At this time, my body was already slowly sliding down, almost relying on my arms to support me. Fortunately, after Meng Laoer was dealt with, Liu Ruxiang now had his hands free, grabbing my arm and suddenly a huge force burst out. With great strength, he quickly pulled me up.
I was breathing heavily, still a little unbelievable about what had just happened. There were bursts of burning pain from the scratches on his arms, and the wounds on his buttocks that were pricked by nails seemed to be bleeding.
After experiencing the danger just now, he was no longer afraid. He took Liu Ruxiang's hand and quickly crossed the chain bridge. Meng Laoer's blood was still bleeding at the end of the bridge.
"He is a vicious villain who would rather be injured than kill us master and disciple. If I catch him later, I will not be able to spare him."
Liu Ruxiang took me inside, and there was a narrow cave next to the suspension bridge.
She took the lead and walked carefully with a flashlight.
After twisting and turning for more than ten meters, there was a large cave that suddenly opened up. Before I could see the panoramic view inside, a smelly hot wind suddenly blew in my face.
I was shocked, and even Liu Ruxiang stopped. At that moment, my body was slightly raised, and the searchlight above my head also shone on my head.
"hiss--"
The moment he raised his head, the air was stagnant, as if time had disappeared, and he felt a chill in his heart.
At the top of the cave, above our heads, there were shriveled black and gray corpses hanging upside down one after another. Those mummies had disheveled hair and ferocious faces. Most of their clothes had fallen off and were torn. The skin on their bodies was no longer visible. It was tightly attached to the white bones like muscles.
The warm and dry wind blew over the corpses above, flowed in the cave, and finally reached us.
I couldn't help but feel nauseated, and I turned to look at Liu Ruxiang: "Are these things corpses?"
She thought for a moment and nodded.
"The ancestral graves of our Liu family contain the key secrets of hundreds of years of prosperity. These mummies hanging upside down are none other than the eldest sons of each generation of my Liu family's ancestors, a total of twenty-three generations, passed down from generation to generation. They are here." Before dying, he voluntarily sacrificed his life, entered the cave and was hung upside down alive, so as to continuously improve the dragon-seizing formation set up by his ancestors more than four hundred years ago." Liu Ruxiang sighed softly, then bent over and knelt on the ground, kowtow. A head.
"As the saying goes, every gain must come with a loss. There is no free lunch in this world. All prosperity comes with a price."
I also fell silent, thinking about those dying old people sacrificing themselves before dying and then waiting little by little for death to come, and I felt very depressed in my heart.
I knelt down and kowtowed.
In any case, apparently my surname is Liu. I have held a ceremony in the ancestral hall before, and I belong to the Liu family. Eat the Liu family's food and drink the Liu family's food. In the future, the Liu family will have to help with schooling, study and life. You should be polite in both emotion and reason.
"Go, get down."
Liu Ruxiang took me down to the bottom of these twenty corpses.
Looking around, he didn't see Meng Laoer's figure.
"Move forward."
In front of this cave, there is a dark cave entrance, from which dry hot wind pours out.
I was also very curious, where did the hot air come from? Could it be that someone was continuously lighting the stove inside?
There were many beads of sweat on my back, and I licked my lips to relieve the dryness.
The long and narrow cave is more than ten meters in total, and we soon saw the innermost features.
This is a place where it is impossible to set foot, because the cave is very low and full of water below. In the center of the pool, there is a huge white marble sarcophagus.
A thin and tired figure appeared on the sarcophagus.
"You are here." He said softly.
When I heard the voice, I was so angry that I gritted my teeth. I wanted to rush up and slap him to death.
"Hey, little thief. I think you are the master of the Jiangdong sect."
Meng Laoer sneered: "Yes and no, I'm just a lost dog."
"Why bother, go to such trouble to destroy the tombs of my ancestors of the Liu family? What do you want?"
Meng Laoer suddenly shouted angrily: "Why can you people learn magic? Why can you, a woman, be a master?"
I was puzzled and listened to him continue: "Ha...haha, no wonder the Jiangdong faction has never been able to defeat you Jiangxi faction. They are very proud of themselves. As soon as I was born as a commoner, I was destined to only attack. I want to ask, why!"
"So what does your Jiangdong faction's affairs have to do with my Jiangxi master?" Liu Ruxiang laughed at him contemptuously.
"You said it, I'm a little thief, I'm just here to steal things." Meng Laoer angrily beat the white marble sarcophagus under his seat.
"You Liu family are so smart! So smart!" Meng Laoer's words carried a hint of despair.
Liu Ruxiang didn't understand: "How to say this?"
"In order to prevent the inheritance from being cut off, your ancestors of the Liu family carved the master's scriptures and magic spells on the sarcophagus, all in small characters. This giant sarcophagus weighs ten thousand pounds, and even if dozens of people come to fill the cave, they can't stop it. Carrying it away, even if you bring enough dry food and memorize it by rote for ten days and a half, how much can you remember? In the end, it will still be in vain!"
There was a bit of self-deprecation in Meng Laoer's words.
"The ancestor of your Liu family, Liu Wannian, was a great talent. Was this planned thousands of years ago to lead to today?"
Liu Ruxiang was silent, but I was a little shocked inside.
It would be terrifying if, as he said, he could predict today hundreds of years later and plan accordingly.
At this moment, Meng Laoer slowly turned around and looked at me with a fierce look in his eyes.
"Liu Ruxiang, I know what you are thinking. Let me tell you, there is nothing you can do to me today." As he spoke, he raised a dark package in his hand.
"When I first came in, I already knew why it was so hot in this cave, because on the other side of the cave, which is only separated by a wall, there is a scalding hot spring pool. The hole at the top sends the wind in and is heated by the space here. It’s hot air when you get to the main tomb, right?”
Meng Laoer's guess immediately cleared up my doubts.
Liu Ruxiang also expressed her affirmation.
"Okay, it seems I made the right move. What I have in my hand is the detonator, which is used to open mountains and blast mines. If you dare to force me, I can blow up your ancestral graves with just a move of my finger."
After Liu Ruxiang heard this, she was surprisingly calm and said calmly: "You clown, there is no need to be sentimental. You just guessed it right. Our ancestors predicted that today's disaster would happen to our ancestral land hundreds of years ago. In our family tradition, When I saw it, I thought it was a legend left behind, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”
