Overbearing Astral Demons

Cain's lips curled into a slight smile as he said, "Well, it's nice to meet you two. My name's Cain. Yours? And, mind telling me just what will happen to me afterward?" 

The kind woman nodded while stretching out the kinks in her arm. "The name's Tao Mi. And this is my brother Pang. And what we do here is pretty simple. In a couple more hours, we'll be called in to do the daily mining at the divine purple mountain. After, what, like 24 hours of continuous mining, we'll get a shot couple hours' break before getting back to work."

Her and Tao Pang's smiles became a bit strained at this point. 

There wasn't a single cultivator that doesn't know of the concept of hard work. Close-door cultivation could last for months, years even. 

But here was nothing but pure manual labor fitted to cultivators' abilities.