Chapter 670: Conscripting Soldiers
"What is it?" He asked, but Yu Nianzhen didn’t immediately answer.
Instead, he sighed, opened his palm, and a jade box appeared on top.
"The Primal Aura tree entered and began gulping the immortal aura inside. As a result, the Tree of Life and the Mustard Space Tree felt threatened and also began sucking the aura." Yu Nianzhen explained, and Jiang Yue staggered, his eyes filled with despair.
"Isn’t the Primal Aura Tree supposed to increase an area’s aura? Why is it competing with the Tree of Life and the Mustard Space tree?" He asked.
"The tree usually inhales an area’s qi and exhales more and purer aura. The Tree of Life and the Mustard Space tree probably don’t understand this and think that the Primal Aura Tree is being greedy. Don’t worry, they will understand soon." Yu Nianzhen sighed and dumped five billion immortal stones into the jade box.
After that, the two began breaking the walls and collecting the immortal crystals embedded inside.
Four months passed in the blink of an eye.
During that time, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue mined all the immortal crystals and found a way to return to the mine.
After returning, Jiang Yue controlled the guards and let them gather in one of the halls.
"What should we do with them?" He wondered, looking at the more than one thousand dazed people.
"Send them to the battlefield." Yu Nianzhen said in a matter-of-fact voice.
After all, the Cangxing world was drawing closer and closer to an all-out war with the Foreign Devils world.
Considering that, Yu Nianzhen felt it was a waste to kill the guards. Rather than kill them, it was better to control them and send them to the battlefield to defend the Cangxing world.
"Good idea." Jiang Yue nodded, waved his hand, and a speck of soul light entered each of the guards’ heads.
Soon after, the guards regained their focus, but they looked at Jiang Yue with almost fanatic subservience.
"First, take out all the immortal crystals and give them to us." Jiang Yue said, and the leader of the guards stepped forward.
A breath later, he handed over a storage ring, and Jiang Yue nodded before putting it away.
"Second, gather all the prisoners and distribute antidotes and all the immortal stones mined in recent years." He ordered, but didn’t let the guards leave right away.
"Third, help the prisoners leave the mine, and when you are done, report to the Foreign Devils’ battlefield. Each of you is to serve ten thousand years on the battlefield. However, you can go to the Reincarnation World when your fate arrives, but you must go back to the battlefield after you return to the Cangxing world."
"If the war ends before your sentence is over, you are to appear in all battlefields related to the fate of our Cangxing world. You are to defend our Cangxing world with all your might and resources. Failure to do so will result in the extermination of the body and soul."
After instructing the guards, the two went to another hall, and while waiting for the guards to complete the first three orders, they gathered the Zhenyue people.
"We have sent word, and our Zhenyue people will soon be here to take control of the mine." Jiang Yue said and quickly continued.
"Those who want to leave can leave with us, and those who wish to mine can stay with our people." He said.
Hearing this, the former prisoners divided into two groups.
One group, the larger one, planned to stay to mine immortal stones while the smaller one, containing fewer than fifty people, planned to leave with Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
Time passed, and before they knew it, it was two weeks later.
While waiting for the Zhenyue people, Jiang Yue arranged a formation to protect the mine and miners. As a result, when the Zhenyue cultivators arrived, the handover was quick, and the two led a small group out of the mine.
"We will drop you off in the nearest town. You can make your own way from there." Jiang Yue said, and the Zhenyue disciples nodded in understanding.
"Thank you, ancestors." They said and boarded the ship that Jiang Yue had taken out.
Soon after, the ship lifted off and set a course for Sixi town.
Sixi town was a mid-tier town that was one hundred or so kilometres from Yunlan City.
Because they wanted to return to Yunlan city to deal with the city lord’s residence, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen decided to leave the disciples in Sixi town.
Additionally, Sixi town was one of the towns marked in Fu Yun’s map.
Considering this, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen planned to use this opportunity to investigate the foreign devils before heading to Yunlan city.
Two days passed, and the ship landed near Sixi’s town gate.
Seeing the gate, everyone disembarked, and Jiang Yue collected the ship.
"Go in, but don’t linger in Sixi town. Remember to be vigilant and try not to wander alone unless you are in the Archipelago." Yu Nianzhen instructed with a solemn expression, causing the disciples to be confused.
"Ancestor Yu, did something happen?" One of the disciples asked, but the two didn’t intend to tell the children about the foreign devils.
After all, the situation was unknown and revealing too much would adversely affect the children’s state of mind.
"There is a large group of evil cultivators that left a sealed space in recent years. They are disguised and almost impossible to spot, so everyone has to be careful." Jiang Yue said, and the disciples nodded in understanding.
After that, the group entered Sixi town, made arrangements and left for the Zhenyue Archipelago.
On their part, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen booked a private room in a restaurant before contacting one of Fu Yun’s spies.
"I hope we will find some clues in this town." Jiang Yue said, and Yu Nianzhen nodded with a solemn expression.
"I didn’t expect we would use more than a year to deal with the underground mine. Let’s hope that the situation has not deteriorated too much." He said, and Jiang Yue agreed.
Half an hour later, the private room’s door opened, and a female cultivator walked in.
The female cultivator was a level eight origin tempering realm cultivator and looked more like a spoiled young lady than an intelligence officer.
"Sit." Jiang Yue invited, and the female cultivator bowed before sitting.
"I have seen the two ancestors." She greeted.
