That really was quite a commotion.
But why hadn't they caught the peculiar fragrance unique to the emergence of heavenly materials and earthly treasures?
Underground.
The Four Swords of the Kingly Way were now utterly drained of qi and strength, liable to die at any moment. They had been buried underground for several days, poisoned by the Centipede King's deadly venom. Ninety-nine percent of their strength was gone, and they could barely move.
They had used up every medicinal pill, spirit water, and anything else in their Space Rings that could heal wounds or counter poison, and had even helped one another scrape away all their rotting flesh with sharp blades...
Their bones creaked under the scraping. Those doing the scraping were drenched in sweat, and those being scraped were sweating just as heavily. They had finally managed to purge all the poison, but more than half of each of their four lives had gone with it.
After recovering a little, they began planning their escape.
But by then, all of them were utterly drained of qi and strength, with hardly any power left to force their way out. They could only keep circulating their cultivation and recuperating down below, hoping to recover a little before deciding what to do next.
Fortunately, the poison was completely gone, and the spiritual qi in the Star Radiance Mountain Range was fairly dense. After a period of recuperation, they finally regained some of their strength.
It wasn't that they didn't want to keep recuperating. They had simply long since exhausted their healing medicines, and recuperation alone could not keep their injuries under control.
Only then did they start digging upward for dear life.
Unfortunately, when Zuo Xiaoduo had been there, he had gone extremely deep underground to be safe, then dug wildly