Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Then why didn't you go in right away?"

Fat Long, who had already come out of the small world, asked the Golden Core man.

"This..."

The man awkwardly said, "The ice was melting, and right after the entrance opened, someone heard the roar of the Fierce Beast inside. Also, through the fluctuation of spiritual energy, it was sensed to be around the fifth level of Golden Core."

"I'm only at the first level of Golden Core cultivation, so naturally I dared not enter."

...

"Brother Qiu."

Standing next to Chen Qiu, the scholar, squinting at the lit oil lamp on the inner wall of the passage, whispered, "That oil lamp is indeed a very old model. When it burns, black smoke drifts out, and it smells a bit like burnt roasted rabbit."

"That's 'fox oil'."

"A very common type of demon oil. Don't even talk about burning for thousands of years; without someone regularly refilling the demon oil, it wouldn't even last three months."

"It doesn't look like ancient ruins."

"Hmm."

Chen Qiu nodded, pondered for a moment, and still decided to go down to take a look, relying on his supreme boldness. For safety, he asked the scholar to take his brother to Fei City first, so that in case of any danger, they could rely on the scholar's Bloodline Entry to quickly escape from this place.

And several moments later,

the scholar, who had left his brother in Fei City, returned to his side as a streak of light.

"Let's go, have a look below."

Chen Qiu, leading with the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella, stepped on the stairs leading to some unknown part of the underground, moving toward the deep part of the passage, with Fat Long Scholar cautiously following him.

As the group entered,

those present exchanged glances; the same thought surfaced in everyone's minds. Shortly after, almost seventy to eighty percent of the people at the scene stepped into the passage, cautiously following behind Chen Qiu, even the Golden Core man followed suit.

With Chen Qiu, this peerless Heavenly Pride leading,

no matter what crisis they encountered, he could handle it. Although they couldn't partake in the meat, they might still manage to sip some soup following behind.

Missing this opportunity,

would be deeply regretted for a long time. After all, this could be ancient ruins, which might contain many things from epochs before the current Heavenly Dao versions.

...

As they ventured deeper,

murals gradually started appearing on both sides of the passage walls. These murals looked a bit like children's scribbles, indecipherable, providing no information whatsoever.

Every ten yards, two oil lamps burnt on the wall.

Bright and dim light continuously intersected within the passage.

The passage was narrow, barely wide enough for three grown men to walk side by side; the slope was not very steep, the steps were not high, and there was almost no dust.

Frankly speaking, instead of an ancient ruin, it looked more like a dwelling.

Chen Qiu stretched out his finger and touched the clay on the passage wall, which felt quite dry. He rubbed it on his fingertips, turning it into dust. Logically, the soil layer covered under the Boundless Icefield for a long period should be slightly moist, not this dry.

Just then—

"Ah!!"

Two piercing and painful screams suddenly came from the crowd behind.

Two men, who had deactivated their Protective Spirit Qi for an unknown reason, were now bleeding green from all seven orifices, falling to the ground in agony and violently struggling. In a moment, their entire facial features had turned to a mush mixed with green blood.

This scene caused many to pale and hesitate to venture further.

Exploring ancient ruins.

There was an unwritten rule always to keep spiritual energy protection active. You never know what kind of toxic gases had formed over thousands of years in the relic below, but the manner of death of these two men showed that the toxicity of the gas was extremely strong.

It couldn't possibly be naturally formed; undoubtedly, someone had tampered with it.

These two men, feeling quite safe along the way and wanting to save some spiritual energy, had deactivated their Protective Spirit Bodies. But the moment it was turned off, the toxicity devoured their bodies, reducing them to mush.

This scene indeed terrified many.

Many cultivators with lower cultivation at the Foundation Establishment level gave up and retreated. The situation was clear: if you run out of spiritual energy, you die. They couldn't sustain their spiritual energy for very long, needing to save enough for the return journey.

Only a few cultivators with higher cultivation and greater courage continued to follow Chen Qiu deeper into the passage.

...

Chen Qiu glanced back at the two dead Foundation Establishment cultivators, then redirected his gaze. He was not worried about running out of spiritual energy. With his capacity, if even he couldn't reach the bottom,

then no one else could.

Even if his spiritual energy was exhausted, he could go to the small world to fully recover his spiritual energy before coming out again.

However, as they went deeper, the end of the passage was still not in sight.
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The steps forming the passage, made of stone that blocked Divine Sense, prevented his Divine Sense from detecting the end. This stone was a treasure; he had already secretly resolved in his heart that once they had clarified what lay below,

he would take all these steps.

Even if he only gained these steps, it would still have been worth the journey.

Meanwhile, as they went deeper, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators following him dwindled until there were none left. These cultivators understood that with their spiritual energy, going any deeper was virtually a certain death.

Only that Golden Core man of initial level cultivation still carefully followed closely behind Chen Qiu.

After continuing to delve deeper for half an incense stick's duration.

Still without seeing the bottom.