"Exalted One, I have made up my mind!"
After hearing Wang Chen's words, Uncle Zhong showed not the slightest hesitation. Instead, he immediately bowed low. "Qiu Zhong is willing to make one more attempt. I beg Exalted One to grant me this!"
This old cultivator, already past eighty, had long since taken life and death lightly. Yet at this very moment, he could clearly feel the blood within him still running hot.
He still wanted to live another hundred years!
"Good!"
Wang Chen clapped his hands. "Then I'll give you this chance!"
He had Uncle Zhong return to the Xu family first, while he himself made a series of arrangements inside the cavern.
The Essence of Five Elements produced here was of enormous benefit to Wang Chen's cultivation. To ensure its security, he excavated another new hidden passage.
Then he sealed the original one completely shut.
Uncle Zhong traveled through that hidden passage once a month. Although the secret of the Essence of Five Elements had been well concealed thus far, there was no guarantee that not even the faintest trace had leaked out.
If someone with ulterior motives investigated in secret, it could be exposed.
Besides that, Wang Chen used the Earth Stone Technique to reinforce all four walls of the cavern.
Since this place had originally connected to the Xu family's mine tunnels and lay quite close to them, this was also a precaution against the unexpected.
With his Purple Mansion second layer cultivation, Wang Chen cast the Grand Completion level Earth Stone Technique. Unless cultivators below the Purple Mansion possessed high-grade Magic Tools, they basically had no chance of breaking through it.
And any cultivator capable of breaking through it would hardly be doing a miner's work!
After all these measures, its safety naturally improved greatly, allowing