After hanging on this mountain wall for most of the day, Xiao Ning had not eaten anything and was already exhausted. Now there was no way to go up, and the mountain wind was strong, so he had to climb down the mountain stream again.
With exhaustion and frustration all over his body, he found a place at the foot of the mountain to chew dry food. He suddenly felt the urge to cry.
Gritting his teeth hard and chewing the last bite of dry food, Xiao Ning climbed up from the ground, swallowed back the tears that were about to flow out, looked up at the mountain wall where he had searched in vain, and took advantage of the sun. Before the shadow fell, he climbed up the mountain here again.
Xiao Ning was more determined now. He wanted to find out what was going on. He searched for dry branches and dry grass on the mountain and set up a torch, waiting to search again at night.
Another day passed, and in the evening the sky became overcast, with thick clouds and a strong mountain wind. When it was completely dark, I looked at the cliff opposite and saw that white light appear again. This time it flickered very quickly, and sometimes the light was much brighter than last night.
Xiao Ning lit the torch with difficulty, looked for the direction of the white light, and walked carefully towards the bottom of the stream. Going down the stream is a three-step process. When you get halfway down, you can no longer see the white light on the opposite side when you look up again, so you have to secretly remember the direction and go down step by step.
When we reached the bottom of the mountain, the wind in the stream became even stronger. The torch only flickered for a few times before going out, and failed to light several times. Xiao Ning couldn't care less, so he looked in the general direction and climbed up the mountain in the dark.
The mountain wall is so steep that it is difficult to climb in the daytime, let alone at night. It is only a dozen feet high and has already been slipping several times, and the skin on the palms has been broken and bloody. In addition, the wind is strong tonight, and the higher it is, the more difficult it is.
After almost two updates, we had only reached half the height of the day, and by this time the sky was already getting gloomier. Seeing that the heavy rain was coming, Xiao Ning was sweating profusely on the stone wall. His hands were so painful that he could no longer find the direction he had noted down at the beginning, so he had to climb up in a muffled voice.
After going up a few feet, he rested against the stone wall for a while. He raised his head and took a closer look, and suddenly saw a flash of white light on the right side. He was overjoyed and hurried up. Unexpectedly, the rock he was clinging to at this time loosened and fell with a "crash". Xiao Ning leaned up and left the cliff. It was too late, but it was too soon. At this moment, he spotted a thick vine next to him. He didn't care about the pain in his hands. He twisted his body with all his strength, kicked off his feet hard and rushed toward the vine.
This time, he had a good grasp of the situation. He just grabbed the cane with both hands and swung it a few times in mid-air to stabilize himself. When I raised my head and looked around, I saw that the walls were as sharp as a knife and there was no place to stay.
After taking a breath, he had to use his hands and feet to climb up with the help of rattan. He climbed up to five or six feet high before he found a sudden rock that allowed him to rest a little. After taking a short rest here, Xiao Ning looked around and saw a white light faintly coming from the right side of his head, which was still more than twenty feet away from him. Gritting his teeth, he reached into his sleeve with one hand to pull out the "Zang Feng Lu" and inserted it into the opening. He grasped the roots of the tree, vine and grass with the other hand and gradually climbed up.
It was nearly an hour later, and he heard the faint sound of thunder in the air, and saw that the white light was close at hand, but the cliff became steeper and steeper, and he had no place to rely on nearby. He turned to look and saw another long beam. The vine hangs down from the top of the mountain, as if its roots are rooted above the white light. I stretch out my hand and pull it hard, but it is strong. Now I hold it firmly with both hands, and my body swings away from the rock under my feet, and I continue to climb up with my hands and feet.
After walking a few feet, Xiao Ning suddenly felt a bright light before his eyes. He squinted and looked carefully. It turned out that it was a hazy white light emanating from a crack in the mountain. The outside was covered by this bunch of vines. As the mountain wind blew, Wandering back and forth, looking from a distance, the white light appears and disappears.
