Chapter Seventy-Four: The Bottom of Fuqin Lake
() The Tianyun Sect has never been so lively, and the seven major sects plus three people from each sect on the side of the loose cultivators are a total of twenty-four masters above the Mahayana stage.
"Huoyun Cave is at the bottom of Fuqin Lake" is Lu Hailong's speculation, and he is the highest cultivator among everyone, so everyone unanimously agreed to let him arrange a plan to find Huoyun Cave.
Lu Hailong stood at the head of the long table, on which was spread out a map of Fuqin Lake. He said aloud: "Ladies and gentlemen, the water temperature in the depths of Fuqin Lake is extremely high, like boiling water, so I suggest that twenty-four of us and others dive to the bottom of the lake to find the Fire Cloud Cave. For the sake of fairness, the three people in the same group must come from different sects, and each group must bring a copy of the map, at that time, be sure to carefully compare the landforms at the bottom of the lake, and the one who finds it first will notify the rest of the groups with the spirit breath jade, and then enter the Huoyun Cave together after everyone gathers, how about it?"
There is no objection to this, and it is indeed the fairest grouping.
Then, Lu Hailong drew a few lines on the map, roughly dividing Fuqin Lake into eight pieces and assigning them to each group. After the discussion, everyone couldn't wait to go to the lake and jump into the water and start searching.
The group with Lu Hailong was Shangguan Piao from the Yeli Sect and Shu Guangwen from the Ethereal Sect. The three of them swam straight into the lake. At first, the turquoise waters of Fuqin Lake were as comfortable as hot springs. As you dive deeper and deeper, the water gets hotter. In order to find the entrance to the Fire Cloud Cave, you must open your eyes in the water, so your eyes will inevitably be burned by the lake water. The three of them were all full of energy, and their bodies were protected from the extremely high water temperature. However, this only protects the skin from burns, but it does not completely eliminate the heat transferred by the lake water. Shangguan Piao is a white-faced man, and now his face is red as if he was drunk. Shu Guangwen is a middle-aged man with a beard over his chest and kind eyebrows, but he didn't expect that after entering the water, his long beard kept fluttering upward along the hot water, blocking his vision, and he simply cut off his long beard with a sword.
No one knows exactly how deep Fuqin Lake is. Lu Hailong was swimming while silently estimating the depth. In the place below the water, the lake water almost reached the temperature of boiling water, and then with the light of the fairy sword, it could be seen that the water color had turned gray-white, seriously obstructing the field of vision, and everyone's visual range was only a few feet around. After about three miles of diving, Lu Hailong's hand touched the mud and sand. The three of them began to carefully probe every place of mud and sand around them with the light of the fairy sword, and they also stomped on their feet, for fear of missing a small pothole.
The people at the bottom of the lake are busy, and Ye Shenrong in the room is not idle. He was sitting upright on the bed, dividing his mind into three, controlling the three masters of the Tianyun Sect at the bottom of the lake, led by Shen Tu Xu. Since Shen Tuxu and their minds had the soul imprint left by Ye Shenrong, no matter how far away they were, as long as they had a thought, they could easily command the three of them to do anything. Such long-distance control also avoids the suffering of boiling water at the bottom of the lake.
Suddenly, Ye Shenrong opened his eyes, his face was happy, Shen Tuxu's Spirit Breath Jade had already received a message from Yi Liuchen: "Found the Fire Cloud Cave." He immediately controlled the three of them to rush to Yi Liuchen's direction.
Above the water, a pink figure suddenly appeared, it was the "jade-faced flying fox" Zhao Chanyu.
"Hehe, Miss Zhao, don't come unharmed. Almost at the same time, a few feet away from Zhao Chanyu, a shriveled old man flashed. The strange thing is that this person is not a sword, but a "crutch".
"It turned out to be Brother Bao, what kind of wind blew you here?" Zhao Chanyu said with a smile.
"Oh, you know why I'm here. It just so happens that I haven't used my 'buddy' for many years, it's time to come out and meet an old friend!" As he spoke, Bao Shihan paused his right foot, and the crutch under his foot suddenly cracked in half, revealing a green light fairy sword. It turned out that he had been wrapping the fairy sword in a cane.
