Beiyin Great Sage

"Crack!"

With a crisp sound, brand new handcuffs were clasped on the wrists.

This is the symbol of the gold digger.

It also declares that the owner of the handcuffs belongs to Batu Caves and cannot control life or death.

The handcuffs are made entirely of fine iron and weigh dozens of kilograms. They are quite stressful for a barbarian with a strong physique.

When I think about it, I may not be able to untie it in the next ten years, my face becomes even more ugly.

"Brother Zhou."

Kang Rong spoke in a low voice:

"When we are not too far apart, we will take care of each other."

"good!"

Although he didn't know the reason, in this unfamiliar place, he had no choice but to trust the only other person he could communicate with.

And he was broke and had nothing to worry about.

After walking through the square, not far ahead, the sound of rumbling water could already be heard. As the distance got closer, the sound of water became louder and louder.

"Wow..."

A turn ahead.

A waterfall of unknown height comes into view.

Under the waterfall,

It's a river.

On the river about twenty to thirty feet wide, a simple, huge and heavy double-decker dragon boat was waiting quietly.

"Get aboard!"

Hanle Yede groaned, tapped the ground with the wooden stick in his hand, and flew straight for more than ten feet as if he were walking through the air.

Floating lightly on the boat.

What a light gong!

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up.

Although he is not good at Qinggong, he can still be proud of many masters in the True Qi Realm with all his strength, but he can only jump up to six or seven feet away.

And it would be unsightly to explode with all your strength.

Even the two innate masters he met had never shown such a method that was like riding the wind.

"Crash..."

A ladder was thrown from the boat and landed on the river bank. A group of 'gold slaves' were driven on board by the Batu Caves disciples.

When there is no one below, the ladder is retracted and the giant ship sails downward.

…………

"Gezi!"

"exist."

"You're in charge of this section."

"yes!"

"May I have your name?"

"Hulula!"

"The next part is your responsibility."

"yes."

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There was constant drinking on the boat.

As a person's name is registered, the 'gold slaves' are driven off the ship one by one and are responsible for panning for gold in this area.

Zhou Yi looked at this scene thoughtfully.

What a 'gold digger' wants to do is to dig for gold.

It's just that this gold is not that gold. In this river called Jinyuan River, there is a kind of red gold sand called "red gold" flowing.

This object is extremely important to Batu Caves.

Because the red gold sand is mixed in the mud and is very inconspicuous, it is not easy to extract it, so there is a saying of gold diggers.

Every gold digger can receive two things when he disembarks from the ship.

A shovel and a dustpan.

Things that look very ordinary, but are also mixed with Qi Refiner's methods. The shovel is extremely hard and the dustpan can last for a long time.

but……

Since Red Sands flows downstream, it must be more advantageous in the upper reaches where the water flow is relatively gentle.

Same reason.

Where waterways are bent and twisted, red sand is often stranded, so such places are relatively more advantageous.

Many people understand this truth, so any gold digger who is placed in a winding place with many waterways has a happy face.

Those placed downstream will have a gloomy expression.

The Jinyuan River does not go straight south, but is distributed in the mountains and forests like a spider web. It is said that there are golden sands in the water area of ​​300 miles.

So every once in a while, someone will choose upstream, and some will choose downstream.

"伱!"

"what is it call?"

When the voice sounded, Zhou Yi's eyebrows tightened subconsciously, and he walked out of the crowd when he heard the voice:

"Zhou Yi."

"Um."

The Batu Cave disciple nodded expressionlessly, waved his hand, and threw the shovel and dustpan set at Zhou Yi's feet, mumbling a lot.

Although Zhou Yi couldn't understand it, he could guess the general meaning. It was nothing more than a warning to turn in the red gold sand on time, otherwise there would be punishment.

He got off the boat honestly with his things, watched the giant ship go away, glanced around, and couldn't help but sigh.

here.

Still have to settle down temporarily.

