Chapter 331 Eighteen Kiln Owners

The force from the cracked ground was transmitted to the mine wall, and pieces of rubble fell one after another in a space three or four feet high, like a rain of stones. The falling rubble disturbed the bat-like mining beasts in the distance. Their wings suddenly flapped up a strong wind, and wind blades cut the rubble and crushed it into finer powder.

The dust covered the sky and the earth, obscuring the entire space, creating a scene of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the scene in front of him quietly. He sighed softly, "It is indeed difficult for a mid-level cultivator to encircle and suppress the mining beasts."

The most difficult part in encircling and suppressing the mining beasts is not only their elusiveness and powerful strength, but also the complex geographical environment inside the mine.

Although the strength of the middle-grade practitioners is enough to affect the environment of heaven and earth, their power is mostly wasted. The powerful force explodes in the mine like a bomb. Before the mine beast is killed, the premature mine collapse is enough to endanger lives.

Mining has always been an extremely dangerous job, which is why miners have a low status.

The same is true for mid-level practitioners. They will not easily go down into the mines and take risks, especially for a group of miners who are like rice in autumn in their eyes.

Even if it was due to requests from the government or their masters, they mostly just dealt with it.

After Zhou Tieyi sighed, he looked at Cui Wanxia.

This third-rank legalist originally wanted to watch Zhou Tieyi continue to display his skills. After all, he was amazed by the bright moon in Zhou Tieyi's hand just now, and he also had a sense of déjà vu.

As a third-rank legalist, he quickly realized where the familiarity of this bright moon came from.

The Queen of Heaven used the illusory world of Taixu to create the Dark Moon!
Although the bright moon in Zhou Tieyi's hand is not as big as the huge dark moon created by the Queen of Heaven that is big enough to cover the entire underworld of Tianjing, their essence is definitely similar!
This is already an extremely remarkable thing.

Especially since Zhou Tieyi practiced martial arts, even Cui Wanxia couldn't guess for a moment how Zhou Tieyi acquired this ability.

Was it a gift from the Queen Mother, or was it just like the [Buddha Kingdom in the Palm] back then? Zhou Tieyi got it just by looking at it.

If it is the former, then it means that the Queen has great affection for Zhou Tieyi.

If it is the latter, then it proves once again how terrifying Zhou Tieyi's talent is.

Seeing Zhou Tieyi's gaze, Cui Wanxia stretched out her hand and said, "Everything has its rules. The sky is the rule, and the earth is the rule."

The smoke and dust falling from the sky solidified in mid-air, and the cracked ground stopped shaking.

A pair of invisible giant hands covered the entire mine from top to bottom.

Zhou Tieyi clearly felt that the entire world around him had become more "solid".

He looked at the bright moon in his hand. The moonlight that could originally illuminate the darkness around him suddenly shrank in scope. It was just like a mining lamp that could only protect a small part of his surroundings.

This was the first time he truly felt the power of a third-rank legalist.

The first thing this force affected was space. Different from using the Five Finger Mountain to separate the inner and outer world, Cui Wanxia reinforced the space structure of the entire cave.

This kind of spatial reinforcement affects the material, making everything around it difficult to destroy. Naturally, the attacks from both sides will no longer affect the surrounding mines and cause serious house collapses.

The moonlight in Zhou Tieyi's hand shrank, and the powerful aura of the people was revealed, especially Cui Wanxia, ​​who was wearing purple clothes, had a gaunt face and stretched out his hand, as if she was the only center of the entire mine.

The bat mine beasts flew madly into various corridors, trying to escape from the coverage of this terrifying man.

Their wings flapped, stirring up strong winds, forming thousands of dark red wind blades. These wind blades were a fusion of the chaotic energy and spirit absorbed by the bats. In addition to having powerful cutting power, once injured, the chaotic energy and spirit would penetrate into the body, making them extremely difficult to deal with.

Thousands of wind blades formed a dark red air realm, like a sword several meters long, breaking through the smoke in the sky and slashing towards everyone.

Faced with this air blade that could make a mid-level martial artist retreat, Cui Wanxia simply waved his sleeves casually. His purple official uniform was deep and restrained, as if he was just sitting around after dinner, and when he stood up, he used his sleeves to lift up the curling green smoke from the incense burner.

The power from Cui Wanxia's sleeves easily deflected the long sword, changing its trajectory and landing where he wanted it to land - on the body of a dragon that had sprung out from the deep pit on the ground.

The exposed body of this earth dragon was ten feet long. It had no eyes or nose, but a huge compound mouthpart on the top. Its sharp teeth could expand and contract spirally like a tunnel boring machine to crush rocks.

