Chapter 21: Scheming in Secret Chamber of Civil Engineering

  A hundred black bears hugged stones of various sizes and filled the deep pit. The two were still uneasy, so Wang Guang gritted his teeth and took three to five hundred crystal stones to buy some talismans from the inner gate's Qi practitioners. These talismans had little effect, only slowly hardening a certain area of land after being infused with spiritual energy and thrown onto the ground, not considered precious at all.

  After the big pit became flat ground, and dozens of talismans were thrown on it, the monk and the Taoist sat on the ground, staring at each other in dismay, unsure whether to leave or continue to stay and guard the treasure.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! I think we won't go there, let's follow that idea and build a secret room below, then use this place as a base." King Guang thought for a moment before making such a decision.

  "It's okay, but unfortunately neither of us is good at construction work. Are we going to have to find an expert in this field to help us build it?" The big monk furrowed his brow and said in a low voice, "But if we do that, there's a risk of our secret being leaked!"

  "Hmph! Monk, what's going on in that head of yours? We built this underground chamber with our own hands, and we're not struggling to make ends meet. Do you think this small-scale construction project would be a challenge for us?" Wang Guang said coldly.

  The abbot listened and simply shook his head repeatedly: "It won't do! It won't do! Just looking at the blueprints makes my head ache, if you want to take action, you come yourself."

  "Haha!" Upon hearing this, Wang Guang couldn't help but laugh: "In that case, it's just right."

  "I'll go find someone to draw up the plans, you catch some moles or other subterranean creatures to prepare for the start of work. In eight or nine days we'll begin, don't try to procrastinate then."

  "It's a bargain." The Grand Monk said uninterestingly, rolling his eyes. In fact, it seemed like he was at a disadvantage, but since it involved that precious treasure of Wan Zai Qing, he couldn't help but be concerned. Moreover, capturing some underground creatures skilled in movement would also be helpful when fighting against humans.

  But Wang Guang handed over the big monk and then used the treasure light to roll up his body and return to the inner gate. This little guy hastily refined more than a dozen sets of hundred-mile flowing lights, and then secretly sold them to the female merchant, exchanging enough purple air to purify his own magical powers. The remaining crystal stones were rolled up and stored in one go, making it convenient to purchase other items.

  "Senior brother, this Hundred Miles Flowing Light is the last time I've purchased it. Now some of your inner sect members are investigating very closely, if I'm not careful and get discovered by them, all the relationships I've built up here will be wasted. If you want to sell this treasure again, you can look for that senior sister who first came here to buy a treasure from you." The female merchant saw that no one was paying attention around her, so she lowered her voice: "That senior sister has also gathered a large group of people, they are now urgently lacking this treasure. If you don't have her contact information, I can tell it to you."

  After hearing this, Wang Guang's body trembled with rage, his face revealing a fierce expression. "This won't trouble you, I have her contact information myself. In a few days, I might need to buy something from you, so don't make it hard for me to get in touch with you."

  "Elder brother, rest assured. These days I've earned some crystal stones and can already make up for the household expenses, so I won't go out to hunt and collect materials from demonic beasts anymore. As long as you call me, I'll come to your side with the fastest speed." The female merchant said, then took out a jade bottle and handed it to Wang Guang, opening it to reveal a strand of purple energy.

  He spoke a few more words with the female merchant, and Wang Guang returned to the inner gate once again. This time, he not only received a large amount of free Dan medicine but also spent crystal stones to buy some higher-quality recovery-type Dan medicines.

  After finishing the above chores, he dived into the scripture storage room to search for Taoist scriptures related to civil engineering.

  He had originally planned to dig a casual underground secret room as a hiding place, but on the way, he suddenly changed his mind. He suddenly remembered the secret rooms built by various schools when they were mixed up in the rivers and lakes.

  Those secret rooms, although made of only giant stones, copper and iron scraps, are extremely sturdy when used. Many powerful warriors have charged in, only to be killed by some low-ranking followers who were aided by the secret room.

  Similarly, if one were to find a unique earthwork construction technique in the world of Qi Gong, it would be more effective than an ordinary secret room.

  After rummaging through the scripture library for three to five days, Wang Guang finally found a Taoist book that recorded civil engineering. Holding this thin book in his hand, Wang Guang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

  He flipped through a few pages and found that it recorded dozens of patterns, including palace-like and underground secret room-like ones. However, after seeing the various requirements written in the back, he couldn't help but take a cold breath.

  "Ah!" Looking at the vast materials and special treasures needed for construction, Wang Guang couldn't help but let out a loud roar. This one roar attracted the attention of the cultivators who were quietly discussing and reading scriptures in the Scripture Pavilion, and they all turned their gaze towards him.

  "This junior brother, what do you want to do? Oh! Could it be that you want to study civil engineering?" A nearby Qi Practitioner walked over and glanced at the book in Wang Guang's hand. "We are Qi Practitioners, we absorb the essence of the sun and moon, and take in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Studying civil engineering is a waste of time, with this kind of thinking, you might as well go learn some Taoist techniques!"

