This sudden newcomer looked like a young junior as well. His clothes were covered in mineral dust, and he even carried a shovel over his shoulder.
Judging by his appearance, if Yi Yun had not known this was Chaos Heaven and sensed a fairly strong vitality fluctuation from him, he would have thought he was looking at a coal miner from his past life.
"Hey! New guy?" The coal miner greeted him with an air of easy familiarity. "My name's Tie Mu. Let's get acquainted."
As he spoke, the coal miner extended his palm, which was covered in mineral dust.
High-fives were a basic greeting ritual in Chaos Heaven, similar to the handshakes of Yi Yun's previous life. Yi Yun did not mind the other man's filthy palm and slapped it.
"I'm Yi Yun. Brother Tie Mu, why are you covered in mineral dust? The spirit ship is traveling right now, so we aren't mining, are we?" Yi Yun asked.
"We're not mining, but the ore still needs to be refined. That's tiring work too, but at least nobody dies. Haha!"
Tie Mu wore a grin, seemingly not taking the tremendous danger of mining to heart at all—or perhaps he had simply grown used to it.
Without a doubt, Chaos Heaven was a cruel place, far more so than the Ruins Return. It was precisely because of this that so many powerhouses could emerge there. Anyone without strength or backing who came here would easily die without a proper burial place.
"It's just a pity that refining ore doesn't pay much. They only give us one catty of Crude Ore a month. Once you subtract the vitality we expend during that time, we actually end up losing out a little."
"Lose out?" Yi Yun was stunned. He was confused. "If