Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

“Hai, forget it. Anyway, there must be a reason why Master did this. We just need to do our jobs properly and watch over these villagers. There's no need to worry about anything else.” After pondering for a moment, Senior Brother Hong couldn't figure anything out, so he simply waved his hand dismissively.

“Hehe, Senior Brother Hong is absolutely right. Master has never been wrong. Following him this time will definitely be right too.” Junior Brother Wen nodded, then, as if he had thought of something else, a strange glint flashed in his eyes, and he chuckled sinisterly: “But if there really isn't a spirit stone mine here, what will happen to these mortals then?”

Hearing this, Senior Brother Hong slowly glanced at the villagers of Vegetable Basket Village who were working, his eyes suddenly turning cold. He said in a cold voice: “Because immortal crystal stones cannot be mined with any magical artifact containing spiritual energy, we need to gather so many mortal laborers. But once it's proven that there's no spirit stone mine here, there's no point in keeping these people. When that time comes, naturally, we'll deal with them like this.”

As he spoke, Senior Brother Hong gestured with his hand, making a throat-slitting motion, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Seeing this, Junior Brother Wen's face became even more ferocious, and he looked at the surrounding mortals, a cold smile appearing on the corner of his lips.

After another two hours, Senior Brother Hong calculated for a while, then stood on a large rock and shouted: “Alright, rest for a quarter of an hour. Go back and eat first. After you've eaten, come back and continue working.”

Hearing these words, the villagers who had been working all morning immediately breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

Only after they had caught their breath did they stand up again and return home in twos and threes to eat.

Seeing this, the black-robed disciples sneered contemptuously, then with a flash of their figures, they flew towards a distant mountain, they also needed to rest.

However, what they didn't notice was that after returning to their respective homes, several villagers secretly slipped out of the back door and gathered in one of the houses.

When they arrived, there were already several people sitting in the hall of the house. A woman in her fifties saw them arrive and immediately brought out a few more benches for them to rest.

These people had been working all morning and were already exhausted, so they didn't refuse and sat down.

“Uncle Zhang, Erwa, you are the village chiefs of our Vegetable Basket Village. We still need to listen to your opinions on this matter. Tell us, what should we do next?”

In the center of the crowd, an old man with gray hair, smoking a dry tobacco pipe, and a sturdy man in his thirties were sitting there with furrowed brows.

Although the years had left their mark on their faces, if you looked closely, you could still see that they were Erwa and Erwa's father from back then.

It turned out that not long after Chen Tian left, Erwa's father became the village chief of Vegetable Basket Village, so everyone was gathered here at this time to discuss countermeasures.

“Cough cough… Cough cough… How many days has it been since Da Niu and the others left?” After putting down his dry tobacco pipe, Erwa's father couldn't help but cough violently.

Although he was already in his fifties, the black-robed men still forced him to participate in mining, which made Erwa's father's body weaker day by day. He could only rely on smoking dry tobacco to relieve the pain all over his body.

Seeing his father coughing so uncomfortably, Erwa quickly walked behind him and gently patted his back, wanting him to feel better.

Seeing this, everyone sighed slightly. One of the villagers in his forties said: “Counting the time, it's been almost ten days. However, in these days, the bodies of some people have been transported back by them one after another. Although we haven't seen Da Niu's body yet, he's probably in mortal danger.”

Speaking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness in their hearts, and they closed their eyes and lamented.

At the beginning, they had spent a lot of effort to send Da Niu and the others out of the mountains, but who would have thought that those black-robed men would be so powerful, using some small yellow paper strips to conjure many swift and fierce beasts, and then capture them all back one by one.

Moreover, the people who were captured back had already been dead for a long time, their bodies were torn and bloody, as if they had been brutally bitten to death by wild beasts.

Every time they thought about it, they would break out in a cold sweat, so they believed that Da Niu was already dead.

For a time, the hall fell into a silence.

“Cough cough… Cough cough cough cough…”

Seeing Erwa's so tenacious appearance, everyone originally wanted to say something more, but in the end, they all closed their mouths.

Time slowly passed in such a dull atmosphere. In the blink of an eye, it was time to go to work again.

Those black-robed men descended from afar again, supervising everyone to work.

At first, everything went smoothly, and nothing happened. But just when those black-robed men had just relaxed their nerves, an unexpected change occurred.

A villager who was carrying stones suddenly fell to the ground as if he was physically exhausted. Seeing this, everyone around him put down the tools in their hands and gathered around him.

“Hmm? What's going on? Junior Brother Wen, come with me and take a look.”

Senior Brother Hong was puzzled when he saw this scene, so he took Junior Brother Wen beside him and flew towards the place where the accident happened. At the same time, the other black-robed men also gathered around, wanting to see what had happened.

However, just when everyone was in a chaotic mess, a burly figure suddenly rushed out from behind a boulder and fled towards the dense mountain forest ahead.