Before walking out of the passage and entering the fourth floor, the five people were a little nervous. The further they went down to meet Wen Liang, the greater the possibility of Xing Rang and Hua Cong. Therefore, as they went down, the hearts of the five people also They all gradually became tense, ready to take action at any time, but when they were about to walk out of the passage, Li Jian still signaled to his companions that there was nothing unusual in the fourth floor in front, at least there were no monks within his sensing range. The breath is present.
It seems that those gentle people will probably hide on the fifth and sixth floors.
After walking out, everyone found that there was a big difference between the fourth floor and the third floor.
First of all, the space on the fourth floor is not as big as the third floor, and the structure is very simple. Standing at the exit of the passage, you can almost see the fourth floor at a glance; secondly, the fourth floor is very regular as a whole. About a hundred feet wide, dozens of feet long, and about a dozen feet high. It is square and flat like the inside of a big box. Unlike the first three floors, which follow the curved direction of the cave or maintain its natural shape or It was repaired. It looks like it was excavated by manpower. The cave walls on all four sides are straight and flat, and the ground is flat without any potholes. Even the roof of the cave above is like this. The exit of the passage is on this four sides. In the corner of the large square space, the top of the place has the kind of luminous fluorite mineral they had seen in the previous layers, which illuminates the place very brightly.
Of course, this is the place where the Yu Nian Hui has been occupying for a long time within the sect. There are people here almost all year round, so there is also a place for those people to live here. The people of the Yu Nian Hui do not build some houses like the casual cultivators on the third floor. , but many stone chambers were carved out on the cave wall, one next to the other, with adjacent doors and windows, and similar shapes, which looked very neat. There is also light coming out of the stone chambers, but among the four stone walls, all the stone chambers are only carved on one stone wall, and there is no light on the other three sides.
Looking from where the five of them were, they could see that those stone chambers were diagonally opposite. Although there were many of them, Li Jian had already signaled that there was no one here, so they were not worried about any danger here.
Another point is that there are no corpses here, unlike the third floor which is full of corpses and filled with a strong smell of decay. This makes Tang Ping and Yanxuan breathe a sigh of relief.
Because it was very different from the first three floors, the five people looked around curiously after walking in.
"This place looks a lot more deserted than the previous floor." Li Jian said.
"Why is this place so empty?" Yanxuan asked, "Where are the people from Yu Nianhui? Could it be that those people weren't there when Wen Liang came to seize this place?"
Qian Chao said:
"No, people from Yu Nianhui have been active here. Well, it is possible that Yan Ding killed too many people on the third floor. Wen Liang was worried that there were not enough scapegoats, so he only wounded and captured those from Yu Nianhui here. , and then take them all under the cold pool."
Yanxuan nodded.
Tang Ping looked up and said:
"It's so square and strange here. It's like we're in a big box."
Qian Chao said:
"Come on, let's go take a look inside the stone chamber over there. We should be able to find some clues that will be left for years to come."
At this time, Lu Pingchuan suddenly said:
"Hey, if this place is high on one end, low on the other, wide on one end and narrow on the other, what do you think it looks like here? Is it like we are in a big coffin?"
Qian Chao and Li Jian both shook their heads speechlessly when they heard these words. After hearing this, Tang Ping even said angrily:
"Brother Lu, you are talking nonsense again!"
"hey-hey."
Then the five people walked towards the stone wall with the stone chamber on the opposite side.
After all, this place is not particularly big. As they walked over, five people could look into the interior through the doors and windows of the stone chambers. They were all simple, nothing more than some stone beds and tables. There were many stone chambers on that stone wall. There is a stone chamber in the center of the stone wall, which should be the largest one. At first glance, the door of that stone chamber is also the widest one. The stone chamber is not dug out until there is a distance to the left and right of the stone door. It must be difficult to come to that stone chamber. Small.
Lu Pingchuan didn't know what he saw, and he suddenly became excited for some reason. He walked a few steps to the front, stretched out his head and looked carefully at the largest stone room. After confirming something, he turned back. He said excitedly to several companions:
"Hey, there's something good! Look, it's right there!"
While talking excitedly, Lu Pingchuan raised a thick arm and pointed at the largest stone room, and said hurriedly:
"Look, look! It's really good stuff, haha. It must be all good old wine. We didn't come here in vain this time!"
The other four people were all confused by Lu Pingchuan's actions, and then their eyes followed the direction he pointed and looked in through the door of the largest stone room. There were several dense layers inside, almost filled with jars. .
No wonder Lu Pingchuan said there was good wine there.
"I never thought there would be such good things in this cold pool!" Lu Pingchuan had already relaxed his pace.
