"Why, you've done other dishonest things before?" Zihuan asked curiously.

Zhao Zheng couldn't tell the truth, so he could only joke perfunctorily: "Well, I also carried water for the widow's house." ”

"After picking up the water, did she leave you at home for tea?"

"Not only tea, but also the night."

"Oh, I really can't see that you've done such a bad thing."

"People aren't romantic, aren't they young people."

Just as the two were teasing, the ground under their feet suddenly shook, and it lasted for several breaths, shaking the shallow water under their feet and rippling the shallow water under their feet, and the stone wall above their heads fell into dust.

Zhao Zheng's smile froze, glanced at Zihuan, and wondered, "Do you feel it?" ”

"It's so obvious, of course I feel it, I really didn't expect that there would be an earthquake here." Zihuan looked up and looked around, her face heavy.

"I don't feel like the amplitude is big, so it shouldn't be fine."

"How far is it from stalactite jade liquor?"

"It's about the same distance as when you came."

"Then don't look back, just keep going. I feel that the stone walls here are quite sturdy, and they should be able to withstand small earthquakes. Zhao Zheng decided.

Zihuan nodded and promised to continue walking, but at a faster pace.

It's dark here, and there has just been an earthquake, and Zhao Zheng doesn't want to stay here longer. The two of them quickened their pace, and their feet swept forward as if they were hanging on the wind.

The terrain in front of us began to stretch upwards, getting drier and drier, and there was no water. After walking for a while, there were two forks in front of me, one left and one right. Zhao knew the way, and chose the fork on the left without hesitation. Keep going down. There was another fork in the road. This time, he chose the fork on the right instead.

Go further. There were no forks, and the road was getting narrower and narrower, and at the end there was a large pile of stones blocking the way, and it was tightly blocked.

"Don't tell me I have to move rocks again, I don't like it." Zihuan looked at the pile of stones under the candlelight and frowned.

"There is no need to move stones this time, the stones here are all blocked here by the Hundred Cave Sect, and there are a lot of them. I can't finish moving it for a while. Zhao Zheng shook his head, shook the candlelight in his hand, and used the light to illuminate the stone walls on both sides of his body, as if he was looking for something.

"How can you get there without moving stones?" Zihuan asked.

"Break the wall." Zhao Zheng found something, his eyes lit up, he walked quickly to the edge of the stone wall, and slapped hard in a depression, "This stone wall is adjacent to the cave where the stalactite jade liquid is located, as long as the stone wall is penetrated, you can easily reach the opposite side." Get stalactite liquid. ”

"It's easy to say, the stone wall looks very thick. It's not something that can be pierced casually, how much are you going to pay me? Zihuan knocked on the bamboo.

"I won't pay a penny, I'll take care of this stone wall." Zhao Zheng reached his back, pulled out the Zichu sword that was diagonally to the right, held it in his hand, and secretly used his internal strength to stab towards the sunken stone wall.

"Poof."

Hearing a muffled sound, the golden Zichu Sword easily penetrated the stone wall, reaching into it for about three feet, and it was really not very deep.

Zhao Zheng tried to find out the void and reality, and pulled out the Zichu sword, this time from a straight stab to a horizontal cut, a sword cut to the stone wall, drew a sharp horizontal line, and tore a hole in the stone wall. He painted a tiger like a cat, swung three more swords, and drew a "mouth" shape on the stone wall. He lifted his foot and kicked the square stone, and with a force on his foot, he kicked the stone to the opposite side.

The stone wall was broken open with a "mouth" shaped entrance.

Zhao Zheng returned the sword into the sheath, pounced on the dust in front of him, leaned down, and illuminated the opposite side of the entrance with candlelight, from here you can clearly see the stone wall opposite, bare, nothing to see.

Along the way, Zhao Zheng seemed to be visiting his own backyard, and he knew this kind of thing well, Zihuan was no longer surprised, and there was no superfluous reaction.

"Let's go inside." Zhao Zheng stepped through the relatively spacious entrance, reached the opposite side, and looked left and right.

There are caves on both sides, the left hand side leads to the Hundred Cave Sect, and the right hand side leads to the place where the stalactite jade liquid is located.

The entrance to this cave is guarded, but there is no one inside to guard it, so you can go in boldly and with confidence.

Of course, this is just a normal situation, and if something happens, there may be people in this cave. It was in order to prevent this sudden accident that Zhao Zheng brought Zihuan.

Tie the people of the Hundred Caves Sect together one by one, and it is not Zihuan's opponent alone, the gap in the strength of the martial artists is so terrible, it is as insurmountable as the chasm.

Zihuan then entered, and Zhao Zheng led the way in front of him with a candle, illuminating the cave beside him, and as he walked, the shadows cast on the wall swayed endlessly, like another person.

The situation that Zhao Zheng was wary of did not appear, and the road was empty, quiet, and there was no one. At the end of the cavern, a large closed iron door appeared, painted with red paint, with a lion's head knocker on each side. Zhao Zheng stabbed the sword of life into the crack of the door, cut the lock with a wrestling force, and swaggered into the door.

