Chapter 3644: Defying Heaven, Changing Fate

After staying in an extremely dark environment for a long enough time, a person's vision does not improve, but their sensitivity to light will definitely increase by several hundred or even tens of thousands of times.

Wu Bolin's current situation is exactly like this: after days without auroras or moonlight, although it made him irritable, it also allowed his eyes to gradually adapt to extreme darkness, so he could see the faint light points below even when he could barely endure it.

If the aurora above had always been present, continuously shining weak light through the ice layer, he would definitely not have noticed these almost negligible light points below.

After confirming that it was light and not his hallucination, his heart suddenly stirred with a hidden excitement.

Those scientists told him that no human traces could possibly be left beneath the Antarctic ice cap, but the story he had heard a hundred years ago told him that before the decline of the Dharma Age, there must have been many extremely powerful cultivators in this world, and with their supernatural abilities, they could certainly have built an underground city in Antarctica.

So he couldn't help asking himself: "Could it be that these light points below are related to the Gate of Ascension?!"

With this thought, he immediately took out his pocket-sized sword, flicked it with one hand, and the small sword instantly became a long sword. Then he broke through the ice sealing the top of the ice cave and began to drive it with spiritual energy, making the flying sword continuously dig deeper into the ice below. To prevent the excavated ice crystal fragments from blocking the cave, he directly used spiritual energy to blast those ice shards out to the surface.

If someone were at the cave entrance, they would see the ice cave seemingly come alive, wildly spewing ice shards outward. Fortunately, when Wu Bolin had fled from the US military earlier, he had run far enough that within a radius of several hundred kilometers, he could say he was the only living person.

This is mainly because he is now located in the interior of Antarctica, a place that holds little significance for research stations. Most Antarctic research stations are on the peninsula for convenient navigation, while the rest are basically along the coastal regions of the continental plate, also for navigation and transport convenience. Only a few, like the American Polar Research Station, are built specifically near the South Pole. Thus, human activity in Antarctica is confined to a large circle with a small dot in the center—except for the periphery and the South Pole itself, the vast remaining area is uninhabited.

This gave Wu Bolin great confidence.

More importantly, for many days to come, there will be no moon at all, and whether auroras will appear remains unknown.

Under these conditions, visibility is so poor it's almost hair-raising, so there's even less need to worry about being discovered.

Wu Bolin spent one day digging downward into the ice layer by at least three hundred meters.

These 300 meters consumed a considerable amount of his precious spiritual energy, but also continually gave him greater hope.

As the ice layer advanced downward, that faint glow, which began extremely weak, has now become much clearer.

He could see that the glowing object beneath the ice layer was a green light point, which gave the sensation of seeing a red-green traffic light blur into a distant spot when one's eyes are out of focus.

He also clearly understood that the ice layer would greatly alter the light: what now looks like a point might actually be something else entirely. If the light source lies deep enough in the ice, even a large area emitting green light might, after refraction, appear only as such a spot.

Based on the light changes from this 300-meter depth, he roughly estimated the distance and felt that the light point was still at least over a kilometer below him—perhaps it was indeed built into the ice cap at over a kilometer deep, with its base resting on the original bedrock of the Antarctic continent.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a bit disheartened.

For those top cultivators before the Dharma Decline Era, they might not even need the time it takes to finish a cup of tea to directly bore from the top to the bottom of the ice layer.

But for himself, since he hasn't yet opened his Niwan Palace and his strength hasn't reached that stage of leap, using spiritual energy to drive a flying sword for such excavation is genuinely strenuous. If he continues like this all the way, his limited spiritual energy might be nearly exhausted.

Yet just thinking that what lies below might be the ruins of those pre-Decline cultivators, he instantly felt energized again, because in his view, those cultivators before the Dharma Decline could build their abodes beneath this kilometer-thick ice and survive long-term in Antarctica—surely they were not lacking in heaven-defying top-tier masters. Not to mention Wu Feiyan, even if Meng Changsheng faced those masters, he might merely be an insignificant minor figure. And this place below is their remains; when they failed to ascend and their lifespans ended, they could not take their cultivation resources with them—whether elixirs, spirit stones, or various magical artifacts—all might be buried beneath this ice, waiting for his excavation.

He felt like a penniless grave robber who had accidentally stumbled upon the mausoleum of the founding emperor of the most powerful empire in ancient human history. Now this ice tunnel he was carving through the ice was like a robber's tunnel leading to an emperor's mausoleum. As long as he could dig this tunnel down, to the bottom, into the underground palace, he would obtain inexhaustible, endless wealth.

Seen this way, consuming just a trifle of spiritual energy to dig this robber's tunnel amounts to nothing.

As long as he breaks through it and obtains what he has dreamed of, his strength and cultivation will greatly increase, and he might even have the chance to match Wu Feiyan in strength.

If he dares even more, his cultivation might possibly surpass Wu Feiyan.

If his cultivation truly surpasses Wu Feiyan's, then this would be a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity. He himself is an elder of the Po Qing Hui, and his cultivation is second only to Wu Feiyan's in the entire Po Qing Hui. This means that before facing Wu Feiyan, no one in the Po Qing Hui would notice any change in his cultivation. In that case, he could easily and calmly approach Wu Feiyan.

In ancient times, 99% of those who rebelled fell in the process of facing the monarch face to face.

But he, however, could omit this greatest trouble.

Once he gains the ability to defeat Wu Feiyan, he can directly go before her, defeat her, and then emerge to make all members of the Po Qing Hui submit to him. The foundation Wu Feiyan built over hundreds of years, he could easily take in hand!

Wu Feiyan is of the Wu family, and he is also of the Wu family. When the Wu people see that Wu Feiyan's power has waned, they will certainly not defy him.

Everything will be as simple as water finding its channel!

Thinking of this, his heart surged with excitement, and he no longer regretted the consumed spiritual energy. He poured more spiritual energy into the flying sword, making it run faster, only hoping to reach the light source beneath the ice as soon as possible.

He knew that there would be the key to completely changing his fate and achieving defiance of heaven to alter destiny!