Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 150 Going to the Mine
The mine owner and Tang Guling died together on the last day of May in the 425th year of Qianfeng in the David Immortal Dynasty. They were eaten clean by a group of gold-eating rats that emerged from an abandoned mine.

Together with them were the Tanggu County Magistrate, the Chief Clerk, the County Lieutenant, supervisory monks sent by several counties, a team of guards dispatched by the Governor's Office to wipe out the spirit beasts, and four to five thousand hard laborers from several counties. They were all clean.

On the administrative map of Yunjiao Prefecture, the main officials of another county disappeared, which once again angered the court.

This time, the Liangyi Sect seemed to be expressing its dissatisfaction to the provincial court in this way. Objectively speaking, the intensity seemed to be a bit greater, and it somewhat broke the tacit understanding between the two parties.

But after all, it was the manipulation of the gold-eating rats that did the trick, which at least left some face for the state government. The latter could have regarded this incident as a sudden disaster from heaven, and just swallowed the bitter pill after suffering this loss.

But Kuang Liuting was obviously not someone who was willing to suffer loss. Huo Bing was called to his front and reprimanded harshly. If it were not for his old age and the look of tears on his face, he would have been dismissed on the spot.

Because of this incident, Kang Dabao and Huo Chun's profitable business could not last long and had to be terminated.

There was no way out. The convicts were almost scared crazy and would rather be whipped to death than enter the mine again.

Not to mention that they were afraid, even the supervisors like Sect Leader Kang were afraid. This time, a group of gold-eating rats numbered nearly ten thousand. Even if a bottom-ranked foundation-building cultivator like Huo Bing came, it would be hard to say whether he could escape unscathed.

But they had no say in the matter. Before they could get together to discuss whether to escape or not, the state court took the ownership of the spiritual stone mine from the governor's mansion.

He also quickly sent three foundation-building cultivators over to summon the county officials here and questioned them for several days in a row.

Judging from his tone, he should be preparing to take those of them who are relatively familiar with the mine to explore the mine together.

Most of the hard laborers were relieved, as the foundation builders felt that their gathering here was too much of a nuisance, so except for a few unlucky ones who were kept as guides, the rest were sent back home that day, which again aroused a wave of gratitude and praise.

No matter how sad these Qi training practitioners were, they could not refuse what the foundation-building cultivators above had decided.

Kang Dabao could only be thankful that he persuaded Zhou Yixiu and Duan Anle to go back early, otherwise they might not have been able to escape.

This is the case with many forces in Tanggu County.

Regardless of whether there are people who have established a foundation in the family or not, the three true practitioners who have established a foundation will be based on the county's statistical list. According to the state court's caliber, letters will be sent locally to recruit cultivators of designated realms, and few people dare not come.

The recruited monks quickly gathered near the mine.

Tanggu County is different from Pingrong County. It did not suffer much damage in the Pingman campaign, so Xiujie is still relatively prosperous.

After the personal signatures of the three foundation-building cultivators were issued, at least two to three hundred cultivators were recruited, and most of them were cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training, with very few cultivators in the early stages of Qi training.

With so many monks hurrying over, the recreational area previously renovated for a group of hard laborers was just vacated for their use.

Among them, Master Kang met two familiar faces, Kuai En from the Kuai family and Ming Yue from the Ming family.

The former is the son of Kuai Wu's elder brother and the current head of the Kuai family. After Kuai Wu's death, there are only three cultivators left in the Kuai family. Kuai En has the highest cultivation level, just at the fourth level of Qi training, barely able to hold up the shelf, but he was still recruited unexpectedly.

If something bad happens to Kuai En again, the younger sister of the Kuai family might as well take another monk from the Kuai family and marry to the safety of the Chongming Sect.

The latter is the cousin of Master Kang Dabao's wife, and in terms of seniority, he is the uncle of Master Kang Da.

The Ming family had intended to break off the relationship before, but now Kang Dabao has married the daughter of the Fei family. The Ming family may not want to reconcile, but Head of the family Kang may not want to resolve the past grievances with the Ming family now.

As soon as Kuai En arrived at the spiritual stone mine, he found Kang Dabao and hugged him, shouting "Uncle, save me", "Uncle, save the Kuai family", and other such frustrated words. He cried and howled for a long time and did not stop for a long time.

