Chapter 3645: Fortunate Child

Time passed another five days in the darkness.

During these five days, Wu Bolin was like a miner working in a black coal mine, digging with all his might at the ice layer below.

And the ice layer below was being dug out continuously every day to a depth of at least two hundred meters.

Fortunately, there were biting cold winds on the surface; otherwise, merely clearing away these ice scraps piled up outside would be a huge project.

And as they kept advancing by nearly a thousand meters, the green light and shadow became clearer and clearer.

What he did not expect was that this light and shadow was not a speckle, or some light spots, but kept growing larger as depth increased; looking now, it was more like a black hole flickering with a dim green light.

Exactly, just like a black hole.

Although the ice layer was still dozens of meters thick now, the rough outline of that black hole had already appeared, an opening directly opened in the rock layer.

Wu Bolin was overjoyed in his heart; this hole—was it the entrance to the underground city, or the legendary Gate of Ascension?!

The legend of the Gate of Ascension attracted him not because he could ascend from here, after all he knew his strength was very weak; even if there was a Gate of Ascension, the threshold would surely not be something he could reach now.

So what truly attracted him was the sect in the legend that migrated to Antarctica and discovered the Gate of Ascension there.

Whether that sect had ascended or been wiped out, their sect ruins and their Daoist materials were destined to be unable to be taken away or to die with them; thus, he hoped more that this opening led to the underground ruins that sect established in Antarctica.

If it really were ruins, then it would mean that below was likely like the headquarters base of the Poqing Hui, a completely underground city built in rock.

And that green-light-emitting opening below was very likely the sole entrance and exit of this underground city.

As for himself, he would become the fortunate child who exclusively enjoyed all the Daoist resources of this underground city.

Thinking of this, his originally nearly exhausted spiritual energy seemed to have received a great replenishment, and he instantly felt full of vigor.

But actually, the spiritual energy in his body had received no replenishment at all; on the contrary, it had now been consumed by him over the past days to less than twenty percent remaining.

Yet he was like a driver whose fuel tank had less than twenty percent left but was about to enter a service area to refuel; everything was within reach, so he did not care at all about the loss of these spiritual energies, because he felt he would soon receive a great replenishment, possibly even an inexhaustible and inexhaustible supply station.

At this moment, the ice cave over a thousand meters deep above his head suddenly let in some dreamlike light and shadow.

Wu Bolin looked up, and outside the ice cave entrance that looked only as big as a match head, there actually appeared the aurora.

This made Wu Bolin overjoyed.

The aurora that had disappeared for many days had suddenly returned!

He felt that the aurora appearing at this time was a complete and utter good omen!

It foretold that he would soon obtain a treasure and soon welcome a new chapter in life!

His excited body trembled involuntarily, and in this ice cave over a thousand meters deep, he laughed loudly: "Heaven helps me! Truly, heaven helps me! I thought everything had already come to a dead end, but I never expected this to be Heaven's great gift to me! The Gate of Ascension lies deep in the Antarctic ice cap within the rock layer; even those Japanese detection devices could not probe this depth, and if not for the American troops arriving in Antarctica, even if those Japanese had explored the entire Antarctic for me, they could not have discovered this place! Heaven's will! Indeed, it is Heaven's will!"

Having said that, he let out a long cry to the sky, and the spiritual energy in his body was squeezed out even faster, making his flying sword operate a bit faster!

At the same time, at the Nordic scientific research station.

Ye Chen, Yun Ruge, and Song Ruyu were still in seclusion, while Lin Wan'er alone sat by the window making tea; these days there had been no aurora, Ye Chen had not come out of seclusion, Lin Wan'er although a little lonely was not bored, each day drinking tea, reading books, calculating divinations, and spending the polar night alone was also fulfilling.

But she had always been cautious, because outside was the polar night, and there was an elder of the Poqing Hui who had fled to Antarctica from somewhere unknown; so as soon as she emitted light, she would definitely close all the curtains tightly in advance.

At this time, Lin Wan'er was closing the curtains, using an electric kettle to boil water; after the water boiled, she brewed a pot of pu-erh tea with water, then turned off the light, and then opened the blackout curtains that blocked a hundred percent of light.

When the curtains were opened, there was no problem; she surprisingly found that outside the window was no longer just the polar night with faint starlight, but those bands like ten-thousand-foot green silk ribbons of aurora had actually appeared in the sky!

Lin Wan'er was also overjoyed at this moment.

She hurriedly got up and went to the room where Ye Chen, Yun Ruge, and Song Ruyu were in seclusion, and gently knocked on the door, saying: "Young Master, the aurora has appeared!"

Ye Chen instantly woke from his meditative state.

The aurora has come!

These days, he had already replenished the spiritual energy in his body to a full and even overflowing state, just waiting for the aurora to come so he could quickly make a transaction with that mysterious thing, to consume the overflowing spiritual energy.

Now, the aurora has finally come!

Yun Ruge and Song Ruyu were also awakened by Lin Wan'er's voice; the two opened their eyes and looked at Ye Chen, and Song Ruyu asked in surprise: "Mr. Ye, has the aurora appeared again?"

Ye Chen stood up excitedly, smiling and saying: "Miss Lin said it appeared, so it definitely did; come on! Let's go take a look!"

Having said that, he stepped to the door and opened it; Lin Wan'er was standing outside the door with an excited face.

Ye Chen looked toward the window outside; the aurora had indeed appeared, so he immediately said: "The aurora is right above our heads, so we don't need to go far; we can perform the hand seals as soon as we go out."

Lin Wan'er asked him: "If Young Master performs the hand seals, will that mysterious object, using the aurora to transmit the new Great Sun Tathagata hand seal, be seen by that elder of the Poqing Hui?"

Ye Chen smiled: "There is definitely such a risk, but I feel we can take a chance; after all, the aurora stretches for thousands of miles, constantly shifting; viewing it from other angles, one might see thousands of miles of laser-like aurora overlapping, making it hard to see the actual form of the aurora; only we, right below the hand seals, can see it clearly."

Saying this, Ye Chen added: "However, the risk is definitely there, but I feel we can take a try; the Antarctic winter still has at least two more months, we cannot just sit here waiting to die for these two months."

Lin Wan'er lightly nodded and said: "What I said makes sense; whether a slight distance can be seen is still unknown; even if it can be seen, it probably would no longer be the form we see from below."

Afterward, the four immediately came out of the warm scientific research station.

Upon reaching the courtyard, Ye Chen immediately sat cross-legged in the snow, intending to immediately perform that set of hand seals that releases a large amount of spiritual energy.

Also at this time, Wu Bolin exerted all his strength and broke through the last layer of ice between himself and that opening.

What he did not expect was that this dark opening seemed to have an invisible force blocking it; his body simply could not enter.

At this moment, he was like someone inexplicably suspended above that opening; no matter how hard he tried, his body could not enter even a bit.

And at this time, in Ye Chen's sea of consciousness, a golden pagoda that had already been mostly repaired slowly bounced out from the sea surface, followed immediately by a great flourishing of golden light.

Ye Chen's hand seals had not yet finished operating when Lin Wan'er suddenly exclaimed: "Young Master, look quickly!"

The Ye Chen who was concentrating on operating the hand seals suddenly raised his head, only to find that his hand seals were not yet complete, his spiritual energy had not yet been drawn away, and the aurora in the sky had already changed its form.

But it was no longer the shape of the hand seals; instead, it was……an arrow that kept rolling in the sky like a banner, always pointing south!

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