Xuan Mingzi fought hard down there for three hours. The cave had stretched out eighty feet and reached a depth of ten feet. The surrounding soil was getting more and more humid, and there was water accumulation in many areas, but there was still no underground river.
Wu Sheng was also a little anxious. It was almost three hours before dark, and what would he do if he couldn't dig the underground river again?
The two briefly bumped heads and came up with a plan. They decided to dig to the right and front while Xuan Mingzi dug to the left, forming two tunnels to increase the chance of digging through the underground river.
During the excavation process, if he encountered hard places such as granite, Wu Sheng would take action to break them. He would no longer spare any effort and showed his copper-skinned and iron-bone abilities to the fullest, stabbing hard with his fingertips, forcefully breaking it with his fists, Xuan Mingzi was speechless when he saw the forceful pounding and moving with both arms.
Two hours after the underground cave stretched forward rapidly, Xuan Mingzi dug out first, but instead of an underground river, an underground cave was dug out. This cave is not small, and the two of them couldn't visit everything even after wandering inside for a moment, so Xuan Mingzi was left to look for the entrance to the underground river in the cave, while Wu Sheng went back and turned in another direction. Turn around and dig around the cave to see if you can make any new discoveries.
When the tunnel on Wu Sheng's side was dug out for more than thirty feet, the bottom collapsed, revealing a cave entrance again.
This cave should be the same as the cave dug by Xuan Mingzi, but no connecting passage was found. In the end, an underground pool was found in the cave on Wu Sheng's side. After swimming dozens of feet in the pool, two heads surfaced. Wu Sheng and Xuan Mingzi clenched their fists in excitement.
They entered a rushing underground river!
It was too late to figure out where this underground river led. The two of them returned the same way and came out of the hot spring pool in the ice cave, each letting out a long sigh of relief.
Wan Baochang was very nervous and asked what happened. Wu Sheng came out of the water and said: "It's done!"
Xuan Mingzi also stepped out, hugged Wan Baochang's neck, and laughed: "Haha, you can go!"
Wu Sheng looked outside and saw that it was already dark in the frozen gorge, so he said to them: "I'll go out and be back soon."
When things happened, Wan Baochang was very nervous: "Where are you going? Where are you going now?"
Wu Sheng comforted him: "You can only leave after you have done everything carefully."
He walked quietly in the night and arrived at the end of the Frozen Gorge where he had made an appointment with the Qiu brothers. The two brothers had been waiting here for a long time.
Wu Sheng didn't see the ice ladder he expected to build, so he couldn't help but frown: "What's going on?"
Fatty Qiu pointed to the ice cave at the corner not far away and said, "There is someone there, Feng San is inside."
That ice cave was closest to where they planned to build the ice ladder, and it was the place where they originally planned to get hot water to pour the ice picks, so Wu Sheng ducked down and sneaked over, with the Qiu brothers behind him.
When we arrived outside the ice cave, the sounds inside came out, and we heard them very clearly. However, it was Feng San and his people who were causing trouble inside. The sounds of laughter, anger, wails, and screams could be heard. It was such a chaotic mess. .
Wu Sheng listened for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Who is Eleventh Lang? What's going on?"
Fatty Qiu said: "Eleventh Lang is the black-browed god, ranked eleventh. He has fine features and delicate eyes, but is weak in literary skills, so he is often bullied by Feng San."
Wu Sheng was puzzled: "Isn't Feng San a shou? Why did he become an attacker again?"
Fatty Qiu was even more puzzled: "What are receiving and attacking?"
Wu Sheng waved his hand: "Forget it, there's no point in not talking about this. So, they blocked the pool? Can't other ice caves work?"
Fatty Qiu said: "The closest one is this one, and then the one over there. Look... run twenty feet more and pass by here. It's easy for them to find out. There are eight people and eight pairs of eyes in here. It can't be hidden." .”
Wu Sheng took a look, and sure enough, there was an ice cave further away and diagonally opposite, but there was no hot spring pool in that ice cave, so it was usually uninhabitable.
After thinking for a while, Wu Sheng said: "Forget it, no more water."
He led the Qiu brothers back again, followed the predetermined connection point of the ice pick, stretched out his finger and drilled in. His fingers were like iron rods, and his nails were no different from iron awls. After a few turns, he carved a deep hole in the ice wall.
"Bring it!"
"What?"
"ice
Cone! "
"Oh oh oh, yes, yes, ice pick, ice pick..."
The Qiu brothers were dumbfounded. At Wu Sheng's urging, they remembered to pass the ice pick. Wu Sheng inserted the ice pick into the hole. It was a little loose, so he drilled three minutes deeper, and now it was strong.
One left and one right, one left and one right...
Wu Sheng drove the ice picks into the ice wall one by one to form an ice ladder, and then climbed up the ice ladder to drill holes and insert ice picks. The Qiu brothers followed behind and handed the new ice picks to Wu Sheng.
In less than half an hour, the ice ladder has been built to a height of more than thirty feet.
If they were real ordinary people, their legs and feet would have been so frightened by climbing on such a high ice wall. But the three of them were Taoist immortals and had lost their fear of heights. Wu Sheng dug holes and inserted awls on it, and the Qiu brothers I climbed up and down below, with a steady supply of ice, and built the ice ladder all the way up.
Fatty Qiu looked at Wu Sheng, whose figure above him was getting smaller and smaller, and said in shock: "Brother, this guy named Wu is actually a self-cultivation practitioner. How many years have we not seen a self-cultivation practitioner?"
Qiu Shouzi murmured: "Awesome"
Fatty Qiu also had lingering fears: "Fortunately, you and I didn't offend him, otherwise we would have turned around and been pinched to death by him, and there would be no way to redress our grievances... Hurry, he is beckoning, send it up quickly, I will go down and get it."
An hour and a half later, more than 700 ice picks were inserted into the ice wall, and the ice ladder was completed.
The Qiu brothers are indeed very experienced. The place they chose is obviously much easier to climb. After Wu Sheng climbed up, he found that it was more than ten feet shorter than other places on the top of the cliff, and the distance from the bottom of the cliff was only about eighty feet. Saves a lot of effort.
Sitting on the top of the cliff, I immediately felt the biting cold, freezing in the violent snowstorm. Those snowflakes like goose feathers were blocked by the spiritual power rising from the bottom of the gorge and did not fall. It should be that some kind of formation set up by Yin Lingluo played a role in ensuring the survival of everyone at the bottom of the gorge.
After just a moment, Wu Sheng couldn't bear it any longer and quickly climbed down the ice ladder.
The Qiu brothers were very excited and asked repeatedly: "Are you leaving? How about we leave?"
Wu Sheng said: "Wait, there is still something to do."
The Qiu brothers were very reluctant: "Wu Daoyou, what else is more important than escaping?"
Wu Sheng said: "We must take Wan Baochang, Xuan Mingzi and the others away without leaving them behind. You guys stay here and I'll call for help."
Fatty Qiu sighed: "Wu Daoyou is a true believer, my brother is convinced."
Slim Qiu tugged on Fatty Qiu's clothes and pursed his lips. Wu Sheng turned around and saw that at some point, two gangsters under Feng San were standing not far away, looking blankly at this side. .
