Chapter 1493: Masters Trail! (1/2)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The Lone Silence Ancestor was already being incredibly generous. As one of the titans of the martial arts world, he was not someone who would easily change his mind for the sake of others.

He had probably made a special exception for Wang Chong.

Time dripped by, and while the Lone Silence Ancestor continued to lure away the walking corpse, Wang Chong wielded the cracked Wootz Steel dagger and fiercely stabbed it into the metal ore vein.

Once, twice, thrice…

More and more cracks appeared on the dagger, but Wang Chong continued to hack at the vein like he couldn't see them.

The air was tense. Their opponents were not just the fifth-generation successor, but also the lack of oxygen.

”Young Master Wang, we must leave!” the Lone Silence Ancestor urged as he glanced down. Whatever secret art the Origin Immortal Lord had used, it had made it so that these walking corpses were not simply bodies. They actually possessed a certain level of intelligence. The fifth-generation successor had been lured away several thousand meters before turning around and swimming back to the pair.

It wouldn't be long before he swam back into their vicinity.

”Wait a little longer!” Wang Chong sternly said, his eyes focused on the metal ore vein.

The Wootz Steel dagger stabbing forward sounded like the booming of thunder, and the Lone Silence Ancestor felt each strike thumping at his heart. Meanwhile, the immense energy of the fifth-generation successor was like a beacon in the darkness. This beacon was now no less than four hundred meters from the pair.

A few moments later, he would hear the sounds of mining and shoot toward the pair like a bolt of lightning.

”It's no good! We have to go!”

The Lone Silence Ancestor clenched his teeth and balled his hands into fists.

Boom! Boom! Wang Chong's Wootz Steel dagger continued to batter down, once, twice. But just when the Lone Silence Ancestor was about to leave, there was a crisp crack.

The entire world seemed to fall silent, the crack echoing ceaselessly in the Lone Silence Ancestor's mind, drowning out all other thoughts.

”How could this be?”

The Lone Silence Ancestor trembled in shock as he turned around and stared in disbelief.

Although he still held a sliver of hope, the chances were just too small, not even one in ten thousand. And given the toughness of this metal ore vein, an ore matrix formed in it would be far too tough to break through. But Wang Chong had done it.

And at such a dangerous moment!

”I found the passage!” Wang Chong declared. His expression was cold and collected, and he apparently hadn't noticed the Lone Silence Ancestor's reaction.

”This ore vein is too tough to form a large ore matrix. This was just a recently formed ore matrix, so it was only able to hold out a little while before breaking.”

After saying this, Wang Chong removed the final barrier and shot into the newly-created passage.

Splashsplash! The walking corpse was on the verge of finding the passage the pair had created. The Lone Silence Ancestor's heart trembled, and with no time to think, he followed Wang Chong into the tunnel.

This tunnel was around one meter in diameter and was a bizarre oddity in the middle of this ore vein. After traveling twenty to thirty meters, the two of them spotted a large handle-shaped bronze component.

This bronze component was covered in mysterious inscriptions that seemed to come from an ancient era.

”So there was a mechanism here!”

The sight of this bronze component gave the Lone Silence Ancestor a flash of insight.

While digging the passage, he had always found it strange that the Origin Immortal Lord would make such an obvious mistake. Moreover, this ore vein had been exceptionally tough and thick. There was no reason for it to suddenly thin out at this place.

But when he saw this bronze component, he understood.

This was not a flaw that the Origin Immortal Lord had unintentionally left, but one that he had been compelled to make. He had set up many important mechanisms in the heart of the ore vein. The two had earlier heard three enormous clanks coming from above, their power so great that they caused the entire ore vein to shake.

This sort of activity was not something any ordinary trap or mechanism could achieve.

Besides that, the Origin Immortal Lord had also laid down many formations. Peak Saint Martial experts were capable of flying for short periods of time, but no one could fly here, and even birds would be drawn into the earth.

And there was also the large-scale Psychic Seal. If the Origin Immortal Lord wanted to guarantee that no martial artist for a range of several dozen li could use Psychic Energy while also ensuring that the seal could not be broken, he would need to use many mechanisms. This inevitably led to him leaving behind a few weaknesses in the ore vein.

The two of them had run into one of the 'passages' left behind by one of these mechanisms.