Path to Heaven
chapter-176

Chapter 176: Digging, Excavating

Nearing nightfall, Wei Suo piloted his White-jade Crane as he hovered above Lil’Night Mountain as indicated on his map.

Actually, with Wei Suo’s flying speed, he would need at most a few hours to fly here. However, even Golden Dan stage cultivators could face deadly perils outside of the Heavenly Dome. Thus, Wei Suo cautiously followed the safest route in accordance to his map. Along the way, he wisely made several slow detours.

Yet even with his prudence, he still squared off with a High-tier level 4 Scarlet-flame Eagle that abruptly appeared. Following that, Wei Suo also employed his Golden Carp like artifact to smash a Low-tier level 3 Iron-claw Cloud Crow into smithereens, letting it know the consequences of ambushing a Heavenly Circuit stage level 3 cultivator.

As he surveyed the Lil’Night Mountain beneath, Wei Suo felt as though he was daydreaming.

On his map, the Lil’Night Mountain practically appeared like a miniature horn. Yet right before him, was a 600 plus metres wide mountain range, with 3-4 mountain peaks. It was a contrasting difference to his earlier imagination of a tiny hill.

After regaining his senses, Wei Suo toured a circle around the Lil’Night Mountain on his White-jade Crane.

A sight that caused Wei Suo to palpitate with sweat surfaced. Directly over Lil’Night Mountain, Wei Suo realized that the entire mountain was shaped like a chamber pot. One side was rounder and steeper, while the opposing two peaks were slightly shorter; appearing like the mouth of a chamber pot.

The precious Ghost Raising Jar in my bosom looks like a chamber pot. My cavern abode will also resemble a chamber pot. Granny, will I be hailed as a Chamber Pot Dao Master from now?

The speechlessly infuriated Wei Suo really wanted a change in location. Still, it was no longer early and Wei Suo could only speechlessly scan around this ‘chamber pot’ mountain.

After a brief examination, Wei Suo speechlessly activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd. A regiment of nature wood spirit aura encapsulated him as he drifted down towards this ‘urinating pit’.

“Whatever, Chamber Pot Dao Master, then so be it.”

After a short while, Wei Suo stood atop a precipitous mountain wall as he sighed while resigning to his fate.

Needless to say, this place was truly suitable for establishing a cavern abode.

Within this concave ‘chamber pot mouth’ where two mountain peaks joined up, the place Wei Suo had selected unexpectedly housed an elevated mirror-like lake around it. Naturally, the place was fumigated with mist.

With this lake, this urinating pit truly fit the name of a chamber pot. Nevertheless, even when walking along the mountain valley below or soaring past the Lil’Night Mountain, one may not notice this place. With the masquerading thin mist, it would be hard to discover the existence of an elevated mountain lake.

This mountainous cliff looked exceedingly solid and firm. But like any other mountain wall, it was riddled with crevices and holes. By randomly digging in, one may accidentally end up inside a demonic beast’s cave.

Astonishingly, along this precipitous 300-metre mountain wall, an exquisite crevice that could roughly fit a human could be seen at the 65-metre mark. Upon squeezing 30 metres into this cavern, was the perfectly solid mountain body.

In this manner, establishing a cavern abode after squeezing through this crevice, one wouldn’t be able to discover any traces of artificial construction on the exterior.

After gasping in relief, Wei Suo rode his White-jade Crane into the crevice before storing it. After creeping in towards where the crevice ended, Wei Suo reached out and retrieved that broadsword he acquired from Liu Sanbao.

Then, he begun chiselling with his broadsword.

Liu Sanbao’s broadsword had been infused with Taiyi Essence metal, and when cleaving against the mountainous rocks now, it was essentially akin to chopping tofu; not even fearing that the broadsword would suffer damages to its durability. With every few hacks, half a human- sized rock chunk would be cleaved off.

Wei Suo wasn’t in a hurry to tidy up, as he allowed the debris to accumulate within this mountain crevice. Also, he didn’t care for marvelling at the scenic sight of his excavation. Besides, he could do all those after finishing his digging as he proceeded himself a momentum that could drill through the entire mountain.

Be it a large or tiny cave, it would be Wei Suo’s paradise.

Moreover, in the few times he first encountered Nangong Yuqing and the few times he reaped a fortune, it was all in caverns. As such, Wei Suo was obviously abundantly experienced in digging through caves.

40 minutes later, Wei Suo had already excavated a 30-metre long tunnel that could roughly fit an individual.

Viewing the gradually darkening sky, Wei Suo strived harder, as he rapidly drilled into the mountain body. Scraping out another bend, and drilling for another 30 metres, Wei Suo finally ceased. He then flew out of the mountain crevice.

Near the bottom of this precipitous mountain cliff, at the ground vertically beneath the mountain crevice site, Wei Suo dug a deep pit. Then, he produced several level 3 demonic beast carcasses from a Treasure Receiving Pocket and buried them in the pit. After covering a layer over, Wei Suo carefully retrieved his Treasure Elemental Jade Case and activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd once again.

