C103 Become a slave

When night had completely fallen and the sky had completely darkened, the person in front of him sent a spiritual sense message to Ye Feng, telling Ye Feng to follow behind him and slowly move forward.

Ye Feng had just arrived at this place and was confused about the situation here. Coincidentally, he met this cultivator who held the same goal as him. He hid his aura without hesitation and followed behind this cultivator, moving towards the residence.

Perhaps it was because there had never been a robbery in this crystal mine. The defensive forces had not been placed excessively in the workers' residences. Those guards' residences were more used to guard the workers and to rest.

The two of them carefully made their way to the entrance that led downwards. An iron gate blocked their way.

The cultivator in front took out a treasured sword and gently cut the chain on it without making any sound.

After the two entered the room, the cultivator reached out his hand from the gap above the iron gate and placed the severed chain on top of it. Then, his hand emitted a scorching heat, fusing the severed traces with it, then he grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and smeared the cut and fused traces on it.

Ye Feng was secretly surprised, it seemed like this time he really came the right way.

After that, that cultivator brought Ye Feng and quietly walked inside.

Not far from it, there were many workers in ragged clothing lying on the ground. They were all thin and yellow in color, and it was obvious that they were malnourished.

The cultivator sent out his spirit sense towards Ye Feng and the two came to the edge, slapping the two sleeping workers to death.

Ye Feng silently said in his heart: "Brother, I don't want to kill you. Firstly, to get in, and secondly, to help you get out of this situation." He could see that these workers were all cultivators, but they had all lost their cultivation and were forcefully imprisoned here to work hard. Perhaps killing him would be a relief for him.

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with the two corpses, Ye Feng did not want to leak anything out of internal world.

The cultivator took out a type of powder and poured it onto the two corpses. Immediately, the two corpses disappeared, not even a speck of residue was left behind.

The cultivator picked up one of the clothes and put it on himself. Ye Feng followed his example and put the other set of clothes on, then he grabbed some dirt on the ground and smeared it on his face.

After finishing everything, he checked once more to make sure that he hadn't missed anything. Then, the duo lay down separately and, imitating the others, fell into a deep sleep.

However, how could Ye Feng sleep at all times? He must not only be on guard against being discovered by others, but also the guy beside him. He might accidentally break his good fortune, and at any moment, he might get into a murderous mood, wanting to kill him.

The night passed in silence. Before dawn of the second day, the iron gate was opened and everyone woke up.

After exiting the cellar, under the watch of a few guards, Ye Feng and the other workers lined up and walked into the entrance of the crystal mine.

After they entered the cave, they found a place to distribute food. Each of them gave two dark, steamed buns.

After getting the food, Ye Feng didn't have any appetite, but he had no choice but to follow others' example and wolf down the food. If he didn't eat the food, he would soon leak it out.

"Hurry up, don't waste time." The guards by the side shouted loudly. Everyone was walking and eating, holding onto the dark food in their hands as they quickened their pace.

If someone moved slightly slower, the guard's whip would fall without hesitation.

With the urging of the guards, no one dared to fall behind.

Soon, they arrived at the end of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, there was a large mining cave with forks in all directions. At the entrance of the mine, there was a table and a fat guy was sitting behind it.

"We've already brought everyone, so let's just go with a hundred." Fatty asked.

"In reply to Master Li's question, there are exactly a hundred slaves, no more or less." The head guard said in a low voice.

From the looks of it, this fatty had a rather high status here.

"Yes, as usual, each slave has to collect fifty mid-grade crystals, otherwise don't come out." The fatty announced the rules.

As soon as the fatty finished talking, everyone rushed into the depths of the mine as if they had gone mad. They did not forget to pick up a pickaxe and a basket from the side of the mine.

Ye Feng imitated the others, grabbed a pickaxe and a basket, and ran into the depths of the crystal mine.

Seeing how familiar they were with each other, Ye Feng knew that a lot of people were going towards the mines they were familiar with in the past. This way, they could guarantee their income today.

In the blink of an eye, the cultivator disappeared.

Ye Feng had found a cave that no one was going to enter. Logically speaking, this kind of cave that no one was going to enter must have dried up by now. However, Ye Feng still had something he could rely on in his heart.

As expected, when they arrived at the end of the mine, the floor was covered with debris. It seemed that it had been a long time since someone had entered the mine.

There were also other veins of crystal ore that were lit by torches, only this dried up mine was pitch black.

Ye Feng didn't mind at all as he retrieved the phloem from the internal world and placed Xiao Jia on the ground. Xiao Jia could feel the aura of the crystal and immediately burrowed into the soil.

Ye Feng, on the other hand, threw the food in his hands that hadn't been eaten into the rubble. This thing was too horrible to eat.

