After that, the two did not encounter any more troubles and successfully arrived at the mining area in the southern part of Yunxia Sect. There was a cultivator of the first level of Dao Palace and dozens of cultivators of the Wheel Sea Realm guarding the area. Of course, they also hired a number of independent cultivators to help them mine.
From afar, the two could see a mining valley area protected by a formation. This place was originally just a small cave, but after long-term excavation, the cave became larger and larger, and finally turned into a mining valley. This place mainly produced black iron, black crystal and other refining materials.
There were disciples of the Yunxia Sect patrolling around the mining area, and they soon discovered someone approaching, so they went over to intercept them as soon as possible. However, when they saw that the person was Lin Aoxue, they immediately showed expressions of surprise.
"Hello, Senior Sister Lin, Hello, Senior Sister Ye, welcome to our Southern Mining Valley for inspection." The leading disciple said hurriedly and respectfully.
"Well, there shouldn't be any trouble in this mining area, right?" Lin Aoxue asked casually.
Upon hearing this, the disciples looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time, but the perceptive Lin Aoxue felt that these people looked a little strange.
After saying that, she didn't waste any more time and flew directly to the mining area. The patrolling disciples immediately informed the deacon and the head disciple in charge of the mining area of the news of Lin Aoxue's arrival.
Looking at a certain attic below the mining area, a core disciple of the Lingwen Realm was making love with a female cultivator in the room. Of course, the one he was playing with was definitely not a disciple of the Yunxia Sect, but a casual cultivator recruited from the mining area.
"Eh? Get out of the way. I have something to deal with." The core disciple who was enjoying the service of the female monk quickly pushed the female monk away and put on his clothes.
"Oh, Lord Liang, is there anything more important than serving you?" the charming woman asked with some confusion.
This is one of the three main disciples, named Liang Cheng, who is in the middle stage of the Spiritual Pattern Realm.
"The young master of our Yunxia Sect is here to inspect. I have to go and receive him quickly. You should also quickly get dressed and stay here. Don't go anywhere." Liang Cheng reminded.
"Hey, sir, what about the reward you promised me?" the woman asked hurriedly.
"Don't worry, the compensation I promised you will not be reduced by a single cent." Liang Cheng replied casually.
After saying this, he left quickly.
As for this seemingly charming woman, after Liang Cheng left, her expression immediately changed 180 degrees.
"Ugh..." The woman turned around, covered her mouth, and began to vomit violently.
The reaction was like eating something disgusting, as disgusting as it could be.
Let’s talk about Lin Aoxue. The two of them have already penetrated the formation, flew into the mining area, and landed on the ground. However, after arriving here, the atmosphere here made Lin Aoxue feel a little strange.
Because, why are the miners and independent cultivators hired here all wearing shackles and having their powers restricted? Don't they look like prisoners?
You know, in her impression, theirs was an employment relationship, not a slave relationship.
"Young Sect Master, how do you have time to visit our southern mining area?" A middle-aged man, accompanied by several disciples, walked over from another direction with a smile.
Lin Aoxue bowed slightly to the other party.
"Deacon Yunrui, my three junior brothers and sisters, what's the matter with these hired cultivators?" After Lin Aoxue greeted them, she immediately pointed at them and asked.
When Yunrui saw Lin Aoxue coming over, he asked about the miners and his smile stopped abruptly.
"Eh? Well, Young Sect Master, let's go talk inside the building first. I am only responsible for the security of this place. You have to ask them about management matters." Yunrui said hurriedly.
Ye Liuyun didn't say anything. With Lin Aoxue by her side, it would be best for her to remain silent, but she also felt that there were some problems with this mining area.
Lin Aoxue did not attack immediately, but followed them into an attic here.
However, not long after coming in, Liang Cheng handed Lin Aoxue a storage bag.
suddenly.
"What does this mean?" Lin Aoxue was stunned when she saw the storage bag on the table.
Liang glanced at Yunrui, but Yunrui pretended not to see it.
"Senior Sister Lin, you have worked hard to inspect our southern mining area. These are some gifts from us as junior brothers and sisters. Please accept them."
