Read Hero of Hearts Chapter 7474

The sudden thought sent shivers down Wu Bolin’s spine.

Although he could not yet enter the formation to explore it, the power displayed by the cultivators before the end of the Dharma era had filled him with fear.

He had already started to think about his options.

Since I have nowhere else to go right now, I might as well stay here and fight this ancient formation to the death. As for the deadline, it will be when the Antarctic summer arrives and the Forties Devils become navigable again.

If I could find a breakthrough before the Antarctic summer arrives, that would be amazing.

If all efforts are in vain, then I will honestly return to the Qing Destroyer Society and report to Victoria.

Then he would tell Victoria everything about Antarctica. Although Victoria would blame him for hiding the legend of the Gate of Ascension, he could feign ignorance and claim it was all just a coincidence. Then he could offer Victoria this ancient formation to claim his success.

This formation is so powerful that Victoria probably won’t be able to break through it. As for me, I’ve already said everything I need to say, and since I came out to find an opportunity for Victoria, even if she’s unhappy with me, she can’t punish me.

Even if Victoria were able to break through the formation, she wouldn’t be at a disadvantage. Once Victoria reaped the rewards, she would surely reap her own benefits. Otherwise, who would be willing to risk their lives for her in the future? Although Victoria was ruthless, she still understood this principle.

This way, even though he wouldn’t be able to obtain the treasure within the formation, at least he wouldn’t suffer any further losses, and he would be able to give Victoria an explanation.

After making a decision, Wu Bolin sat cross-legged on a rock, trying to enter a state of solitude.

Although he did not have a cultivation method to generate spiritual energy, he could purify the spiritual energy in his body through seclusion, and cleanse his meridians repeatedly, which could also achieve the goal of slowly increasing his cultivation level.

This was the tragedy of the Dharma-Ending Age. Cultivators relied entirely on spiritual herbs and stones for their spiritual energy. Once these two things were gone, they essentially lost their source of spiritual energy and could only desperately cultivate and carefully tend their own small plot of land. Like him, he had been in seclusion for a hundred years but had never opened his Niwan Palace.

However, before the Dharma-Ending Age, cultivators could draw spiritual energy from heaven and earth by circulating their cultivation techniques, and their secluded cultivation speed was almost divinely aided. Those with exceptional talent could open their Niwan Palace in just a few years of enlightenment.

For cultivators today, being able to open the Niwan Palace is an extremely rare feat. However, before the Dharma-Ending Age, opening the Niwan Palace was at most equivalent to entering kindergarten, which in the world of cultivators was like a two- or three-year-old child. A cultivator had to reach at least the Foundation Establishment stage to be considered to have officially entered the path of cultivation.

The difficulty level of Foundation Establishment was so great that even Victoria, who cultivated for four hundred years, could not achieve it.

With Victoria’s cultivation level, if it weren’t for the Evergreen Pill, her lifespan wouldn’t have been able to reach three hundred years.

Meng Changsheng is the same.

He had cultivated for a thousand years in this Barren and Dharma-ending Age, but he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage. If not for the Hundred Reincarnation Pill, how could he have survived in this world for a thousand years?

Thinking of the difficulties in walking the path of cultivation, Wu Bolin felt even more furious.

He finally found the legendary gate to enlightenment, but he never expected that he didn’t even have the qualifications to enter. His beautiful wish was just a mere bubble.

As he was complaining about Heaven’s injustice, he didn’t notice that a cultivator like himself was quickly approaching his location.

Currently, Charlie is less than three kilometers from the ice cave dug by Wu Bolin.

The aurora borealis was still there, still like a green arrow that continued to guide its path. Along the way, the green arrow was like a clue given to the player by the system in a game, blinking resolutely in one direction.

During this time, Charlie also tried changing direction and deliberately deviating from it to observe its condition. The result was that the object was like a compass. No matter how he moved or changed direction, it continued to flash south.

Perhaps it was the unwavering guidance from that mysterious source that fueled Charlie’s growing anticipation.

As Charlie approached the cave entrance, he could see that the arrow was no longer parallel to the ground and pointing south, but was starting to tilt. The arrow began to descend slightly, forming an angle with the horizontal, and the angle was getting larger.

Charlie was overjoyed. After running for over a hundred kilometers, he felt like he had finally reached his destination.

Luckily, I don’t actually need to go to the South Pole.

At this moment, Wu Bolin did not focus all his attention on his surroundings.

Surrounded by thousands of meters of ice, his spiritual energy penetration was greatly reduced. Within the thousand-meter-deep ice cave, he could barely feel the ground, except in the area around the cave entrance.

Therefore, he was even more relaxed than Charlie had expected, and didn’t waste any spiritual energy on his surroundings at all. According to him, he should be the only cultivator on the Antarctic continent, and since the American army hadn’t been searching for him these past few days, he certainly didn’t have any safety concerns.

Charlie’s cultivation was much weaker than hers, and when he used his spiritual energy to investigate the surroundings, he couldn’t penetrate such a thick layer of ice, so it was natural that he couldn’t sense her presence.

However, when he stood on a rather high glacier and looked down at the cave entrance not far away, he was quite surprised.

I’ve been in Antarctica for quite some time and am quite familiar with it. Almost the entire surface of Antarctica is covered in ice and snow, so how could a hole suddenly appear in the ground?

At that moment, the arrow pointed directly at the cave entrance.

He looked up at the arrow and subconsciously muttered, “Could it be that they want me to go into this cave? What’s inside?”

After realizing this, he subconsciously released his spiritual energy to investigate.

Spiritual energy flowed down through the bottomless cave, and the deeper Charlie went, the more anxious he became.

He thought it was only a hole a few tens of meters deep or at most a hundred meters deep, but he never expected it to be so deep that it seemed bottomless.

The spiritual energy seems to have penetrated hundreds of meters into the cave, but the bottom of the cave is still undiscovered.

Charlie’s spiritual energy continued to penetrate deeper, seven hundred meters, eight hundred meters, and almost reached a depth of over a thousand meters, but there was still no sign of reaching the bottom.

Charlie was quite surprised. The cave walls were smooth and flat, unlike any other natural feature. It was most likely man-made, perhaps machine-made. However, the cave was over a meter wide, exceeding the width of a typical drilling machine. Drilling such a hole in Antarctica must have been a very difficult task. Who made this hole?

The depth of the cave aroused Charlie’s desire to explore it, and he quickly mobilized his spiritual energy, searching deeper into the cave.

Immediately after, he suddenly felt that the area he had been exploring had opened up like a long-necked bottle, and the space beneath him had instantly become much larger, as if forming a cave. Just as he was shocked, his spiritual energy suddenly sensed that there was a human-shaped object sitting cross-legged inside this cave.

At that moment, Wu Bolin, who had previously been unable to fully enter a meditative state, suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze instantly becoming extremely sharp!