Chapter 22: The Cave
"Will you stay?" the man asked as he left.
"No, maybe I'll leave tomorrow. Yang Mu told the truth that he would definitely not stay in this village.
"You are her son, and you must also have a fairy fate, and you really won't live with ordinary people like us. But...... Is Xianyuan really good, it may not be as good as an ordinary life. There was no intention to persuade Yang Mu, so the man left this sentence and left.
"Perhaps......" Yang Mu muttered in a low voice, it was his own feelings, but people were greedy, knowing this, but he resolutely chose to cultivate immortals.
This is the third day, and after tonight, Yang Mu will leave and return to Yunxia Mountain. His mother has returned to his hometown, and he has no worries about him, and from then on he has devoted himself to cultivating immortals, and cultivating immortals for the second time.
It should be the fourth night of coming to Liujiagou, as calm as ever, poplar wood sits in front of his mother's grave, burning incense wood, which is a kind of fragrant wood on Yunyin Mountain, cut very much, and mortals are specially used to burn to commemorate the dead relatives.
The fire in front of the grave has not been extinguished, and Yang Mu has not slept for the past four nights, except for burning incense wood, it is to meditate and refine the soul origin, and it is still two days away from being able to completely refine.
I thought it would be a quiet night, but suddenly a bright light flashed from the depths of Yunyin Mountain, and it disappeared in a flash, and when Yang Mu looked up, it had disappeared.
"Blue light, it's ......" Yang Mu looked in that direction.
I remember the first day I went to the village, the old village chief pointed to that direction and said, ten years ago, the mountain flood was gushing out of there, some villagers went into the mountain to see, in the depths of the mountain, at the end of the ravine, on a cliff at the height of Yunyin Mountain, there was a very deep hole, the mountain flood was flowing out of the hole, and the water in the cave finally dried up five years ago, and the water level of the ravine was restored to before.
There were a few people who had gone in, three of them had not been long before returning, and a few of them had the audacity to go deeper, but the result was that they never came back, and the villagers regarded the cave as a disaster, so that no one entered the cave again, and they did not dare to approach.
Before that, Yang Mu thought that the water in the mountain broke through the rocks to form a torrent, and just now the blue light flashed, and he felt that it was not so simple.
In the land of mortals, there is no aura, and there should be no spiritual creatures. Yang Mu was still a little interested, and planned to go over and have a look after dawn.
In the following midnight, Yang Mu stopped refining the soul origin, swallowed a Ziqing Pill to restore his mana, and recuperated to prepare for the day's adventure.
It's dawn, it's time to say goodbye, after three days, the poplars that should be done have been done, it's time to leave. I wanted to go quietly, but I never thought that the villagers of Liujiagou would come early in the morning, and all the villagers, the elderly and the babies had arrived.
It should be known that Yang Mu is leaving, so he came to say goodbye. Thousands of miles to send his mother's ashes back to his hometown, and in front of the grave for three days of filial piety, in the eyes of the villagers Yang Mu is a big filial son, so come to say goodbye.
After only three or four days of acquaintance, Yang Mu was really a little moved by the simplicity of the villagers, said goodbye to them, and with the support of the villagers, he first returned to the village, and then sent them outside the village, and the villagers reluctantly went back.
After leaving Liujiagou, Yang Mu turned back, did not enter the mountain from Liujiagou, climbed over a mountain cliff, and returned to the ancestral tomb of Liujiagou. He saw a figure, sitting on his mother's grave and crying and telling something, and without bothering, poplar went down the ravine.
The shrubs along the way are very deep, and the villagers of Liujiagou rarely go deep here, and there is a mountain road, but it is covered by shrubs, which is a little shallower than the shrubs in other places.
Yang Mu cast a ghost step, like a mortal martial arts master, and walked over the bush with a little water. According to the villagers, they walked along the ravine until they reached the end, and they arrived at the cave for about fourteen miles.
The ravine is formed by the cracking of the mountain range to the south of Yunyin Mountain, and at the end is the main peak of Yunyin Mountain, the point of the crack. The front is a steep cliff, twenty or thirty zhang high, climb up and climb more than ten zhang to reach the top of the mountain.
On the cliff, one zhang high from the ground, that is, at the bottom of the ravine, there is a cave, which is not as tall as an adult and is round, and with the eyesight of poplar, it is believed that it is not a natural formation, and there are no rocks that have been washed away from the cliff and fallen around. This is strange, there is actually an artificially opened cave here, which aroused Yangmu's curiosity even more.
"It's been ten years since it appeared, if there are any evil spirits, Liu Jiagou can't be safe for ten years, there should be no danger. Yang Mu comforted himself that he was more timid now because his cultivation was too low.
Walking here, Yang Mu must go into the cave to see, a longitudinal jump into the cave, the wind blowing out of the cave has a cold feeling, but it is different from the yin wind in Minggu Village.
Taking out the luminous stone from the cave in Minggu Village, Yang Mu walked slowly inside. Now that the cultivation is low, there are not many means to save life, and when entering such an unknown place, it is natural to be extremely careful.
There is still stagnant water in the cave, walked about a dozen zhang, the stagnant water passed the feet, suddenly the feet creaked, stepped on something, Yang Mu used an ordinary wooden stick to pick up something underwater, and what he saw was a skeleton, draped in tattered clothes, which should be the bones of mortals who had entered the cave.
It was not clear from the bones how the man had died, but Yang Mu was made more careful and continued to walk, and he had to use a wooden stick to see if there was anything in the stagnant water.
After walking a few feet, Yang Mu found clues, there were faint traces of spiritual patterns on the rock wall, which were very blurred by weathering.
"This can't be some monk's cave. Yang Mu guessed, and somewhat confirmed.
