"Hu!"
"BOOM! BOOM! "
The fierce wind that ran through the entire canyon, mixed with impurities and invisible turbulence of spiritual energy, congregated into the 'tempests' that were feared by the ancient Cultivators.
Savaged by the tempests for thousands of years, giant rocks were falling off from the walls of the canyon. They floated in midair and crashed into each other, forming a stone belt that was several kilometers thick.
The six Crystal Suit passed through the stone belt carefully. They had to pay attention to the tempests as well as the scourge of the stones.
Some of the stones, under the control of the turbulence of spiritual energy, could reach the speed of sound. The stones also contained a lot of foreign crystals, which could break through the spiritual shield. It would not be a joke if they were hit.
Thankfully, Captain Hong Tong was an expert at manipulating gravity. Boosted by his spiritual energy, an invisible defense layer seemed to have appeared around the team. The roaring stones always drew a subtle curve in the air and brushed past the team, narrowly brushing past them.
Looking down from the ground, the six members of Team Blue Bronze were like six blinking light spots that gradually disappeared into the depths of the stone belt.
Ten minutes later, they finally passed through the stone belt.
Except for 'Dummy' Ba Weiqi, who was burdened by the clumsy Crystal Suit for mental warfare and had a few scratches on it, everybody was safe and sound.
The tempests were still as fierce as before. They glided downward in a slant and plunged into a bottomless abyss that seemed to have no end.
When they raised their heads, the narrow line in the sky had been completely covered by the stone belt. The last ray of light had disappeared, as if they were in the stomach of a gargantuan beast.
As Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, they all knew how to scan the environment with their spiritual threads. The loss of light did not affect them much, but they were all nervous. They were all more or less nervous.
Li Yao expanded his spiritual threads to the maximum and scanned the walls around.
Some of the walls were as smooth as a mirror, but some were full of wrinkles. Many of the walls had bumps and bumps. But there were also remnants and relics with obvious man-made traces.
For example, some enormous buildings or even towns had once appeared on Ultimacy, only to be buried thousands of meters below the ground and torn apart by the crustal movement. That was how the cross-section of the buildings was revealed.
Li Yao even scanned the cross-sections of several huge skeletons.
However, because the tempests were too strong, they did not have the time to stop and examine. They could only scan all the weird sections with special feedback crystal cameras. He would slowly study it in the future.
After gliding for more than ten minutes, they still could not see the bottom of the chasm. There was a layer of weird black fog in the deeper part of the chasm. Even the telepathic thoughts they sent out were silently devoured by the black fog.
Another Star Team sent out a telepathic thought, but it came from the rock wall by the side.
The six of them flew over to take a closer look. They discovered that the rock walls were filled with cracks of various lengths, all the way to the depths of the earth.
Beside the longest crevice, there was a platform that was more than a few thousand meters long and wide. It was faintly emitting a metallic aura. There was obviously a metal structure supporting it. It felt very solid and could even accommodate the landing of some small crystal warships or hundreds of crystal tanks.
They had descended to more than 6,600 meters below the ground and built a platform that was as large as the Flying Crystal Arena. The amount of work required was obviously not something that the other Star Teams could complete.
Even the exploration squads that were teleported from the Blood Demon Sector were not capable of such a miracle.
They were the traces left by the last batch of adventurers who had explored Ultimacy.
Everybody landed on the platform. Li Yao took off the glove on his hand and touched the ground with his fingers. It was as smooth as silk and much smoother than he had imagined. It was not hard to imagine that such a platform had to have been built.
In front of them was a chasm. The narrowest part of the chasm was more than ten meters wide, with traces of artificial modification. It had been repaired into an irregular cylindrical shape with a certain degree of curvature. It was like a tunnel leading to the center of the earth.
Li Yao soon found the telepathic thought ball that a Star Team had left at the edge of the platform and disguised as a rock.
The telepathic thought ball was a piece of round magical equipment the size of an apple. Similar to a jade chip, it could read and output a lot of thoughts and information instantly. Its storage and transmission speed was ten times higher than that of a jade chip. It was an upgraded version of a jade chip.
Li Yao inputted a stream of spiritual energy into the telepathic thought ball. Hundreds of interconnecting spiritual lines immediately appeared on the surface of the telepathic thought ball, which formed a complicated geometric pattern.
It was a barrier. If it was not unlocked in five seconds, the telepathic thought ball would automatically destroy the information stored in it and send out an alarm to the owner who had set it up.
Li Yao's hands were moving so fast that the geometric patterns soon turned into another structure that he had set up in advance like a tangram.
After a "Bo" sound, the telepathic thought ball split open from the middle. A fan-shaped green light scanned the entire platform and connected to the crystal processors of the six teammates.
For a moment, a lot of information flooded out of their crystal processors.
The telepathic thought ball was left by Team Tiger Deity. They were quite lucky to have been teleported directly into the atmosphere of Ultimacy with sufficient spiritual energy left. Therefore, they were able to condense a thick spiritual shield outside of their star shuttle and crash it between the mountain and the canyon.
