The day after Wang Daoyuan sent his message, his Eighth Uncle, Wang Shoujiang, announced that he was recruiting workers.
Some ordinary Lineage members from nearby gradually made their way to Mirror Iron Mountain. This was the edge of Wang Clan territory, where Demon Beasts were plentiful. Farming alone made it hard to feed a family, so most young and able-bodied people chose to work in the Lineage's mines and Forest Farms.
Wang Daoyuan changed into a black robe, left his bamboo hat behind, took the alias Huang Yun, and slipped into Mirror Iron Mountain. Plenty of Rogue Cultivators dressed like this, so he did not stand out.
Besides ordinary Wang Clan members, several Rogue Cultivators had come to apply as miners. However, they were all only at the first or second level of Qi Refinement.
The overwhelming majority of Rogue Cultivators lacked systematic inheritances, and those proficient in the hundred arts of cultivation were exceedingly rare.
For cultivators like them, who had only just stepped onto the path of cultivation, their cultivation was low and their fighting strength weak. They had no ability to hunt Demon Beasts and no special skill to fall back on. Other than doing hard labor for various factions, they had no good way out.
After the Wang Clan's decline, it had always kept its tail tucked between its legs. It also treated ordinary Rogue Cultivators with kindness.
It had a fine reputation among Rogue Cultivators. Quite a few Rogue Cultivators worked for the Wang Clan, and some had even married into it.
Every cultivation family was happy to recruit Rogue Cultivators as sons-in-law. After all, every family had many female cultivators, and marrying them off meant taking too great a loss.
After painstakingly raising a cultivator, marrying her into another family was practically throwing all