Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 732: 725 Mine Cave

Chapter 732: 725 Chapter Mine Cave

The area where Enemy-breaking Camp was located belonged to a mining region originally.

However, because the terrain here was slightly flatter compared to other areas, they had set up the camp here and built several courtyards to station the many teams in the area.

Compared to the central location within the camp, the area at the edge was uneven, and there were some abandoned pits and mine tunnels scattered among them.

“Damn it, he’s just an early-stage Earth Immortal, and after chasing him for so long, I still haven’t caught up.”

“With his little strength, it’s enough that he could block one of my sword lights, but how could his speed possibly be this fast?”

“I’m sure that he must have used a Secret Technique to overdraw his potential; he won’t be able to hold out much longer.”

“To make an early-stage Earth Immortal burst out with a Heavenly Immortal-level speed, just in this short while, I guess, that kid must already be completely drained.”

“Once the duration of that Secret Technique passes, he’ll be like meat on a chopping block, completely at my mercy!”

…

Zong Sheng kept moving without pausing, cursing under his breath as he swiftly rationalized the extreme speed Chen Hai had burst forth.

Just as he thought this, Chen Hai, who was running ahead, jumped into a mining pit that was several dozen meters deep without a second word.

When Zong Sheng pursued him, Chen Hai was nowhere to be seen inside the mine pit.

“Ant, with your little strength, even if you overdraw your potential, what can you do?”

“I, Zong Sheng, declared you would die by Midnight; you absolutely can’t survive until dawn. Thinking of escaping from my hands? Dream on!”

“You, hiding inside the mine, at this moment, let alone escaping, you probably can’t even stand steadily, can you?”

“Originally, if you had obediently resigned yourself to death, you could have kept a whole corpse. Now, there’s only one outcome for you, both your Divine Soul and body utterly annihilated!”

…

Landing at the bottom of the mine pit, Zong Sheng swept his gaze around. Though he didn’t see Chen Hai, it took him less than a breath to lock onto Chen Hai’s position through his Divine Sense.

His gaze landed on a mine entrance a few dozen meters away, obviously long abandoned, and he sneered in disdain.

Although he had only locked onto the location and not seen Chen Hai’s current state with his own eyes, he already knew that Chen Hai, huddling not far inside the mine, had stayed right there without moving for quite a while.

Laughing loudly, Zong Sheng took several steps and appeared at the entrance of the mine.

Then, he straightened his back and walked confidently directly into the mine.

Although it was pitch black inside, almost too dark to see a hand in front of one’s face, Zong Sheng’s eyesight still enabled him to see the oddly smiling Chen Hai a few dozen meters away.

In his subconscious, he always believed that Chen Hai, who had been overexerting his potential through a Secret Technique for so long, would now completely lack the strength to fight back.

But the scene before him didn’t match his expectations at all.

“Not good…”

“You’re actually a Mid-Period Heavenly Immortal, not an early-stage Earth Immortal, you old sly fox, hiding your strength, planning to scheme against me?”

Slightly stunned, Zong Sheng halted, and then his expression drastically changed.

“Black Water Mysterious Yellow Sword Finger, slash!”

The odd-looking Chen Hai, almost simultaneously, used his finger as a sword, swinging and slashing toward the direction of the mine entrance.

A point of white light broke open the void, suddenly appearing behind Zong Sheng, completely sealing his retreat.

Faced with this sudden change, Zong Sheng, who had just stopped, turned his extreme movement into extreme stillness, and shot forward towards the mine, covering a distance of more than a dozen steps.

Subsequently, he turned his head and slashed out dozens upon hundreds of sword lights.

The reason for this was simply because, within the white light that explosively shot out from behind him, he sensed a dense threat.

Between the choice of attacking Chen Hai with his sword or extinguishing the white light behind him, he did not hesitate and directly chose the latter.

Unfortunately, by the time he actually slashed out those sword lights, he realized he might have fallen into Chen Hai’s trap.

Because the sword light that suddenly appeared behind him was not aimed at him, but landed on the rock wall above the entrance to the mine.

‘Boom boom boom… Boom boom boom…’ Huge rocks, one after another, fell down, completely sealing the mine entrance.

Within the abandoned Star Stone Mine, those extremely hard rocks, which could only be mined by True Immortals, definitely could not withstand the power contained within the Black Water Mysterious Yellow Sword Finger.

That spot of white light bombed the top of the mine, and the seven to eight meter long passage at the entrance of the mine was completely filled with large and small rocks.

With Zong Sheng’s Golden Immortal level strength, breaking open the mine again to return outside to the mining pits was not a big problem, but it would definitely require some time.

Would Chen Hai watch him dig the entrance and escape outside? It was obvious without thinking that it was absolutely impossible.

“Old yinbi, think sealing my way out will deal with me?”

“Let me tell you, don’t mention Mid Period Heavenly Immortal, even Late Period Heavenly Immortal, several have already died at the hands of my sword light.”

“Sealing the mine entrance, you’re really seeking your own death!”

The sword lights that were slashed out had completely struck empty space, Zong Sheng had by now turned back.

In his eyes, a captivating light burst forth, and a small sword, about a foot in length, was already in his hands, though it was unclear when.

Before his words had even completely finished, dense masses of sword light whipped out from his hand toward Chen Hai.

“Zong Sheng, I, Chen, have always kept a low profile, not liking to cause trouble.”

“You from Demon Palace ambushing our Enemy-breaking Camp had nothing much to do with me; I couldn’t care less and just wanted to blend into the crowd.”

“At first, I thought, enemies should be reconciled, not provoked. You and I are from different camps, you chasing me is something I can understand, and I had chosen to dodge and escape far.”

“But you? You just kept relentlessly pursuing me, really think someone straightforward like me is easy to bully?”

Facing the countless incoming sword lights, Chen Hai coldly sneered; his body flickered, and he completely disappeared.

Inside the mine whose entrance was sealed off, it was completely pitch black; in such an environment, the efficacy of the Concealing Breath Technique could be maximized.

His disappearance was like completely merging into the darkness.

Unable to see his shadow, lock onto his body shape, or sense his aura, Zong Sheng had now completely lost any trace of Chen Hai’s presence.

“Old yinbi, only knowing how to hide and skulk, what skill is that?”

“Come out and fight me fairly!”

On high alert, Zong Sheng’s face was frosty cold; leaning his back against the rock wall of the mine, he intermittently slashed out a few sword strikes while growling.

Without sensing Chen Hai’s presence, his sword lights had no target; they were merely waved about aimlessly.

Hoping to injure Chen Hai, who had merged into the darkness, with such attacks was like hoping a blind cat would stumble upon a dead rat.

“Just now weren’t you very arrogant? What, are you scared now?”

“Just seeing me, a mere Early Period Earth Immortal, you could chase me for more than ten miles; but now, I’ve barely shown a bit of my power, and your legs are probably already trembling!”

“So it turns out, you, Zong Sheng, are just someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong. Playing the big shot in front of me?”

As if omnipresent, Chen Hai’s voice resounded from all directions, flooding into Zong Sheng’s ears.