Cultivation starts with taming beasts

Lin Li's face changed suddenly when he heard this, but he still suppressed his anger and said softly, "Elder Liu, this matter has nothing to do with me, please calm down." "Who does it have to do with?" Elder Liu was furious, and he had cursed the people from the Black Water Gate who managed the Huangshi Mine countless times in his heart. Although his Liu family was backed by the Black Water Gate, they always acted kindly and would not rely on their background to do something unscrupulous. This is also one of the reasons why his Liu family has been able to develop to this level in the past few decades. In the past years, there was never any trick in recruiting workers in the Liu family mine, and every year it attracted many casual cultivators to come to Huangshi Island to mine. But since the mine was handed over to the Black Water Gate for management, everything has changed. The Black Water Gate first greatly increased the mining price, and then frantically recruited a large number of casual cultivators, without considering whether the spirit stones could pay the salaries of these casual cultivators. Liu Wei is such a person, how could he not see the tricks in it? I'm afraid that these casual cultivators who entered will never come out. The three-year period is just an excuse to stabilize them. Elder Liu knows how to operate without thinking. These casual cultivators with no foundation will never meet the monthly ore standard.

Not only that, they will have debts that can never be repaid because of the detoxification pills and the magic tools they provide, and they will work in the mine forever until they die.

The Black Water Gate is a big family, of course, they will not take these casual cultivators seriously. When the time comes, they will collect the ore veins and leave.

But the Liu family can't do that. Their foundation is in Huangshi Island, and the Liu family relies on Liu Wei alone to support it. So far, they have not cultivated a second foundation-building cultivator. Once his lifespan is exhausted, facing the hatred brought by these casual cultivators, the Liu family may not end up well.

The most hateful is the Black Water Gate. For their own reputation, all the recruitment matters are thrown to the Liu family. Outsiders only know that the Liu family is recruiting miners, but they don't know that the Black Water Gate is now in charge of the mine.

After a moment of silence, Lin Li still couldn't stand the pressure from Liu Wei and revealed this person.

"This is not my wish. It was led by Senior Brother Wei. The three of us just agreed. If Elder Liu has any opinions, he can call Senior Brother Wei to ask."

"Hmph, what do you mean by agreed? Can you be exempted from the benefits issued every year? Ridiculous."

"Wei An is so bold, could it be that Senior Brother Wei is also involved..."

At this moment, Elder Liu's face was uncertain, as if he couldn't make a decision about something. Finally, he sighed helplessly and waved to let Lin Li leave.

At this point, Elder Liu also understood the interests involved. This matter was led by Wei An, the head of the four managers of the mine, and entrusted the Liu family to recruit miners at a high price. For each miner recruited, the Liu family would be given a certain amount of spiritual stones according to the cultivation level.

But in fact, they were not going to give the spirit stones to the miners. This was very easy to do. As long as they told the miners to settle the accounts after three years, they could pocket the spirit stones that the Black Water Gate was going to give to the miners.

If the three-year period was up, they would tell the miners that not only did they not earn any spirit stones, but they were also heavily in debt because of the loss of taking detoxification pills and using magic tools. If they wanted to leave, they had to pay off the debts of the mine, but in fact, they could never pay them off.

In this way, the spirit stones issued by the Black Water Gate every year would fall into the hands of the four managers. You should know that there were nearly two hundred cultivators in the entire mine. The spirit stones issued in a year were calculated based on normal salaries, and this was every year.

With such a profit, not to mention the four young people at the peak of Qi Refining, even Liu Wei was a little tempted.

No wonder these juniors would instigate Senior Brother Wei and his friends to seize the right to use the mine. This matter is not difficult, but it is also simple. As long as Elder Liu sends a letter, these juniors will be in trouble for sucking the blood of the Black Water Sect.

But if Senior Brother Wei and his five friends are also involved, then they will offend people, and offend them to death.

Especially Senior Brother Wei, who is in the middle stage of foundation building, is also the direct disciple of the four purple mansion cultivators of the Black Water Sect. There are even rumors that he is the illegitimate son of the Supreme Elder. Although it is just a rumor, there is no doubt that Senior Brother Wei’s status is definitely not low in the heart of the Supreme Elder.

Therefore, he also hesitated whether to report this matter. For the Black Water Sect, which is a big family, this little resource is just a drop in the bucket, but for the four managers, it can be regarded as a huge fortune.

Cutting off their financial resources this time was equivalent to cutting off their career path. Moreover, he was not sure whether Senior Brother Wei was involved. In the end, Liu Wei gave up on reporting the matter to the Black Water Gate.

Since he had made the decision, he would not hesitate., he would not let any of the casual cultivators escape from the entire mine. This matter could not be spread out, as his Liu family could not withstand such a storm.

Thinking that he had not gained a penny of profit and had to deal with several juniors, he felt even more uneasy.

…

At this time, Li Ming was leading Qi Yunxian and others to the depths of the mine.

"Follow me, the mine is complicated and it is easy to lose your direction and get lost in it."

The cave was gloomy and silent. The only light source was a special stone called fluorite embedded on the wall of the cave, which emitted a faint light.

If everyone was not a cultivator, it would be difficult to see with this little light. No wonder the Huangshi mine did not use mortals to mine. It seemed that it was not just because the yellow-brown stone was poisonous.

Everyone followed Li Ming and walked down for about three kilometers in the winding and rugged mine before finally coming to a bright circular cave entrance.

Qi Yunxian had not expected that the mine was so deep and there were many forks along the way. If it weren't for Li Ming leading the way, they wouldn't have been able to get here by themselves.

The circular hole here is about a hundred feet in radius, with several huge night-shining pearls hanging above for lighting. If they appeared in the secular world, they would be priceless treasures, but unfortunately they are only used for lighting in the world of immortal cultivation.

"Oh, Senior Brother Li brought a lot of people this time! Spirit stone rewards are inevitable! We will change shifts in a few days, and you must take Junior Brother out to have a good meal of immortal food. Junior Brother has been depressed for the past few months."

In a stone wall at the entrance of the cave, four disciples of the Black Water Sect filed out. The leader spotted Li Ming and said with a smile,

"Zhao Wei, you have been practicing Taoism for decades, why can't you control your mouth."

Li Ming scolded with a smile,

"Why should you control it? Practicing Taoism is boring, how can you relieve your worries only by drinking Du Kang. Only food and wine are not to be missed, and this is my hobby."

Zhao Wei said seriously.