The air blade long sword guided by Cui Wanxia accurately split the earth dragon from the middle. The long sword in his hand seemed to have added new power, and it easily pierced through the middle and tore the entire earth dragon apart.

The rose-colored blood of the earth dragon gushed and splashed like surging magma. The blood fell on the ground and, like real magma, softened the hard stones instantly, emitting green smoke and forming streams.

Even mineral ground composed of inorganic matter can be corroded, which shows how corrosive the blood of this earth dragon is.

After flapping their wings to attack for the first time, the crazy group of bats scattered like sharp arrows towards several mine entrances. But before they could enter, Cui Wanxia flapped her sleeves, took a step forward, and asked Zhou Tieyi and others to stand behind them.

It was this step forward that made Min Huorong and the others find it difficult to breathe. It was not because the air in the entire mine became less or was controlled, but because an invisible mental storm was stirring up in their hearts. The horrible air pressure spread with Cui Wanxia as the center, separating their spirits from their bodies, and they might even suffocate to death due to the inability to control their physical breathing!

The Legalists established their authority through the fifth rank.

Min Huorong and others had the same feeling. It was conceivable that the group of bats that Cui Wanxia had deliberately targeted, their frantically flapping wings suddenly stopped, and the hideous bats seemed to have forgotten how to flap their wings, and they fell down from the sky.

After completely dealing with the swarm of bats, Cui Wanxia suddenly frowned and looked at the huge half of the earth dragon's body that was chopped horizontally in the tunnel. Just in a moment, the earth dragon actually blocked his mental storm, and used the earth dragon's natural talent of escaping from its shell to break off the part of its body buried underground and escape. The earth dragon swam very fast underground, especially with the help of the earth veins to hide, and in just a blink of an eye, it slipped away from the eyes of him, a third-grade legalist.

When Cui Wanxia was about to chase after them, Zhou Tieyi beside her suddenly said, "Minister Cui, please subdue these bat beasts and let me collect them."

After Zhou Tieyi's interruption, Cui Wanxia realized that he had lost the best opportunity to catch the fourth-grade earth dragon, unless he was really willing to spend time following the trail left by the earth dragon with the intention of hunting it down.

Compared to this escaped mining beast, what Zhou Tieyi showed in this process made him pay more attention. Even until now, he has not fully figured out the main reason why Zhou Tieyi went down to the mine this time. Naturally, he would not delay his business for a ground dragon.

Cui Wanxia controlled the bat mine beasts, and Zhou Tieyi took out the white jade chessboard. The longitude and latitude lines expanded and merged with the surrounding space. Cui Wanxia sensed the power of the white jade chessboard and released her reinforcement of the surrounding space. After merging with the surrounding space, the tens of thousands of bats were directly "erased" in the real space and contained in the white jade chessboard.

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In a dark mine tunnel, inkstone lamps steadily illuminate the surrounding scene. A dozen miners in mining clothes are mining ore with sweat all over their foreheads.

Suddenly, someone shouted in surprise, "The mine has been found! The mine has been found!"

His shout immediately attracted the attention of his companions, and they gathered around him one by one. When they felt a chaotic energy coming towards them, joy appeared on their dull faces.

As long as they can dig up the inkstone ore, it means they don’t have to work hard for half a year. If they dig up enough inkstone ore, they can even use it to change their own destiny or the destiny of their descendants.

"Old Qi, that's great. Now your kid has the body-building pills. He will definitely be able to enter Shanbei Martial Arts Academy in this autumn recruitment!" Shanbei Martial Arts Academy is an advanced martial arts academy based on the basic martial arts academy. Generally, the disciples admitted are required to be at least ninth-grade warriors in addition to being under 20 years old. The stronger the strength, the greater the chance of admission.

Lao Qi’s face was so dark that his facial features could not be seen clearly. One could only see his mouth, which was opened to the extreme, revealing a smile.

Any companion who mentioned that his son was able to be admitted to Shanbei Martial Arts Academy would consider it the best compliment to him.

Just as they were talking, there was a sudden shake in the mine.

Gravel was falling in the narrow mine, the supports supporting the mine roof began to slide, and cracks in the ground spread from the side of the wall.

"withdraw!"

The two mine bosses raised their wooden shields to block most of the rubble and cover the remaining miners as they retreated.

Among them, Lao Qi, who had just dug up the ink stone, was so excited that his eyes widened.

"Moshi, my Moshi!"

The mine boss didn't tolerate Lao Qi and just grabbed him with his arms and rushed out.

After a while, the shaking of the ground stopped, but there seemed to be some living thing swimming under the spreading cracks. After dozens of breaths, it shook again, and it was because of this shaking that the small mine in front of it collapsed completely.

