As soon as he spoke, his breath stagnated. The door of the boulder actually closed a few inches in reverse. Jiang Shuo hurriedly got into the door. He sat on the ground with his back on his left side and used his feet to push on the boulder on the right. As he pedaled, the inner breath naturally poured into the meridians in the foot and rushed to the Yongquan point in the center of the foot. Two shallow shoe prints were left on the stone where the foot pedaled, and the hole immediately opened wider.
At this time, someone flashed in, but it was not Zhao Rui, but An Qingxu.
An Qingxu held the horizontal sword in his hand. When the sword was stabbed at this moment, Jiang Shuo was holding the stone door with all his strength and could not move. It was inevitable that he would be spared. However, An Qingxu saw that Jiang Shuo seemed to be ready to die, and actually reached out to capture him. Jiang Shuo's body was full of energy. As soon as An Qingxu put his hand on his shoulder, An Qingxu flew out of the cave like a short-line kite with the help of his inner breath. However, he heard a cry of surprise from outside and another figure flashed. Enter, this time it was Zhao Rui who came. It turned out that he flew out on An Qingxu, and escaped into the cave just as the guards rushed to rescue him.
Zhao Rui entered the cave and saw this situation. As he ran, he shouted to Jiang Shuo: "Let go and enter the cave!"
Before Jiang Shuo could think about it, he rolled over and fell into the door. At the same time, a gray shadow flashed past, and Zhao Rui rushed in. At the same time, the stone door closed behind him. There was no time to escape.
After the stone door was closed, it was pitch black inside. Zhao Rui flicked the fire folds and saw that the two of them were in a long tunnel. One end of the tunnel was closed by a huge stone, and the other end was so dark that there was no end in sight. Zhao Rui turned around and pushed. Pushing the stone door that had been closed again, he saw that the stone door was not moving at all. He was worried and pushed again, but it still didn't move at all. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help twirling his beard and laughing loudly: "So it turns out that only by being sincere can you prove the Tao. Opening the door to accumulate gold refers to this method of 'proving the truth'."
Jiang Shuo was still in shock and said: "Master Zhao, what's the way to prove the Tao? Let's go quickly. I can push the stone door open. I'm afraid it won't be difficult for Mr. Yin and the others to open the stone door."
Zhao Rui did not move, but said with a smile: "Who knows it's not difficult? Even a person like Beimingzi would find it difficult to enter this cave again."
Jiang Shuo was startled and said, "Why is that? Although it is difficult for me to open the stone door, I am just a child. If I can open it, why can't others?"
Zhao Rui said: "When I just flashed into the stone gate, I looked at the thickness of the stone gate. There are always hundreds of jun, not to mention thousands of jun. Moreover, the stone gate is connected by organic expansion. It is difficult to take advantage of it. There must be someone who can move five huge stones at the same time." It can only be opened with skill. Even if you have the best internal skills, you may not be able to open this stone door if you don't practice it for dozens or hundreds of years."
Jiang Shuo said: "Master, you are joking. Even so, how can I open it?"
Zhao Rui said: "You can open it because of the two dragon beads in your belly. Those two dragons have a hundred years of Taoism. Now that the two pills have turned into two Qi in your body, you are as if you have two hundred years of skill. It's just that you don't know how to control it, but when you use brute force to open the cave door, Erqi senses itself without the guidance of luck. In terms of the force of this push alone, I am afraid that no one in the world can match it."
Jiang Shuo seemed to believe it, but said, "Even so, there are so many of them, and they may not be able to open it if they work together."
Zhao Rui smiled and said: "That is the second wonderful thing about this cave door. This cave door is in a crack in a stone wall. The passage can only accommodate one person. This means that only one person can try to open the stone door at a time. No matter how many people there are, they can’t help.”
Jiang Shuo said, "Then they can make the passage wider, wouldn't it be enough?"
Zhao Rui said: "That's even worse. Looking at the huge rocks piled up on top of this crack, it's like a pile of eggs. If you want to dig out and expand the passage, you're afraid that the huge rocks will collapse, so you have to completely seal the cave door. Besides, you just closed the door. If you don't know what to do, I'm afraid that the mechanism of the stone gate has been destroyed. You see...it turned out that there was a small hole as big as a bowl in the middle. Now the stone gate has become a dragon-breaking stone, completely sealed."
