Chen Luo followed Tian Wuji all the way down, and the slope became extremely flat, so he could still ride a horse.
"This mine has existed for thousands of years!" Tian Wuji introduced as he walked, "Since the mountains and seas changed and some people began to mine Taiqing jade, this is the only place where Taiqing jade can be mined."
"So jade collectors in the past dynasties could only dig here, keep digging deeper, and keep expanding, which led to the current scene."
"Is there no other place where this Taiqing jade mine has been found?" Chen Luo asked doubtfully.
According to what Chen Luo had seen before, the Kunlun White Jade can be found in river beds, among rocks, even in rock crevices, caves, and the towering Kunlun Ruins. It can be said that it is everywhere.
Even when it comes to the Pagan mining area where jadeite is mined, there are countless large and small mines, countless mining areas, and countless mines. Now that we have arrived at the Taiqing jade mine, it is so direct, it is just an extra-large mine.
Of course, the size of this mine cannot be judged with the naked eye.
"This really doesn't exist!" Tian Wuji shook his head. "Tai Qing Jade is different from other mines. It is not so widely distributed, but continues to extend along a vein."
"And this vein is also very simple, it just keeps extending downward! Therefore, Tai Qingyu has a unique characteristic, which is "easy to find, but hard to pick!"
"It's said to be easy to find, because in the entire Dongyi, there is currently only one place that can produce Tai Qingyu. A few years ago, my fourth uncle did not give up and traveled among the hundreds of thousands of mountains. He spent a full ten years.
No other jade veins were found.”
"It is said that it is difficult to mine because the only remaining bit of Taiqing jade is located at the bottom of this mine. It is so deep that people basically cannot work continuously here. If you stay down there for a long time, you will not be able to move the pickaxe.
I have no strength left, let alone carry the large piece of jade, 11."
"Ah, it's so serious! What should we do?"
"Later, my third uncle Tian Chang asked skilled craftsmen to build an ingenious auxiliary device. Using the device, the jade workers on the top were transported down, and the jade workers on the bottom were transported up together with the jade."
"This method uses one shift every hour. Although it greatly reduces the speed of jade mining operations, it also greatly improves the jade transportation capacity. In addition, the safety of the jade mining masters is also guaranteed."
Listening to Tian Wuji's eloquent talk, Chen Luo understood the danger of the Taiqing Jade Field and the difficulty of the Fuhua Tower. Compared with the Jade Gang, who guarded the nourishing Hetian Jade Field, Nanyue Ruili Tower and the others relieved the West
After the crisis in Shu, I also guarded the Pagan Jade Field and lived a happy life.
Only this Taiqing jade farm, how long ago, actually became a poor mine?
"So our jade farm is about to be exhausted?"
Tian Wuji also smiled sadly.
"That's right, it's nothing to work hard, it's all a helpless move. The most fundamental thing is that the Taiqing Jade Farm is on the verge of death and is at the end of its rope. In the past two years, Fuhua House has also been living on its laurels. If it can't find another place
Jade Field, I’m afraid that when the next jade-unlocking competition comes, my Fu Hua Lou Tai Qing Jade Field will also be removed from the top five jade fields!”
What Tian Wuji said is exactly the cruel reality facing Fuhua Building.
"However, the sky has eyes and has blessed me with being in Fuhua Tower. It is my great fortune to be in Fuhua Tower by recommending Brother Chen Luo, a person with good fortune, to me!"
"Wuji is here, thank you very much!"
"Brother Wuji, we are brothers, there is no need to see anyone outside! Don't worry, with you and me here, we will definitely find the second vein." Chen Luo comforted.
"Then let me borrow Brother Chen Luo's good advice!"
Unconsciously, after walking down the slope for more than ten miles, the terrain began to become steeper, from the original gentle slope to a slope.
Everyone abandoned their horses and started walking on foot.
After walking for several miles, the slope has turned into steps one by one. On both sides of the steps, there are red flowers and green grass, and the scenery is very beautiful.
This Taiqing Jade Field has been excavated for who knows how many years. I don’t know who built the steps one by one in what year and month. If you look at it from the Internet, you won’t see that it is a huge pit at all.
It looks like a hillside with blooming mountain flowers, but in fact, in Chen Luo's view, it looks more like a huge vertebral body inserted upside down into the earth.
Looking up, the road we came from showed a line of sky, and the color of the ground began to darken. Chen Luo felt that this should be almost the end, right?
Continuing to move forward along the steps, Chen Luo suddenly saw the steps extending to the side, and circular belt-shaped roads appeared in front of him.
"What is going on?" Chen Luo looked surprised.
"The further you go down, the steeper the slope becomes. The straight up and down steps are almost vertical and are no longer suitable. So it was changed to a circular road."
Chen settled his gaze and saw that the circular road followed this giant sinkhole and along one side of the cliff, a 3-foot-wide trail was artificially built.
Each time you rotate along the trail, you will descend one step. This method greatly reduces the walking slope and also increases the walking length.
Fortunately, everyone has good cultivation skills, so in this environment, they are still walking on flat ground.
Then he continued walking for a few miles, and Chen Luo saw a huge flat land below.
