Five Immortals Hall possessed a vast variety and number of mines across the countless Small Worlds of the Myriad Worlds, and many of those mines were extremely difficult to excavate.
Ordinary people could not even speak of mining them; merely surviving inside the mines was a major problem. Only martial artists with a certain level of cultivation could do it.
Basically, no martial artist was willing to do such backbreaking labor. Thus, Five Immortals Hall's martial artist miners were mostly prisoners of war and slaves bought from large and small worlds.
The rest were people within Five Immortals Hall who had violated the hall's rules.
Generally speaking, serving five or ten years of hard labor in a Small World mine was still barely bearable.
But a hundred years—now that was truly terrifying.
So far, fewer than one in ten of the prisoner-of-war miners Five Immortals Hall had bought had managed to endure more than a hundred years in the mines.
It was not that Five Immortals Hall's treatment was excessively harsh. Rather, mining those mines required martial artists to continuously expend spiritual power to extract ore, yet they were given little time to meditate and recover it.
As the days and months accumulated, their spiritual power would be drained more and more severely, and their cultivation would decline step by step.
Although Five Immortals Hall provided them with some Low-grade Spirit Stones to restore their spiritual power, it was fine for a short while. Over a long period, they would basically be ruined.
In other words, with Mountain God Yi Xun handing down such a punishment, even if Manager Zong Qi successfully held out for a hundred years, he would be crippled for life.
And that was assuming he could survive a hundred years in the mines.
Zong Qi immediately