Wild Dogs

Just as Yang Fan was pondering, these mortals were immediately herded to the front of a row of wooden houses.

Immediately afterwards, a burly man with a face full of scars came out.

The burly man with a face full of scars looked at the cultivators from the Blood Blade Sect.

The Blood Blade Sect cultivator was equally decisive, flashing his token.

After taking the token, the burly man sized up the other person and nodded slightly.

"Hmm, very good. With these ten thousand or so mortals, mining will be much easier from now on."

Then, he waved his hand, and a storage bag flew out.

"Look, these are the mortals who died during this period."

"Dispose of these mortal corpses."

The cultivator took the storage bag, opened it, and saw that it was filled with corpses. He immediately frowned.

"What's the point of dealing with these corpses?"

"Was it given to you?"

"Why don't you just burn everything here from now on?"

After speaking, the cultivator shook his head slightly.

Seeing this, the burly man with a face full of scars snorted coldly.

"Since the people were brought by your Blood Blade Sect, we will naturally take responsibility for them."

Then, the burly man with a face full of scars glanced at the many ordinary people present and shouted sharply.

"Since you're here, don't put on airs."

"I tell you, here I am God, and you must do whatever I command you to do."

Do you understand?

Upon hearing this, the many ordinary people present nodded and dared not answer.

Seeing that no one dared to answer, the burly man was very satisfied.

"Someone come here."

The burly man waved his hand, and immediately several lackeys scurried out.

"There are 10,000 mortals here. I remember that your mines are short of manpower. Divide these people among yourselves and take them all with you."

"Remember, the people are yours. Starting tomorrow, the amount of ore in each mine will be increased by 10% every day."

"What?"

Upon hearing this, the group exchanged bewildered glances.

But seeing their boss's imposing appearance, they dared not refuse and could only obediently retreat.

Then the burly man looked at the Blood Blade Sect cultivators in front of him.

"By the way, the person has been brought. As we agreed beforehand, here are this month's spirit stones."

The burly man then tossed a dozen or so storage bags to the man from the Blood Blade Sect.

After taking the storage bags, the cultivator glanced inside and immediately frowned.

"What happened?"

"The spirit stone mine here has always had a stable output, and we've been using a lot of manpower over the past two months, so why are there so many spirit stones missing?"

"Could it be that you guys embezzled it?"

Upon hearing this, the burly man immediately widened his eyes in displeasure.

"How dare you, the Blood Blade Sect, make such baseless accusations?"

"Didn't your Blood Blade Sect also send cultivators here to supervise?"

"As we agreed before, mortals mine the minerals, and mortals cut the stones."

"All the spirit stones were handled by mortals; we cultivators did not tamper with them in any way. In the end, all the spirit stones collected were divided equally among the various sects."

"That's why we've brought so many mortals to mine, because we're afraid that some cultivators might hoard ores and spirit stones."

"Now you're the one suspecting us of tampering with things."

Then, the burly man put his hands on his waist.

"If you're not satisfied, I'll go and summon all the Blood Blade Sect cultivators here right now, and we'll have a face-to-face confrontation and take stock."

As he spoke, the burly man looked as if he was about to call for help.

Seeing the burly man's arrogant expression, the cultivator shook his head helplessly, put away all the storage bags, and turned to leave.

As the cultivator flew away, the burly man shouted.

"By the way, bring another 10,000 mortals next month. We've discovered some important mineral veins these past few days, and we're short-handed."

Hearing this, the cultivator became even more dissatisfied.

"We give you over ten thousand mining slaves every month. Now there are hundreds of thousands of mining slaves here, and you only dig out this few spirit stones each month. You really have the nerve to keep asking for more people."

Upon hearing this, the burly man glared at the other man with displeasure.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"We have now reached an important part of the ore vein."

"You should know that the key areas of this mine are full of high-grade spirit stones. As long as we can mine these spirit stones, our various sects will make a fortune."

"Stop talking nonsense and go find someone."

Upon hearing this, the man muttered to himself for a while before obediently flying away into the distance.

At the same time, the burly man's henchmen immediately divided the more than 10,000 ordinary people into several groups and took them away.

After being randomly selected into a team, Yang Fan carefully blended in with the team.

To be honest, he was originally planning to leave directly, but after confirming that there was a spirit stone mine inside, Yang Fan immediately changed his mind.

Spirit stone veins are places that various sects guard closely.

At this point, Yang Fan finally understood why so many ordinary people needed to mine.

Spirit stone veins are key areas that need to be protected by various sects, and ordinary cultivators simply cannot enter them.

You should know that once any spirit stone mine is dug up, as long as the outer layer is removed, there is a complete spirit stone inside.

He could dig here for half a month and get a lot of spirit stones.

More importantly, since there is a spirit stone mine here, there must be a warehouse for storing spirit stones. If we could enter the warehouse, wouldn't we make a fortune?

The moment this thought crossed Yang Fan's mind, his heart skipped a beat.

Moreover, the reason these people didn't openly recruit ordinary people but instead resorted to this method of plunder is most likely because the mine is occupied by a few small sects, and they are afraid of being discovered by the larger sects, so they are doing this secretly.

After all, if they openly recruit ordinary people, once those major sects discover it, this mine will be impossible to protect.

More importantly, these abducted mortals have no cultivation and cannot keep anything secret. Even if they dig up any ores or spirit stones or treasures, they cannot take them away.

However, this also benefits Yang Fan.

Thinking of this, Yang Fan took a deep breath and then mingled with the main group, walking forward.

Before long, they were taken outside a mine.

Immediately afterwards, a young man who was as thin as a monkey jumped out.

He glanced at everyone and then nodded repeatedly.

"Alright, now that we're here, let me explain the rules to you."

"The first rule is that you can only mine the ore below; you can't secretly hide it away."

Upon hearing this, everyone present nodded in agreement, and no one dared to disobey.

"The second requirement is that you have to mine a certain amount of ore every day."

"First of all, the strong and healthy ones have to mine at least fifty pieces of ore a day, the thinner and weaker ones have to mine forty pieces, and the older ones with some health problems have to mine thirty pieces."

"You'll only get food if you dig enough. If anyone doesn't dig enough, then you'll go hungry."