Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

The two men walked through the collapsed area and entered. After taking a few steps, they found many corpses sitting and lying on both sides of the passage. They were all soldiers in armor. They died in a horrible way, with their eyes wide open and bite marks all over their bodies, as if they had been torn apart by something. They were extremely thin and looked as if they had starved to death.

After walking less than fifty meters, the passage in front collapsed again. The two began to dig the passage again. It took them three hours to finally dig it through.

After entering the passage, Zhang Chen saw many corpses lying on the ground in a mess. A bloody smell filled his nose. Unlike the previous corpses, these were basically civilians in tattered clothes, young and old. After a closer look, Zhang Chen found that they had obvious knife scars on their bodies or necks.

Sima Feng also looked at the corpses with a unhappy expression.

"They don't even spare their own people. How cruel."

The two continued to walk forward, and the passage began to go downward. The further they walked forward, the richer the spiritual energy Zhang Chen felt, and he couldn't help but become excited.

Soon after passing a corner, the road began to narrow. The two walked slowly forward and soon reached the end. In front of them was a huge earth wall, which was unremarkable.

There were dense traces of digging on the earth wall. If Zhang Chen had not sensed that the spiritual energy was coming from inside, he would have thought he had found the wrong place.

"right here?"

Sima Feng looked at the earth wall and asked doubtfully.

"Yes, let's dig it first."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he took out a digging tool from his storage bag, which he had picked up when he passed by the corpses just now, and then started digging at the earth wall.

Seeing this, Sima Feng also took out his tools and joined in. For a while, there were constant banging sounds in the cave. The earth wall looked the same as ordinary land, but the hardness was very different. Zhang Chen dug for a while and suddenly felt that he had hit a harder object, so he slowly dug around it.

Soon, a fist-sized piece of ore was dug out by Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen took the ore and observed it. It was obviously the same as the one found in Xiao Ta's secret room.

Then he used the magic sword to split the ore, and an egg-sized magic stone appeared, and a spiritual energy immediately spread.

"Haha, it's really a spirit stone mine."

Zhang Chen was very excited. With these, he didn't have to go back to the sect.

Sima Feng also dug out a few pieces of ore at this time. After splitting them open, they were full of sparkling spiritual stones. The two of them were excited and looked at each other in ecstasy.

Then the two continued digging. After an hour, more than a hundred pieces of ore had piled up in front of them. They were panting and covered in sweat.

"Mining is really hard work."

Sima Feng sat on the ground, breathing heavily and resting.

Zhang Chen walked to the excavated ores, took out his magic sword and began to split the ores one by one. In less than a moment, all the ores were split open and more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones were obtained.

Zhang Chen put the spirit stone into the storage bag and said to Sima Feng:

"Let's go out first."

"Go out? Stop digging?"

Sima Feng looked at Zhang Chen in confusion.

"Mining is a long-term thing. There is no need to rush. We need to think of a way to prevent others from finding out about what is happening here."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he walked out and Sima Feng followed him.

"Yes, we can't mine all of this in a short time, so we should think of a long-term strategy."

Sima Feng said from behind.

Soon the two men came out of the cave and came outside. It was getting dark, and they soon reached the valley entrance. Zhang Chen found that there was no one there. He went to the No. 1 mine tunnel and saw that everyone had run away.

At this moment, Zhang Chen and Xiaobai were the only ones left in the valley. They walked out of the valley, and Zhang Chen prepared to call Xiaobai out.

"Isn't it just right now? Now that they have all run away, this place has become our territory. We can dig for spiritual stones without any worries."

Sima Feng saw that Zhang Chen had a heavy face and seemed to be worried about something.

"With so many people leaving the valley, the news here will soon leak out. Although they don't know about the spirit stone mine, I'm afraid our identities can't be hidden. If other Taoists who practice immortal cultivation come here to investigate, I'm afraid they will find clues."

Zhang Chen became a little worried when he thought of this.

"What should we do? Should we hurry up and dig more now?"

Sima Feng suggested.

"Don't worry, I'll think about it."

Zhang Chen said as he walked.

They soon arrived at where Xiaobai was hiding. Zhang Chen called out, and Xiaobai immediately came out from the grass and swam to their side.

"I've thought of a way. Let's go back now."

Suddenly Zhang Chen said to Sima Feng.

"any solution?"

Sima Feng followed behind and asked.

"We will destroy all the mine tunnels so that others can't guess our intentions. Then we will build a passage that only we know about for entry and exit. We can't live here either. We have to find a hidden place and then come back quietly to dig for spirit stones."

Zhang Chen told us his solution.

"That sounds reasonable. Let's do it this way. We can destroy all the mine tunnels and make those people think that we are just trying to save the miners."

Sima Feng said thoughtfully.

The two then began to re-enter the valley, first coming to the No. 1 mine tunnel. Starting from the depths, Zhang Chen continuously used the magic sword to swing the sword light to collapse the passages one by one.

Then it was Channel No. 2. There was no one to clean up the dead soldiers, so the two men threw them into the mine tunnel, destroyed the passage and buried them inside.

The last one was No. 3. The two did not rush to destroy the passage. Instead, after careful observation, Zhang Chen ordered Xiaobai to drill a hole from the inside to the outside. They drilled a new big hole that led directly to a hidden bush somewhere outside the valley. Then the two destroyed the No. 3 mine tunnel and burned all the buildings in the valley. Then they left. It took the two a full ten days to do all this, and most of the time was spent on Xiaobai digging holes.

In a forest ten miles away from the valley entrance, Zhang Chen and Sima Feng built a house with wood, and they began to practice here.

Zhang Chen practiced in the house almost every day, while Sima Feng often competed with Xiaobai. Sima Feng did not use weapons and could not win against Xiaobai at all. Xiaobai was big in size, fast in speed, and had terrifying strength. Every time Sima Feng was knocked away by Xiaobai's tail, or was entangled by Xiaobai, and his bones were squeezed and crackled.

But as time went by, Sima Feng's strength gradually grew. He lasted longer and longer in the contest with Xiaobai, and he also received a lot of inspiration from Xiaobai's attacks.

Just like that, a year later, Zhang Chen opened his eyes from his practice and exhaled a breath of turbid air. Zhang Chen felt it and a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Eighth level of Qi Condensation."