Chapter 1492

Chapter 1492: Fighting for Every Second!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Wang Chong said nothing, but his eyes shone with the same doubt .

Even without foresight of the future, an ordinary person wouldn’t have left some secret passage accessed through the underground river, and the Origin Immortal Lord was a powerful figure with knowledge of divination arts . Something like this was far too suspicious .

“Leave the next task to me!”

Wang Chong took out his Wootz Steel dagger and stabbed it into the ore vein .

Clang!

There was a flash of sparks, and Wang Chong clearly sensed a massive resistance meeting the tip of his dagger .

“What tough metal!”

Even though the Lone Silence Ancestor had already mentioned it, allowing Wang Chong to prepare himself, he was still stunned by its toughness .

Wootz Steel was sharp enough to cut through well-tempered refined steel, and Wang Chong had never before encountered a metal that was this hard to cut through .

The toughness of the metal before him far surpassed his expectations . Wang Chong finally understood why the Origin Immortal Lord had set up his palace here .

Fortunately, although this metal was tough, it was still no match for Wang Chong’s Wootz Steel dagger .

As Wang Chong energetically hacked away, large chunks of ore began to drop down .

Wang Chong’s progress was slow, but he advanced steadily and the ore vein itself was not very thick .

But mining through the metal ore was very damaging to the Wootz Steel dagger .

Every time he swung the dagger, there would be a shrill scraping sound . This tough and unknown metal left many scratches on the dagger as it was cut down .

The Wootz Steel dagger had been damaged earlier by the threads of the Darkshadow Spider, and there were already many tiny cracks on its edge .

Now that it was excavating through the ore, more and more cracks were appearing . It was truly an unbearable sight, and it was hard to say when the Wootz Steel dagger would completely shatter .

The Lone Silence Ancestor could only stand on the sidelines and worry, as there was nothing he could do .

Wang Chong’s dagger was the only tool they had for mining through the ore vein .

Time flew by, and the green leaves in their mouths were beginning to wear out .

Bang!

Wang Chong’s dagger seemed to encounter an extremely tough barrier, and as the Wootz Steel dagger was forced back, click! Yet another crack appeared on its blade .

Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor paled .

“How could it be like this!?”

Wang Chong’s brow deeply creased .

Logically speaking, since they had been able to dig into the metal ore initially, they shouldn’t have run into any other barrier .

“We might have run into an ore matrix!” the Lone Silence Ancestor suddenly said, his expression extremely grave .

“If an underground ore vein has been around for a long time—a thousand years, perhaps even longer—ore matrices might form within it . For example, an iron ore vein has a chance of forming an iron matrix while a copper ore vein has a chance of forming a copper matrix .

“It’s rare to encounter such a thing, but not impossible . If this is an ore matrix, then we probably won’t be able to dig through . “

The Lone Silence Ancestor felt his heart sink as he spoke .

He had believed that they had found a secret passage, but he hadn’t expected it to come with a hidden ore matrix .

“Let me try . There’s a chance that we might not have run into an ore matrix,” Wang Chong said after some thought .

He was unwilling to just give up after coming so far .

Clang!

Wang Chong drew Stellar Energy from his dantian and gathered it on the Wootz Steel dagger .

The Wootz Steel dagger was too cracked to take on too much Stellar Energy, which was why Wang Chong hadn’t done this from the start . But at this point, there was no time to worry about such things .

There was a sharp clang as the dagger once more clashed against the tough ore .

Wang Chong swung it a second and third time .

Bolstered by the immense Stellar Energy, the Wootz Steel dagger truly had gotten much more powerful, but the barrier before it remained unshaken .

As Wang Chong swung the dagger more and more, more and more cracks appeared on its surface . No one could say when the dagger might break .

It probably wouldn’t be long until it completely shattered .

Whoosh!

While Wang Chong was completely focused on the metal ore vein, there was a splash of water from the river down below .

The sound had come from some distance away, but it was quite loud in this dark and quiet world .

“Not good!”

As the Lone Silence Ancestor sent out his senses, he paled .

“Someone is coming!”

“Is it the men in black?”

Wang Chong suddenly stopped and turned his head .

Wang Chong had not expected these people to be so crafty . After clearly taking their leave, they had suddenly turned back .

“No! It’s even more troublesome… It’s one of the successors of the Origin Immortal Art . “

The Lone Silence Ancestor looked up at Wang Chong, and Wang Chong could clearly make out the nasty grimace on his face .

Wang Chong also grimaced at these words .

“How could this be?!”

The air was instantly fraught with tension .

“I don’t know what’s going on either . This should have never happened . “

The Lone Silence Ancestor had a similar look of shock in his eyes .

“But based on the direction he’s coming from, it seems he came down from the same passage we did . There’s an extremely high chance that the men in black accidentally drew that Origin Immortal Art successor into the underground river . And our excavating just now made too much noise, drawing him toward us . “

Wang Chong had not expected the sound of their mining to draw over the Origin Immortal Art successor .

The tunnel became so quiet that one could hear a pin drop . The pair sealed off all their pores and retracted all their energy as they became motionless statues .

The splashing got closer and closer . The Origin Immortal Art successor wasn’t swimming very quickly, but this only made the pair more nervous .

No one knew what he would do next . Had he only heard the sounds, or had he actually discovered the two?

Thumpthump!

Everything seemed to stop except for the beating of their hearts .

Even time itself seemed to slow .

It’s the fifth-generation successor!

As the Origin Immortal Art successor slowly made his way into the vicinity of the pair, Wang Chong’s heart chilled . The fifth-generation successor was much stronger than the sixth-generation .

And since Wang Chong had seen him before in the palace, he was extremely familiar with this aura .

And even worse…

“Oh no! It seems like he’s noticed us!”

The Lone Silence Ancestor’s voice rang out in Wang Chong’s mind . The fifth-generation successor had been swimming along the river, but had now stopped and was looking up in the direction of Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor .

The tension was so thick it could be cut with a knife .

Wang Chong’s face tightened, but at this moment, Wang Chong saw the Lone Silence Ancestor’s palm shake . Rumble! Far away, a fierce explosion occurred in the underground river .

The Gonggong Divine Art!

Wang Chong realized what had happened .

The Lone Silence Ancestor had a sublime control over the flow of water . Not even Wang Chong had been able to tell just how he had been able to control the water into exploding from such a distance . There had been no wave of Psychic Energy or tremor of Stellar Energy . The Lone Silence Ancestor had accomplished the deed without leaving a single trace .

Swoosh!

The fifth-generation successor in the river sensed the explosion and swiftly went to investigate .

“Young Master Wang, let’s go! My Water God Art can only delay him for a while, but not for long . We should use this chance to get out of here!” the Lone Silence Ancestor said in a solemn tone . He immediately headed back down .

“Wait! I still want to try one more time!”

The Lone Silence Ancestor had already gone a hundred-some feet when Wang Chong’s voice stopped him in his tracks .

“Young Master Wang, the fifth-generation successor might come back at any moment, and our leaves are almost used up . We can’t delay more than ten minutes here . Now is not the time to decide things based on emotion!” the Lone Silence Ancestor anxiously said .

“Let me try one more time!” Wang Chong sternly said, looking at the ore vein . “If it’s really no good, I’ll come with you!”

An eerie silence fell over the underground river . After a long while, the Lone Silence Ancestor sighed .

“Fine! I’ll delay him for five minutes at most, but when the time is up, whether you want to leave or not, I will be leaving!”