Burning the Cave

Zhang Chen's eyes were fixed on the Stone Tablet, where countless red threads flickered, but no Experience Points fell to the ground.

"Damn it! The Stone Tablet wants to run!" Zhang Chen watched for a while, and a thought suddenly struck him: "Could it be that I've damaged the Stone Tablet, and it can't take it anymore, so it wants to escape?"

Then Zhang Chen walked forward, wanting to drag the Stone Tablet back, but unfortunately, the Stone Tablet weighed a thousand catties, and it was impossible for Zhang Chen to move it.

"It wanted to sink underground before, but I dug it out. It probably knows that drilling underground won't work, so now it's thinking of running outside?" Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet, a hint of surprise in his eyes. The next moment, Golden Light burst forth from his body, and he pressed his hands onto it.

The Light of the Righteous God continuously burst forth, but still no Experience Points dropped. At this point, Zhang Chen temporarily didn't care about Experience Points, because a greater temptation awaited him. He wanted to see if killing this anomaly would yield some ultimate reward.

Golden Light burst forth again and again, countless red threads flickered continuously, and then were directly erased by the Golden Light. After a long while, Zhang Chen stopped his movements, opened his Dharma Eyes, and looked at the Stone Tablet in front of him, a contemplative look in his eyes: "It seems there's no change!"

He had been struggling for half a day, but the Stone Tablet in front of him remained the same, seemingly unchanged.

"Could it be that there's a limit to the damage the anomaly can withstand? Once it reaches a certain limit, it won't be damaged anymore? Or is it that the anomaly simply cannot be killed or erased?" Zhang Chen's eyes scanned the Stone Tablet up, down, left, and right, and he found that the Stone Tablet indeed had not changed at all.

He felt a little confused in his heart. Could it be that the anomaly couldn't be killed?

Or was his Golden Light energy level too low to erase the Stone Tablet in front of him?

Unable to kill the Stone Tablet anomaly in front of him?

"If I can't kill this Stone Tablet anomaly, I'm probably in big trouble. By tormenting this Stone Tablet anomaly like this, I'm afraid I've already made a mortal enemy. If this Stone Tablet anomaly can't be erased, won't I be forever confined to this small village, staring at the Stone Tablet anomaly day and night, preventing it from recovering its vitality?" At this moment, Zhang Chen felt his scalp tingle.

Of course, what made him feel most fearful was, what if one day he wasn't careful and the Stone Tablet anomaly recovered its vitality? Then he would be waiting for the Stone Tablet anomaly's revenge!

Of course, the most important thing was that the Stone Tablet anomaly could move, and the Stone Tablet anomaly could run away! Although the speed of running away was a bit slow, as long as it persevered, it could eventually fall into a river or valley, thus completely escaping Zhang Chen's restraint.

At that time, the Stone Tablet would be like a dragon returning to the sea. Once it recovered its vitality, it would be Zhang Chen who would be unlucky.

"Should I just use a chisel to break the Stone Tablet?" Zhang Chen suddenly slapped his thigh, a flash of inspiration in his mind. He felt he was too stupid. He didn't just have skills; he also had physical attacks!

Since Golden Light couldn't do anything to the Stone Tablet, he still had a chisel! As long as he chiseled the Stone Tablet into pieces, wouldn't the problem be solved directly?

He acted as soon as he thought of it. Zhang Chen directly rummaged through his basket and took out a chisel and hammer. His eyes looked at the Stone Tablet in front of him, eager to try. The next moment, he directly picked up the chisel and chiseled down.

"Clang~"

With one chisel, Zhang Chen felt his muscles and bones go numb, and his palms felt soft from the vibration. But the Stone Tablet didn't even drop a single chip of stone.

"What a hard Stone Tablet, I'm afraid it's even harder than steel." Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet, a serious look in his eyes.

With that chisel he just made, logically speaking, there should have been some stone chips falling off, but who knew that the Stone Tablet was completely unresponsive, not a single chip fell off.

"The material of this Stone Tablet is very unusual." Zhang Chen stared at the Stone Tablet in front of him, pondering. He picked up the chisel again and chiseled a few more times, but saw that the Stone Tablet remained as still as a mountain, completely undamaged.

"The idea of chiseling the Stone Tablet into pieces is going to fail. As expected of an anomaly, ordinary things simply cannot harm it in the slightest." Zhang Chen was thoughtful. He thought of the Gunpowder at his waist, but quickly dismissed the idea. Simple Gunpowder explosions couldn't harm the Stone Tablet at all, unless he drilled a hole in the Stone Tablet, filled it with Gunpowder, and used the extreme air pressure at the moment the Gunpowder ignited to blast the Stone Tablet into pieces. But if Zhang Chen could chisel holes in the Stone Tablet to fill with explosives, why would he need to use explosives? Even if he chiseled it himself, he would chisel the Stone Tablet open.

"I don't have much time left. I must blast it into pieces before the Stone Tablet escapes, otherwise, once the Stone Tablet escapes, I'll be the one who's unlucky." Zhang Chen's eyes scanned the Stone Tablet up and down, countless thoughts flashing through his mind: "Chopping with a knife won't work, so let's try burning it!"

Burning mountain rocks was a common method used by people to quarry rocks, using thermal expansion and contraction to break the rocks.

At this moment, Zhang Chen didn't care about Experience Points anymore. If the Stone Tablet ran away, he would be in big trouble.

Zhang Chen directly walked out of the Underground Tomb, then went to the mountain forest to collect firewood. Before long, Zhang Chen had collected a large pile of firewood, then piled the Stone Tablet in the center of the firewood, using the firewood to completely cover the entire Stone Tablet, and then lit the fire.

The space inside the Underground Tomb was too small, and Zhang Chen couldn't withstand the high temperature. When the firewood was ignited, he had already retreated.

"Those firewood will probably burn for four or five hours." After a rough estimate, Zhang Chen directly turned and left to feed his Hornets and check on his Falcon.

Zhang Chen arrived at the Cave. The Falcon was standing in its cage, full of energy, its eyes filled with defiance. It hadn't even touched the meat placed beside it.

Zhang Chen didn't mind. He knew that eagles had pride. If one didn't know the method of taming eagles, most eagles would starve themselves to death after being captured.

But Zhang Chen wasn't worried about this problem. He directly activated the Beast Control Technique, then Zhang Chen opened his basket and ordered the Falcon to jump out. Then Zhang Chen smeared honey on the Falcon's wings. The Falcon flapped its wings and soared up, its wings touching the top of the Cave, directly slapping the honey onto it.

Then Zhang Chen took out a duck, processed it, and ordered the Falcon to eat half of the duck before putting the Falcon back into the basket.

He would only feed the Falcon fresh meat to prevent it from getting sick, especially since the weather was so hot and the meat would have already decayed overnight.

As for yesterday's rotten meat? Zhang Chen didn't waste it either. He collected it to feed his Hornets. Hornets weren't picky eaters; even if the meat was slightly spoiled, Hornets would still eat it.