When I take my cultivation to the extreme

Chapter 66 Take refuge
On the sixth day when Li Fan went down to the mine, he understood the meaning of Xu Ling's smile.

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Golden Leaf Island Mine.

The Xu family's temporary camp in the mine.

The temporary camp is located in the former Lingshi Mine. Not far from here is the cave leading to the underground world.

The camp is not big. Counting the miner monks from Li Fan, there are more than fifty people in total, most of whom are seventh-level monks in the Qi Refining Stage.

There are wooden huts where miners live, all with four people per room, but there are a few small wooden huts with one person per room, which are reserved for foremen and supervisors.

On weekdays, what the monks in the mine do is to go in from the entrance of the cave and look for valuable ores in the dark, deep, and mysterious cave.

The crypt is the entrance to the underground world.

After Li Fan had been here for a few days, he roughly understood the structure of this cave.

The inside of the cave is like a honeycomb. It is not a plane, but a whole. There are caves and tunnels in it. The tunnels connect up, down, left, right and all directions. They are densely packed and it is very easy to get lost.

Getting lost in a cave is no small matter.

In the caves, there are also cross roads, and if you are not careful, you can easily get lost in them.

Although the miner monks of the Xu family are facing a huge underground world like the burrow, their activities are still limited to a certain area. They only go deeper when they can't find ore.

The distribution of ores in the caves is also very random. It does not mean that the higher the level, the easier it is to find ores.

In fact, mining here relies not so much on strength as on luck. Treasures of heaven and earth can be found on the seventh level of Qi refining, and nothing can be found on the tenth level of Qi refining.

In the burrow, there is also a kind of underground alien monster with scales on its body and low intelligence. Its strength is generally equivalent to that of a fifth-level body refining monk in the Qi refining stage. There are also some stronger ones. This alien monster uses the burrow as its base. Although the nests are usually very rare, there are seven or eight of them once encountered, which is a great threat to the low-level Qi Refining monks.

In addition to the underground monsters, once you leave the camp, there are monks and fellow workers who were chatting and laughing in the cave. After you collect the precious ore, they may turn into beings more terrifying than the underground monsters at any time.

Although the Xu family explicitly prohibits fighting and robbery among miners and monks, the authority of the Xu family obviously cannot reach the depths of the cave. Therefore, if you want to survive in the Jinye Island mine, you mainly have to find a way to protect yourself.

And the reason why Li Fan understood Xu Ling's meaningful smile on the first day he came was also because of this.

It was the sixth day that Li Fan entered the mine.

Camp.

Li Fan is in an independent wooden house.

This wooden house was rented by him for ten spiritual stones a month.

Compared with this simple environment, this is quite expensive, but don't dislike it. The independent wooden house in this mine can be rented even if there is a spiritual stone. Li Fan is a miner monk because of his obvious strength. Only two masters have this qualification.

Li Fan has a lot of secrets, and he still needs to practice. He has a need for independent space, which is not necessarily different from others.

Li Fan was in the wooden house. He had just finished practicing for a week and was about to take the elixir before going down to the cave to look for Yuan Jade Marrow. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Li Fan said briefly.

The door opened and Hai Dongfeng walked in.

"Brother Fan, are you resting?"

"I brought a few people here. They want to ask Brother Fan for something."

"Brother Fan, why don't you listen?"

Hai Dongfeng said.

Li Fan glanced at him.

Hai Dongfeng is a man with great aura from all over the world. After entering the mine, he has been contacting people everywhere. He also has certain strength himself, and he soon became a well-informed and well-connected person.

This person has always respected Li Fan, and he always smiles when meeting him.

As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person, Li Fan and Hai Dongfeng have no conflict of interest, and their relationship is relatively harmonious.

Li Fan nodded and looked at those people.

These people are submissive.

"Speak directly." Hai Dongfeng urged.After listening to his words, the leader, a miner monk in his 50s, gritted his teeth, bowed and handed over his hands, and said: "Brother Fan, the five of us will voluntarily give Brother Fan [-]% of the daily ore exploration!"

"I just ask Brother Fan for protection!"

With him taking the lead, the four miner monks behind him also bowed and saluted together: "Please protect me, Senior Fan."

Li Fan was surprised.

"Why did this happen?" Li Fan asked as he glanced at Hai Dongfeng standing next to him.

Among the several miner monks standing there, one stood up and spoke clearly: "Senior Fan doesn't know something. We were bullied severely by the mine tyrant Cao Jian, and Cao Jian is also at the tenth level of Qi refining stage. We resisted. No, I can’t bear this tone anymore.”

"I have been observing for a few days and saw that you are a decent person and have enough strength, senior, so I asked Brother Hai, who is close to senior, to ask senior Fan to support us."

"Of course, we are also sensible and are willing to pay [-]% of the ore output as a reward for our seniors."

Someone started the conversation, and the people behind started talking.

Li Fan probably understood.

It turned out that among the miner monks from the Xu family, there was a monk named Cao Jian, who was at the tenth level of Qi refining.

This can only be said to be the backbone on the outside, but in the closed area of ​​the mine, it is the top strength.

Relying on his own strength, Cao Jian gathered several miner monks who leaned towards him and formed a small gang, and then became the mine tyrant of the mine.

Among the other monks, those with the strongest strength at the seventh and eighth levels of Qi Refining are no match for Cao Jian.

Cao Jian forced others to wait and gave him [-]% of the ore produced every day.

And this person also took the path of the Xu family's supervisor, and the Xu family turned a blind eye to this matter.

After all, the spiritual stones that the miners received were promised by the Xu family, and there was no benefit to the supervisors' execution, but Cao Jian could share the spiritual stones with the supervisors.

In this way, it is not considered a violation, and the supervisor of the Xu family is happy with it.

Cao Jian's actions aroused dissatisfaction among the miners, but no one was Cao Jian's opponent. Due to the contract, the miner monks were not allowed to go out for two years, so they had to endure it.

Now, when Li Fan came here, some miners heard that he was also at the tenth level of Qi Refining, and they became interested.

After observing for a few days, I felt that Li Fan seemed to be a good person, so some miner monks boldly came to join him.

After Li Fan understood the whole story, he laughed in surprise.

"Haha, this can be considered. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes."

"The Xu family's gold leaf mine is small, but there are also people who build a dojo in a snail shell and compete for power."

Li Fan thought.

He wanted to refuse, but suddenly his heart moved.

"How many of you have come to seek refuge with me?" Li Fan asked.

The miner monk who spoke just now felt happy when he heard this and said: "We are the most dissatisfied with Cao Jian. Among the rest, there are still people who suffer from this mining tyrant, but they dare not express their stance easily."

"If senior is willing to stand up for me, I think more and more people will come over after seeing it. There will be about 30 people."

Li Fan nodded.

"it is good."

"When you are outside from now on, just tell me my name."

"Besides, I don't want [-]% of your ore income. You can pay [-]% of the income, and these are not for me, but for the supervisory monks of the Xu family." Li Fan said.

"Seriously?" The miner monk was overjoyed when he heard this.

After a moment, he looked puzzled again and asked: "Senior may be kind-hearted, but where are your interests?"

"When you come to the Golden Leaf Mine, you can't really do it for public service and not for money, right?"

"Haha, this is exactly what I want to say." Li Fan said, "I don't want the usual ore profit sharing, but everyone who names me remember that if you find Yuan Chalcedony, this thing can only be counted as mine. In your name, not in your place.”

(End of this chapter)