Further in, there are more and more traces, there are spirit patterns, and there are arrays that arrange formations, but the aura is exhausted and it has become an ordinary thing, and a few array weapons still have a little spiritual power, and they can also release a little power. On the way, Yang Mu also found several skeletons, all of which were mortals who broke into the cave mansion and had been dead for several years, apparently from the attack sent out by the array.
Thinking that these array weapons and spirit patterns are guarding this cave mansion, the time is too long, and the spiritual energy is exhausted and becomes what it is now. The appearance of the cave entrance is related to the disappearance of the formation, and without the shielding formation, the cave entrance will be revealed. As for the flash flood, it should be the failure of the formation, the water in the mountain seeps into the hole, accumulates all year round, and the formation suddenly fails completely, and the stagnant water is released from the hole to form a mountain flood.
When he got here, Yang Mu was very sure that this was a monk's cave, and the monk should not have returned for many years. Yunyin Mountain was originally a spiritual mountain, but for some reason, the spiritual energy was exhausted and it became what it is now.
The attack from the remnants of the spiritual power of the array weapon, Yang Mu's current cultivation is able to cope with the past, and the ghost step dodges the attack, and destroys the array weapon, sweeping away the troubles along the way.
Go deep into the cave twenty-six or seven zhang, and finally arrive at the destination, in front of you is a cave hall, there is a tea seat stone chair, there is a secret room on the right side of the hall, the door of the secret room is sealed with a stone door, there is a faint blue light to wrap the entire wall of the secret room.
There is no obstacle to the hall, but the secret room, and the power of the prohibition, are already very weak and chaotic, and a blue spiritual power erupts from time to time. It seems that the blue light I saw last night should have erupted from this prohibition.
Yang Mu carefully inspected the other three walls of the hall, and found nothing, there should be only one secret room, and there were no other prohibitions.
Then Yang Mu tried to break this prohibition, and there is still the power of the prohibition to protect it, thinking about what is in the secret room should be very important.
The fire control technique condensed a fist-sized fireball, turned a few times in front of him, Yang Mu threw it forward with both hands, and the fireball rushed towards the stone gate.
With a single exhale, the fireball exploded, and the forbidden force scattered the fireball. Yang Mu subconsciously took a few steps back, avoiding those scattered sparks.
The strength is relatively weak, and the ban has not been broken, but it is a little weaker, so that Yang Mu can see the hope of breaking it. So he continued to use fire control techniques to attack the stone door of the secret room.
With Yang Mu's current mana, if he casts a fireball like that just now, he can probably cast it six or seven times, at most seven times, and then he has to stop and recover his mana.
Seven fireballs in a row, still failed to break the ban, Yang Mu used the Ziqing Pill to recover his mana, and there was some aura in the cave, which was more convenient for him to recover.
Yang Mu, who was in a hurry, only recovered eighty percent of his mana, and began to break the ban again. It's a pity that he overestimated his strength, and after five consecutive times, he had to continue to recover.
After two consecutive attacks, Yang Mu calmed down, slowly recovered, and then continued to attack the prohibition after fully recovering, spending three Ziqing Pills, and in the fourth attack, a total of twenty-one fireballs were cast, and finally the prohibition was broken and the stone gate was knocked down.
It was still because of the lack of spiritual energy that the forbidden power was greatly reduced, and after being weakened by attacks again and again, and unable to replenish and recover the spiritual power, it was dispersed by Yangmu.
The stone door was cracked, and there was no water in the secret room, which was a small secret room with a length and width of three feet. There was only a strange formation, the most obvious was the erection of nine stalactite pillars, the pillars were not large, they were thicker stone sticks, and the ground also had circular patterns, with various spiritual patterns inside, and a fist-sized blue crystal in the middle.
"Spirit Gathering Array......" Yang Mu recognized, called out his name, and as for the blue crystal, he called out, "Spirit crystal." ”
The nine pillars are not stalactite pillars, they are spirit gathering pillars, and the entire formation is a spirit gathering array. The master of the cave set up a spirit gathering array here, gathering all the aura of Yunyin Mountain here and condensing it into a spirit crystal. This can explain the lack of aura outside Yunyin Mountain, why the formation and prohibition of this cave mansion lack aura, it is all because of this spirit gathering array.
As for the spirit crystal, it is a condensation of spiritual energy like the spirit stone, but the spiritual crystal is artificially created, and it is condensed by gathering spiritual array to gather spiritual veins and spiritual energy.
Spirit crystals are purer than spirit stone aura, and are more suitable for monks to absorb and cultivate, but the spirit crystal condensation speed is slow, and a large amount of spiritual energy is required, and a large amount of condensed spirit crystal may cause a spiritual vein to be exhausted and become an ordinary place.
Obviously, Yunyin Mountain, a very weak spiritual land, was depleted because of the condensation of spiritual crystals. I don't know how many pieces of spirit crystals in the secret room are.
Yang Mu didn't find the danger, so he entered the secret room, the spirit gathering array had been damaged due to the lack of aura, and the spiritual power of that spirit crystal had passed a lot, and it was considered a low-level spirit crystal.
Spirit crystals are divided into four grades like spirit stones, which are more precious than spirit stones, and low-level spirit crystals are equivalent to medium-level spirit stones, and the spiritual power absorbed by monks is more than twice as fast. But the spirit crystal is different from the spirit stone, and the spiritual power will pass slowly, and the speed of the flow is the same as that of the elixir.
The Spirit Gathering Array has a special spirit pattern restriction and does not absorb aura from spirit crystals. The aura of the passing spirit crystal maintained the prohibition outside the secret room.
Yang Mu picked up the spirit crystal and carefully put it into the spirit sealing box. The spirit sealing box in Yang Mu's hand was of low grade, and the spirit sealing spirit crystal was not very suitable, but he had no other choice, so he could seal it for the time being.