Suddenly, two figures flew past the two of them, heading straight for the lake.
"It's 'Mandarin Duck'!" Bao Shihan shouted loudly and immediately chased after him.
Zhao Chanyu sneered, and his body turned into a phantom, although he moved later than Bao Shihan, he touched the water almost at the same time as him.
The way several people entered the water was also quite interesting, Yuan Qitian and Yang Zhiyuan and his wife each withdrew the fairy sword under their feet at the moment they touched the water surface, and raised their hands together, the red and white sword lights flashed, and the lake was split into two deep ditches, and the two took advantage of the situation to drill in. Bao Shihan slapped his palm when he was close to the water, and with a "bang" sound, a large crater was knocked out of the water surface, and the waves that flew up were several feet high. In stark contrast to this, Zhao Chanyu's way of entering the water, her graceful figure is like a flower swaying in the breeze, and when she twists slightly, she melts into the waves and disappears.
After the four of them entered the water, several more figures entered the lake one after another. The surface of the lake is gradually calming, and the deep bottom of the lake is about to usher in a turbulence full of masters.
At a distance of three miles, Yuan Qitian and the other four people were about to arrive. Yi Liuchen and the others were looking at the few uninvited guests who suddenly appeared in surprise. Behind Yi Liuchen was a boulder about three zhang high. Anyone who has seen the copy knows that this is the sign of the entrance to the Huoyun Cave! But where is the entrance? The area around the boulder is empty.
Under the boulder! Bao Shihan reacted instantly, and slashed at the boulder with a sword. There was a lot of underwater resistance, but he didn't care, and the seemingly random slash reached at least seventy percent of his strength, and where his arm and sword crossed, there was a piercing "whoosh" sound, which was the sound of breaking the water!
There was a muffled "bang", and the fairy sword was actually bounced away! Bao Shihan didn't see the expected spectacular scene of the boulder shattering into slag, not yet
When he came back to his senses, the force of the shock was like someone slamming a palm on his chest. Bao Shihan snorted, flew away upside down, and retreated more than ten zhang before gradually stopping. Blood kept spilling from his mouth. His stomach tumbled, in addition to the shock of his body, the blood surged, and he accidentally swallowed a mouthful of boiling water when he was snorting just now, although it would not burn, but the taste was not pleasant.
What is going on? Zhao Chanyu and the others, who also wanted to make a move, stopped moving.
"Hahaha, old man Bao, who made you anxious, suffer a loss!" Suddenly, a joking voice sounded in the hearts of several people, and a man dressed in black slowly fell to the bottom of the lake. He had a wide face, small eyes, and a sleek look, but a muscular build. The sentence just now was said in spiritism, and this man was undoubtedly a master of the Tribulation Period.
"Hmph, Bei Yuankai, you don't want to laugh at me. The Fire Cloud Cave is just under the boulder, I don't believe you're not in a hurry!" Bao Shihan also used spiritism to transmit the sound between several Tribulation masters.
"Hey, hey, hey......" The black-clothed man called "Bei Yuankai" laughed a few times, and his expression was very cunning.
"'Thousand Hand Thief Saint' Bei Yuankai, I knew you would definitely come today. Another person fell at the bottom of the lake, it was Xue Yuelin, the "Queen Mother of the West Moon".
"That's natural, when did the treasure hunt get less of me? But you're too petty, and you've never been willing to show me the hidden sword diagram, so I can only secretly follow. I only found out when I came, tsk, it turns out that you are so unfair, why do Zhao Chanyu and Bao Shihan have copies of the map?"
"A few of them copied the Tibetan sword diagram before I arrived. Let me ask you, what about Bei Yuanshu?" Xue Yuelin asked.
"He's dead, wounded, sick, stupid, how do I know?" Bei Yuankai was extremely contemptuous.