This mountain crevice is only a few feet high and more than four feet wide. If it weren't for the white light coming from it, it wouldn't look special at first glance. Xiao Ning swung the vines and used his strength to get into the cracks in the mountain.
The gap was extremely deep, and the mountain wind was very strong when we first entered. After traveling several feet, we had to take out the torch again and light it. At this moment, he was holding a torch in one hand, pulling out a steel knife with the other hand, and groping deeper step by step.
The gap was so long that it traveled dozens of feet without ending, but the white light became brighter and brighter. The land does not reach the sky or the ground. There are few birds and animals here, but it is still dry. However, some places are extremely narrow, and you have to use a knife to pry off several rocks to get past it.
After walking for another few dozen feet, the front suddenly opened up. In front of us was a vast cave, more than ten feet high and as big as an acre. The walls were smooth, with obvious traces of manual excavation and polishing. Thirteen luminous orbs are set on the wall, each one is the size of a chicken, illuminating the cave as bright as day. Looking further down, there are three rolling on the ground, and one is landing on the crevice of the rock. The white light seen from the outside is exactly what it emits. It is spotless and looks like a rare treasure.
Xiao Ning put out the torch and walked into the cave. Looking back at the road, he saw that the cracks were newer than the cave walls. It must have been opened when there was an earthquake. After looking around again, I was shocked. It turned out that there were four skeletons in different shapes in the cave. The cold light reflecting the orb was really eerie.
When I calmed down and took a closer look, I found that although the bones had been scattered by the earthquake, I could still roughly discern the shape. I saw a relatively normal figure in the corner, sitting with his back against the rock wall, a rotten writing brush on his right hand, a thick book on his left hand, and a rotten short hoe thrown aside.
A few feet away from him was a pile of scattered withered bones. The bones were black, obviously contaminated with poison during his lifetime. A corner of the booklet was also exposed in the bones. A rusty horizontal knife stood in front of the withered bones, with the tip It was inserted into the ground rock more than half a foot deep.
The other two are close to the center of the cave, entangled with each other. The lower one is lying on his back. He has thick bones and should be a man. This man also has a book in his hand, and his jaw opens sharply, as if he wants to shout; the person lying on him is She is petite and has slender bones. She should be a woman, but her bones are also black and her body is highly poisonous. A skeleton hand is stuck on the man's neck, and the other hand is holding a rusty dagger. Insert it into the man's left chest. A few feet behind her there was a book and a rusty sword lying on the ground.
Many of the four bones were broken, and it was unclear whether they were injured during life or after death.
Looking around the cave wall, there is a stone altar table at the top. It originally contained three memorial tablets, but now one of them has been knocked over on the table. Two of them have been broken into several pieces and scattered everywhere. There is a small hole more than ten feet high next to the offering table. The wooden door outside has long been decayed. Inside, there are several collections and the Four Treasures of the Study on the long stone table. Opposite the offering table is a sudden rock several feet high that protrudes into the cave. Xiao Ning gets closer and takes a closer look. It turns out that it is a foreign boulder blocking the entrance of the cave. The boulder is now quite cracked, and a corner of the lower corner has also been shaken by the earthquake. If it is cleaned, It should be enough for one person to crawl out. At this moment, the thunder outside can be vaguely seen and the sound of rain can be heard.
There was nothing growing in the cave. Xiao Ning patrolled for a week and came to the four withered bones. He first picked up the book next to the skeleton that was lying on its back. He saw that the pages of the book had turned yellow, but the paper was very good and was still extremely tough to this day. Open the book and read it carefully. It is just a set of Qinggong movements called "Nine Transformations of Phantom" and a set of palm techniques called "Thousand Phantom Hands". In addition, there are some secret techniques for applying poison, producing poison and detoxifying. Kung Fu.
When he went to pick up the booklet behind the woman, there was a set of swordsmanship called "Long River" on it. Even if Xiao Ning was not good at swordsmanship, he couldn't help but admire it after taking a closer look.
Although the martial arts recorded in both books were exquisite, there was not even a single narration. Seeing that something big had clearly happened in the cave, the two of them didn't mention it. This made him even more confused.
