The question now is how to get to the platform on the cliff face below. If it is a cliff like Changle Village, Fang Tianyou can put the rattan rope down, as long as the rattan rope is long enough, climb down the rattan rope, and you can reach the platform.

But this cliff is peculiar, overhanging a large rock that protrudes like an eagle's wing, and the platform is just below this "eagle's wing".

It also means that even if Fang Tianyou puts the rattan rope down, the rattan rope can't turn, even if it climbs down to the same height as the platform, but horizontally, there is still a distance of five or six meters from the platform.

If it is down-to-earth, Fang Tianyou will not be able to jump five or six meters with the "Ascending Step". But dangling in the air on the rattan rope, if he wants to swing five or six meters, Fang Tianyou is not sure.

"Impossible. When they dig such a platform, there must be a use, and if there is a use, there must be a way to reach the platform. Thinking of this, Fang Tianyou patiently investigated again.

This investigation really allowed him to find a clue.

It turned out that below the protruding cliff face, there was a row of three-finger-sized long iron pillars, which stretched from not far from Fang Tianyou's body to the vicinity of that platform.

Each pillar was less than twenty centimeters exposed, and the distance between each pillar was about two feet.

"Do you want to climb those iron pillars, like playing a balance ladder, from here to the platform?" Looking at those evenly distributed iron pillars, Fang Tianyou suddenly thought of a possibility.

These cultivators are really, so mysterious. This place is already very remote, and it is necessary to engage in such a dangerous path. This is not only to prevent ordinary people from disturbing them, but also to prevent other cultivators.

But the more mysterious they are, the more problematic the platform becomes. Fang Tianyou observed for a while, but there was no one everywhere, and finally made up his mind to go to the platform to take a look.

Just in case, Fang Tianyou first found the hemp rope brought out from Changle Village, tied a slipknot, and then put it on the nearest iron pillar and tried it. Finding that the iron pillar was nailed firmly, Fang Tianyou was relieved.

He grabbed the nearest iron pillar with one hand, and after his body stabilized, he stretched out his other hand to grab the adjacent iron pillar, and then tried the firmness of the iron pillar to support his body, Fang Tianyou swung his body over again and began to climb the third iron pillar.

In this way, the two hands work together alternately, and slowly approach the platform like a balance ladder.

Of course, unlike the balance ladder, the ground under the balance ladder is at most one or two feet away from his feet, but now Fang Tianyou's feet are an abyss with no bottom in sight.

Fortunately, those iron pillars were very strong, and after three or four minutes, Fang Tianyou successfully arrived at the platform, only to find that there were traces of a fight on the platform of less than ten square meters.

Not only the platform, but also the cliff wall near here, there are also several traces of big swords and sharp swords. It made Fang Tianyou think that the iron rope must have been cut by these sharp blades, so it hung down.

Standing on the platform and looking down, there were still cliffs below, and there was no other path up and down, and no more suspicious things were found.

"Is it true that they built such a platform to exercise their courage or compete here? No, these traces of fighting do not look like they are competing in martial arts, but are clearly life and death fights. There's definitely something strange about this platform. ”

Fang Tianyou carefully checked around again, and sure enough, he found something wrong, five feet above the platform, there was a groove the size of a palm.

This groove is not obvious, if it weren't for Fang Tianyou's eyesight, it would be really difficult to find. Fang Tianyou pressed his hand lightly on the groove, and there was a sound of blinking in the stone wall.

Fang Tianyou's heart tightened: this platform should be an entrance, and there is another space in the cliff!

He further thought about what if those cultivators saw his "intruder" and started to do it. He is now on this platform, and he will suffer a big loss if he can't use his hands and feet.

Fang Tianyou couldn't help but regret his recklessness a little. But the matter has come to this point, and it is too late to regret it, so I have to take one step at a time.

The sound of the machine became louder and louder, as if some heavy hub had opened, and the cliffs near the platform shook slightly, which lasted for a minute or two before the sound and shaking stopped.

However, when the sound stopped, there was no movement, and no voices were heard. Fang Tianyou felt very strange, could it be that he was wrong, there was no one in the cliff at all?

If it weren't for the shaking of the bracket that shook the cliff wall and caused a lot of dust to fall, Fang Tianyou would almost suspect that the bracket sound was an illusion generated by himself.

"Hey, this is, a stone gate?" Fang Tianyou suddenly noticed that after the cliff wall was shaken off some dust, there was a one-person-sized stone slab in front of him that was sunk inward by half an inch.

Because the color of this stone slab and the cliff wall was not much different, and the gap was very small, Fang Tianyou did not notice it at the first time.

Fang Tianyou speculated that it should be the machine bracket just now that played a role, making the stone slab sink half an inch, because he was very sure that before the sound of the bracket sounded, there was no such place to invert. What puzzled him was why the mechanism only made the stone slab sink half an inch, instead of opening the stone door directly.

