Realms In The Firmament

The ground was caved in quietly as Bing Xinyue kept pressing down. The two ladies were slowly sinking. It looked casual and relaxed.

Bing Xinyue was running all her spiritual power on her feet and built a strong energy shield. Everything that was touched by the shield, soil or rocks, would be cracked into pieces immediately. After a while, an empty space appeared under her feet. They were sinking faster.

Everything seemed to go well. After a while, half of their bodies had entered the ground.

Suddenly, the wind was howling in the sky over their heads. With thunderclaps and the flashing lightning, a man approached. He shouted, ”Anything yet?”

The man who had been staying in the air frowned and responded, ”The fire is rolling everywhere, but I don’t see any trace of them. They are definitely not in my area…”

The man who just arrived angrily said, ”Definitely? Look at you, staying in the air, with all the dense smoke around, are you sure you can see everything? Why don’t you just get down and check again? What gives you the ridiculous confidence?”

The first man was annoyed. [This place is all burning in fire. I have been scanning the entire area with my spiritual mind several times. I am sure I have been watching everything. What is the difference between staying up here and getting down there anyway? I am level five of Dao Origin Stage. It is the same!]

[I am certainly able to watch things around me, am I not?]

However, the latter guy must be in high position than him. Even though he wasn’t willing to, he still slowly moved down to the floor.

When the two guys were talking, Wenren Chuchu had already fully entered the ground, but Bing Xinyue still had half of her head above the floor. When the man was moving back down, Bing Xinyue eventually got inside the ground in time, dust stopped rolling.

Lucky for Bing Xinyue, that man was level five of Dao Origin Stage, who was good at flying skill. He was slowly moving down like a feather, not raising up a flow of dust.

The reason why it was lucky for Bing XInyue was that the man exactly stepped on Bing Xinyue’s Baihui Acupuncture point [1].

If he stepped down any harder, if he didn’t keep operating his flying art, the two ladies under his feet should have been dead.

Baihui Acupuncture was a lethal acupuncture point of a human body. It could be quite an injury if even an ordinary man hit somebody’s Baihui Acupuncture, let alone a Dao Origin Stage cultivator!

However, that man wouldn’t suddenly hit the floor, would he?

He did feel the soil a little too soft, but then he murmured, ”The fire has loosened the soil…” He then moved his feet to rub the floor, but only to make a mass of dust floating up and covering everything up.

Several of the others hurriedly waved their sleeves fast and made blows of strong wind. The wind kept blowing in this area to clear the air. The dense smoke was blown away like a flying dark cloud. After that, the area became more transparent and brighter!

There were still smoke rolling in the air beyond the floor. The area was in silence.

The smell of burning fur filled the air. The fire had burned lots of animals in the forest to death.

”Search! Bit by bit! Carefully!” The man who seemed to be their leader shouted, ”We have surrounded the entire a hundred miles area. It is impossible that they could leave this place! They are definitely inside our surrounding!”

”Search carefully! Do not miss even a strand of grass! You better find the damn women! I don’t care if you will dig down beneath the floor or what!” An old man with a cyan face shouted harshly, ”Listen up, you guys! If you can’t find the two women, you will have to cut your own throats right in this place!”

That was an order, not a joke. It was a lethal order.

The others were all frightened. Their faces turned cyan, and they looked like a bunch of ghost in the smoke.

The old man turned around and walked away. He kept asking people the same question.

”Are you sure nobody has been hiding here?

”Are you sure?

”Absolutely sure?”

After getting all the positive answers, he turned around again staring at the fire, with killing intent in his eyes.

”The filthy women must be hiding within this area!

”We must find them no matter what we do! Either of them escapes, and we will be in big trouble… Our sect may be wiped out!

”We can’t take the responsibility!

”So… either they die, or we die! Instead of waiting for them to show up, we should work harder to find them!”

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These people started a blanket search on the floor. Some places even burst out booms. Apparently, some of these people finally couldn’t endure it, so began to dig the ground.

Beneath the ground, Bing Xinyue had built an energy shield with her spiritual power to keep them both under protection and moving deeper down.

Wenren Chuchu was right. The soil was moist.

Bing Xinyue wasn’t satisfied with the current situation though. Chuchu had been suffering the injuries, also been through the burning fire, so she needed to drink water. The moist soil was meaningless.

Luckily, the soil was getting softer as they went deeper down. She finally didn’t need to consume a lot of energy to move down.

As they moved downward, the soil would fill the space over their heads…

Wenren Chuchu had planned to get ten meters under the ground, but those men started to dig, so they decided to go twenty meters deep into the ground. In fact, Bing Xinyue didn’t stop when they were twenty meters under the ground. In the end, they had reached over thirty meters depth under the ground. Bing Xinyue stopped because they finally surrounded by the slurry.

The two of them felt cool when they reached the slurry layer under the ground. The heat from the fire was gone. Bing Xinyue quietly operated her martial art to expand the energy shield. The shield created a three-meters-wide hollow. That aside, she particularly made a small pit.

The water in the soil started to flow into the pit. After a while, the pit was filled with murky water.

After the time of incense, the grime in the water precipitated to the bottom, and what left was the clear water.

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[1] Baihui Acupuncture can be found on the top of one’s head.