Chapter 201: Digging Expert

The ancient Qinling Mountains are full of endless wonders and mysterious. No one knows how many secrets are buried beneath the vast land.

Under the Qinling Mountains, there are not only a large number of ancient tombs, but also countless ancient truths buried.

When faced with the insurmountable black rock barrier, You Zilong and Aotian chose to go back for help. Perhaps this choice was related to their growth experience. No matter what difficulties they face, they will get the support of the forces behind them.

In contrast, Duan De and Li Zhi, the powerless duo, were much more stubborn. No, they were more pragmatic. They chose to confront the indestructible black rock barrier head-on.

Well, it’s not really a hard fight.

It's really a perfect match for their majors and it hits the area they are good at.

If You Zilong is professional in finding dragon burial sites, then Duan De and Li Zhi are undoubtedly more professional in digging holes into tombs.

Seeing that the black rock barrier that even the Dragon Seekers' most precious treasure, the Dragon Seeking Diamond, could not break through, Li Zhi easily used a Luoyang shovel to dig out a hole big enough for an adult to walk upright. For a time, Li Zhi suspected that the Dragon Seeking Diamond in You Zilong's control was a fake.

"Uncle Taoist priest, this black rock barrier doesn't seem as solid as you said. Why did You Zilong's diamond drill take half a day to dig out a small hole less than three inches long?"

With Duan De by his side, Li Zhi would ask when he didn't understand something, and did not leave his doubts to be resolved in the future.

Duan De picked up a piece of black rock that Li Zhi had just dug out, and after carefully observing it for a while, he said, "This black rock is not the legendary forbidden magic rock. I thought we had encountered the legendary forbidden magic stone. Now it seems that this black rock is just something that was artificially transformed."

"Who transformed it and how did they transform it? I see that this piece of black rock is hard enough, but under my Luoyang shovel, it seems to be no different from ordinary rock?" Li Zhi asked while keeping his hands moving.

Duan De touched his smooth chin and said, "If I am not mistaken, this black rock layer was created by Yuan Tianshi and the ancestor of the earth master lineage. I saw traces of the best dragon veins in the rock, as well as traces of the immortal power of Yuan Tianshi's lineage's 'Six Immortal Seals'. This black rock layer should be transformed from a top-grade dragon vein, and was transformed into the current sealing barrier by the heavenly master-level earth master and Yuan Tianshi through magic.

Given the strength of this barrier, even a powerful person using an ordinary holy weapon would not be able to penetrate it with one strike. Unless a holy weapon passed down from a great saint level strongman is used and the holy weapon is fully revived, it is possible to directly penetrate this layer of black rock seal from the outside.

However, if this black rock seal were to be violently pierced by the legendary holy weapon, the things sealed inside would probably also be wiped out by the power of the Great Sage.

As for why your Luoyang shovel can dig this layer of black rock seal, it is because the level of your Luoyang shovel is far beyond the handed-down holy weapon. If I am not mistaken, your Luoyang shovel should be one of the complete set of magic weapons. It is very likely to be a sealed top-grade quasi-emperor weapon, or even an emperor weapon. "

Li Zhi was completely dumbfounded. At the same time, he thought of the items he left on the earth, such as the brush, hand shovel, oil lamp, knife, tweezers and Feng Shui compass. It turned out that they were a set of magical instruments. No wonder the laws within the Luoyang shovel were complete and could still exist in the world without a spirit.

Now it seems that the spirit of this set of magical instruments should be in the Feng Shui compass or the oil lamp.

Seeing that Li Zhi had stopped digging, Duan De patted him on the shoulder and said, "Little Li Zhi, this is just my guess, don't take it seriously. In the future, if you have the opportunity to find other matching magic tools and combine them for sacrifice, you may be able to truly understand its nature. But what I can be sure of now is that your Luoyang shovel is definitely not an ordinary holy weapon without a weapon spirit."

Then, Li Zhi started digging with great enthusiasm, asking as he dug: "Uncle Taoist, since this is the sealed place left by the Earth Master and the Heavenly Master, let's dig it open. What should we do if we encounter evil things in it?"

