At the same time, at the Blazing Gold Ore mine in Xiangfeng Prefecture.
Hundreds of players searched for ore and mined as if they had gone mad.
The daily output kept rising.
This left Qian Dalong, who oversaw the mine, deeply impressed.
When he reported this to Zhao Chonghong, the Prefect of Xiangfeng Prefecture, he remarked on how dedicated the miners Yang Ling had recruited were.
Zhao Chonghong immediately ordered his men to bring a pile of silver to the Blazing Gold Ore mine and lavishly reward every player hard at work mining.
Spurred on by silver and experience points, the players became even more enthusiastic about mining.
"Hahaha, Chen Xu, look at you, coming from behind! You're already level 47. You've left Qi Kai from the Valley of the Dead and Fang Yun from the Great Evolution Sword Sect miles behind!"
As Wu Xiaochen mined with all his might, he couldn't help calling out praise to Chen Xu in the distance.
Lin Caiyi and the others nearby instinctively nodded.
Everyone had seen how hard Chen Xu had worked lately.
They were already working very hard, but Chen Xu worked even harder, as though he didn't care about his life.
Chen Xu's gaze was focused, fixed firmly on the blazing gold ore before him.
"It's only right that I work hard. Brother Yang worked this hard back then, and that's how he stayed ahead every step of the way.
"I just want to replicate Brother Yang's leveling approach as closely as possible.
"Remember, Divine Domain hadn't even updated to version 2.0 back then!
"Now we have experience points to ease our sore muscles and replenish our stamina.
"But Brother Yang didn't have that back then. He put in over ten times the effort I'm putting in now!"
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