Chapter 1561: Underground Collapse!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Rumble!
Song Yuanyi’s pupils constricted. His surroundings were getting darker and darker while those above him were getting farther and farther away. The martial artists below him were dragging him deeper into the abyss.
Song Yuanyi waved his hand, attempting once more to use the Eternal Spring Mantra to seize the stone wall. But this time, there was no movement from the Eternal Spring Mantra.
“What’s going on here?!”
Song Yuanyi’s eyes were tinged with shock. His injuries were more severe than he had imagined, and he was now completely incapable of halting his descent.
Boom!
Just when Song Yuanyi thought that he was doomed, a young and bright voice resounded in his ears.
“Grab me! Grab me!”
Before Song Yuanyi could react, a powerful Stellar Energy erupted from ten-some meters above him. A young figure shot out of the center of the explosion and lunged toward Song Yuanyi like a dragon.
“It’s him?”
When Song Yuanyi looked up and clearly saw who this person was, even his composed face that rarely revealed emotion, even in extreme danger, revealed a hint of surprise.
Wang Chong!
In other words, it was the Demonic Emperor’s disciple who he had been constantly chasing! He had actually appeared here without regard for himself to rescue him!
No one understood more than him how perilous the current situation was, and every second was precious for survival. At this moment, everyone else was thinking about escaping, and if their roles were reversed, he would have never chosen to save Wang Chong.
Thump!
As this thought flashed through his mind, clap! A hand grabbed Song Yuanyi’s arm, shaking him from his stupor.
“Chief, now!” Wang Chong loudly called out.
Crsssh! Crash! Dirt and stones showered down, but amidst these falling stones was a white and unnoticeable thread that was tied to Wang Chong’s ankle.
Boom!
When this soft thread went taut, countless cries of alarm came out of the darkness.
But the spider thread held fast, holding everyone up.
Wang Chong turned his head and called out behind him, “Hurry and pull us up.”
At this moment of panic, Wang Chong’s voice seemed to possess a calming property.
Even those panicked and screaming martial arts down below couldn’t help but calm down.
“It’s the King of Foreign Lands! He came to save us!”
Even though those martial artists couldn’t see anything in the darkness above them, they had almost immediately recognized Wang Chong’s voice.
The Righteous Alliance disciples had particularly complicated feelings about this.
At the very beginning, Wang Chong had infiltrated the Righteous Alliance using the identity of Young Master Qingyang, and many people on the mountain had even met him. But the Righteous Alliance was also his most dogged pursuer.
As they said, true sentiments could only be seen in hard times, but none of them had imagined that the one saving them at this time would be the Demonic Emperor’s disciple.
As the Righteous Alliance disciples were confused over what to feel, a powerful force began to pull them upward.
“Truly too risky! Even with Black Spider’s thread, this was still too risky!”
The Origin Immortal Chief had a worried look on her face. When Song Yuanyi fell, she had never imagined that Wang Chong would come up with such a risky plan, using Black Spider’s thread to save all of them.
This plan had a very small chance of success, and failure would mean Wang Chong’s probable death.
Rumble! This underground space was still in the middle of collapsing, but Black Spider finally managed to pull Wang Chong and Song Yuanyi’s group out of the hole.
“We can’t stay here! Let’s go!”
After saving Song Yuanyi’s group, Wang Chong led them through the increasingly shaky passage.
True Lord Yellow Dragon’s resistance was far more intense than expected. Even though the Origin Immortal Lord had laid down multiple formations in the earth, it was still a difficult task to hold him down.
One destructive wave of energy after another erupted out of the earth, each time further destabilizing the passage.
Several thousand meters were swiftly traversed, but everyone remained tense, not knowing when the passage would collapse.
Crack!
Several seconds later, the ground beneath them suddenly came apart. All of them could sense a dreadful energy that could make the entire world pale exploding from deep beneath the earth. In front of this energy, even Wang Chong and Song Yuanyi seemed like insignificant ants.
“Not good!”
Everyone instantly paled. What they had feared had finally come to pass.
The battle between the Origin Immortal Lord and True Lord Yellow Dragon would never end in a stalemate. There would inevitably be a victory, and no matter who won, the surrounding underground world would undergo a momentous transformation.
More importantly, such a massive transformation was not something that the passage the Origin Immortal Lord had created could survive.
