The Princess Consort did not dare use Strange Arts, and with Chu Qing gone far away, she felt no sense of security.
Like a mole, she prepared to dig out an underground dwelling—or rather, an underground palace.
Chu Qing did not care about this either.
Since there was nothing else to do, he let her fool around as she pleased.
The Princess Consort was striving.
Chu Qing began striving as well.
He first had Zhao Hongxiu and Mingyue prepare more than ten sets of ritual materials.
As for himself, he swallowed pearls and opened up the Heaven-Connecting Path.
One great dragon...
Ten great dragons...
Thirty great dragons...
Just before dawn, Chu Qing exhaled a breath of foul air, gathered all sorts of ritual materials, and left.
Zhao Hongxiu was deeply worried.
Because:
There were a full ten thousand Heaven-Reaching Experts participating in this mission assessment.
Every Heaven-Reaching Expert was an overlord-level existence in a prefectural city, even a provincial city.
They were all mighty experts who could stir the winds and clouds.
These experts normally cultivated in seclusion and rarely traveled about.
But this time, they had all come out.
Everyone was young and high-spirited, and they also had to compete for assessment tokens.
Slaughter and conflict were inevitable.
Although Chu Qing was formidable, she was still worried.
Mingyue and the others were simple-minded and did not consider such things at all.
The two of them practiced from time to time and trained the maidservants from time to time, remaining in good spirits.
Meanwhile, the Princess Consort fed secret medicine to those muscular men and urged them to excavate the underground palace.
"Dig. Dig downward."
"One hundred meters?"
"No. Dig one thousand meters down."
"What if it collapses? I'll capture more people to keep digging, then use your corpses to