According to Kang Rong, Batu Caves has supreme authority in this area of ​​thousands of miles, and the escaped slaves have almost no possibility of survival.

No one dared to take in the escaped slaves from Batu Caves.

Moreover, the handcuffs on the hands have the function of tracking and positioning. Once they destroy or leave the designated area of ​​​​Batu Caves, they will be known by Batu Caves disciples.

The inner disciples of Batu Cave are all Qi Refiners.

Exterior doors.

There are many Tianman who are comparable to the innate master.

so.

Zhou Yi's plan to escape as soon as he recovered came to nothing.

However, being a gold digger slave is not without its benefits. Many of the people who came here this time came voluntarily and wanted to find a future.

Being a gold digger means you have a good physique.

You didn't notice that he was weak, but his flesh and blood was swallowed by Hanle Yede's magic. This can also be understood why the barbarians who were traveling with him were so good in physical condition.

Those with poor health cannot be gold diggers.

As the ruler of the Wanli region, joining the Batu Caves is the dream of many barbarians, and becoming a gold digger slave is one of the ways.

And it is the least demanding one.

As long as your physical fitness meets the requirements and you insist on paying the red gold sand in full for ten years, you can become an outer disciple of Batu Cave regardless of your level of cultivation.

But is it really that simple?

Batu Caves recruits gold diggers at least twice a year, with a population of at least five hundred, but very few of them can become outer disciples.

Why is the attrition so severe?

What happened during this period?

Zhou Yi had no way of knowing, but he could guess that getting money was not as simple as imagined.

"That's it!"

"Now that you've come, make peace with it. I have been looking for immortality. Now that immortality is right in front of me, there is no reason to take risks and escape."

"I just don't know when the so-called Kung Fu inheritance will be given?"

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One mile of waterway.

It is about two feet wide, with a thirty-degree curved area in the middle. This is the complex water area of ​​Zhou Yi.

The terrain is not good.

You can tell.

This curved area was not formed congenitally, but was formed after someone dug the water channel day after day to facilitate gold mining.

There are also screens and wooden frames for filtering sediment on the river bank.

There is even a simple thatched house not far away, fully equipped.

Zhou Yi checked the area, walked barefoot to the river beach, randomly picked up a handful of sand and rubbed it in his hands, and actually saw a grain of gold sand.

The red gold sand, which is more golden than ordinary sand, has a unique beauty.

To the touch, it doesn't seem to be hard.

"Uh-huh!"

The sword flashed.

The red golden sand split into two.

The red gold sand, which was not much thinner than a hair, was actually cut open, which is enough to prove the extent of Zhou Yi's sword skills.

But it also shows that red gold sand is not rare because of its hardness.

…………

Holding the shovel in hand, he dug out a shovelful of mud and put it on the dustpan. He held the dustpan in each hand and swung it in the water to wash away the mud with the help of the water flow.

After a while.

A few grains of yellow and reddish red gold sand were picked out.

"Da la la..."

Some golden sand rolled back and forth in the stone mortar. Zhou Yi knelt down and twisted it, shaking his head speechlessly.

"Three days!"

"I only get this little red gold sand in total, at most one pound a month. Unless I even take away the time for rest, it's impossible."

"Is there something wrong with my technique?"

This is the greatest possibility.

Compared to growing mushrooms, he seems to have no talent in gold panning, and gold panning is purely physical work, and his level of cultivation has little impact.

As long as you can endure loneliness, ordinary people can do the same.

Zhou Yi has enough patience, but he doesn't want to waste time on this.

"Da da……"

Footsteps sounded.

Zhou Yi looked up when he heard the sound and saw two barbarians walking out of the forest.

Compared with the gold digger slaves I had seen before, these two were dressed more neatly, and in some aspects they were no different from the common people of the Liang Kingdom.

The two looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward and reached out to grab the red gold sand in the stone mortar.

Um?

Zhou Yi's face darkened.