"I've told you all before: the most important things for a Sword Cultivator are backbone and a spirit of sacrifice!"
"If you only ever weigh the pros and cons and covet petty gains right before your eyes, how can you ever achieve immortality?"
"Now, Su Yuan, a Prodigy of the Evil Slaying Department, has given you all a fine lesson. From here on, watch carefully and learn!"
After giving his students a thorough scolding, the Civil Engineering instructor turned to Su Yuan with a kindly smile.
"Student Su, once you enter the foundation, you can work without worry. If anything goes wrong, I'll pull you out immediately."
As he spoke, the instructor took out a transparent bead. It was a Qi Storage Bead, capable of holding the Qi of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha.
Su Yuan nodded solemnly to the instructor, then drew the Crimson Origin Sword.
A flash of sword light swept by. Blocks of earth, each as tall as a person, were sliced away, revealing a foundation that had not seen daylight for over a hundred and fifty years.
But the foundation below had already changed beyond recognition since it was built.
The ground beneath it had hollowed out. The metal piles driven underground long ago, along with the soil inside the foundation, had all been transformed by the invading power of Earth Sha.
Looking down through the hole Su Yuan had dug, everyone could clearly see a murky, semi-transparent earth dragon sleeping underground.
This was why they didn't simply dig open the foundation and collect the Qi of Earth Sha in the open.
The Qi of Earth Sha had developed a degree of awareness. Once exposed to the outside world, it would either resist fiercely or flee deeper underground.
Su Yuan gazed greedily at the earth dragon