Chapter 207 Underground Cliff

After parting from Chu Huaishan, Ji Tianxing and Yun Yao continued to walk deep into the mine vein.

The light in the mine is dim, and there will be a stone lamp every tens of meters on the stone walls on both sides.

The ground and the cave walls are all black-brown rock layers, and occasionally some layers of ore will be exposed in some areas.

Those ores are colorful and contain the aura of the five elements, which can only be formed after thousands of years of growth.

The craftsmen of Qingtianzong's Refining Hall will smelt the mined ore to extract more pure five-element aura and materials, which are used to forge weapons and equipment.

In addition, some gemstones will also appear in some areas with high purity of ore veins.

Those gemstones all contain rich vitality of the five elements, which can be used by warriors for cultivation, or for setting up formations and refining weapons.

All in all, mineral veins are very important resources for Zongmen.

In order to mine the ore veins in the underground of Longshan, Qingtianzong once dug hundreds of deep mine tunnels underground.

After the Heavenly Sword Sect took over Longshan Mountain, it began to dig more aggressively, increasing the number of mines to nearly 200, and going deeper into the ground.

Many mine roads are connected to each other, resulting in many intersections, which are as complicated as a maze.

Fortunately, Chu Huaishan had long ago given Yun Yao a distribution map of the mine roads, so that the two of them would not get lost in the endless fork roads.

Half an hour later, the two walked for more than ten miles along the dark and winding mine road, and finally arrived at the scene of the incident.

This is the end of the mine tunnel, an open space with a radius of nearly 100 meters, like an empty and dark hall.

On the surrounding cave walls, one after another ore layers can be clearly seen.

Between each ore layer, there are rock layers seven or eight meters thick, and each ore layer is more than three meters thick, full of colorful ores.

Yun Yao looked around, and said in a deep voice: "When the incident happened, the team of ten handyman disciples were mining ore in this area."

Ji Tianxing looked around for a while, and sure enough, he saw a lot of scattered ore scattered on the open space not far away, and dropped a few mining picks and bamboo baskets.

There is still a small amount of ore in those bamboo baskets, which are obviously newly mined.

There are also several traces of excavation in the ore layer on the rock wall.

Ji Tianxing frowned and thought for a moment, then asked tentatively: "Although the ten handyman disciples failed to enter the outer sect, they should all have the strength of the second or third level of the True Yuan Realm."

"When the incident happened, they should have been mining in this area scatteredly. Even if a master suddenly attacked, it would be impossible to capture them all in an instant without leaving any traces."

"Master, let's search carefully and we should be able to find clues nearby."

For his analysis, Yun Yao nodded in agreement.

The two separated and began to investigate from both ends of the cave, looking for traces with keen eyes.

After a while, Ji Tianxing discovered the clues and found many traces of fighting.

On the rock walls, and on the stone picks thrown in the ore pile, there are traces of swords and swords.

Yun Yao also made the same discovery, and found many traces of fighting.

After the two communicated with each other, they vaguely analyzed some clues.

"Judging from the traces of the fight left in the cave, the fight at that time was not violent, the time was very short, and it ended soon."

"This shows that the strength of the murderer is far beyond the Real Yuan Realm, and there is more than one murderer, so he can quickly capture all ten handyman disciples."

"Judging from the traces of the fight in the cave and the lingering aura of true energy, the murderer should be at the Tongxuan Realm."

When he said this, Ji Tianxing already had some calculations in his heart, and vaguely guessed that this matter was most likely done by the Heavenly Sword Sect.

However, after being silent for a while, Yun Yao suddenly revealed another discovery.

"Junior Brother Tianxing, I found out just now that the aura of the demon clan remains in this cave, and the masters of the demon clan have been here before!"

"What? The breath of the demon race?" Ji Tianxing froze for a moment, frowned fiercely, his eyes full of doubts.

At the beginning, he assisted Yunyao in carrying out the mission, and he once teamed up to break through the magic cave.

He knew that Yunyao had the blood of the Holy Body of the Heavenly Spirit and was very sensitive to the auras of all races.

Since Yunyao detected the presence of demons in the cave, he was sure that the masters of the demons had been here, of course he believed it.

He just felt puzzled, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated, and the truth was becoming more and more confusing.

"Didn't the Heavenly Sword Sect do it? Why did the demons come here? They shouldn't have any idea about Longshan, so what do they want to do?"

Yun Yao also frowned, her eyes were a little puzzled.

The two pondered for a moment, but did not try to figure out any useful clues.

Therefore, Yun Yao suggested: "Judging from the traces left here, the ten handyman disciples did not die here, they should have been kidnapped by the murderer."

"We continue to explore the ground to see if we can find more clues."

Ji Tianxing nodded in agreement, and followed her out of the cave, along a mine road on the cave wall, and continued to walk diagonally downward.

This mine is darker and darker, and somewhat narrow.

Ji Tianxing took a look at the distribution map of the mine tunnels, only to confirm that this mine tunnel was newly excavated by Tianjianzong, and it took less than two years.

The two walked along the mine for a while, and Yun Yao detected the breath left by the demons, and he also found some subtle traces.

"It seems that this matter is most likely related to the demons."

"The ten captured handyman disciples should have been taken away from here. Let's continue to go deep underground."

Ji Tianxing and Yun Yao continued to advance deep underground along the mine road.

Along the way, the two kept discovering some traces and clues, all related to the demon clan and the handyman disciples.

After about half an hour, the two had gone thousands of meters deep underground.

This newly excavated mine road also ended here, and the front was blocked by a dark cliff.

Ji Tianxing and Yun Yao stood on the edge of the cliff, observing their surroundings keenly.

Behind the two is an empty cave, which is also the end of the mine road and the place where ore is collected.

And in front of them was a cliff, about a hundred meters wide, and the bottom of the cliff was pitch black, bottomless.

Seeing this scene, both of them showed puzzled expressions and discussed in low voices.

"How could this be? There is a cliff deep in the ground?"

"The new mine tunnel dug by Tianjianzong was blocked by a cliff here. If we hadn't come to investigate the clues, I'm afraid no one has reached here yet."

"Junior Brother Tianxing, there is still the breath of the demon race here, and it doesn't seem to be leftover, the breath is a bit heavy."

"I suspect that there are demons lurking here, we have to be careful."

Just when Yunyao reminded Ji Tianxing to be careful, several dark figures suddenly rushed out of the empty cave behind them.

A total of five black shadows rushed out from the darkness, and rushed towards the two of them silently, emitting strong blood and killing intent.

At that moment, Yun Yao became alert, a cold light flashed in her palm, and a sword appeared.

"Junior Brother Tianxing, be careful!"

She turned around to look at those black shadows, and waved five dazzling sword lights.