Chapter 28: Two heroes search for the truth on a snowy night, Zhang Chengwen explores the Goddess Cave
He didn't know how long he had slept for, but in the haze, Li Feiyun seemed to hear a burst of sobbing, and a few faint curses from the woman: "Can I not go tonight?" Jia Sanlang sighed, and then lost his voice again. Li Feiyun was about to wake up Brother Zhang next to him. When he looked back, Zhang Ji was already awake. He gestured to Li Feiyun and said softly: "Someone is coming!"
Li Feiyun was puzzled, and heard a silver bell on the roof again, which was extremely clear, and then disappeared. Zhang Ji whispered: "Let's go! It seems that the martial arts is not low." A faint "squeak" was heard, and Jia Sanlang ran out of the house panting heavily, leaving only the woman crying, and then howling.
The two of them were confused, and Zhang Ji said softly: "This is probably Gushe Mountain. Get dressed quickly, and you and I can go and have a look." He then picked up Li Feiyun and jumped out of the window.
After walking a few steps, he saw another black shadow flashing under the moonlight. Zhang Ji followed him while jumping, and while moving up and down, he saw the black shadow jumping up to a room in the moonlight, with his cloak sticking out from under his clothes. The arm came out, and it turned out to be a woman. The woman's wrist shook for a while, and a silver bell sounded very clear. Someone in the room burst into laughter, and jumped up to the roof. When the two took a closer look, they saw that it was the man with the hunting surname Gao who was hunting with Jia Sanlang during the day. . The woman named Gao laughed for a while, took Gao's arm, and left in a flash.
The two of them became more and more confused. Li Feiyun whispered: "Follow them and see what they are going to do?" They left the village in a blink of an eye. The snow had not melted for days. Zhang Ji followed the footprints on the snow and was surprised: This woman brought As a person, when he jumps and jumps, the footprint is only two feet away. This skill is really not light.
Li Feiyun whispered: "Second brother, you have to step on the footprints in front of you. If you are discovered, I'm afraid it will cause more trouble." Zhang Ji nodded in agreement, using his Qi Luck Skill, he stepped on the people in front of him during the ups and downs. On the footprints.
After walking for about seven or eight miles, I suddenly saw a cliff in front of me. Below the cliff was an abyss, and the cliff on the other side was rugged. The footprints were naturally gone. Zhang Ji was carrying Li Feiyun on his back and was about to jump over when Li Feiyun, who was carrying Li Feiyun on his back, suddenly said: "Second brother, do you really think that the woman in front of you is so powerful that she can lead a person with such poor martial arts to jump over easily?"
Zhang Ji shook his head and said: "Even if you don't ask this question, I don't believe it at all. This mountain stream is at least eight or nine feet away. With this woman's skill, she can only jump three feet at most, and there is no way she can do it again." Carry someone on your back." The two searched around to no avail, and Zhang Ji was afraid of leaving footprints and did not dare to walk back and forth.
Li Feiyun said: "Second brother, why don't you hide behind the rocks for a while while you jump to the other side to have a look." Zhang Ji sighed and said, "It's a pity that I don't have the skill of Qinggong like the third brother, nor do I have the skill of the eighth brother. With such agility, otherwise, I can definitely carry you across, and there will be people on the left and right to take care of you." Li Feiyun smiled and said: "If there is any trouble here, the second brother only needs to jump over."
Zhang Ji continued: "This is also true." As he spoke, he lifted up his robe and tied it around his waist. Li Feiyun leapt over the other side, behind the rocks, and secretly cheered. This mountain stream is at least eight feet wide. I am afraid that my third brother and eighth brother will not be able to cross it so calmly.
After another cup of tea, Zhang Jiyu jumped over, shaking his head and saying: "The other bank is just rocks and snow, not to mention human footprints, not even a trace of animal marks or claws! Looking down the cliff from the other bank, it's the same. You can't see anything, could it be that those two people lost their footing and fell off the cliff?"
Li Feiyun lowered his head and pondered, and Zhang Ji said again: "Someone is coming." The two hurriedly hid behind the rocks, and soon two people came up. One of them had heavy footsteps, but the other was extremely light. Zhang Ji said softly: "Jia Sanlang ?" Not long after, Li Feiyun also heard a soft whisper, mixed with the sound of footsteps on the snow getting closer and closer, and it turned out to be Jia Sanlang.