Not long after, the ground moved as Xiao Jia crawled out. He opened his mouth and spat out a few shiny crystals that appeared in front of Ye Feng.

After putting the crystal stones away, Xiao Jia went back into the ground.

Releasing his spiritual sense, he probed around the other mines. He could clearly feel that everyone was busy digging at the mines with their pickaxes.

As long as he found the vein, he would see countless crystals. As long as he picked up a mine, he would be able to get a lot of the crystals; on the contrary, the so-called vein only contained a certain number of crystals on this ore line. The crystals were mixed with soil and sand, sometimes even among the stones.

This would require the miners to clean up all the scrap metal on the ore line and then search for crystals among the huge amount of scrap metal.

If it was a cultivator with cultivation, this kind of job could be considered as easy to clean up, and these slaves were all cultivators with completely destroyed cultivation bases. Ye Feng guessed that these slaves were cultivators that were forcefully captured from the outside and in order to prevent these slaves from rebelling, they crippled everyone's cultivation.

With the phloem, Ye Feng did not even need to look for the mines, he just needed to enjoy the success of the mission.

However, ordinary crystals were of no use to Ye Feng, as only the pure crystal was what he wanted. Seeing that the middle grade crystals that Xiao Jia had brought back were enough to complete the mission, Ye Feng instructed Xiao Jia to only go look for the pure crystal.

A day's time passed quickly, and all the slaves gathered in the main mining cave one by one. In their hands were pickaxes and crystals, and they were carrying empty baskets on their backs. This basket was not used to carry crystals, who would find that many crystals in one day?

In order to reduce the generation of waste and at the same time save time for themselves, when the slaves excavated the crystal in the mine, they would have to dig a path only half a meter tall, and they would have to half a squat and half a sitting posture inside the mine. One could imagine the amount of work and hard work they had to do during the day.

On the other hand, Ye Feng was lying down and rested for a day. If it wasn't for the fact that he was afraid that Xiao Jia wouldn't be able to find him when he returned, he would have entered the internal world to rest.

Including that cultivator, all one hundred slaves had returned. These people had spent a long time excavating for crystals, and they all had mines that they were familiar with, so they could still complete missions every day.

He didn't know how that cultivator completed the mission, but like the others, he carried his basket and returned. During the mission, he successfully completed it.

Before leaving the mining cave, he needed to have a check. Fatty commanded a few guards to carefully inspect the body of the slaves from top to bottom. They were there to prevent others from secretly taking the crystals out.

If there really was a miner who brought the crystal out, then this fatty's brain wouldn't be able to keep it safe.

Returning to the cellar, Ye Feng and that cultivator briefly communicated, but the cultivator didn't say much.

Lying in the dark and humid cellar, Ye Feng couldn't help but feel pity for these slaves. Every day, they worked at a super heavy workload, so their food was like two dark things.

The second day was still the same, but the difference was that the crystals that Ye Feng had instructed Xiao Jia to bring back were all pure crystal s. Every day, he had to hand in fifty middle grade crystals.

On the third day, he had already gathered enough crystals for the Foundation Establishment stage, but the only pity was that a portion of them were middle tier pure crystal. That was why even though they were large enough to be used for the Foundation Establishment stage, they had to be replaced with middle tier pure crystal.

Since there were a large number of crystals here, Ye Feng was not in a hurry to leave. He patiently waited for a few days and estimated that he would be able to gather all the low grade pure crystal needed for Foundation Establishment.

Ye Feng was glad to have a phloem, and Xiao Jia was also very well-kept. He only needed to consume a middle tier pure crystal every day.

In the next few days, Ye Feng did not specifically ask Xiao Jia to look for low grade pure crystal, since he was not in a rush to reach the Foundation Establishment stage. It would be better if he could get a middle ranked pure crystal, and it would be even better if he could get one.

When we leave here, we can go exchange.

Xiao Jia had never brought back the high-grade pure crystal, so Ye Feng reckoned that Xiao Jia had not gone deep enough in. If he wanted to obtain the high-grade pure crystal, then he should have gone even deeper into the interior of the crystal mine, and according to the theory, the crystal mine would be distributed in layers, and the outermost layer would be ordinary crystal stones. The deeper he went, the higher the grade of the crystal stone would be.

However, due to safety concerns, Ye Feng did not allow his family to delve too deeply into the matter, and would not escape the control of his spiritual sense. Ye Feng's current cultivation level could maintain a range of five to six thousand meters from his pet, so once outside of this range, Ye Feng would not be able to sense Xiao Jia's location.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Feng had been here for ten days. He repeated the same routine every day, which was still very easy for him.

On this day, after he finished his work, Ye Feng felt something different.