Chapter 168 Internal and External Annihilation
I started to communicate with Chuyi through the contract and learned that there was indeed only one cultivator out on patrol every day, and that Bai Jingde had not lied to me.

Then no one should come out today, but I’m afraid that the people inside will find out that Bai Jingde has not returned and become alert, which would alert the enemy.

So I might as well take the initiative! Go in and release the Amethyst Scorpion.

Among these five cultivators, the brothers Chen Biao and Chen Hu are the most dangerous, so even if they cannot be dealt with together, at least one must be dealt with first.

After making up his mind, he summoned back the group of amethyst scorpions. After thinking about it, he decided not to take back the maze array. Perhaps leaving it here might bring him unexpected gains.

He took out the magic veil, covered himself with it, and then approached the hidden magic circle. It took a quarter of an hour.

Finally, he arrived at the edge of the magic circle and used the magic formula taught by Bai Jingde to successfully enter the magic circle.

As soon as he entered, Lin Changqing started releasing a group of purple crystal scorpions. After releasing them, the scorpions disappeared and Lin Changqing had time to observe the situation inside.

I saw that the magic circle also covered a radius of one hundred meters. The entrance of the fire copper mine was in the center. There were five houses around the entrance. The remaining five people, except the boss, should be in the house.

This is easy to do. With a thought, twenty amethyst scorpions were assigned around each house, and the remaining twenty-four were sent into the mine.

The amethyst scorpions surrounding the five houses soon arrived at the location. After some consideration, Lin Changqing felt that the boss was the most dangerous, so he followed the twenty-four amethyst scorpions into the mine.

After walking in for more than a hundred meters, I saw a middle-aged strong man who had reached the great perfection of Qi training sitting in meditation in a corner. There were many piles of unprocessed ores around him.

Lin Changqing didn't dare to stare at him, for fear of arousing his vigilance. He could only glance at him occasionally with his peripheral vision and hold the golden light needle in his hand, so that he could make another attack when necessary.

He didn't dare to let too many Amethyst Scorpions approach him at the same time, so he only arranged for the late first stage one to carry out the mission.

But when I was about to touch him, I was discovered.

The sturdy man shouted, "Who's there?" Then he reached for the spirit beast bag, wanting to release the spirit beast.

Lin Changqing didn't give him a chance. With a thought, several more purple crystal scorpions pounced on him.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" A series of shrill screams spread throughout the mine. Not only the miners in the cave heard it, but also the remaining four monks outside.

The golden needle in his hand flew out and injected another needle into the monk's head. He shouted into the cave, "I'm here to save you. Stay where you are and don't come out."

Then he ignored them, turned around and walked out of the cave. With a flip of his hand, the Thunder Horn appeared in his hand, and he quickly injected spiritual energy into it.

With the cooperation of Babai, a Gengjin divine thunder was quickly generated, which was ready to be fired.

Just as I came out of the cave, I heard two more screams, which were clearly the voices of a man and a woman.

The remaining two people were quite smart. They did not go through the main door, but flew on their swords in the room and rushed out from the roof. They just happened to see Lin Changqing, and without any nonsense, they flew towards him on their swords.

At the same time, the flying swords in the hands of the two men flew out, one on the left and one on the right, attacking Lin Changqing.

Lin Changqing's spiritual sense immediately locked onto the cultivator with a higher level of cultivation.

"Boom!" The Gengjin Divine Thunder came later but arrived first, blasting the cultivator into pieces.

At this time, two flying swords arrived from the left and right. Lin Changqing did not dodge at all. He just thought about it, and two thunder shields protected him tightly.

After two ding, ding sounds, one of the flying swords lost the control of its owner and fell beside Lin Changqing, while the other one circled half a circle and attacked Lin Changqing again.

Lin Changqing was a little speechless. This cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining was very courageous. He did not even run away, but instead controlled the flying sword to attack Lin Changqing again.

But that was it. Three golden light needles lined up in a row and flew out from Lin Changqing's hand.

The first two missiles broke through the two layers of defensive shields on his body, and the last one penetrated his brain, causing his body to stop and fall from mid-air.

With a thought, three purple crystal scorpions rushed forward and finished off the enemy.

The other two have simply lost the ability to resist, and we need to deal with them now, before they recover again.

All the belongings of the two monks, a man and a woman, were taken away, including storage bags, spirit beast bags, and several magical instruments that had fallen on the ground.

