A fine rain pattered down.
Wang Ba cautiously made his way to the mouth of a dry well in an abandoned courtyard in South Lake Village. This was the entrance to the tunnel Rat-Head Gou Mu had dug.
He channeled Law Power into his eyes and ears, carefully sensing his surroundings for a while before cautiously descending into the dry well.
To his relief, the Yin Spirit Power he had kept active throughout never spun.
This meant that the cultivators here had probably all truly left.
But out of caution, he did not withdraw his Yin Spirit Power and instead kept it active. In any case, if no one saw him, it would not be depleted.
The dry well was both deep and narrow. Before reaching Qi Refining, Wang Ba might not have dared venture inside.
But bolstered by Law Power, his hearing and sight were sharper than before, which gave him a little more courage.
He descended over ten zhang before delightedly feeling a still narrower crevice, barely wide enough for one person to pass through.
"It looks like the rumors were true. Gou Mu keeps a tunnel intact until it's used, then quickly destroys it afterward."
Wang Ba immediately turned sideways and squeezed into the crevice, then walked forward for a while before descending again.
He could smell the increasingly damp, earthy scent of the surrounding soil, and sometimes even heard water gurgling beyond the tunnel walls.
Then came an extremely complicated series of left turns, right turns, climbs, and descents...
Outrageously, these tunnels extended in every direction, with other branching paths as well.
Had he not already memorized Gou Mu's map and rehearsed it in his mind countless times, he would probably have long since lost his way deep underground.
Even so, he vaguely felt that he