After arriving at the new place and having a chat with the people in the same room, Lin Hao got to know them all by sight more or less.

After that, the wooden house fell silent as all ten miscellaneous disciples began their cultivation.

As miscellaneous disciples, if they couldn't become outer sect disciples within three years, they would have to leave the mountain gate and go to work in the secular cities under the control of the Xuanyue Sect.

The spiritual energy there was extremely thin, far inferior to that in the mountains where the Xuanyue Sect was located.

If they couldn't be promoted to outer sect disciples and leave the Xuanyue Sect, it would mean the end of their path to immortality.

Therefore, every moment in these three years was of great importance to the miscellaneous disciples, and they dared not slack off in their cultivation.

The next day, as the sun rose in the east, Lin Hao finished his cultivation, left the wooden house, and followed Jiang Sheng and the others to the mining site. The underground space of the mine cave in the old miscellaneous disciple area was much larger than the place where he had stayed before.

Half a quarter of an hour later...

The ten people from the wooden house arrived at their destination.

"Clang! Clang! Ding! Ding!"

There were already quite a few miscellaneous disciples around, swinging their pickaxes to start mining.

"Junior Brother Lin, this is our territory," Jiang Sheng introduced to him.

"Alright, Senior Brother Jiang, I understand," Lin Hao quickly glanced around and found that the area belonging to the ten of them was quite large. He estimated that it was about a region of over a hundred meters.

"Let's start working!"

They scattered and took their pickaxes to dig at the hard ground.

As time passed, an hour went by in a blink of an eye.

Lin Hao noticed that the soil and rocks in this mine cave were even harder, but the amount of spirit iron was obviously much more than that in the mine cave in the new disciple area where he had been before.

He mobilized the spiritual energy of the second level of Qi Refining and applied it to his hands, working hard to mine. In just one hour, he had dug out nine catties of spirit iron.

"Junior Brother Lin, you're so amazing! You mine so fast," Jiang Sheng was a bit surprised to see that he kept swinging the mining tools and that the amount of spirit iron he had dug out in such a short time was almost catching up with those of them who were old-timers in the mining area at the second level of Qi Refining.

"I'm a newcomer. I'm afraid of holding everyone back, so I have to go all out to dig out so much ore," Lin Hao smiled in an honest and simple way.

With his five-element spiritual root, his spiritual energy was far richer than that of people in the same realm. Digging out nine catties of spirit ore in an hour was already holding back his strength. If he really went all out, it would be no problem for him to dig out more than ten catties of spirit ore in an hour.

"I see. Junior Brother Lin, don't be in such a hurry. Don't tire yourself out. Work should be done step by step," Jiang Sheng kindly advised.

"Alright, Senior Brother Jiang, I got it," Lin Hao nodded. After initially getting in touch with Jiang Sheng, he felt that Jiang Sheng was amiable and seemed to have a good character.

Unlike Yan Heng, whom he had met in the new disciple area before, who had an unpleasant appearance and was harsh and cruel to others.

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Time passed slowly until noon.

After working hard all morning, the ten of them had dug out a total of more than 170 catties of spirit iron.

The four of them whose cultivation levels had reached the second level of Qi Refining each dug out about twenty-odd catties, adding up to more than 90 catties in total.

And the other six people whose cultivation levels were still at the first level of Qi Refining, since they had been cultivating for about a year, had much stronger spiritual energy than those in the new disciple area. Although their mining speed was not as fast as that of those at the second level of Qi Refining, it wasn't too slow either.

Each person could dig out about 13 catties of spirit iron in the morning, and adding them up was about 80 catties.

"Junior Brother Lin Hao, after finishing the work in the morning, those of us in the room at the second level of Qi Refining don't need to come to the mine cave to mine in the afternoon and can arrange our time freely," Jiang Sheng put away his mining tools and looked at him and said, "Every day, as long as the spirit iron we dig out at the second level of Qi Refining can be exchanged for three meals of spirit porridge, don't waste too much time on mining. We should focus more on cultivation."

"But, Senior Brother Jiang, here it takes ten catties of spirit iron to exchange for a bowl of spirit porridge. I only dug out 22 catties of spirit iron in the morning, which isn't enough to exchange for three meals of spirit porridge," Lin Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead and couldn't help saying.

"Don't worry about this. The other six people in our room at the first level of Qi Refining will continue to work in the mine cave in the afternoon. They will make up for the shortage of spirit iron for us," Jiang Sheng said as a matter of course, without any sense of guilt for squeezing his fellow disciples. He smiled and said, "Those of us in the room at the second level of Qi Refining should focus on cultivation. The stronger our strength is, the better places we can occupy in the mine cave."

"Alright, I understand," Lin Hao decided to abide by the rules since he came here. He nodded in response and then prepared to go to the cafeteria for lunch with the other miscellaneous disciples living in the same room.

"Jiang Sheng, Xu Zhikai, the strongest person in your room, has left. Now that a newcomer has come, I'm afraid you're no longer qualified to mine in this area. It's time to give up this place," suddenly, a group of people blocked their way. The leader, a young man with a hooked nose, said with an unfriendly expression.

"Zou Shanhu, do you want to snatch our territory? Haven't you been beaten enough by us before?" Jiang Sheng frowned and said coldly.

"Without Xu Zhikai, you can't hold on to this place. If you're sensible, just get out of here," Zou Shanhu had been coveting this area with a large amount of spirit iron for a long time, and finally, he got the chance. He thought that the other side currently only had three old-timers at the second level of Qi Refining, while his side had four, so he could take this place by taking advantage of this opportunity.

"Then there's no choice but to have a fight," Jiang Sheng's face looked ugly. He knew that currently, his room had lost a master, and a newcomer had just arrived, so their overall strength had decreased a lot, and they didn't have an advantage in a fight.

But he was reluctant to give up this good place in the mining area just like that.

If they left here, it wouldn't be so easy to dig out so much ore every day. They would definitely have to spend a lot of energy in the mine cave and delay their cultivation because of it.

The atmosphere at the scene was filled with invisible smoke of conflict.

Lin Hao didn't expect that on his first day here, he would encounter the matter of fighting for territory. His expression couldn't help but become solemn.

Since it was related to the collective interests and as a member of the people living in the same room, he couldn't stay out of it.

"Tsk-tsk, there's a good show to watch," the other miscellaneous disciples, seeing the people from the two rooms confronting each other, couldn't help but gather around.

"Humph, you don't want a toast but prefer a forfeit. Let's go," Zou Shanhu showed a fierce look, called the people behind him, and shouted as he started to fight, "Teach them a good lesson!"

"Damn it! Let's fight them together," Jiang Sheng was furious, his blood surging, his face red and his neck thick as he clenched his fist and took the lead.

Seeing that the strongest person in the room was so brave, the other miscellaneous disciples immediately followed.

These people had lived in the old miscellaneous disciple area for quite some time and knew that if they were weak and not united at this time, they would be bullied by the miscellaneous disciples from other rooms later.

"Bang! Bang!"

The sounds of fists hitting flesh kept ringing out.

As one of them, Lin Hao had no choice. Soon, a miscellaneous disciple at the second level of Qi Refining came to him, with a fierce look on his face, clenching his fist and smashing it towards him.

He wanted to take down Lin Hao, who seemed to be the "weakest" newcomer at the second level of Qi Refining first.

"Can't we value peace in cultivating immortals? Do you think I'm easy to bully?" Lin Hao was furious in his heart, his eyes turning red. He quickly mobilized the spiritual energy in his body, clenched his fist, and was ready to fight with the other side.

Thus, his second fight in the immortal cultivation world broke out.