When Lin Aoxue heard this, she knew that something must have happened here. They wanted to use the spirit stone to shut her up.
Lin Aoxue picked up the storage bag and took a look. She found that there were at least 200,000 spirit stones in it. These 200,000 spirit stones were a lot for disciples like them.
But not everyone is Ye Liuyun.
After reading it, Lin Aoxue immediately put it back on the table and questioned with her hands folded.
"Deacon Yunrui, I don't think you guys need to do this. Tell me, what did you do?"
Yunrui and others were in a dilemma when they saw that Lin Aoxue refused to accept the spirit stone. After thinking for a while, Deacon Yunrui gestured to Liang Cheng and asked him to explain.
But how could they explain this kind of thing? They all hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
Lin Aoxue had actually roughly guessed something. Before she came, Elder Yun Ming reminded her that there were problems within these mining areas. Due to her status and division of labor, she was not in a position to say anything. If Lin Aoxue found any problems, she would correct them in time.
This is also one of the tasks Yun Yun assigned to Lin Aoxue.
Lin Aoxue did not inform the mining areas in advance about her inspection, so they had no time to prepare. As a result, the patrolling disciples became a little panicked when they saw Lin Aoxue.
"You won't tell me, right? If you don't want to tell me, then I'll ask myself. What's going on with those miners in the mining area who are wearing shackles and whose cultivation is restricted?" Lin Aoxue asked.
However, these people can still answer this question.
"This? Senior Sister Lin, they all hid materials and were discovered as criminals. Our mining area has regulations that those who hide materials will be punished." Liang Cheng explained.
He is the main disciple here and is responsible for management matters.
Yunrui is responsible for the safety here. When there is no safety accident, he doesn't care about the affairs here, so he has been silent.
"But, when I looked around, did all the miners steal the materials?" Lin Aoxue asked again.
"Eh? This? There definitely isn't any of them. There are only some of them. We deliberately placed them in conspicuous positions to warn everyone." Liang Cheng said again.
When Lin Aoxue heard this, she immediately stood up, then took Ye Liuyun out of the attic and walked into one of the mines.
Liang Cheng and the others exchanged glances, and then quickly followed. There were still many miners in the mine. These miners were not wearing shackles or restraining their skills, but they were all very listless, as if they had not eaten for a long time.
They are all just cultivators in the Wheel Sea Realm, and they all need to eat. The only difference is that the food they eat is either spiritual power or fasting pills. According to regulations, the Yunxia Sect has the obligation to provide fasting pills and monthly wages to these miners. No matter how tired they are, they don't have to work like this.
"Senior Sister Lin, see, we didn't lie to you." Liang Cheng smiled apologetically.
But Lin Aoxue still didn't believe it, so she stopped a female miner.
"My fellow Taoist, what's wrong with you? Why are you all so listless?" Lin Aoxue asked the woman with a pair of panda eyes.
The woman wanted to say something after seeing Lin Aoxue, but when she saw Liang Cheng and others next to her, she didn't dare to say it, because there was a strong sense of threat in Liang Cheng's eyes.
And Ye Liuyun just happened to see Liang Cheng's kind eyes.
"Fellow Daoist, I am a disciple of the Yunxia Sect. I am not in the same group with them. If you are treated unfairly here, you can tell me directly." Lin Aoxue said again.
When the woman heard this, her originally frightened look immediately turned into excitement.
She suddenly knelt down and hugged Lin Aoxue's legs.
"Fairy, you must save us. You disciples of the Yunxia Sect have gone too far. You tricked us here and didn't pay us. You also restricted our powers, bound our bodies, forced us to work day and night, and won't let us leave here. If you continue like this, we will die here sooner or later." The female cultivator cried with a look of despair.
But as soon as the woman finished speaking, Liang Cheng and the other two became anxious.
"Nonsense, senior sister, don't listen to this guy's gossip, there is no such thing." Liang Cheng hurriedly defended.
But now that the woman has said it, she must be taking a gamble and going all out.
"Am I talking nonsense? Fairy, you don't know how perverted your junior brother is. Every day he looks for us female monks who have changed from men to women to serve him and satisfy his perverted desires. You must save us." The female monk revealed another bombshell news.
