Bang, bang, bang!
"What's that sound?!"
Fatty Zhang, soaking in the pool of spirit stones milk, snapped his eyes open as though struck by lightning and immediately looked toward the noise.
Not far away, the stone wall trembled like a disturbed giant beast, giving off deafening blows one after another, as though someone were carving through the mountain!
"Damn it, Zhao Yi and the others are trying to tunnel into the cave!"
Lin Qi's face instantly turned deathly pale, and he sprang to his feet like a startled fawn. Lin Zihan, Jie Kong, and the others who had been cultivating also woke one after another, as though roused from a deep dream.
Everyone hurried over to the source of the noise and listened closely. Faint voices drifted through from within, like the buzzing wings of mosquitoes.
"Hahaha, get moving, boys! We've been digging for over half a month, and we're finally about to break through!"
"Heh heh heh, once we get inside, we'll have to give those beauties a proper working-over!"
"Everyone will get a turn. Heh heh heh..."
Then came a ceaseless clang, clang, clang, the chiseling of stone as relentless as a rapid drumbeat. Clearly, it would not be long before they broke through the mountain.
"Has this day finally come?
Lin Yong, go tell Senior Sister Xie and the others to prepare for a fight to the death!"
Lin Zihan's voice was terribly low. Although they had long known this day would come sooner or later, it had still arrived too suddenly, catching them unprepared.
If only they had more time, they could surely break through to higher cultivation realms like a mighty kunpeng spreading its wings, and contribute their own strength in the final battle.
After cultivating in the spirit stones milk for over half