Originally, it was estimated that it would take more than four years to dig up the Gui Water Nether Spring. Now that he had to change directions, it would probably take six or seven years.
If something else happened, it would take even longer.
Fortunately, this group of Goldbiter Rats was really capable. They did this kind of high-intensity physical work every day, only eating leftovers, and still found the time to expand the population.
Five years later, the number of Goldbiter Rats had expanded from three to four hundred to more than two thousand.
If it wasn't for Wang Daoyuan restricting the rats' food, the number of rats would have already exceeded ten thousand.
However, the more rats there were, the stronger they were. With more rats, they could make more holes, and he could burn the rocks much faster.
In five years, the cave had gone through many twists and turns. It was still a dozen miles away from the estimated location of the Gui Water Nether Spring.
The last part of the journey was the most difficult part.
Near the Gui Water Nether Spring, there were rock cracks everywhere, and the cracks were filled with underground water.
In addition, he also encountered the Earth Terminus Spirit Vein.
The spirit qi produced by the Earth Terminus Spirit Vein carried a natural evil aura.
The evil aura in the Profound Yin Spring probably came from this Earth Terminus Spirit Vein.
Fortunately, he had the Spirit Seeking Compass. The evil aura would seriously interfere with the compass. When the spirit qi beam encountered the evil aura, the entire compass would spin randomly.
After discovering the abnormality of the compass, Wang Daoyuan immediately changed directions and pushed in another direction.
However, there were too many rock cracks nearby. A hundred feet in a straight line could take seven or eight turns.
After more than a year, he finally reached a place only two or three hundred feet away from the Gui Water Nether Spring.
The cave passed through the water veins and rock cracks. Some of the cracks were only a little more than three feet apart, so the passage had to pass through the middle.
He had to use the Earth Wall Technique to strengthen the rock layer.
The spirit qi used to cast the Earth Wall Technique was converted from fire attribute spirit qi.
The original earth attribute spirit qi had the corrosive characteristics of the Dust Returning Flame. Using it to strengthen the rock might backfire.
This Gui Water Nether Spring was also very domineering. When the spirit qi beam of the Spirit Seeking Compass passed through, it was annihilated as soon as it touched the spring water.
He used his Divine Sense to investigate, and his Divine Sense was instantly devoured. There was even a power in the spring water that extended along with his Divine Sense.
He was so scared that he immediately cut off his Divine Sense to avoid being injured by the power of the Gui Water Nether Spring.
The power in this Gui Water Nether Spring seemed to be able to directly harm the soul.
Twenty to thirty zhang of rock couldn't completely block the yin qi of the Gui Water Nether Spring.
Wang Daoyuan could already feel a bone-piercing chill from where he was.
He could only consume a small amount of Earth Vein Spirit Essence to resist the Yin Qi.
He didn't rashly break through the last twenty to thirty feet of the rock stratum. Instead, he gathered Pure Yin Qi here.
The purity of the Yin energy here was so high that it was almost undetectable in the outside world.
If he didn't collect some, it would be a huge loss.
Furthermore, the Gui Water Nether Spring had the ability to harm souls.
When collecting the feys in the spring water, one's soul might be severely injured.
It would be best to collect more Pure Yin Qi, cultivate the Inky Jade Lotus, and store more lotus seeds and lotus roots.
If one's soul was heavily injured, it was very likely that one would faint directly. If one fainted beside the Gui Water Nether Spring, it would be impossible to wake up again.
Before burning through the last twenty to thirty feet of the wall, he would first eat some lotus roots and lotus seeds.
Once his soul was injured, he would be able to recover quickly and wouldn't faint on the spot.
The Inky Jade Lotus had been growing in the space of the spirit bead for about a thousand years. If it wasn't for the lack of Pure Yin Qi, it would have bloomed and borne seeds many times.
Now that the Pure Yin Qi was abundant, and the time flow in the space of the spirit bead was forty times faster, it wouldn't take long for it to bloom and bear seeds.
He filled the Profound Yin Jade Gourd with Pure Yin Qi, put the gourd into the space of the spirit bead, and handed it to the avatar.
The avatar injected the Pure Yin Qi in the jade gourd into the pond where the Inky Jade Lotus was planted.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the Inky Jade Lotus continued to grow new lotus stems, and there was a small bud on the lotus stem.
Three days later, the first bud bloomed.