As soon as these words came out, Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue were stunned. They looked at Liang Cheng in disbelief.
No wonder the charming female monk vomited violently after serving this guy. I didn’t expect this guy had such a hobby.
Except for the patrolling disciples of Yunxia Sect, there are no female miners in the mining area. These so-called female miners were all men before.
"Little girl, there is a lot of resentment in the cave over there. I suggest you go over and take a look." Lin Qingyou suddenly reminded in a heavy tone.
When Ye Liuyun heard this, he raised his eyebrows, then walked to Lin Aoxue and whispered a few words to her. After listening, Lin Aoxue immediately took the female monk away.
"My fellow Daoist, please follow me. Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Junior Brother Liang, I think you'd better think about how to answer me. Should you tell the truth or continue to fool me?" Lin Aoxue left a word and walked directly towards another cave in the mining area.
Liang Cheng became more and more scared.
He immediately sent a message to Deacon Yunrui.
"Deacon Yunrui, you have to help the three of us. We give you so much every month. You can't pretend you don't know anything."
But Yunrui definitely can’t do anything about it.
"Then what do you want to do? Lin Aoxue is now at the peak of her career. You must have heard about how strong her fighting power is. Considering that you three are honoring me, my advice to you is that you should run away quickly, as there may be a glimmer of hope for survival." Yun Rui said.
But when Liang Cheng heard this, he could not accept this result. However, he looked at the direction Lin Aoxue was going. There was a secret in that place. Once Lin Aoxue found out, they would definitely have no chance of survival.
The three of them exchanged looks, then began to slow down, gradually distancing themselves from Lin Aoxue.
Just when they wanted to fly up and run away, Ye Liuyun appeared behind them at some point.
"Three senior brothers, what are you going to do?" Ye Liuyun asked with a smile.
The three of them were immediately startled. This time there was no way to retreat.
"Do you three junior brothers want to run away? I won't allow that. You'd better follow me to the mine and take a look." Lin Aoxue's voice also reached the ears of the three.
At the same time, the three of them also felt a strong breath of death, as if they would be dead if they refused Lin Aoxue.
The three of them had no choice but to follow due to Lin Aoxue's strength. However, as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the mine, Lin Aoxue felt a strong yin energy coming towards them.
Such a strong yin energy can only mean one thing, that is, many people died in this cave.
"Fellow Daoist, do you know what happened in this cave?" Lin Aoxue took a deep breath and then asked the fellow Daoist beside him.
The woman looked at the cave with a look of horror on her face.
"This, fairy, this place, may be the final destination for people like us. Although we are all monks, if we are not given supplies and are not allowed to rest, we will be exhausted to death sooner or later. I only know that those monks who die of exhaustion will eventually be carried into this cave by them." The female monk explained tremblingly.
Chapter 212 Back to the Inner Circle
When Ye Liuyun heard this, his skin went numb for a moment. It would take a very high pressure job to exhaust a cultivator to death.
Lin Aoxue immediately clenched her fists. Although she had long expected that a sect like theirs might look glamorous on the surface, there must be some filth hidden behind the scenes.
"Haha, Liang Cheng, how are you going to explain this? No wonder the sect asked me to launch a surprise attack, it turned out to be the right time. I was thinking, if I informed you in advance that I would come to inspect the southern mining area, would you have prepared in advance to deal with me?" Lin Aoxue turned around and looked at Liang Cheng with a forced smile.
The moment Liang Cheng and the other two found out that Lin Aoxue had made a surprise inspection of their mining area, they knew that they could no longer hide their secret, but they were just hoping for luck.
What was going on? In fact, the fact that the leading disciple of the mining area embezzled money was not a big secret in Yunxia Sect. The cultivation world was a world where profit was paramount.
Didn't they join the cultivation sect just to gain more benefits? Since they have power in their hands, as long as it does not harm the interests of the sect, they can do something shameful in secret, which is tacitly allowed.
After all, for a cultivation sect, what do the interests of others have to do with them other than the interests of their own sect?
