January 1st.
Ten Thousand Laws University City, 19th Underground Level.
Director Lin looked expressionlessly at Zhang Yu before him and said flatly, "Tunnel through the route on the blueprint within three hours, and I'll consider you to have passed this test."
Zhang Yu nodded slightly and walked toward the opening before him. The next moment, as his hand seals shifted, streams of sand and soil peeled away from within the tunnel on their own.
In the blink of an eye, the opening before him began extending deeper at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, Zhang Yu changed the seal of his left palm and abruptly lifted it upward.
Streams of metal powder surged wildly out of the earth, forming simple metal supports that worked with the newly reshaped tunnel to stabilize the interior space!
Zhang Yu kept blasting palm after palm into the tunnel. With every palm strike, he advanced another step, forging onward through the earth's tremors and rumbling all the way!
Continuing forward underground like this was like pressing onward through a bottomless darkness where one could not tell direction from direction, enough to breed irritation, doubt, even fear!
But Zhang Yu simply advanced in silence, striking with his palms and suppressing the terrain!
Compared with the hardships and difficulties he had endured all along the way, what did this stretch of tunnel excavation amount to?
Zhang Yu continued forward, one step and one palm at a time, for two hours!
Then, with the explosion of another layer of rock, specks of starlight shone down from the night sky, illuminating the path ahead!
He walked out of the long, dark underground passage and looked at the stars glittering in the night sky. A thread of emotion suddenly welled up in his heart!
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