1199 Bold but Cautious (2/2)
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.