Chapter 31: The Cave Within the Cave
As soon as he entered, he smelled a musty and rotten smell, apparently the cave had just been opened, and the musty smell had not yet completely dissipated.
The first thing that catches your eye is a series of steps that curve downward, and the walls on both sides are inlaid with precious stones, and although the light is not large, you can barely see the way.
After a little hesitation, Fang Ji walked down, but he didn't even reach the end of the steps for a long time of a pillar of incense, and he didn't know how deep the hole was.
After another pillar of incense, he began to become alert, for everywhere he passed seemed familiar, as if he had just been there.
"Could it be that I have encountered the Soul Ladder?"
Thinking of this, his cold sweat flowed out.
In the past, when he was traveling abroad, he had heard that in a small border country, there was a Thousand Machine Gate composed of strangers, who did not cultivate the true element, nor did they seek immortality, but only liked to study the art of the mechanism.
These skilled craftsmen all have the ability to turn decay into magic, when the small secret realm of the Burial Soul Slope was opened, Fang Ji was on the scene, and he saw a boulder roll out of the secret realm, crushing dozens of good hands in front into pulp, and it is said that the mechanism came from the hand of the machine door.
Later, he inquired in many ways, and gradually learned some things about the Thousand Machine Gate, and the Soul Ladder was their specialty.
Whoever steps on the ladder of leaving the soul will never reach the end, and it will not be long before he loses his sense of time, and then walks forever like a walking corpse.
As a human being, Fang Scar has experienced far more than others, but even so, he can't help but get nervous at the thought that he might become a walking corpse.
"I'm only giving myself five seconds to be afraid, and after five seconds I'll be fearless!"
Fang Scar closed his eyes and began to count silently, taking a deep breath with each number he spit out.
It may have been that the psychological suggestion played a role, and after five breaths, he really calmed down a lot, and then began to think about a way to get out.
If you really want to encounter the Soul Ladder, it is useless to go back, and you can only seek other solutions.
After calming down, Fang Zhen's mind became active, and he suddenly remembered an incident from the past.
About seven or eight years ago, not long after he entered the Qingshan Sect, he followed a group of senior uncles to hunt in the Yuan Beast Mountain Range. As a result, the target turned out to be more difficult to deal with than they thought, and it turned out to be a foggy wind.
Demon beasts, like people, are also divided into levels, but if they can walk in the wind and fog, they are not in the category of demon beasts, but advanced to the primordial beast.
The Yuan Beast that can walk in the wind and fog is no less powerful than the real human realm powerhouse.
In the face of such a terrifying existence, where do they dare to fight, they almost turn around and leave.
However, the Yuan Beast Mountain Range was already dangerous, and it was even more difficult to move an inch under the heavy fog, and they were still spinning in place for a full day.
In the end, Gu Yuan thought of a way to let everyone go with their eyes closed.
Everyone didn't believe it, but when they saw that there was nothing they could do, they had to try it, and it turned out that this trick really worked, and the group used this method to leave the Yuanbeast Mountain Range safely and soundly.
The situation now is almost exactly the same as that day, and Fang Ji is just concocted, and he simply closes his eyes.
He had tried to use his divine sense to probe how deep this hole was, but it didn't work at all, as if his divine sense didn't work here at all, and now everything could only rely on intuition.
At first, he walked very slowly, groping for a long time with each step, but gradually he had mastered the rhythm and walked faster and faster.
It was only about half a cup of tea before he felt a little light, and then he opened his eyes.
The stairs had come to an end, and in front of him was an open space, with a dozen torches on both sides, which lit up the place!
"There's still someone here!"
The person who can enter here must also be a disciple of the Qingshan Sect, but Fang Zhen didn't make a sound, but found a place to hide.
Because since he came back this time, he feels that everyone has changed a lot, and he can feel a sense of crisis all the time, but he can't tell who is the enemy and who is the friend.
Adjusting his breathing to the slowest level, Fang Zhen has already entered the state of turtle breath, and even those who have cultivated a grade higher than him may not be able to discover him.
Time passed minute by minute, and just when he thought that no one would appear, he suddenly heard someone say: "Hehe, that old puppet in Guyuan, who has occupied the position of the sect master for so many years, it is time to abdicate and make way for Xian, today I will let him die without a place to be buried!"
As soon as he heard this, Fang Zhen clenched his fist fiercely, eager to go out immediately and break the body of the person who spoke wildly outside.
Because when he was at his weakest and helpless, it was Gu Yuan who took him in and raised him as an adult, he could endure others slandering him, but he couldn't allow anyone to say anything bad about Gu Yuan.
But after thinking about it for a while, he still held back.
Because he didn't know the details of the man, let alone his plan, it was not too late to do it when he figured it out.
What's more, being able to sneak here without the eyes and ears of so many people, his cultivation must be extraordinary, and he may not be his opponent.
The man's voice was very strange, obviously a woman, but he was forced to speak with his voice, as if he was deliberately hiding his timbre.
"This person is here for the position of the sect master, so he must be the one in my Qingshan Sect who is dissatisfied with the master, but since Aunt Yun Lan went out, there is no woman among the elders in the Qingshan Sect, who is this person?"
After a few turns of thought, there was still no one in his mind, and in the end it could only be attributed to Yuan Hua and the others.
After all, they only went up the mountain a few days ago to make trouble, so I don't know if this person is their comrade.
The more the man talked, the more energetic he became, and he simply said that Gu Yuan was useless.
Gradually, Fang Scar realized that something was wrong.
Although her tone seemed to be full of disdain for Gu Yuan, she didn't insult him between her words, at most she just called an old horseman, and besides, there was no one else here, who did she talk to herself?
Originally, he would never dare to show his head easily, but he couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart, so he quietly stretched his head out of the corner.
At first glance, he was so angry that he almost fainted.
I saw a girl standing under the torch, swearing loudly with her fingers, her eyes were just staring in the direction of Fang Zhen, her little face was flushed, as if she was holding back a smile.
And this girl is none other than the one Fang Zhen has just met.
"How can this be reasonable, even the senior brother dares to make fun of it!"
Gritting his teeth fiercely, Fang Scar jumped out, and there was only one thought in his mind now, he must pinch that little face to the point of deformation.
The girl seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and before Fang Ji approached, she had already run away, and she was shouting for help.
"Call it, you can call it a broken ......"
Before Fang Scar could finish his words, he heard a majestic voice in the distance.