Rules of Heaven - C104

Ding Hong disregarded the few people and followed along the river. He felt that there was something strange below the river. Most likely, the Heaven Punisher mentioned by the heavenly vultures was located underground. He even had a bold guess, that the material used to build the Sky Execution was the small silver grain he saw just now!

“Hmph, so what if it’s a sandstorm …”

Originally, his cultivation was already at the first to sixth level. However, not long ago, he found out the true usage of the Heavenly Talisman. Furthermore, he unintentionally comprehended some of the things after falling down from the flying machine. In other words, his current cultivation was at the peak of the first sky ninth level, yet Ding Hong did not realize this.

He was running in the river of sand, so he would not fall in, and his speed was even faster. The tunnel was dark. If Ding Hong didn’t have the illumination beads, he really wouldn’t be able to see what was ahead.

After running for half an hour, the sand river in front of them suddenly became empty, and the sound of salad could be heard. Ding Hong’s eyes lit up. He knew that they were at the place Kui Teng was talking about. He stopped and put away the illumination bead. Then, he carefully walked to the front and looked down.

It was pitch black down there, and the only sounds were the sounds of the sand piled on top of each other in the salad. Some of the sand that wasn’t made itchy by the force of the impact that struck Ding Hong’s eyes. Just as he was considering whether he should throw a bead down to see what was going on below, a faint but extremely ear-piercing sound came from behind him. His heart skipped a beat, and he did not dare to think too much. He turned around, and a golden sword qi burst out from his right hand, thrusting towards the incoming object.

The golden sword qi stabbed forward, but Ding Hong did not see where the thing that just happened was. While he was frowning to himself, he suddenly discovered that there was a blue light flashing around his waist. He was stunned for a moment. He looked down and saw a strange stone carving that was emitting blue light.

There was a head carved on each side of the stone carving. It looked like it was a man and a woman.

Ding Hong’s heart suddenly skipped a beat and he pulled Peng Yue out of his bag. As expected, that strange light stone was warm enough to welcome him. Peng Yue fell headfirst into the sand river, feeling dizzy all over. But before he could even think about what had happened, he was once again put into the bag by Ding Hong.

After looking at the bag apologetically, Ding Hong said, “I’m really sorry. I’m really in a hurry …”

He retrieved another glowing bead from his Mountain and River Pouch and threw it into the waterfall.

The bead’s gentle blue light illuminated a small area, but it was still able to provide a lot of information in such a small area. The bead quickly fell, causing the sand around it to twinkle. It was a sight to behold.

When he had fallen nearly a hundred feet, Ding Hong suddenly jumped forward and his entire body rapidly fell towards the waterfall. After falling down several dozen zhang, the sword technique appeared. The water sword instantly appeared in the air, standing under his feet. After determining the direction of the water sword, he accurately landed on it.

But just as he was about to come into contact with the water sword, he suddenly realized that the connection he had with the water sword had disappeared in an instant. No one knew where the original carrying capacity of the water sword had gone to.

Ding Hong sighed inwardly. He knew that he was unable to control the sword and did not expect the water sword to carry him for long. It was also good to have a buffer of time. He continued to descend, using this method to slow down his falling speed and observe the surrounding terrain every five to six hundred feet.

He discovered that this place was practically like half a bottle. On this side of the waterfall, there was a vertical cliff, and in front of the cliff, there was a continuous, slanted extension, revealing more and more space.

After falling for less than half an hour, Ding Hong saw the pearl. The pearl was exceptionally dazzling in the surrounding darkness. It quietly lied down on top of a pile of sand and slowly moved forward. Seeing that he was relatively close to the sand mound, Ding Hong used the Water Curtain Sword to land on the sand mound, and then lightly landed on the sand mound afterwards.

The sand in the river was small and smooth to begin with, and when Ding Hong stepped on it, he felt as if he had fallen into a swamp. Half of his body was buried in the sand. While he was still in shock, he suddenly heard a very soft voice. He frowned and put the pearl away, then used his strength to sink it down and hid in the sand.

After a moment, the voices grew closer and closer. At the same time, two rays of dazzling yellow light were approaching.

“Say, do you think our boss is being suspicious? He actually said that he saw something else fall here. How is that possible!?”

