latelenovela Chapter 445
Chapter 445
"Find a larger gap." Zhong Ming was recalling methods for dealing with earth-type monsters.
Xuan Jing began using a talisman he had just learned: the Earth-Locking Talisman.
As the name suggests, this type of talisman is a sealing talisman, mainly targeting earth-type enemies. Its drawback is... there aren't enough of them.
Without knowing the enemy's exact location, sealing off the surrounding area would be too costly; they had to determine the enemy's position first.
“Earth-attribute enemies are too troublesome. They might have already burrowed underground and left. We should call for an observation team. If Akame were here, that would be great.” Xuanjing scratched his head, holding the Earth-Locking Talisman in his hand, unsure of where to begin.
Yue Kaishan and Chen Dahai exchanged a glance, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I brought two array plates for probing the ground, which are for when we search for underground medicinal herbs later. How about we use one now?"
"Wait a minute, let me try first."
Zhong Ming observed the surrounding raised area for a while and found its last visible sign.
The area was quite high, and the earth-type monster flipped upwards there before suddenly plunging downwards.
Zhong Ming took a deep breath, quickly climbed up the cliff, walked back for a while, and came to a stream he had passed earlier.
There are two ways to use "Extreme Flood Turbulence": one is to condense water spiritual power yourself, and the other is to use your own spiritual power to draw natural water. The latter is more effortless, but the control is worse.
He placed his hands in the shallow stream, focused his energy in his dantian, and let his energy flow with his body. His spiritual power began to diffuse into the stream, spreading downstream with the current.
After a few breaths, Zhong Ming felt that it was about time. He exerted force with his legs, suddenly stood up, twisted his waist, and in what seemed like an over-the-shoulder throw, forcefully lifted the entire stream off the ground and smashed it into the valley.
"Who said we shouldn't alert the enemy?!" Xuan Jing vividly demonstrated what it means to "run away with your head in your hands," except that it was Chen Dahai who was covering his head.
Chen Dahai himself hadn't even realized when the person carrying him had become Xuan Jing!
A large amount of stream water fell onto the raised land and seeped down along the cracks.
Zhong Ming drifted down to the bottom of the valley with the stream, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and concentrated, controlling the spiritual energy he had dispersed in the stream to conduct a large-scale exploration below.
However, he soon realized that the depth had exceeded the distance at which he could control his spiritual power, and he had to abandon the search for the small gaps around him and focus all his energy on the largest crack.
"How's it going, Cuihong? Is it ready yet?"
Zhong Ming's body trembled slightly as he abandoned more and more spiritual energy, leaving only a small clump of it to continue exploring downwards.
"It's too deep, we've already gone down more than two hundred feet." Sweat was dripping from his forehead, slowly flowing down the wounds on his face and onto the ground.
"clatter."
A drop of sweat fell as Zhong Ming reached his limit, taking one last moment to sense that ball of spiritual energy.
"We've found another one!"
In the final moments, he discovered that the spiritual energy was no longer flowing through the cracks, but had begun to fall freely.
"It might be a path left by a monster that burrowed underground. We need to find a way down. It's probably about 270 feet below here."
"Leave this matter to me."
Surprisingly, Chen Dahai took the initiative to take on more work.
The three of them looked at him in unison. He took out a huge arrow from his storage bag. It was almost as tall as Yue Kaishan. It had a strange appearance and extremely complex patterns on it. No matter how carefully they observed it, they could not imagine how to shoot it with a "small" crossbow.
"This is....."
"I'll make some noise, you don't mind, right?"
"It seems we have no other way to keep quiet."
The three of them stared curiously. At this moment, Xuan Jing was still holding Chen Dahai in his arms. Xuan Jing looked up and saw that the huge crossbow bolt was stuck straight into the ground. Then, Chen Dahai's leg, which was burning with flames, was raised to the end of the crossbow bolt.
"You are..."
"Light it."
"Oh, right, ignition... ignition?!"
In the blink of an eye, the blazing flames instantly activated the hidden restrictions, and powerful spiritual energy burst forth from the tip of the arrow, giving it terrifying acceleration. The surrounding patterns lit up as it plunged downwards.
A tearing sound came from the earth, and a huge, straight hole appeared before everyone's eyes. The rumbling echoes from below constantly reminded them that the violent drilling was not over yet.
"The sea, this is..."
"I also installed an accelerator on the tail of this crossbow bolt because it's disposable, so the effect is a bit stronger."
He pointed to the opening, "It's about the size of a wheelchair."
Zhong Ming realized that this was something Chen Dahai had prepared for him to escape underground in an emergency.
He lit the crossbow bolt, plunged it into the ground, and then he and his wheelchair slid down into the earth. While he might not escape alive, he could at least avoid the powerful attacks from the ground.
"Alright, let's go. Hopefully, the cave walls are sturdy enough not to collapse. We're still hoping to get back the way we came."
Zhong Ming took a deep breath and jumped into the cave first.
.....
A faint light pierced the darkness, illuminating the surrounding rock walls.
Zhong Ming held up the illuminating stone and looked around. All around him were rubble; this was a collapsed underground passage.
The enormous monster crawled through the area, but the surrounding rocks and land could not withstand it and collapsed. Some places were wide enough for several carriages to drive side by side, while others were just small cracks that had to be dug out to move forward.
Yue Kaishan then landed and immediately stood next to Zhong Ming, looking around warily.
"Something's not right. This place is both new and old."
"That means it hasn't moved since it got to this area." The two communicated almost telepathically. The air here was somewhat unpleasant, but there was also airflow and heat.
Water dripped down, and the portion of water that Zhong Ming had given up slowly dripped here as well.
Xuan Jing and Chen Dahai also landed. Zhong Ming made a forward gesture. Xuan Jing threw two earth-locking talismans towards the cave entrance to strengthen the surrounding land and prevent it from collapsing. Then he took out an array plate and hid it in his palm, ready to prevent a collapse from burying everyone at any time.
"Hu~~"
A gust of wind blew through the crack, especially when it passed through the small opening, causing some of the pebbles to roll.
'He's very big.'
A sense of unease arose in the hearts of all four.
Breathing, that must be breathing, so it's probably not a worm-like monster.
Zhong Ming gently dug away a section of the collapsed area, and Xuan Jing immediately placed a ground-locking talisman on top. Passing through the newly dug opening, they saw...
A huge pile of feces.
The four men exchanged serious glances, their eyes conveying the same message: 'If this is excrement, then what's in the storage bag?'
They are completely different.