Early in the morning, I felt the heat of the weather.

Ning Ke asked the grandmother next door to help take care of his mother for a day or two, and he prepared some climbing utensils and food and rushed to Tianmu Mountain by car.

Ning Ke is very familiar with Tianmu Mountain, not only does the school organize a visit to Tianmu Mountain every year, but he has also gone up the mountain with his uncle to dig herbs several times in recent years.

As soon as the car arrived at the gate of the scenic spot, Ning Ke left the crowd and walked alone to the destination in the deep mountains. He was already familiar with the map left by his father, and he wanted to invite his uncle to come with him, but he was afraid that his uncle's mouth would be bad.

Tianmu Mountain is known as the "Kingdom of Big Trees", with a wide variety of animals and plants in the mountain, and rare species can be seen everywhere.

Ning Ke walked rapidly on the green peaks and ancient trees on the path.

Over the years, his father passed on to him a set of Bajiquan and some ancient martial arts qigong methods, and practiced them every day, not only to strengthen the body, but also to benefit the brain.

The purpose of Ning Ke's trip is the big stone valley, the stone valley is located in the north foot valley of the two main peaks of Tianmu Mountain, this area is known as the danger of strange rocks and strange stones, and the victory of flowing springs and waterfalls. It was formed by the Quaternary glaciation after a volcanic eruption during the Jurassic period 150 million years ago.

Near noon, Ning Ke entered the Great Stone Valley.

The stone valley has a peculiar landform, lush vegetation, and strange stones, pools, waterfalls, and springs everywhere. The huge crater with glacial remains forms a spectacular mountain promenade. There are thousands of boulders in the valley, and streams and waterfalls fall to the bottom of the valley from Tianmu Mountain......

Here, the hot summer seems to be driven away by the humidity of the rich, shady valley stream, and the temperature by the stream is as cool as autumn. Tourists are scarce here, and the occasional swimmer is seen floating down the stream, a newly developed tourism project by the local tourism department.

Ning Ke followed the instructions on the map and climbed over a boulder engraved with the words "Eight Immortals", walked another 200 meters to the west, and then climbed over a cliff, where he stopped on a rock.

Look around and look for a huge cedar tree near a waterfall.

But after looking at it for a long time, I couldn't find the big tree marked on the map. A wave of disappointment and frustration hit him, "Obviously this is it...... Where's the big tree?!"

He took out the map, carefully checked the end of the arrow guiding the route on the map, and clearly marked the words "Eight Immortal Terrace, 200 meters to the west over the cliff, three stacks of water waterfalls, big cedar, and the stone thatched cave!".

The tree that can be called "big" in Tianmu Mountain must be very tall and thick.

If you use one sentence to describe the characteristics of Tianmu Mountain, it is "the big tree canopy smells Kyushu".

According to statistics, there are more than 600 ancient trees with a diameter of more than 1 meter in the west peak of Tianmu Mountain alone, but there are no particularly thick trees here. Waterfalls on mountain cliffs, overlapping water curtains can be seen everywhere, and caves hidden under the water curtains are also endless.

Ning Ke searched around within a radius of several hundred meters, until the sun set in the west, and the forests and secluded streams gradually dimmed, but he still did not find the target.

Looking at the huge and small pebbles, the stream is slow and turbulent, and the big stone valley that is praised as the ancient and modern Range Rover and the resort of the gods is silently in a daze. He was unwilling and didn't believe that his father would play such a treasure hunt joke with him.

Seeing the twilight quietly rising from the forest, the sound of insects chirping around gradually increased, and the occasional bird flew through the dense forest around him fluttering its wings. The sky was still bright, but it was darkening.

Ning Ke's mood became heavier and heavier, he didn't want to give up, and he wasn't afraid. He was not pampered and brought up, many times he had to bear the pressure of life several times that of his peers, and his heart was tough and strong.

My father met my mother when I was 48 years old. At that time, my mother was 38 years old, an old girl, and she was still disabled. She married her father two years later and gave birth to Ning Ke.

Whenever the father hugged Ning Ke out for a walk, people who didn't know thought it was the grandfather holding his grandson.

According to the old lady's uncle, the father and mother are a poor couple who are weak and weak, and a pair of hard-working people.

Ning Ke was naughty when he was a child, once he annoyed his mother, the old lady would say, "My sister gave birth to you at the risk of her life, if you make my sister angry to death, heaven and earth will not tolerate ......"

Ning Ke looked around, but he didn't look for a steep cliff with shrubs and rattans in front of him.

He rested for a moment and made up his mind to look for this place again today.

He took out the rope from his backpack and tied it to a thick tree, throwing it headlong down the steep cliff. Then, with great effort, through the bushes on the edge of the cliff, he slowly slid down the slippery cliff down the rope to the cliff face.

The mist and miasma under the cliff made him unable to see the bottom of the cliff clearly, and the slippery cliff wall made him hang in the air several times.

He slowly stabilized his body and mind, and lightly stepped his feet on the cliff. Several times in the air made him feel the trick, the foot force should be slow, follow the trend, too hard to hold on.

As the descent deepened, the fog beneath him thickened.