I only heard a delicate female voice saying: "Do you regret it or not?" Jia Sanlang also said softly: "It's finally the night of the full moon that I have to be reunited with you. I don't have any regrets. It's just You guys are breaking the damn rules, it’s really puzzling, I’ve only seen you in January..."
The woman scolded: "How many times have I told you that there are very rules in this cave. Did you arrange it randomly? Watch your head!"
Jia Sanlang only said yes, and the woman's tone changed again, and she said softly: "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the sky only get to see each other once a year. We can see them every month. Are you not satisfied?" Jia Sanlang laughed and said After saying yes, the woman gasped again: "Mr. Sir, I want you to carry me on your back!" Jia Sanlang chuckled and muttered: "It's going to be here in a blink of an eye. Do you still want me to carry it?" As he spoke, he still couldn't bear it. He carried the woman on his back.
Behind the rocks, Zhang and Li saw the woman with only her white limbs exposed under her cloak. Li Feiyun couldn't help but shake his head. Zhang Ji stood up and wanted to chase her, but Li Feiyun shook his head to indicate that he couldn't.
While the two brothers were distracted, Jia Sanlang and Jia Sanlang disappeared in front of the cliff. Zhang Ji was worried and rushed over in a hurry. He searched around to no avail. Li Feiyun said: "These two people must have gone down into the deep valley. You and I." Look carefully." The two searched carefully along the cliff, but still couldn't see any trap.
Li Feiyun had an idea and looked at the other side of the cliff and said: "Second brother, you might as well jump to the other side and look from the other side. You will definitely be able to find out the clues!" Zhang Ji followed the words and jumped across the other side. His skills were perfect. It goes without saying that he has good ears and eyes. After looking carefully through the moonlight, he found that there was indeed a rope hidden on the protrusion of the rocks on the cliff. Zhang Ji was overjoyed, turned over and jumped back, saying to Li Feiyun: "It's not what you expected." It is said that there is a rope hidden under it, and it seems that the previous people used the rope to climb down."
Zhang Ji tore off his cloak and tore it into strips of cloth, then twisted it into a rope. He carried Li Feiyun on his back to bind him tightly, and climbed down along the iron rope. After walking for a while, he gradually heard voices. The two of them leaned on the stone wall and looked down, only to see a few firelights flashing in the snow.
The flames came closer and closer, and there were actually several women holding torches, each wearing a mink robe. They made a tinkling sound as they walked, obviously they were from a group. Behind these women were leading a group of pedestrians, about a dozen of them, each wearing a big fur coat, even their heads and faces were covered.
Zhang Ji's internal skills were so pure that he could see these people clearly in the night. But Li Feiyun had lost all his power at this moment, and when he looked down, he saw nothing but a blur.
Zhang Ji chuckled and said, "It seems that tonight is going to require a lot of boxing and kicking."
Li Feiyun asked in confusion: "Oh? What did second brother see?"
Zhang Jidao: "A few women below are leading a group of people over. Although that group of people are tightly wrapped and their heads and faces are covered, you can tell by the weapons on their waists that they are definitely not good people."
Li Feiyun asked: "Oh, what weapons do they use?"
Zhang Ji looked carefully and replied: "One has a pair of Ziwu mandarin ducks on his waist, one has a snake whip that is more than three feet long, one is holding a half-moon sickle, and the other is a woman carrying a pair of plum blossom hooks. These four They are all external weapons, and they may not be from the Central Plains martial arts community."
Li Feiyun continued: "Three men and one woman, they seem to be the usual weapons of the four murderers outside the Great Wall. Are the footprints of the one with the snake whip coiled one deep and one shallow?"
Zhang Jining took a look and said, "Yes, it's just one deep and one shallow."
Li Feiyun nodded and said: "Then it seems that it is undoubtedly these four people."
Zhang Ji looked down and said: "There is also the most eye-catching big man, carrying a Bawang gun that is eight feet long."
Li Feiyun thought for a while and said: "There are many people in the world who are good at marksmanship, which may make it difficult to find a good master of the Overlord Spear except for the Cangzhou Shenqiang Sect."
Zhang Ji nodded in approval, then looked down and said: "The swordsman walking on the far left is probably the most skilled among them. This man walks steadily, and the footprints on the snow are almost traceless, but I don't know which master he is. ?”
