This gave Wu Bolin a lot of confidence.
More importantly, the moon will not be visible for the next few days, and whether the aurora will appear remains to be seen.
In such conditions, visibility is very low, so there is even less reason to worry about being seen.
Wu Bolin spent a day digging through the ice layer at least 300 meters deep.
This 300 meter distance consumed a lot of his precious spiritual energy, but it also allowed him to see greater hope.
As the ice sheet moves down, the initially very dim light becomes much brighter.
He could see green dots of light shining beneath the ice, which gave him the feeling of seeing a traffic light in the distance when his eyes were out of focus.
He was well aware that the ice layer would drastically alter the light. What appeared to be a point of light at the moment would be impossible to distinguish. If the light source were deep enough in the ice, even a large area of bright green light would likely appear as just a single spot after refraction.
Based on the changes in light caused by the 300-meter depth, he roughly estimated its distance and felt that the light spot was at least thousands of meters away. It was likely built on a thousand-meter-deep ice sheet, beneath which lay the original Antarctic rock layer.
Thinking about this, he felt a little discouraged.
For the top cultivators before the end of the Dharma era, they might be able to open the ice layer from top to bottom in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
However, for him, he hadn’t yet opened his Niwan Palace, and his strength hadn’t reached that level of breakthrough. Using spiritual energy to power his flying sword for this kind of excavation was incredibly exhausting. If he continued in this desperate situation, he feared his limited spiritual energy would be nearly exhausted.
However, the thought that what lay beneath might be ruins left behind by cultivators from before the end of the Dharma Era gave him renewed energy. He believed that cultivators from before the end of the Dharma Era who could build their caves beneath thousands of meters of ice and survive for so long in Antarctica must have been top-tier experts with extraordinary strength. Not to mention Victoria, even Meng Changsheng was probably nothing more than an insignificant figure in the eyes of those experts. And what lay beneath were the ruins they left behind. When they had no hope of attaining immortality and their lifespans were at their end, they couldn’t take their cultivation resources with them. Whether it was pills, spirit stones, or various magical artifacts, they were all likely to be beneath this layer of ice, waiting for him to discover them.
He felt like a poor grave robber who had accidentally unearthed the tomb of the founding emperor of the most powerful empire in ancient human history. Now, this frozen passage carved into the ice was like a tunnel for grave robbers to reach the emperor’s tomb. As long as he could dig this tunnel all the way to the bottom and enter the underground palace, he would gain infinite riches.
From this perspective, what’s the problem if we consume a little spiritual energy while digging a tunnel?
As long as I can dig deep and get what I’ve been dreaming of, my strength and cultivation will increase rapidly, and I might even have a chance to be on par with Victoria.
If he were any more daring, his cultivation might even surpass Victoria’s.
If his cultivation could truly surpass Victoria, then this would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He himself was an elder of the Warriors’ Den Society, and his cultivation was second only to Victoria’s in the entire Warriors’ Den Society. This meant that before he faced Victoria, no one in the Warriors’ Den Society would be able to tell how his cultivation had improved. In that case, he could easily walk all the way to Victoria’s side.
99% of those who rebelled in ancient times failed when they faced the emperor directly.
But I can avoid this biggest problem.
Once I defeat Victoria, I can go straight to her and defeat her. Then I can step out and make all the members of the Shattered Qing Society submit to me. I can easily take over the foundation Victoria has built over hundreds of years!
Victoria is a member of the Wu family, and so am I. The other members of the Wu family, seeing Victoria’s power weakening, would never contradict me.
Everything will work itself out!
Thinking of this, his heart pounded with excitement. He no longer cared about the spiritual energy he had consumed. He channeled more spiritual energy into his flying sword, making it spin faster, hoping to reach the light source beneath the ice as soon as possible.
He knew that place would be the key to completely changing his destiny and allowing him to defy fate!