Duan De smiled and said, "So the hole you dig cannot be a straight hole. It needs to be dug according to the direction of my Nine-bend Divine Burial Formation. It may look like an ordinary hole for robbers, but in fact, I have set up a defensive formation in the hole. It can not only continue to isolate the internal and external auras, but also help us kill evil spirits."

Li Zhi looked back and saw that the tunnel had deviated from its original direction without anyone noticing and began to become winding. Even every certain distance, the excavated stones would be refined by Duan De into a mysterious stone door that sealed the cave.

"Uncle Taoist priest, after You Zilong and his companions find help, will they come in through the hole we dug?" Li Zhi had been digging for four or five days, which was enough time for You Zilong and his companions to find help.

Duan De smiled confidently and said, "The tunnel I dug is not so easy to be discovered. Don't worry, let them look for it. If they can find the entrance to the tunnel in that area, I will eat all the stones you dug out."

Just as Duan De said, the tunnel they dug could not be discovered by outsiders at all.

Because after Duan De and the others came in, he used the burial magic to block the entrance of the cave again. From the outside, there was no trace of any robbery left on the black rock wall.

While Li Zhi and Duan De were working hard to dig the hole, You Zilong and Aotian, who had found help, had already arrived in front of the black rock wall with a group of people.

And they have cleared the ordinary rocks around the outer edge of the stone wall.

A huge underground cave with a radius of more than thirty miles was dug underground.

A huge black rock ball with a radius of about ten thousand feet was exposed to everyone's eyes.

In order to better break the black rock restriction, they actually peeled the entire black rock out of the earth.

It has to be said that the style of doing things of these monks who come from powerful forces is so wild.

This time, You Zilong and Aotian found hundreds of helpers, seven of whom were great immortals of the second level, dozens of whom were great masters of the first level, and the rest were all at the Hualong Secret Realm.

No one's cultivation level is below the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

It was precisely because they had such a large number of manpower that they were able to peel the entire black rock barrier out of the earth in a very short time.

Looking at the black rock that looked like dragon scales, a great man from the Earth Master lineage exclaimed, "This is a sealing stone transformed from a top-grade dragon vein, which can be called the supreme secret of the Earth Master lineage. I never thought that I would be lucky enough to see this supreme sealing method comparable to the Six Seals of the Forbidden Immortals of the Yuan Tian Master lineage in this life. It seems that the ancestor has really reached a level comparable to the Yuan Tian Master of the East Wasteland."

"Uncle-master, the Black Rock Forbidden Stone is extremely strong. Even my Dragon-Seeking Diamond Drill has little effect on it. I wonder if the Grandmaster has any way to break this layer of Black Rock Forbidden Stone?" You Zilong said to the Dragon-Seeking Geomancer who had surpassed the level of the Dragon-Seeking Grandmaster.

“Zilong, against this kind of sealing rock set up by the ancestor, all the means of dragon seekers and source techniques are useless. Unless your Taoism can surpass that of the ancestor back then, the effect will be minimal. But other means can come in handy at this moment.” said the dragon seeker.

Afterwards, he summoned a pitch-black magical weapon that looked like a dragon claw. As soon as the weapon came out, it immediately exuded a powerful and sharp aura, as if it could crush all tangible objects in the world.

"Is this the legendary invincible holy weapon, the Dragon Claw? Wasn't it shattered in the war between gods back then?" Aotian said in surprise after seeing the dragon claw-like weapon.

You Zilong explained, "Brother Ao, the weapon in Uncle Master's hand is not the Divine Dragon Claw, but the Yin-Exploring Claw inherited from my Earth Master lineage. It was a holy weapon made 20,000 years ago by a saint from my Earth Master lineage using the claw of a holy beast-level demon dragon mixed with countless refined gold."

Aotian nodded slightly, then asked: "Brother You, we have already peeled off the rock layers within a radius of dozens of miles, why haven't we found any traces of Taoist Duan and his men?"

