Chapter 169: The Mine

The demon hunters who dug up this spirit ore won't have to worry about food or drink for ten years. But if it's dug up for the Qian family, the Qian family will expand and will instead bully them.

Although spirit ore is important, the mine tunnels are still the top priority.

After all, the mine tunnels are related to whether everyone can retreat safely. Elder Yu can clearly distinguish between what is important and what is not.

Elder Yu had everyone focus their energy on digging good mine tunnels first. After a few days, when the mine tunnels were dug well and they had a way to escape, the demon hunters would then go back to mining the spirit ore.

Elder Yu played his stingy and miserly skills to the limit. Every day, he wandered around the mine cave doing nothing, digging down every bit of spirit ore on the side of the wall with his finger and putting it into his storage bag.

According to Elder Yu, everything that can be mined must be mined, not leaving a single bit for the Qian family. He would even eat the meat and soup clean, leaving the Qian family to lick the edge of the bowl and still not lick a drop of soup!

Mo Hua looked on with endless admiration.

He only said to be a bit extreme, but he didn't expect it could be so extreme! Truly worthy of being Elder Yu!

Mo Hua benefited greatly.

Elder Yu's movements of digging mine tunnels were also detected by the Qian family cultivators.

Qian Hong knew Elder Yu's plan, so he had already sent people to stare everywhere in Da Hei Mountain, looking for clues about the demon hunters.

It's impossible to dig a mine tunnel without any movement.

And the Qian family did indeed find traces of the demon hunters.

It was a pit cave entrance with broken stones around the edge, and the cave entrance was also covered with grass and wood as a disguise.

Qian Hong sneered in his heart, "Ah Yu Changlin, Yu Changlin, burrowing and digging holes like a mouse, in the end, haven't you still fallen into my hands?"

Qian Hong had people watch, but several days passed and no demon hunters came out.

Qian Hong frowned slightly and instructed Qian Zhuang to lead a team down to take a look.

Qian Zhuang received the order and brought several Qian family cultivators, carefully entering the pit tunnel.

Inside the pit tunnel, it was dark and damp, surrounded by broken stones, indeed looking like it had just been excavated.

Qian Zhuang and the others searched inside for half a day with no gain, seeing neither demon hunters nor any other people's shadows.

Just as Qian Zhuang was in doubt, a Qian family cultivator discovered a section of the stone wall. Its color was lighter, and when tapped with a finger, it would make a sound, indicating that the stone wall was very thin.

The Qian family cultivators looked at each other with excited expressions.

This indicated that behind the stone wall was empty, there was a mine tunnel, and this stone wall was used to deceive people's ears.

That group of demon hunters were hiding behind the stone wall!

Qian Zhuang brought his subordinates and exerted force to chisel open the stone wall.

The stone wall collapsed, filling the air with dust.

After the dust dissipated, they saw a pair of blood-colored vertical pupils the size of copper bells.

Qian Zhuang sucked in a cold breath.

This wasn't demon hunters, this was a late-stage adult demon beast of the first grade!

The demon beast's eyes held a hint of doubt, a hint of anger, and a hint of bloodthirsty joy.

The doubt was why people were in its nest; the anger was because its rest time was disturbed; the joy was that as soon as it woke up, it had things delivered to its door to eat!

Inside the narrow pit cave, the demon beast hunted and ate, and the Qian family cultivators fled for their lives.

When Qian Zhuang and several others miserably saw Qian Hong, their appearance was too miserable to bear.

Qian Zhuang was heavily injured, but thankfully he was at least intact. The other several people were basically missing arms and broken legs, and several of them stayed in that pit cave forever, resting in the demon beast's stomach.

Qian Hong's expression was no longer so calm.

Although he had a very deep city mansion, his heart was extremely angry at this time. He gritted his teeth and said:

"Good for you, Yu Changlin, digging a fake mine tunnel next to a demon beast to deceive me! You're going too far!"

The Qian family disciples all lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

After a while, another Qian family disciple came to report, saying that another mine tunnel had been discovered.