Now that he has made a new discovery, Fang Tianyou will certainly not let it go. He looked closely at the stone door, knocked gently, and tried to push it in hard.

At the beginning, the silk pattern of the stone gate did not move, and it was not until Fang Tianyou used almost six layers of force to stand on the pile that the stone gate had traces of shaking. Fang Tianyou hurriedly added two layers of strength, and the stone gate "boom, boom" inward, revealing a corridor that was only for two people to walk in parallel.

Sticking his head in to probe, the corridor was very quiet, Fang Tianyou was very strange, the roar of the stone gate did not alarm the people inside. However, Fang Tianyou still didn't dare to be careless, and stared into the corridor with a guarded gaze.

After taking a few steps in the corridor, the stone door behind him automatically closed, Fang Tianyou didn't care, and continued to explore forward, and found that there were obvious traces of slashing with knives and axes on the wall of the corridor and on the platform.

"There are also traces of fighting in this corridor, judging from the traces left here, it is not like moving your hands and feet when you are cultivating, it is more like a life-and-death struggle, could it be that there has been a big war here!"

With doubts, Fang Tianyou continued to walk inside. After walking for about forty or fifty meters, it suddenly became clear in front of me. This is actually a stone room that can accommodate twenty or thirty people, and there are all tables, chairs, and beds in it.

The most shocking thing is that there are six skeletons in the stone chamber. Some of these bones were lying on the ground, some were leaning on tables and chairs, in different postures, but judging from the shape of the bones, they were all injured. Two skeletons also had a dagger and a long hook stuck in their sternum.

"There was a brutal killing here. Judging from the fragments of clothing remaining on these skeletons, it is obvious that they are two groups of people. One group was dressed in blue cloth, and the other was dressed in black. Fang Tianyou carefully examined several skeletons and found no more clues.

This stone room seems to be an overstanding, and like an outpost, when the road is not over here, Fang Tianyou continued to walk forward along the road, and saw the traces of the fight along the way, Fang Tianyou was used to it.

After walking for another five or six minutes, there was a light ahead, and at the same time, a breath of fresh air came to my face. Fang Tianyou knew that there was an exit ahead.

It didn't take long to walk, and sure enough, out of Yongtong, a winding mountain path appeared in front of me. The trail stretches straight ahead, lined with weeds and trees, and even an occasional hare or two runs by. Further away is an open clearing.

Under the blue sky, you can vaguely see traces of a courtyard not far away. There are a lot of fields in front of the courtyard, and there should have been a lot of melons, fruits and vegetables planted on them.

It's a pity that it hasn't been taken care of for many years, and the fields are deserted and overgrown with weeds. Occasionally, vegetables that are still growing on their own in a certain place have grown like wild vegetables because they have not been cooked.

The aura of heaven and earth here is much richer than that of Changle Village, and it should have been an excellent hiding place to use as a retreat and cultivation place for cultivators, which could not be better. I just don't know what happened here to destroy such a wonderful place.

Stepping on the path, Fang Tianyou walked directly towards the courtyard. There were still one or two skeletons on the side of the road from time to time, and Fang Tianyou just looked at them from a distance, too lazy to visit them again.

Before coming to the courtyard, there were more skeletons, dozens of them, among which there were women and children, and even a baby held in the arms of a woman.

"This is going to destroy people!" Fang Tianyou's heart trembled, "What kind of deep hatred is this, even women and children are not spared!"

There was no living mouth, there was silence everywhere, Fang Tianyou had no way of knowing the answer, but on the green cloth clothes of women and children, it was speculated that the only one who was destroyed was the one wearing the green clothes.

The courtyard seems to have been destroyed by fire, leaving a ruin and rubble, more of ruins than a courtyard. In front of the gate of the main courtyard, Fang Tianyou found a plaque that was broken into three pieces and burned off a corner. Put the plaque in one place, connect it and look at it, you can vaguely make out the three big characters of "Guiyin Sect" written on it.

"It turns out that the monastic sect that lives in seclusion here is called 'Gui Yin Sect'. Literally, it should be a sect that has no quarrel with the world, if this is the case, it should not be able to grudge with others, how can it lead to the destruction of the sect. ”

Fang Tianyou stepped on the ruins, walked into the courtyard group, and found that the courtyard in the center was the largest, and the remaining ruins and broken tiles were the most, it can be imagined that this courtyard was the most spacious and solid building at that time, and the occupants should have a high status in the "Returning to the Hidden Sect".

Walking into this courtyard, Fang Tianyou found that there were not many traces of burning here, and the walls were more collapsed by external forces. And it is precisely because of these collapsed bricks and tiles that a fire barrier is formed around this courtyard, which causes the courtyard to not burn very seriously.

What caught Fang Tianyou's attention the most was that in a house on the south side of the courtyard, there were two corpse bones that were very different, one fat and one thin.