The Passage! Xu Guang and the Others' Surprise

After taking a stroll around Stone Desert City alone, Hun Cang casually found a decent-looking restaurant and filled his stomach.

He then took a short nap. When the sun was about to set, he went to take a look at the southeastern part of Stone Desert City.

Xu Guang moved quickly. More importantly, he did not dare neglect Hun Cang's instructions. After briefly discussing matters with Xiao Ding and the others, he immediately set things in motion.

The desert was unlike other places. There were no trees or plants, and with nothing to obstruct the view, searching for something was extremely convenient.

Given their abilities, Xu Guang figured that lord could not possibly expect them to search the sky. That meant the only place left to dig through was underground.

Thus, the group began digging vigorously beneath the blazing sun.

By now, the sky had gradually darkened, and the heat over the desert slowly faded. The group took a brief rest and ate dinner.

Xiao Li dropped down beside Xiao Ding, staring curiously at the sunken patch of sand. "Big Brother, what do you think that treasure might be?"

Xiao Ding, who was eating, paused with his chopsticks in hand. He glanced at his younger brother and said sternly, "Don't be so curious. Just do your work properly."

He really was cautious enough not to even allow discussion. Xiao Li silently marveled at his elder brother's prudence.

Then, after looking around, he lowered his voice. "Big Brother, have you forgotten about the big brother I acknowledged? If it really is treasure, and we get the chance, we could pocket some and give it to him."

Xiao Ding froze. Shock appeared in his eyes, and a trace of hesitation surfaced between his brows.

He said nothing afterward, but his brows remained furrowed, as though he had been thinking it over the entire time.

After a simple break, the excavation resumed.

Torches scattered across the dunes and moonlight stones held above their heads became everyone's sources of illumination.

With the efforts of nearly a thousand people, a massive pit soon appeared in the sand.

Xu Guang stood atop a dune, looking at the map and then at the site, his brows tightly knitted together.

Following the flame marker on the map, he had already ordered the excavation area expanded threefold. They had also dug nearly fifty meters down, yet they had found nothing at all.

Could that lord have made a mistake? The thought surfaced in his mind.

"Ah!!"

At that moment, a miserable scream rang through the night sky. Xu Guang turned toward the sound, his figure swiftly moving across the sand.

When he arrived, he discovered that someone had accidentally dug into a passage and fallen through after stepping into empty space.

A passage... wait!!

Xu Guang's eyes widened. What passage could possibly exist dozens of meters beneath the desert?

Looking up, he found that everyone else wore similar expressions.

Just then, a voice came from above.

"Not bad. Much faster than I expected!"

Everyone raised their heads and discovered that, at some unknown moment, a figure had silently appeared in midair.

"My lord!" Hearing that the task had been completed ahead of schedule, Xu Guang let out a long sigh of relief, delight appearing on his face.

Hun Cang gave a slight nod and took out a cloth bundle the size of a human head, along with a jade bottle, from his Storage Ring.

Xu Guang caught them instinctively. Before he could ask anything, Hun Cang's voice reached him. "The cloth bundle contains Medicinal Powder. Mix it with water and drink it. For those below the Da Dou Shi level, it can increase cultivation speed by more than tenfold. The bottle contains Breakthrough Pills, which can help you directly break through one minor realm."

The Medicinal Powder had been a system reward when Hun Cang gave Xiao Yan some small items. It was useless to him, so he happened to take it out as a reward now.

As for the Breakthrough Pills, he had refined them himself during his spare time.

Since Xu Guang had completed the task so quickly, it was only proper to give him a small reward.

Hun Cang did not want people talking behind his back about how stingy he was.

"Thank you, my lord."

Xu Guang tightly gripped the pills, unable to conceal the delight on his face. Xiao Ding, the others, and everyone else had also heard Hun Cang's words, and they all expressed their thanks.

With such a large bundle of Medicinal Powder, once mixed with water, all of them would definitely get at least a sip.

It could raise cultivation speed by a full tenfold. Though he had not said how long the effect would last, even if it only lasted a day, that would still be excellent.

"My lord, do you have any other instructions?" Having received benefits, Xu Guang immediately became more proactive.

Hun Cang waved a hand. "No need. Leave first. What comes next is not something you can involve yourselves in."

The reason he had called them over to dig was mainly to save time.

Otherwise, even with his Dou Emperor strength, searching this area beneath the desert would have taken quite a bit of time and effort.

Hun Cang was rather lazy. If he could have someone else handle something, he truly could not be bothered to do it himself.

The group gradually departed.

Within the crowd, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li kept looking back, reluctance in their eyes.

"What a pity. I didn't expect that lord to have been watching all along." Xiao Li's tone was full of regret.

Xiao Ding draped an arm around his brother's shoulder. "It's still better than taking something, hiding it, and then being discovered by that lord."

At that point, there would only be one road left—death!

He did not say those words aloud, but he knew his younger brother understood.

After the group left the sandpit, none of them departed. Instead, they stood atop the sand dunes, watching curiously.

If it could interest someone so formidable, what kind of treasure could it be?

Ignoring their gazes, Hun Cang released a large amount of black mist from within his body. It transformed into snake-like shapes and slithered into the passage.

More than ten minutes passed before a smile appeared on Hun Cang's lips. "Found it!"

He looked in one direction and raised his hand, unleashing an attack. Countless wisps of black mist condensed into a cylinder and plunged straight beneath the sand dune.

A rumbling sound spread through the empty night. Sand and gravel slid down like liquid, exposing a passage. Blinding red light poured out from within, accompanied by an incomparably scorching aura.

"There's actually magma below?!" Xu Guang was stunned when he saw this.

Magma beneath the ground was normal, but how deep had they dug? They were still worlds away from the true depths underground.

Hun Cang covered himself in a layer of Dou Qi and shot into the passage like a cannonball. The tremendous impact sent fiery-red magma splashing dozens of meters into the air.

"What terrifying strength. He can even ignore the magma's intense heat!" Xiao Ding swallowed hard as he watched the magma rapidly settle.

If it landed on him, he would definitely melt on the spot!

Time passed bit by bit. No one was willing to leave. With the appearance of the magma, their curiosity not only failed to fade, but grew even stronger.

Dawn gradually broke on the distant horizon, and morning light spread across the sandy ground.

Countless figures sat cross-legged on the ground with their eyes closed, cultivating.

The previous night, Xu Guang and the others had nothing to do, so they simply brought over a large vat of water and tried soaking in the medicinal powder Hun Cang had provided.

To their surprise, they discovered that just one spoonful was enough to produce an effect lasting nearly seven days.

Everyone present received a mouthful of the medicinal liquid, yet only one-third of the packet had been used.

Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had been utterly shocked at the time. Twenty-one days at ten times the cultivation speed was equivalent to saving two hundred days of cultivation time.

Many people had successively broken through during the night.

Xu Guang slowly exhaled a long breath of turbid air and opened his eyes, which were filled with delight. He had broken through to five-star Da Dou Shi.

"That's enough to crush Rob. If that bastard dares provoke me again, I'll definitely teach him a lesson." A cold glint flashed through Xu Guang's eyes.

Just then, the ground suddenly shook violently. Everyone sprang to their feet, their hearts pounding as urgently as the sand beneath them.