Qian Chao had heard Chu Yuan talk about this place, so he knew what was in those jars, but Li Jian, Tang Ping and Yan Xuan couldn't see it clearly. Seeing Lu Pingchuan being so excited, he thought there was an astonishing amount of wine stored there. At this time, Lu Pingchuan had already taken long strides and trotted towards the altar. It seemed that he couldn't wait to grab a jar, open the mud seal and drink it.
When Qian Chao saw Lu Pingchuan running there, he immediately knew what he was going to do and said hurriedly:
"Brother Lu, no, stop, that's not wine, that's..."
At this time, Lu Pingchuan could not hear anything, so he ran over and said:
"Brother Qian, please don't lie to me. Hehe, I know that some good wines have to be stored in cellars for many years to taste the best. In fact, they just find some caves to hide in them and then drink them out after many years, right? Hey, Isn’t this a good place to hide wine?”
"Oops, Brother Lu," Qian Chao could only shout when he saw Lu Pingchuan running into the largest stone room, "Look carefully first before talking. If it's not wine, don't touch those jars."
"Don't worry, hey, I'm going to pick a jar with the oldest vintage to taste, um, and then I'll take all the wine away. Hey, my master always said that wine smells good when it's old. I don't know if these wines are stored here. How many years, it must be... hmm?"
When Lu Pingchuan said this, he had already picked up a jar from those jars. He leaned in front of him and seemed to use his nose to smell the aroma of the wine. But when he picked up the jar, he realized that something was wrong. If the jar inside It contained wine, and you could naturally feel the wine inside sloshing when you picked it up, but these jars didn’t feel that way at all in his hands. There was indeed something sloshing inside, but it was definitely not wine. It was as if it contained a bottle of wine. The jar was filled with fine sand, and the jar was very light. It was not as heavy as a lid filled with wine pulp. Then he also found that there were words on the jar in his hand. Lu Pingchuan didn't know many characters, so he didn't recognize it for a moment. That's what's written.
Immediately, he put down the jar in confusion and picked up the other jar. He also felt that it was not filled with wine pulp, and the portion was not right at all. It was also very light. He turned back to Qian Chao, who had already approached, and said:
"Brother Qian, this... is not wine. Come and take a look at it. There is writing on it. What is it?"
Qian Chao and the other four people had already walked in. When they saw the jar in Lu Pingchuan's hand, Qian Chao took one look at it and said in confusion:
"The jar in your hand is written with the words 'Zhao Shunxuan'. Brother Lu, this should be a person's name. Alas, don't you know what you are praising?"
Lu Pingchuan still didn't understand. He looked at the jar in his hand and then at his companions:
"Who is this Zhao Shunyu?"
Tang Ping laughed angrily and said:
"We don't know who Zhao Shunyu is. We have never heard of this name, but I know where he is now?"
"Where?" Lu Pingchuan asked casually.
"Brother Lu," Yanxuan had already understood and said helplessly, "He is in your hands."
"Ah? This..."
"Brother Lu," Li Jian said while holding back a smile, "If a general in the army dies in battle, it will be very inconvenient to transport the body back, and it will easily cause plague over time. If in an emergency, only the hair and fingernails are cut and brought back, the body will be Bury in the ground, if you can take it easy, cremate it and then take the ashes back, um, put them in a box or jar..."
"Ah!" Lu Pingchuan then stared at the jar in his hand with wide eyes, "Is this...the ashes in here? Hey! How unlucky!"
After saying that, Lu Pingchuan put the jar back in his hand angrily, and then he stared at the jars full of jars in the spacious stone room and said in disbelief:
"These...are all ashes? Why put them here to deceive people!"
"I made you run so fast just now!" Tang Ping said with a smile, "I can't help you. What did you just say? Do you want us to help find the oldest one here for you to try?"
"Hey, it can't be done..."
Qian Chao stopped laughing and then said:
"Senior Brother Chu Yuan told me that I don't know when the Yunianhui began to dissolve the corpses of those who died because they failed to build the foundation, and stored the ashes here, which is what we are looking at. I saw these. Putting these jars here is intended to inspire those who are in the Yu Nian Association. Even though Senior Brother Chu Yuan has a high status in the Yu Nian Association, he doesn’t know how many ashes are hidden here. Well, Senior Brother Chu Yuan At that time, he also said that if he hadn’t met us, his ashes would have been placed here in a few years.”
I don’t know how deep this largest stone chamber is. Standing near the door, you can see rows of jars stacked on top of each other, almost reaching the top of the stone chamber. There are also glowing minerals on the top of the stone chamber. Looking through the gap in the jar with the bright light, I don't know how many such jars there are inside.
On the third floor, the five of them saw corpses all over the ground. The scene shocked them. They didn't expect that there were countless jars storing ashes on the fourth floor, and they were all people from the Yu Nianhui who died in the past. These were difficult to The feeling that the counting jar brought to the five of them was one of shock.
"It seems that the Yunian Meeting has already happened!" Li Jian sighed.
"good."
