Published: March 8, 2025
“Next, we are going to start.” Chu Yang smiled and said, “Is everyone ready? In this stone cave, we will move forward until we can no longer bear it!”
“Ready!” Everyone chuckled lightly.
Compared to the life-and-death struggles outside, the stuffiness of the stone cave was nothing.
“Listen,” Chu Yang continued, “I’ve made this space quite large, not for us to sleep here, but as a storage area. From this moment on, we need to have strict division of labor and work continuously until we can no longer bear it!”
“What should we do? Just say it!” Xing Yi said boldly.
“This is Nine Curves Ridge. The stones below that you just moved are ten times heavier than ordinary stones! Yet we have to create a path here!”
“I will lead the way at the front, Wei Wuyan second. The stones I cut off will be immediately handed to Wei Wuyan, who will then pass them to the third person, and the last person will place the stones in this space.”
Chu Yang stated, “This space can hold thirty large stones like that. After thirty stones, we will have traveled about seventy more zhang… Do you understand what I mean?”
“Understood!” Everyone replied in unison.
“The only requirement is that no one is allowed to make a sound, no matter who it is. The last person will be the most tired, so we need to rotate.” Chu Yang insisted, “How about it?”
Xing Yi readily said, “My brother and I, along with Xing Er, will stay at the back. At the moment, it seems your cultivation level is deeper than ours, but Wei and the others have just entered the supreme realm, and their stability is uncertain. We have been stuck at the first-rank supreme for decades… we can manage this.”
Chu Yang nodded, “Then, let’s begin.”
The thoughts about negotiations and whether they had to kill to get through those matters were all buried deep in Chu Yang's heart.
Some things, once done, need to be known by the world to not be in vain.
But some things should really just be known to oneself.
The next moment, work began.
Xing Yi had doubts at first, but after trying, he found that even with all his might, he could only insert his sword into the stone wall and use his energy to cut off a large chunk of stone, then pull it out… he was almost out of strength.
Nine Curves Ridge was, after all, not ordinary stone!
But how could Chu Yang open up a long tunnel like this?
No matter how you looked at it, it felt somewhat fantastical.
However, the next moment, he closed his mouth that was about to open.
With a swish, Chu Yang thrust his long sword into the stone wall, slicing through it as effortlessly as cutting tofu, creating a gap over a person’s height from top to bottom. Immediately, he made another cut to the right, another at the top, and one at the bottom.
With a silent jolt at the center of the stone, his palm grasped the stone firmly, and he dragged it out.
Five zhang long!
Looking at such a massive stone weighing tens of thousands of pounds, the brows of the eight supremes all twitched wildly.
This work was indeed not easy. Only these people could manage it; if they were replaced by someone on the throne, even if they could escape from here, finding such a path would exhaust them to death…
Wei Wuyan took the stone with both hands, stepped aside, and smoothly sent it out. The man of unparalleled talent caught it, Cheng Duying transferred it again... and finally, Xing Er lifted it and took big strides to the outermost part of the cave. He gently placed it down—finally understanding why the last person had to rotate frequently.
The few people in the middle were the least tired. Because carrying the stones wasn't too exhausting; it was just a matter of shifting their hands. The key issue lay in the last person’s ‘gently placing it down without a sound’—that was truly exhausting!
That was a stone over fifty thousand pounds… and to put it down as quietly as a feather without making a sound…
A couple of stones were manageable. But even I could only manage about three or four hundred before I would collapse.