Everyone was still discussing the disappearance enthusiastically. The newcomers did not feel much fear. After all, the culprit's first target was cultivators. There were two of them here, so it was not their turn for the time being.
The rogue cultivator who came with Wang Daoyuan seemed very nervous and scared. Wang Daoyuan also pretended to be nervous so as not to be seen through.
After about a quarter of an hour, the steward came in with a few tools. Everyone stopped discussing, and Wang Daoyuan did not hear any more useful information.
The steward gave out tools to the newcomers. These tools looked like pickaxes and were made from level-one red iron. However, they were simply forged and were not forged by a blacksmith. There were no patterns on the pickaxes either.
Compared to ordinary tools, they were stronger and sharper.
The steward led the group to the deepest part of the mine. There was no road ahead, only red stone walls. These stones were red iron ore.
These red iron ore were not hard and were similar to ordinary stones. Mortals could also break them. With the red iron pickaxes, it was not too difficult to mine the ore.
As a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining, Wang Daoyuan naturally had a much easier time than ordinary people. Although he deliberately held back his strength, the amount of ore he dug was more than ten times that of ordinary people.
The amount of ore the other cultivator dug was less than half of Wang Daoyuan's.
However, Wang Daoyuan grew up in a family, so his living conditions were much better than rogue cultivators. In addition, he had eaten spirit grains and pseudo spirit fish in recent years, so his body was relatively strong.
That rogue cultivator was thin and small, so it was reasonable that Wang Daoyuan was much more capable than him.
Unknowingly, it was already very late. Although the sky could not be seen in the mine, the miners' bodies were the best timer. Most of the miners were hungry and tired, so it was time to stop work and eat.
The steward led the group to the dining area outside the mine. The other stewards also brought people one after another.
Then, the rogue cultivators and ordinary people ate separately. The ordinary people's food was ordinary grains and some fish.
Ordinary food was harmful to cultivators, so the food provided to the rogue cultivators was cooked spirit grains, which were distributed according to the amount of spirit grains mined. Wang Daoyuan was given half a jin of spirit grains.
Cultivators would receive these spirit grains as their reward, while ordinary people would receive some gold, silver, or food.
Wang Daoyuan did not eat these Spirit Grains. He had already deduced that someone might have poisoned them. Naturally, he did not dare to casually eat anything. Putting away these spirit grains, he turned around and returned to the rest area of the mine.
After the meal, everyone returned to the resting area. The steward came over and asked, "Are you not satisfied with the food?"
Wang Daoyuan replied, "How could I? I can't eat such good food outside. I just can't bear to eat so much. I still have a younger brother at home. He's still young and needs spirit grains to nourish his body."
The young steward advised, "I can understand that. I usually save some food and bring it home for the children. Although you're an immortal, you're doing the work of more than ten people. If you don't eat, don't tire yourself out. "
Wang Daoyuan expressed his gratitude and said, "Steward, don't worry. When I'm hungry, I'll naturally eat some."
After saying that, Wang Daoyuan's spiritual sense entered the space of the spirit pearl. He cooked two taels of spirit grains produced in the space of the spirit pearl and took them out to eat. Naturally, no one could see any flaws.
Everyone worked hard for the whole afternoon and exhausted a lot of their physical strength. After eating, they naturally began to feel sleepy. Even the rogue cultivator began to doze off. Soon, he could no longer hold on and fell asleep.
Although Wang Daoyuan worked the most, he had been restraining his strength. This was much easier than refining talismans in the Dan Talisman Pavilion and cultivating spells.
In order not to be too conspicuous and attract the attention of those who were secretly watching, he also pretended to be tired. However, he still chose to meditate and cultivate.
Rogue cultivators who had not given up on the path of cultivation were usually more hardworking than family disciples.
The resources and inheritance of rogue cultivators could not be compared to family disciples. If they wanted to stand out, they could only work harder and risk their lives.
Therefore, it was not strange that Wang Daoyuan did not rest but meditated and cultivated.
He did not dare to meditate. Instead, he was always vigilant to prevent someone from sneaking an attack.
Unfortunately, after being careful for a night, nothing happened.
Every day, he worked during the day and maintained vigilance to meditate and cultivate at night. After five days, everything was calm.
On the night of the sixth day, Wang Daoyuan meditated and cultivated as usual. A smell like wine came from the steward.
The fragrance was very light. Ordinary people could not smell it at all. Even Wang Daoyuan could barely smell it.
The steward usually lived in the rest area with the ordinary workers. However, the place he lived was a special single room in the stone wall. There was a bed and furniture inside.
Wang Daoyuan smelled the fragrance and held his breath vigilantly. Cultivators could hold their breath for a long time and only rely on the spiritual power in their body to maintain their life.
With Wang Daoyuan's cultivation, holding his breath for two or three hours was not a problem.
In order not to be seen, after he held his breath, his chest and abdomen still rose and fell regularly, pretending that he was still breathing.
Wang Daoyuan's spiritual sense swept towards that loose cultivator, imitating his state. Because the strength he showed was much stronger than that loose cultivator, he always delayed imitating his state for a while.
After less than a quarter of an hour, that loose cultivator completely entered a state of drowsiness. Wang Daoyuan also went from meditating to paralyzed on the bed.
The young steward walked out of his private room. His originally honest and big brother face had turned into a ferocious one. His eyes swept back and forth between Wang Daoyuan and the other loose cultivator, as if he was choosing goods.
After thinking for a while, the steward chose Wang Daoyuan. After all, Wang Daoyuan was much stronger than the other loose cultivator in terms of strength and physique. His appearance was also very good.
He picked up Wang Daoyuan and stuck a first level high grade Earth Escape Talisman on Wang Daoyuan's body. Then he used his spiritual sense to trigger the Earth Escape Talisman. Wang Daoyuan was directly forced to escape underground.
After doing this, the steward returned to his single room and continued to sleep as if nothing had happened.
Wang Daoyuan was a little surprised. There was no spiritual power fluctuation on the steward's body at all. A person with no cultivation base could actually use the power of spiritual sense to trigger the talisman.
He was forced to escape underground and did not have time to think about this.
After a dozen breaths, he escaped to an underground cave. He just happened to fall on a giant python.
This giant python was more than five feet long. Its body was yellow with black lines. Its body had two attributes of water and earth spiritual power fluctuations. However, its cultivation base was not enough. It had just entered the first level middle grade, which was equivalent to the fourth level of Qi Refining.
In a head-on fight, this giant python was not enough to be smashed by Wang Daoyuan's two talismans.
Wang Daoyuan was ready. If this giant python dared to swallow him, he would kill it directly. Then he would catch the steward and interrogate him.
Fortunately, this python did not swallow him. Instead, it wrapped him with its tail. Then it used the Earth Escape Technique and continued to escape downwards.
Wang Daoyuan was a little surprised. It seemed that this giant python was not an ordinary monster beast. It could actually use the Earth Escape Technique.
Ordinary first level monster beasts, their intelligence was still very low. Basically, they did not know spells. Unless they had the bloodline of a high-level monster beast, they had their own innate spells. Or they had a master monster beast and were taught spells.
He did not feel any special bloodline in this giant python. It seemed that it should be a monster beast with a master. Otherwise, it would have directly swallowed him to increase its cultivation base. Why bother to take him to other places?
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