Read Hero of Hearts Chapter 7484 Underground Paradise

Charlie jumped into an ice cave thousands of meters deep, and was surprised to find that the ice was straight like a precisely measured and constructed vertical shaft.

It was clear that Bolin had put a lot of effort into excavating this ice cave.

He was free-falling all the way down, and he had to use his spiritual energy to slow down his speed so he could land steadily at the last moment when he reached the bottom.

As he had previously explored with his spiritual energy, the space here had been expanded by Bolin to resemble a yurt. Inside, the sides and top were covered in ice, the bottom was pitch-black rock, and there was a completely dark entrance that seemed to swallow all light.

In the dim light, Charlie saw the dark cave entrance. He felt a little uneasy. Even Bolin couldn’t get in here, so he wondered what the point of coming here was.

However, the old adage still applies: because we are already here.

After all, we almost lost half our lives to get here, so we should at least try.

However, Charlie still didn’t fully understand why this place was called the Ascension Gate. Shouldn’t ascension involve a journey upward? This place was located thousands of meters beneath the ice sheet, even beneath the rocks. Perhaps calling it the Ascension Cave would be more appropriate.

Charlie stepped into the dark cave entrance, and with a look of eagerness, crouched down and put his hand into the darkness.

At first, he thought there would be an invisible barrier blocking him, because Bolin couldn’t get through it at all.

However, to his surprise, when his hand touched the endless darkness, it felt like it had been dipped into a pool of warm water. His hand slipped in easily and comfortably, like when your frozen hand is placed in warm water.

Immediately afterward, he suddenly realized that an incredibly rich Qi was being absorbed directly into his body through his skin. Or rather, rather than being absorbed, the Qi was so abundant that as soon as his hand entered, it immediately seeped into his body through his skin.

He had never felt such rich Qi since he began comprehending the Dao, not even when he drank the elixir.

Charlie muttered to himself, “What kind of place is this that has such rich Qi?”

While he was contemplating alone, a large amount of Qi had seeped into his body, replenishing his spiritual energy from 50% to 80%.

Such speed can be compared to taking a magic pill!

Moreover, this was only through the skin of the hand; if the whole body went in, the speed would probably be incredibly fast.

With that in mind, Charlie steeled himself and jumped straight into the cave. The barrier Bolin had been facing seemed to vanish completely before him. He encountered no resistance at all, and his body easily slipped through.

Charlie had thought there would be no light in this dark stone cave, but to his surprise, everything around him suddenly brightened as soon as he entered. He then realized that although the cave entrance was narrow, it seemed to have widened dozens of times in the instant he entered. What was originally only wide enough for one person to enter was now wide enough to accommodate dozens of people sitting side by side with ease.

The surrounding stone walls were all polished to a perfect smoothness, and the dark stones were engraved with a large number of runes that Charlie couldn’t decipher. Moreover, these runes were like streaks of light, emitting a warm yellow glow that illuminated the surroundings.

From a distance, this tunnel is at least three to five hundred meters deep. Here, the extreme cold of Antarctica is completely undetectable, replaced by a very warm and comfortable temperature, similar to the 26 degrees Celsius maintained year-round in buildings with constant temperature, humidity, and oxygen levels.

What was even more astonishing to Charlie was that the gravity inside the cave felt different from the outside. Although he was still falling, it felt completely different from when he jumped into the ice cave. When jumping into the ice cave, he had to constantly use his spiritual energy to slow his fall. Otherwise, even Charlie himself wasn’t confident he could withstand the gravitational acceleration of thousands of meters and the impact of falling to the ground.

However, this is different. Even though the depth is also several hundred meters, you don’t need to control your speed while diving. The descent here is uniform and gentle, like freediving in water.

Charlie, like a falling leaf, slowly and gracefully landed at the bottom of the stone cave. The world below was truly a hidden paradise, as a wide tunnel at least ten meters high and twenty meters in diameter stretched out before him.

The tunnel, like a vertical stone wall, was polished to a very smooth surface. Many talismans also emitted light. Charlie walked to the tunnel wall and reached out to touch the magical light on the talisman carvings. He was surprised to find that the light was filled with an extremely high concentration of Qi. It seemed that the abundant Qi in the tunnel all came from these talisman carvings in the form of light.

Charlie was very surprised.

If these were indeed built by cultivators before the end of the Dharma era, then their history must be at least a thousand years old. What drives these talismans to continue releasing such rich Qi for thousands of years?

Before he could understand it, he saw that at the end of the tunnel, there seemed to be a much larger place, and the light inside was much brighter than inside the tunnel.

So he quickened his pace and walked through the hundred-meter-long tunnel. When he emerged from the tunnel, the sight before him was unbelievable.

Before us lay a cube-shaped space at least one hundred feet wide and one hundred feet high. Inside the tunnel, only one side of this space was visible, making its true size impossible to discern. Only by standing at the tunnel exit could one see that beneath it lay a square plaza at least one hundred feet wide. The plaza was entirely paved with large, ancient, damp, and striped bluestone, more like a Chinese product than an Antarctic one.

What was even more surprising was that in the center of the square plaza, which was one hundred feet wide, stood a square pagoda. The structure was at least fifty feet tall, with carved beams and painted rafters, and it looked majestic and imposing. The wooden structure, which had been in place for many years, looked brand new, as if it had just been built. All the paint was smooth and even, without the slightest blemish or even a crack.

Charlie suddenly felt that this object looked familiar. Its shape was very similar to the original Great Wild Goose Pagoda he had seen with his own eyes during his trip to Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. Furthermore, it bore a striking resemblance to the Four Directions Treasure Banner he had obtained from the Rothschild family.

A chill immediately ran down his spine. Could this place have some secret connection to the Four Corners Treasure Banner?

If cultivators had built a square pagoda here before the end of the Dharma Era that was identical to the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, then which actually came first? This pagoda in front of him, or the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang’an?