Jiang Shuo looked carefully at the stone gate. Sure enough, five huge stones were embedded closely together. Is there any gap? He leaned on the stone door and listened for a long time, but the stone door was so thick that he couldn't hear the sound outside the door at all. He turned to Master Zhao and said, "Then we can't get out either?"
Zhao Rui pouted forward and said, "No, just move forward. If the wind blows here, it's not a dead end. Let's go and follow Master Zhao to see what this cave-heaven paradise looks like."
The tunnel was so steep that the young and old held hands and walked down. The tunnel went straight down. It seemed to be a gap formed by the mutual extrusion of Jijin Peak and Damao Peak. The rock walls on both sides seemed to be mostly natural formations. Only some of them were The excessively narrow part was slightly chiselled, and at the narrowest part two people could only pass forward and backward.
Zhao Rui joked and said while walking: "Fortunately, one of us is skinny and the other is short, and neither of us has eaten yet. Otherwise, we would have been stuck by the rocks."
Jiang Shuo also smiled and said: "The immortal who wants to come to this cave must not be a fat man. It seems that a rich man cannot become an immortal."
There are a lot of gold dragons, jade slips, gold urns and green bags on the ground. It must have been thrown in by Taoist priests from all ages. They were just scattered all over the ground, but how could any god pick them up and take a look?
The tunnel was quite long and gradually went downwards, but the young and old got rid of the people in Pinglu and felt relaxed. They talked and laughed all the way without feeling tired. After walking for a few miles, they thought they had entered the heart of Maoshan Mountain, and suddenly there was light in front of them. , after walking a hundred steps, a hole suddenly opened up, and it turned out to be a huge stone chamber.
This stone cave is much wider than Huayang Cave, with a radius of a thousand steps and a height of more than a hundred feet. It is supported by huge stone pillars, which are as straight as a palace. The stone pillars are entangled with vines, and the roots of big trees can be seen on the top of the cave penetrating through the dome. Floating in mid-air, the most surprising thing is that there are seven light-transmitting holes on the top. The skylight comes down and illuminates the cave. It seems that these seven holes are in secluded places in the mountain col, so the people on the mountain are unknown. its location. Look at the clear spring flowing on the ground, twisting and turning on the limestone ground, and it actually outlines a cloud-like pattern. There is a stone tablet standing at the exit of the tunnel, with the three words "Juqu Cave" engraved in ancient seals.
Zhao Ruijie praised: "There is a cave palace with seven rays hanging above, and a deep palace surrounded by five clouds below. I am honest about this. The original Huayang Cave is the ancient Juqu Cave. Unexpectedly, there is another place in the eighth cave. .”
According to Taoism, there are 72 blessed places and ten caves in the world. The eighth cave is Juqu Cave in Maoshan Mountain. However, Juqu Cave was nowhere to be found in Maoshan Mountain. People all said that Juqu Cave was Huayang Cave, so Zhao Rui sighed.
When they reached the center of Juqu Cave, Jiang Shuo looked back and couldn't help but be shocked. It turned out that the small tunnel they came out of was a whole mirror-like rock wall that went straight to the top of the cave. It didn't matter that the rock wall was flat. What was even more surprising was that This rock wall is so brilliant that it is actually a golden wall!
Zhao Rui said feebly: "I didn't expect that the theory of the golden wall of the cave palace was also true. Master Zhao was able to be buried here without leaving any traces."
Jiang Shuo noticed something was wrong in Zhao Rui's words. He turned around and saw that Zhao Rui was already lying on the ground. He was shocked and hurriedly helped Zhao Rui up, carried him to a stone pillar, and asked him to sit with his back against the stone pillar. Looking at Master Zhao's face, a layer of black energy has already enveloped him. He rolled up Zhao Rui's right sleeve and saw that the entire palm of his hand had turned black. Although Zhao Rui had sealed the meridians and the poisonous energy was slowing down, it had already penetrated into the body. Quite a bit, and after the battle with the Xuanji Formation, the blood and Qi circulated very quickly. At this moment, I felt that the blood was stagnant and the Qi was stagnant, the chest was paralyzed, and the poisonous poison had actually entered the heart.
Jiang Shuo saw Zhao Rui breathing rapidly and closing his eyes tightly. He thought that although he had only known Zhao Rui for half a month, he had become very close to him. He had defended himself twice yesterday and today, but now this kind and humorous old man was dying, and he felt sad for a moment. Come on, start crying loudly. Zhao Rui opened his eyes slightly and said softly: "Shuoer, you are crying early, my old master is not dead yet..."
