Chapter 1703 Perilous Mine
After returning to the mining area of the Rudimentary Holy Land, Austin proceeded with more caution.
''The person who had such strong spiritual sense must be incredibly powerful. If I am not careful,
someone will spot me, '' he thought to himself.
Suddenly, a narrow tent caught his attention. It was just a stone''s throw away from him.
Using his spiritual sense, he saw a dozen miners who worked for the Rudimentary Holy Land. They
looked tired and were sleeping soundly in the tent.
Mining was a backbreaking job which required workers to work for long hours. These miners would not
waste a single minute. They would grab every chance they had to rest and sleep once they finished
their work at the end of the day.
''Perhaps I can pose as a miner. That way, no one will pay attention to me.''
A brilliant idea popped in Austin''s mind.
Since he was disying his bodily movement skill, no one could see him. He headed towards the tent,
and soon he could enter it with no one noticing him.
He drew closer to one miner who were sound asleep.
Wasting no time, Austin transported the sleeping man into his City model.
He then used the Appearance-transforming Clothes to pretend that he was the miner whom he had
sent into his City model.
After which, hemunicated with Violet who was training herself in the ve Tower. With her help,
he changed the aura of his spiritual soul.
Violet had improved a lot and was now more skillful in illusion than ever before.
The disciples of the Rudimentary Holy Land could not see through Austin''s disguise.
The elders or stewards of the Rudimentary Holy Land might be able to recognize Austin''s charade only
if they paid extra attention to him.
Austin theny there pretending to be asleep. An hourter, a dark-skinned, brawny man broke into the
tent.
"Wake up, all of you! A bunch of low-born losers.
Have you forgotten why you are here? We did not hire you to sleep.
Get up and start working!" he yelled harshly.
He walked around the tent, kicking every miner he found asleep.
This man was the foreman. He was responsible for supervising the miners.
Terrified, all the men including Austin got up hurriedly and rushed out of the tent.
Momentster, over four thousand miners gathered in an open area. They were men with olive-brown
skin.
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With them were three elders. With their hands behind their back, they stood opposite the miners. They
were elders from the Rudimentary Holy Land.
Behind them were several stewards and a few hundred principal disciples.
Austin looked around at the people from the Rudimentary Holy Land, as if trying to memorize their
faces. Soon, he glimpsed a familiar figure. It was Will, and he was standing among the principal
disciples.
''Will Fang!'' Austin thought as he tried to focus his eyes.
Will was wearing blue clothes with an arrogant expression on his face. He was in front of the team
made up of principal disciples.
''Looks like Will has a high status among the principal disciples, '' Austin thought. .
Austin tried not to stare too long at Will.
Elders and stewards of the Rudimentary Holy Land were present. If he stared too long at Will, he was
afraid that they might notice something was wrong about him.
The foreman started counting the men. After he was done, he walked up to an elder of the
Rudimentary Holy Land and told him that every miner was present. The elder nodded his head in
acknowledgment. He then waved his hand as smoke starteding out of his sleeves. A palm-sized
ship appeared. It grew in size and turned into a warship that floated in the air. It was instantly over two
hundred meters long.
With a flip of his sleeve, the elder released a vital energy force and transported all the miners including
Austin into the warship.
Together with the other elders, stewards and the principal disciples, he jumped into the ship and
controlled it to move.
The warship flew forward and disappeared into the sky.
Two hourster, the ship started to slow down.
Austin guessed that they were about to reach their destination.
Five minutester, the warshipnded on an open area. It smelled of drynd and the earth was fresh
and brown.
Austin examined the surroundings and spotted dozens of mines in the ground. ''It looks like they have
dug these wells recently, '' he surmised, as he nced at the mines.
With a single wave of his hand, an elder from the Rudimentary Holy Land sent all the miners to the
ground.
"In the following days, you are all going to work in these mines," he dered loudly.
"This ce is close to the center of the Northern Mine District," an experienced old miner muttered.
Fear was written all over his face.
Upon hearing this, the other miners became afraid, except for Austin. They took a step backward and
looked around them, as if looking for a way out. But all they could see around them were mines, and
they filled them with terror.
They talked in whispers among each other. Some young miners were too scared and refused to take
the job.
"It''s too dangerous. We are not doing this. You are putting our lives in danger."
"He has a point. People seldom make it out of these mines alive. We will not risk our lives for the little
pay you promised us."
"Humph! Shut up, all of you!"
a steward dressed in a yellow robe shouted furiously.
To help increase the volume in his voice, he used his vital energy force as he spoke. As a result, his
voice thundered into the air. The miners cowered and covered their ears out of fear.
His loud voice, sent a ripple of energy into the ground, and it threw about a thousand miners lined up in
front into the air. They fell back on the ground hard, and some of them ended up with broken bones and
started coughing out blood.
All the miners were affected and felt dizzy. They could barely steady themselves. Except for Austin, he
was not affected at all. But to avoid exposing his identity, he covered his ears and pretended to look
terrible like the other miners.
Frightened, the miners kept quiet.
They stood on their spots frozen and could do nothing but stare at the steward who spoke in terror.
The miners weremon people who knew nothing about cultivation or weak cultivators. The steward
of the Rudimentary Holy Land could destroy them without lifting a finger.
Austinughed quietly at the steward who wore yellow clothes.
''This steward is taking advantage of these powerless workers. Threatening them with his cultivation
base. How arrogant.''
"Please don''t panic.
Although this ce is near the central area of the Northern Mine District, we are in a safe area. It''s not
risky for you to work here as you envisioned.
Besides, we are here to keep you safe.
Once you get your job done here, we will pay you a hundred times than usual.
And you will have a month long holiday. You will be allowed to leave this ce and rest at home for a
month,"
an elder from the Rudimentary Holy Land said in a loud voice.
"A hundred-fold pay and a vacation for one month!"
The eyes of most miners lit up in excitement.
After all, they were here to earn money.
A hundred-fold pay was a tempting motivation for them.
The fear vanished from their faces.
The miners finally agreed to start working.
"Now that you all agree, please enter the mine and start working," the elder went on.
He smiled to himself, pleased that his scheme worked.
The miners were divided into dozens of groups and went down the mines.
Austin was assigned to mine number 40.
He followed several hundred miners as they walked towards the mine.
With the use of his spiritual sense, he saw several channels. The deeper he went, the darker it got.
He looked around and realized that people just had dug into the mine recently.
They finally reached the bottom as they were over a hundred meters deep in the ground. The mine
workers grabbed their tools and started digging, and so did Austin.
While working, Austin wondered what the leaders of the Rudimentary Holy Land were looking for in the
mines.
An hour passed.
Austin almost lost his bnce, as he felt the ground underneath his feet trembling violently.
Then he heard screamsing from the outside.
A soft wind slithered through their skin. A brownish mist floated into the air and enveloped the mine
where Austin was assigned.
"Bloody hell! Run! This is the perilous mine. If we don''t run, we will be buried here, alive!"
All the mine workers including Austin immediately raced to get out of the mine.