Boom, boom, boom...
Han Kang struck again and again, the black-gold pestle in his hand crashing down along the vine's roots like a colossal mountain-cleaving axe.
The forbidden grounds shook, and the earth split apart.
Under Han Kang's swinging blows, a massive fissure over a hundred zhang long rapidly extended deep underground. The surrounding rocks were pulverized, and the sand and soil turned to ash!
A hundred zhang, several hundred zhang, a thousand zhang...
While Han Kang was attacking with all his strength, Lin Mo quietly put the nearby jade bottle into his Storage Bag. He climbed out of the wooden tub and put away both the Heaven-Returning Pill in his mouth and the tub itself, finally relaxing completely.
The Spirit-Devouring Vine had already been exposed. There was no point in concealing it any longer.
He had a "special physique," after all, so cultivating a mutated spirit plant was nothing unusual. The Sect Master had not asked about it just now; offering an explanation would only make him seem like he was trying to hide something by exposing it.
All he needed to do now was wait obediently and see what secrets lay in the depths beneath the earth!
Thump!
A faint, somewhat hollow crash of collapsing earth drifted up from the fissure Han Kang had smashed open.
Han Kang paused, casually put away his black-gold pestle, and beckoned to Lin Mo. "Come, follow me down... bring the Jade Formation Disc, in case anything unexpected happens!"
Without hesitation, Lin Mo gripped the Jade Formation Disc tightly and summoned his flying sword, following Han Kang swiftly down into the depths of the fissure.
The opening at ground level was enormous, over a hundred zhang long and several dozen zhang wide. The deeper they descended, the narrower it became.
Lin Mo estimated