For a period of time after that, every morning early in the morning, Zhao Mingyuan would go into the mountains with a wine gourd to catch snakes. After catching the snake, he would take the snake's gall and soak it in strong wine, and then search for the tomb of the Sword Demon nearby. The cave where it is located.
In the afternoon, he came back to ask Orion Zhang about snake catching skills and how to handle prey. He also learned archery by the way.
In the evening, he went back to his small courtyard to practice swordsmanship. In the evening, he drank snake gall wine and meditated to practice internal skills.
Live each day to the fullest. Zhao Mingyuan practiced every day as if he had returned to Huashan.
Zhao Mingyuan asked Orion Zhang if there were any special caves near the valley where Bodhisattva snakes abound, but Orion Zhang said that the area there was more dangerous. Few hunters went there, and he had never heard of any special caves.
Zhao Mingyuan had no choice but to look for it slowly. Fortunately, there might be some stream near the cave. After all, Yang Guo took advantage of the flash flood to practice his sword in the water there.
But it has been hundreds of years and the world has changed. I wonder if the stream is still there now? There was no other way, so Zhao Mingyuan had no choice but to search along the banks of the streams.
More than a month passed like this, Zhao Mingyuan felt that his internal strength had greatly increased, and his strength had also increased greatly. Even his swordsmanship has improved rapidly as a result, and even the meridians throughout his body seem to have become tougher and broader.
In addition, the snake-catching skills learned by Zhao Mingyuan and Zhang Orion have also improved rapidly, and now they can find the Bodhisattva snake more quickly based on the snake's habits and hunting habits. Even his archery skills have improved a lot. After all, he has been practicing martial arts for many years and is very familiar with the strength. With more practice, although he dare not say that he can kill the enemy with a hundred steps, the prey within a hundred steps cannot escape from Zhao Mingyuan's arrows.
Another day, as usual, Zhao Mingyuan caught a Bodhisattva snake in the morning and put it in a wine gourd to soak in wine.
After that, I searched nearby to see if there were any caves that I hadn’t seen yet. Maybe there were some relics of the Sword Demon.
This day, I found another one who had never been to the cave.
Although Zhao Mingyuan has seen dozens of caves like this these days, he still wants to see them again. I would rather read it several times than miss one.
This cave is dark, but there is no fishy smell. It is estimated that no wild animals live there. It's very shallow, less than three feet, and it's at the end.
There were actually stone tables and benches in the cave. Zhao Mingyuan was delighted. Could it be this cave? Can't help but look around.
I saw a pile of rubble rising up in the corner of the cave, which looked very much like a tomb. It was very likely that this was the tomb of the sword demon Dugu Qiubei.
Zhao Mingyuan wanted to look for the inscriptions on the cave wall, but it was covered in dust and moss and could not be seen clearly in the dark, but there did seem to be some marks on the cave wall.
Zhao Mingyuan lit a dead branch on fire and reached out to wipe away the moss on the cave wall. Sure enough, three lines of writing were revealed. The writing was very thin but penetrated very deeply into the stone. It was obvious that it was scratched with an extremely sharp blade. Even though it has been severely weathered over the years, it can still be clearly identified. Look at those three lines:
"For more than thirty years, I have been in the rivers and lakes, killing all the enemies and defeating all the heroes. I have no resistance in the world. I have no choice but to live in seclusion in the deep valley, with the eagle as my friend. Wow, I have been looking for an enemy in my life and I can't get it. I am so lonely and embarrassed."
The following inscription is: "The sword demon Dugu seeks defeat."
For a time, Zhao Mingyuan had mixed feelings in his heart. He was happy, admired, and even more sad.
I am happy because I have finally found the remains of the sword demon Dugu Qiu.
Admiration is when I think of the deeds of the sword demon Dugu Qiu Qiu, and remember the heroic deeds of my predecessors, and I can't help but be fascinated.
But it was also a pity and sadness for him. Even such a magnificent master who suppressed the world would only turn into bones and be buried here without anyone knowing. Nowadays, only a few people have heard of his story. Only the Dugu Nine Swords are still circulated, but they may not know that it was created by the senior Sword Demon.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Mingyuan held up a lit dead branch and looked carefully in the cave for a week. Next to the grave of the stone pile, there was an overturned tombstone, which read the tomb of the sword demon Dugu Qiufei, and his descendant Yang Guoli. Probably Yang Guo came here later to pay his respects to his predecessor and put a tombstone for the sword demon Dugu Qiufei.
It's a pity that I have to disturb my senior today. Zhao Mingyuan couldn't help but knelt down in shame before the tomb of the stone pile and bowed four times. After that, he gradually removed the stones on the tomb.
Although there are many stones on the tomb, the stones become larger as you go down. But for an accomplished warrior like Zhao Mingyuan, it only takes a little time.
Not long after, Zhao Mingyuan cleaned the stones above, revealing the white bones underneath, but they had long since decayed into plaster, leaving only a few ashes.
Zhao Mingyuan checked carefully and found that there were no martial arts secrets or valuable relics. Even if there were, I'm afraid they would have already decayed after hundreds of years.
Or maybe, even if there is anything left, it has been taken away by Feng Qingyang. Zhao Mingyuan couldn't help feeling ashamed that he had disturbed his senior in vain.
Zhao Mingyuan stacked the stones back to their original place without modifying them too much. This tomb is just a tomb made of stones piled on top of him by a divine eagle, but it may also be the most respectful tomb for him.
It's really inappropriate for me to dig up the graves of my seniors for possible secrets. I thought I would come back tomorrow, collect the ashes of my predecessor in a clay pot, and bury them again.
After thinking about it, it was better not to disturb the seniors. That's just to make myself feel at ease. What's the benefit to seniors? I stopped thinking about it. Then bow and leave.
After that, Zhao Mingyuan became increasingly determined in his cultivation.
But he thought that even a genius like Dugu Qiubai would be able to shatter the void and ascend to immortality in any other world, right?
It's just that he was born in such a low-martial world. So what if he is the best in the world? Not only was he trapped in this world, but he only had the eagle as a companion before his death, and there was no one to collect his body.
This is definitely not what I want. I must become the best in the world, complete the systematic tasks, obtain my own opportunities, accumulate world by world, and move towards immortality and immortality. This is what you want.
Soon, Zhao Mingyuan accumulated a lot of snake gallbladder.
In the valley that is rich in Bodhisattva snakes, Zhao Mingyuan has caught them and they are becoming increasingly rare. Sometimes, even a snake cannot be found for a long time.
Zhao Mingyuan thought that this was the end of it, but he couldn't catch all the benefits. So he soaked these snake gallbladders in two gourds of medicinal wine and took them with him.
Although I have only been here for two months, I have made huge progress.
Zhao Mingyuan has been practicing internal strength for more than ten years, but in the past two months, his internal strength has increased by 50%. If he drinks all the remaining snake gall wine, he may be able to double his internal strength.
This is already amazing. Isn’t it amazing enough to know that I am only twenty years old, but I already have the internal strength of thirty years old? You must know that master Yue Buqun is only forty years old. Of course, the Zixia magic skill he practices is not comparable to his Huashan mind method.
In this case, Zhao Mingyuan went all the way to the southeast. Now he was in no hurry. He was traveling during the day and would find a place to stay as long as the sun was tilted. After that, he took medicinal wine and practiced sword and martial arts without any wastage.
Just like this, we finally arrived near Fuzhou.