Afterwards, Wei Suo used his tiny silver dagger to hook up his Immortal Exterminating Vine seedling, and planted it atop the demonic beast carcasses.

Next, he fished out a tiny bottle of dark-red medicinal liquid and carefully irrigated the roots of the Immortal Exterminating Vine.

It looked as if the Immortal Exterminating Vine had consumed some wondrous herb, where it suddenly thrived with vigor. Its roots swiftly grew and spread out.

With a nervous countenance, Wei Suo dispersed the nature wood spirit aura of his Cyan Emperor Gourd. To his pleasant surprise, the sapling Immortal Exterminating Vine held no reactions towards him.

This signified that the medicinal liquid he concocted, taught by the old man the night before, was effective.

As for the Mother Heaven Sect who employed Immortal Exterminating Vines to guard their sect entrance. They utilized a wood element skill technique. Whenever they planted an Immortal Exterminating Vine, they would refine a Spirit Controlling Technique like talisman onto it. As such, not only would the Immortal Exterminating Vines automatically assault cultivators or demonic beasts, the disciples responsible for the Immortal Exterminating Vines could even control them like tamed demonic beasts; using them to cease or strengthen assaults.

For example, if Wei Suo were to arrive at the ancient Mother Heaven Sect, even if he activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd before their Immortal Exterminating Vines, the Mother Heaven Sect disciples can still control the vines to attack Wei Suo.

Sadly, the Old Man didn’t know much of the skill technique the Mother Heaven Sect employed. He only knew of a method to cultivate plants to recognize one as master, a method that existed 20,000 years ago. During concoction of such a medicinal liquid, Wei Suo needed to add his own blood to allow the Immortal Exterminating Vine to identify his aura, thereby not assaulting him. Nevertheless, Wei Suo couldn’t manipulate the vines to attack things it couldn’t sense.

As for such a method of establishing sovereignty, it could only be used once. Concocting another batch with Nangong Yuqing or anyone else’s blood, the Immortal Exterminating Vine still wouldn’t recognize them. This was analogous to a fledgling demonic beast assuming the first life form it sees as its parent. However, even if other creatures offered milk to it, it wouldn’t recognize them.

Hence, for Nangong Yuqing or anyone else to enter, they would have to rely on the Emperor Cyan Gourd. If Wei Suo desired to plant any new Immortal Exterminating Vine, he would have to concoct a new batch of that medicinal liquid. Actually, one batch only required 80 or so low grade spiritual stones, and Wei Suo had concocted 30 such batches the night before.

After planting the Immortal Exterminating Vine, Wei Suo returned to that mountain crevice. Upon entering the tunnel he excavated out, he blocked up the entrance with the rocky debris.

Following that, he retrieved 4 white colored little flags and installed it around this tunnel.

The 4 little flags emanated a white glow as Wei Suo’s true energy channeled it. After the flags burrowed into the ground, they formed a medium-sized 4 layered white light screen barriers in this tunnel.

Next, Wei Suo retrieved 7-8 red colored jade talismans. After carefully testing their positions, Wei Suo embedded them into the ground.

After setting up his divine light screen defensive barrier, and a triggering Fire Inferno Array, his installations were completed.

The might of the two defensive measures were probably only Half-Spirit class formation arrays. For a cavern abode, it was truly too pathetically wretched. However, as it was tough to find any high grade defensive formation arrays for now, Wei Suo could only make do. Fortunately, that Four-spirit Formation Flags could offer divine light screen protection, preventing cultivators or demonic beasts from entering, it also possessed the efficacy of aura isolation.

After finishing these setups.

Wei Suo continued heaving Liu Sanbao’s broadsword and chiselling away to expand his cavern abode.

Digging another 120 – 150 metres deeper later, Wei Suo finally ceased his excavation deeper. Then, he started carving the surroundings, and carved out a stone room.

“Lad, your enthusiasm is not bad eh.” This stone room was extravagantly specious. It was 40 metres wide and twice the height of Wei Suo. It had taken him over 2 hours to do so, and with the darkening of the night, the old man surfaced once again.

Wei Suo devised this stone room to function as a grand hall. To guard against infiltration of demonic beasts, he would need a room with space for action to perform techniques.

After settling this stone room, Wei Suo rested a little before starting on another room to the right. After cutting through another tunnel, it designated the new area to be the second stone room.

This stone room was twice the size of the first room, which took almost half the night of his time.

Wei Suo was preparing to nurture his Mind Devouring Bug in this very stone room.

Wei Suo hadn’t sold a single demonic beast carcass he obtained from Guhuai Manor, and thus brought everything in his Treasure Receiving pockets.

Such epic magnitude of demonic beast carcass, yet he could only slowly offload them. Moreover, and more crucially, Mind Devouring Bugs required feasting on the brain matter of demonic beasts to mature and advance.

Although Wei Suo hadn’t browsed and clarified on the quantities of demonic beasts he had, he reckoned it to be at least 3,000 if not 2,000. For future trainings, Wei Suo planned to segregate a pile for the Mind Devour Bug to devour. Presently, Wei Suo was truly curious to know, after devouring such multitudes of demonic beasts, how far would his Mind Devouring Bug advance.