal from the Greater One Sect to go to the outside world," Su Yu sighed.
A scroll cost half a time crystal, and a meal cost the last half.
The Time Crystal that he had earned after a day of hard work had all been spent.
No wonder Old Jin had only accumulated nine Time Crystals in the 9,000 years he had been here.
Unless there were special circumstances, he wouldn't be able to accumulate even one Time Crystal.
Looking at the remaining half of the Time Crystal in his palm, Su Yu's eyes lit up. "Maybe I should stay in the Greater One Sect for the time being."
Through Old Jin's description, Su Yu learned that all transactions in the Dream Broken Realm were settled with Time Crystals.
Time Crystals were the currency!
Crystals and Doctrine Coins from the outside world were the most worthless things in the Dream Broken Realm. No one would want them even if they were thrown on the ground.
Only Time Crystals could be used to buy what one wanted.
And the place with the most things belonged to the 344 factions of the Dream Broken Realm!
The Greater One Sect was one of the 344 factions.
The faction stored a large number of things that were difficult to find in the outside world, and everyone in the faction, including the slaves, had the right to buy them.
As long as one had the Time Crystal!
Su Yu was completely clueless about the Dream Broken Realm. He didn't even know where to go. If he left the Greater One Sect now, where could he go?
It would be better to buy some information with the Time Crystal in the Greater One Sect.
Maybe he could find some clues about the Sinful Lady Palace.
Touching the Time Crystal in his palm, Su Yu thought for a moment and immediately focused on studying it.
He found that the composition of the Time Crystal was very pure Time Domain.
After thinking for a moment, he opened a corner of his eye mask and shot out a Time Domain.
Then he clenched his fist and forcibly solidified the Time Domain.
Tick tock!
Soon, a dark yellow crystal appeared in his palm.
It looked exactly the same as the Time Crystal, but the color was very different.
Moreover, it only existed for a few short breaths before melting back into the Time Domain.
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