It's close.

It's really close.

In the hot dungeon, Ji Ning's little face was red, his mouth was panting, his clothes were wet with sweat, and his arm holding a shovel couldn't help but tremble.

In the past four hours, he dug with all his might, even at the expense of using his aura, and finally mined the hard mountain wall in front of him ten meters forward, and finally arrived at the place where the key was buried.

But where is the key?

Ji Ning frowned and carefully looked at the surrounding rock walls, but there was no special discovery.

Qi Lan and the others in the rear were already exhausted and prostrated, sweating profusely, leaning together, looking at Ji Ning's back when he stopped, with a faint expectation in his heart.

"Is it over?"

A smile also appeared on the young swordsman's weak face, and in the past four hours, between the passages of the underground palace behind him, the noise of ding dong has never stopped, and there are obscure and ancient aura fluctuations, shaking the entire rock wall, as if some great chance has been born.

And there is more than one such opportunity.

Cui Jibo and others successfully defended that huge land of opportunity and made a lot of money.

According to the wounded who retreated, the place they found was actually a side hall of a tomb, and the entrance was hidden under a thick rock formation.

And it was precisely because the entrance to the side hall was narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, that their Imperial Dragon Adventure Group was able to successfully defend it under the coercion of the Sword Pavilion.

Not only that, the Sword Pavilion's domineering behavior has already angered all the forces, they have been robbed by the Sword Pavilion to some extent, it is rare that the Imperial Dragon Adventure Group dares to take the lead in fighting against the people of the Sword Pavilion this time, and it is naturally a response.

Those monks of the Sword Pavilion felt that this place of opportunity was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and even if they entered it, the loss would be great, and it was not worth fighting with these rivers and lakes, and secondly, they were also afraid that they would move their whole body with a single attack, and they would be besieged and annihilated by all forces if they really fought, so they simply withdrew.

The fate of the whole tomb and the side hall belonged to them.

Magic weapons, spirit stones, runes, everything.

It can be said that every monk of the Imperial Dragon Adventure Group who entered it has made a good profit, and he doesn't have to worry about it for the rest of his life.

Such words are the envy of the one-armed young swordsman, and he regrets not following him.

So he could only cast his expectant eyes on Ji Ning's body, hoping that this young man who seemed to have a secret did not deceive them, their efforts for so many days would not be in vain, and there would definitely be treasures behind this hard and heavy rock wall.

And now, Ji Ning stopped.

When everyone resting in the rear saw this scene, they all held their breath and stood up with some excitement.

"Found a treasure?"

Qi Lan couldn't hold back, stepped forward with an arrow, and asked in surprise.

Xue Zhongjing and the others also lifted their spirits, took two steps forward, and their heartbeats couldn't help but speed up, obviously they were all extremely looking forward to it.

But then, Ji Ning's words directly poured cold water on everyone's heads.

"We have to dig it."

Ji Ning touched the rock walls around him with a solemn expression, the traces on them were mottled, and after the hard and tight cracks, there seemed to be a faint flow of red magma, burning his hands.

"It's deep enough, it's here, let's all dig around."

Ji Ning said, picking up the shovel and going all out, a touch of determination appeared on his dusty little face.

Bang Bang Bang!

The shovel hits the hard rock wall, striking a little bit of spark.

Qi Lan, Xue Zhongjing and others in the rear were stunned when they saw this scene.

Do you still want to dig.

Seven days ago, Ji Ning said that he felt that the opportunity was not far away, and they believed it.

Three days ago, Ji Ning said that the opportunity was just around the corner, so let all of them roll up their sleeves and work hard, and they believed it.

Until, four hours ago, Ji Ning asked them to give up the opportunity that was at their fingertips, and said that it was infinitely close, and they all believed it.

But now, Ji Ning came to say, the depth is enough, but there is nothing, and you have to continue digging.

Qi Lan was straightforward, couldn't help but take a step forward, stopped Ji Ning's movements, and couldn't help but sigh and complain:

"Brother, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that everyone is really tired for so many days, and others have had many chances, and our brothers haven't even seen a piece of lower grade spirit stone, it's really unacceptable!"

"Just tell me the truth, how far is it to dig up the opportunity you said, okay?"

When Ji Ning heard this, a wry smile appeared on his face.

How far away, in fact, he doesn't know.

At first, he didn't expect the walls here to become harder and harder as he went, so he repeatedly miscalculated the time, and now he finally dug up the location indicated on the map, and he could even sense the call of the key to the underworld, but he was stunned that there was nothing.

The only explanation is that because of the great power of time, this ancient mountain has undergone some changes, even if it is completely shrouded in the formation, there will be some changes.

But this kind of change will inevitably not be too much, and it is impossible to turn the sea into a mulberry field.

So the key must be nearby.