Li Feiyun pondered for a while after hearing this, and never answered. There were too many swordsmen in the world, and he didn't dare to tell who this person was without showing his hand.
Zhang Ji carried Li Feiyun on his back and did not dare to climb down anymore. He saw several women leading everyone to a stone wall. One of the women squatted down and rummaged through a pile of rocks. Suddenly, there was a sound of a machine, and the stone wall suddenly opened. , showing a corridor. Everyone entered one after another, and the stone wall slowly closed again.
Seeing everyone entering the cave, Zhang Ji jumped down with Li Feiyun on his back. The two of them walked to the stone wall. Looking back, they saw a bush in the snow not far away. Zhang Ji took Li Feiyun from his back and said, "You It's difficult to move now, so I'll help you hide in the bushes for a while, and then I'll go to the cave to explore the reality."
Li Feiyun responded: "It seems that's all. Second brother, please be careful."
At that moment, Zhang Ji helped Li Feiyun hide in the bushes. He turned around and rummaged through the rocks in front of the stone wall. Sure enough, he found that a stone was fixed. He tried to move it left and right, and the stone wall slowly opened. Zhang Ji smiled slightly. With a smile, he jumped into the stone path.
The corridor twists and turns, seeming to get lower and lower as it goes. With Zhang Ji's footsteps, he had walked about half a stick of incense before reaching the end. Just when he was confused, the road turned around and the front suddenly became clear, and the faint sound of people's voices, laughter and noise could be heard.
Zhang Ji walked forward and saw two phoenix pillars standing in the middle of the avenue. On the pillars were engraved a couplet: The career of a goddess is just a dream, and the life of my sister-in-law has no husband.
Continuing forward, the noise grew louder and the road became wider, and a lotus-shaped hall actually expanded into the cave.
The hall is several feet high, with torches lit all around. Several people with swords are standing in line. Directly opposite there is a high platform against the stone wall, with a huge bird carved impressively, looking like an eagle but not an eagle, like a phoenix but not a phoenix. There are several caves on the surrounding stone walls, and I don't know where they extend.
Zhang Ji didn't want to reveal his whereabouts, so he spotted the nearest stone cave on the right and stepped in softly. He walked a few more steps. He was puzzled and moved forward slowly. The cave seemed to be getting wider. There were stone gates staggered on the left and right, and the sound of waves was heard. It was coming from inside. When I looked carefully, I saw that there were numbers carved on the stone gates, with the word "B" on them. After listening for a moment, I understood and thought to myself: "Who are these people? They are actually practicing some evil method of harvesting yin and yang here." Technique? It seems like someone who runs a kiln."
Thinking of the brothel, he couldn't help but smile, shook his head slightly, and took a few steps inside. The cave was long, with no less than a hundred stone chambers. When he turned around, he faintly heard Jia Sanlang in the cave. Zhang Ji ignored it and returned to the hall along the same route, then entered the stone cave on the opposite side.
When I noticed, I saw the character "五" carved on the entrance of the cave. It turned out that the layout of the caves here was the same, and they were distinguished by the twelve heavenly stems.
After walking a few steps, I saw that although the specifications of this cave were the same as Cave B, it was surprisingly quiet. I slowly sneaked for a few feet, but I heard that there were people living in the room behind the stone door. However, everyone was breathing calmly, and they were obviously possessing superior martial arts. , I no longer dare to be careless now.
This time, they just followed the corridor inward until they reached the end, where they saw a stone door that was wider than anywhere else and had different specifications.
Zhang Ji stopped in front of the stone door and listened carefully to the movement inside. There was a person inside the stone door who seemed to be breathing. It was obvious that his internal energy was extremely superb. He did not dare to be careless at the moment. He pressed his ears against the stone door and held his breath and performed a cycle. Zhou Tian waited for about an hour, during which the man only vomited twice.
Zhang Ji was shocked and thought to himself: "How many masters in the world can have such internal strength?" He also checked and compared the masters he met with this person one by one. Perhaps only his mentors, Shaolin Juetong and Jue Ming and other few people may be comparable.
He knew that he had met one of the few top masters in the world. After thinking about it, he decided to avoid the edge for the time being. He was about to withdraw his feet and turn around, but unexpectedly he forgot to close his breath and hide it: he had been holding his breath for too long, and his subconscious exhalation was inevitably heavy. Some. How extraordinary is that person inside the stone gate? I could already hear Zhang Ji's breathing outside the door.