Jiang Shuo cried, "Master Zhao, please don't die. I'm so scared to be alone in this cave."
Zhao Rui smiled with difficulty and said: "This is the blessed land of cave heaven. There is nothing to be afraid of. Your little brother has deep blessings and will definitely be able to find a way to escape and ascend to heaven... Listen to me..." He knew in his heart that he was deeply poisoned, and he There was no antidote, and I was afraid that he would die soon. Just as he was thinking about Jiang Shuo's funeral arrangements, he suddenly looked up at the golden mountain wall and said "Hey".
Jiang Shuo turned his back to the golden wall and didn't know what was going on. When he looked back, he saw the light and shadow on the wall shaking, and there seemed to be a faint figure jumping on the wall. He was shocked and said: "Is there really an immortal in the world?"
He immediately said happily: "Master Zhao, there really is an immortal, you can be saved! I will go to the immortal to save you."
Although Zhao Rui never believed in gods, the scene in front of him was too mysterious and difficult to understand. He couldn't help but feel refreshed. He nodded slightly and said, "Be careful."
Jiang Shuo rushed to the golden wall, and when he walked in, he saw that there was a stone table and case under the wall, with fruits covered on them. If there were no gods, where would these things come from? He shouted happily: "Please ask the immortal to show up and save Master Zhao."
However, when he heard the sound of rustling in the cave, there was no human figure. He raised his head and looked at the golden wall, and there was indeed a human figure shaking, no less than ten feet away from the ground. This leaping momentum seemed beyond human power. He must be an immortal, but immortals cannot He was willing to come down easily, so he bowed at the end, kept kowtowing, and muttered: "I beg the Immortal Family to come down to earth and save Master Zhao's life. I will never forget my great kindness and virtue..."
After praying like this for a long time, he heard a rustling sound beside him. He looked up with great joy, but where was the immortal? It turned out to be an ape with white hair all the time.
It turns out that the golden wall is different from ordinary stone walls in that it can reflect the surrounding scenery. The white ape is pulling vines and floating in mid-air. When projected on the golden wall, it looks like a fairy flying in the clouds and mist. After thinking about this, Jiang Shuo suddenly felt discouraged. He stood up and walked back with his head down. The white ape stood up and followed him, but he ignored him and walked back to Zhao Rui.
Zhao Rui sat cross-legged under the stone pillar and meditated for a long time. Although he couldn't force the poison out of the body, he felt a lot more energetic. When he saw Jiang Shuo coming back dejected, he asked with a smile: "What's the matter? I didn't see you. Immortal?"
Jiang Shuo turned back to the white ape and said, "It's not an immortal, it's this monkey."
Zhao Rui was not like Jiang Shuo who knelt down and couldn't see the whole picture. He was far away and had actually already understood that the fairy trace on the wall was the shadow of a white ape. He realized that this was how it should be. Unlike Jiang Shuo who was so disappointed, he closed his eyes and said : "The theory of gods is illusory to begin with, Shuo'er, you don't have to be disappointed."
The white ape was not afraid of people. When he saw Zhao Rui sitting cross-legged under the pillar with a dark complexion, he felt strange. He came closer and took a look, then suddenly became nervous and started to scream incessantly.
Zhao Rui listened for a moment, smiled slightly, and chirped a few times, as if making monkey language. After hearing this, the white ape took a long breath, chirped, and jumped up and down with joy.
Jiang Shuo only knew that Zhao Rui had the unique skill of animal language, and asked curiously: "Master Zhao, what does this monkey ask you?"
Zhao Rui said: "The white ape asked me, have you been bitten by a poisonous snake? Damaoshan has not seen such a poisonous snake for many years. I answered that it was indeed bitten by a poisonous snake, but this poisonous snake is not in Maoshan. It heard that it was inside the mountain." It’s natural to be happy when there is no danger, and therefore to be excited.”
The white ape jumped around for a long time, then suddenly stopped, looked at Zhao Rui and barked a few times, as if asking. Zhao Rui nodded slowly and chirped softly. The white ape turned around and didn't even look up. He climbed back to the ground and climbed up a stone pillar. After a while, he disappeared among the vines.
Jiang Shuo asked strangely: "What did it ask?"
Zhao Rui said: "He asked me if I was going to die?"
