Chapter 2114 - 14: Traversing 200 Miles Underground, Lan Chuan Shocked!

Chapter 2114: Chapter 14: Traversing 200 Miles Underground, Lan Chuan Shocked!

Zhao Xing had already fully entered a flow state, devoting himself completely to constructing the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace.

The Anti-Fighting Earth Palace was something his avatar had learned on the Ancient Hill. Although it was an Earth Palace Skill, it was commonly found in the Earth Store Scripture.

Because the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace wasn’t a concrete Spell, but a construction concept, it was rarely used for direct attacks and instead served to deal with complex underground environments.

"Wong~~~"

Right now, the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace was vibrating at a minuscule yet extreme frequency without pause, while Zhao Xing stood in a corner inside the Earth Palace watching.

The foul, coalesced Qi surged out from the five halls of the Earth Palace, followed the passageways to gather at the skylight, then boiled upward, forming a pillar of smoke that vented out, making the upper air turbid beyond belief, while the spot where he was standing remained perfectly clean.

"Five halls of the Earth Palace reverse the Five Elements, heaven and earth, Yin and Yang begin to turn upside down!"

When Zhao Xing constructed the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace, he started from the Wood Hall, then Fire Hall, Earth Hall, Metal Hall, and ended at the Water Hall.

It also incorporated the traits of the Life Palace, namely letting the Earth Palace formed by the five halls operate Qi like the five organs of a human body, thus producing that vibration.

If one ignored its shape, what a person standing on the ground would sense below wouldn’t seem like an Earth Palace at all, but more like someone cultivating beneath them.

Five Qi face the origin, converging at the top.

However, the foul coalesced Qi belonged to earth Qi, and by nature returned to the ground, so expelling it was very difficult.

Because Yang Qi in its Qingming clarity rises, Yin Qi in its murkiness sinks, the Yin Yang Dao gives birth to two Qi—this is the natural trait of the Dao’s manifestation.

So the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace Zhao Xing laid down was still the foundation—within the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace, the traits of Yin and Yang Qi were inverted.

Yang Qi in its Qingming clarity flowed downward, while Yin Qi in its turbid murkiness rose upward, only then could the foul coalesced Qi be expelled.

When the Anti-Fighting Earth Palace took shape, the checkpoint seventy kilometers away was broken as well.

"Boom~"

The foul coalesced Qi shot up to the heavens like an Earth Dragon turning over.

Zhao Xing stood with his hands clasped behind his back, watching this scene, feeling a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

"Magnificent, truly magnificent."

"Nine Nether Qi Rush, it’s already reached Demigod-level might. I really am a genius."

The power Zhao Xing drew out by constructing the Earth Palace absolutely reached Demigod-level potency.

With the strength of an Eight Tribulation Emperor, prying loose a controlled upheaval of the earth with might close to a Demigod’s—this kind of earth-change, still under control—was an unparalleled sense of achievement.

"Keep going down."

Zhao Xing didn’t notice at all that the toxic gas released by the Earth Palace had poisoned the Heaven Patrol Divine Guard Feng Qi into collapse.

Even if he knew, he wouldn’t care—how could real-combat experience for "A Thousand Earthly Wonders" be less important than this?

As the watcher of the Xuanyin Rift Valley, Feng Qi took this job for money, so he had to bear the corresponding risk.

If you don’t have the guts, what are you doing here watching the show?

...

As Zhao Xing continued descending, the collapsed Venerable Feng Qi lying inside the Earth Escape Shuttle was detected as an anomaly by the Magic Artifact’s Artifact Spirit; the shuttle automatically began to return and quickly fled back to the valley floor.

"Wong~"

The Command Flag trembled, and the Earth Escape Shuttle burst out of the soil, though only one section emerged while the other remained below, blocking the way to prevent the Qi being released from rising further.

Emperor Di Jun and Emperor Cheng Fei were currently waiting for Venerable Feng Qi’s Result of his investigation.

Hearing the movement, they immediately looked over.

"Why is Venerable Feng Qi asleep?" Emperor Di Jun asked in puzzlement.

"Have you ever seen someone lose flesh while sleeping?" Emperor Cheng Fei was rather horrified. "He’s been poisoned!"

They saw Venerable Feng Qi lying quietly in the cabin of the Earth Escape Shuttle. Through the transparent window, they could see the flesh all over his body rotting.

Although his body was repairing itself rapidly, the bloody wounds were everywhere, and the speed at which the toxic gas destroyed his body far exceeded the gold body’s self-healing efficiency.

"Something happened? Do you think he might be faking it..." Emperor Di Jun still couldn’t quite believe it. Feng Qi was a powerful Heaven Patrol Divine Guard, the watcher here—how could anything happen to him?

"Doesn’t seem likely..." Emperor Cheng Fei looked on suspiciously. But they had no idea what to do; after all, they didn’t know the other Heaven Patrol Divine Guards and had no idea whom to notify.

Because of the abnormal situation, the other challengers soon returned from underground. After seeing Venerable Feng Qi’s miserable state, they were all badly frightened.

"What happened? Should we run?"

"The underground seems to have become dangerous. We shouldn’t stay here long."

"Sigh, the money for this run is wasted..."

No one cared whether Venerable Feng Qi lived or died, yet none dared to be the first to bolt.

But this chaotic situation was quickly broken.

"Whoosh~"

A cloud of mist exploded from the ground, followed by a middle-aged man emerging, clad in a gray hemp Divine Officer’s robe, possessing four arms and a ’☷’ pattern on his forehead.

"It’s the Earth God Official!"

"Thirteenth rank Demigod."

"We greet Venerable Lan Chuan."

Venerable Lan Chuan was Feng Qi’s superior; Feng Qi and several other Heaven Patrol Divine Guards were under Venerable Lan Chuan’s jurisdiction.

Upon receiving Feng Qi’s warning, Venerable Lan Chuan immediately tunneled over.

Venerable Lan Chuan ignored these ants, merely gazing silently at the land below, as if seeing through endless depths.

At this moment, only Yu Ying and Zhao Xing were still challenging underground.

Yu Ying had already reached ninety-seven li. The traces of her descent all the way down were relatively subtle; the top thirty li had even automatically restored themselves.

"Not her."

Venerable Lan Chuan then looked toward Zhao Xing’s direction, and a hint of surprise crossed his face.

"Hm? The way he’s challenging the checkpoints is really Gao Ming."

If Yu Ying’s and Zhao Xing’s challenges were viewed as solving a problem, their answers were the same. But Yu Ying’s solution was plain and unremarkable—one glance and you could see her level.

By contrast, Zhao Xing’s solving process was exquisite, so much so that even in Venerable Lan Chuan’s eyes, it was rather profound.

Venerable Lan Chuan watched for a while, then through the Earth Escape Shuttle’s Artifact Spirit’s report, he learned the cause of Feng Qi’s poisoning.