HEAVEN'S OFFICIAL BLESSING (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu)

RuoYe had already unwrapped itself from his wrist, waiting at the ready, but it retreated and calmed after Xie Lian saw who it was. Xie Lian said, "You... Yin Yu?"

Since who knows when a giant hole that could allow the entry of two persons had appeared, and Yin Yu poked half of himself out from the hole, a sharp shovel in his hands. He let out a breath and wiped away his sweat, "Your Highness, it's me. Thank goodness I didn't dig to the wrong spot, let's get out of here!"

He had actually forgotten there was a holy spiritual device in Yin Yu hands – the Earth Master's sacred shovel! That this device wasn't confiscated, it's a blessing from the heavens! It seemed, sometimes it was a good thing not to have too much sense of a presence, such as when amidst the chaos of battle, the enemy would for sure not go for this person; yet on the flip side, his own troops might injure him by accident. Xie Lian was just about to go to pull him out when his body involuntarily took a step back. Yin Yu was puzzled, "Your Highness? What is it?"

Xie Lian was also puzzled, why would he back away? Then soon after he realized the one who was backing away wasn't him but Shi Qing Xuan who had moved into his body.

That shovel of the Earth Master was considerably familiar, so it wasn't hard to think of the ones who had utilized it in the past. An inexplicable wave of terror filled Xie Lian, and it was probably Shi Qing Xuan's subconscious reaction. Fortunately, Shi Qing Xuan's reaction wasn't overly agitated, and quickly returned the body's control back to Xie Lian. Xie Lian also quickly forgot to ask Hua Cheng who the one they must enlist the help of to ascend the heavens, and hastily jumped down into that hole, dropping into the Heavenly Capital's underground with Yin Yu.

Above them, it didn't take long before the hole closed. They crawled inside the dark tunnel for a bit when Xie Lian suddenly realized something, "Yin Yu, can this Earth Master shovel dig through the barrier locking down the Heavenly Capital?"

"I... don't think so?" Yin Yu replied.

"Huh?"

Shi Qing Xuan spoke up, "Then that means although this sacred shovel is a spiritual device, but digging all around you'd still be in the Heavenly Capital. Doesn't that make it useless?"

Yin Yu scratched his head, "It's not entirely useless... A barrier array has been set up outside the palaces of every martial heavenly official to slow the recovery of their injuries. I thought if they continued to remain in their palaces, they wouldn't be able to recover their fighting powers for years, so why not use the Earth Master shovel to dig out a secret room in the underground somewhere and move all the martial gods there, and after everyone's mostly recovered we can try to break out?"

"Wait!" Shi Qing Xuan called out, "Hua Chengzhu says you tell those usel... those martial gods to hide themselves and heal on their own; you'd be seeking your own deaths if you try to break out under Jun Wu's hands."