Chu Tian was riding on the back of the old yellow wolf. He seemed not to notice the guards approaching silently and quickly with small steps two or three miles behind. He just lowered his head and looked down.
The location he was on was a cliff. Below the cliff, which was nearly a hundred feet high, was a valley that stretched for nearly a hundred miles. The steep cliff formed a natural protective wall, completely blocking the valley, leaving only the mouth of the valley as the only way in and out. .
A mile-long wooden wall was built at the mouth of the valley several miles away. On the wooden wall, which was ten feet high and ten feet wide, a large group of guards wearing buffalo hide armor, holding steel knives and powerful crossbows stood solemnly, their gazes on the wall. Jiongjiong watched the movements in the valley vigilantly.
A sterling silver flagpole is stuck on the wooden wall, and a large flag with gold characters on a red background is dancing fiercely in the wind. The large "Chu" character on it is clearly visible.
Tens of thousands of ragged men and women were busy in the valley. They dragged baskets of heavy ore from the mines dug on the cliffs and dragged them along the iron tracks laid on the ground to the mines near the mouth of the valley. They were weighed and counted in the square, and then returned to the mine to continue working.
"Ding-ding-dong-dang" knocking sounds came from the deep mines, constantly hitting and circling on the cliffs on both sides of the valley. The entire valley was filled with disturbing and harsh knocking sounds.
The Chu family has a monopoly on the mining industry in Yizhou, and this is just a medium-sized mine under the Chu family's name.
In the past three years, Chu Tian has figured out the details of this mine. The Chu family claimed that this was just an ordinary copper mine, but in fact it was an associated gold mine with huge reserves, and the gold ore was of extremely high grade.
Every year, the Chu family can extract more than one million taels of gold from this mine.
"Mining gold privately is a deal to rob the Jin royal family!" Chu Tian pointed at the miners below who were densely packed like a colony of ants, and said with a smile: "The Chu family is too cautious, and the gold extracted every day is immediately transported back to Yizhou City. . Otherwise, I really want to tell Father Tiger and ask him to bring someone to clean this place."
Several strong men grinned at the same time, staring intently at the mine below like wild beasts before being hunted.
"Mr. Chu, you're so fat!" A big man rubbed his palms vigorously, his knuckles making continuous "click-click" sounds: "These big dogs should cause some trouble for them! Hehe, Brother Tian, the people behind you Come up!"
Chu Tian jumped off the old yellow wolf, turned around, and calmly looked at Lin Baimei and his group who were quickly surrounding them in an arc a hundred feet away.
"Everyone, it's been a hard journey!" Chu Tian smiled brightly, and his two rows of big teeth, as white and bright as white porcelain, were very dazzling in the sun.
Lin Baimei's two thick white eyebrows suddenly frowned. He carried the weapon and walked quickly forward while shouting sternly: "You know we are chasing behind you? You deliberately led us here? What is this place? Do you want to What to do?”
Zhao Laohu took two steps forward, waved his big hand violently, and shouted loudly: "Old Baimei, shut up, wait until they are caught with these gossips! Where are our wages? Where is Mr. Zhao Kuo? Why did he go to kill you? Can you escape safely?"
Chu Tian's hands naturally drooped, and between his brows, the Heavenly Seal of Wind on the stone lamp shone with a faint blue light.
Wisps of tiny breeze, almost imperceptible to ordinary people, surrounded Chutian's body. Chutian clearly felt that his body had become extraordinarily light and flexible.
The thin wind swirled back and forth, and through the information transmitted back by the thin wind, Chu Tian was able to understand every detail on the thick thatch and the rugged ground within a three-foot radius around him.
Where is a bulge, where is a depression, and where is a hole made by a woodchuck? All these details that may cause serious consequences in the battle are fed back to Chu Tian's mind through the thin wind around him.
This feeling is so amazing!
Chu Tian even squinted his eyes a little intoxicated, as if he had an extra invisible eye, helping him control everything within three feet around him.
Lord Shu lay on Chu Tian's shoulder and glanced at him sideways, a little surprised, but more surprised. Master Shu is very confident in his spiritual sense, and his perception is absolutely correct. Although Chu Tian does not have any aura of magic power on his body, there is indeed a kind of magic that can only be caused by secret magic around Chu Tian's body. Strange power.
If he hadn't seen the unnatural swaying of the long thatch leaves around Chutian, Lord Shu would have even ignored this invisible and extremely obscure force around Chutian.
"You can't even detect the slightest fluctuation of mana? Can you only find out that this kid has performed a secret technique through the movement of the blades of grass?" Lord Mouse bared his teeth in a smile and flicked his long tail happily: "The kid's fortune is not small! This secret method inheritance is so scary. Okay, okay, the scarier the better!"
Mr. Shu didn’t bother to ask where Chu Tian’s secret inheritance came from!
He has watched the child grow up since childhood. The stronger Chu Tian is and the more cards he has, the happier Mr. Shu will be!
After all, this was a doll that he pooped and peed on!
Suddenly, Master Mouse didn't know what he thought of that made his heart beat. He suddenly grabbed his tail and stuffed it into his mouth. He took a big bite, and his eyes were suddenly filled with hazy moisture.
Chu Tian glanced at Master Shu in surprise: "Why are you chewing your own tail when you have nothing to do? Are you confused?"
Lin Baimei, Zhao Laohu and others were furious. Chutian actually ignored their questions and went to talk to a pet mouse instead!
"Chu Tian! I'm asking you!" Zhao Laohu waved the heavy eight-foot steel gun in his hand, and a gray wind swept out from the tip of the gun, shaking the thatch within a few feet in front of him to pieces. Countless blades of grass flew up.
"Where is my young master? He and a group of his sect members went to kill you. Why did you escape instead of dying?" Zhao Laohu held the gun in both hands, made a gun stand that was like raising fire to the sky, and stomped his right foot heavily on the ground.
There was a "boom" sound, and the ground within a few feet shook slightly.
Countless blades of grass fell one after another, and a gray-white mist rushed up from Zhao Laohu's body. Deep tiger roars continued to come from the mist. A striking white-fronted tiger could be faintly seen looming in the mist, adding to Zhao Laohu's appearance out of thin air. Infinite power.
"Are you following the path of soul martial arts? Fusion of the beast soul with your own soul to obtain some of the beast soul's innate abilities!" Chu Tian looked at the phantom of the big tiger behind Zhao Lao Lao, and said coldly: "Your beast soul, If my tiger father sees you, he will definitely lick your bones clean one by one!"
Zhao Laohu was angered by Chu Tian's words!
He was asking Chu Tian about the whereabouts of his young master, and Chu Tian was actually commenting on his beast soul!
"You're rude, take a shot from me!" Zhao Laohu roared up to the sky, and the tigers in the gray mist behind him looked up at the sky and roared at the same time. The roar of the tiger turned into a gray air wave visible to the naked eye, rushing in all directions, and there were even more arcing waves. Ripples blasted toward Chu Tian.
"Tiger roar? I can do it too!" Chu Tian laughed loudly, his chest bulging high, and the same tiger roar spurted out, turning into a white air wave and rushing towards Zhao Laohu.
There was a loud noise, and the white and gray air waves collided heavily. Countless grass blades were shattered and turned into a piece of green smoke that rose more than ten feet high.
In the green smoke, Chutian rushed forward.
The steel gun in Zhao Laohu's hand made a sharp sound as it shot through the air, like a meteor stabbing towards Chu Tian.