"Let's go and get to work. If we're late, we'll be punished by the steward."

Not long after Lin Hao finished cultivating, the voice of the chubby young man rang in his ears.

"Okay."

Lin Hao nodded and went out of the house with the chubby young man.

Together with a large number of people also wearing the clothes of handyman disciples, they rushed towards the Spirit Ore Mountain.

About half a cup of tea's time later, they arrived at their destination.

After receiving the mining tools, Lin Hao and the others entered the mine cave under the supervision of an inner disciple who was the steward of the ore area.

The mine cave was not dim. There were special lighting lamps at regular intervals along the way.

Lin Hao walked in the mine cave, looking around.

He found that the walls of the cave were all reddish-brown stones.

There was no need to worry about cave-ins or other accidents happening in the mine cave.

Because, as Lin Hao heard from the chubby young man Wang Fu last night, formations had been set up in the mine cave to ensure the safety of the handyman disciples who entered it.

And from time to time, experts from the sect would enter the mine cave to maintain these formations.

Holding the pickaxe for mining, Lin Hao and the chubby young man came to a huge underground cavity.

There were a large number of broken stones on the ground and pits dug out by the handyman disciples.

"Bang! Bang! Clang! Clang!"

A group of handyman disciples who had come to the mine cave started working.

Although Lin Hao hadn't transmigrated into this world for long, he had also done farm work when he was a child.

He wasn't afraid of hardship. He picked up the pickaxe and started digging in a decent manner.

The stones in this spirit ore mine were much harder than ordinary stones. It was too difficult to dig them, and he had to use all his strength!

After less than half an hour of digging, Lin Hao already felt his hands aching.

And at present, he had only dug out less than half a catty of spirit iron, which was still far from the goal of digging out five catties of spirit iron to exchange for a meal.

While enduring exhaustion and digging hard, time passed bit by bit.

Almost when the sun had set for a while and it was almost getting dark.

Lin Hao was exhausted from working hard and had just dug out four catties of spirit iron. He still needed one more catty of spirit iron to exchange for a bowl of spirit porridge. If it hadn't been for the chubby young man Wang Fu helping him dig some, he estimated that he wouldn't be able to have a meal today.

"Let's go and have dinner."

Wang Fu and Lin Hao took the ores they had dug out today and went to the inner disciple who managed the ore area to each get a meal voucher.

They came to the dining hall, got bowls, and Lin Hao used the meal voucher to fill a bowl full of porridge from the handyman disciple in the dining hall.

Hungry as they were, he and the chubby young man found a place to sit down in the dining hall with the porridge in their hands.

"Give me half of this porridge."

As soon as Lin Hao put the bowl full of spirit porridge on the table, a rather sturdy young man came over with an empty bowl in his hand and a fierce look on his face.

Before Lin Hao could agree, the sturdy young man stretched out his hand, grabbed the bowl full of porridge, and was about to pour it into his own empty bowl.

Lin Hao knew who this person was. He should be Yan Heng, the son of General Yan of the State of Zhao, who had entered the sect three months earlier than him and whose cultivation level had already reached the first level of Qi Refining. He was someone they couldn't afford to offend at present.

Lin Hao, whose legs were weak from hunger, looked at the porridge that he had finally exchanged for after a hard day's mining.

Seeing that it was about to be poured into Yan Heng's bowl, although he had been warned by the chubby young man Wang Fu, he was still unwilling to give it up.

"Wait!"

Lin Hao suddenly shouted loudly.

Yan Heng, who was pouring the porridge into his own empty bowl, was startled.

"Do you want to get beaten up?"

Yan Heng was like a little tyrant among the new handyman disciples in the tenth team of Area D of the ore area.

He bullied the new handyman disciples, and no one dared to resist.

Being shouted at by Lin Hao, he showed an angry and ashamed look on his face.

"Brother Yan, Lin Hao is new here and doesn't know the rules here. Please don't take it to heart."

Although the chubby young man Wang Fu was afraid of Yan Heng in his heart, he still stood up bravely and begged humbly.

"Humph, doesn't know the rules? Then I'll let him know what the rules are."

Yan Heng glared, put the spirit porridge on the table, and clenched his fists.

With a sneer on his face, he was ready to beat up Lin Hao, the new guy, to establish his authority.

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"Do you know who recruited me into the sect? If you dare to hit me, you're doomed."

Seeing that Yan Heng raised his fist, Lin Hao forced himself to stay calm and said calmly.

