SpyingBlade thought to himself, luckily the fire completely restrained them. The webs were practically useless, otherwise ‘a tough battle’ wouldn’t be enough to describe it. Their party already leaned towards close range combat. If the three bosses were to shoot their webs, the fight would be over. Their weapons were already helpless against the normal spider webs let alone the boss level ones. Their only weakness was fire.
SpyingBlade recalled how useful Lin Le’s Molotovs had been ever since Really New Village. It had restrained many bosses through terrain or attributes.
Fang Ci saw that the three bosses wanted to shoot their webs at the wall and escape, but the sprayed webs were ignited by the fire. He saw one of them throw off Brother Xiong, but was quickly pinned down through its head by a shadow pike. He turned and saw Ye Cang shoot out an Explosive Bullet towards it, not giving it any chance to escape the fire.
The deaths of the three spiders were announced. They all retreated out of the fire, staying vigilant against Ye Cang, ready to intercept. Lin Le looted them one by one, while Zhang ZhengXiong continued to use the excuse of overtaxing his hand to console Ye Cang.
Everyone watched as Ye Cang hummed a tune and cleaned up the numerous corpses of various sizes. His speed at gathering the threads left their scalps numb. Wu Na gathered her courage and asked curiously, “What is that web for…?”
Everyone rested for a while. After healing up, they continued exploring deeper into the depths. Surprisingly, there was light at the end of the wide tunnel. Following the tunnel, Ye Cang went ahead to investigate. His eagle eyes saw that in front of them was a very big underground lake. The cave ceiling was lined with light crystals. There were blue, green, yellow, red, and even pink ones. There were also many exposed ore veins containing uncommon ores. Ye Cang was unable to estimate the size of this underground lake because he couldn’t see the end of it, thus it must be a large lake. There were no signs of life by the shore.
Ye Cang motioned for everyone to come. Little Ye Tian began to evaluate it, but shook her head. “I can’t figure it out. But we’re already very deep underground.”
Ye Cang dove into the water like a fish and rapidly swam down. He saw that underneath where the others were was an underwater tunnel. The water flowed extremely rapidly. He quickly returned to shore and stomped on the ground, “Underneath us is an underwater tunnel…”
“Then this isn’t an underground lake, but an underground river. Brother A’Xiong, father, gather the resources here. Afterwards let’s take the boat to check out the other side.” Little Ye Tian pointed to the opposite shore veiled in darkness.
Ye Cang took out their portable steamship and installed a new magic crystal into it, then began to mine with Zhang ZhengXiong. The crystals on the ceiling weren’t very valuable as they would lose their light once they left, and their existence increased the party’s health and mana regeneration considerably, so they weren’t harvested. They harvested the mithril, thorium, shadow ice crystals and other precious materials.
Little Ye Tian sailed the ship, travelling while recording on her map. She calculated their position and deduced the direction to sail to. In her head, she would never lose her sense of direction. A compass may fail and stop working, but she wouldn’t.
Everyone silently travelled for two days! They even protected the boat from scattered demon beasts. Finally, everyone arrived at what appeared to be a large underground waterfall. The waterfall looked magnificent, the force sending water splashing up very high. It was hard to imagine just how high into the darkness it went.
Ye Cang ordered Little Blue Feather to fly up. As it circled higher, a familiar feeling overcame it. He also recognized this place. Returning from Little Blue Feather’s sight, he said calmly, “This is near White Stone City. It was that place we didn’t dare go last time.”
Little Ye Tian was delighted. “If we can connect to the top, then establishing a village near Anya’s shrine will only be a matter of time and money!”
“Is that possible?” SpyingBlade faintly raised an eyebrow.
“Easy. I’ll design a boat lifting device. The design will be very simple, something I can accomplish at my current level! Leave this to me!” Little Ye Tian said confidently.
Ye Cang saw a big bubble rising outside the boat, obviously very strange. Feeling something wrong, he called out, “Little Tian! Back up the boat! At once! Don’t stop!!”
Ye Cang identified it.
Ye Cang quickly shared its weaknesses. SpyingBlade raised his brows. Earth and electricity were effective. Ice can cause slow. He decided to swap his weapons for an earth element hatchet and a lightning element dagger.
Lin Le quickly removed the three fire crystals, putting them away carefully, and inserting three earth crystals. His arm guard immediately thickened. One could vaguely see a layer of brown dust around his weapon.
