Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 708: Under the Ice (Part 1)

Twenty-five points, twenty-four of which had a faint connection. This wasn't the kind of connection from a linked formation, but a kind of interconnected aura. Wang Sheng didn't know why this was, but he could tell that these twenty-four points were the ones suppressing the girl in the dream.

The remaining one was naturally the girl in the dream. At the same time, this point was also the weakest in aura. The old Taoist's guess was somewhat reasonable. After being suppressed for so many years, the girl in the dream's aura was probably the weakest.

That trace of connection was really too faint. If Wang Sheng hadn't gone all out in the end, even taking off his diving suit to completely get rid of all aura and formation interference, Wang Sheng wouldn't have been able to sense it.

It was also because everyone's attention was now focused on the capital that there weren't many experts here, allowing Wang Sheng to have such an opportunity to slowly investigate. Otherwise, with more people, Wang Sheng probably wouldn't have had any chance.

But thinking about the experts from all sides rushing over after advancing, it was unknown whether they would have Wang Sheng's determination to go all out. Would they be willing to take off their diving suits and enter the water to sense the aura? The secret here would probably remain under Wang Sheng's control for a long time.

Currently, everyone's attention was still being held by the Grandmaster concert and the true legendary realm, and they didn't have much energy to focus on the core of the Thousand Absolutes Land. Everyone had an agreement that during this time, no family would enter the lake in the Thousand Absolutes Land on a large scale. On this point, everyone was executing it well. It could be said that the entire lake in the glacier basin, except for a few people watching the area on the outer circle, was empty, with only Wang Sheng.

With such a great opportunity, how could Wang Sheng miss it? Now that he had confirmed the location of the girl in the dream, when would be a better time to find her than taking advantage of this great opportunity?

The area covered by the solid ice was too large. For everyone, wanting to figure out the situation below, even with records passed down from their ancestors, it wouldn't be an easy task. Just relying on experts to explore and locate at the bottom of the four-hundred-meter-deep, pitch-black lake would give everyone a headache.

Wang Sheng had already passed this stage, but the difficulties he faced were no less. The unmelting solid ice was at least dozens of degrees below zero, and it definitely had formation support. Relying on natural melting was simply impossible. The entire glacier basin hadn't melted in the middle of the tropical jungle for five hundred years, and it was only through the aura of the girl in the dream that the formations inside were broken, turning it into a large lake. It was completely unimaginable for Wang Sheng to melt the most core part of the solid ice alone in these dozens of days.

Even if any of the eight great families were to complete this task, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven. Melting the solid ice at the bottom of a four-hundred-meter-deep lake, what would they rely on? Rely on everyone's cultivation? Or rely on formations? Of course, there were heating formations, but could they really be effective at the bottom of a four-hundred-meter-deep lake? Maybe they could, maybe they couldn't.

But Wang Sheng had to do it, otherwise, once the great families recovered, Wang Sheng probably wouldn't have such an undisturbed opportunity to deeply dig into the secrets. If Wang Sheng discovered something, the families would definitely swarm over to snatch it, without any surprise.

Before entering the glacier lake again, Wang Sheng had already made some things in advance. The requirements for these things weren't high, and there was no need for Grandmasters to make them. As long as the experts from the Old Monarch's Temple in the underground palace cooperated with Wang Sheng, it would be enough.

The underground palace wasn't just suitable for refining pills and medicines. The abundant underground magma was definitely a good place to create various metal tools. Of course, the Old Monarch's Temple also had its own trained Grandmasters. Although Elder Wang didn't need Grandmasters to make things, the busy Grandmasters in the underground palace still stopped their work and helped Wang Sheng for a long time with their disciples.

The things weren't complicated. They were just a row of metal sleeves with the same diameter, which could be connected together, adding up to dozens of feet long. Wang Sheng didn't know how deep it was under the solid ice, so making it this long was for safety's sake, giving Wang Sheng enough space inside.

Each metal sleeve had the same diameter, enough to fit a long, bar-shaped inner container inside, and it was double-layered. On the outside of the metal sleeves, powerful heating formations were engraved, the kind of warming formations used inside protective suits, but larger, and the connected sleeves could also connect the formations to heat together.

Of course, relying on formations alone was definitely not enough. Even if Wang Sheng was powerful and his spiritual energy had liquefied, he was still only at the peak of the ninth realm, and hadn't truly broken through this realm. The formations still needed Wang Sheng's spiritual energy, and compared to the power source that could freeze the entire glacier basin, Wang Sheng was definitely not enough.

Therefore, Wang Sheng had to have external assistance. Originally, the old Taoist was a good helper, but Wang Sheng had a premonition that the old Taoist couldn't appear here, otherwise something unpredictable would definitely happen.

Without a choice, Wang Sheng could only use some other methods. Fortunately, Wang Sheng only needed to melt a little bit of the solid ice as thick as the sleeve, so that he could sink below the solid ice to see what was there. He didn't need to melt the entire ice layer, so the difficulty was definitely reduced tens of thousands of times.

If he only targeted an area as small as the metal sleeve, Wang Sheng had plenty of methods. The simplest one was adding water to quicklime. The hollow part of the double-layered metal sleeve was where water and quicklime could be added. This thing definitely generated a lot of heat, and it wasn't a big problem to melt the area of the metal sleeve in a short time. Moreover, after the quicklime water reaction was complete, it could be discharged at any time and replaced with new quicklime and water for continuous heating.

The two sides of the sleeve were definitely sealed to block the surrounding lake water from entering, otherwise, this little heat wouldn't be enough to raise the temperature of such a large lake by a fraction of a degree.

Naturally, Wang Sheng also had escape routes prepared. As a sniper, it was impossible for Wang Sheng not to prepare his escape route, otherwise he would seem too unprofessional. When necessary, Wang Sheng could abandon these things at any time and forcibly break through the solid ice to escape, without any danger to his life.

After a simple test, adding water to quicklime and a strong heating formation could indeed instantly melt the solid ice. Although it would continue to freeze afterwards, as long as the formation was always running, the inside of the sleeve would always be in a state of icy water and would not freeze.

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Wang Sheng quickly chose a location, and then he got into the inner container. He activated the formation, and the metal capsule-like inner container, more than two feet long, rapidly heated up and began to slowly plunge into the solid ice below. Afterwards, a sleeve would be released every so often, connected together to form a cylinder.