Chapter 242
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Chapter 242: Who are you? What do you want?
Li Xiaojun followed Steward Niu while using his divine sense to scan the situation in the secret realm.
In his observations, he found that the secret realm mostly comprised deserts, volcanoes, and plateaus.
The city of the Human Race was situated in the middle of a desert.
About three hundred miles from the city, there was an immortal essence stone vein where many people from the Human Race were mining for stones.
At the same time, in the desert outside the city, there were also many spiritual fields planted with various kinds of spiritual plants.
Compared to the Daizong Secret Realm, where the Human Race had to find ways to hide, their treatment in this Witch Tribe-ruled world was clearly much better.
In contrast, in this secret realm, the beast tribe existed like a despised outcast; as soon as their presence was discovered, the Witch Tribe would kill them.
"Could it be that the Witch Tribe and the beast tribe have some kind of vendetta?"
While Li Xiaojun observed everything in the secret realm with his divine sense, he followed Steward Niu to the immortal essence stone vein.
As a newcomer, he needed to familiarize himself with all the details of the secret realm before deciding on his next course of action.
What if there were Golden Immortals from the Witch Tribe in the secret realm? If he acted too recklessly, he might not have time to activate the secret realm mark to leave and could be killed by a Golden Immortal.
Li Xiaojun knew that there were many methods in the secret realm that could prevent someone from activating the mark.
If people in the secret realm could leave under any circumstance, then during his time in the Daizong Secret Realm, Li Xiaojun wouldn’t have been able to act like a flower thief.
It was like if Li Xiaojun was spreading positive energy, and suddenly everyone below him disappeared; he would have to poke a hole in the floor!
"Steward Niu, do we have new arrivals?"
As Steward Niu led Li Xiaojun and the previous newcomer to the mining site, someone greeted them immediately.
"Old Zhong, these two are newcomers; please take care of them."
"Okay."
"You two follow me…"
The man referred to as Old Zhong said to Li Xiaojun and the other person.
Soon, the two were taken to the mining site by Old Zhong.
"This is the mining tool; you will mine here from now on. Our mining site belongs to the Witch Tribe. You need to mine this type of stone. For every one thousand stones you mine, you can either receive one low-grade spiritual item or one hundred superior grade spirit stones," Old Zhong explained to Li Xiaojun and the newcomer.
"Old Zhong, may I ask what kind of stone this is?" the other person asked curiously.
"You don’t need to know that; you just need to know it can be exchanged for spiritual items and superior grade spirit stones."
"By the way, while you’re mining, you must hand over your storage gear. Don’t worry; we won’t touch your storage gear. You can store them in the safe yourself…"
Quickly, Old Zhong took Li Xiaojun and the other person to a safe, allowing them to place their storage gear inside and set their own passwords.
Afterward, Old Zhong led Li Xiaojun and the other newcomer to a tunnel, where the three descended vertically for about ten thousand meters before coming to a stop.
"This is the real mining area; you will mine here from now on. These are the storage bags for the mining area; use them to carry the stones you mine."
After giving some instructions to Li Xiaojun and the other person, Steward Niu left the tunnel.
Once Steward Niu was gone, Li Xiaojun didn’t talk much with the other person and quickly made his way towards the vein.
The vein spread like tree roots, so the tunnel had been blasted out, creating countless cave-like passages.
Li Xiaojun used his divine sense to scan the tunnel and saw countless people mining inside.
He also noticed that in the tunnel, it was difficult for divine sense to penetrate through the materials of the mining area, and he could only see through ten meters of rock layers at most.
At the entrances of many tunnels, people had set up formations to shield against others’ divine sense detection.
According to Old Zhong, every tunnel that was shielded by a formation indicated that someone was mining inside.
Many miners did not wish to be monitored at all times, which is why they set up these formations.
Li Xiaojun appreciated this situation.
Quickly, he chose an unoccupied tunnel and set up a formation at the entrance.
In the Immortal Realm, he had several daughters who also mined, and he had always been curious about how they did it.
Now, he could try it for himself.
"Daughter, get me a better mining tool."
To assist in his mining, Li Xiaojun asked his second daughter, Li Yufei, to get him an immortal tool quality mining tool.
With the mining tool in hand, Li Xiaojun immediately began his work.
He unleashed the Heavenly Immortal realm power, and aided by the powerful mining tool, his mining speed was extremely fast.
At the speed he was currently mining, he could finish one branch of the vein in less than half a day.
Of course, immortal essence stones were not as densely distributed as coal; simply finding a coal mine and mining would not suffice.
Immortal essence stones were mixed within hard layers of rock, so to obtain them, one must break through the hard rock layers.
Based on his cultivation level at the peak of the great emperor realm, he could mine less than ten thousand immortal essence stones in a month.
If he were a Great Ascension stage cultivator, he could at most mine a thousand immortal essence stones in a month, and that was without any cultivation and working day and night.
A thousand immortal essence stones could only be exchanged for one low-grade spiritual item or one hundred superior grade spirit stones at the mining site.
Ten superior grade spirit stones were equivalent to one hundred million low-grade spirit stones.
Even a Great Ascension stage saint mining could only earn this much in a month, which illustrated the treatment of workers in the secret realm.
However, Li Xiaojun was only here to experience the feeling of mining.
If asked to mine day and night, he would definitely refuse.
Li Xiaojun hadn’t forgotten his mission for coming here.
So after a few days, he grew tired of mining and shifted his attention to the fairies mining in the tunnel.
Although many fairies had become miners after entering the secret realm, as cultivators, their looks and figures were all exceptional.
One day, Li Xiaojun easily passed through a formation at the entrance of one tunnel without triggering any formation fluctuations.
To execute his plan, he had his second daughter, Li Yufei, specially help him obtain a formation-breaking flag.
Now, he could almost undetectably enter tunnels sealed by formations.
Once inside a tunnel with the flag, he quickly scanned with his divine sense and soon exited.
Inside the tunnel, there was a man.
Next, Li Xiaojun quietly entered another tunnel.
This time, he confirmed it was a woman.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
Shu Zilan was diligently mining in the tunnel. As an Integration stage cultivator, she could only earn about ten superior grade spirit stones after tirelessly working for a month.
She decided that after earning enough cultivation resources, she would leave the secret realm and focus on her training, hoping to break through to the Great Ascension stage before returning to mine.
A Great Ascension stage cultivator could earn at least twenty or thirty superior grade spirit stones a month, and in a few months, they could earn one spiritual item.
If she broke through to the late stage of Great Ascension, she could earn one spiritual item each month.
Just as Shu Zilan was fantasizing about a bright future while mining, she suddenly found herself unable to move, and her secret realm mark could not be activated.
She was truly frightened by this situation.
Quickly, she saw Li Xiaojun enter the tunnel, leading her to ask with a fierce but weak tone, "Who are you? What do you want?"