“That’s right, this soft fire sand is smooth and fine, and most of the junk is deposited in the prisons that they pass. Moreover, there are traps at the bottom of the river, so how could something run along the path here?”

“Sigh, forget it. Others are also big officials, we can’t afford to offend them.”

“That’s right …”

As the two of them talked, they had already arrived at the pile of sand. The two of them each held a thin stone stick in their hands. The tip of the stick was embedded with a tiny bead that was emitting a bright light. However, the light from the bead was still more than 200 feet away!

The person on the left looked for a long time, but still didn’t find anything abnormal. He pouted and said, “See, I told you there’s nothing here!”

The man on the right nodded, but checked carefully. He looked at the pile of sand and pondered for a moment. Then, he stood on the stone path to the side and used the stone club in his hand to pound the sand for a while. He then changed his angle and finished the entire pile of sand.

The person who spoke first was already impatient, hearing him say that he wanted to go back. He recovered from his sickly state and nodded with a smile, then quickly pulled him back, smiling as he walked: “Anyway, this thing has been built, we can go back soon …”

“Yeah, staying here underground for a hundred and eighty years without being able to breathe in the sand feels terrible!”

“Yeah, yeah!”

Gradually, the two of them walked away.

After another while, a group of people suddenly jumped out of a pool of sand and stood on a nearby stone path. It was Ding Hong! At this moment, his eyes had gotten used to the darkness, but he could still see the rough outline. Looking at the direction the two of them left in, he fiercely exhaled and thought to himself, “It seems like if I hadn’t moved down the flow of the water, I would have been discovered by now.”

After tidying up a bit, he continued to walk forward. However, he did not dare to use the blue bead to illuminate his body anymore. He could only rely on that tiny outline to feel his way forward.

However, just like that, his speed was much faster than ordinary people. Not long after, he caught up to the two people from before. However, he did not dare to reveal his strength, and could only secretly follow them.

Not long after, they reached a fork in the road. The road ahead of them was suddenly brightly lit, and sounds of striking could be heard.

“You two came back. Did you find anything?” An old man’s voice.

“Hey, Elder Pan, what’s wrong? It must be because you haven’t repaired your mechanism for a long time. Are your eyes a little blurry?”

“…” Ah pooh, you two brats, your rest time is over.

“What? How can you …”

“Let’s go, let’s go …” That person’s words were interrupted by another person before he could finish them. From the sound of his voice, it was most likely pulled away by someone.

As Ding Hong was hiding around the corner, he couldn’t easily poke his body out to check. He thought for a moment, then looked at the bright yellow light. His heart skipped a beat, and he summoned the Ever-Flame Sword using the Xuan Sword Formation, covering himself with it. He flew silently towards the highest point of the cliff, where he could clearly see what was going on.

But he didn’t understand.

This was because there was only a round pond of sand here, and in the middle of it was a thin circular crystal plate. Its thickness was only about two or three feet, but its radius was around 500 to 600 feet! In other words, the length and width of this round, plate-like crystal plate were over one hundred zhang!

Everyone nearby was dressed in the same sand-colored clothes, with a hat on the back. Their clothing style was the same as Ding Hong’s! They were constantly gesticulating around, coming here to calculate and appearing to be extremely careful.

As he continued reading, an idea suddenly popped into Ding Hong’s mind.

“Can I hide here and use the Mountain River Bag to keep this thing inside …”

The more he thought about it, the more Ding Hongyue felt that this idea was not bad. Her lips unconsciously curled up into a smile. He observed for a while more and found that there were not many people here, not more than a hundred in total. However, there was an exit diagonally ahead and Ding Hong discovered that not a single step was taken before there was a single person standing there! They were all holding silver crossbows in their hands. However, from the looks of it, they were much more important than the strings that Ding Hong had seen in the past!

After some rough calculations, he found that there were thousands of people within a few hundred zhang!

Seeing this, Ding Hong was not sure if this thing was the Sky Execution.

He quietly walked forward and discovered that there was a Sky Battleship and many other small patrol battleships about two hundred feet away from him. Judging from the appearance of the largest Sky Battleship, it was even bigger than the one Mr. Eighteen used.

“Heh, since the way out is already prepared, I won’t be polite.”

