The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 773: The Underground Palace Runs!_1

The descent of the Underground Palace was incredibly stable; aside from some initial dizziness, Li Qing could not feel the palace moving at all, not even causing the teacup on the table to shake. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"Have we reached the bottom, or are we stuck somewhere?" Li Qing couldn’t help but ask, staring at the teacup.

Jing Yan shook her head and said, "We are still moving downward, about fifty zhang from the bottom."

Li Qing roughly converted the distance in his mind, and his expression immediately numbed.

Good Lord, this massive thing is even steadier than an elevator. The formations on the mountain walls are definitely not ordinary stuff.

If this technology could be used outside, it could definitely be used for several big projects.

I wonder how much it would cost to create these kinds of formations.

Li Qing quietly calculated in his mind that if Divine Skills Bureau allowed cultivators to make money in the outside world in this way, these formations had a lot of potentials.

"Yan’er, do you know if formations are easy to deal with?" Li Qing asked.

Jing Yan, with an elegant posture, prised a piece of tea leaf with a tea needle into the boiling teapot before smiling and asking Li Qing, "Is my lord interested in these things?"

"I’m interested in this, and I’m interested in money," Li Qing said with a smile.

Jing Yan said seriously, "I don’t know if there are any Array Pattern Masters left in the outside world. The expert who was responsible for carving the formations for the Underground Palace was not even taken lightly by King Qi. That arrogant bastard was very carefully attended to."

"The art of carving formations demands even greater talent than cultivation, and it consumes massive resources. Ordinary sects can’t afford to cultivate an Array Pattern Master. If you want to learn it, we would have to give up other things and ask for spirit stones from them. Although there are some reserves in the Underground Palace, they are needed to maintain its operations. Without new reserves of spirit stones, I wouldn’t dare to use them recklessly," she continued.

As soon as Li Qing heard that this thing consumed spirit stones, he instantly dismissed the pointless thoughts in his mind.

"Don’t take it seriously; I’m just asking casually. It seems quite miraculous," Li Qing said.

Jing Yan chuckled and said, "If an Array Pattern Master cultivates to the ultimate level, he is comparable to the founding patriarchs of a great cause. In my time, no one dared to neglect them. This cultivation is indeed miraculous; they can create countless possibilities. If there were enough spirit stones to drive it, this Underground Palace could even transform into a floating fortress. But King Qi had to abandon the idea of ascending to the sky back then because he couldn’t gather enough spirit stones to power such a huge formation, so he turned to digging into the ground."

Li Qing gained some knowledge but also stepped back in awe.

This thing was simply beyond his means to play with.

"The existence of Array Pattern Masters is probably rare nowadays," Li Qing muttered.

With spirit stones having become extremely scarce resources, who would spend a large amount of resources to cultivate an Array Pattern Master?

The Underground Palace reached the bottom.

Li Qing felt the jolt at the moment of touchdown.

Jing Yan stood up and cast another spell to project the outside scene onto the wall.

In just a brief moment, the landscape outside had completely transformed, now looking as if it had been scorched by artillery fire.

Dust covered the sky and rolled everywhere, and huge rocks were tumbling around.

Among them, one could still vaguely see strands of white mist spreading.

Even under such heavy dust, these wisps of mist couldn’t be obscured, they stubbornly permeated throughout.

Li Qing stood up, his gaze fixed intently on the situation outside.

"That white stuff must be the poisonous miasma from the crevice walls, right?" Li Qing asked.

Jing Yan nodded, "Once the dust settles, this poisonous miasma will instantly fill the entire valley, completely concealing this place. Fortunately, all the local people have already been moved out. If there were any commoners here, it would be difficult for me to be at ease."

"Actually, I think those who should feel guilty and uneasy are them, but they clearly remain indifferent, instead making us two fret over this." Li Qing said with self-deprecation, "Although we can’t hold bad people to the moral standards of good people, right now I truly think they deserve to die."

Figures appeared in the dust, some in sharp suits, others in men’s traditional straight hemmed attire.

After a brief discussion, each took a position, as though the Eight Immortals were crossing the sea, each displaying their Divine Skills.

Boulders turned to dust in an instant under their magical attacks, or were directly moved away.

"They seem to be preparing to hollow out the belly of the mountain." Li Qing observed gravely.

Jing Yan chuckled and shook her head, "They definitely won’t be able to reach it that way. We are now beneath their feet, hundreds of feet down. When the Underground Palace fell, the soil above buried the original shaft. If nothing goes wrong, the entire mountaintop should have collapsed by now."

"Won’t this make them suspicious? After all, the hole left by such a huge Underground Palace would be incredibly large, having fallen hundreds of feet. The amount of soil needed for such a large space should be considerable." Li Qing asked.

Jing Yan replied, "What they blasted away was actually just the outer layer of the mountain wall, but it will trigger the mechanisms of the Underground Palace, causing the entire mountain range to shake and collapse. King Qi set up such a mechanism precisely to prevent the collapse and shifting of the mountain range, which would expose the Underground Palace."

"If the mountain collapses to a certain extent, the mechanisms of the Underground Palace will bring the entire mountain down, burying the Underground Palace again. So no matter how extensive their blasting, at this moment the mountain should be gone."

"Having sunk hundreds of feet, it won’t be easy for them to find the true location of the Underground Palace. However, they should be able to find a few tomb chambers that separated from the Underground Palace. With such changes, these tomb chambers should be exposed."

Only at this moment did Li Qing truly understand what Jing Yan meant when she said earlier that the Underground Palace had shifted downward.

It turns out it was a mechanism that moved everything when a single hair was touched.

You touch me, I run.

If the mountain wall collapsed to a certain degree, the Underground Palace would flee, just like a groundhog. It runs away, and also blocks the entrance in passing.

"It seems like they have already found one of the tombs." Li Qing said lightly, looking at the reflected image on the wall.

Although he couldn’t clearly see what those people were attacking, he could see someone remotely capturing a stone coffin, and the others, like sharks that had smelled blood, abandoned their attack and all swarmed towards the same place.

Jing Yan once again cast a spell, projecting the overall situation.

Looking at that slightly fuzzy scene, Li Qing couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder—goodness, that big mountain was truly gone.

What those eight or nine people were digging before wasn’t the belly of the mountain, but digging holes underground.