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable!" Wang Guang took a deep breath and said, "Let Master know that I've been studying some forbidden techniques and formations recently, but I've hit a bottleneck. I heard that the Daoist scriptures of geomancy record strange and unusual formations and restrictions, so I came to study them in hopes of breaking through. Who would have thought that the formations and restrictions recorded in the scriptures are indeed bizarre, and I couldn't help but get excited."

  This cultivator was also kind-hearted, and after listening to Wang Guang's words, he actually opened his mouth to advise: "Although we cultivators of the One Qi Sect don't pay attention to cultivating our minds, we should at least be able to control our emotions and not let them show on our faces. If we can't even do that, then what's the point of fighting against others in the future? It will only allow your opponent to detect your emotional fluctuations and take advantage of you!"

  "Thank you." Wang Guangyi bowed his head in respect, he had never thought that the cultivators of this sect would be so kind-hearted. Not to mention whether the other party had ulterior motives or not, but based on this point alone, it made him feel grateful. It's worth noting that when he was wandering around Jianghu in the past, he had been through three to five different sects, and none of them had ever given him such kind advice as a stranger.

  After chatting with the senior brother for a while, Wang Guang took the opportunity to ask some questions about his doubts on the seals and formations. Then he found an excuse to leave. He didn't dare stay in the inner courtyard for too long, not because he was worried that the great monk would find a way to take away the giant stone, but because he wanted to establish the underground secret room as soon as possible, so that he could cultivate safely and stably.

  But Wang Guang followed the prompts in the Taoist book and bought some items from the female merchant, including drill bits, fossil mirrors, iron furnaces and dozens of other low-grade magical artifacts. Although each item was cheap, they added up to deplete the thousands of crystal stones on his body. If he hadn't sold a Wanling fruit temporarily, these items wouldn't have been prepared yet!

  He spat out a mouthful of Fa Li onto the Bai Li Liu Guang, and this blue Bai Li Liu Guang had been tempered and upgraded over time to reach the quality of Wu Pin Top Tier. When deployed, it could fly through the air for three to five hundred meters, and traveling 500 kilometers in an hour was nothing more than a small matter. Unfortunately, the material's tier was too low, so it could only be used to carry people flying, but couldn't withstand Lei Huo Dao Fa attacks, which was a pity.

  When Wang Guang returned to the gathering place of the black bear demons, he found that the ground where Wan Zai was buried under a giant stone was bustling with activity.

  A fat-headed and big-eared monk commanded three to five hundred one-zhang-tall black bears with bared teeth and gaping mouths to fight a giant macaque. The giant macaque was as fast as lightning, and every time it swung its paws, a black bear's brains would burst or a deep gash would appear on its body that could be seen to the bone. But the black bears could only weakly spit out threads of black air, unable to harm the giant macaque in the slightest.

  The black bear in the middle is that fat-headed and big-eared monk, who controls four or five golden glowing demon-trampling cudgels to wander around. Wherever he sees the giant horse monkey killing the most fiercely, he will take the demon-trampling cudgel over to strike it, but at most, he can only hit the horse monkey on the back of its head and cannot hurt its life. For a time, the giant horse monkey cannot rush in, and the big monk also cannot kill it.

  The Great Monk had long seen Wang Guang arrive, but he saw him floating in mid-air and not coming down. After muttering to himself for a while, he continued to fight with the big macaque.

  After about half an hour, the big macaque slowed down due to exhaustion. After being blown by three or five black bears with black wind several times, it turned around and disappeared into the woods in the distance.

  "Old Dao, how can you be so unrighteous? Seeing me in a fierce battle, why didn't you come to help?" As the big horse monkey left, the monk sat down on the ground with a thud and began to wipe the sweat from his face.

  "Hmm! I was thinking about something very important and didn't notice you for a moment." Wang Guang pressed down on Bao Guang's shoulder and swept the dust off with his sleeve, saying: "This time I've found a great treasure. As long as we build the secret chamber according to the method recorded in the Taoist scriptures, that big macaque will never come looking for trouble again."

  The Great Master heard this and immediately had a plan in mind, his face showing joy as he said: "Dao Zhang, quickly tell me how to build this secret room? What materials are needed?"

  "The construction of the secret room is extremely simple, we just need to dig out these underground spaces according to the direction, and use metal pillars to support each space. There are a total of 36 pillars, with an array of prohibitions on top. The walls are also coated with metal, making them very hard. Additionally, there are some flag arrays and traps that need to be set up, but those are just minor expenses."

  The monk grasped his ear and scratched his cheek, looking very impatient. After waiting for Wang Guang to finish speaking, he opened his big mouth and said in a low voice: "I don't know how big this secret room is, and how many crystal stones are needed to consume materials during this period."

  "This wasn't calculated in detail, but according to the records in this book, after the successful construction of the secret chamber, it will occupy 360 acres. The material loss will be even more, just talking about some special magical tools I bought, they consumed over a thousand crystal stones, and these crystal stones were all paid for by me alone, you should pay me half of them." After finishing speaking, Wang Guang stretched out his hand to ask the monk for the crystal stones.