Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning said: "The defenses are quite tight, Senior Brother Jiang, has there been any situation in our team where mining monks took spiritual stones out privately?"

"In all the years I have been in the team, a similar incident has only happened once. This person made a wound on his stomach, then stuffed the spirit stone into the stomach opening and took it out. He was finally discovered and was killed on the spot. Since then, , our team has issued a new rule. All monks who mine spiritual stones must undergo a strip inspection when going out. "Junior brother Tang, do you want to take a look at the mining conditions inside?"

Tangning nodded and said hello, and the two pushed the door open and entered. An area of ​​two miles in radius was a huge pit, and several hundred feet deep had been mined below.

Inside, dozens of Qi-refining monks dressed in white singlets were digging bit by bit into the hard stone wall with swords and other magical weapons. There were many luminous beads around, illuminating the deep pit that was originally invisible. Very bright.

In addition to the busy crowd, there is an eye of heaven and earth above that monitors everything around it.

The arrival of the two people immediately attracted everyone's attention. The monks around them stopped their work and looked at the two people.

A man with rosacea was sitting cross-legged on one side. After seeing the two of them, his expression changed. He immediately stood up and walked quickly to salute Jiang Xinquan.

Tang Ning said: "You are the person responsible for supervising the progress of spiritual stone mining here, right?"

"Yes." The man replied.

"How many spiritual stones were mined today?"

"Senior, there is no official statistics yet, so we don't know how many spirit stones there are yet."

"Where are the spiritual stones excavated today? Where are they placed?"

"It's all in a wooden frame that the individual carries with him."

Tangning turned around and saw that each person was carrying a wooden frame. He immediately walked towards the monk closest to him.

The monk saw him walking towards him, with uneasiness and a hint of fear in his eyes.

"Greetings, senior."

"What's that in your hand?"

"Senior, this is the spiritual stone that I just dug out."

"Show it to me."

"Yes." The man handed him a black stone the size of a sandbag.

Tang Ning took it and looked at it carefully. The stone was very hard and a piece had been chipped away by the sword. There was a little red light inside, and it could be seen that there was a high-grade spiritual stone wrapped inside.

Because the spirit stone is wrapped in rock and has long been integrated with it after years of weathering, you need to be very careful when digging it, and remove the rock covering the surface of the spirit stone bit by bit, like peeling off a cocoon.

The whole process must be very careful, not only to keep the spirit stone as crystal clear as a hibiscus, but also to keep the spirit stone intact. If a small hole is accidentally pierced, the spirit stone will be damaged. The spiritual power contained in the stone will leak out and eventually turn into powder.

Therefore, it is necessary to implement a commission reward and punishment system. If you only receive a fixed salary, the miners will fish in troubled waters, and the employees will not work as hard as they can, resulting in damage to the spiritual stones. In the end, the owner of the spiritual mine will lose.

In fact, mining spiritual stones is not difficult, but it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job, so it is always done by recruited low-level monks.

Tangning handed the stone back to him: "How many complete spiritual stones can you mine in a day?"

The man replied: "If you are lucky, you can pick more than ten or twenty pieces a day. If you are not lucky, you can only pick five or six."

Tang Ning glanced at the wooden frame he was carrying behind him and saw that six or seven crystal-clear red spirit stones had been turned inside. She nodded and returned to Jiang Xinquan without asking any more questions: "Senior Brother Jiang, what did you say earlier?" Isn’t it said that there are a hundred Qi Refining monks in our team responsible for mining spiritual stones? Why are there dozens of people here? Is there another mining area?”

"One hundred people is the total number of people. They are divided into three batches, day and night. Each batch contains more than 30 people, one round per month."

Tangning asked the man next to her: "The mining depth of fifty feet is stipulated every year. How do you control the progress?"

"Senior, please follow me." The man led him to the stone wall on the left, pointed to the carved lines on the stone wall and said: "Senior, please see, every time I dig a foot deep, I will mark it, and I will dig up to Four feet, work will stop.”

"The mining area with a radius of two miles has been turned into thirty small areas of equal size by the juniors. Each small area is about ten feet in size."

"Today we will mine this small area, only four feet deep, and tomorrow we will mine another small area. You can adjust the progress faster or slower."

Tang Ning followed what he pointed at and saw that there was a clear scratch on the stone wall almost every foot high, and there were also many criss-crossing carvings on the ground, dividing the entire mining area into many clear-cut lines. small area.

"It must be rigorous and no mistakes can be made."

"yes."

Tang Ning asked many mining-related questions in detail, and the man answered them one by one.

"Junior brother Tang, let me take you to see the storage hall of our spiritual mine!" Jiang Xinquan said at the right time.

"good."

