When he returned to the stone room, he let out a long breath.
The clothes on the back were soaked with cold sweat.
Zhou Qi took out more than fifty spiritual stones one by one, placed them in the corner of the stone room, and then placed a few gravel blocks on top.
After the operation was completed, Zhou Qi released Divine Sense again. After some inspection, he found nothing unusual. He flashed and got into the crack again.
Divine Sense swept across the entire space, and those sporadic gophers were still sleeping.
Zhou Qi relaxed his guard, leaned down attentively, and carefully peeled off the remaining spirit stones with Spiritual Power.
In another dozen breaths, he had picked up the entire vein of spirit stones and pocketed them all.
His arms were bulging with spiritual stones.
Because he couldn't put it down, Zhou Qi took three pills in his left and right hands, and stuffed two more pills into his mouth.
I've made a lot of money! I've made a lot of money this time!
Zhou Qi suppressed his smile, turned around and evacuated quietly, preparing to return the same way.
But things didn't go as planned. I don't know if Zhou Qi was unlucky or if a gopher just happened to come home.
As soon as he retreated to the exit of the fissure, a sharp neighing sound suddenly exploded behind him!
Zhou Qi panicked and turned his head sharply.
All the gophers who had been dormant in silence woke up. Dozens of pairs of green eyes shone brightly in the dark ground, locking onto his figure, and a violent aura rushed towards them.
Not only that, from the cracks in the stone wall in the distance, countless gray and black figures continued to pour out, like a tide pouring in, densely packed, blocking the line of sight.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."
A sharp neighing sound echoed in the enclosed underground space, causing pain to the eardrums.
Zhou Qi Before he could think too much, he suddenly swung out his right hand, and the three spiritual stones in his palm were caught by the strong wind and smashed against the rubble pile in the distance.
The spirit stone drew three arcs and fell into the rubble behind the gopher group, making an explosion sound.
There was a sudden explosion, and several gophers were attracted by the sound and briefly looked sideways, but the vast majority of the gophers still stared at him, with a fierce look in their eyes, showing no fear of death.
Damn it.
Zhou Qi cursed secretly, a cold light suddenly appeared, and Startling Rainbow Saber unsheathed it.
The sword light exploded in the darkness, and the first few gophers that rushed forward were chopped in half, with blood and flesh splattering everywhere.
The sword was quickly retracted, Zhou Qi was not willing to fight, turned around, squeezed sideways, and suddenly got into the narrow crack passage.
The crack was extremely narrow, and the stone walls on both sides almost touched his shoulders.
He could only hold the wall with both hands and use the force to slide quickly, like a gecko struggling to move forward.
His knee hit the protruding rock, and he grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to stop.
Behind him, the footsteps of gophers were like heavy rain, getting denser and closer.
In an instant, the leading gopher had chased him to the entrance of the cave, biting his calf with its sharp fangs!
Zhou Qi didn't look back, and slashed with his backhand, hitting the gopher's head with the back of the knife. There was a crisp sound of bone cracking, and the gopher's head was dented, and its body twitched and slid down.
But more gophers have moved in.
Their bodies are much smaller than Zhou Qi, but they are more flexible in this narrow crack.
One after another, gray-black figures shuttled through the darkness, their sharp claws scratching on the stone wall, making a harsh friction sound.
Zhou Qi felt a chill on his back as the gopher's claws tore open his robe, leaving several burning wounds on his flesh.
Then came the butt, thighs, shoulders...
Those beasts were like crazy, rushing at me from all angles, biting and scratching, no matter the cost.
Zhou Qi gritted his teeth and poured Spiritual Power into his legs, and the speed increased by three points.
The gravel splashed under his feet, and his knees hit the rocks with a dull sound, but he was completely unaware of it.
Behind him, the whinnying of gophers got closer and closer, almost within earshot.
Finally, there was a glimmer of light ahead!
It's the exit of the stone chamber!
Zhou Qi gritted his teeth and exerted force suddenly, his whole body ejected from the crack and fell heavily to the ground of the stone room.
He rolled around and knelt on one knee, with Startling Rainbow Saber lying in front of him.
Behind him, gophers gushed out of the cracks like a flood that broke a bank. Gray-black figures spurted out from the narrow exit, filling half of the stone room in an instant.
Zhou Qi didn't have time to breathe, holding the knife in both hands, Spiritual Power was surging crazily in his body.
The golden glow on the blade skyrocketed.
Dao-Slaying: Metal Aspect!
Executed at extremely high speed, the golden sword light was like a roaring dragon, hitting the crack head-on.
Boom--!!!
A loud bang exploded in the closed stone chamber, causing gravel to fall.
The light of the sword struck the rock wall at the edge of the crack, causing the rock to shatter and smoke to rise into the sky.
The entire crack collapsed under this blow, and huge rocks fell from the top, sealing the exit tightly.
Several gophers that had not had time to get out of the cracks were pressed at the bottom. The sound of broken bones could be heard clearly, and blood seeped out from the cracks in the rocks, forming a pool of dark red blood.
The smoke and dust slowly dispersed.
There are still a dozen gophers that have emerged from the stone chamber.
They were frightened by the power of the sword just now, and fear appeared in their green eyes. They huddled in the corner, bared their teeth, but did not dare to rush forward.
Zhou Qi spit out the two spiritual stones in his mouth onto the ground, then raised his head and looked at the trembling gophers with a fierce look on his face.
"I told you to bite me like crazy!" His voice was hoarse, filled with suppressed anger.
Before he finished speaking, Startling Rainbow Saber struck out again.
The light of the sword flickered, and more than a dozen sword shadows fell almost at the same time, slashing at each gopher with precision.
Those beasts didn't even have time to dodge before they were split in half by the sword energy, with blood and pieces of meat splattered all over the floor.
The stone chamber became quiet again.
Zhou Qi was holding the knife and breathing heavily.
There was a burning pain in his back. He reached out and touched it, and his fingertips were covered in blood.
The robe had been torn to pieces, and there were scratches and bite marks left by gophers everywhere from the shoulders to the thighs. There were some wounds that were deep enough to show the bone, and blood was still oozing out.
He took out a healing elixir from his arms and stuffed it into his mouth. The medicine dissolved and the bleeding from the wound gradually stopped.
Then he walked to the corner of the stone room and opened up the pile of rubble.
More than fifty Concentration Spirit Stone were lying there quietly, the light cyan crystals glowing with a warm luster under the fluorescence of moss.
Zhou Qi squatted down and picked out the spiritual stones one by one.
The pockets in his arms could no longer be stuffed, so he simply tore off his upper body robe, spread it on the ground, poured all the spirit stones into it, made a pocket in the four corners, and tied a knot.
A heavy package, at least more than a hundred pieces.
Zhou Qi picked up the bag of spiritual stones, stood up, and took one last look at the sealed crack.
The neighing of the gophers still echoed on the other side of the rock, sharp, violent, and unwilling.
But the crack has completely collapsed and they can't get through.
He withdrew his gaze, turned around and walked towards the stone room.
When he passed through the narrow entrance crack, he was more careful than when he came.
Divine Sense unfolded with all its strength, covering an area of several feet in radius. After confirming that no living thing was approaching, it quickened its pace.
After leaving Spirit-Sealing Abyss, the night wind blew in front of us, carrying the fragrance of mountain vegetation.
Zhou Qi stood on the mountain road, glanced at the pocket of spiritual stones, and breathed a sigh of relief.