Longevity Fairy: Sister, Please Wait A Little Longer

Chapter 19: 019 - Mine No. 17, Starting with These Hundred People

In the Azure Cloud Mountain Range, Mine No. 17, a group of disciples of various heights and sizes carried their hoes and walked up the mountain from below.

The youngest of these disciples were around thirteen or fourteen years old, while the oldest appeared to be in their forties.

The place they lived was neither far nor near to the mine. They woke up at dawn, washed up, and had breakfast. An hour had passed, and according to the schedule, they should have started working. However, the long line of people had only walked halfway.

"Ah~"

One of the disciples yawned and elbowed the person behind him.

"Why did you hit me?"

"I hit you because last night you snored for at least two hours, making a deafening noise. Count for yourself, how many times did I remind you?"

The person was puzzled, "Did you talk to me last night?"

"..."

There was no way, they were too tired, and their eyes were open or closed unconsciously.

The group burst into laughter.

The middle-aged fat man who led them was unhappy and turned his head to shout, "Stop talking! Don't you want to eat? Look at all of you, if you can't complete the tasks assigned by the sect this month, I'll make you mine for another year!"

"Don't, Senior Zhou!"

"Yes, Senior Zhou, we're really tired!"

"Senior Zhou, the sect's tasks are the sect's tasks. As long as we complete the tasks you assigned, it should be enough!"

The middle-aged man leading them was also a disciple, but he had already achieved Qi Refinement and could barely be called a cultivator.

Due to his age, he had gained some weight, and his voice was sharp. He laughed and scolded, "What are you talking about? I can't understand. What tasks did I assign? In Azure Cloud Sect, the largest sect, I'm just supervising your work!

Also, don't come to me with your flattering smiles. You bunch of useless things, have I been giving you good treatment recently?!"

"Yes, yes!"

"That's right!"

Everyone echoed.

But their laughter, noise, mockery, and disdainful expressions were all different.

This group of people had been working in Mine No. 17 for five or six years. If they didn't understand the situation in the mining area, they would be wasting their lives.

The entire Azure Cloud Mountain Range, spanning three thousand miles, belonged to the Azure Cloud Sect. The tasks assigned from above were unknown to the disciples. However, if they wanted to live a good life, showing respect to the overseer was essential.

Otherwise, if the fat man named Zhou found an excuse to make them mine for ten hours a day, they would be worked to death. They were just low-level disciples.

Especially the disciples in the Western Mountain, they were the most exhausted and had the shortest lifespan.

There were people who had thought about rebelling against this, but what would be the point? They were just low-level disciples. Perhaps a few hundred years later, there would be descendants with talent who would become outer disciples, and a few hundred or even thousands of years later, there would be inner disciples.

Perhaps only then would the suffering they endured have meaning.

The mining team continued to climb up, sometimes noisy, facing the morning sun.

Suddenly, someone noticed three figures standing in front of Mine No. 17 and immediately reminded the fat cultivator named Zhou, "Senior Zhou, look!"

The fat man named Zhou, who had a small goatee, heard this and focused his gaze. Indeed, there were three people in front of the dark entrance, but these three were wearing blue robes representing elite inner disciples.

Zhou's eyelids twitched. This was bad!

The Azure Cloud Sect's mountain range spanned three thousand miles, and it was impossible to escape. His fat face immediately filled with an endless smile as he hurriedly ran forward, taking three steps in two, and bowed, "Three senior brothers, I am Zhou Boran, nice to meet you!"

Before he could finish speaking, the inner disciple in the middle, who wore a smiling mask, waved his hand, and the Foundation Building disciples on both sides immediately subdued him.

"Senior brothers, senior brothers!"

They didn't even let him speak and directly took him away. Obviously, something had happened.

Zhou Pangzi didn't want to die. His fat face was pressed against the rough soil as he desperately shouted, "Senior Brother, my uncle is an outer sect disciple. I have been wronged. I want to see my uncle!"

However, in the next moment, he fell silent as a jade waist token engraved with the words "Enforcement Hall" swayed in front of his eyes.

