At this moment, Zhang Chen couldn’t help but silently curse the Fox Spirit for being useless, not even able to perform the Transformation of Illusion and Reality here. It was downright frustrating.
But the Fox Spirit’s skills were sealed, and there was nothing he could do about it. He could only figure things out on his own.
"Go take a look inside the stone room, see if those two murals are still there and their positions, then draw me a layout of the stone room." Zhang Chen instructed the Fox Spirit. He was worried that during the explosion later, the key items inside the stone room might get destroyed, so he wanted the Fox Spirit to enter first and tidy things up, which could prevent the destruction of key items.
This time he didn’t use any skills, because he could only force the Fox Spirit to transport items. Drawing a layout seemed to be beyond the scope of his skills.
However, Zhang Chen thought, as a lively ’skill’, she should understand the principle of having to lower her head when under someone else’s roof, right?
Sure enough, the Fox Spirit dared not disobey. She immediately turned into a wisp of smoke, slipped into the cracks between the stones, and after a while emerged back out, beginning to describe the layout of the stone room to Zhang Chen.
"The stone room has a space of about seventy or eighty square meters. The stone wall where our crack is located is a ventilation passage to prevent dampness and suffocation inside. The floor is a whole piece of large bluestone, with a stone-carved platform for people to sit and observe carvings. There’s nothing else inside!" the Fox Spirit said.
"Where are the murals carved?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Using this crack as a standard, they are on the walls on both the left and right sides. The left side depicts Demon Race carvings, while the right side depicts Human Race carvings." The Fox Spirit looked at Zhang Chen full of curiosity, not knowing why he was asking about this.
Zhang Chen then inquired in detail about the specific distances and had all the data clear in his mind. He already had a plan; if he used explosives to blast open the crack, it shouldn’t affect that Visualization Image.
"Don’t bother thinking about it. You have no chance. This stone wall can’t be chiseled open, and you can’t get in at all. If we were outside with pen, ink, and paper, I could help you make a rubbing, but alas... you have no chance of getting out alive! Instead of wasting time searching for treasures here, you’d better free me, and then our Fox Immortal Ancestor will lead you out," the Fox Fairy Nannan looked at Zhang Chen, still harboring fantasies, thinking that his only way out was to release her and then use Void Transformation combined with the Transportation Technique to rescue him.
Zhang Chen ignored the Fox Spirit and instead brought the Luminous Pearl close to the crack, carefully observing the placement of the explosives. After a long time, he had a conclusion and directly controlled the Fox Spirit to place the explosives at his speculated node.
"What’s this thing?" The Fox Spirit, carrying Zhang Chen’s explosives in and out, wedging the explosives into the stone wall gaps, showed a hint of curiosity in her eyes and asked.
"Your physical body was blown away by this thing," Zhang Chen replied with a smile.
At this moment, he was setting explosives differently than when he first blasted the Fox Spirit. Back then, it relied on the iron beads and iron shards in the explosives, utilizing the force of high-speed propulsion. But the stone crack now was narrow and deep, so he relied on the force of the air propelled after the explosives were ignited.
The three-meter thick stone was really heavy. Zhang Chen was afraid the amount of explosives wasn’t enough, so he simply put all the explosives in.
He didn’t have many explosives, and there was no opportunity to experiment with the dosage, so he had to blow it open in one go.
After hearing Zhang Chen’s words, the Fox Spirit couldn’t help but tremble and almost dropped the explosives, but soon came back to her senses, looking intently at the detonators and explosive tubes in her hands, "Can such a small thing exert so much power? Are you kidding me?"
Zhang Chen ignored the Fox Spirit and controlled her to place the explosives properly, then dashed off on the Cold Ice steps away, tossing the flint to the Fox Spirit: "Later, when you ignite the fuse and shout, I’ll bring you back."
The Fox Spirit could now be harmed by physical substances, and Zhang Chen feared his skill would be blown apart. With the Fox Spirit, many things became much more convenient! She was handy to use!
