BXBX NOVEL Chapter 66: Building an Underground Shelter, Power of the Gold Eating Bug_1
Chapter 66: Building an Underground Shelter, Power of the Gold Eating Bug_1
Many cultivators who had come attracted by the reputation started to leave as well, and the massive Misty Cloud City had become much less crowded.
However, some Loose Cultivators were attracted by the environment of Misty Cloud City and decided to settle down there.
The huge battle of Foundation Establishment a month ago seemed not to have affected the prosperity of the Misty Cloud City, and it was still bustling with activity.
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
But Zhou Sui knew that this was nothing more than the calm before the storm. During this month, he had been preparing for the possible turmoil to come.
"The Gold Eating Bugs have been digging for almost a month, and they have reached about two to three hundred meters underground," he thought, feeling quite satisfied.
The digging capability of a hundred Gold Eating Bugs was quite astonishing. They had consumed a large amount of soil and ore, using it as their food, and had excavated several huge tunnels. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
His original plan was to dig the tunnels all the way out of Misty Cloud City, reaching deep into the Yunwu Mountains.
That way, if chaos were to erupt in Misty Cloud City, he could use this tunnel to reach outside of the city.
However, halfway through the digging, he found out that he couldn't proceed.
Because the underground was blocked by a huge array barrier created by invisible mana.
If he wanted to dig through and create a passageway to the outside world, he would have to destroy this array barrier.
This would surely alert the cultivators of the Misty Cloud City and the Lu Family cultivators, leading to the collapse of the array.
Therefore, he had to stop the digging.
"The Second Stage Array is indeed formidable, almost flawless. It seems almost impossible to attack from underground," Zhou Sui thought, realizing why the Second Stage array was so formidable.
A Foundation Establishment cultivator operating a Second Stage array could even resist an average Golden Core cultivator.
If other Foundation Establishment cultivators were to attack, it would be almost impossible to break through, securing a winning position from the very beginning.
That's why, even when the Lu family Archon was on the brink of death, no one dared to provoke him as long as he was in the Misty Cloud City.
The entire Misty Cloud City seemed to be enveloped in an invisible spherical barrier. Whether it was from the sky or underground, it was completely integrated with no room for invasion.
"Never mind, since I can't dig a tunnel to the outside world, I'll just build a temporary refuge underground," Zhou Sui decided to change his plan.
So he ordered the hundred Gold Eating Bugs to start digging out a huge underground maze and many tunnels at a depth of about three hundred meters, making the underground tunnels well connected.
The Gold Eating Bugs also used metal to reinforce these passages, forming metal walls, preventing any danger of the tunnels collapsing.
Because the underground tunnels were a maze, even if someone discovered them, they wouldn't be able to find the exact location of the underground palace.
This was exactly the underground shelter Zhou Sui wanted to create.
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By the afternoon.
Ji Bingyu, Mu Ziyi, and Xia Jingyan were invited by Zhou Sui to visit this underground palace.
They were completely stunned and couldn't believe that their husband had spent a month to build such a huge underground facility. It was beyond their imagination.
"Husband, how did you manage to do this?" Ji Bingyu asked in surprise. She knew that he had been cultivating day and night and only spent a little time with them. But now, he had created an underground maze quietly. It was unbelievable.
"Yeah, you always causing mischief and still had the time to do this?" Xia Jingyan was stunned as well.
How did he manage his time? During the day, he was doing Alchemy and cultivating, at night, he was dual cultivation with them and researching on the process of having a child. It was almost 24/7 without rest.
But he still had time to dig tunnels and build an underground maze.
If he had spent this energy on chasing women, he might have had three thousand ladies in his imperial harem like an emperor.
Her expression was weird as she couldn't figure out how he managed to do this.
"Ahem, that's not the way to talk about it. Of course, I didn't build it myself. In fact, I've trained a group of peculiar bugs called Gold Eating Bugs. They are really good at excavating underground caves," he coughed and started to explain.
He waved his hand and a hundred Gold Eating Bugs flew out. They were the size of a fist and had a dark golden color. They exuded a dense, powerful Geng Metal Qi and were invincible.
They also had a pair of transparent wings. When they flapped their wings to fly, their speed was astonishing.
Their stomachs were like storage bags and could hold a lot.
"Husband, you've trained such peculiar bugs. You're really amazing." "But how are you going to feed all these bugs? It must be quite consuming," Mu Ziyi exclaimed with admiration.
She automatically ignored why Zhou Sui was able to train Gold Eating Bugs. In her opinion, whatever her husband did was correct, no matter what the reason was.
As his Dao companion, she had to trust her man unconditionally.
She couldn't be bothered about where her man got the Gold Eating Bugs from.
Now, she was just worried about how to feed these peculiar bugs.
"No worries, their main food source is ore and even soil if they are really hungry. No need to prepare anything in particular," Zhou Sui waved his hand casually and said, indicating that the Gold Eating Bugs were easy to keep.
If they wanted some good food, they could eat various metal ores.
If there were really no metal ores available, they could eat soil.
There was probably no Gu Insect easier to keep than them, not needing much thought.
"It's indeed remarkable, but you're too cautious. You're worried about a war that hasn't happened yet, and you've dug a shelter three hundred meters underground right in your own backyard," Xia Jingyan twitched her mouth, unsure of what to say.
She had seen many cautious cultivators, but she had never seen a cultivator as cautious as this man.
Just because of worry, he dug a shelter three hundred meters underground.
If word got out, not many people would believe it.
"No, no, that's not how it is. Those who don't plan for eternity are not fit to plan for the moment; those who don't see the larger picture are not fit to govern a region," Zhou Sui said solemnly, "Although war may not necessarily happen and Misty Cloud City may not necessarily become the center of chaos, who knows what the future holds? If it happens, it will be too late to regret."
"By building this underground shelter, when war really breaks out, we will have a safe place. Even if nothing happens, we haven't lost anything," Zhou Sui continued.
Hearing his words, Xia Jingyan couldn't help but nod: "You're right."
Maybe that's why this man, who was a first layer of Qi Cultivation cultivator back then, was able to survive in Misty Cloud City. Being cautious is not a disadvantage; in this world full of crises, it is actually an advantage.
Only such a person can go far in the world of cultivation.