Qian Hong's eye corner twitched, and his heart pondered uncertainly.

This mine tunnel might be real, but similarly, it might also still be a trap deliberately set by Yu Changlin to pit him.

But since it was discovered, it was impossible not to investigate.

Qian Hong ordered several disciples to go again, still instructing them to be careful and guard against demon beasts in the pit cave.

As Qian Hong expected, there was indeed a demon beast inside the pit cave.

The investigating Qian family disciples came back, but not all of them came back.

They were still missing arms and legs, and still lost several lives.

They guarded carefully, but in front of the demon beast, their guard was meaningless.

The pit cave connected to the demon beast's nest, with dim vision and narrow terrain. Cultivators found it inconvenient to advance or retreat, while the demon beast living here was like a fish in water.

Demon beasts were originally more powerful than cultivators of the same realm. Experienced demon hunters hunting demon beasts still had to find a spacious place, several people or even more than ten people, to patiently maneuver with it and surround and kill the demon beast.

Qian family cultivators were not skilled in hunting demons. Entering this kind of narrow, dark nest was basically just going to deliver food.

Their resistance was also just entertainment before the demon beast's meal.

Qian Hong's blood energy gradually surged up, and he wanted to curse Yu Changlin loudly out of hate, but for the dignity of the family master, he still endured it, only his mood could not calm down for a long time.

After the Qian family discovered two more mine tunnels, Qian Hong didn't dare to send people down.

He didn't dare to use the lives of the Qian family disciples to block.

He also finally realized one thing: Yu Changlin was a demon hunter, dealing with Da Hei Mountain his whole life. He was very familiar with everything inside this mountain, not to mention like the back of his hand, but at least he knew much more than him.

Wanting to find the mine tunnel he dug in this mountain was basically equivalent to a foolish person talking in a dream.

And once he found the wrong place, he would have to add several lives. He also couldn't afford this trial and error cost.

It was true that he was the Qian family master, but the Qian family master might not necessarily be him.

Qian Hong's expression was solemn, his brows tightly furrowed.

Qian Zhongxuan watched from the side, continuously sneering in his heart, did he know the power of this old fellow Yu Changlin now?

At present, he actually hoped that Qian Hong would have bad luck.

This time attacking and occupying the spirit ore, the more successful Qian Hong was, relatively speaking, the more of a failure he, Qian Zhongxuan, was.

On the contrary, the more frustrated Qian Hong was, the less conspicuous his loss this time would be.

Qian Zhuang saw Qian Zhongxuan's expression from the side and immediately understood his plan in his heart.

An emotion of heroes seeing slightly the same involuntarily arose in his heart.

"If the family master loses, then Elder Qian's loss won't count for anything. Similarly, because Elder Qian lost, then my loss also won't count for anything..."

"And now that both the family master and Elder Qian have lost, then my loss is even less worth mentioning!"

Qian Zhuang's heart instantly relaxed a lot. The wounds bleeding on his body were also not that painful.

Since they couldn't find the mine tunnels the demon hunters used to escape and couldn't intercept and kill them, all the Qian family could do was attack head-on, break the arrays, and break the stone walls at the cave entrance.

There were seven or eight entrances to the mine cave. The Qian family cultivators divided their ranks well and advanced together, striving to break through them all.

With the Qian family cultivators swarming up like this, the demon hunters who were running out of resources wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

After several days, the Qian family didn't give up chiseling the wall day and night.

Qian Hong's surface was calm, but his heart was as anxious as fire.

He knew that if he was a little later and let Yu Changlin finish digging the spirit ore and run away, then he would have failed this time at the last step!

Along with a booming sound, another stone wall was chiseled collapsed.

Behind the collapsed stone wall, as Qian Hong expected, there was indeed still a third stone wall, and also a third set of arrays!

Qian Hong only felt a surge of anger rush straight to the top of his head, wishing in his heart to dismember the array master who drew this array!

But he was also helpless, only suppressing this anger, closing his eyes, and helplessly waving his hand:

"Continue digging!"

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