Lao Qi was rescued. When he saw the collapsed mining area, he rushed forward shouting and wanted to dig out the collapsed area again.

"Lao Qi, you are crazy!"

Mine boss Yu Wen shouted, stopping Lao Qi's actions, "This is where the collapse has just occurred. We need Mozhe to come and measure whether we can start excavating! And the shaking just now may just be a precursor. Let's go out first."

Old Qi was yelled at by the mine boss and came back to his senses. He took a hard look at the collapsed mine in front of him and said, "If the Mohists do the surveying, then we have to give them a large sum of money."

"There's nothing we can do about it. We can't do this." Yu Wen sighed.

In fact, he found it difficult to accept this. If their mining team had mined the inkstone, the bounty would only be divided among their mining team. However, if the ink masters were involved, they would take away the vast majority.

Lao Qi hesitated for a moment, then suddenly his eyes widened, "No, I can dig it myself!"

Suddenly, he rushed forward like a madman, waving the shovel and starting digging without any care.

The miners around were stunned at first, and then they immediately realized that something was wrong with Lao Qi.

“Crazy!”

Another deputy team leader, a ninth-grade warrior, pressed Lao Qi to the ground. At this time, Lao Qi seemed to have completely lost his mind. His eyes were red and his limbs were struggling desperately.

Warriors will go crazy, and so will ordinary miners who are subjected to the impact of the inkstone's spirit for a long time.

Especially after the great joy and sorrow just now, Lao Qi's long-suppressed mental state completely erupted.

When an ordinary miner goes crazy, it is almost equivalent to a modern mental illness outbreak. It is a disease that affects both the body and the mind.

Doctors can indeed provide treatment.

However, once it comes to treatment at the spiritual level, given the world's narrow understanding of illness, it would require a doctor of at least the sixth rank or above, which is definitely not something a low-level miner like Lao Qi can afford.

The surrounding miners had complicated and sad expressions on their faces, but there was no panic in their expressions. Instead, they looked at the mine head Yu Wen with some hope.

The reason why they were willing to follow Yu Wen was clearly demonstrated by the actions of Yu Wen and another deputy captain just now.

There are good guys and bad guys among the mine bosses.

A bad mine boss will use ordinary people under his command as "human candles", while a good mine boss will even cover everyone's retreat if something goes wrong.

Yu Wen is such a good person.

After a brief struggle, Yu Wen looked around and whispered, "I have said everything I need to say. We are all in this together. Don't tell others what you shouldn't. Otherwise, we will all die without a burial place, and it will also bring disaster to our families!"

The miners were silent for a while, and one of them said, "Yutou, everyone knows that we can't talk nonsense about saving lives. Don't you want to save your life in the future?"

"Besides, in this mine where nothing can help us, even the emperor can't control us. Only Yu Tou can control us!"

Yu Wen sighed softly, then took out a bowl from his inner bag, poured another bowl of water, picked up the chopsticks, arranged them in the shape of a cross, placed inkstone lamps at the four corners, and then chanted in a low voice.

"The heavens will not respond, the earth will not accept it, the Lord of Hell does not have my name on his list, where is my name? Leave it on the account of the eighteen kiln owners."

"Disciple Yu Wen, please invite the owner of Dongzhen Kiln to sit in the middle hall. In the hall, there is a mountain of black stone. I would like to ask the master to name and enroll disciple Qi Xiaoyu."

Yu Wen chanted in a low voice three times, and the miners around him began to chant skillfully. The voice of one person overlapped with the voices of ten people, and it seemed both eerie and sacred in the quiet mine.

Suddenly, the light of the inkstone lamp placed in the middle shook, and the water bowl also reflected some light. This light was different from the bright white of the mining lamp. It seemed soft and sacred, as if there was something hidden in it.

The miners around couldn't help but hold their breath slightly. Even though Yu Wen had displayed the power of the Dongzhen Kiln Master in front of them several times, the kiln master did not always grant their requests. Every time the kiln master displayed his power, people would feel inexplicably sacred, and their sense of conversion in their hearts would become stronger and stronger.

Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the surrounding darkness and reached into the light composed of ink stones. The palm was broad and covered the sacred water bowl.

Yu Wen looked up in horror, "Who is that?"

His hair stood on end, and he subconsciously grabbed the shovel. If the matter of the sacrifice to the gods was leaked...

In front of him, a tall young man emerged from the void. The young man was wearing a white python robe and said with a smile, "The kiln owner is not at home today. Instead of asking him, you might as well ask me."

(End of this chapter)