It was not that Zhong Wuliang had never thought of running back to the stone chamber. The problem was that the way back had already collapsed. He only had a tiny amount of space left to dodge around.

Moreover, after the tunnel collapsed, digging through it had become extremely difficult. Whenever he smashed apart some rock and dirt, more rock and dirt would fall from above. Thus, digging was extremely inefficient.

Due to this, even though Zhong Wuliang possessed astonishing strength and was experiencing a massive surge of adrenaline under the threat of death, his speed at digging remained agonizingly slow. Moreover, he had not dug very far when an enormous boulder came crashing down on him. It was the final straw that broke his back.

Glancing back at the ever-growing cluster of explosives, Zhong Wuliang was finally consumed by...