After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

She bit her red lips tightly, watching the young man recede into the distance above her head, feeling an indescribable sense of resentment.

Chapter 85 How did they manage to dig out water?

Fairy Qing Shuang did not want to kneel.

If she were to kneel here, her pride and her "ruthless Daoist heart" might shatter into pieces.

But the oppressive force grew stronger and stronger.

She looked at Xu Ze, who was getting further and further away on the steps, and bit her red lips tightly until they turned white and even bled.

finally.

She still bent down and lowered her body.

"It's not fun at all."

Only Mu Qinghe, after taking two steps up and finding it very uncomfortable, decisively retreated.

She doesn't care about face or dignity.

She came to the secret realm to have fun, so if she's not feeling well, she might as well not climb.

The little girl, hands on her hips, squatted at the foot of the mountain, cupped her hands into a megaphone shape, and shouted upwards:

"Brother, I'm not going up there~ Good luck! I'll be waiting for you down here!"

The sound was crisp and melodious, echoing through the mountains.

Hearing this sound, the people who were struggling to climb felt a mix of emotions.

They were fighting tooth and nail here, crawling and kneeling, while the Ninth Princess of Central Continent could so easily say, "I'm not going up."

Isn't this also a difference in mindset?

……

The 200th step.

Looking at the sea of ​​clouds and the endless layers of stone steps.

Xu Ze stopped and took a slight breath.

Upon reaching this point, the oppressive force was more than a thousand times stronger than that of the first step. Every step felt like carrying a small mountain.

He couldn't help but sweat from his forehead, but he still stood ramrod straight.

Looking down the mountain, one could see tiny figures kneeling and struggling to climb.

Xu Ze frowned slightly as he watched this scene, a hint of dissatisfaction flashing in his eyes.

Does this mean I have to kneel down too?

He glanced at the hundreds of steps still to go and snorted coldly.

dream!

Along his journey, he had experienced countless life-or-death crises and faced countless desperate situations... When had he ever knelt down, except when he angered his teacher, Ding Wan?

Now, faced with a mountain and some pressure, he has to kneel?

It's impossible!

So Xu Ze turned around and started walking down the mountain.

He walked with ease, more relaxed than when he was climbing the mountain.

Meanwhile, the crowd, still trapped on the tenth or twentyth floor of the mountain, watched the young man descend the mountain, their eyes filled with confusion.

What's going on??

Has this guy already finished climbing?

Only Fairy Qing Shuang kept her beautiful eyes wide open, because she had been watching the other person intently.

Clearly, Xu Ze hasn't reached the top yet.

He hadn't even bent over yet... how could he give up so soon?

She couldn't figure it out.

She's so weak right now that she can barely lift her head, how can she possibly think about these things?

……

"Hey? Bro, why are you down here so fast? Are you done?"

Mu Qinghe was crouching on a rock, holding his face in his hands, watching the ants fight.

As soon as she saw the figure she had been longing for, she immediately clung to him like a pendant.

"No, I don't want to climb anymore."

Xu Ze chuckled.

"Alright, let's go then." Mu Qinghe's attitude was indifferent to the whole thing.

She just came to the secret realm to join in the fun and see some new and interesting things she had never seen before.

It turned out to be incredibly boring inside; all she did was fight and climb stairs, and she lost interest.

She would definitely follow Xu Ze if he wanted to leave.

"Go? No, I'm not going." Xu Ze shook his head again, glancing at the final magic circle opposite the distant mountain peak, a sly glint in his eyes:

"Let's try a different approach."

"Change the method?" Mu Qinghe blinked her big eyes. "What other method is there? There's only one road through this mountain."

“Who says there’s only one road?” Xu Ze smiled, a mysterious smile. “Mountains are inanimate, but people are alive.”

He rummaged through his storage bag in front of Mu Qinghe.

Xu Ze's hand groped inside, muttering to himself:

"I remember putting it here? Hmm... no, it should be here... Ah, found it!"

Before long, a strangely shaped "magical artifact" appeared in his hand.

Its handle is about three feet long and made of some kind of tough spirit wood. The head is semi-circular with sharp edges like knives, gleaming coldly in the light.

"What's this?" Mu Qinghe curiously leaned closer, looking at it from left to right, before finally trying to ask, "A shovel? For digging?"

Xu Ze weighed the tool in his hand, smiled and nodded: "That's right, really smart."

"However, this is no ordinary shovel. Its official name is 'Luoyang shovel,' but this one is a 'custom-made' version from the cultivation world."

This magical artifact was confiscated from the cave of an elder skilled in earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magical technique) during the raid on the Biyang Sect.

At the time, he thought this thing was useless. After all, cultivators all knew "earth escape techniques," so who would use a shovel to dig a hole?

But now it seems that bringing it was the right thing to do.

“I knew from the beginning that I would definitely have to bring this kind of ‘tool’ with me, because I knew it would be useful in the future.”

Xu Ze laughed, a smug laugh.

That's right, he had already mastered many amazing skills through various brain games.

It's not just about unlocking.

Tomb raiding is a piece of cake for me!

Now, he has reached the peak of the Flawless Golden Core cultivation level, as well as a body that has undergone countless temperings.

"Digging a tunnel is a piece of cake, isn't it?"

Just do it.

Without further hesitation, Xu Ze, along with Mu Qinghe, began digging on the spot, following the existing pit in the square.

Before anyone else noticed, the two of them disappeared, still kneeling on the steps leading up the mountain, struggling to stay upright.

Wow, bro, you're amazing!

In the pitch-black tunnel, the little girl's eyes shone with excitement, and she even used a light-up spell to illuminate Xu Ze's vision.

She had never seen such a nimble tomb raider before, nor had she ever had such an experience; she was utterly astonished.

This is much more interesting than gathering herbs, fighting, and climbing stairs!

"Hmph, basic operation..."

Xu Ze wielded the shovel, making rapid progress.

His movements were fluid and efficient; the angle and force of each shovel strike were just right, and the hard ice and rocks were like rotten wood in his presence.

The tunnel continued to extend forward, sloping downwards. Xu Ze dug while estimating the distance and direction.

What he wanted to dig was a tunnel that led directly from the foot of the mountain to the back, so that he could bypass the "Asking the Way Peak" and reach the destination directly.

As for those guys still crawling on their knees on the stone steps... let them crawl slowly.

Xu Ze never takes the conventional path.

But just as he was digging with great enthusiasm, and was about to take another shovelful—

"Pfft!"

This time, the shovel head felt different.

It wasn't the hardness of the ice, nor the heaviness of the rocks, but rather... a soft, moist feeling?

Immediately afterwards, water gushed out from the gaps dug out by the shovel.

The water was crystal clear, with a slight coolness, and shimmered with a crystalline luster under the light of the illumination spell.

"Ok?"

"How come water was found when we dug it up?"

Chapter 86 Old Sword

"Could it be groundwater?"