Quietly putting away the Ever-Flame Sword, he chanted a spell and directly put it away. After mumbling to himself for a while, Ding Hong realized that the giant crystal plate didn’t have much of a change. He was curious about something, and suddenly felt a wave of footsteps approaching this place, then heard the old voice from before saying, “I’ll go over there and check again, you guys are not allowed to be lazy!”

“Got it!”

“…” “Really, will we?”

“…”

The old man harrumphed and continued to walk towards Ding Hong.

Ding Hong’s heart skipped a beat. He thought that if he was discovered, there would be too much trouble. Anxious, he abruptly increased his profound strength. With a ding sound, the crystal disc quickly shrunk into a small disc and quickly flew up from the ground, turned a corner, and directly flew into Ding Hong’s bag.

Following that, the spacious stone room that was still alive with some noise instantly fell into silence, followed by an uproar. His footsteps were like raindrops, the sound of the police and the sound of shouting could be heard endlessly.

Ding Hong’s eyes lit up and the corner of his mouth curved into a smile. He hid at the corner of the door and did not intend to leave.

After a few blinks of an eye, a person ran over first. Due to the sudden nature of his vision, he did not discover Ding Hong immediately. Ding Hong, on the other hand, was well-prepared. He quickly put it away.

Then he pretended to run forward, looking very anxious. Just as he took two steps forward, another group of people ran out from behind him. They were all wearing the same clothes as him, and most of them had silver crossbows on their backs!

Ding Hong, who was running at the very front, glanced at them from the corner of his eye. He then quietly released the Ever-Flame Sword and buried it in the river of sand. Afterwards, he flew straight into the sky in a very eye-catching manner.

“There!” There! ” someone shouted.

Ding Hong chuckled and also pretended to shout along with him, “Look, he’s running up!” Then, he used his profound strength to allow the Ever-Flame Sword to swim upstream from the waterfall. When it reached a height of one to two hundred meters, he suddenly swung the sword’s body, and a large ball of flames fell down from high altitudes.

Everyone was shocked as they hastily dodged. The speed of the Ever-Flame Sword was extremely fast, and everyone present could only see a fiery-red shadow.

While everyone was dodging the ball of fire, Ding Hong quietly took out the remaining stink bombs and threw two of them towards Sha He.

“Boom!” Two balls of fire suddenly exploded, and the violent explosion caused all the eardrums to burst. Seeing this, Ding Hong hurriedly shouted, “Run!”

This shout immediately revealed the thoughts of many people.

“Run, run …” One of the younger ones was already scared out of his wits. He said a few words mechanically before turning around and running away.

With someone taking the lead, the response was very strong. Ding Hong was the second person to respond as he followed that person out. Seeing that there were already people running away, these people no longer cared about what else they had to do as they all shouted and ran away.

And on the way, Ding Hong also threw a few balls of fire and a few stink bombs, instantly causing the place to be full of hustle and bustle.

An old man wearing a brown robe would come to his senses and shouted in fury: “Reject Reject! What are you doing, what are you doing! “Don’t run around. Gather, gather, gather …” There was also the time when Ding Hong threw the last stink bomb in front of him that was 50 to 60 feet away before he could say the word “close”. Even though they couldn’t die from the explosion, it was enough to scare them to death.

This old man’s position here was probably not low. After being attacked like this, those who could still maintain their composure, could no longer do so. They all began to shout and run around. Add to that the fact that Ding Hong was the main culprit, causing chaos along the way, making people anxious and scattering in all directions.

After a while, the huge stone room was filled with rocks and stones. Flames shot up to the ceiling, and the sounds of running and shouting could be heard.

Feeling that it was about time, Ding Hong secretly nodded his head and ran towards the battleship in the sky while pretending to run for his life. The people who had been guarding the crossbows had long since scattered, not knowing what to do.

Seeing that everything was going smoothly, and that many people had boarded some small patrol ships and were preparing to leave, Ding Hong was also prepared to take the opportunity to board one of the ships. But just at this moment, a thunderous sound rang out, and a cold voice filled the entire underground space, “Everyone stand there and don’t move, violators, kill!”

As the order was given, the bodies of the people who were running broke and blood spilled all over the ground.

Instantly, the entire underground space became quiet again. Ding Hong’s heart sank as he thought to himself, “Finally, someone powerful has arrived.”