Chapter 324 Blasting Out the Mysterious Underground Passage

After Chixia Zhenren and Haiming Zongzhu left, Yuanxiao took Xuanjizi, Qin Buyi and Yeying to fly low in the Yanshan Mine area, checking the terrain and landforms in various places, preparing to choose a place as the Yanshan camp of the Huangjin Sect.

Until they flew to the vicinity of the central area, Yuanxiao saw a flat highland half-surrounded by five finger-like mountains, which was very suitable for camping. It was flat and spacious, and the terrain was high.

Yuanxiao took a fancy to this place at first sight, and immediately dropped his flying sword to take a closer look.

The next morning, Mo Fei came with nearly a hundred disciples, most of whom would engage in mining-related work. Another dozen people were engaged in the intelligence gathering work of Beipingzhou that Yuanxiao had ordered, and they would be directly under the jurisdiction of Yeying.

Yuanxiao and Mo Fei made a general plan for the camp together, and then solemnly introduced Yeying, the butler of Yanshan, to everyone, and told them that all matters in the Yanshan Lingshi Mine would be decided by Yeying in the future, and everyone nodded in agreement.

Mo Fei was very thoughtful. Some of the various resources for building the camp were transported by flying boats, and some were brought by storage rings. It only took one day to renovate the camp before dark, and the tents were also built.

Yuan Xiao was happy. It was right to promote Mo Fei to the deputy sect leader. Although Mo Fei's cultivation was not high, he was very careful in managing the sect. Everything was in order and worthy of being entrusted with important matters.

The disciples of the Golden Sect were very motivated. They assembled the mining equipment and tools overnight and prepared to start digging the mine tomorrow morning.

Yuan Xiao smiled and said, "Wait until tomorrow morning, I will fire the first shot of mining for the Golden Sect!"

Everyone was confused and didn't know what the sect leader Yuan meant. Yuan Xiao didn't explain it either, saying that you will understand it after you see it tomorrow morning.

The next morning, Yuan Xiao looked around the Yanshan camp of the Golden Sect. In addition to the five high mountains distributed side by side like five fingers in front of him, there were two other mountains a little further behind him.

All the disciples of the Golden Sect had heard that the Sect Master wanted to fire the first shot for the Golden Sect's mining, but they didn't quite understand what it meant, so they gathered together curiously, waiting to see the performance of Sect Master Yuan.

Since Yuan Xiao became their Sect Master, the Golden Sect has been thriving, and the Sect Master's personal deeds are like legends. They all admire Yuan Xiao very much.

Yuan Xiao coughed first, and then saw Yuan Xiao calmly take out the spiritual energy cannon, aiming at the leftmost mountain among the five finger-like mountains, adjusting the height and aiming at the foot of the mountain, and began to load spiritual stones.

The disciples were stunned. The Sect Master said that the first shot of the Golden Sect's mining was really the first shot! It turned out that he was talking about the spiritual energy cannon.

It is estimated that the Golden Sect and Yuan Xiao are the first in the entire cultivation world to use spiritual energy cannons to open holes for mining!

Yuanxiao first loaded a few medium-grade spiritual stones into the spiritual energy cannon slot, then guided the runes on the barrel to aim, and finally activated the small formation in the barrel to amplify the energy of the spiritual stone, and then fired the first spiritual energy shell.

With the sound of explosions and a tremor, the spiritual energy shell hit the foot of the mountain and splashed sand and stones.

When the smoke and dust dissipated, Yuanxiao found that the foot of the mountain seemed to be unusually solid and had not suffered much damage.

Yuanxiao was secretly surprised and flew to the foot of the mountain to check it out. He found that the spiritual energy shell only broke the mountain wall less than ten feet thick on the surface, and did not blast out a big hole as imagined!

Could it be that the spiritual energy shell of the medium-grade spiritual stone is not powerful enough? Not really!

Could it be that there is something strange about this mountain? Possibly!

Yuanxiao immediately thought of a way to verify it. After flying back, he turned the muzzle of the spiritual energy cannon and aimed at one of the other two mountains in the distance behind him. He also fired a shot at the foot of the mountain, using the same medium-grade spiritual stone!

After one shot, the effect was obvious, and a large hole ten feet deep and five feet wide was immediately blasted out at the foot of the mountain! Yuanxiao immediately went forward to check, it was a normal rock mountain, not soft soil, which showed that the power of the middle-grade spiritual weapon cannon was not weak, enough to blast out a large hole ten feet deep in the mountain with one shot!

But why could only a small pit less than ten feet deep be blasted out of the mountain just now? There was something strange!

Yuanxiao became interested, turned the muzzle and shot the other four of the five mountains like the Five Fingers Mountain, and fired a shot at the foot of each mountain. As a result, he was surprised to find that the texture of the five side-by-side mountains was exactly the same, and they were very solid, and they could only blast out small pits less than ten feet deep.

Yuanxiao remained calm and took out the top-grade spiritual stone directly, ready to test it with a more powerful spiritual energy shell.

The spiritual energy shells stimulated by the top-grade spiritual stone whizzed past, and the flying sand and rocks were deafening. As a result, Yuanxiao was dumbfounded after the explosion. Even if it was replaced with a top-grade spiritual stone, the powerful spiritual energy shells only made a shallow pit less than 2 meters deep.

Yuanxiao continued to test and hit all five side-by-side mountains. The result was the same, and they could only make a small shallow pit.

Yuanxiao immediately turned the muzzle and hit the two rocky mountains behind him. After one shot, a large hole of 20 meters deep was directly hit, indicating that the power of the top-grade spiritual weapon shells has not changed, and it is still so huge!

Yuanxiao had a vague understanding in his heart: this side-by-side Five Fingers Mountain is different from other mountains! There is something strange about these five mountains!

Yuanxiao intends to test it to the end and decides to find out at all costs!

Yuanxiao chose the leftmost foot of the Five Fingers Mountain, took out a large bag of high-quality spirit stones, and bombarded it one after another, hitting the same place each time, and continuously bombarding the same pit. Each shell could only deepen the pit by about ten feet.

As Yuanxiao bombed without regard for losses, he finally deepened the pit to a depth of 150 feet after firing 150 rounds of high-quality spiritual energy shells. At this time, Yuanxiao heard an echo from the pit, indicating that there was space inside, and the shells hit a place with internal space or passages.

Yuanxiao put away the spiritual energy cannon and asked his disciples to go to the caves of the two rocky mountains behind him to mine. Without his order, no one was allowed to approach the Five Fingers Mountain.

Then Yuanxiao brought only Xuanjizi to the entrance of the pit at the foot of the mountain on the far left of the Five Fingers Mountain.

Yuanxiao asked Xuanjizi to set up a concealment formation to cover the 150-foot-deep hole blasted out by the spiritual energy shells, and then went in alone to check. Before leaving, he told Xuanjizi to return the same way after setting up the concealment formation, and not to enter the cave.

The further you go, the darker the light becomes. However, Yuanxiao is now able to see things in the dark, but he cannot distinguish colors. It only looks light gray, dark gray and black, but it does not affect Yuanxiao's observation of the objects and shapes in the cave.

Slowly, Yuanxiao gradually approaches the end of the pit created by the spiritual energy shells, and indeed finds that there is air flowing! This means there is a space or passage inside.

When Yuanxiao finally reaches the end of the pit 150 feet away, he finds the reason why he heard the echo outside just now.

At the end, there is a natural passage with a diameter of about 20 feet, which is almost vertical downward. I don’t know where it leads to underground!

Yuanxiao takes a deep breath, calms down, and prepares for adventure!