A Man with a Mine

When the boys and girls saw him, the only adult, standing there, they all gathered around him.

Just then, Lin Xiao leaped out of the cave with Mo Yuanjiao in his arms.

Upon seeing Mo Yuanjiao on Lin Xiao's shoulder, Guard Mo's eyes lit up, and he immediately went to greet him.

"Young Master!"

After putting the immature boy off his shoulder, Lin Xiao made way for Guard Mo to talk.

Seeing the disheveled appearance of Guard Mo, Mo Yuanjiao patted him on the shoulder, feigning maturity, and said:

"Old Que, you've worked hard!"

The Guard Mo's full name was Mo Que. When he heard his young master's first words to comfort him instead of blaming him for dereliction of duty, he was immediately moved to tears.

"Young Master..."

Perhaps sensing the large crowd and the sounds of conversation, the government officials followed the Foundation Establishment cultivator this way.

Lin Xiao had used his Concealment Technique again from the very beginning, and now that he saw the government officials coming this way, he immediately took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention and decisively ran away, disappearing into the crowd.

When everyone tried to speak to him, they turned around and found that he had already disappeared.

Before long, government officials arrived.

Upon seeing the missing children safe and sound, Prefect Tong finally felt relieved.

He quickly went up to the children and asked them if they were alright.

I also asked them what they had been through these past few days.

Jin Nanhuan to the side, was very puzzled when he saw the children who had inexplicably returned unharmed.

But then Prefect Tong, after briefly questioning the children, came over and bowed to him, saying:

"The children said they were captured by a man in black robes, but were just rescued by a young immortal who didn't leave his name and suddenly disappeared."

"I wonder if it's a fellow disciple of Immortal Jin who has come to help?"

Upon hearing this, Jin Nanhuan's eyes darted around, and he immediately coughed lightly and said:

"Lord Tong, please be careful with your words. My fellow disciple doesn't like to show off, so you'd better not mention him. He came to help this time only because we're good friends. Actually, I discovered the villain's whereabouts a couple of days ago, but I was afraid of alerting him, so I asked my fellow disciple to join me. I'll lead you all to continue pretending not to know anything, searching around the forest to distract the villain, while he quietly sneaks in to rescue the person..."

Prefect Tong immediately expressed his gratitude:

"I see! The children said that the villain was executed on the spot by the Immortal's fellow disciple. His Law Power was extremely strong. Thank you, Immortal, and your fellow disciple for protecting our people! I just don't know how to address this fellow disciple. Tomorrow I will write a report to commend the Immortal's merits and add his name."

Jin Nanhuan immediately waved his hand and said:

"No need, no need. My fellow disciple hates being in the limelight the most. If you put his name on the list and make him face all that attention, he'll fight you to the death. Leave this to me."

"This..." Prefect Tong hesitated for a moment, but after glancing at Jin Nanhuan. Please trouble the Immortal to explain this to your fellow disciple."

"No, no, we're good friends."

Jin Nanhuan was overjoyed. Although he didn't know who the person who did the good deed anonymously was, he was very excited that the credit had fallen on his head.

He could almost see Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator beckoning to him!

Mo Yuanjiao was not far from them, overheard their conversation. Hearing that the man claimed to be a fellow disciple of the boy who had saved them, he excitedly stepped forward, bowed, and asked:

"Immortal, may I ask which sect you belong to?"

When Jin Nanhuan saw that this young man was asking him this question right away, he said with a somewhat indifferent expression:

"The entire Hufang Province is the territory of my Shangyang Sect. Which sect do you think I belong to?"

"Huh? Shangyang Sect?" Mo Yuanjiao somewhat surprised. He clearly came here for the fortuitous opportunity, so it was impossible that he had gone through all this Dayi only to find that his fortuitous opportunity was with the Shangyang Sect.

Then I wouldn't have been so resistant to joining the three major sects in the first place...

No, that's not right.

Mo Yuanjiao suddenly remembered the voice of the boy who had saved them earlier, which had echoed in his mind before the boy left.

"Don't mention me or my sect!" He was startled and then very excited. This must be the kind of Sound Transmission Technique that immortals often use!

If this young man is from the Shangyang Sect and, as this immortal said, doesn't like to show off, then at most he would just say not to mention him, not add a sect! After all, this immortal doesn't seem like someone who hasn't introduced himself to the government officials.

In other words, this young man is most likely not from the Shangyang Sect, and not a fellow disciple of this Golden Immortal.

So this immortal was lying...

Mo Yuanjiao glanced at Jin Nanhuan.

However, he still had basic common sense and didn't stubbornly expose the lies of this person who was called an immortal in front of everyone.

The officials led the children out of the dense forest and sent messengers to inform their families.

While waiting for their families, they were questioned in detail about the circumstances of their abduction and rescue at the government office.

Most of the boys and girls had been held captive for several days, and the man in black robes hadn't given them anything proper to eat; he just randomly picked some plants from the nearby forest and threw them to them.

So by then they were already so hungry they were dizzy, and with the life force being absorbed, they had no energy left to pay attention to anything else.

As for when they were rescued, although there was a faint glow in the cave, the light was not good, and the situation was urgent. Everyone was basically in a weak state, so there was no time or mood to see clearly what the person who saved them looked like.

Except for one person.

Mo Yuanjiao, who had been staring intently at Lin Xiao the entire time, clearly saw this.

However, because of Lin Xiao's parting words, when asked about it, he shook his head and pretended not to know, just like everyone else.

As for Lin Xiao, he had only been on the run for a short time when the system's friendly and pleasant notification sounded in his mind.

[Ding--The initial-level Spirit Stone mine has been successfully bound and automatically replaced in the best location near the sect. The host can view it in the sect.]

Lin Xiao felt secretly delighted.

A Spirit Stone mine is in hand!

From then on, he was a mine owner.

No more worrying about not having enough Spirit Stone to enable automatic cultivation.

He immediately took ten Spirit Stone from his private treasury to renew the auto-cultivation function.

Opening his cultivation panel, Lin Xiao was very satisfied to see his cultivation level starting to increase steadily again.

Although one hundred Spirit Stone had been thrown into the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation before, it was estimated that the black-robed man was too weak for the formation. After killing him, the formation plate spat out another sixty Spirit Stone.