Chapter 1492: Fighting for Every Second! (1/2)
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!