novelraw Chapter 618 592: Deceiving Heaven and Crossing the Sea
Chapter 618 592: Deceiving Heaven and Crossing the Sea
Chen Shouyi took one last look at his attributes, closed the attribute panel, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Ultimately, I'm still too weak!"
"But staying here indefinitely isn't a solution either."
After staying here for half a month, Chen Shouyi began to feel increasingly anxious.
He and the God of Flames were now in a test of patience, seeing who would lose their composure first. But obviously, his heart was burdened, making him the first to falter.
"Damn it, one of these days..." Chen Shouyi cursed silently to himself.
Yet, he had no other ideas.
"Good Giant, do you think this is pretty?" At this moment, the carefree Shell Lady held a colorful shell, flying over quickly from the nearby beach to present her find.
If anyone was the happiest during this time, it was this little one, almost treating this place like a vacation.
"Beautiful!" Chen Shouyi replied listlessly.
"Here, this is for you." The Shell Lady giggled, placing the colorful shell into Chen Shouyi's hands, "Little one already found a bigger one and I will dig it out now!"
Saying this, she eagerly flew back to the beach and dug her body into the sand.
Chen Shouyi watched the disappearing Shell Lady in a daze. Suddenly, he had a stroke of inspiration and felt excitement in his heart.
"Maybe it's possible!"
He hurriedly rummaged through his space.
Inside was cluttered with various miscellaneous items; anything potentially useful, he would typically buy several pieces of and place into his space, ready for unforeseen needs.
It took Chen Shouyi a while to find a compass tucked away at some unknown time.
The other world also had a magnetic field, and although east, west, south, and north differed from Earth, there were still fixed directions.
"This is perfect!" A trace of joy appeared on his face.
He then kicked off the ground, soaring into the sky at ten thousand meters.
From high above, the entire land spread out beneath him.
The view was of boundless green and endless vitality, like the earth was covered with a thin green veil, resembling an endless green ocean. Meanwhile, the desert over two hundred kilometers away stood out starkly, a bald patch amid lush hair.
With his keen eyesight, Chen Shouyi could clearly see the once-mighty Hollow Mountain now reduced to a mere few dozen meters, and could ascertain the position of the spatial passage. He took out the compass for orientation.
Then he descended back down.
"Right, I need to block His sight first, otherwise I'll be easily discovered!"
Even at a demigod's level, he had a trachromatic vision, not to mention a medium-level divine being. They could likely see through the surface to the interior of objects at a glance; the small log cabin offered no visual obstruction whatsoever.
He continued his search in his space, eyes lighting up.
There were five large lead-plated iron boxes, initially used to store powerful divine power sludge. He had thrown them into the space in a hasty moment, not expecting their usefulness here.
Even garbage has its purpose after all.
Chen Shouyi took the powerful divine power slurry out of the iron box, transformed into a five-meter giant, and got to work quickly.
The iron box's specifications were: 1m*2m*1m.
A centimeter thick.
A total of five boxes.
It was sufficient!
Chen Shouyi tore the iron sheets off the boxes with brute force; no screws were needed; just a squeeze of his fingers, and the iron plates adhered to each other. After just an hour, a cramped metallic iron room, even with the floor plated, was completed.
Chen Shouyi tested it.
He was satisfied inside.
Once sealed, with no gaps, not even perception could penetrate, let alone vision.
...
The night deepened steadily.
Outside, the tide ebbed and flowed, punctuated by the occasional howling of beasts.
Seeing the Shell Lady sleeping peacefully, Chen Shouyi couldn't find any rest.
He glanced at his watch; it had been ten hours since nightfall, deep into this world's night.
He swiftly got up, went to the doorway, and used soft clay to seal the last gap, then lifted a section of the iron plated flooring, revealing the sand beneath.
He began to dig swiftly.
The sand he dug out was cast into his space, exchanging it for fresh air from within.
He dug deeper and larger.
His body began to swell, transforming into a three-meter giant, then a five-meter one. Soon he struck rock, but with his hundred-ton arm strength, it was no different from sand.
He worked like a mighty tunnel borer, rapidly delving underground.
One hundred meters, two hundred meters…
All groundwater and excavated soil were collected into his space.
He dug straight to a depth of five hundred meters before he paused his descent.
This depth guaranteed safety.
Then, Chen Shouyi took out the compass, confirmed the direction, and began advancing towards his goal.
It was undoubtedly a colossal undertaking.
Digging a tunnel over two hundred kilometers long, even for Chen Shouyi, meant it was impossible to complete within a single night.
...
For the next few days, Chen Shouyi carried on with his usual routine during the day, occasionally swimming in the ocean, clearing out miscellaneous items from his space. Outwardly everything appeared unchanged, yet the tunnel was progressing forty to fifty kilometers each night.
Everything was concealed and unnoticed.
On the evening of the fifth day.
Suddenly, Chen Shouyi emerged from the iron room, transforming into a forty-meter-tall giant.
He seemed extremely irritated, infuriated, roaring angrily into the sky, loudly cursing the God of Flames. His giant feet stomped mightily on the sand, flattening the iron room beneath a single step.
Minutes later, he headed to the ocean, wading deeper, his massive form gradually engulfed by the seawater, vanishing soon, leaving behind a gigantic whirlpool.
...
In the Divine Country, the God of Flames looked hatefully, utterly unconcerned.
Yet, an hour passed.
Half a day went by.
The despicable abomination still hadn't appeared, the sea surface remaining calm.
Escaped into the ocean?
Unable to remain composed any longer, He promptly descended, searching through the surrounding sea but couldn't feel the abomination's presence. Gazing at the dark seawater, He ultimately dared not dive in, fearing an ambush on the seabed.
"Damn it!"
"Boom!"
Endless divine fire boiled the sea into a frenzy!
...
Under the cover of the dark night.
A mud-covered figure stealthily crawled out of a small hole.
Without a doubt, it was Chen Shouyi who had deceived everyone, burrowing beneath the seabed to create an escape route from right under the God of Flames' nose.
The equally pitch-black Shell Lady clung to Chen Shouyi's shoulder, holding tight to his ear, remaining completely silent.
Without the looming sense of being watched, Chen Shouyi breathed a sigh of relief.
He glanced around to find the tunnel had veered off course slightly.
Luckily, it wasn't too far off, only a matter of twenty kilometers.
He fetched a giant stone from his space to block the tunnel entrance, carefully covering it with sand, creating some camouflaging, then took off stealthily, racing towards the spatial passage.
ps: I might've stayed up too late cultivating immortality these days, I'm in a terrible state today, sorry there's only one chapter, I need to adjust my schedule to be normal.