A man ignited a flint, and the deep but dry cave suddenly became bright. Lu Chong saw clearly that there was a wide flat ground in front of him, with many forked passages around him, and different numbers were marked above the passage. Dozens of people gradually dispersed in some narrow passages, without the previous crowded pressure. Everyone looked at Lou Guan and the others in front, waiting for him to assign personnel and tasks.

Lou Guan glanced at everyone and said, "According to previous experience, everyone should try to look for ore in the West. This time, the contact time is a little longer, so you should try to go as far as possible. Now check the prepared items and we are divided into three teams."

After everyone checked the items on their bodies, Lou Guan quickly divided the people into three teams, led by Lou Guan, Lao Shen and Lao Jiang. Lu Tong was divided into Lao Shen's team. The three teams gathered together. Lou Guan and Lao Jiang entered the channel marked "nine" and "eleven" numbers. Lao Shen nodded to Lu Chong and also led a team of personnel into the channel with the word "ten".

Lu Chong and his team had eighteen people. Lao Shen took the lead in front of the road. Next to him was a man holding a torch with branches burning in his hand. The light of the torch was not shining far in the passage, but only allowed people to see the winding paths around five or six feet away, and at the same time, it could avoid colliding with other rock-digging teams.

Lu Chong followed the team at the end of the team and found that there seemed to be a very strong pressure in the passage. The sides of the passage were round and dry, and there seemed to be no trace of being dug. Lu Chong communicated with Lao Shen with a dense line. It turned out that the excavated place would automatically return to its original state after one month. The white stones at the top of the passage were "mapping stones" that mapped the situation below the inspection placed by the inspectors. These "mapping stones" can monitor the situation of the personnel in the passage for a certain period of time.

Lao Shen also told Lu Chong that the power of the practitioner in the ore veins will be suppressed and can only exert a small part of his usual life. A great master like Lao Shen who has just broken through to the True Qi Realm can only find about dozens of feet of movement with his powerful thoughts. Lu Chong tried it and his strength was indeed limited, but the power range of the thoughts still exceeded two hundred feet.

At this time, several forks appeared in front of him. Lao Shen took out a round iron box and placed a short silver needle at the top. The short needle swung for a while and then stopped. Lao Shen put away the plate and led everyone toward a passage on the left.

After a few days of continuous judgment, he walked for about two or three days, Lao Shen still did not stop. He occasionally encountered some miners walking back in the passage. He could also hear the sound of digging rocks in some slightly shallow passages. The number of miners gradually increased in this section of the ore veins.

After walking for nearly two days, it was almost the end of this passage. The voices of the miners and the excavation team were extremely sparse. Lao Shen asked everyone to rest on the spot, listened to him in several places alone, and explored around with a small square box, and knocked down some rock fragments to study.

Half an hour later, Lao Shen asked someone to dig in the right direction, so four men came forward to dig. Everyone was at the level of masters of martial arts, but the speed of digging rocks was not fast. It can be seen that the hardness of these rocks was changed. After several groups of people in succession, they finally dug a hole of six feet square.

Lao Shen stepped forward and used his true energy to stir it for a while, and the hole became deeper and higher. The fine rocks dug out were quickly removed by others. Lao Shen took out a thick yellow turbid liquid and sprinkled it on the four walls, saying that the changes in the holes could be stabilized temporarily, and the remaining maintenance affairs were handled by the inspectors.

When a seven or eight-meter-long passage had been formed in front of the hole, everyone also collected several energy stones, but still did not find an intermediate essence stone. Lao Shen marked several places in the passage and asked the rest to dig separately.

Lu Chong had never started digging. He carefully observed the excavated teammates and held the excavated energy stone in his hand to feel it. At the same time, he took the small square box in Lao Shen's hand and studied it for a while, felt the fluctuations in the small square box that responded to the energy stone, and then compared it with his mind to the surrounding rocks. Gradually, he began to have a sense of digging ore.

He used his mind to seep into the surrounding rock formations, and as a result he could only enter a distance of about ten feet. However, he discovered a rule that the amount of energy in the energy stone is exactly the opposite of its fluctuations in the ore veins. Therefore, the higher the ore, the more difficult it is to find and discover. He estimated that most of the time, everyone gets based on their own luck.

When everyone dug out the first stone of essence, it was already three days later, but Lu Tong often sat cross-legged on the excavated channels to adjust his breathing without taking any moves, which made many people a little confused and dissatisfied. Although this person didn't drink much water or eat, he didn't put any effort into it. When everyone saw Lao Shen looking at Lu Tong with a smile, everyone had to continue digging silently.

At this time, Lu Chong stood up from the ground and made two marks on the two walls on the passage. Lao Shen immediately asked someone to dig at these two marks. Everyone started digging with a puzzled look. After a long time, they actually obtained more than ten red black stones, but there was nothing at the other mark. Just as the man who was digging was complaining, he actually dug out a large piece of purple jade gold stone.

Lao Shen said happily: "You guys still have complaints in your heart before. I'm not afraid to tell you that Brother Lu is a much better expert than my Old Shen. Remember, you should respect Brother Lu in the future. If anyone neglects Brother Lu, I will make it difficult for him."

Everyone agreed in unison, showing respect for Lu Chong. In the next ten days, they obtained many energy stones and more than ten essence stones according to the direction designated by Lu Chong, and everyone was very excited.

During this period, a group of inspectors came. While cleaning up the rock fragments piled outside, they also painted the four walls of one of the main passages with yellow liquid, so that they could ensure that the main passage was retained.

Two more days later, the "sound transmission stone" on Lao Shen's body vibrated. This was a message Lou Guan sent him the prepared to go out, because everyone had been digging in the ore vein for more than twenty days and had to go out to pay the excavated ore.

Lao Shen asked someone to pour all the ore out of the space box and start counting the stones. The number of excavations this time was good. Although he did not get the righteous spirit stone after encountering great luck, the energy stones had exceeded 700, and there were twenty-six essence stones, which far exceeded the task of their team of people.

Lao Shen immediately summoned everyone to pack up the tools and items, and planned to go back along the way. At this time, he suddenly saw Lu Chong sitting cross-legged on the ground, his eyes closed, his whole body trembling, and a thin layer of sweat was leaching from his head. This surprised Lao Shen and signaled that everyone would be quiet and not disturbed. So everyone sat down everywhere, paying attention to the situation on Lu Chong.

After a while, Lu Chong opened his eyes, raised his head and looked at the people sitting in meditation, and said to Lao Shen: "I felt a faint fluctuation, fast and short, very strange. Because the distance was a bit far, the thoughts that followed me were almost damaged. Can we continue to dig?"

Lao Shen asked nervously: "We can let some people go out to pay the tasks first, and let the remaining personnel go out to clear the situation. Where is the strange fluctuation?"

Lu Chong pointed at his feet, and Lao Shen hesitated. The way of mining was generally to go forward, back and left and right, with very few up and down directions, because it was very difficult to dig up and down, and the gravel that was dug down was very inconvenient to move downwards, and after the speed became slow, it was easy to be sealed inside. However, he had a certain confidence in Lu Chong, hoping to gain greater value, and immediately said: "Let's try it."
Chapter completed!