Chapter 2112 - 11: Who Taught Him to Clear the Stages Like This? (Part 3)

Chapter 2112: Chapter 11: Who Taught Him to Clear the Stages Like This? (Part 3)

As soon as Zhao Xing went down, he felt the mana in his body no longer flowing smoothly, even the True Spirit Fire was a bit sluggish.

"Whoosh!"

Feng Qi waved his hand, and a Command Flag appeared, planted right under Zhao Xing’s feet.

"Hum~"

The Command Flag emitted pure white light, driving away the surrounding yin energy and forming a hemispherical Barrier, like a bowl overturned on the ground.

"Tunnel down from the Heavenly Patrol Flag. If you meet the standard, I’ll know."

"If danger appears, I’ll know too."

Feng Qi explained.

"But if I make a move, that’s extra charge. Going down to save you takes some effort."

"Understood. Thank you for the reminder, Lord Feng."

"I’ll go down first."

"Go on." Feng Qi smiled squint-eyed. After Zhao Xing jumped down, he left a marker at this spot, then ran toward another area.

There weren’t many people participating in this Extreme Vertical Earth challenge this round, but not too few either—thirteen clients in total.

Zhao Xing counted as a new client; the rest were all old acquaintances, basically the kind who refuse to give up.

Feng Qi glanced at the Heavenly Patrol Mirror; it showed the progress of all thirteen.

"Yu Ying could already go ninety-five li last time, only five li short of success."

"She’s already a Venerable, so there’s hope she’ll succeed within the next few attempts. As for the other old customers, they can only go to around eighty li, so there’s still money to be made."

"Emperor Chen An? Heh, an Eight Tribulation Emperor wants to challenge this too—he’s practically here to hand me money." Feng Qi was thoroughly pleased.

"When he comes back up, I’ll have to comfort him a bit. If I take the initiative to save him later, I can consider charging him slightly less for the trouble."

Cast a long line to catch a big fish; making money steadily over time is the King’s Way.

Judging by the looks of it, Zhao Xing was a generous fellow—he must not be allowed to slip away.

Feng Qi was also planning to later arrange for this Emperor Chen An to witness Yu Ying’s record; having a predecessor’s example can further spur people on.

...

Just after squatting down, Zhao Xing felt a repulsive force pushing upward from below, as if there were a Repulsive Underground Palace underneath.

Descending to a depth of five li, scattered fragments of vein fluctuations pressed in from all directions.

When he reached ten li, an Yin Metal Earth Vein blocked his way, as if a hard boulder underground was barring his path.

"Shatter and open the wall!"

Zhao Xing first cast using White Bone power; this was the Opening the Folding Boundary Mountain Magic Technique, a self-created one.

After about three breaths, the Yin Metal Earth Vein below softened, and he could continue tunneling down.

"Zizi~"

Continuing downward, Zhao Xing felt the pressure growing stronger. Once he reached a depth of twenty li, he slowed again.

"There’s another earth vein blocking the way below, still a Yin Earth Gold Vein."

"Interesting. I’ll have to get a bit serious."

"Mystic Fire Refines Gold!"

He used the Yin Earth Fire Power above to break the Earth Gold Vein, using force against force.

Zhao Xing’s understanding of the earth veins was at a level where one could write treatises; with the strength of an Eight Tribulation Emperor, he leveraged almost Demigod-level power within the earth veins, easily passing the twenty-li depth.

"Use Earth Advantage to counter earth obstruction."

"Back then I was just at the Origin Realm, yet by prying at the Boundary Volcano’s power, I managed to maim a Lord-level foe—that’s the benefit of mastering law and principle."

"Shatter, open the wall!"

Breaking through two layers of obstruction in a row, Zhao Xing still felt fairly relaxed.

But once he went past fifty li, things changed.

"Crack crack crack~"

Just after tunneling past the fifty-li demarcation, Zhao Xing felt a powerful repulsive force rising from below, generating fierce friction with his Tunneling Technique Barrier, like a monster’s claws raking against glass.

The tremendous pressure from around him seemed about to crush a person to pulp; even his own safety was now under severe threat.

"Earth Veins destroying metal, Yin Soil Xuan Needle—what kind of weird terrain is this." Zhao Xing watched golden mountain-spurs stabbing in from all sides.

"Nature truly works with ghostly skill. Such chaotic earth-vein fluctuations are like a natural Earth Vein Array, constantly attacking the one tunneling below."

However, Mr. Zhao had done most of his pioneering along the Desolate Ancient Road using Earth Advantage Sect Magic.

This scene, while unusual, was still not enough to surpass the Stacked Realm Mountain terrain—one of the Xuanling Ten Marvels.

When he went to rescue Emperor Hongshan, who was trapped inside Stacked Realm Mountain, that was true danger.

"Layered thrust!"

Zhao Xing first placed on himself a strong driving Spell, amplifying the Guardian Escape Realm, then carefully sensed the terrain below.

The checkpoint at fifty li was no longer an Earth Gold Vein, but a fusion of Earth Fire, Earth Water, and Earth Gold three veins.

At this point Zhao Xing had two options: one was to use the Qinghua Magical Power among his Seven-color Magic Power to force a breakthrough.

Yet half the route still lay ahead; who knew what problems he’d face.

Besides, choosing a brute-force solution now, wasting mana—how would that be any different from those brainless martial artists?

Zhao Xing sensed the situation below, treating it as a problem to be solved.

After pondering for about 15 minutes, he started moving again.

"Qi Vein!"

"Connect to the Void!"

Two Spells: the former drew out the qi of the earth veins, the latter constructed a new, illusory earth vein.

Like a pipeline, it guided the Earth Water Vein’s Origin below to the position Zhao Xing desired.

Now, among the gold, fire, and water veins, the water vein had been siphoned out, creating a high-low earth-vein difference, and the fire vein naturally began smelting the gold vein.

"Boil Amber!"

Zhao Xing refined the Earth Gold Vein into form, like a blacksmith hammering crude iron.

With the Earth Gold Vein forming into shape, a main vein emerged at the fifty-li depth. Thanks to the siphon effect between earth veins, the underground ceased its rampage; scattered vein power and qi began flowing along the illusory conduit, converging toward the Earth Gold Vein.