I, a minor character, fell into the Shura field of the heroine and the villain

Wang Xiao belongs to the second branch of the Wang family.

The Wang family has four branches, which developed from the four sons of the first ancestor who moved to Chuanliu City and made a fortune.

Usually the eldest son has the priority inheritance rights in the family.

Unless the eldest house has no descendants or the eldest house heir is too incompetent, an heir will be chosen from the other three houses.

When it came to Wang Ding's father's generation, the eldest son had only daughters and no sons.

Wang Ding was originally from the third branch of the family and was the oldest among his peers. His outstanding business talent attracted the attention of the previous generation of the family and he was adopted as the heir.

However, Wang Xiao, who came from the second branch, was not convinced. His cultivation aptitude was better than Wang Ding's, but because he was younger than Wang Ding, he missed the right of inheritance.

Wang Xiao has always been resentful of Wang Ding's inheritance rights. Even after so many years as the head of the family, he still refuses to give up.

He suspected that there must be some inside story behind Wang Ding becoming the head of the family.

It's unknown when it started, but a rumor started circulating among the servants of the Wang family, saying that Wang Ding was actually the illegitimate son of the previous head of the family and a lady from the third branch.

Although these rumors were quickly suppressed, they left a deep rift within the Wang family.

The search further ignited the conflict between the eldest and second houses.

They threw dirty water at each other and it became a dog-eat-dog situation.

The people in the eldest house accused the second house of doing all those things and said they had nothing to do with the eldest house.

The second wife said that someone from the first wife was also involved.

For a moment, the Wang family was in chaos.

This matter soon reached the ears of He Weiyuan and the other four families.

They thought this was a sign that the Holy Lord might be about to start settling accounts with them.

Based on the principle of "prosperity and loss together", they must protect the Wang family. Otherwise, if the lips and teeth are gone, they will be the next to suffer.

Then four other families came forward to support the Wang family.

As for the He family, they stayed out of it.

In fact, he doesn't really want to stay out of it. He Weiyuan was dismissed for making a mistake, so he should keep a low profile at this time.

However, the presence of the four families putting pressure on the Suzaku secret guards did affect the progress of their search.

But this is exactly what Zhao Kangping wanted.

The attention of these families was attracted.

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There is a mountain in the northeast of the holy land, named Yanqiu Mountain, because of the salt produced in the mountain.

According to Ji Miaoyan, the mineral vein should be located underground in this mountain.

However, the mountain covers a large area, and it is difficult to find any clues even by using spiritual sense.

"It's a pity that I don't know the art of looking at the air." Zhao Kangping walked in the mountains and looked at the surrounding mountains.

If you know how to use qigong, you might be able to tell that the spiritual energy here is different.

If there are spiritual veins and mineral deposits underground, the concentration of spiritual energy on the surface will be slightly higher than in other areas. However, because the deposits are buried so deep, the difference is actually not significant and cannot be seen by non-experts in this field.

"Let's go down and take a look. It's better than wandering around on the ground." Dongfang Jingrou was a little impatient. She wanted to find evidence as soon as possible that those big families were secretly mining spiritual mines.

She even prepared a photo stone for this purpose.

Uh, the photo stone, I remember the good things this bastard did.

She secretly glanced at the man next to her, feeling a little annoyed but not daring to show it.

"Let's not go down yet. Let's see if we can find an entrance to the underground." Because he didn't know how deep the underground mineral vein was, he thought it would be better not to go down rashly.

Although the Earth Walking Technique can lead people to burrow into the ground, it will slow down the movement speed and indirectly increase the consumption of spiritual power.

He was not worried that Dongfang Jingrou, who was in the late Nascent Soul stage, would not have enough spiritual power to perform the Earth Movement Technique.

Because they didn't know the situation underground, he wanted to preserve his strength as much as possible to deal with emergencies, rather than wasting his spiritual power on the road.

In order not to alert the enemy, they all used invisibility talismans before continuing on their journey.

After flying for a distance, the two found several connected well salt workshops in a small mountain village.

They looked at each other almost at the same time, and then flew towards the workshop group in stealth mode.

A quick look reveals that this place combines salt mining and salt production.

"Shen's Well Salt Workshop." Zhao Kangping said softly while looking at the sign on the storefront.

He suddenly remembered the information Dongfang Jingrou had given him about these major families, which indeed recorded that the Shen family was also in the spiritual salt business.

The so-called spiritual salt is a kind of salt containing a weak spiritual energy, which is specially sold to low-level monks who have not yet practiced fasting.

Thinking of this, a light bulb suddenly flashed in his mind.

When he saw this before, he didn't care.

But after learning about it from Ji Miaoyan, he had to take it seriously.

This spiritual salt mine is usually found near spiritual ore veins.

Doesn’t this indirectly prove that there is a spiritual mineral vein underneath?

Zhao Kangping sneaked into the workshop and casually touched the salt scattered on the ground. After careful observation, he found that there was indeed a very weak spiritual energy in it.

Then he came out quickly.

During this process, he also saw that the salt workers working here were not ordinary people, but low-level cultivators with Qi training level.

After coming out, he sent a message to Dongfang Jingrou: "The entrance should be around here."

