"What are you doing?!" Li Gan struggled and roared.
"What do you want to do? Can't you see it? "The purple-clothed man sneered and gave the other two golden-armored Divine Cultivators a look. The two of them forcibly snatched Li Gan and Wu Yan away.
Li Gan could no longer hold onto the saber in his hand. It fell out of his hand and landed in the purple-clothed man's hand.
"Eh?" The purple-clothed man steadied his strength and held onto the saber. A surge of battle intent suddenly surged into his heart, causing the purple-clothed man to tremble. It took him a long time to stabilize, but his eyes could not leave the saber in his hand.
"That's my saber!" Li Gan roared angrily.
"That's not true anymore!" The purple-clothed man waved his hand. The two Divine Cultivators grabbed the chains around Li Gang's and Wu Yan's necks and forcefully pulled them down.
"Saintess, I didn't expect to have another harvest." The purple-clothed man walked to the front of the carriage with a smile on his face. He respectfully said to the carriage.
"Bring it in!" The female voice from the carriage was enough to make any man feel weak in his bones.
"That's my saber, return my saber!" Li Gan roared at the top of his lungs.
"Your saber? Haha, it's our Saintess's now! "
"This old fellow really thinks of himself as a big shot!"
"He really doesn't know how to live or die!"
The group of golden-armored guards laughed.
Only now did Li Gan notice that he and Wu Yan had been forcefully pulled to the back of the group. And here, there were thousands of ragged, haggard, slave-like people locked at the back of the carriage. These people were no different from animals.
And in the iron cages of each carriage, there were also some ragged people locked up. Although their faces were not so haggard, it was obvious that they had lost their freedom.
"The Left Protector said that these two Heavenly God Stage powerhouses should be given the treatment they deserve." The golden armored god cultivator handed the shackles on Li Gan and Wu Yan's necks to two brawny men, each weighing over 300 jin.
"Done!" These two huge men were Heavenly God experts, but they were very respectful to the two Golden Armored Protectors. After the Golden Armored Protectors left, the two of them roughly grabbed Li Gan and Wu Yan, and hung several hundred jin of iron chains on their feet and hands.
Boom!
Li Gang and Wu Yan knelt heavily on the ground, the two of them had already exhausted their spiritual power, and simply could not support this kind of iron shackle.
"You call yourselves Heavenly Deity Stage experts? Bah!!" One of the huge men spat on Li Gan's face in disdain, and grabbed his neck. Under Li Gan's feeble struggle, he was stuffed into a steel cage on the carriage, and another kind of iron chain was tied around his neck, locking him to a steel pillar.
After that, Wu Yan was also locked in, but she still cursed loudly, and in exchange, she was whipped until her flesh was split open.
Wu Yan was not a reckless person, and seeing that there was no way to resist, she slowly calmed down.
The cage was quite spacious, other than Li Gan and Wu Yan, there was also a huge man with disheveled hair locked in the innermost part of the cage. This man seemed to have also been beaten, his body was covered in bloody scars, and blood would occasionally flow out. His appearance was much more pitiful than Wu Yan and Li Gan, both of his hands were pierced through by iron chains, and directly locked to a steel pillar. As long as he exerted a little strength, blood would flow down the chains.
"Calm down, calm down." Li Gang forced himself to calm down. After that vicious beating, Wu Yan had no strength left. He was lying in the iron cage in a completely unconscious state.
Who would have thought that just as they left the dragon's den, they would enter the tiger's den!
While Li Gan was helpless, he slowly calmed down and used the Xuan You Secret Manual to recover his spiritual energy. Although he had become a slave, it was much better than being trapped in Feng Ling or Ji Zhou, after all, his life was temporarily safe. If he fell into the hands of that bastard Sun Peng, there would be no hope of survival. As long as he was patient, he should be able to find a chance to escape.
The carriages slowly moved forward, and the huge men guarding the carriages held iron whips and walked in front of the carriages from time to time.
"Li Gan, calm down, calm down, calm down!!" Li Gan reminded himself and began to observe the carriages. In the long line, there were thousands of slaves behind every iron carriage. Everyone's eyes were dark and lifeless. It was obvious that they had fallen into this situation and were in complete despair.
