Dragon's Origin

Chapter 346: Wang Sheng's Experiment (Part 1)

Chief Steward Li was suddenly grabbed by Wang Sheng, and he almost subconsciously retaliated. Fortunately, he understood that Wang Sheng wouldn't attack them here, so he forcefully endured it. His body, along with Wang Sheng's force, quickly moved away from the edge of the iceberg.

Wang Sheng's premonitions in the Perpetual Killing Ground had never been wrong. None of them knew what Wang Sheng was doing at this moment, but no one suspected that Wang Sheng was deliberately mystifying things.

After telling everyone to step back a little, at least about ten feet away from the iceberg, Wang Sheng carefully crouched down and used his hands to carefully clear away the floating snow at the foot of the iceberg.

From a certain storage ring, Wang Sheng took out an iron rod five or six feet long and beckoned to Eunuch Shen.

Eunuch Shen carefully approached. Wang Sheng pointed diagonally downwards at a spot and then whispered to Eunuch Shen: "Melt the ice here, but don't make any noise."

Melting a small piece of ice and snow was a trivial matter. Eunuch Shen practiced fire-attribute techniques, and he had helped Wang Sheng collect ice bricks when building the ice house. Without saying a word, he took the iron rod and used his spiritual Qi. In a short while, the iron rod became scorching hot.

According to the spot Wang Sheng pointed to, Eunuch Shen inserted the scorching hot iron rod. The hot iron rod pierced down without any obstruction, as if a needle had been inserted into water.

After only poking down about one and a half feet, Eunuch Shen felt that there was nothing in front of him; he had pierced through. What was going on? Eunuch Shen immediately looked at Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng made a circling motion with his hands, and Eunuch Shen nodded. This meant he wanted him to dig out a hole of that size from this spot.

It was still easy to dig a hole in the ice with a hot iron rod, as long as the iron rod was used to draw a circle along the edge of the hole. Wang Sheng had already grabbed the ice block in the middle with one hand, and Eunuch Shen easily controlled the iron rod to melt the surrounding ice. Wang Sheng gently lifted, and the ice pillar in the middle was lifted out, revealing a not-so-regular circular ice cave.

Using the same method, the surrounding ice was melted, and the ice cave became larger and larger, turning into an ice cave more than six feet long and two feet high. It was dark inside, and no one knew how deep it was. Looking from the outside in, nothing could be seen.

No one would be foolish enough to use spiritual Qi to probe. In this kind of place, they were afraid of being discovered by those powerful demon beasts while hiding their aura. Who would actively release spiritual Qi to attract attention? Maybe those newly advanced reckless youths would, but the four people in front of them were more cunning than old foxes, and no one would be foolish enough to do so.

The newly opened ice-sealed cave, no one knew if there was any poisonous gas inside. It had been sealed for who knows how many years, and even changing the air would take some time.

Wang Sheng was at the entrance of the cave. When he first opened it a little, Wang Sheng smelled the scent inside. With his current sense of smell, he didn't smell anything wrong. On the contrary, he felt that the oxygen concentration inside was higher than outside, which was very strange.

Looking at the entrance of the cave, everyone stared at each other, as if no one had any ideas, and then all their eyes focused on Wang Sheng.

After pondering for a while, Wang Sheng suddenly took out a torch from his storage ring. This torch had been prepared before leaving, soaked in fire-resistant oil, and could be used as long as it was lit.

Using a fire starter to light the torch, Wang Sheng then used a little force to throw the torch from the wide cave entrance. Everyone's eyes immediately followed the burning torch into the cave.

As soon as the torch was thrown in, it began to descend in a parabolic trajectory. After falling about ten feet, it bounced up and then fell down again.

With the light of the torch, everyone could already see the things nearby. This was a huge underground ice cave, about ten feet deep. The location where Wang Sheng opened the cave happened to be on the edge of the cave. Less than two feet in front of the cave entrance was the iceberg that Chief Steward Li almost leaned on.

One torch obviously couldn't illuminate everything. After Wang Sheng threw two more torches into the distance, everyone could see clearly this time.

The underground ice cave was about two to three hundred feet in circumference, and it looked like it was circular. There was nothing in the cave, it was empty. There were some dry tree trunks on the ground. Obviously, there used to be trees in here, but now they were all withered and dead.

What was going on? The three royal chief experts looked at the situation below with a belly full of doubts. An empty underground ice cave? Why was Wang Sheng as if facing a formidable enemy? But since he was as if facing a formidable enemy, why did he throw in three torches without any scruples, without triggering any attacks?

With his eyesight and the light of the torches, Wang Sheng could already see what he wanted to see below. Afterwards, Wang Sheng's gaze no longer looked down, but instead looked around the iceberg.

"Steward Zhou, be careful and see if there are any formations around, especially near the entrance of the cave," Wang Sheng carefully instructed Steward Zhou.

In fact, this instruction was superfluous, because with the 'Line' character mystic, Wang Sheng could already determine that there were formation fluctuations at the edge of the iceberg at such a close distance. However, Wang Sheng didn't want to reveal the 'Line' character mystic to the royal experts, so he let Steward Zhou personally confirm it, which would be more convincing.

Steward Zhou didn't dare to neglect, and with a solemn expression, he took the formation stone and approached the entrance of the cave little by little. Finally, at a distance of less than two steps from the iceberg, he felt the amplified formation fluctuations from the formation stone. Looking at the direction, it should still be the direction of the iceberg. At this moment, he seemed to know why Wang Sheng had suddenly pulled Chief Steward Li away just now.

Such an empty place, suddenly a inexplicable formation popped up, leaving people completely confused. There's always a purpose for arranging a formation, right? What was the purpose of arranging one here?

When they looked at Wang Sheng, they found that Wang Sheng had already closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. Everyone tacitly didn't disturb Wang Sheng and waited quietly. Although everyone was curious to death, no one dared to easily release spiritual Qi to investigate, which was really uncomfortable.

Wang Sheng opened his eyes and asked everyone to follow him. Walking along the edge of the iceberg for about dozens of feet, Wang Sheng again asked Eunuch Shen to use the iron rod to poke a big hole in the ice at the foot of the iceberg.

Soon Eunuch Shen completed all of this. When Wang Sheng pulled out the ice block in the center, everyone had already seen the light inside through this new cave, which was the three torches that Wang Sheng had thrown into the initial cave.

Seeing this scene, Wang Sheng didn't say anything and led everyone to walk around the iceberg for dozens of feet again, repeating the process just now. When the cave was opened, everyone saw the light of the three torches again.

"This iceberg is suspended above this cave," Wang Sheng finally came to the conclusion and said to the four people who still hadn't understood: "Look, there is no support below."