You Zilong also said with a worried look on his face: "I also find this matter strange. They clearly did not leave this place, but there is no trace of them. However, there is no trace of their excavation on the Black Rock Forbidden Stone. I suspect that they are hiding in the dark, waiting for us to open this sealed stone, and then reap the benefits."

While the two were talking, You Zilong's uncle had already chosen the location to dig the hole, and used the Yin-Exploring Claw to start digging on the black rock forbidden stone.

However, such a powerful holy soldier could only dig a small hole less than one foot in diameter on the Black Rock Forbidden Stone each time, and this was the weakest part of the outer layer.

At this rate, it would probably take a long time to dig through the legendary 9,999-zhang forbidden black rock layer.

Soon, You Zilong's uncle had exhausted all his magic power, but he had only dug out a hole less than ten feet deep.

Although the powerful can make the holy soldiers exert the power of the holy way, the consumption of mana is also extremely terrifying.

Afterwards, everyone took turns controlling the claw to dig.

But even so, they could only dig to a depth of several dozen feet every day.

This speed is already the limit they can achieve. If it goes any faster, someone might not be able to handle it.

However, Li Zhi was able to advance at a speed of more than a thousand feet per day in the forbidden black rock layer. If Duan Deyi had not taken this opportunity to teach Li Zhi how to dig a tunnel, they would have been even faster.

This made Li Zhi constantly slander Duan De in his heart. He wanted to be lazy but didn't even find a good excuse. He was going to use him, a coolie, to death.

But Li Zhi had to accept Duan De's guidance, and Duan De did teach him some profound knowledge and magical powers about digging tunnels in the process.

The digging ability taught by Duan De is said to be able to dig through the boundary of a complete small world, and even the tomb of the emperor after being cultivated to the deepest level.

That kind of method is simply taking away the fortune of heaven and earth and invading the mysteries of the sun and the moon. Li Zhi even thinks that after evolving this method of digging tunnels to the extreme, he may be able to dig through the boundary of this universe, thereby leaving this universe and directly entering the boundless sea of ​​the universe outside the universe.

Li Zhi was curious and asked, "Uncle Taoist, did you learn this method of digging holes from the path to becoming an immortal? Is it so that one day you can dig through the boundary between the immortal and mortal worlds and get the divine objects of the immortal world?"

There is not nothing outside the universe, Li Zhi has long known this.

Mount Tai is an original fairy mountain that fell into this universe from outside the heaven and earth, but the top of Mount Tai was cut off by Emperor Huang Tian back then.

The section of the sacred mountain that was intercepted has now turned into the Heaven Burial Island, one of the seven forbidden areas for life in the Eastern Wilderness.

Facing Li Zhi's question, Duan De was stunned for a moment, then he nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Yes, my method of evolving the tunnel is to dig through the world and steal the divine objects from outer space one day in the future."

But Li Zhi could see that Duan De had no such idea at all. He cultivated this superb skill of digging tunnels purely for the convenience of opening the underground ancient tomb.

Nine days later, Li Zhi finally dug through the forbidden black rock.

What comes into view is not an underground ancient tomb or a small world of Ksitigarbha, but a layer of blue-gray soil that can absorb divine power, very similar to the "blue paste mud" commonly found in ancient tombs.

"The Green Paste Divine Mud. They actually used the Green Paste Divine Mud to seal the Ksitigarbha Land again within the forbidden stone splitting range. It seems that the things in the Ksitigarbha Land are not simple." Duan De said after he picked out a little from the mud wall in front of him and rubbed it with his fingertips.

Li Zhi asked: "Is the Qinggao Divine Mud here dangerous?"

In Li Zhi's opinion, in order to prevent theft, the ancients would sometimes mix highly toxic substances into this seemingly simple green paste mud that isolates water vapor, making it difficult to guard against.

"The Green Paste Divine Mud here is not very dangerous. It's just that the Green Paste Divine Mud is often used to isolate the internal and external auras. So much Green Paste Divine Mud is used here, so I think the things they want to isolate are not simple." After saying that, Duan De said to Li Zhi: "You step back, and let me lead the way next."