Then he tied them all up, put them into the spirit beast bracelet, and went to keep the old man Bai Jingde company.

The rest was time to clean up the battlefield. First, I collected the items from the two monks who had fallen outside. But when I was collecting the spoils from the unlucky guy who was struck by lightning, I felt a little disgusted. There was blood all over the place, and some colorful things...

Lin Changqing also endured the discomfort and based on the principle of not wasting, he threw several water balls to clean up the place before picking up the things.

Also, the flying sword he was controlling at the time was bent by the Gengjin Divine Thunder and was found dozens of meters away.

After scanning twice with his spiritual sense and confirming that nothing was missed, he turned back into the mine and unloaded all the things from the boss Chen Biao.

After some consideration, he decided to use the storage bag that previously contained Wang Youzong's body to pack up the two complete bodies.

Keep it for now! When we interrogate those two robbery cultivators, it might have some unexpected uses.

Then he looked at the piles of red-refined copper ore in front of him. These things had not been refined yet and took up a lot of space, but there was no other way, they had to be put away first.

Fortunately, Lin Changqing had a spirit beast bracelet, and he only used the smallest space inside to put all the ores in.

Remembering that there were a few houses outside, Lin Changqing decided to take a look at them before dealing with the villagers who were captured and forced to work as miners in the mine.

We checked the five houses one by one, and found nothing else, just some daily necessities. However, we found about two cubic meters of ore in each house.

After inspection, it was found that these should be ores with a relatively high content of red-refined copper. Lin Changqing deliberately placed these ten cubic meters of ore in another space.

With an idea in mind, he dismantled the houses and some usable building materials and put them into a large storage bag.

In this way, the building materials needed for the inner space are available, and Lin Changqing doesn't have to go out and buy them specifically.

It just so happens that Xu Meiniang is an earth-type cultivator, so just throw all these to her and let her build the yard herself.

This time he really made full use of everything and left nothing out. He also used fireballs to turn several houses into ruins to prevent anyone from noticing anything.

He kept twenty-four amethyst scorpions and distributed them in the magic circle, and recalled the rest to the spirit beast bracelet.

His spiritual sense scanned back and forth several times, and after confirming again and again that there was nothing missed, he walked into the mine again. His spiritual sense explored each mine cave one by one, and soon he had a rough idea in his mind.

The mines in many caves have been mined out, and the remaining eighty-seven villagers are concentrated in the last three caves.

He shouted to the villagers inside: "It's alright, all of you come out, I've already dealt with those robbers, you can all go home now."

When the people inside heard Lin Changqing say this, they immediately cheered loudly and rushed out.

They came to Lin Changqing one after another, knelt down and kowtowed, thanking him loudly, "Thank you, Master, thank you, Master, thank you for saving me!"

Lin Changqing had a headache listening to all the chatter and could only shout, "Stop, stop arguing, get up, is there anyone here who can communicate with the village? Someone who can take charge can come out and answer the question."

The servants then turned their eyes and saw a tall, thin and strong man. Then the man stood up and said to Lin Changqing: "Thank you for the rescue, Master. Chen Shuguang from Tongshan Village greets you!"

Lin Changqing nodded and said, "Enough of small talk. It will be dark in an hour. Are you sure you can lead these people back to Tongshan Village safely?
Or you can stay here for one night and leave early tomorrow morning. It’s your choice.”

Lin Changqing's words had just fallen.

Everyone below was shouting, "Go back, go home, leave now, I don't want to stay here."

Lin Changqing could only shout: "Stop!"

Only then did everyone become quiet.

"Chen Shuguang and the other people from Tongshan Village, lead the team in front, and the people behind you should follow closely and don't get lost. I will protect you in the air. Now everyone should go back to Tongshan Village first, and then wait until tomorrow, and the others can go back to their own villages and set off!"

Then he cast a spell to open a hole in the hidden magic circle and let them out. He remembered that he had left a small five elements maze formation outside, and there was a villager inside.

Lin Changqing quickly flew over, took back the formation plate, and took the villager to reunite with the main force.

It took these ordinary people more than two hours to walk the thirty or forty miles of mountain road back to Tongshan Village.

When so many people came back, the whole Tongshan Village was in an uproar. Seeing several leaders of the village coming out, Lin Changqing gave them a few instructions, asking them to take good care of all the people who returned, and then went back to Chen Ziya's house alone.

(End of this chapter)