They split up and began searching.

Sure enough, Dongfang Jingrou found a secret passage in a simple gambling house in the village.

She immediately sent a message to Zhao Kangping.

The casino was very noisy, and all the people there were cultivators in the Qi training stage.

Two Nascent Soul masters sneaked in here, but they were completely unaware.

The entire village was built around this well salt workshop, and the population was relatively small. The number of mortals in the village was actually smaller than the number of cultivators, and they were likely the wives and children of the hopeless Qi training salt workers.

"The Shen family is really heartless. Most of the spirit stones that the salt workers have worked so hard to earn have gone into the gambling house before they can even warm up." Zhao Kangping could tell that this casino was run by the Shen family.

The calculations were really good. It looked like the Shen family had paid the workers, but in reality, the workshop was not far from a gambling den. It was like transferring money from one pocket to the other.

Zhao Kangping took another look at the salt workers in the Qi training stage with numb expressions, then walked towards the secret passage without looking back.

"Wait, there is a warning formation here, don't go in rashly." Zhao Kangping stopped Dongfang Jingrou.

Before them was a cellar door that looked nothing special.

But Zhao Kangping was a formation master, and he could see the traces of the formation at a glance.

If someone opens the cellar door without paying attention, it might alarm the people here.

Fortunately, the level of the formation was not high, and Zhao Kangping dispelled it in less than a cup of tea.

Dongfang Jingrou set up a temporary soundproofing barrier in the room, and then they carefully opened the cellar door.

After entering the cellar, they first walked through a spiral staircase and then came to a spacious corridor.

They noticed that guards began to appear here.

However, these guards are all in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and their presence cannot be detected.

The two of them sneaked in with the help of the invisibility talisman and soon found a vertical elevator.

When they arrived, the elevator was not on this floor, it must have gone down underground.

I don’t know when I can come up.

Fortunately, Dongfang Jingrou knew the earth-moving technique, which came in handy at this time.

She held Zhao Kangping's hand and they disappeared into the ground together, then entered the elevator shaft, and then switched to flying in the air.

Because they were worried that if they went too fast, their spiritual pressure might be leaked and they would be discovered by the people here, so they descended at a slower speed.

It took them a whole cup of tea to get underground.

I think this place is already very deep from the ground.

Zhao Kangping: "Don't go out yet. I sense at least three Nascent Soul auras here."

Dongfang Jingrou: "You don't have to tell me."

Only then did she realize that he was still holding her hand. She pulled it out with all her strength and glared at him unhappily.

But a beauty's stare does not make people feel bored, but makes her look more charming.

However, Mr. Zhao had no intention of appreciating the beauty of the woman next to him. He was trying to find a way to deal with the current situation.

The invisibility talisman he used could only ensure that people with a lower realm than him could not see him.

When the target reaches the Nascent Soul stage, the effectiveness of the invisibility talisman will be greatly reduced.

It may not be visible at first, but any movement may be noticed.

Unless he stood still and the other party did not glance in his direction, he would have a chance of not being discovered.

But how is this possible.

Fortunately, he remembered that his senior sister had given him a cloak that could cover his body.

As long as he wraps it around his body, outsiders can't see him.

But this cloak can only be used by myself.

"You stay here and don't move. Give me the photo stone. I'll go out and take the photo and come back." Zhao Kangping quickly took out the invisible cloak.

As soon as Dongfang Jingrou saw the cloak in his hand, she knew what he wanted to do.

"Do you know this is dangerous?" Although she said this, she was already taking out the photo stone.

"I know." He said lightly, but he had already put on his cloak.

"If you are discovered, I will not care about you. I will just run away." The woman's lips trembled slightly.

It was too risky for him to do this, but she knew she couldn't persuade him, and this was a subtle way of expressing her disapproval.

"Okay, if you want to run, you can run now. I have a way to get out." Zhao Kangping had a teleportation talisman in his hand, and he was not panicked.

On the contrary, if she left earlier, he would have no more worries.

However, Dongfang Jingrou had no intention of leaving.

"Aren't you leaving yet?"

"Are you really going?"

"Uh, you bitch, can't you bear to leave me?"

"Go to hell, who wouldn't want you to die?"

As she spoke, she disappeared into the earth.

Now Mr. Zhao can act boldly and confidently.

He felt his way into the underground vein.

Sure enough, I could see a lot of miners working here.

These miners are basically in the Qi training stage where there is no hope for cultivation. Many of them are in their forties and are only at the sixth or seventh level of Qi training.

They may have given up on continuing to practice in order to earn some spirit stones, or to pay off debts, or to pass them on to future generations, but it is impossible for them to keep them for themselves.

Because people who mine in spiritual ore veins for a long time will suffer from crystallization disease.

A large amount of spiritual energy accumulated in their bodies, blocking their meridians. This would undoubtedly ruin their future as cultivators and greatly shorten their lifespans.

He even saw a miner with crystal clusters growing on his neck, his face gaunt and his eye sockets sunken, like a skeleton. Wait, this guy looks like a corpse puppet.

Shit, this is the 007 work system.

The miners standing by turned a blind eye.