Duan De first offered a saint's oil lamp, and then took out several magic weapons and began to make holes in the green paste mud wall.

A cave that was more than one person tall soon appeared. Under the holy light emitted by the saint's oil lamp, the soft green mud on the cave wall was solidified into tough rock.

Finally, in the green mud, Duan De opened a winding passage that was dozens of feet deep.

After following Duan De into the sacred mud passage, Li Zhi felt a cold breath coming from all around, as if it was going to devour his soul.

Fortunately, the passage solidified by the divine light of the saint's oil lamp temporarily blocked the soul-devouring breath, allowing them to safely reach the end of the passage.

If Duan De had not led the way, and Li Zhi had come alone, he would probably have been ambushed. It was obvious that there were other things in this piece of green mud.

At the end of the sacred mud passage, they encountered a gloomy wooden wall.

Li Zhi asked, "Have we arrived yet?"

Duan De said, "We should be there soon. First, make a hole in this dark wood wall."

Then, Li Zhi took out the Luoyang shovel and opened a big hole in the wooden wall with flashing runes.

Finally, the two entered a small space of only a dozen square meters built with dark wood.

In that small space, there was no ancient coffin or burial objects, only a black stone drum the size of a millstone.

There are also densely packed mysterious runes engraved on the stone drum, which doesn't look like a good thing.

"It's actually a World Stone."

Duan De said in surprise after walking around the stone drum twice.

But soon, he showed a hint of disappointment and said, "What a waste of divine material. Such a holy object was actually made into a cage to seal demons."

Li Zhize asked: "Could it be that the so-called Ksitigarbha small world is inside this stone drum?"

Duan De nodded and said, "It's probably in there. But the things inside are not simple. I, the Taoist priest, feel a strong curse power from this stone drum. Anyone who opens it rashly will probably be cursed before entering the small world inside."

Li Zhi said with a little disappointment: "Are we going to make this trip in vain?"

Li Zhi felt that it was better to be cautious about the curse. Apart from Ye Fan, Li Zhi had not heard of any Yuan Tianshi or Dacheng Saint Body who could resolve the troubles caused by the curse.

Seeing that Li Zhi was about to back off, Duan De said, "What are you worried about, kid? Don't you trust me? I didn't say that this curse can't be broken. Little Li Zhi, stand behind me from now on and don't go more than three feet away from me."

When Li Zhi saw this, he immediately realized why he had overlooked Duan De.

The situation that cultivators such as Earth Master and Heavenly Master will encounter in their later years is suspected to be a curse cast by the Source God and Source Ghost using the Tongtian Mingbao. Could it be that this curse will also hurt the owner of the treasure?

Then Li Zhi stood behind Duan De and watched him take out the lid of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Pot. Black rays of light dropped down and completely protected him and Li Zhi inside.

Then Li Zhi saw Duan De take out a bottle that exuded a fiery sacred aura, and said with a painful look on his face: "If there is no divine object in the Ksitigarbha world, I will suffer a great loss this time."

"Uncle Taoist priest, is this the essence and blood of a God King at the saint level? The sacred power is so surging?" Li Zhi said with a little surprise.

Duan De said, "This is a bottle of the Holy Blood of the God King that I spent a lot of effort to get. I was even chased for a million miles because of it."

Li Zhi thought to himself, "Could this be the holy blood of the God King that Duan De got from the Ji family cemetery? But the activity and sacred power don't seem to be obtained from a dead person. Duan De's methods are indeed extraordinary."

Afterwards, Duan De poured the bottle of God King's blood that exuded sacred power onto the stone drum.

The originally inky black stone drum seemed to be purified. After the holy blood penetrated into the stone, it quickly turned into a stone sparkling with silver light.

Upon seeing this, Duan De immediately chanted a spell, and a portal of light and shadow appeared from the stone drum.

"Let's go!" Duan De directly pulled Li Zhi into the light gate.

(End of this chapter)