"I don't know, but I'm sure it's really around this time."

"So where are we going to dig?"

"Whatever, it's nearby, anyway, it's nearby, I can't tell which direction it is."

When Qi Lan heard this, he glanced at Ji Ning with complicated eyes.

Xue Zhongjing and the others also had a headache, and the young swordsman was even more head-scratched when he heard this, wondering if he was really stupid and believed in such an unreliable madman!

Ji Ning smiled bitterly for a while, and knew that if he was someone else, he would probably think that he was crazy, but the matter has come to the present, and there is no other way back, no matter how he explains, everyone will not believe it.

So Ji Ning continued to dig against the hard rock wall.

Qi Lan was silent for a long time, and finally sighed heavily, and followed Ji Ning.

It's one thing to question and prove that he has a brain.

Helping is another thing, proving that he really regards Ji Ning as a friend, so even if there are more grievances and dissatisfaction in his heart, he will not come the other way.

Zhen Xixi was also tired and collapsed, and he didn't even have the strength to complain and go crazy, but he just sat quietly not far from Qi Lan, looking at the latter's knife-like handsome side face with affection, and then his heart was full of.

Handsome, so handsome.

It's a different kind of opportunity to be blessed to be able to enjoy such a handsome face all the time, right?

Xue Zhongjing glanced at the one-armed young swordsman, then sighed silently, took a pill, and began to sit cross-legged.

In the dark and scorching harsh environment, a hideous color couldn't help but flash on the man's face.

It was only at this moment that he had no choice but to admit that he had mistrusted Ji Ning.

From the beginning of giving up the Desolate Spirit Vein and entering the Fire Spirit Vein, all his choices were wrong, and he wasted more than twenty days in vain, without getting a single penny in return, and even stood on the opposite side of Cui Jibo and others.

If you want to have power or not, you want to have a chance without a chance.

So from now on, what he has to think about is no longer what the opportunity is in Ji Ning's mouth, what he has to think about is how to get out alive and not waste a penny of aura.

The one-armed young swordsman did the same, sighed, and began to sit with his eyes closed.

In the small hot cave, only Qi Lan and Ji Ning were left, and the sound of messy and aimless tapping was left.

Time passes unusually slowly.

It didn't take long for Ji Ning and Qi Lan's movements to slow down, obviously the physical support of the two of them was at the limit.

In this fire spirit vein dungeon, they were going to release their spiritual energy at all times to maintain the body protection spirit shield to resist the invasion of fire poison, but now they have been digging for so long, it is already a miracle that they have not fainted.

At this moment, somewhere in the dark and hot cave in the back, a group of monks suddenly walked out.

They were disheveled, covered in ash, and their tired faces showed unconcealable joy, everyone was excitedly saying something, and some even danced and laughed and staggered over.

Seeing the person coming, the expressions of Xue Zhongjing and the one-armed young swordsman became complicated.

Guo Jin and Cui Jibo are back.

Four hours, triumphantly returned.

Cui Jibo was surrounded by the crowd, walked to the border of the territory, with a stunned face, and was about to open his mouth to mock something, but saw that Ji Ning and the others had dug such a deep cave, so he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Guo Jin's honest face also showed an incredible expression.

He knew the hardness of the rock walls in this underground palace, and it took them a lot of time just to open the door of the side hall of the tomb.

But all this is nothing compared to the cave carved out by Ji Ning in front of him.

In the crowd, the Jianghu monk who had believed in Ji Ning and followed him to this barren land raised his head and took a sip of wine, and mocked loudly:

"Yo, I'm still digging!"

"We have so many opportunities, everyone has only been digging for two hours, you have been digging for more than 20 days before, how big is the chance behind this?!"

When Cui Jibo heard this, his right hand flipped over, and a cyan wine jug stained with the dust of the age appeared in his hand, and he looked up with a smug expression and smiled:

"The magic weapon I just got is a fourth-order."

"Although it has fallen into disrepair for a long time, it has lost some of its spirituality, but there is still a foundation, and it may not be impossible to regain its former glory when it goes out to repair."

Four-stage magic weapon!

During the field, the eyes of all the monks were fiery eyes, and everyone present was an extravagant hope to enter the second realm in this life, and the third realm was an unattainable dream.

And treasures such as ritual weapons, in the cultivation world, are far more expensive than the monks of the same stage.

To put it simply, a monk of the Four Realms may not be able to afford the Four Stages of Dharma Weapons.

Cui Jibo can seize such an opportunity, if he can really make his repair successful, then even if he can't advance to the Yudan stage in the future, his combat power will not be weaker than that of ordinary third-stage monks, and it may even be crushed!

Xue Zhongjing looked at the cyan little gourd, and his always steady face actually changed several emotions one after another, surprised, envious, unwilling, bitter, gloomy, angry, disappointed, until finally they all turned gloomy.