"Hehe, don't try to scare your Grandpa Yan. Since you're in the handyman ore area, could your background be bigger than mine?"

Yan Heng sneered, "Besides, in Xuanyue Sect, the strong are respected. The descendants of princes, marquises, generals, and ministers in the mortal world are no different from ordinary handyman disciples when they come here. If your cultivation level is not as good as mine, you have to obediently endure my beating."

He was very arrogant and still raised his fist, intending to beat Lin Hao.

"I was recruited into the sect by Senior Sister Liu herself. I became a disciple of Xuanyue Sect without spending a single tael of silver. If you dare to hit me, you're being disrespectful to Senior Sister Liu."

Lin Hao stared at Yan Heng. Although he was a bit panicked in his heart, he showed no fear on his face.

He planned to use the prestige of Senior Sister Liu, to bluff and scare Yan Heng away.

In this way, he could avoid getting beaten up and keep his own spirit porridge.

"You joined Xuanyue Sect without spending a single tael of silver!"

Yan Heng was shocked. He had been tested to have a fourth-grade dual spiritual root of water and wood, with above-average aptitude, and he still had to spend eight hundred taels of silver to enter Xuanyue Sect.

And this new handyman disciple in front of him claimed that he didn't spend a penny.

This indicated that this person's cultivation talent was extremely high, far above his.

He hid the fierce look on his face and asked with some fear in his heart, "Who is the Senior Sister Liu you mentioned?"

"The Senior Sister Liu who recruited Lin Hao into the sect is Senior Sister Liu Qinghan, the only closed-door direct disciple of the sect leader and at the ninth level of Qi Refining."

Wang Fu, who was standing beside them, understood that Lin Hao wanted to use Senior Sister Liu to suppress Yan Heng, so he summoned up his courage and said, "I can testify."

"Senior Sister Liu? How could someone recruited by such an important person be sent to the handyman area?"

Yan Heng frowned, somewhat doubting the truthfulness of the chubby young man's words.

After all, Senior Sister Liu was the direct disciple of the sect leader and the most dazzling figure in the sect. He had never heard of her personally helping the sect recruit disciples before.

"Don't you believe me?"

Lin Hao looked very confident and said coldly, "Senior Sister Liu is the sect leader's closed-door direct disciple. If I wasn't recruited into the sect by her personally, would I dare to use Senior Sister Liu's name to tell a lie? If it got out, wouldn't I be courting death?"

Hearing this, Yan Heng frowned slightly. Indeed, no one would dare to use Senior Sister Liu's name to deceive others. Seeing that what Lin Hao said made some sense, he couldn't help but believe it.

Although he was reluctant, with the name of Senior Sister Liu here, he didn't dare to act rashly. He changed his expression and said with a smile, "Brother Lin Hao, since you were recruited into the sect by Senior Sister Liu herself, I won't take your spirit porridge."

He returned Lin Hao's spirit porridge, then picked up the chubby young man Wang Fu's spirit porridge and was about to pour it into his own empty bowl.

"Wait!"

Lin Hao's voice rang out again.

"What? Brother Lin Hao, do you have something else to say?"

Yan Heng felt angry in his heart but held back his temper and said.

"Wang Fu is my brother. From now on, you're not allowed to snatch his spirit porridge either."

Lin Hao said expressionlessly.

"You..."

Yan Heng couldn't help clenching his fist that he had just loosened.

In the new handyman area of the tenth team in Area D of the ore area, including himself, there were currently a total of eight new handyman disciples.

According to the rules of Xuanyue Sect, all new handyman disciples could stay in the new handyman area for half a year.

The work done by the new disciples was much less than that of the handyman disciples who had been in the sect for more than half a year, so that the new handyman disciples could adapt to the sect environment.

When the new handyman disciples had been in the sect for more than half a year, they would be considered old-timers and would be sent to the area for the old handyman disciples.

Originally, with Yan Heng's martial arts skills since childhood and his strength of being the first to reach the first level of Qi Refining, he could fight against seven people and snatch the spirit porridge of the other seven new handyman disciples.

With the spiritual energy in a large amount of spirit porridge, he hoped to reach the second level of Qi Refining before leaving the new handyman area. By then, when he went to the area for the old handyman disciples in the ore hall, he could also be considered a little expert and wouldn't be bullied.

So Yan Heng cared a lot about every bowl of spirit porridge he snatched.