Chapter 197 There is a conspiracy
Seeing a stranger walking in, all the miners in the mine subconsciously raised their heads and glanced at him, then continued to lower their heads and work hard to dig, tapping the stone wall with their pickaxes without saying a word.
Long Xuan nodded, without saying hello to these people, and focused his attention on this mine.
After taking a few glances inside, he finally understood why mortals couldn't be used to dig Geng gold veins, and could only use Gu cultivators who were good at body refining.
Because there is no soil here, only stones, and they are not ordinary stones. The stones here are extremely hard and cannot be smashed with ordinary pickaxes. Only spiritual pickaxes can be used. The higher the quality, the faster the digging speed.
Geng metal is the hardest metal in the Gu world. Anyone can imagine how rare this thing is.
Therefore, even if there is a huge Geng gold vein here, it is impossible for Geng gold to appear in clusters. The density must be extremely small, and each miner will need to dig for a long time to find a piece.
What's more, all that is dug is coarse ore that is full of impurities. After about dozens of pieces of crude ore are purified by flames, they can form Gengold gold, which is less than the size of a fist.
The Gengjin Essence is even more rare. If you can dig out a Gengjin Essence the size of a walnut after two years of digging, it is already pretty good.
Moreover, the stone here is so hard that if you use native soil to dig a hole, your teeth will break into pieces. Therefore, you can only dig here manually, and the output is very low.
Otherwise, how could the Xi Tulong clan be so generous and allow these geniuses to mine here for a month?
Because even if you give them a month, they won't be able to dig out much gold.
There were too many people here at this time, and it was not convenient to dig out the Geng Jinjing here. Long Xuan rolled his eyes, thought about it, took out his pickaxe, and started to dig into the stone wall far away from the Gengjin Jing's position.
In his sight, there happened to be a rough gold ore hidden behind this stone wall.
Their geniuses who work in the mines receive special care and use high-grade spiritual pickaxes, while the other ordinary miners use low-grade spiritual pickaxes.
As soon as he took out this high-grade spiritual pickaxe, he immediately attracted the attention of many miners, who looked at him with envy.
Long Xuan himself is a body-refining master with strong strength. Coupled with a good high-grade spiritual pick, the mining speed is naturally far beyond that of ordinary miners.
Under his hammering, the noise was deafening, and stone chips fell in pieces. The hard stone wall could not withstand his hammering. After a while, he saw the rough gold ore hidden behind the stone wall. It's about the size of a basketball.
Of course, this is just a crude ore with many impurities, and not much is left after purification.
Long Xuan was overjoyed and hurriedly dug out this piece of crude gold ore, and then went to dig the next piece of crude gold ore with a clear goal.
Others are blindly using the fish bone mining method. Even if they dig a hundred times, it is difficult to dig out a piece of crude gold ore.
But Long Xuan was sure to dig out crude Geng gold ore every time he made a move, and he would surely gain something as long as he used the pickaxe.
This is why he asked Long Qian for a bunch of storage bags, because with his mining efficiency, one storage bag was simply not enough. If he were to keep digging like this, he might not even be able to dig one, let alone five.
Not long after, Long Xuan dug out five pieces of crude Geng gold ore, then inserted these five pieces of crude Gent gold ore into a stone wall hiding two pieces of crude Gent gold ore, and then shouted excitedly.
"Hahaha... This mine is so rich. I dug out five pieces of crude gold ore connected together. What good luck!"
Long Xuan's loud laughter immediately attracted the attention of all the miners.
"What? Dig five pieces at the same location! Where? Let me see!"
Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up with excitement, and then they swarmed into the mine where the sound came from.
"Let me see!"
"Should I take a look too?"
"It's really there. It's really five pieces of crude gold ore!"
After seeing Long Xuan chisel five pieces of rough Geng gold ore into the stone wall with their own eyes, everyone's eyes turned red, and then they waved their spiritual picks together and began to chisel into the stone wall next to Long Xuan.
According to normal people's thinking, if five pieces of crude hept gold ore were dug out in a casual dig here, then the density of crude hept gold ore here must be very high, and of course they would rush to dig here.
Everyone rushed to dig into the stone wall in front of Long Xuan. More and more people crowded in, and soon Long Xuan was pushed outside.
Long Xuan shouted angrily: "Hey! I discovered this place first!"
However, no one paid attention to him. Everyone was like crazy, digging into the stone wall. There were more people and more strength. Soon the stone wall was smashed down by countless spirit picks, and the two pieces of Geng hidden inside were quickly exposed. Gold ore.
The crowd's eyes immediately turned red, and there was a sound of rapid breathing.
"Hahaha... It really does exist! This place is really a rich mine!"
"It's mine, no one can steal it from me!"
"What's yours! I obviously discovered it first!"
"You fart! I dropped the hammer first, okay?"
"you wanna die……"
The crowd was noisy at first, but soon became chaotic and heard the sounds of fighting.
There were too many people rushing in here, and they all thought they were the first to discover the two pieces of crude gold ore, and they started fighting over the two pieces of crude gold ore.
