Obviously, the people here weren't stupid.
Seeing as he was an outer sect disciple and still managed to make it onto this mission list, it could only mean he had some strong connections in the inner sect.
Who would believe that such a person didn't have some powerful hidden means?
Although a few disciples were a bit curious about his strength, none of them were stupid enough to risk getting slapped in the face for it.
Suddenly, as Fang Yang was watching the crowd, a terrifying coercion spread out all around him, making it difficult to even breathe.
And it wasn't just him. The entire place went deathly silent as they stared into the sky.
In the sky was a floating figure.
He was wearing a dark green robe and looked down on the crowd with a pair of cold eyes, as his body radiated an overwhelming aura.
Foundation Establishment!
For the first time in his life, Fang Yang had actually seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator!
Just being in his presence allowed for Fang Yang to feel the overwhelming difference in strength between them.
He knew he wouldn't even be able to take a finger from this person if he attacked seriously.
Under the pressure of the man's aura, a cold sweat broke out on Fang Yang's back.
Seeing the crowd had finally shut up, the old man finally let off a cold snort and retracted his overwhelming aura.
"Humph! I take it that this is Everyone."
As the man spoke, he landed on the ground and took out a small boat from his space bag but shockingly, the boat only continued to expand, growing larger and larger until it easily surpassed 40 metres in length.
Watching this, Fang Yang and the others were a little awestruck, but as they were staring on, a cold voice suddenly sounded in their ears.
"Are you just going to sit and watch? I don't have time to waste."
Not daring to cause the elder any more dissatisfaction, each disciple quickly jumped onto the ship.
As soon as everyone came aboard, Fang Yang could see the faint inscriptions on the outside of the boat flash with a blue light as the boat began to rise slowly into the sky.
Fang Yang had ridden airplanes in his last life, but the experience of riding a flying boat was completely different.
Flying with a completely open sky over your head and still being able to walk around freely was a novel experience one would struggle to get, even with all the advanced technology of his past world
"So this is the technology of this world.." muttered Fang Yang in awe
Despite standing completely in the open, Fang Yang couldn't feel the terrifying air resistance one would expect flying at this speed, making him suspect that there was also some sort of barrier coming into play.
After walking around the ship for a while, the awe of it started to wear off and he focused on the more important matter on hand.
The place where he would be going next would be where he was risking his life.
Sitting down, Fang Yang closed his eyes and started to meditate, to adjust his mood and nerves.
Fang Yang didn't dare try to cultivate in this time because with the vicious nature of Ghost River Cultivation Art, he would probably be in a worse state than he started with after he finished cultivation.
Like that, nearly 4 hours passed with the flying ship soaring through the air.
It was at this point that Fang Yang started to make out a small settlement below.
At the same time, the flying ship slowed down and began to descend into the ground.
But as the ship got closer and closer, Fang Yang could actually see a faint translucent barrier surrounding the entire settlement.
Suddenly the cold voice of the elder driving the flying ship rang out.
"Elder Wan of the Inner sect has come to fulfil the handover mission."
With the elder's words, another green robed figure shows up from the ground to the edge of the barrier!
It was a handsome, smiling middle-aged man
"Haha! Brother Wan, it's you. Come in."
With those words, the barrier opened up, allowing for the flying ship to move inside and land.
As soon as the ship landed, the crowd of disciples onboard quickly dispersed into the settlement.
The Elders around didn't pay attention to them. Their job was only to make sure the disciples arrived safely at the location, after that they couldn't care less.
Fang Yang also didn't linger around the ship and quickly walked into the settlement.
After walking around, he tried to get some information and got the general idea of the situation in the mine.
The gold eating rats were particularly troublesome when they had an outbreak charging out the mine.
Many disciples had died at the outbreak.
Furious that such an attack had happened under his jurisdiction, the elder on site had gone deep into the mines to slay and exterminate all the rats.
But the Gold eating Rats weren't so easy.
The second the rats detected the aura of Foundation Establishment cultivator, they quickly scattered, digging deep into narrow burrows that a human could never ever hope to squeeze into.
If the elder wanted to, he could probably kill all the rats with a large scale attack, but if he did so, it would almost certainly lead to a mine collapse and that was something even an elder couldn't bear the consequences of.
But even if gold eating rats were infesting the spirit gold mine.
Spirit Gold was such an important resource that the Corpse Ghost Sect couldn't afford to halt its production.
As a result, it was determined that it would be more efficient for the disciples to go in and mine the spirit gold instead of halting production, even if it meant that a few of them would die in the process.
The good news was that due to the overwhelming attacks of the Foundation Establishment Elders, the swarm of rats had split up into much smaller groups.