Chapter 100: A Bountiful Harvest of Third-Calamity Artifacts
Fang Shu watched Lead Mountain swell as though it were a pill furnace about to explode. He felt both startled and relieved.
He thought to himself, With such a huge commotion, surely no one will still have the spare hands to investigate me?
Whether it was the other mines nearby or the market district, their most urgent task now was to suppress the rioting miners and mine slaves on Lead Mountain.
With his nerves taut, Fang Shu considered matters for a moment. Once he confirmed that he had left no traces behind, he immediately concealed himself and slipped into the darkness, brushing off his sleeves once the deed was done.
Yet the uprising across nearly all of Lead Mountain still affected him to some extent.
After leaving the Cao family's mine, Fang Shu abandoned the hiding place he had long planned out—the Goldstone Poison Grotto. Instead, he took a certain risk and rushed toward Guling Town.
If he remained on Lead Mountain, then no matter how well he hid, the immortals had countless methods at their disposal. They might still dig him out.
And if Lead Mountain were sealed off, he would not even have a chance to leave when the time came.
By comparison, once he returned to the market district, even if someone truly came knocking and the matter was exposed, the Solitary Gu Hall would protect him.
Besides, Fang Shu had not really done anything major tonight. He had merely slaughtered a mine owner who harmed people, along with a few monsters.
The riot at the mine had clearly happened because the miners and mine slaves had suffered oppression day after day.
Traveling under cover of night, even with Fang Shu's current abilities, he remained somewhat tense.
Once he