Chapter 4: Mysterious Crystals

I don't know how long it took, but Lu Zhan felt as if there was light and shadow floating in front of him.

He slowly opened his eyes, and saw that he was standing in a dimly lit place, with ethereal clouds floating at his feet, and above his head, a huge dome of stalactites, which shone like stars embedded in the night sky.

In front of him, there was a wide stone wall, and on top of the stone wall, it was actually filled with words shining with golden light.

"Strange, where am I?" Lu Zhan looked around in surprise, only to feel that he was standing in a huge stone cave, "Could this be the rumored place where the souls of people return after death?" Could it be ...... Am I really dead?"

As soon as he thought of the terrible situation in the dantian just now, he shivered, maybe he had been tortured to death by the scorching abnormal breath in the dantian just now.

So far, this explanation is clearly very much in line with my own environment.

When he walked to the huge stone wall, he expected to see a boundary sign marked "Yellow Spring" or "Netherworld", but the stone wall was densely covered with incomprehensible golden seal characters.

"What kind of words are these, are they used in hell?" Lu Zhan muttered in his heart, reaching out to touch the golden words on the stone wall.

However, when his fingers touched the words that were recessed into the wall, he suddenly felt his fingers numb, and a feeling of electric shock immediately spread from the palm of his hand all over his body, making his body tremble involuntarily.

Lu Zhan was so frightened that he wanted to retract his hand, but there was a powerful suction force on the stone wall that tightly adhered to his palm, and then, the feeling like an electric shock became stronger and stronger, and a huge amount of energy that made people palpitate poured into his body like a mountain of mountains.

The boy's body trembled violently, and he felt that his limbs and bones were about to explode with the force of this landslide.

This state of affairs lasted for half a pillar of incense, until he was exhausted, and he felt that the muscles and bones of his body had been completely dismantled by the mysterious force, and his soul was about to come out, when the suction on the stone wall suddenly turned into a huge wave of thrust, pushing his body away from the stone wall and flying into the vast clouds behind him.

Lu Zhan felt his body pass through the overlapping clouds and mist, and fell straight towards the bottomless abyss below, and it was only at this time that he cried out in horror:

"Ahh

The boy screamed and opened his eyes, only to realize that he had had had a strange dream! He felt cold all over his body, and when he touched it with his hand, he was actually soaked with sweat.

"Hey, I didn't die!"

He exhaled a few deep breaths of turbid air, calming his pounding heart.

When I closed my eyes and wanted to recall the dream just now, I found that I couldn't remember anything, what I saw and experienced in the dream, I couldn't recall it at all, as if the dream had drifted away without a trace, and I had never done it at all.

His eyes widened as he surveyed his surroundings.

It looked like a naturally formed underground cave, surrounded by steep stone walls, although the stone walls were uneven, but he had no martial arts, and his abdomen was seriously injured, and it was obviously wishful thinking to climb the high stone wall.

Look at the entrance of the cave again, about 50 zhang away from yourself. There were two thick vines hanging from a high place, hanging about five zhang above his head, and Lu Zhan estimated that if he grabbed that vine, he would have a chance to climb out of the hole.

"It's a pity!"

He sighed dejectedly, not to mention that he was injured at the moment, even if he was unharmed, he couldn't jump five feet high and grab that section of vine and climb up.

Lu Zhan wanted to lie on the ground all the time, so he bent his knees, trying to make his weak body stand up, but when his knees collapsed, his entire body actually jumped up, and it was several feet high from the ground.

"Oh no, my injury!" he expected that this would be a miserable landing, and the big wound in his abdomen would be pulled to the death!

I didn't know that until his feet were on the ground, there was no pain in his abdomen, and not only that, but there was also a residual strength in his knees, and he seemed to have some urge to jump up.

"Hey—that's weird!"

Lu Zhan looked at his abdomen in surprise, but saw that the coagulation of the wound on his abdomen had been washed away by the sweat, and the wound that was originally shocking had actually grown new flesh buds.

"Wow, this recovery speed is simply amazing!" Lu Zhan wiped the blood from the wound in disbelief, and then looked at it carefully, and sure enough, the wound had completely closed. Not only that, but the scratches on his body were all restored unconsciously.

"Ha, what's the reason for this?" he raised his palm and turned around twice, a little puzzled: "Is this just chance? Could this cave be a miracle in ancient legends?"

"And my bounce power......" Lu Zhan bent his knees and kicked his legs again, this time he had enough strength to jump up, only to see his body fly upwards like a cannon in the sky, flying more than three feet high, before falling back to the ground.

"Wait, I'm not dreaming too!" Lu Zhan bounced three more times in a row, and each time he could jump to the same height, only then did he determine that he was not dreaming, everything was happening in reality.