“Run!”
Wang Chong grimaced as he immediately began to fly along the passage. And without any need for him to say anything, all the other martial artists began to heedlessly rush up the passage.
Their reaction had been very fast, but in the end, it was still too slow.
Given True Lord Yellow Dragon’s terrifying strength, a depth of twenty thousand meters was just too difficult to escape.
“Ah!”
Panicked cries resounded throughout the passage, getting closer and closer.
It wasn’t merely in the area occupied by Wang Chong’s group this time. The entire passage from top to bottom was beginning to crumble, and screams rang out endlessly in the darkness.
“How could it be like this?”
Wang Chong was at the very back, but he could hear screams coming from several thousand meters up, a fact which made his heart go cold. If the passage caved in, all of them would be doomed.
“Young Patriarch, watch out!” the Origin Immortal Chief suddenly cried out.
Rumble! An immense pressure accompanied by a thunderous boom came from overhead.
Wang Chong raised his head and immediately saw a vast pile of stone and dirt coming down, and within this deluge was a ten-meter boulder heading straight for him.
Several martial artists in its way who couldn’t dodge in time were immediately crushed while others lunged to the sides in panic. This boulder had an unstoppable momentum and was heading straight for Wang Chong and Song Yuanyi.
Bang!
With no time to think, Wang Chong and Song Yuanyi lunged to the sides.
Boom! The boulder slammed down, followed by a seemingly endless flood of dirt and stone. Wang Chong felt his vision go dark, all light vanishing.
But the shaking of the earth continued, sending boulders and dirt cascading downward for several dozen seconds.
When it was all over, the passage was gone, as were all the cries of panic and turmoil.
Bang!
Suddenly, an immense energy slammed against a boulder, but the boulder merely trembled, and even more dirt and rocks came down to fill in the cracks, firming up the boulder’s position.
In the darkness, Wang Chong drew back his palm, his heart sinking.
What he had worried about the most had finally happened. A depth of twenty thousand meters simply allowed for too many variables. In the end, they had failed to escape this place.
“Young Patriarch, Young Patriarch… where are you?!” A worried voice resounded in the darkness, and Wang Chong immediately recognized it as belonging to the Origin Immortal Chief. The cave-in had caused him to be separated from her.
“I’m over here.”
Wang Chong had barely spoken when, boom! Dirt exploded from Wang Chong’s right-hand side, and the Origin Immortal Chief leaped through the new gap like a civet cat. Upon seeing Wang Chong, she rushed over, her eyes bright and her face covered with concern.
“Young Patriarch, are you okay?”
“I’m fine, but the situation is bad. The passage to the surface has been completely cut off,” Wang Chong sternly said, his mood gloomy.
The Origin Immortal Chief’s steps slowed and her expression turned grim.
“Is Young Patriarch not able to reopen the passage with your strength?”
“It’s not a question of strength. The place we’re in is extremely unstable, and all the pressure from above is focused on this place. If we don’t handle things properly, we might even end up collapsing the space we’re in. Millions of tons of stone and dirt coming from above will bury us here forever!” Wang Chong sternly said.
Wang Chong was extremely powerful, and with the Origin Immortal Sword, he could even kill Subtle realm experts like the Tiger Immortal in a single blow. But no matter how powerful he was, he couldn’t fight against the entirety of the earth.
They were so deep that the pressure exerted by a cave-in was something that not even he would be able to endure.
The Origin Immortal Chief was quiet for a few moments, and then she asked, “Is there really no other way?”
“I’m still testing.”
Wang Chong slightly raised his head, a thoughtful look on his face.
Time slowly passed. As Wang Chong pondered, the Origin Immortal Chief made her own attempts, but they all failed.
Moreover, after inspecting the area, the Origin Immortal Chief understood why Wang Chong was so cautious.
The area they were in was being covered by a slab of rock several hundred meters in diameter, even larger than the one from before. Its unique shape had created this area that they occupied.
Moreover, True Lord Yellow Dragon’s struggles had delivered a severe shock that had destabilized the composition of this rock. It was liable to continue its descent at any moment, with Wang Chong and the Origin Immortal Chief naturally in its way.
Even though they had both transcended the peak Great General level, this rock probably weighed thousands of tons, and with the pressure of all the rocks above it, they would probably be crushed to death.