The two came out of the mining area. Outside the green wall, Cheng Qian was standing waiting. When he saw the two coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"Do you have corresponding records on the number of spiritual stones excavated every day in the mining area?" Tangning asked.

"Yes." Cheng Qian turned his hand and took out a file and handed it to him: "This is the number of spiritual stones excavated last month. Please take a look at it, uncle."

Tangning took it and took a look at it, and the items on it were clearly listed.

The total amount of spiritual stones excavated every month and the quantity excavated by each person were recorded, with the signatures of all excavators.

Cheng Qian explained at the side: "These files are in duplicate. One is kept with the disciples, and the other is given to senior brother Yan Ming when it is sent to the storage hall. Each file has the signature of the disciple, and the signature of the corresponding excavator. signature."

"Because these recruited excavation monks are rewarded with a commission. For every high-grade spiritual stone excavated, they will be rewarded with fifty spiritual stones. Therefore, they need to sign for confirmation. They will receive the corresponding rewards with this signed file every year to avoid unclear financial matters. Chu.”

Tangning nodded and returned the file to Cheng Qian: "How often should these mined spirit stones be delivered to the storage hall of the spirit mine?"

Cheng Qian said: "We will count them once a month and send them to the storage hall. Since the Qi Refining monks who dig the spiritual mines are divided into three groups, one every month, we always send them once a month."

"For example, this month the first team is responsible for mining and excavating spiritual stones. Then all the members of the first team this month must stay within the bluestone wall of the mining area and are not allowed to go out. They cannot leave until the spiritual stones are delivered at the end of the month and the signatures are postponed. ”

Tang Ning asked, "Are you here to supervise the mining of spiritual stones on weekdays?"

"Yes, the disciple's dormitory is there." Cheng Qian pointed to a wooden house in the distance and said: "The disciple will go around the mining area during his free time to ensure the smoothness of the mining affairs. Occasionally, when he goes out, There will also be people to replace you.”

"That being the case, I'm relieved. You will still do your own thing from now on. You will still do what you did before."

"yes."

"Senior Brother Jiang, let's go! Go to the Storage Hall to have a look."

The two people immediately escaped from the light and walked five to six hundred miles to the southwest, arriving at the top of a majestic mountain peak. The entire mountain peak was shrouded in a curtain of light.

Jiang Xinquan turned over his hand and handed the talisman in. Soon, the light curtain melted to create a gap, and several rays of light flashed out from inside. Yan Ming led three men out, bowed and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to the master."

"I'll take Junior Brother Tang to familiarize himself with the storage conditions of the spiritual mines. You can lead the way!"

"Yes." A group of people filed into the inner room and came to a stone cliff. Yan Ming turned his hand, took out a red flagpole and pointed it towards it.

The flagpole's light rose sharply, and a red light shot onto the stone wall. There was a loud roar, and the entire cliff moved to both sides, revealing a majestic and majestic hall inside.

There are many stone boxes on display in the hall, and there is a note on each stone box, displaying the number of spiritual stones in the stone box. Above there are two golden eyes as big as two feet, which emit a dazzling light and sweep over the bodies of several people.

Yan Ming pulled out a stack of files from under the desk and handed them to Tang Ning with both hands: "This is all the spiritual stones mined in the spiritual mines this year. Please take a look at it, uncle."

Tang Ning took the file, which contained dozens of files.

The number of spirit stones mined every month has corresponding records, and is accompanied by the signature and signature of Cheng Qian, the disciple in charge of spirit mining.

It is exactly the same as the file I saw before from Cheng Qian.

"Will the spiritual stones excavated every month in the spiritual mining area be sent here?"

"yes."

"How many spiritual stones are there in total here?"

"So far, a total of 7,652 high-grade spiritual stones have been excavated this year."

Tang Ning put away the file and walked to a stone box. She opened the stone box and took a look. Inside, the crystal-clear red spiritual stones were neatly arranged.

"When will the brigade come to collect the excavated spiritual stones?"

"At the end of every year, people will be sent to transport away the spiritual stones quarried this year. In addition to these spiritual stones, our team also has two third-level Yuanling ships for transportation. Master, do you want to check it out?"

"Has the formation plate for entering and exiting this peak always been in your hands?"

"Yes, if the disciple goes out, he will return the formation disk to Master Jiang."

"Can anyone enter this palace besides you?"

"Only disciples can open the cantilevered stone wall restrictions on the periphery. If others penetrate the restrictions without permission, the array disk in the disciple's hand can also sense it."

"The spiritual stones stored in these stone boxes must also be checked regularly to prevent loopholes from being taken advantage of. If the spiritual stones were stolen quietly and we didn't know anything about it, I'm afraid you and I would have to go to jail. "

"Yes, these stone boxes, every time the disciple opens the stone wall restriction, he will check whether the spiritual stones inside are missing."