Ever since Liang Cheng first came to the mine to carry out a mission and discovered that carrying out missions in the mine was profitable, he began to use his authority to continuously extract commissions from the mine. He is the main person in charge here and has too many ways to enrich himself from the mine.
It was just that in the beginning, he tampered with the output of materials, but gradually his appetite grew bigger and bigger. In order to stay here for a long time, he secretly bribed many people.
The world of cultivation is not the secular world. In the secular world, you may be held accountable for taking bribes, but in the world of cultivation, giving benefits to the strong is a perfectly normal thing.
Not only that, this guy also spent spirit stones to bribe the monks from the sects who came to inspect the mining area, asking them not to tell anyone what happened here.
It doesn't matter to these people. As long as the mining area's revenue targets are met every month and every year, everything else will be a small matter.
About three years ago, Liang Cheng became insatiable and began to trick independent cultivators into working in the mining area. He then took the opportunity to restrict their cultivation and their freedom, not giving them spirit stones but only a small amount of fasting pills, forcing them to mine endlessly.
With such high-intensity work, a mortal would probably die within a few days, but a cultivator would have no problem enduring for several months. In the end, it became more and more severe, and not even a month's supply of fasting pills was given.
After a group of people were exhausted, they would go on to deceive again. The disciples in the mining area, because they had all received benefits from Liang Cheng and others, naturally helped Liang Cheng to conceal the matter. A few disciples could not stand such behavior and reported it to the sect. Yun Yun also knew about this matter and thought about punishing these people.
But this interest group is too large. Even the elders and deacons of the sect are involved, and there are even direct disciples. It is not easy to deal with.
The most important thing is that he did not harm the interests of the sect, so how could he be punished? But since last year, the situation here has become more serious. So, she took advantage of Lin Aoxue's visit to Zhuixian Ridge. After thinking about it, she decided to let Lin Aoxue handle the matter.
Because letting Lin Aoxue handle it can not only establish Lin Aoxue's prestige, but also get rid of the pests within the sect, so why not do it?
"Well, I, Senior Sister Lin, did this to save money for the sect. I admit that I used my authority to secretly earn a lot of spirit stones, but I can guarantee that I absolutely did not harm the interests of the sect." Liang Cheng had no choice but to admit it.
Ye Liuyun behind him sighed heavily when she heard this. She basically guessed where this guy got his profits from. It was all squeezed out of those hired independent cultivators, so this naturally would not damage the interests of the Yunxia Sect.
It is impossible for the sect to be unaware of such things, but in the beginning, perhaps what was done was not too excessive, so the sect turned a blind eye.
This allowed Lin Aoxue to handle this matter, and it was also a credit given by Yun Yun to Lin Aoxue. Anyway, it had to be resolved sooner or later, so it was better to let her apprentice solve it.
No wonder they came to the mining area. When she heard the news, she immediately thought about why they came to the mining area. It turned out that they came to deal with this kind of thing.
"Yes, you have not affected the interests of the sect, but you have brought discredit to the sect. We are the immortals, not the evil ones. You are the ones who do not take other cultivators seriously for the sake of personal gain. What is the difference between you and those evil ones?" Lin Aoxue asked with a cold look.
"Me? But, Senior Sister, basically all sects do this. You can go and have a look at the other mining areas. Maybe I went too far, but I'm not the only one who does this. Ask Deacon Yunrui, ask the other fellow disciples, which one of them hasn't received benefits from the mining area? Oh, and in the past, the fellow disciples who guarded the mining area, they also did such things to a greater or lesser extent." Liang Cheng couldn't care less now and could only expose everyone.
When the disciples around heard this, none of them dared to look at Lin Aoxue, and Yun Rui also pretended that he saw nothing.
Lin Aoxue fell silent after hearing this.
What should they do? She turned her eyes to Ye Liuyun.
But Ye Liuyun shook his head. Now that the matter had been exposed, it must be resolved. The reason why Lin Aoxue raided the southern mining area was to use Liang Cheng as an example to scare the monkeys. As long as this was done, the people in charge of other mining areas would be more restrained after knowing it, even if they would not stop.
