The world was vast and faint. In a cloud, a mountain range was partly visible and partly visible in the clouds, like a fairyland on earth.
The mountain range was decorated with mountains. Many cultivators flew back and forth, which made it look like a scene of immortals.
In an inconspicuous small mountain in this mountain range, a group of people were working hard under the scorching sun.
This was a huge abandoned field. In this abandoned field, piles of rotten broken pills and rotten spiritual herbs were piled up.
Although this place was smelly, there were still more than a dozen people looking around for something on the abandoned pile of pills.
Yang Xie raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky. The sun was like a big fireball, giving off a scorching heat, which made Yang Xie look at the distance, which was distorted by the heat waves.
He squatted down and picked up a pill that was still intact. He placed it into the pill pouch beside him and wiped the sweat from his nose.
"289 beads." Yang Xie breathed a sigh of relief and murmured in a low voice.
Yang Xie was only seventeen or eighteen years old this year. In the Sky Sect, he was a servant disciple that couldn't even be counted as an outer disciple. Usually, he had to pick up broken pills to sell the outer disciples for a living.
Yang Xie looked a little thin, but his eyes were very bright. He had sword-shaped eyebrows and a straight nose. Although he was not very handsome, he was very sunny when he smiled.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! There will be Outer Disciples coming to Yuan Dan soon. Everyone, hurry up!" A shout came from behind Yang Xie. Yang Xie knew that this was Senior Brother Li, who was responsible for the whole abandoned elixir mountain range. No matter how many Spirit Stones Yang Xie sold every day, he would offer 10 percent of them to Senior Brother Li.
Looking at the heavy elixir bag on his waist, Yang Xie smiled with satisfaction.
100 broken elixirs would be enough to sell for one Spiritual Stone. With so many elixirs, he would be able to collect three Spiritual Stones today.
Standing up, Yang Xie saw that the Outer Disciples had already come to collect the elixir, so he packed up the elixir and walked down slowly.
As soon as he took more than ten steps forward, Yang Xie felt a ray of light shining beside him.
"What is this?"
Yang Xie fell to the ground and used the long stick in his hand to push away a pile of rotten spiritual herbs. He saw the light under the spiritual herbs.
This was a strange sphere, about the size of an ox's eye. It was densely dotted with particles. The shape of this sphere was ugly, and there was no Spiritual Qi overflowing from it. It was no different from ordinary stones. However, Yang Xie was sure that the ray of light just now was from this sphere.
Yang Xie held the ball in his palm and found nothing special, which made him very disappointed. Just as he was about to throw it out, it reminded him of the light. Yang Xie was reluctant to part with it, so he put it into his elixir pocket.
It was almost afternoon, and many Outer Disciples had come to the abandoned elixir valley.
The Cloud Sky Sect was one of the top sects in the surrounding three thousand li, with hundreds of thousands of disciples. True disciples, inner disciples, outer disciples, as well as handymen formed a class system of the Cloud Sky Sect.
Yang Xie and his group of elixir pickers stood in a row and placed their elixir bags at their feet. A total of Outer Disciples came to choose.
Seeing the group of Outer Disciples coming over, Yang Xie raised his eyebrows and fixed his eyes on one of the Outer Disciples.
"Why is he here?" Yang Xie looked at Chen Lin, who was not far away, and frowned at him with a sinister smile.
Not only Yang Xie, but the rest of the collecting men were also shivering when they saw Chen Lin.
Chen Lin relied on the fact that he was an Outer Disciple. Usually, he would bully Yang Xie and the other handymen. Sometimes, he would even fight with them. For example, a month ago, Chen Lin almost beat Yang Xie to death. However, he was only scolded by the chief Outer Disciple Senior Brother.
Seeing Chen Lin walking towards him with a smile on his face, Yang Xie immediately lowered his head and clenched his fists.
Taking two deep breaths, Yang Xie told himself that he must endure, but the footsteps came from a distance and finally stopped in front of Yang Xie.
"What, you don't want to look up?" Chen Lin had a pair of triangular eyes and looked at Yang Xie with a playful expression.
Yang Xie raised his head and looked at Chen Lin with a forced smile. "Senior Brother Chen, I didn't."
Seeing Yang Xie's smile, Chen Lin was stunned. He smiled disdainfully and said, "I'll take your elixir today."
Yang Xie grabbed the elixir bag under his feet and said, "Senior Brother Chen, there are 289 elixirs in total. You can give me two spiritual stones." Yang Xie was afraid that Chen Lin would find fault with him, so he immediately said in a cheaper tone.
Chen Lin looked at Yang Xie's face and smiled. "Two Spirit Stones?" As he spoke, he took out a Spirit Stone from his storage bag and waved it in front of Yang Xie's eyes.
"What if I give you a Spirit Stone?" Chen Lin looked at Yang Xie. He wanted to see Yang Xie's anger. Last time, he was scolded by Senior Brother Li, the Chief Outer Disciple, because he kicked Yang Xie a few times. This made Chen Lin angry all the time. It just so happened that Senior Brother Li went out, so Chen Lin came to this abandoned elixir valley to deal with Yang Xie.
Yang Xie frowned. One spiritual stone was enough for Yang Xie to cultivate for more than ten days. The disciples of the handymen were not talented enough. They could only cultivate on the path of spiritual stones. Once they couldn't keep up with the spiritual stones, their Spiritual Qi would dissipate. Perhaps, their cultivation in this year would all dissipate.
After weighing it in his heart for a long time, Yang Xie still frowned and said to Chen Lin, "Senior Brother Chen, isn't this good?"
Chen Lin was delighted to see Yang Xie's furrowed brows. "I'll give you a Spirit Stone. What can you do?"