In the isolated underground tunnel, two clear rays of light dangled on the stairs and stone walls. The two of them talked eloquently as they walked up the stairs, their voices echoing through the tunnel.

In this situation, when you speak, you can be unscrupulous.

It's just that when it's occasionally cold, what Lin Chuyi sensed in his consciousness was that in addition to the sound of gurgling water, there was another sound of knowing the suo. In this cave, there is obviously other biological activity.

Could it be that someone who was cut off from the cave found another entrance?

Lin Chuyi told Fan Nanjiang about the situation. Fan Nanjiang shook his head and said, "It's unlikely." If it weren't for the innate easy calculation and the many secrets hidden in the old mansion, it would be impossible for anyone to discover this underground tunnel. Hundreds of people in Yunsheng Valley are very familiar with this valley, and they have been working here for generations, going into the mountains to cut firewood, not to mention those who collect medicine and hunt, they have never been everywhere, and no one has ever seen any clues about this stone cave. ”

This is very reasonable, so far, many puzzles have gradually surfaced, that Changhe Group spent half a year, fanfare to engage in tourism development here, the acquisition of old houses, but it has been delayed again and again, and there has been no substantial progress. It is estimated that it is a clue that I got out of nowhere, and I know that there is another secret realm in Yunsheng Valley. What Lin Chuyi vaguely knows now is that this secret realm must have a lot to do with the inheritance of the ancient Taiji Sect, and as for what is hidden inside, whether it is a danger or an opportunity, it is not clear.

The Changhe Group now gathers so many Qimen Jianghu masters, lurking in the valley, which should be one of the many links in the entire layout. The other party did this just because he didn't know much about the situation inside the entrance of the secret realm, so he didn't know where to start. Therefore, he had to press step by step, and let the head of the Fan family personally go out and open the entrance to the secret realm. Or simply bring the secrets in the secret realm out of the surface, and the other party will either trade or rob by force, and sit back and enjoy the benefits.

It's just that they miscalculated, that is, they didn't figure it out, in fact, Fan Nanjiang himself didn't know anything about this secret realm at all. Even the successive heads of the Fan family, including Fan Yiyun, the ancestor of the township, may not know.

In ancient times, the ancestors who laid down the puzzle here were very likely to have built the secret realm first, and after closing the entrance mechanism, they instructed Fan Yiyun to build the old mansion of the Fan family, and guarded the key to open the secret realm, pure yang ink iron. As for the design and decoration of the old house, the predecessors of the layout must have also participated.

Where there is no one around, both of them are brain-opening and deducing all kinds of deductions. Anyway, there was nothing else to do besides walking.

Fan Nanjiang said: "This doesn't make sense. If the Pure Yang Ink Iron itself was the key to the secret realm, then how could it explain the fact that it fell from the sky and smashed open a big pit at that time?"

Lin Chuyi: "With the strength of the whole family, to protect a so-called heavy treasure with no economic value, first of all, the family must also be a person in the rivers and lakes, so that it is easy to understand the meaning of a natural treasure." Secondly, Chongbao must have a history. If the origin is simple, it is easy to wonder if it is really worth it, and if it is complicated, it will arouse people's curiosity and look everywhere for its origin. So

It's better to just come down from the sky and find it nowhere. ”

Fan Nanjiang was a little angry and said, "What do you mean, my ancestors are making up stories to pit their own descendants?"

Lin Chuyi smiled and said, "I'm just guessing." Logical deduction from various indications, this is very likely. Otherwise, how could a sword-shaped meteorite that fell from the sky be so coincidental that it could open the boulder at the entrance of the cave? Besides, sometimes, lies are more benign than truths. It can't be said that the ancestors of the Fan family are pheating you. ”

This reason, in fact, Fan Nanjiang can't figure it out, but when many things come in, they are disturbed, and people are more likely to be affected by emotions. Fortunately, in the past few days, Lin Chuyi has given him a lot of refinement, which has been quite effective.

Before they knew it, the two of them had reached the end of the stone steps, and an extremely wide cave appeared in front of them. The shape of the cave is very irregular. The roof of the cave varies in height, from the lowest point to two stories high, and the deeper you go, the higher the ceiling.

