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Barren Mountain is a continuous mountain range.

The main peak, the highest in the mountain range, is where the Barren Sect is located. The other peaks also hide abundant resources; among them, there is even a Profound Stone vein!

Several Innate Realm Completion martial artists from the Liang faction are responsible for guarding this Profound Stone vein, including Xue Xi.

Xu Ming came to mine with the joyful feeling of picking up money, but when he saw Xue Xi at the entrance of the mine, he immediately felt like he saw a pile of **** at the entrance of the "treasury".

"Hmph!" Xue Xi sneered, "I thought you would be tough and not come to do this sect mission. I didn't expect you to come and mine obediently!"

Xu Ming was too lazy to pay attention to this gatekeeper who only knew how to bark but not bite, and walked directly into the mine.

Xue Xi's voice rang out again: "By the way, Xu Ming, I thought you wouldn't come to mine, so I forgot to tell you—because you have no respect for your elders, the elder has approved doubling the difficulty of your sect mission!"

Xue Xi sneered: "The mission reward is still three hundred contribution points, but... you have to mine out twenty thousand low-grade Profound Stones!"

Twenty thousand?

Xu Ming only glanced at Xue Xi coldly and ignored him.

Not to mention twenty thousand, even two hundred thousand or two million, Xu Ming didn't care—anyway, Xu Ming wouldn't hand over a single one of these mined Profound Stones.

"It seems a bit too ruthless to not hand over a single one..." Xu Ming thought, "After all, I'm here to mine, so I can't not mine out any results; then... when I go out, I'll hand them... one!"

When Xu Ming entered the mine, there were already many outer sect disciples working inside.

These outer sect disciples, while diligently using the iron picks in their hands to dig at the hard stone walls, complained:

"Damn it, the Liang faction in the sect really knows how to abuse their power, always forcing us outer sect disciples to help them mine, and the contribution points they give are pitifully small!"

"That's right, that's right, we outer sect disciples who belong to the Liang faction are really unlucky!" Someone immediately echoed, "The outer sect disciples of the Gu faction are more comfortable. No one ever forces them to mine; and even if they do mine, their rewards are much higher than ours!"

"That's right, that's right!"

"Eh, isn't this..." When these outer sect disciples saw who was coming in, they couldn't help but be stunned.

"Xu Ming?"

"The number one person who passed the mountain gate this year, Xu Ming?"

"Are you 'Palm God' Xu Ming?" An outer sect disciple asked weakly.

Xu Ming didn't expect to run into fans even when mining, so he greeted them a little embarrassedly: "So many people are mining..."

"You're really Xu Ming?" Seeing that Xu Ming didn't deny it, everyone quickly confirmed Xu Ming's identity. After all, Xu Ming is the number one celebrity among the new disciples this year, and many people know him, so there's nothing strange about it.

"Uh, yes." Xu Ming didn't have anything to hide from the "coworkers" who were mining, and anyway, Xu Ming didn't think that mining was anything shameful.

Seeing that it was really Xu Ming, the coworkers were even more curious: "Brother Ming, why are you mining too? Aren't you inner sect disciples never assigned to mining?"

Xu Ming didn't have anything to hide: "Damn it, I was tricked here!"

"The Liang faction?" The coworkers immediately guessed.

"Need you ask?" Xu Ming said, "By the way, are you all new disciples this year?"

"There are new disciples, but more are old disciples..." There was complaint in the voices of the coworkers.

"Old disciples?" Xu Ming was a little curious, "Didn't they say that old disciples generally don't come to mine, but go to do other sect missions?"

"Alas! Isn't it because we were tricked by the Liang faction... They stipulated that we outer sect disciples must mine enough three thousand Profound Stones before we can accept other sect missions this year; otherwise, they won't give us missions to accept..."

Knowing that Xu Ming was also tricked in by the Liang faction, these outer sect disciples didn't have so many scruples when speaking, and they poured out their bitterness.

Xu Ming suddenly thought: "This vein is the Liang faction's, and has nothing to do with the Gu faction?"

"Yes! The Gu faction's veins are in other places, don't you know?"

"So it has nothing to do with the Gu faction..." Xu Ming muttered to himself, "I originally thought that the Gu faction also had a share in this vein; I even felt that if I mined away too many Profound Stones, I would be a little embarrassed! Since it is a vein exclusive to the Liang faction, then..."

Xu Ming decided: "From now on, I will eat, drink, shit, and sleep all in the vein! I will mine the vein empty! I will stop working when I mine it empty!"

Thinking of this, Xu Ming's eyes flashed with Profound Stones again: "I don't know how many Profound Stones there will be if I mine the entire vein... Anyway, it won't be few, that's for sure. If it was few, it wouldn't be possible to support the entire Liang faction!"

"Well then, brothers, you guys go ahead, I'll go to the depths of the vein to mine!" Xu Ming said goodbye.

The outer sect disciples watched Xu Ming's departing figure: "Brother Ming is really approachable!"

"That's right, tsk tsk, that demeanor... unlike those other inner sect disciples, each one of them with their noses in the air, acting like hotshots!"

"Don't look at those inner sect disciples acting all high and mighty, believe it or not, in front of Brother Ming, they wouldn't even dare to fart?"

"That's for sure..."

Going deep into the mine, Xu Ming realized why the outer sect disciples were mining in the outer areas of the mine, and not going to the depths of the mine where there were more Profound Stones.

The Profound Qi in the depths of the mine was too violent and chaotic. The outer sect disciples, who were not even at the Innate Realm, could not support themselves here for a long time, let alone mine. The outer sect disciples could only slowly mine the Profound Stones in the outer areas first, and then gradually encroach into the depths of the mine step by step.

"No one comes here, and I'm the only one, so it's all the more convenient!" If there were people, Xu Ming would have to consider how to cover his tracks; now that he was alone, he could do whatever he wanted!

Feeling the rich aura of Profound Stones in the stone wall, Xu Ming only wanted to say: "They're all mine!!!"

Then, Xu Ming excitedly raised the iron pick in his hand.

Just as he was about to chisel, Xu Ming frowned: "Wait! To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools; how can this broken equipment work?"

Xu Ming casually threw away this "top-grade ordinary iron" level iron pick, and then plunged into the Divine Item Shop to search.

In a moment, Xu Ming had a golden pickaxe in his hand: "A middle-grade treasure-level iron pickaxe, I'm afraid no miner's equipment is so luxurious, right!"

An iron pickaxe that actually reached the middle-grade treasure level... Xu Ming was also quite dedicated!

But it must be said that a middle-grade treasure-level iron pickaxe is just different!

With a casual dig from Xu Ming, the hard stone wall seemed as fragile as tofu. With a "tearing" sound, the stone wall was torn open, revealing the sparkling Profound Stones inside.

Xu Ming's eyes were lit up by these Profound Stones: "Profound Stones... Profound Stones... They're all mine! Hahahaha..."