Age: My Small World

"The water in this pool is too humid and not very hygienic, so forget it."

Yang Jun is somewhat of a germaphobe; he wouldn't use such water for drinking or anything else, it's only suitable for washing his face and feet.

However, because the pool is located hundreds of meters underground for a long time, it is not only extremely humid, but also has a very low temperature.

Even though Yang Jun had been out since morning until now, when it was noon and the outside temperature was at its highest, around 30 degrees Celsius, the ground was still around zero degrees Celsius, and the pool was even colder than that. It was unbearable to even touch the water, let alone wash your feet.

"I wonder if it can maintain this cold feeling if it's thrown into a small world. It would be interesting to create a pool with both ice and fire elements."

He still left it near the stone platform for safekeeping, just in case it came in handy.

The water that had accumulated for hundreds of years was swept away, the pool disappeared, and what came into view was an empty open space, several meters in diameter.

Yang Jun did not stop and continued.

Thanks to his ability to see at night, even in the pitch-black, frigid underground, his eyes remained bright and alert; all the darkness was nothing out of the ordinary.

"This place has probably been untouched for hundreds of years, so it is rarely visited by people."

He wasn't wrong to say that; the fact that no one had visited for hundreds of years meant that someone must have come hundreds of years ago.

Because at this moment, Yang Jun had a rusty iron knife in his hand.

The iron knife was embedded in the mountain wall. It is estimated that someone used it to feel their way along the wall, but it got stuck here and could not be taken out, so they had to leave it where they were.

He was incredibly strong; he could easily snatch a knife from someone else's hand.

After examining it closely, he confirmed that the knife was probably five or six hundred years old.

That's the benefit of learning from Master Hu.

He still has room for improvement in identifying antiques, but he can determine the age of ordinary objects without any problems.

"It's a pity that it's too badly rusted and already damaged; otherwise, it could have been an antique or something."

He shook his head and casually tossed the knife aside.

Since someone has been here before, what will it be like down there? Yang Jun became increasingly curious.

This underground passage is not easy to walk through. The main reason is that the passage was not dug by man, but formed naturally, so the path is not smooth. It is uneven, with sharp rocks at times and gentle flat ground at others.

Such beautiful scenery, it's a pity we didn't have any photographic equipment to capture it.

After walking for about ten more minutes, Yang Jun suddenly heard the sound of flowing water.

He closed his eyes and felt it for a moment, then a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"It's almost at the bottom."

Sure enough, after a hundred meters, Yang Jun's view suddenly opened up.

The stone path widened, revealing a complex and ever-changing underground world.

Stalactites are everywhere, and if you shine a light on them, you can even see the shapes of animals hidden in the stones—they are fossils.

"So this is the underground world. It's quite an eye-opener."

Yang Jun hadn't thought much of it at first, but seeing this scene, he couldn't help but be shocked.

His eyes narrowed instantly.

"Wouldn't it be much more interesting if the small world could also be transformed into such an underground world?"

With a thought, he vanished from the spot.

In the small world, Yang Jun stood beside the bamboo grove in front of the bamboo house, overlooking the gradually expanding world from the small hill. From the initial small space consisting of only a small hill and ten acres of farmland, to the thriving world of plants and animals he has now spent several years, during which time he continuously collected jade, used spiritual water to irrigate the plants, and used spiritual rain to help the animals gradually grow.

Now, we can finally feel like we truly belong to the world.

After sighing for a moment, he casually flipped his hand, and a crack appeared on the mountainside, revealing a passageway.

It wasn't the kind of path he had just used to climb the mountain, but rather a path that had steps, and even escalators.

A wiring strip for installing lights is slowly forming above the passageway, which will be convenient if electrical wires can be installed later.

Well, it might be better to install something that emits natural light.

And so, as Yang Jun stepped into the passage, it gradually descended deeper underground.

In fact, Yang Jun himself had never tested how deep the underground of the small world was, but now he knew.

"It's a full hundred meters deep! That's outrageous!"

Yang Jun couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

This depth is as large as the area when he first obtained the small world. Could it be that the depth underground was fixed from the beginning?
"wrong."

Then he shook his head.

Each time the small world receives the spiritual energy of the jade, its growth is comprehensive; it's impossible for only the length of the surrounding area to increase while the depth remains the same.

So the depth of the small world was definitely not that great at the beginning, but it has gradually grown over time.

Yang Jun stopped dwelling on these matters; all he wanted to do at the moment was build an underground world.

As the passage was formed, he then removed all the underground soil.

To prevent the hill from collapsing due to being hollowed out, he specially built a fixed structure and did not dig too deep, only about a few dozen meters in diameter.

"There are so many good things in the underground world outside, let's bring them all in to fill the space."

Yang Jun thought of the stalactites outside; they were so lovely.

He didn't intend to completely destroy the underground world, so he only took away some stalactites that were already broken, probably due to earthquakes or something similar.

Even so, these stalactites were more than enough to fill his small space.

In no time, his previously empty underground world was filled with many stones, which he arranged very well, neatly and orderly, making it look just like the underground world outside.

"Hehe, I wonder what kind of animals I could raise down there."

Deep down, he still wanted to keep something, whether it was a plant or an animal, as long as the place wasn't left empty.

The timing wasn't right yet, and he didn't think too much about it.

After leaving, Yang Jun planned to climb to the top of the mountain.

Just then, he paused suddenly and looked at a crooked passage next to the underground world.

"No, with such heavy moisture down there, how could there be no groundwater?"

His small world has expanded considerably, and it's currently lacking in water resources. If there were groundwater, it might be able to replenish his water supply.

Anyway, his little world doesn't use much water, so taking a little bit is nothing.

Not long after entering through the new passage, Yang Jun indeed saw an underground river.

The surging groundwater almost crashed against the tunnel, splashing onto the surface. Only then did Yang Jun realize how this tunnel had come about. (End of Chapter)