55 Unspoken Rules (1/2)
Chapter 1567: Unspoken Rules
The fellow who suddenly appeared looked like a member of the younger generation. His clothes were stained with soot, and he held a shovel over his shoulder.
Just from that getup, if Yi Yun did not know he was in the Chaos Heavens or didn't sense a substantial Yuan Qi fluctuation from the person, he might have very well thought he was seeing a coal heaver from his previous incarnation.
”Heh! You new here?” greeted the person as he looked rather amiable. ”My name is Tie Mu. Nice to meet you.”
As Tie Mu spoke, he extended a soot-covered palm.
The striking of palms was a basic form of courtesy in the Chaos Heavens, akin to the shaking of hands in Yi Yun's previous life. Yi Yun did not mind Tie Mu's dirty palm as he struck it with his own.
”I'm Yi Yun. Brother Tie Mu, why are you covered in soot? Isn't the spirit cruiser enroute without any mining being done at the moment?” asked Yi Yun.
”There aren't ores to mine, but there is extraction to be done. That is a tiresome chore too, but the benefit is you won't die from it. Haha!”
Tie Mu chuckled and did not seem to take the immense danger of mining to heart. Perhaps, he was just used to it.
Without a doubt, the Chaos Heavens was a cruel place, far crueler than the Sinkhole. And it was precisely for this reason that it gave birth to so many experts. Without the strength or background to endure here, it was easy to die a tragic death.
”Unfortunately, the extraction of ores doesn't pay much. We are just given half a kilogram of ores a month. After deducting the Yuan Qi expenditure, we will lose out a little.”
”Lose out?” Yi Yun was taken aback as he was baffled. ”If you are making losses, why do it?”
”Haha! There's no other choice. If you don't do it, there's more to lose! It's common to encounter danger in the void. We would be roped in to power the array formations, and that only expends our Yuan Qi even faster. Although we are given some compensation for that, it's completely insufficient. If we busy ourselves extracting ores, at the very least, we will not be assigned to power the array formations.”
”To those of us in mining, Yuan Qi is life. Once you expend too much of it and do not get enough compensation, you might die the next time you go down the mines. If you survive and deliver the sufficient ores, that would net quite a handsome reward. It's enough for daily expenditures and even possibly leaves some for cultivation.”
”Using Chaos Ores for cultivation is a very extravagant deed. Haha, I have been in mining for so long, but I have only had the opportunity to do so a few times. That feeling is seriously… awesome!”
Tie Mu seemed intoxicated by his recollections, but that expression only lasted a second before he froze.
He saw a black-robed man walk over. The man was extremely thin and short, reaching only Tie Mu's chest. His face was pale and seemed devoid of blood. He looked like a corpse, and because he was thin, his facial skin looked scrunched up with immense fine wrinkles.
Yi Yun could sense an aura unlike a human's from the person's body.
”He's from the Soul race…” Bai Yueyin said via voice transmission.
”Oh?” Yi Yun pricked up his brows. This was the first time he was seeing another race in the Chaos Heavens. There were records of the Soul race in the notes left behind by the Dao Originator Celestial Thearch.
Years ago, the Dao Originator Celestial Thearch had experienced a life-and-death battle and his opponent was the strongest figure of the Soul race. The Dao Originator Celestial Thearch called him Soul Emperor.
This race bore a deep resemblance to humans, but their psyche powers were extraordinarily potent. The cultivation techniques they cultivated in were different from humans and typically followed the path of the soul.
”Leader Cang Gu.” Tie Mu squeezed out an ugly smile.
The man looked at Tie Mu with a deadpan expression.
Tie Mu gritted his teeth and took out a wooden box from his interspatial ring, and handed it over to the man. It was obvious that he could not bear to part with it.