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.