Volume 1, Chapter 315 – Miners

Yaoyun Star was struck by unprecedented upheaval. Warships of every kind crossed the sky, bringing with them earthshaking change.

There were more than a thousand sects and gangs on Yaoyun Star, of which the three great sects were the strongest. After the Zheng family entered the star, the first ones they visited were those three great sects.

Any who showed the slightest will to resist were, without exception, ruthlessly suppressed.

After the three great sects, every sect large and small was visited in turn.

There were some hot-blooded and unyielding people who organized many sect forces and wandering heroes to fight back, but it was no more than an egg striking a stone. They were soon utterly crushed with overwhelming force.

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The Zheng family’s methods were extremely seasoned. After suppressing the sect forces, they opened every treasury and had experts above the Heaven-Man Realm inspect them one by one, to make sure no divine materials, spiritual weapons, or other hidden treasures had been overlooked beneath the dust.

As for some exceptionally gifted young boys and girls, the Zheng family’s methods were much gentler. Even for those filled with hatred, powerful experts would act personally, erase their memories, and ferry them back to Lingyang.

In just half a month, Yaoyun Star was turned upside down. All the surviving natives were gathered into several newly opened mining regions and became mine slaves.

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Clang, clang—

Inside the pitch-black mine tunnels, only a few luminous pearls provided meager light. Nearly a hundred miners were scattered through the long passages, half-seen and indistinct, digging with all their strength while the surroundings rang with the constant clanging of picks.

Chunks of broken rock fell away, revealing a pale silver ore the size of a fist.

This was a low-grade spirit ore called Green Silver Ore, a material used to refine mid-grade magical artifacts, something only Innate Realm martial artists would use.

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Shi Lan crouched down, picked up the ore, tossed it into the basket beside her, and swung her pick again to continue mining.

At the moment, she looked somewhat bedraggled, wearing a filthy cloth skirt, her face smeared with black grime so that her features could not be seen at all.

The reason Shi Lan was here was simple: outside was far too dangerous.

The Heaven-Man experts of the Zheng family were constantly searching heaven and earth without pause, day and night. She could not even get a peaceful night’s sleep outside, so Shi Lan had simply found a mining district herself and hidden inside it.

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By all rights, with Shi Lan now being a third-rank Demon-Suppressing General, even if the Zheng family did not treat her with courtesy, they should not have made things too difficult for her.

But after the ambush she suffered in Tenglong City, the supposed protection of her status in the Demon-Suppressing Army could no longer give her any sense of security.

What was more, when General Yun Chen spoke with her back then, he had directly revealed that she was not native to this world, and he had never granted her military authority. That left Shi Lan with no confidence at all.