With a "hoo" sound, the stone door suddenly opened. Seeing that the people in the stone room had discovered him, Zhang Ji simply jumped in with a smile.
Although the people in the room had long heard that there was an expert outside the door, they never expected that the other person would suddenly jump in and slap Zhang Ji in a hurry.
Before Zhang Ji landed on the ground and saw the opponent's face, he heard the whistling wind of the palm and calmly raised his right arm to meet the opponent's head with a palm.
With a "bang", the people in the room were shaken back, and their backs hit the stone wall, taking advantage of the situation to eliminate the force of their palms. Zhang Ji also took advantage of the opportunity to volley backwards and land smoothly on the ground.
The two of them looked at each other in surprise. Zhang Ji took a look and saw that the other person had white hair and a slightly fat figure. He was clearly an old man, but his face was covered with black cloth, so his face could not be seen.
The other party snorted coldly, adjusted his clothes, and lowered his voice and asked: "Which disciple of the Wudang Sect are you?" Zhang Ji did not answer him, and opened his mouth and said: "Your kung fu is no longer inferior to that of the eminent monks in Shaolin Temple. , who are you?"
The old man laughed loudly when he heard this and said: "I didn't expect that a junior like you is not only good at palm skills, but also has extraordinary knowledge! That's right! I have been practicing hard for decades, and I claim to be a magical power, but I have long since ceased to be under the Shaolin Yi Jin Marrow Cleansing Sutra. ..." The old man suddenly stopped, took a breath, and asked again: "The dry cow nose on Wudang Mountain can never train a person like you, but your internal skills and palm skills came from Wudang Pai Doubi, say! Who did you learn from? And why are you here?"
Zhang Ji chuckled and replied: "It really doesn't matter that I am the master. As for the purpose of coming here, it is to pay a visit to the cave master!"
The old man took a few steps forward, looked up and down, and said slowly: "Since you are here to pay a visit to the cave master, you should go to the main hall. Why are you sneaking around, eavesdropping, and disturbing my rest?" Zhang Ji didn't either. After arguing, the old man continued: "No matter who you are, I'm afraid it will be easier for you to get in but harder for you to get out!" Seeing that he was secretly mentioning his Qi Luck Skill before he spoke, it was clear that he was planning a sneak attack. Zhang Ji did not dare to be careless at all. But he answered calmly: "Oh? Really?"
The old man shouted loudly, jumped up on the spot, put his palms on his head, and came like a whirlwind. Zhang Ji turned sideways, drew a semicircle with his left arm from his chest, slightly bent his legs, and pushed out with his left palm, He received another palm head-on, and there was another "bang" sound where the three palms met. Zhang Ji's figure swayed, and the old man rolled in the air, and when he landed on the ground, he used a thousand-jin falling technique and stood still.
When the old man saw that the other party had received another palm, he didn't seem to care at all. He couldn't help but feel angry. He took a few sudden breaths, raised his Qi in his Dantian and moved his arms, shouted loudly, and launched another move with both palms. , the wind roared from his palm, Zhang Ji flipped his right wrist upon seeing this, twisted his waist to raise his energy, turned around, moved his right palm forward, and took another move.
The place where the two palms met seemed to be weak, but in fact it was like an overwhelming wave. The palms of the two people had not been separated for a while. Zhang Ji saw that his palm strength was not weak at all compared to Shaolin Master Juetong, and he hummed slightly with his right arm. As soon as he bent, Yun Jin pushed forward violently, and his palm force whizzed forward again. With a "bang" sound, the clothes on the back of the old man burst open, and he took a few steps back. His arms slowly dropped, and he was panting. .
Zhang Ji withdrew his palms and stood up, looking around for a while. He knew that the exchange of palms had alarmed the people in the cave, and he tried to leave, but the old man suddenly roared and shouted: "Come here!", the sound was like Thunder roared through the wall, followed by a fit of coughing, and he collapsed to the ground.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Zhang Ji rushed out of the cave and came to the hall. He had already seen a group of big men holding knives and swords, shouting to kill. He did not dare to fight at the moment, but rushed towards the door, knocking down dozens of people in a blink of an eye, and ran away in a hurry. Heading towards the exit, although there were many experts among the crowd, how could they stop him for a moment? I could only watch as he rushed out.