Don't think that this boy is young just because he is Kuai Wu's nephew.

Kuai En is one year older than Kuai Wu, and is also a rough man in his forties.

The Kangda master was naturally not in a good mood after being held by such a bearded nephew for such a long time. However, he didn't even care that his pants were wet with tears. He had to whisper to Kuai En to comfort him before pulling his thigh out, which made him look really embarrassed.

On the second day after all the cultivators arrived, the three foundation-building cultivators began to gather all the cultivators to discuss matters. The one standing in the middle of the three foundation-building cultivators was a middle-aged cultivator with a white face and long beard, and a half-plum blossom mark on his forehead. Objectively speaking, in terms of his appearance, he looked very suave.

Among the other two foundation-building cultivators, one was fat and had big ears, and smiled like Maitreya, and the other wore green clothes and plain shoes, and had a plain face. The cultivation of both of them should be inferior to that of the middle-aged cultivator, and their words and actions were vaguely that he was the leader.

"My surname is Gun, my given name is Shi De, and I am honored to be the recorder of the Nan'an Earl's Mansion. This time, the Earl's order to explore the spiritual stone veins in Tanggu County is under my full responsibility. You all must obey my orders. Those who make contributions will be rewarded, and those who disobey orders will be punished. Do you understand?"

Gun Shide was obviously a man of swift and decisive capability. He stated his purpose in a concise manner, and when he saw that no monk below dared to object, he nodded with satisfaction.

He then ordered the county chiefs present to select their own men and form teams, with three foundation-building warriors assigned to search each mine.

Kuai En was crying so hard, so Kang Dabao naturally had to take him with him first. When he looked at Ming Yue again, the latter had already found an acquaintance from another county to join the team.

It seems that the Ming family is more respectable than Master Kang thought, and would not do anything that is too arrogant at first and then too humble.

But if this happens, the friendship between the two families will be completely severed.

After Ming Yue left, Kang Dabao no longer had any familiar cultivators in Tanggu County. Next time he selected people, he did not look at their cultivation level. He took Kuai En and went through the remaining cultivators one by one, looking for those he knew and who were honest and decent.

After gathering twenty people, they lined up and stood behind Gun Shide.

Gun Shide obviously recognized Kang Dabao and smiled at him kindly. Only then did the latter remember that the recorder in front of him seemed to be the cousin of Gun Jia Sima, and he also came to toast on the day of his wedding.

So he bowed respectfully immediately and felt more at ease.

After the Battle of Wuxiangmen, Sima Gun had shown goodwill to him. This Gunlushi was a member of his clan and would certainly take care of him.

After marrying Fei Shuhe, Kang Dabao felt that the entire Yunjiao Province was full of virtuous seniors. Now, facing these unfamiliar foundation-building masters who he had only dared to stay away from in the past, he no longer felt much fear in his heart.

It is hard to say whether this change in mentality is good or bad.

However, his originally cautious personality seemed to have gradually changed slightly with the improvement of his own cultivation and the restoration of the overall strength of the Chongming Sect.

It is true that Gun Shide wanted to take care of Kang Dabao, but the mines in the spiritual stone veins are crisscrossed and winding. Even for him, it is difficult to tell which vein is more likely to contain monsters.

So he had to randomly point to the mine that Kang Dabao was most familiar with in the past three months, which was mined by the laborers in Pingrong County.

In addition to giving Kang Dabao one more token talisman than the other teams, Gun Shide also privately handed over a stack of first-grade top-grade thunder talismans that he no longer had any use for, asking him to use them to save his life.

Unlike local foundation-building cultivators like Huo Bing, who had a shabby taste, even the cultivators he hired to do private work were reluctant to give him a few more spirit stones as a subsidy.

The foundation-building cultivator from this big place was generous in spending. The price of just this stack of thunder talismans was almost the same as what Master Kang had earned by being a termite guarding this spirit stone mine for half a year.

Having obtained such a precious item, Kang Dabao naturally felt more confident. Seeing that other teams had almost finished their journey, the three foundation-building masters each chose a mine tunnel to enter.

Only then did Master Kang lead the team into the dilapidated mine tunnel.

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