"This is the end!" Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Luo followed the direction of his finger and looked forward.
I saw a one-room house in the corner of the land. Next to the house, there was something like a huge building. One side of this thing was even darker.
"Is it going to continue down there?" Chen Luo asked. At this moment, Chen Luo had clearly sensed that the concentration of jade soul in the tiankeng was indeed different from the one above, and the jade soul was none other than Tai Qing Jade.
According to the distribution of the 5 rows of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, this Taiqing jade corresponds to the water attribute, the previous jade jade corresponds to the wood attribute, this agate jade corresponds to the fire attribute, and the Kunlun jade corresponds to the earth attribute.
The tens of thousands of years of cold jade in the Arctic corresponds to metallicity.
"Brother Chen Luo, let's move forward and see for yourself." After saying this, Tian Wuji led everyone across the ground and went straight to the giant device in the corner.
"What is this?" Li Zhen also became interested.
"It looks like a teleportation device!" Chen Luo observed carefully.
"That's right, this is a large teleporter built by my third uncle's organization." Tian Wuji said and clapped his hands. From the house behind the device, two disciples from Fuhua Building came out.
"Senior Brother Tian is here!" Two people greeted him enthusiastically. Behind the two people in the room, there was a team of jade-picking disciples who were resting with their eyes closed.
"Wei Yong, Song Chi, are you two on duty here today?" Tian Wuji asked.
"Yes, Senior Brother Zhang has already led everyone down to do their work. I and I are responsible for transporting personnel and materials here!"
Tian Wuji nodded, "Pay attention to the time interval, the gravity is strong down there, don't stay too long!"
"Brother Chen Luo, look at the black hole in front of you. It is connected to a large cable. Above the cable is this large winch. The jade collectors below go up and down through the cable car, and they have to replace one batch every half an hour.
, to prevent the same group of people from being injured down there for too long.”
Chen Luo turned to the side of the machine and looked forward. He couldn't help but be shocked. Looking down into this dark place, he saw that it was an abyss.
A thick cable went deep into the black hole from a huge winch. Next to the cable car, there was a pile of mined jade. Chen Luo's spiritual consciousness perceived that the quality of the jade was pretty good, but the quantity was a bit small.
Then I looked into the cave below. It was bottomless, but I could just feel a thick jade soul pouring out from the bottom up.
Looking up at the sky again, most of it has been blocked by the mountains on both sides, and the light has become dimmer. If you go further down, you will probably need some lighting.
"Brother Chen Luo, please wait a moment. The cable car will be coming up soon. We will get off together then," Tian Wuji said.
"That's great!" Chen Luo nodded.
"It has been recorded in the strange books of mountains and seas that this genius has four poles, the land has eight deserts, and there is also a center. The so-called four poles, eight deserts, and one center." Tian Wuji talked eloquently.
"Brother Wuji, are you saying that this place is the center?" Chen Luoruo realized something.
"Hey, Brother Chen Luo, no, no, no! Yes, no!"
"How can you say this!" Chen Luo sounded a little confused.
"If you go straight down here, you can reach the center, but right now, I'm afraid there's still a distance from the center. And the further you go down, the greater the load you'll bear, which is beyond the reach of humans like us."
"The further you go down, the greater the load?" Chen Luo suddenly remembered that he was in the tomb of the King of Nanyue. This tomb was attracted by the sun, moon and stars in the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda. The same thing happened. The further you went towards the center, the more attractive it became.
So much so that the great elders of Ruili Tower, even if they have advanced cultivation, are unable to advance even half a step forward when they reach the critical line!
Now, there is also a situation of superposition of gravity here. The two are really similar. However, there is one thing that Chen Luo is very pleased about. That is, as a jade cultivator, his body's weight-bearing capacity is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people.
Especially, Chen Luo has reached a higher level after this period of experience and training. This resistance should be even better.
As the two people were talking, they saw the cable begin to move slowly. The large winch on the platform pulled the cable and slowly rotated upward. After a while, a team of people was pulled onto the platform by the cable car. On the cable car, there were also
1 some mined jade.
"Senior Brother Zhang and the others are back!" Wei Yong shouted.
Half an hour is actually very fast. It takes 20 minutes for the cable car to transport down, 20 minutes for the work below, and 20 minutes for the cable car to return.
The difficulty of collecting jade is really unimaginable.
Chen Luo remembered that in the Heishan Village of Yusu Peak, everyone went to the mountains to pick jade, and they also slept in the open air. They drank a sip of snow water when they were thirsty, and ate a mouthful of dry naan when they were hungry. They were on this plateau every day, exposed to the feng shui and the sun.
Chapped skin and lack of oxygen at high altitude are all a kind of pain.
This Tai Qing Jade is just the opposite. The footprints of jade mining have extended along this jade vein to hundreds of feet underground. In ancient times, there were tombs of emperors of all dynasties. They "went through three springs and descended the copper to the coffin", which refers to the tomb.
It is so deep that it reaches directly under the three springs.
But the Taiqing Mine in front of me may have exceeded the level of Sanquan.
The cable car came up slowly, and 6 people got off.