The others were still heatedly discussing the disappearances. The newly arrived ordinary people did not seem particularly frightened. After all, the culprit's primary targets were cultivators, and there were two of them here. It was not the ordinary people's turn yet.
The Rogue Cultivator who had come with Wang Daoyuan looked exceedingly nervous and afraid. Wang Daoyuan also put on an extremely nervous appearance, lest anyone spot a flaw.
After about a quarter of an hour, the junior steward entered carrying several tools. Everyone stopped discussing the matter, and Wang Daoyuan heard no more useful information.
The junior steward handed out tools to the newcomers. They resembled pickaxes and were forged from First-tier Crimson Iron. However, they had merely been roughly hammered into shape, not refined by an Artifact Refiner, and there were no artifact patterns on the pickaxe heads.
Compared to ordinary tools, they were only sturdier and sharper.
The junior steward led the group to the deepest part of the mine tunnel. There was no road ahead, only a crimson stone wall. These stones were Crimson Iron Ore.
This Crimson Iron Ore was not particularly hard, about the same as ordinary stone. Even mortals could smash it apart, and with Crimson Iron Pickaxes, mining it was not too strenuous.
As a Late Stage of Qi Condensation cultivator, Wang Daoyuan naturally had it far easier than ordinary people. Although he deliberately held back his strength, each swing of his pickaxe yielded more than ten times as much ore as an ordinary person could mine.
The other cultivator mined less than half as much ore as Wang Daoyuan.
However, Wang Daoyuan had grown up in his Lineage, where his living conditions had been far better than those of Rogue Cultivators. Moreover, in recent years, he had eaten spirit grain and