There was no other way but to walk to the skeleton leaning against the wall and pick up the booklet in his hand. This book is several times thicker than the others, with tens of thousands of words written on it. Xiao Ning started to read it carefully with a pearl: "Zhongsun Kangye, the leader of the three generations of Yu Yaowang Valley, now seals the Zushi Cave with enemies and friends. We all died here, all our enemies and friends were lost, and I will not die soon. I will record this matter in detail for future generations to know..." The nearly 10,000-word article fully described what happened that year. Xiao Ning finished reading. If you see it in front of you, you can't help but sigh.
It turns out that this is where the Medicine King Valley is located. At that time, Medicine King Sun Simiao was repeatedly summoned by the court but refused to serve as an official, leaving only one disciple to serve in the imperial hospital. When Emperor Zetian came to power, his descendants were involved in royal affairs and were forced to escape from the palace. Later, his descendants found this valley in the Bashu Mountains and joined forces with doctors to create the "Yaowang Valley". The first two generations of valley masters and their disciples did not know martial arts. When Zhongsun Kang was young, he accidentally learned a set of internal skills from the "Five Animals" handed down by Hua Tuo, and named himself "Five Animals Jue". From then on, His martial arts progressed greatly, and he was called the "Medical Saint" by people in the martial arts world. He also made friends with two celebrities at that time, one of whom was the disciple of the "Sword Master" Pei Min of the Tang Dynasty, and the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai and the junior sister of Aunt Gongsun. Su Wanxiu, the successor of the name "Sword Saint"; the other person is Shi Lei, the "Sword Saint" who was born in the military. In addition, there is another person in the world who is called the "Fantasy Demon". His surname is Nangong, but his only name is Yun, but he calls himself the "Huan Sage". The four of them are collectively called the "Four Sages of Wulin".
Nangong Yun said that this person's light kung fu and body skills were unparalleled in the world, but he was also an adulterer, thief and adulterer, specializing in picking flowers and stealing willows. One time, it was picked up by one of Su Wanxiu's beloved disciples. Su Wanxiu was furious. She wanted to seek revenge on him but was afraid that there would be no chance of winning. So she invited Shi Lei to take action together. Unexpectedly, within a few months, the two of them were in the world. After searching for Nangong Yun, he couldn't find him. In a fit of anger, he went to his home base "Huan Sheng Island", killed all his disciples, family members and servants, and burned the island to ashes with fire.
Now Nangong Yun knew how the matter could be settled. When the two returned to the Central Plains, he poisoned them unprepared. The two had no choice but to suppress the poison and go to Yaowang Valley to seek medical treatment from Zhongsun Kang. Zhongsun Kang had exhausted all his efforts and had cured 80% of the two of them. He didn't expect Nangong Yun to kill Yaowang Valley at this time. Most of the disciples in the valley did not know martial arts. Even if they knew three punches and two kicks, they would not be Nangong Yun's opponent. At this time, Zhongsun Kang's ability to exorcise poisons was greatly reduced. Su and Shi could not have much combat power before the remaining poisons were cleared away. Seeing that Yaowang Valley was about to repeat the same mistake as Huan Sheng Island, Zhongsun Kang ordered his disciples After leaving the valley to escape, he teamed up with Su Wanxiu and Shi Lei to force Nangong Yun into the ancestor's cave. The engine shut off the entrance of the cave and the valley, intending to kill both the enemy and the enemy.
The four people in the cave were all seriously injured, and they all died soon. Zhongsun Kang and Shi Lei still had no direct disciples. They couldn't bear the loss of their martial arts, so they proposed to leave their unique martial arts skills to someone who was destined to do so. Everyone agreed. Unexpectedly, when Nangong Yun had just finished writing, Su Wanxiu suddenly burst out and stabbed him to death. Then Su and Shi also died of poison. After Zhongsun Kang gritted his teeth and recorded the incident in detail, he found that he was also seriously injured and had to die in the cave. Waiting quietly to die.