Team Tiger Deity was the first of the five Star Teams to explore the place. However, their attention was attracted by the walls on the two sides of the canyon and they spent a lot of time studying the faults on the walls. Therefore, they didn't find the black pillars or the bones of the apocalyptic beasts. Instead, they found the man-made platform and the tunnel that led to the underground where intense spiritual waves were coming from.
Through the exploration of spiritual energy, they had discovered that an enormous hollow was hidden below the surface of Ultimacy, which formed a magnificent underground world. There might be towns and relics in it as well.
The discovery matched the surface environment of Ultimacy, too.
Eighty-one percent of the surface of Ultimacy was ocean. Huge waves tens of thousands of meters high could be raised every now and then. It was almost uninhabitable on the land. Even the strong demon beasts of the ocean wouldn't like such surging waves, either.
Compared to the surface of the planet, the underground world was safer and more stable.
Therefore, Team Tiger Deity was the first to explore the underground world.
"Shua!"
A lot of maps and information popped up in the crystal processors of the six Star Teams, which were the result of Team Tiger Deity's exploration. There was also information about the underground world. It was a map of the cave that was as intricate as the roots of plants.
They were at the top of the map of the cave. They were like six ants facing a giant banyan tree that covered an area of more than ten square meters. The roots of the tree were enormous.
But this was just the tip of the iceberg. More worlds were waiting for them to explore.
Other than that, Team Tiger Deity brought them a piece of unfortunate news.
When they were exploring on the surface of the planet, they had received an intermittent telepathic thought from another Star Team named Shadow Moon.
Judging from the incomplete telepathic thought, Team Shadow Moon was quite unlucky.
They had been teleported to the center of a space battlefield beyond the atmosphere, too. But one of their teammates' soul was greatly shaken when he broke through the void. His brain cells were seriously damaged. He was mentally deranged.
What was more tragic was that the space battlefield they encountered was a hundred times more brutal than Team Blue Bronze's.
The star shuttle was blown up by the fragments very soon. In order to protect their wounded teammate, the Crystal Suit of several Orb Patrollers was seriously damaged.
After breaking through the atmosphere with the help of the Crystal Suit, they were greeted by a boundless ocean.
Because their teammate was seriously wounded, they had no time to look for land and landed on the ocean directly. They were racing against time. They were going to treat their teammate and examine the Crystal Suit before they searched for land.
Then. They encountered a tsunami, too.
Because of the violent spiritual waves of the water element, the transmission of telepathic thoughts was disrupted. Therefore, Team Tiger Deity didn't know the final outcome of Team Moon Shadow, nor could they locate their exact location. They could only grit their teeth and continue their exploration.
"This is why we have to send five Star Teams for separate missions.
"Now, let's examine our Crystal Suit and observe a minute of silence for our comrades.
"In one minute, we will enter the underground world!
"Only by excavating more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from the underground world and making the Xing Yao Federation and the Cultivators of the Heaven's Origin Sector stronger will we be worthy of the sacrifices made ten thousand lightyears away from our home. An inextinguishable heroic spirit! "
6,600 meters below the ground, the six members of Team Blue Bronze were speechless. They took off their masks and allowed the roaring tempests to freeze their facial nerves. There was no expression on their faces at all.
But the fire in their eyes seemed to be illuminating the entire underground world.
One minute later, Li Yao inputted a lot of information that Team Blue Bronze had discovered into the telepathic thought ball. He set up barriers again and threw the telepathic thought ball into a corner, disguising it as a rock.
Team Blue Bronze marched deeper into the underground world!
The gap turned into a broad pathway. Every thousand meters, a circle of dim blue crystals would be embedded on the wall of the cave.
They were left by the adventurers who had explored Ultimacy last time. Judging from the brightness of the crystals, they were ancient magical equipment that had been installed five thousand years ago.
The pathway was built according to the trend of the gap in the underground world. Because of the artificial excavation, there were long, straight lines now and then. It was quite convenient to walk on.
After walking for about seventy kilometers, everyone's eyes suddenly widened. It was an incomparably vast underground cave!
No. The underground space was several times the size of a Flying Crystal Arena. It could not be called a 'cave' anymore. It was an entire underground world!
Thousands of meters above their heads, countless bright silver crystal stalagmites were growing. They were emitting endless light and heat. Looking from afar, they looked like a cluster of hazy stars.
On the wall and the ground of the underground world, all kinds of underground creatures were flourishing.
Li Yao discovered countless bright gray giant fungi and ferns, which looked like a weird primitive forest.
Countless vines were wriggling slowly on the wall of the cave. As if they had 'heard' their arrival, the vines wriggled even faster. Almost a hundred protrusions protruded out of the messy vines and split apart like chrysanthemums, revealing sharp sawteeth, which made them look like the most ferocious snake-type demon beasts.
The underground world had its own unique ecosystem.
The weirdest thing was that at the center of the underground world, there was a bright silver lake in an absolutely precise circle.
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