"Who are you?"

"I am also a casual cultivator nearby. Like you, I want to come and dig something."

"Are you here to steal the mine too?" Hou Dongsheng asked in a low voice.

"Hehe... How can this be called stealing? Things that are born and raised are called picking up." Liao Daoyuan said with a smile.

"How long have fellow Taoists been digging here?"

"just came."

"Didn't you see any monks guarding the island?"

"I didn't see it. I was the only one when I went to the island."

"Seriously." Liao Daoyuan looked surprised.

"Yeah." Hou Dongsheng turned his head and swung the shovel to dig.

I don't know which unlucky monk this shovel belongs to. After it was taken out of the storage bag, it was thrown into the mortal world like garbage. I didn't expect that it could be used to show off today.

"Fellow Taoist, you don't know how to look at mines," Liao Daoyuan said with a glance.

"Is there any significance to this?"

"Nonsense! People have meridians, and mines have veins. If you keep digging around without looking for veins, what will you find?"

"Please ask fellow Taoist to teach me." Hou Dongsheng suddenly became interested and said humbly.

"Hehe... you have a pure heart for seeking the truth. I will teach you to be a good boy."

"If you want to find a vein, you must first look for a mine. If you want to find a mine, you must first observe its spirit and its energy..." the old man said, shaking his head.

Hou Dongsheng: "Jing Qi Shen?"

"Exactly! People have spirit, and so do mines."

"Then how do you observe its spirit and spirit?"

"Of course it depends on the appearance, facial features, and charm."

"People can see it this way, but so can mines?"

"Of course, you are now in the nostrils of this Huoling mine. No matter how much you dig, you will still get boogers. Come with me and I will teach you how to find the mine."

The two of them exited the small cave and soon stood on the highest mound.

The old man's eyes were as bright as a torch. He pointed to an inconspicuous pit and said, "Look, that's the mine. If you dig in there, you'll definitely be able to dig out phosphorus ore."

"How did fellow Taoist see it?" Hou Dongsheng asked.

"Hehe... There are traces of digging there. It is obviously a cave that was sealed after the Demon Flame Gate was dug. This is definitely a mine and cannot be escaped."

Hou Dongsheng took a closer look, and there was indeed something strange there. Logically, it should be a stone wall, but it turned out to be a pit, which was obviously backfilled.

Mining backfill…

You old man, why are you trying to fool me by looking at your facial features?

Hou Dongsheng originally wanted to learn from this old man the knowledge of taking pulses and finding acupoints, but unexpectedly he learned nonsense.

Hou Dongsheng came to the pit with a shovel and dug the pit with the old man.

"Hey...what do you call fellow Taoist?" Liao Daoyuan asked.

"Hou Dongsheng."

"I'm Liao Daoyuan."

"Oh..." Hou Dongsheng responded lightly and continued digging in the soil.

"Young Taoist Hou has great hands and can move the earth like flying. My old bones can't compare with that."

"Then take a break and I'll dig."

"Okay, thank you so much, fellow Taoist."

"If I dig it out, it will be mine." Hou Dongsheng said while digging.

Liao Daoyuan chuckled and quickly agreed: "Of course, the rules of casual cultivators are that whoever picks up good things belongs to them. Let's be harmonious and make money."

"Tsk tsk... This is the Fire Lin Mine. There used to be monks from the Demon Flame Sect's foundation building period guarding it. Why? It's gone now?"

"I heard that the Demon Flame Sect sold this place to the Tianqing Sect. Maybe the Taoist priests from the Tianqing Sect haven't come over yet."

"Then do you know when the Taoist priests from Tianqingmen will come?"

"How do I know this?"

The shovel in Hou Dongsheng's hand was of good quality. A large amount of soil was dug up and down, and a deep pit was quickly dug.

"Good fellow! Fellow Taoist, you are really amazing. In just a few breaths of time, you can dig a hole deep for one person."

Hou Dongsheng: "I can dig alone. Don't come down, you will be in the way."

"Okay." Liao Daoyuan patted the storage bag, took out a pair of old wine and drank it.

Hou Dongsheng, who was digging in the soil, raised his head and said, "Bring me a pot too."

"Aren't you digging?"

"I'm hungry for wine."

“Can a gourd still be craving for wine?”

"Give me a pot, I'll share some with you when I dig some ore."

"Okay." Liao Daoyuan patted the storage bag and took out a pot of old wine.

Hou Dongsheng took the old wine and stuffed it directly into the small gourd on his waist.

"Hey...storage gourd? This is quite rare."

"I bought it from a street stall."

"What about the storage space?"

"It's almost like a storage bag."

"How much did it cost?"

"80 spiritual stones."

"Hehe...it's really worth it." Liao Daoyuan chuckled, picked up the wine bottle and poured it into his mouth.

"I'm digging to the bottom here."

"So fast?"

Hou Dongsheng raised his shovel and smashed it hard. The ground collapsed and he fell into the dark mine instantly.

"Bah, bah..." Liao Daoyuan spat on his hand twice, and then climbed down.

There is a mine hole that is as tall as one person under the pit, and it is quite crowded for two people to stand underneath.

Fire bomb!

A fire burned between the two men, illuminating the narrow mine.

"I'll go inside and take a look first." After Liao Daoyuan finished speaking, he took the lead and walked ahead.

"Fellow Daoist Liao, wait a minute! Have you ever thought about why the Demon Flame Sect closed the mine?" Hou Dongsheng asked suddenly.

"Hehe... don't worry! There is absolutely no danger in this mine. Those lunatics from the Demon Flame Gate are not afraid of danger at all."

"Fellow Taoist is right." Hou Dongsheng laughed dumbly.

"The only reason why the Demon Flame Gate mine is closed is because all the high-quality Huolin ore inside has been mined. The remaining low-quality Huolin ore is not only of little value, but has also been mined to destroy the mineral gas."

"What is mineral gas?"

"This mine, like people, has energy. As long as the mineral energy does not dissipate, those low-quality Huolin ores will slowly transform into high-quality Huolin ores. However, this may take a long time, at least it will be possible.

A hundred years plan."

"Then will our stolen mining destroy the mineral gas?" Hou Dongsheng said with a frown.

"We have two shovels. Even if we break the shovels, we won't be able to destroy the mineral gas." Liao Daoyuan said as he walked inside, appearing to be familiar with the road.

"Brother, have you ever worked in a mine before?"

"I have been recruited by the Demon Flame Sect many times. I have worked as a laborer and mined spirit stone mines, black iron mines and cinnabar mines."

"Then why don't you do something along the way?"

"Fellow Taoist is joking, we who wield hoes, how can we get a chance to do anything in the mine? When we enter the mine, we are only given a fig leaf, and when we leave the mine, we even have to check our buttocks. Hehe... there were people who actually went to the buttocks in the past."

A high-grade spiritual stone was stuffed in it, and when the miners took it out in public when they came out of the mine, it would be a miserable death."

The two laughed and talked, and soon reached the depths of the cave.

"The mineral gas here is very rich."

"Can you smell the mineral gas?"
To be continued...