In the cave, the strange rocks are craggy, some are shaped like giant beasts, standing on the ground, showing their teeth and claws, some are like small mountains, the form is beautiful, and there are many like sharp spears and sharp blades, with interlaced canine teeth. At the low top of the cave, many huge stones, like stone pillars, are connected to the heavens and the earth.

In short, there is no flat ground in this vast cave, and the situation is very complicated.

The faintly audible murmuring of the water is now a very clear murmuring sound, and the water should be dozens of meters deep in the cave.

The two of them were still standing on the last step of the artificial tunnel, and the sound of the Suo that Lin Chuyi had originally perceived was already very obvious at this time. It's just that Fan Nanjiang still can't perceive it in his spiritual sense.

"We'll have to be very careful for a while, there are snakes here, a lot of snakes. Lin Chuyi reminded.

Rao is a rough man with strong martial arts like Fan Nanjiang, and he didn't feel his scalp tingle when he heard the words, "You mean, in this mess of stones?"

Lin Chuyi shook his head and said, "No, it's very strange, in this mess of rocks, I have carefully investigated, but I have never found any biological actions in it." The hordes of snakes are still in the depths of this cave. ”

The absence of snakes in the rocky bushes made the two of them breathe a sigh of relief, but another question that was enough to trigger a certain premonition made both of them puzzled. If there are a lot of snakes in it, why don't some of them occasionally enter this rocky thicket?

"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided. Let's go. Fan Nanjiang put down such a sentence, and started to walk down the steps and enter the big hole and rubble thicket.

Lin Chuyi couldn't see anything, and now he had to keep up.

Once inside, the cave is a different story. At this time, what they saw was not a stone cave at all, but huge stone pillars in front of them and behind them, split on the left and right, which seemed to be all naturally formed, and there were no traces of knives and axes. The two of them could only wind their way forward in the narrow gap between the big rocks, turning left and right, and listening to the sound of flowing water, sometimes near and sometimes far away.

When looking at the entrance, because the bottom of the cave is full of boulders, densely packed, secluded into a forest, so you can only look at the top of the cave to estimate that the horizontal width of this cave is no less than the width of a football field. In order not to get lost in the rubble,

The place where the two agreed was in the direction from which the sound of running water came.

During the first year of Lin Chu, he would also perform cultivation, jumping to the top of the boulder, jumping and crossing at the top of the boulder, but soon, he encountered a stone pillar that connected the sky and the earth, or a stone wall, and there was no boulder to stand on. He could only obediently jump to the ground and continue to walk between the cracks in the boulders.

After walking a little further, Lin Chuyi suddenly said, "Slow down." ”

Fan Nanjiang, who was walking in front, stopped and turned around. Only then did he realize that the space where the two of them were at this time was actually a continuous stone wall on both sides, not those huge stones standing in a row.

This is already a deep crack in the mountain wall!

"Are we going wrong?" said Fan Nanjiang in amazement.

Lin Chuyi: "The deeper you go into this stone crevice, the thinner the sound of the flowing water, which is obviously wrong." ”

Fan Nanjiang said: "But along the way, naturally you can only go here." Maybe there's another mystery here. ”

Lin Chu thought for a while and said: "In the later stage, you can only go here, but in the stone forest at the beginning, there are many gaps to walk; ”

"Let's quit first. Regardless of whether the direction of the flowing water is right or wrong, you must first figure out how to go to a place here. If there is a dead end on the other side of the flowing water, we are familiar with the terrain, and it is not too late to come here again. ”

In danger, this is indeed a safer approach. Fan Nanjiang, who also grew up in the mountains, also understands this principle.

This time, Lin Chuyi took the lead and walked back and forth.

Only walked out of more than ten meters, a corner, is a normal room-sized cave hall, this place has just been, and I didn't feel anything, but at this time, when I turned around, the two of them were worried: there were three stone crevices intersecting here, and the openings were all inward. Looking at the three stone cracks, the left and middle two are not much different in size, and the rightmost one is narrower, but ordinary people have no problem walking in it.