Open the red iron door, the inside suddenly opens up, is a stone house dug out by hand, two zhang high, ten zhang wide, forming a circle. In the center of the stone house is a square stone platform, which is concave around the stone platform and connected by a path paved with white marble. There is a strange stone table in the shape of a bowl on the stone platform, which resembles a large funnel that carries the mysterious liquid that falls from above.

Looking at the stone table again, the stalactite stalagmites hang down on the roof of the stone house, which is white, resembling a pagoda, about a zhang long, wet on it, and there is a drop of milky white liquid at the end.

That liquid is also the miraculous stalactite jade liquid.

By candlelight, Zhao Zheng could see the situation inside the stone house clearly.

"I don't know how much stalactite jade liquid is left here, I hope there is more." Zhao Zheng's eyes burned, he prayed loudly, and walked quickly to the bowl-shaped stone table along the white marble passage under his feet.

When I got closer, I used the candlelight to shine again, and I saw a milky white liquid at the bottom of the bowl-shaped stone table, and I saw that there was about a small bowl, which was not very much. The liquid is similar to milk, but is a bit thicker.

"It's okay, barely enough for two people." Zhao Zheng was quite satisfied, dropped a few candle tears on the stone table, fixed the candle on it, and then lowered his head to untie the bamboo tube hanging from his waist, intending to roll away all the stalactite liquid.

Zihuan walked around the stone table beside her, looked up at the stalactites hanging down from it, and wondered: "There are so many stalactites in this world, why can the stalactites here drip with miraculous liquids?" ”

"I don't know about this, if you really want to know, you might as well ask the people of the Hundred Cave Sect, they must know more than this stalactite." Zhao Zheng didn't care.

"I guess the mystery should be inside the stalactite, maybe there's some mystery in it." Zihuan pointed to the stalactites and said.

Zhao Zheng had already untied the bamboo tube, squatted down, and stretched the bamboo tube to the "bottom of the bowl" of the stone table. There is a stopper there, and if you pull it out, you will be able to get the stalactite liquid inside. He pinched the plug with his fingers, which was very tight, and he twisted the plug as he asked, "Do you want to break the stalactites?" ”

"You guessed it, I really have this idea." Zihuan admits that it doesn't sound like a joke.

"This won't work, it's okay for us to take away a little stalactite jade liquid, anyway, it will be made here after a while. But if this stalactite is broken, the source of the stalactite jade liquid will be cut off, which is too great a loss for the Hundred Cave Sect, and they can't stand it. Zhao Zheng vetoed.

"Hmph, if you want me to see, it's a scourge to keep this stalactite, think about the two competitions you saw today, the first one, a person's arm was scrapped, leaving a lifelong disability; In the second competition, a person's stomach was opened by a shovel, and life and death were uncertain. If this stalactite is kept, the Hundred Caves Sect will definitely compete every year, causing countless tragedies. Zihuan snorted coldly.

"When you say this, it really makes sense, if you destroy this stalactite, it will cut off the source of the dispute, and there will be no need for the Hundred Cave Sect to hold martial arts competitions every year in the future. But it would be a pity if such a naturally formed thing was destroyed. Zhao Zheng looked up at the stalactites and said regretfully.

"It's a pity, as the saying goes, human life is a matter of heaven, and no matter how good a stalactite is, no matter how good it is, human life is not important."

"Oh well. Just do as you say, and when I take these stalactites away, I will destroy this stalactite. Zhao Zheng nodded in agreement, stepped up his strength, pulled out the stopper, and caught it with a bamboo tube.

The milky white stalactite liquid flowed out and slipped into the bamboo tube, and the water level inside the stone table was lowered, leaving a water mark.

Zhao Zheng filled up all the stalactite jade liquid, and until there was no more liquid dripping, he took back the bamboo tube, covered it, and tied it firmly to his waist. He pulled out the candle on the stone table, took a few steps back, pointed to the stalactites above his head, and said, "Bodyguard, please." ”

"Be careful, be careful not to get hurt by rubble." Zihuan admonished, stared at her beautiful eyes, flew up, and swung two whips at the stalactites in mid-air. When she swung the second whip, she used the force of the whip to bounce backwards and fall back to the ground.

After two crisp sounds like the sound of firecrackers, the stalactites shattered, and fell down all at once, smashing the stone table below, rolling all over the ground, and some of them rolled into the stone platform.

The Hundred Caves Sect regarded it as a treasure, and the stalactites that had been strictly protected were gone, leaving only a piece of stone root on it.

Both were intrigued by the inside of the stalactites and examined the rubble for something special, but could not find anything. Every piece of gravel is a sample, and nothing special is found.

Zhao Zheng raised the candlelight and looked overhead to check the remnants of the stalactite roots, but this time he found something.

"Zihuan, see if there's a special stone on it." Zhao Zheng pointed to the top of his head and said. (To be continued......)