Earth Escape

After digging for Wu Chao, he dug for Zou Bugui.

Unlike Wu Chao, who had been buried shallowly beneath the yellow earth, Zou Bugui was buried deep.

And there was no sign that the soil where Zou Bugui lay had been disturbed.

"Senior brother, is Zou Bugui really down here?"

Zhang Xuezhou had dug half an inch with Wu Chao's matching sword, but he had not seen so much as Zou Bugui's sleeve. For a moment, he found it hard to believe Zou Bugui was hiding there.

"He really is down there. If you don't believe me, stab down with the sword. You'll definitely draw blood now," Wu Chao said with certainty.

"Then I'll give it a try!"

"Don't stab him! He got scared and burrowed deeper. Now he'll be even harder to dig out!"

"Did he hear us talking?"

Zhang Xuezhou lifted his aching arm and made a couple of motions with the sword. He had just been about to see if he could draw blood, but hearing Wu Chao's words, he could not help sighing again.

Compared to before, he clearly had to dig even deeper now.

"He can still hear us, just not that clearly," Wu Chao said. "As long as we speak a little more quietly, he won't be able to hear us!"

"How did he burrow in there?"

"I've heard there's a method here on the Southern Jambudvipa Continent called the Earth Escape Technique. He must have used it to slip underground!"

Wu Chao pondered for several seconds before identifying the source of Zou Bugui's method.

"That method is really good for escaping with your life," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"He hasn't mastered the Earth Escape Technique, so he's reduced to using it to escape like this. Someone skilled in it can enter the earth on