The Fox Spirit had no chance to refuse because she was under someone else’s influence now.
Though Zhang Chen could only force her to transport things and not to light fires or do chores, if she wanted to live comfortably under Zhang Chen, she had to follow all of his instructions.
Zhang Chen walked along the Cold Ice Bridge to the underground river, looking at the rushing water, feeling a surge of excitement: "This river must be thirty meters deep! Such an underground dark river must be formed only where the True Dragon Qi leaks out, to gather such a vast water flow."
Zhang Chen directly stepped on the water, and where his foot fell, the water instantly froze into ice about a meter thick. Though a meter-sized block of ice couldn’t hold him afloat, it was enough to keep him from sinking.
"Quick, save me!"
Suddenly, a flustered cry came from above from the Fox Spirit.
A rune flickered in Zhang Chen’s palm, and the Fox Spirit transformed into a rune, appearing out of thin air in his palm.
Then, seven or eight seconds later, a dazzling flame illuminated the darkness of the tomb. The fire was blinding, followed by an earth-shattering explosion echoing through the ancient tomb.
Shards of debris shot out, accompanied by the loud cracking of the rift. Then a dark shadow fell from the cliff, crashing into the river water, splashing up to ten meters high.
"Did it work?" Zhang Chen looked up at the cliff, then the next moment, all the water within fifty meters of him was instantly drained, forming a stairway stretching upwards, and as Zhang Chen stepped out, the water turned to ice, buoyed by the undercurrents.
One must know that when humans encounter water, they immediately sink, but Zhang Chen stood on ice about a meter thick, utilizing the undercurrents’ support to keep the ice from sinking.
Zhang Chen arrived at the explosion site, seeing that the exposed cliff had been blown away, and the stone crack forced open by the powerful explosion, large bluestone slabs falling away, revealing a passage about one meter wide and two meters high.
"It worked!"
Zhang Chen was overjoyed and flicked a rune, making the Fox Spirit appear again. Before the Fox Spirit could react, Zhang Chen had already controlled her to carry the Luminous Pearl into the stone room first.
He was no fool. Why would he enter the stone room directly himself?
He instructed the Fox Spirit to transport the Luminous Pearl inside, then stood outside the stone room to observe. This was the best choice.
"What are you doing? What is this fool doing?"
The Fox Spirit, under Zhang Chen’s control, wandered back and forth in the stone room with the Luminous Pearl, constantly screaming with rage in her voice.
Zhang Chen ignored the Fox Spirit’s screams; after thoroughly observing the layout and structure inside the stone room, he smiled slightly and confidently crawled in.
Upon entering the edge of the stone room, Zhang Chen was concerned there might be mechanisms inside, so he directly controlled the Fox Spirit to move a large stone weighing dozens of pounds, repeatedly stepping around inside the stone room.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! A gentleman can be killed, but not humiliated. What exactly are you trying to do? Is it amusing to torment people like this?" The Fox Fairy Nannan cursed Zhang Chen while running back and forth in the stone room, anger in her voice.
Zhang Chen ignored the Fox Fairy Nannan. Only after she had carried the large stone through the entire stone room did he securely enter: "Hmm, it seems the ancients were quite kind-hearted, not setting up any traps."
Hearing this, the Fox Fairy Nannan’s face turned green, and she tossed the large stone to the ground, raising a dust cloud. Pointing at Zhang Chen with trembling hands, she was so angry that she didn’t know what to say.
See, does this guy even consider others as human?
If you’re afraid of danger, you want me to go defuse the thunder. Don’t you think I, the Fox Immortal Ancestor, fear it too?
Terrified!
But now, being under someone else’s thumb, the Fox Immortal Ancestor trembled her cheekbones, ultimately suppressing her anger, thinking silently to herself: "Kid, the time will come when you ask for my help! If you don’t get out of this great tomb, let’s see how you handle it! For now, I will endure you a little while longer!"