Chapter 293 - 157: "Land!

Chapter 293: Chapter 157: "Land!

They were only about ten meters wide.

But there were a great many of them.

They encountered one almost every time they dug a certain distance.

He had asked Hey Hey about it.

Hey Hey had a unique way of Array Breaking—well, maybe not so unique. It was just that in front of Hey Hey, Ordinary Arrays and the like could be shattered with a single swipe of its paw and then swallowed.

Take, for example, the Array set up by the Immortal Celestial Master to leave behind his legacy.

Hey Hey said it could break it.

But it would take a considerable amount of time.

So, he chose to go around them. It wasn’t to save time; rather, a Grand Array that even Hey Hey found difficult to shatter couldn’t possibly be some Low Level Array.

’Maybe the Thunderstorm Sea Realm really is protecting the Eternal Night Continent.’

’If I destroy this Array, the Thunderstorm Sea Realm might fail.’

’Countless imprisoned Ghost Objects would flood into the Eternal Night Continent. My Jiangbei Defense Line isn’t finished yet. I can’t afford those consequences.’

Whatever the Array’s purpose was, it was best not to destroy it for now.

He was a little curious.

But he could restrain his curiosity. He had no intention of risking his life just to see what would happen if he destroyed these Arrays.

Therefore, this section of the Undersea Tunnel beneath the Thunderstorm Sea Realm was extremely difficult to excavate, costing them a tremendous amount of time. You could say that two-thirds of their work over the past three months had been wasted here.

Fortunately, however, they were about to dig their way out from under the Thunderstorm Sea Realm and would soon be able to leave this area behind.

"...Continue."

Chen Fan’s eyes were bloodshot. His voice was hoarse as he stared intently at the Ghost Map in his hand and gave the order. He had barely slept these past few months, all to stay on schedule.

There wasn’t much time left.

Exploring the New Continent and collecting Ghost Stones would still take a lot of time.

He also had to return to Jiangbei and open a trade route to the Guanxi Plain to acquire more Heavenly Materials and Treasures and even High Grade Building Blueprints.

Of the four-year deadline, only three and a half years remained.

It was better to be early than late.

He couldn’t possibly wait until the fourth year to finish the Jiangbei Defense Line. Completing it early would provide a greater sense of security, allowing him more freedom to construct supporting buildings and recruit more people.

Just then, Hey Hey suddenly staggered, its momentum carrying it right into the tunnel wall. It froze for a moment, then turned to Chen Fan with an excited, low growl.

"Nice work, Hey Hey."

Chen Fan smiled.

The rock ahead was finally not so hard anymore. This meant they had left the Thunderstorm Sea Realm and officially arrived in the Sea Realm of the New Continent.

He looked at the Ghost Map in his hand.

Hundreds of white dots of various sizes had appeared on it. These dots represented countless islands. Apart from them, there was also one enormous white dot.

That white dot was the New Continent.

They had arrived.

They had successfully passed through the forbidden zone of the Thunderstorm Sea Realm, crossing through it cautiously, almost like stowaways.

He took out his Storage Ring, had Hey Hey spit all the rocks from its belly into it, and then placed the ring back on the high-speed rail car behind him. He let it return to Hope Island, where Lame Monkey would clean it out before sending it back.

This Storage Ring had been a huge help.

Without this Storage Ring, even disposing of the excavated earth would have been difficult.

"Lame Monkey."

Chen Fan took out a Sound Transmission Talisman from his pocket to contact Lame Monkey on Hope Island. "The rocks in this Storage Ring are all from beneath the Thunderstorm Sea Realm. Store them in the Warehouse on the island along with the ones dug up from inside the Sea Realm the other day."

He had specifically built a Warehouse at the temporary camp on Hope Island.

It was used to store the rocks excavated from beneath the Thunderstorm Sea Realm.

’Such sturdy rock.’

’Even though my panel shows it’s not some kind of Heavenly and Earthly Treasure, special things are always good things. I’ll collect them for now; they might be useful later.’

"Let’s go!"

After taking care of all that, he grinned, looked at the Ghost Map, and pointed ahead. "Dig straight to the New Continent. We’ll skip the other islands."

"Make landfall!"

Wang Mazi and his group had never personally set foot on this New Continent.

Based on the situation on several islands, they had only inferred that the New Continent’s inhabitants had likely been slaughtered. Wang Mazi didn’t know the specifics of what had happened.

He was the first human to set foot on this New Continent.

Or rather,

the first human to set foot on this New Continent after its demise.

...

Finally—

Another month passed.

The time was now the end of the ninth month, year 379 of the Eternal Night Calendar.

The tunnel suddenly began to rise at a ninety-degree vertical angle, turning from a tunnel into a deep well.

Hey Hey was a natural-born digger.

Even when digging upward from underground, it could brace itself in mid-air by embedding its hind legs and thick tail into the sides of the deep well, allowing it to dig rapidly.

A scrape of its front claws.

A gape of its massive jaw.

And the deep well extended another stretch toward the surface.

Finally!

"RUMBLE..."

The moment the layer of earth shattered and long-unseen sunlight poured in, Chen Fan climbed out from underground. The instant he emerged, before he even had time to survey his surroundings, in the blink of an eye, he instantly deployed a Ghost Fire and a ten-meter-long, ten-meter-wide City Wall shot up from the ground!

The Level of the City Wall had already reached an absurd Level 6.

Currently, not a single wall in the entire Mortal Realm was uniformly Level 6.

Against a City Wall of this Level, even a Ghost King attacking with all its might would just be tickling it.

It took a full 8,560 Ghost Stones to build one meter of a Level 6 City Wall. These four walls had consumed over 340,000 Ghost Stones. The four thirty-meter-high walls that erupted from the ground almost instantly blocked his view.