Chapter 314: Underground Worker of the Rock Mountain Range (1/2)

”Master Bitter, I've brought you a few newbies.”

”You have to work harder on this cauldron. The Sect Master will be using it in seven days. Don't waste time.”

The examiner handed Jiang Li and the others to a balding cultivator who was in charge here.

Most Runic Array Masters would easily experience hair loss after a certain number of years. Some could still be saved with secret recipes, while some were especially outstanding and might not be effective no matter how many medicinal pills they ate.

The balding steward was patrolling everywhere to urge progress. When he discovered that something was wrong, he began to point and curse.

Jiang Li and the others saw that he had grabbed a subordinate and scolded him for an entire fifteen minutes before he had the time to pay attention to them.

However, when he saw the number of newcomers, his expression showed displeasure again.

”Only a few? Don't fool me.”

”If we can't complete the mission, the Sect Master will be angry. We'll all be doomed!”

The examiner was also helpless. It was true that the Myriad Slaughter Sect recruited thousands of new blood every day.

However, qualified Runic Array Masters were too rare. The other rogue cultivators who participated in the test were ridiculously poor.

If he did not go through training and used it directly, it would really ruin everything.

”Alright, alright. Come with me. Let me see what you can do.”

In front of the table, Master Bitter displayed a huge comprehensive analysis map.

Jiang Li glanced at it. It was a cauldron-shaped artifact that was larger than a house.

From the materials used and the scale of the runes, this artifact was definitely not simple after being refined. Perhaps its might could directly compare to an Earth-rank artifact.

They could actually refine artifacts that were comparable to Earth-rank artifacts.

At the very least, the cultivation world of the Great Mountain Region did not have such a situation.

In next to no time, Master Bitter brought over a stack of blueprints and distributed them to Jiang Li and the others.

”All of you, go over there and carve patterns on the black bricks. Follow this blueprint and don't make any mistakes. You must submit ten qualified black bricks in a day or else you'll be in charge of the fire!”

It was extremely difficult to create a furnace and mold of such a size, so the method they used was to melt metal ingots layer by layer.

It was as if they were building a house. They smelted pieces of metal ingots that had been refined alone one after another.

The difficulty was that the upper part of the cauldron had to be in a half-melting state forever. Moreover, there could not be any mistakes in casting the ingots.

Once it condensed and melted again, or if there was a deviation in the location of a certain brick, the overall quality of the artifact would be greatly reduced and it would fail.

This required a large number of fire-attribute cultivators to take turns providing powerful firepower to maintain. It also required a Runic Array Master with exquisite skills that even Jiang Li could only admire to coordinate the overall situation.

Letting a high-grade metal maintain a melting state was extraordinarily difficult even with the help of a specific array formation.

It was not the same as taking on missions from the Alchemy Hall to fan the flames for Qi Refinement disciples in the sect.

This was probably the reason why the Myriad Slaughter Sect specially recruited fire attribute cultivators.

The top-notch Runic Array Master they needed was probably Master Bitter.

Jiang Li and the others were assigned to their own Spirit Carving Platform. After entering the sect, they did not even have the chance to adapt and were directly dragged to be laborers.

Each person had ten black bricks, each the size of a coffin. They began to undergo tough labor according to the blueprint.

Following the dismantled blueprint, carving patterns on the flat surface was actually the most basic job.

Even if they were rogue cultivators, they could still do this.

As Jiang Li carved patterns on the black brick, he sized up his surroundings. There was no one monitoring them in the surroundings. As long as they finished their work, they could leave at any time.

This place should have been temporarily built by the Myriad Slaughter Sect after they attacked the Rock Mountain Range.

They had made such a huge move to temporarily refine such a huge cauldron. Who knew what it was for.

He finished his work quickly, and the others who came in with him were probably going to spend the night catching up.

After pretending to be exhausted and handing over ten rune black bricks, Jiang Li received today's allowance.

He was also told to find a residence that was not occupied in Blackstone City as his residence.

If there were any locals who were not dead yet, they would be treated as servants who were used for free. No one would stop the cultivators from doing anything to them.

Walking on the streets, the city built from hard black stone had a different style. From some of the traces by the roadside, Jiang Li could tell that this used to be a rather bustling cultivation city.

However, at this moment, there were only piles of human corpses that had yet to be cleaned everywhere, showing the sorrow of this place.

If he did not stop it, perhaps in the near future, the cultivation world of the Great Mountain Region would become like this.

Bang!

At this moment, a dirty child suddenly collided with him.

Jiang Li did not move at all. The child's head was swollen from the collision and bounced onto the ground.

”I'm sorry, Lord!”

The child apologized repeatedly before running away with his head lowered.

She lowered her head, but Jiang Li could still see that her face was branded with a string of numbers.

The Myriad Slaughter Sect was not a good force. The people who survived in Blackstone City were all reduced to slaves. They labeled these people's faces and left them in the city as property.

That child was one of them.

However, she deliberately collided with him.

Jiang Li casually walked into an alley, and then he stretched out his hand to take out a note. It was the slip of paper that the child had secretly stuffed into his arms when they collided earlier.

If not for the fact that Jiang Li saw that she did not take out anything, the child would have died.

”22 Oak Street.”

There was only this address written on it.

After Jiang Li finished reading it, this note suddenly burned itself and disappeared completely.

From the looks of it, he seemed to have been targeted by a group of underground workers.

Blackstone City had just fallen. If the Myriad Slaughter Sect wanted to manage this entire region, they could not stabilize it without decades of operation.

It was very normal for some of the resistance forces to exist.

These resistance forces had the same goal as Jiang Li. They were helpers that he could use to fight.

In theory, Jiang Li should visit according to the address on the note and obtain cooperation.

But who was Jiang Li?

He was the Alliance Leader of the Great Mountain Alliance. It was too simple to just casually write a note and want to lead him by the nose.

He did not go to 22 Oak Street as stated. Instead, he found a random residence nearby and walked in.

His luck was not bad. There was a pair of siblings, brother and sister, who huddled in a corner, trembling.

After they saw Jiang Li enter, the woman was terrified to the point of cowering, whereas the man forced himself to calm down and knelt down before Jiang Li.

Since they were able to live in this city area, they had to be descendants of a cultivation family. Seeing that he was able to let go of his pride, his temperament was indeed not bad.

”Lord, is there anything we can help you with?”

Jiang Li waved his hand and completely ignored them. He casually found a room and sat inside.

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At night, in Oak Street.