After Long Xuan, the instigator, led all the miners in the area into the small mine, he immediately returned to the original place and went to dig out the Geng Gold Essence with great interest.
This time everyone is gone, and no one will notice that he dug up the Gengjin Essence.
However, the little plan he used would actually trigger a big melee. This was something he never expected. He could only say that he was guilty.
Next, Long Xuan repeated his old tricks, using the same method to travel to and from the major mines, and looted all the Geng Gold Essence that could be mined.
It only took him less than a day to dig out all the Gengjin essence on the surface here.
Patting the bulging storage bag, Long Xuan was in a happy mood and smiled from ear to ear. The contents here were not ordinary Geng gold, but all Geng gold essence.
Basically all the Geng Gold Essences that can be collected have been collected. The remaining Geng Gold Essences are buried very deep and it will take a long time to dig them out. They cannot be collected in a short time. Long Xuan only You can give up temporarily.
He set his sights on the mining area controlled by the Bai family next door, and his mind became active.
Speaking of which, although the mining area controlled by the Bai family is smaller than that of the Long family, the Gengjin essence buried on their surface is far more than that of the mining area controlled by the Long family.
How could Long Xuan not be greedy? Seeing that there were many five-digit progresses after the decimal point next door, he wished he could fly over right now and dig up all the Geng Gold Essences.
Long Xuan rolled his eyes and felt that the risk in this matter did not seem to be high.
After all, boundaries can be drawn on the ground, but how can we draw boundaries underground?
It is very normal to accidentally dig too much, and it is difficult for both parties to judge whether the boundary has been crossed. They may not even know where the underground boundary is.
Even if one party really crosses the line, the two sides will argue with each other, and then settle the matter through an arena match, and finally the matter will be settled.
This scene was all too familiar to Long Xuan. When various tribes were digging for fossil veins in the Far West, it often happened that someone dug out of bounds.
Especially the Dragon and Phoenix clans, there have been countless conflicts because of this, but in the end they were settled by fighting in the ring.
Therefore, even if he dug across the border and was discovered, nothing big would happen. However, Long Xuan quickly shook his head. He was suspicious by nature and had always been cautious. He was not willing to take even the slightest risk.
In his opinion, there is still a bit of risk in mining across the border, and one must not be reckless. Unless he finds a way to kill all the Bai family's Linghai period supervisors, it will not be 100% safe if he goes there rashly.
Just as Long Xuan was thinking this, he suddenly frowned, as if he noticed something, and reached out to knock on the stone wall next to him, and heard a hollow sound.
He was shocked to find that there was a secret passage leading to Bai's mining area. He was just about to dig a secret passage to the opposite mining area, but unexpectedly a ready-made secret passage appeared in front of him.
Is this a coincidence? Doesn't this seduce him into committing a crime?
He had just suppressed the idea of digging a secret passage to sneak there, and now a ready-made secret passage appeared to tempt him. How could he withstand such temptation?
Long Xuan took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and looked thoughtful.
No, this secret passage blocked by stones was obviously dug by man. How could ordinary miners have the courage to secretly access the secret passage? It was probably the work of the supervisors from the Linghai period.
Was it the fault of the three supervisors of the Long family or the three supervisors of the Bai family?
What did they want to do by digging this secret tunnel?
Long Xuan thought quickly and prepared for the worst in everything, so he could directly rule out the three Linghai stage supervisors of the Long family. He could only assume that this secret passage was dug by the three Bai family supervisors on the opposite side.
What is their purpose in digging this secret tunnel? What do they want to do sneaking over here? It can't be a good thing, there must be a conspiracy.
He also stupidly sent his clone to watch outside. Those Bai's spiritual sea stage Gu cultivators could come directly from here.
Long Xuan suddenly broke into a cold sweat behind his back. How could he dare to sneak through this ready-made secret passage at this time? What if he bumped into the three spiritual sea stage supervisors who were about to come over?
Not to mention going in, he didn't even dare to stand next to this secret passage, so he left in a hurry and stayed far away from this place, for fear of accidentally bumping into Bai's supervisor. It was not suitable to stay here for a long time.
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At this time, outside some distance away from the Geng Gold Mine, a small boat flew across the sky and slowly landed here.
Because this place is far away from the mine, the people at the mine did not notice that a small boat sailed here and a few uninvited guests came down.
"Haha, finally the three clan brothers are here. Three clan brothers come to help. The six of us spiritual sea stage Gu cultivators can break the formation together, and it will not take more than half a month."
Bai Ye walked over to greet the three people with a smile. If Long Xuan were here at this time, he would definitely find that this person was the Bai family spiritual sea stage supervisor who looked at him with sinister eyes before.
He was the only supervisor who came here to greet the three people. The other two Bai supervisors were still in the mining area. After all, the mining area could not be left without supervisors, and it was the limit to be able to leave one person alone.
However, it is intriguing that the three Bai family Gu cultivators who arrived in spirit boats did not land the boats directly on the mineral veins, but landed far away from the mineral veins to prevent anyone from discovering them.