The cave is damp and slippery, and the smell is unpleasant. The entrance to the cave was extremely narrow, so Xiang Yan bent over and still had his head hit several times, so he had to bend down even lower. Xiang Yan thought to himself, "It would be terrible if there were any poisonous beasts in the cave. There is no way to hide in such a narrow place." He quickly used the "Breathing Concentration Technique" and was on full alert.
Xiang Yan walked forward for a while, and the tunnel gradually widened, and he was able to stand upright and move forward. After walking for a long time, there was no end, and the ground became increasingly flat. Xiang Yan's head also began to feel a dull pain, and the backlash of the "breath-containing skill" was about to come. Xiang Yan was busy and stopped working on his "breath gathering skill". Fortunately, he didn't encounter any poisonous beasts along the way, so Xiang Yan felt at ease.
Xiang Yan continued to move forward, turned two more corners, and suddenly there was a bright light in front of his eyes. It turns out that there is a large grotto in front of us. There are many jujube trees growing in the grotto where the sunlight reaches. Suddenly he saw sunlight from the pitch-black Crocodile Pond Tunnel, and Xiang Yan hurried forward, feeling happy in his heart: "I can finally get out!"
When Xiangyan arrived at the grotto, his heart sank. There is a large hole with a diameter of about ten feet on the top of the grotto. Sunlight shines through the hole, but the hole is more than a hundred feet above the ground. Xiang Yan was very depressed: "It's so high, go up like this?" Although there are jujube trees growing in the cave, they are only four or five feet high, far away from the entrance of the cave. Xiang Yan thought for a long time, but he was really helpless.
There are many date trees in the grotto, and the dates they bear are not picked by anyone. They fall to the ground and rot and turn into soil. There was a thick layer of mud, and standing in the grotto, Xiang Yan felt the stench, which was unbearable. Originally, it was not impossible for Xiang Yan to feed on dates and spend a few months in the grotto while waiting for his ascension, but the smell in the tunnel was unpleasant and the stench in the grotto was overwhelming. Xiang Yan really didn't want to stay in this environment for a long time.
Xiang Yan decided to go to the tree to have a look before making any plans. I jumped up the jujube tree and climbed to the top of the tree. I saw that the stone wall at the top was uneven and not as slippery as the bottom. I secretly rejoiced in my heart: "There is no perfect way. Although this grotto is high, it may not be impossible to climb up." He jumped onto the stone wall and climbed all the way up, climbing higher and higher.
After climbing about sixty or seventy feet, the unevenness on the stone wall became thinner and shallower. Xiang Yan's Qinggong was not good enough to gain a foothold on the stone wall, so he had to use his "Nine Yin Divine Claws" to insert his fingers into the stone wall to use strength to continue climbing up. Xiang Yan secretly sighed in his heart: "Thanks to Zhou Zhiruo for urging me to master the 'Nine Yin Divine Claws'. If it hadn't been for today, I wouldn't have been able to go up there. Speaking of which, Sun Juanke went to Emei to find Zhou Zhiruo. Will I also go to Emei to see it after I leave?" look?"
When he was seven or eight feet away from the cave roof, Xiang Yan's hands and fingers were dripping with blood, and the stone wall was extremely smooth. There was no room for his hands and feet, so Xiang Yan expected that it would be difficult to get out directly. Looking at the surrounding situation, the cave above the head is about ten feet long, which is more than enough for entry and exit. I was already thinking about it, so I immediately returned to the bottom of the cave.
Xiang Yan reached out and grabbed the bark of the jujube tree and twisted it into a rope. Xiang Yan's finger was injured and it was difficult to insert his finger into the stone wall to use force to climb up, but he could still pinch a few pieces of bark from the jujube tree. It took a lot of time, until it was dark, to twist it into a rope of bark.
Xiang Yan grabbed the rope, pulled hard a few times, and nodded with satisfaction. It was very strong and could not be broken. He also broke off a jujube tree trunk, about one foot and five feet long, tied one end of the rope in the middle of the trunk, climbed up again, and climbed to the end of the stone wall. He used his feet to fall firmly on the stone wall with his feet. Using his strength, he threw the tree trunk out of the cave.
Xiang Yan pulled the rope and pulled the tree trunk to the edge of the cave, so that the two ends of the trunk were mostly horizontally on the ground, while the middle part was only a few feet in the air. I pulled the rope and tried it twice more, and found that the horizontal frame of the tree trunk was quite solid and could bear my own weight. He grabbed the rope with both hands and climbed up alternately. In a moment, he had grasped the tree trunk at the entrance of the cave. With a curl of his arms and a cry, he flew out of the cave and landed on the ground.
Xiang Yan took a long breath and stood up straight, but saw a bright light rising from behind the mountain in the east. After being locked up in the dark crocodile pond and grotto for a day, I was free again and felt indescribably happy. He thought of Lin Xue and Xiao Longnu again, and wondered how they were doing. After hesitating in his heart, he decided to go find the two of them.
Xiang Yanyou looked around and found that he was on the top of a steep peak with dense trees all around. Looking at the villa in the distance, it was already several miles away. After Xiang Yan came down the mountain, he quietly detoured behind the village and climbed over the wall. The villa where Gongsun Zhi lived was not small, and Xiangyan was not familiar with the place. For a while, Xiangyan walked around the villa like a headless fly, but he could never find Lin Xue and Xiao Longnu.
When Xiang Yan was anxious, there was a sound of footsteps behind him. Xiang Yan's heart moved, he went up to him, pinched the man's neck, leaned him against the wall, and shouted in a low voice: "You..." Hey, it turned out that the person coming was Gongsun Zhi's daughter. Xiang Yan couldn't help but feel angry when he thought about how badly he had been cheated by Gongsun Zhi, but looking at the elegant and clear-eyed girl Gongsun, he instinctively felt that it was not good to vent his anger on his daughter because of Gongsun Zhi.
Xiang Yan stopped his hand and said softly: "Girl, do you know where Li Mochou's master and junior sister are?" Miss Gongsun nodded and said: "Yes! I will take you there." After that, she walked forward.
