After a few jokes, everyone got to work.
Mining wasn't complicated, but it wasn't all about brute force, either. You had to know when to be deft, especially while tunneling. If you recklessly blasted away with all your might, you'd shatter the vein and destroy countless spirit stones.
With the old hand in black robes there to guide them, none of that was a problem.
He demonstrated once, and everyone there was clever enough to pick it up.
Still, mining was a long process. A spirit mine vein of this size would yield an astronomical amount of waste rock.
Xu Yi spent the whole first day deep in the vein, then finally came out.
Qiu Dao Ming and the others had helped for a full day before coming out as well. They had come to say their goodbyes.
In the end, they had only come along for a free ride. Their first day mining had been purely for the novelty of it. Once they'd learned the technique, they were done.
After all, thanks to that damned blood-binding technique, they weren't allowed to take even a single spirit stone from the Gloomy Forbidden Area.
Watching Leader Xu rake in a fortune while they got not so much as a fraction of one was torture, even for men with their kind of loyalty.
After a day's work, they bade Xu Yi farewell. Before leaving, they sternly warned him, "When you strike it rich, don't forget your friends." Even if they couldn't get any spirit stones, once they returned to Huaixi, he absolutely had to throw a three-day feast at Cold Sun Peak.
After seeing Gong Xiuhua and the others off, the middle-aged man in black robes breathed a sigh of relief. He had truly feared those few might have turned treacherous.
Though