[Southern Heaven Realm, Yue Yang's Ambition]

Yue Yang returned to the Dragon Soaring Continent and hurried to the location Granny Sha had indicated. One look left him utterly stunned.

The seas had turned to mulberry fields.

After tens of thousands of years, the place that had once contained ancient runes was now completely unlike Granny Sha's memories. What had once been a valley filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers had not only been buried beneath the dust of history, but now had a two-thousand-meter mountain rising from its terrain. After careful investigation, Yue Yang reached his final conclusion: the ancient runes lay beneath at least a thousand meters of thick earth.

Without carving out a passage, even Yue Yang's powerful senses would be useless through a thousand meters of earth.

He returned to Great Xia and sought out Jun Wuyou, asking him for a favor.

"This is a trivial matter. Our Dragon Soaring Continent lacks everything but manpower!" Jun Wuyou was delighted to hear it and waved for Yue Yang not to worry. "Even if you do not want to make a big fuss, I know several old fellows. Their strength may not rank highly, but each has special skills. For instance, one of them has a Drill-Mountain Earthworm as his battle beast. Digging a passage several thousand meters long at your designated location would not be a problem; it would merely take more time. Judging by how quickly he used to dig tunnels beneath our Imperial Palace, it should be finished within a month."

"That's wonderful. If it only takes a month, I'll still have time to complete the fusion before heading to the Trial Grounds to clear stages." Yue Yang knew Jun Wuyou would have a solution.

"How has Cici been lately?" Jun Wuyou asked as if casually.

"She has improved greatly lately. She