Then, a slightly younger voice sounded, "Enforcement Hall business. You are the first today. Your uncle is next."

Zhou Boran said, "Senior Brother, no, sir, I have truly been wronged!"

The one hundred miscellaneous disciples present clearly witnessed this change. After they approached, they did not receive any new orders and naturally lined up and waited.

The masked man took the Enforcement Hall waist token and came in front of the disciples. He said loudly, "Miscellaneous disciple Zhou Boran, embezzlement of Spirit Vein jade stones, a large amount. I ask, does anyone here have any accomplices?"

No one responded.

The masked man continued, "Since there are none, the Enforcement Hall already has evidence of Zhou Boran's misconduct and is sufficient to punish him. I ask, does anyone have any additional information? According to the sect rules, rewards can be given!"

After speaking, he took a storage bag from his waist, opened it, and it was filled with spirit stones.

The majority of the spirit stones in Azure Cloud Sect were made from the Spirit Vein ores dug out by these disciples every day. They had seen and touched them, but even if all the disciples who had truly possessed them were added together, it still wouldn't be as many as what was in the bag.

Some disciples couldn't help but swallow their saliva, eager to try.

The restrained Zhou Boran roared, "Who dares to frame me? I will make my uncle take his life!"

The masked man was none other than Chu Bai. In order to thank his aunt for her gift and to potentially achieve "great joy of the holy heart," Chu Bai "promoted" the plan for the rise of the outer sect.

The first step of this plan needed to start with the miscellaneous disciples, starting with these one hundred people.

His aunt gave him one month, gave him the Enforcement Hall waist token, gave him a bead that could conceal his cultivation level, and two thousand spirit stones. She also told him that "that problem" would automatically disappear after his Foundation Building.

After one month, his aunt wanted to see results. Otherwise, all the items and spirit stones would be taken back. The automatic elimination might only reach the early to mid Foundation Building stage, or even the Gold Core stage.

Chu Bai kicked him repeatedly, one kick after another.

"Life, life, you dare to demand a life in front of me, adding another crime!"

But there was a saying that the local official was not as good as the current one. Zhou Boran had been investigated in the past few years, and it wouldn't take long for this useless fatty to return unscathed to his position as a supervisor.

Thinking of this, the eager disciples quieted down again.

Zhou Pangzi's mouth and nose were bleeding, unable to fight back, and his appearance became even more ferocious.

He had already made up his mind. He would never admit it. He knew what the Enforcement Hall was, but as long as he didn't admit it, he still had a glimmer of hope.

As for evidence, if there were concrete evidence, the disciples of the Enforcement Hall wouldn't waste time here. Although Zhou Pangzi was useless and greedy, he wasn't stupid.

However,

Chu Bai returned to the hundred miscellaneous disciples and casually threw a spirit stone on the ground.

"Pa da"~

The sound of it landing, a pale green jade stone, square and angular, with a very smooth surface, but after flipping it over a few times, it still had a little dirt on it.

Chu Bai randomly pointed to a disciple and said, "This junior, please pick it up for me."

The person who was pointed at instinctively stood at attention, looked around, and then instinctively picked up the spirit stone from the ground, patting off the dirt and offering it with both hands.

"This spirit stone belongs to you."

Chu Bai nodded, "Don't worry, I gave it to you. With so many people watching, would I, a dignified inner sect disciple, still covet a Low Grade spirit stone?"

After a few breaths, the second spirit stone fell to the ground.

Chu Bai once again randomly selected someone to bend down and pick up the spirit stone, putting it into their own pocket.

The miscellaneous disciples: ???

Could it be that this person was playing with them?

But the miscellaneous disciples were very willing to play this game, after all, it was spirit stones, which could be exchanged for wives in the market at the foot of the mountain!

The third time!

Chu Bai took out ten spirit stones in one breath, "This is the last time I ask. There is a reward of ten spirit stones for reporting Zhou Boran. Do we have any or not?!"

(End of this chapter)