There were three to five people in each cage. The caravan stretched for nearly two thousand meters, and there were seven to eight hundred cages. If each cage held three God Cultivators, then there were more than two thousand God Cultivators in this caravan who had been enslaved.
What were they trying to do? Why did they capture so many God Cultivators as slaves?
"Friend, can I ask a question?" Li Gan asked the huge man behind him in a low voice.
The huge man lowered his head slightly, and his face was covered in blood. It was impossible to see what he looked like, but his red eyes were still filled with killing intent.
"Where are they sending us?"
"Boulder Ridge." The huge man's voice was abnormally calm, but it could not hide his weakness.
"Boulder Ridge?" Li Gan tried to search his mind, but could not find this name.
"What? You're saying we'll be sent to Boulder Ridge? " When the originally unconscious Wu Yan heard this name, he tried to get up, but Li Gan could see the fear on his face.
"Yes, it's Boulder Ridge." The huge man confirmed again, and lowered his head again, trying to endure the pain on his body.
"What kind of place is Boulder Ridge?" Li Gan looked at Wu Yan and asked in a low voice.
"One of the important ore producing areas in Tong Province." Wu Yan answered weakly, but his voice was trembling, which made people feel terrified.
"You even know this?" Li Gan originally wanted to move the gloomy atmosphere, but the two fell into complete silence.
After a long time, Wu Yan moved closer to Li Gan, leaned on his back, and said, "You can only blame yourself for being ignorant and incompetent, so naturally you wouldn't have heard of Boulder Ridge. Boulder Ridge is an important ore producing base of our three bordering states. It is said that ever since Tong Province occupied this fertile land, they began mining and have been mining for more than four thousand years! "
"More than four thousand years? Big Sister, are you sure? Do you know if the earth's crust has been mined for four thousand years? "Li Gan replied in shock.
"I really don't know if it has been mined, but it's definitely true that they have never stopped mining because Boulder Ridge has a large amount of ore sold to Ji Province and Yan Province every year. It is said that a lot of ore is bought by Zhong Province. With such a large amount of ore consumed, it naturally requires a large number of slaves every year. Even so, they still satisfy the appetite of the mine owners, and they still search for slaves in large numbers every day."
"Why?" Li Gan asked curiously.
"It is said that many places have been dug to nearly twenty thousand meters deep. Could it be that the mining has already reached the limit? Death has already become a common occurrence there."
Li Gan was speechless for a long time. He originally already guessed a bit, but he still had some hope in his heart. At this time, Wu Yan really crushed his last hope, and a bit of despair appeared in his heart!
Twenty thousand meters deep underground, Li Gan could completely imagine how vile the environment was. Once one entered, there was almost no way to escape?!
Wu Yan closed her eyes, and faintly sighed, "It seems like we … have really walked into a desperate situation …"
Li Gan also didn't know what to say, and could only let her lean on his shoulder. From time to time, he would turn his head to look at the iron cage behind them.
The team walked slowly, day and night, and never stopped for a moment. Li Gan could clearly remember that every hour, there would be two golden armoured god practitioners coming to check, and at the same time, whip the slaves in the iron cages a few times to confirm whether they were alive or not.
In terms of food, Li Gan felt even worse. Often, in a day, they would only send a very small amount of dry rations, and a basin of murky water. These were just barely enough to maintain the lives of the slaves.
Perhaps because the slaves in the iron cages couldn't eat their fill, everyone was abnormally quiet. No one rose up to resist, and even more so, no one wanted to escape. Because, on every iron cage, there were a few iron rods, and on top of them hung dried up skulls. Those were the fates of those who resisted or tried to escape.
Moreover, the team guarding the iron cages had more than a thousand people. In addition, there were two Heavenly God stage giants beside each iron cage. If they wanted to escape, it would be extremely difficult.
Unless there was a collective riot, there might be some chance of escape. But, this was definitely an unrealistic idea!
Because in the most extravagant embroidered carriage, there was definitely a Golden Deities stage expert keeping watch.
After Li Gang and Wu Yan observed for two days, they finally gave up on the idea of escaping. It seemed that obediently staying in the iron cages was the best plan. Because, after all, there was still time for them to calmly absorb spiritual energy, and slowly recover from their injuries.
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