When I came, I didn't look back, so I didn't notice that there were three stone crevices with the entrance of the cave facing inward. Of course, I came in through one of the cracks in the stone, but which one?

The two looked at each other, both of them losing their minds.

"I feel like it's the narrow point on the right, right?" Fan Nanjiang said, slightly embarrassed in his tone, "Because this place is unfamiliar, intentionally or unintentionally, I like to walk against the stone wall, I feel that it is safer." ”

Lin Chuyi used a flashlight to shine into the depths of the stone crack on the right, looked at it twice, and then shook his head and said: "I don't see it, although I can't see far, but this stone crack is as narrow as the entrance of the cave for more than ten meters in front; ”

He then checked the stone crack on the left and in the middle with a flashlight, and said, "The one on the left, a few meters ahead, widens, but then there is a narrow turn, I'm not sure." But at the end of the middle road, there seems to be a boulder blocking the exit outside, which may be the Stone Forest Cave Hall just now. ”

The two of them did not hesitate any longer, and walked towards the crack in the stone in the middle.

After walking thirty or forty steps forward, it was indeed the exit, and outside was a huge cave hall lined with stones. Although it is in the middle of a large cave, there are mostly stone pillars connecting the sky and the earth, and the only thing that can be walked is the meandering boulder crack on the right.

That's right, when I entered just now, I came from the left.

The two of them suddenly perked up, and walked out along the cracks between the boulders.

Since this road is different, you have to go back to a place where there are other road options.

Although they feel that they have found the right way, since the boulder at the entrance of the cave fell and sealed the exit, the two of them have always realized in their hearts that they are still in a desperate situation; whether they can find the exit is one thing; if they can find the exit, it will take a few minutes, a few days and a few nights, and it is another matter; so they dare not get carried away, and they have to pay attention to the consumption of physical energy.

Lin Chuyi led Fan Nanjiang in the gap between the stone pillars, walking slowly, his breath was evenly adjusted, and his steps were light. In the absolutely silent space, even if Fan Nanjiang did not have a divine sense of cultivation, at this time, he could clearly perceive the characteristics of Lin Chuyi's qi in his spiritual sense. For him, the operation of the qi machine between gestures is another good lesson. And in the underground cave, the time and a half seem to be a long time, and he can slowly imitate the experience.

It didn't take long to walk, and there were more boulders in front of me that were not as good as the top of the cave, and in the cracks, there were more exits.

According to the general direction, the two continued to go outside. You have to find a rock top with a better view, climb it to see the situation, and then choose the road to move forward.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer stone pillars on the top, the roof of the cave is getting wider and wider. Fan Nanjiang was about to climb a boulder to check, but saw that Lin Chuyi had stopped and turned around. Through the flashlight reflected by the stone, Fan Nanjiang could barely see the other party's face clearly.

That look of shame is not a good intention!

"What's wrong?" asked Fan Nanjiang in disbelief.

"Wrong again. Lin Chuyi sighed.

"Did you find it, just now we have been only looking for a place, and we have found a source, so we just want to go back to the cave hall and find another suitable way. The current cave hall looks similar to when it came. But there is one thing, it is completely different from when we came. ”

Fan Nanjiang's face was shocked, he looked around with a flashlight, and at the end he was still puzzled: "Although I didn't take a closer look when I came, but in general, there is not much difference, right?"

The color on his face was quite disapproving.

Lin Chuyi shook his head and said, "I really didn't feel it?"

Fan Nanjiang still didn't believe it, and was about to shake his head and answer like him, when he suddenly stood up and said on the spot: "By the way, what about the sound of flowing water? Why can't you hear the sound of running water here?"

This is obviously talking nonsense about comforting yourself with your eyes open.

A beginner monk who has already seen the gate of the Great Dao, plus a cultivator who has become a good martial arts master, this way, he is not tired, his energy is still very vigorous. But here and now, both of them were in the same place, and each found a boulder to lean on. When I first entered the secret realm, I was so chaotic and drilled, and now in this underground labyrinth called the sky should not be every day, everywhere is mysterious, no matter what, you should sort it out first.

(End of chapter)