The flower of the Inky Jade Lotus was pure black, as if it was carved from a whole piece of inky jade. The name of the Inky Jade Lotus was indeed worthy.
At this time, five Inky Jade Lotus plants had grown twenty flower buds.
Five lotus flowers had bloomed, and there was no longer a new lotus stem growing, and the Pure Yin Qi was exhausted.
Wang Daoyuan summoned the avatar Wu Yi and Li Qingquan from the space of the spirit bead, and asked them to help collect the Pure Yin Qi. The avatar Bai Sheng was responsible for injecting the Pure Yin Qi into the lotus pond.
A huge amount of Pure Yin Qi was constantly injected into the lotus pond.
Half a month had passed outside the space, and more than a year had passed inside the space. All the lotus seeds of the Inky Jade Lotus had matured.
The yield of lotus seeds was a bit low, and each lotus pod only bore five or six lotus seeds.
Twenty lotus pods, a total of one hundred and eight lotus seeds were harvested.
After the Inky Jade Lotus bloomed and bore seeds, it would not wither, but could bloom and bear seeds many times.
There was no need to rush to replant it. Leaving a dozen lotus seeds with good quality for planting later, the rest of the lotus seeds could be consumed.
He swallowed a lotus seed to see how effective the medicine was.
After swallowing the lotus seed, he immediately ran the cultivation technique to refine the lotus seed.
In less than half a cup of tea's time, the lotus seed was completely refined, and a pure Yin Qi with medicinal power poured into the meridians.
This Yin Qi was very gentle. After entering the meridians, he only felt a little cool, and there was no bone-piercing chill.
Continuing to run the cultivation technique, this Yin Qi was introduced into the meridians of the head.
The Foundation Establishment cultivator had not yet opened the Zifu, and the meridians connecting the Niwan Palace and other acupoints of the body had not been opened, and the Yin Qi could not be directly sent into the sea of consciousness.
It could only be sent to the head first, so that the Yin Qi passed through the body and gradually penetrated into the sea of consciousness.
After half a day, about half of the Yin Qi penetrated into the sea of consciousness, and the rest of the Yin Qi was scattered to various parts of the body.
The Yin Qi and medicinal properties that penetrated into the sea of consciousness were absorbed by the soul, and he only felt a burst of relaxation.
In order to control the avatar, his soul lost 10%. The medicinal power of this lotus seed made his soul recover by one-thousandth.
He only needed to take one hundred more lotus seeds, and his soul could be restored completely.
The rest of the lotus seeds would be needed in an emergency, and he was not in a hurry to restore his soul for the time being.
After the two avatars filled more than thirty Profound Yin Jade Gourds with pure Yin Qi, Wang Daoyuan took them back into the spiritual bead space.
The problem of the Gui Water Nether Spring hurting the soul could be temporarily stabilized by the lotus seeds.
The spiritual objects bred in the spring water could also be put into the spiritual bead space.
The last problem was the pressure of the water.
According to the records of the Five Elements Spiritual Master, the place where the Gui Water Nether Spring was located was an irregular spherical space with a diameter of about ten feet, and the whole space was filled with spring water.
The amount of water in the Gui Water Nether Spring was very large, and the huge water pressure squeezed the surrounding rocks out of the cracks, and the spring water flowed up along the cracks.
The Five Elements Spiritual Master, with his Jindan Stage cultivation base, could only hold on for a quarter of an hour inside, and then quickly left.
With his cultivation base, if he did not take any measures and directly went in, there was absolutely no chance of survival.
In addition, he had to think about how to get out alive after getting the treasures in the Gui Water Spirit Spring.
After digging out the twenty to thirty feet stone wall, the spring water flowed out along the passage he came from, and blocked the passage.
If he wanted to go out, he could only rely on the Smoke Escape.
The distance from here to the karst cave was more than three hundred miles.
The passage twisted and turned, and the total length was more than a thousand miles.
Moreover, in this kind of passage, he needed to change direction frequently, and the speed of the Smoke Escape was greatly affected.
With a passage of more than a thousand miles, it would take more than a day to reach the karst cave.
If he stayed in the spring water of the Gui Water Nether Spring for a day, even if he had the Earth Vein Spiritual Essence, he would still freeze to death.
If these two problems were not solved, he would absolutely not dare to break through the last twenty feet.
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