His expression seemed to be gloomy and dripping water, and the whole person revealed a violent aura.

This is completely different from the temperament that Xue Zhongjing usually shows.

But whether it was Ji Ning, Qi Lan, or even Zhen Xixi, they didn't notice this, because all of their attention was either on the rock wall in front of them, or on the small cyan gourd in Cui Jibo's hand.

"The four-stage magic weapon doesn't seem to be a big deal."

Qi Lan snorted coldly and put down the shovel in his hand.

He couldn't see Cui Jibo's villain's appearance, so he spoke.

It's also true.

With his family background, let alone a four-stage gourd that he doesn't know if he can repair successfully, even if it is a real four-stage magic weapon, he may not be able to see it.

After all, he has the heirloom Canggu Clock with him.

The difference between the realm and the cloud and mud, even if it is 110,000 green gourds, it may not be able to compare.

But this sentence fell into the ears of everyone, which is tantamount to the self-consolation of the loser, and it is the behavior of the clown.

"Oh?"

Cui Jibo didn't feel annoyed, but found it interesting, and raised the green gourd in his hand higher with a smile on his face:

"Indeed, you can't look down on the desolate spirit vein, and you can't look down on the opportunity given by Bai, what is the fourth-stage gourd, with your identity as a genius, at least it has to be a fortieth-order treasure to match!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of cheerful laughter in an instant.

Zhen Xixi, who was at the entrance of the cave, felt a little ashamed, clenched his fists and lowered his head.

Xue Zhongjing and the young swordsman had even more helpless and bitter expressions, and decided that they were all chosen by themselves, and now they could only let it be ridiculed, and when they opened their mouths to refute, they sat down with a hard mouth, and they were going to be humiliated and ridiculed to death.

Qi Lan didn't think so, he was just so angry that he wanted to take out Canggu Zhong and use its power to crush those who laughed at him to death.

But he couldn't.

His realm was low, and he couldn't exert the full power of Canggu Zhong, otherwise he wouldn't have been so embarrassed to be chased by that Pegasus that night.

As for holding the Canggu Bell in his hand and shouting, what is a four-stage gourd, but I have a five-stage bell, not to mention this kind of idiotic behavior, I can only think about relieving my anger in my heart.

Cui Jibo and the others saw that Qi Lan was silent, and the ridicule became even more intense:

"Hahahaha!"

"You take it, you take it out!"

"Don't say it's a forty-order magic weapon, even if you let that fool take out a low-grade spirit stone from the hole, I will kneel down and kowtow to you on the spot, and call you dad in public!"

In the crowd, someone shouted with a strange face.

They noticed that at this moment, Ji Ning was still digging, constantly digging something in the cave, without saying a word.

Do you want to use this way to prove that you are right and be a fig leaf?

Cui Jibo sneered, he didn't want to give Ji Ning this chance, so he opened his mouth and continued to mock loudly:

"That kid in the back, listen up."

"My brother is right, as long as you can dig out even a piece of lower grade spirit stone from this broken place, I will kneel down and call you Dad!"

Ji Ning still ignored his taunts, his little face calm and tough.

It's fast, it's fast.

With the shovel in his hand, every time he fell, he could feel the surging breath, and it was getting closer and closer, as if it was right in front of him.

After countless headless fly-like digging, he finally found the right direction this time!

Cui Jibo saw that Ji Ning still ignored him, as if a set of strong combos hit the cotton, so his face couldn't help but be a little ugly, and he directly snorted coldly and took a step forward.

Boom!

In one step, the breath of the condensation realm spread, and the rolling heat wave in the air converged and condensed, surging towards Ji Ning in the cave entrance.

At this moment, Ji Ning was digging the wall in front of him intently and tiredly, if he was hit by this breath coldly, he would have to vomit blood and suffer some injuries.

And on the way to the pressure of the scorching aura, whether it was Xue Zhongjing or the young swordsman, they all had a chance to stop it, but for some reason, the two of them sat in place, motionless.

Zhen Xixi stood at the entrance of the cave and hurriedly dodged away.

Her realm is low, but she is just a bronze bone, and she has no ability to stop it at all.

Only Qi Lan.

The latter took out his golden knife and slammed it across in front of him.

Boom!

Unexpectedly, the scorching breath suddenly exploded, and he was caught off guard, retreating again and again and crashing into the rock wall deep in the cave, his face turned pale suddenly, and he suffered internal injuries.

"Hahahaha——!"

Seeing this, Cui Jibo smiled more and more proudly, and he saw the reactions of the young swordsman and Xue Zhongjing, both of whom seemed to have lost confidence in Ji Ning.

It also means that if he wants to kill Ji Ning now, no one will stop him!