Lu Zhan, who was pleasantly surprised, thought of the problem of going out again.

He tilted his head to observe the entrance of the cave, and his eyes fell on the two vines that hung in mid-air, and the vines were about five feet away from where he stood, and he certainly couldn't catch them with a single jump.

But if you jump again when you take advantage of your strength, then you can't say that you will have a chance.

Following this line of thought, Lu Zhan observed the stone wall under the vines again, and soon, he found that on the stone wall about three zhang high from the ground, there was a rock protruding from the wall.

"yes, if I jump on that convex rock and leap up one more time, I should be able to catch the vine. ”

This young man is resolute, he will do what he says, and he has no scruples that once he makes a mistake in his calculation, he will fall down and suffer pain.

He walked under the convex rock, calculated the angle, took two steps back, then charged, lunged forward, bent his knees, kicked his legs, and leaped up!

The shape of the grasshopper bounced onto the convex rock.

Then he jumped up again and grabbed the vine with ease. Eventually, he climbed up as fast as an ape.

At a distance of more than fifty zhang, he didn't even have a rest and stop, and it only took a cup of tea to climb out of the hole.

Lu Zhan sat at the mouth of the crypt and let out a long roar, although he was only in the cave for a short day, he felt like a world away, when he fell, he was just a powerless child, and when he climbed out, his physique underwent an incredible change.

"Coo", it is the stomach that is screaming.

Lu Zhan was already hungry, and after the toss in the cave, he felt even more hungry at the moment. He laughed at himself and thought to himself that if there was really going to be some kind of poisonous snake and beast jumping out at this time, then he would bite them with his mouth open, and in his current state of hunger, it was really difficult to say who would bite and kill whom.

The absurd thought had just taken shape in his mind, when he heard the sound of blades of grass in the jungle not far ahead.

The young man's senses were surprisingly sharp at the moment, and he could clearly hear the subtle movements of birds combing their feathers on the branches of the trees a few feet away.

I only listened to the sound of the blades of grass slapping back and forth, and leaned towards me.

Lu Zhan felt that something was wrong, and there was clearly a very dangerous aura in his voice.

He hurriedly touched the back of his back, trying to take out the short knife for self-defense from his backpack, but his back was empty, and he remembered that the backpack had fallen into the hole just now.

Oops!

His eyes eagerly roamed around for a stick or something. However, there were many trees around, but there was not a single stick ready-made.

However, there are a lot of stones.

In Lu Zhan's thinking, he didn't think that the stone was a good weapon, that thing was too primitive, the big stone might not be able to move itself, and the lethality of the small stone was not strong.

He thought that he might as well use his current excellent bounce power to climb up the tree, and maybe he could avoid the big guy coming from the other side.

Just as he was about to jump up at a large tree, he heard a chaotic sound in the grass in front of him, and a beast with colorful fur came out.

-- It turned out to be a sturdy leopard!

"Such a big guy!" Lu Zhan chuckled in his heart, and stood in place, his mind was so empty that he even forgot to run away for a while!

The leopard's eyes flashed green, and as soon as it came out of the grass, it flew like lightning and pounced on the prey opposite.

Lu Zhan was too late to escape, so in his eagerness he picked up a stone on the ground.

At this time, the golden leopard had already pounced in front of him, only to see it leap up, open its bloody mouth, its sharp fangs flashing white light, and bite straight into the young man's throat.

In the moment of life and death, Lu Zhan recovered from the shock, he kicked hard with both feet, his body slanted back more than a foot away, and when he landed, he stumbled and sat on the ground.

The leopard swooped down, roared with its neck up, and pounced again to chase after its prey.

At this time, Lu Zhan had already come to his senses, and when he saw the leopard rolling towards him like a storm, he didn't think about it, picked up the stone in his hand, and threw it at the leopard's head with all his might.

The stone tore through the air and drew a straight line in the air, hitting the leopard's head.

The leopard, which was flying forward, flew backwards backwards, interspersed with the sound of broken bones and the howl of the leopard.

A handful of red blood mixed with brains splashed wildly, and the scene was very bloody and terrifying.

When the leopard hit the ground, it fluttered twice with its four paws, and then fell silent.

Lu Zhan stared at the leopard with wide eyes, and his heart was full of suspicions: "Why didn't that guy move? Is he dead? Won't he?"

He looked at his hands in disbelief, this was the first time he had killed a living creature in a serious way, and it was such a powerful beast, it wouldn't just throw a stone like this, would it?

But the leopard did stand motionless on the ground and never got up again.

Lu Zhan cautiously approached the leopard, only to see that the stone was firmly embedded above the bridge of the leopard's nose, most of the stone had been embedded deep in the bones, one eye was squeezed out of the socket, and the brain and blood were gurgling down.