Suddenly, there was a fluttering sound, which startled Ning Ke! What caught his eye was a group of black and very large bats flying out, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart, there must be a big cave with so many bats, and he couldn't help but shout, "This is it!"

After waiting for a while, no more bats flew out, and Ning Ke loosened the rope buckle and went down to the platform at the entrance of the hole where the bat flew out.

The platform is about 1 square meter, and several stones are neatly stacked on both sides of the hole, which is the "Stone Thatched Cave" marked on Dad's map!

At this time, the sky was almost dusk, the mountains and forests had become a black shadow, only the clear blue sky still showed some bright light, and a few sparse stars were scattered in the sky either bright or dark.

Ning Ke untied the rope and fastened it to the stone wall.

Then, look around the outside of the cave entrance, and find that the upper edge of the cave is covered with moss, thatched stone wall is about engraved with words, carefully identify it is the official script "Fuhan Dongtian" four words.

Who is "Fu Han"? Ning Ke only knew that Tianmu Mountain was the 34th Cave Heaven of Taoism, but he had never heard of "Fu Han Cave Heaven."

Ning Ke, who had been tossing for a day, was very embarrassed at this time, not only tired, hungry and thirsty, but also had several cuts on his body, his hands and knees were worn out and oozing blood, and the sweat came out and the pickled pain was stinging.

Fortunately, his skin is very good, and the cuts on his body from childhood to adulthood never become inflamed, and he recovers quickly.

At this time, his person looked terrible, but his spirit was still very high, and his face was full of joy and excitement.

He took a flashlight out of his backpack and shone it into the dark hole a few times. The cave was very deep, and he didn't see anything special, so he immediately took out snacks and drinking water, turned his face to the distant mountain, and sat at the entrance of the cave to eat and drink.

The night is getting thicker, and the sky takes on a deep inky blue, especially in the deep mountains.

The clammy and cold breath released from the cave soaked his body, and he felt a slight coldness. The sound of trickling water and the annoying trembling of summer insects in the mountains and forests seemed to be crying to each other's inexplicable grievances.

A sense of loneliness and desolation filled his mind.

Ning Ke thought of his mother, alas, there should be no big problem, he hasn't gone back until now, there must be anxiety.

He once told the grandmother next door that if he didn't come back in time, he would contact his uncle if he had something.

The grandmother next door gets along very well with his family, and sometimes Ning Ke also helps her do what she can, and she is still relieved to take care of her mother for herself.

This time I took such a big risk, and if I could get something, I would hire a nanny to take care of my mother. I still have a lot to do, continue to study and go to university, or go to a courier, or go to a taekwondo gym not far from my home to be a sparring partner?......

Ning Ke rested for a while, tidied up his backpack, took out a flashlight and walked into the cave carefully.

The entrance of the cave is not big, and only people can bend down to enter, but the inside gradually widens, like an irregular hall, and stalagmites, stone pillars, and stalactites can be seen everywhere in the cave...... A crisp sound of running water can be heard in the cave wall on the right, but the ins and outs of the flowing water cannot be found.

Further around a thick stone pillar, the cave wall gradually narrowed, and the cave slowly descended, zigzagging to the end that could not be seen.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was an artificially hewn arched doorway in the wall to the left of the cave hall, and a sword was hanging from the top of the arch.

This discovery made Ning Ke ecstatic!

He rushed towards the doorway, slipped under his feet, instinctively screamed "oops" and fell to the ground.

This fall was very heavy, and he grinned in pain, and golden flowers appeared in front of him.

After a while, he sat up in pain.

He rubbed his aching chin with his right hand, touched the aching elbow of his left hand, and touched his knee like a knife...... He sighed, but suddenly laughed out loud, but his voice was a little gloomy.

He steadied himself and sat on the wet ground to let the pain in his body slowly drift away.

It's dark around, and I don't know where the flashlight has fallen. After a while, he noticed that the inside of the hole was not dark, and there seemed to be a weak light.

Fighting back the pain, he barely stood up and moved to the entrance of the cave. He touched the hanging sword on the door of the stone chamber, and felt that it was jade, and he didn't dare to take it off. He didn't know which book he had read about it, and in some of the houses that provoked sneaky filth, hanging a sword at the door could ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. In this cave deep in the mountains, it is better for this sword not to move.

The hole is almost square in shape, and it is thirty square meters. Everything on the four walls is recognizable, including a cobblestone table, several cobblestone benches, and even a stone bed shelf near the wall of a cave......

He looked up and saw dozens of glowing and soft rays of light, pouring down from the roof of the cave and illuminating the entire stone chamber. He slowly entered the stone chamber, feeling as if his surroundings were getting brighter and brighter.

Ning Ke smiled again, this time comfortably.

When the geography teacher introduced Tianmu Mountain, he once said that there are many mineral deposits in Tianmu Mountain, and fluorite is one of them. Ning Ke had never seen fluorite, but he had heard of the Night Pearl, and the beads glowing on the top of the cave in front of him were undoubtedly the Night Pearl.

All of them are the size of a ping pong ball, and he carefully counted the whole thirty-four!

"Haha......"

Thirty-four pearls of the night!

This is the reason why Tianmu Mountain is called the Thirty-Four Caves?