Suddenly, another figure appeared in the distance. "The dog can't spit out ivory ......from his mouth" The person who came was dressed in white, and his appearance was nine points similar to Bei Yuankai, but there was a little less obscenity and more righteousness. This person is Pei Yuankai's younger brother "Shadowless Thief God" Bei Yuanshu.
Pei Yuankai and Bei Yuanguan are a pair of well-known loose brothers many years ago. The two were quite talented in cultivating immortals, but at first they worshipped a thief as a teacher. That thief is not an immortal cultivator, not even an ordinary martial artist, just a thief. But the brothers followed him with all their hearts and learned his thieving skills. This has to do with the misery of their childhood.
The two brothers were orphans, originally surnamed Jia, their mother died in childbirth, and their father died of illness when they were one year old. When the two were ten years old, a plague broke out in the village, and in just a few months, nearly seventy percent of the people in the village died, and those who survived fled to distant places. The two brothers were lucky not to catch the plague and begged for a living. At the age of ten, when the body was growing, how could the little food they begged fill their stomachs? Finally, one day, the two of them fainted on the side of the road hungry. At this time, a thief happened to pass by, looked at the two dying children, couldn't help but feel compassion, and bought some food to wake up the two. Later, the brothers followed the thief to wander around, going south and north. The two simply recognized the thief as their father-in-law and learned to steal. The thief loves money, the rich man, and Bei Ye, so he changed the surname of Jia to the surname of Bei.
Two years later, the thief suddenly fell ill and died, and the two brothers cried and buried their father-in-law. It happened that a casual cultivator passed by, and felt the filial piety of the two of them, so he accepted him as an apprentice and began his career of cultivating immortals. After receiving these two brothers, the loose cultivator can be described as happy and sad. The good news is that the two brothers are quite talented, intelligent, and the speed of cultivating immortals is amazingly fast. Sadly, both of them have developed the habit of stealing and have been taught repeatedly. Because of this, the scattered cultivators were depressed for a long time, which affected their cultivation of immortals, and as a result, they failed to survive the tribulation before the limit, and finally died of depression.
Since then, in order to cultivate, the two brothers often steal sword books and pills from other sects for their own use. There is only one difference between the two, after stealing the sword book of another sect, Bei Yuankai will secretly return it after the meeting, and Bei Yuankai will burn it. As a result, the two gradually disagreed, Bei Yuankai stole everything for his own enjoyment, while Bei Yuankai would help the poor people. As time went on, the two became more and more incompatible, and finally fell out, and the brotherhood was cut off.
The time for the two to ascend to the Mahayana realm is almost the same. Because of their outstanding stealing skills, they were nicknamed "Thousand Hands Thief Saint" and "Shadowless Thief God".
Bei Yuan closed his mouth and said: "Sister Xue, since everyone has a copy map, why do you have to embarrass me?" It seems that he has also tried his best to hide the sword map and Xue Yuelin.
Xue Yuelin sneered: "What's the difference if there is a hidden sword diagram or not?
Bei Yuanguan also smiled: "Sister Xue, don't blame me......" As he spoke, he actually pulled out a white silk from his arms.
Xue Yuelin was shocked, and hurriedly checked his piece of Nandou six-star silk, which was clearly still there. The question arises from this, "Bei Yuanshu, what is your piece of white silk?"
"Hehe, don't blame me, this piece of white silk is the Tibetan sword diagram. I've finished copying, and now it's back to its rightful owner. Bei Yuanshu handed the white silk to Xue Yuelin.
Xue Yuelin hurriedly took the white silk and compared it with his own, and felt the difference. Although the two pieces of white silk are very similar, they have a slightly different touch. Bei Yuanguan will return the stolen things when they are used up, which means that he is a fake, and he doesn't know when the real thing was replaced by him.
"When did you adjust the bag?" Xue Yuelin asked.
"Just yesterday when I asked you to borrow the sword map, hehe. Bei Yuan closed triumphantly.
"Impossible! I kept trying to leave yesterday, how can you change it to a fake one?" Xue Yuelin was surprised.
"Don't say it, don't say it. Sister Xue, I just want to copy a copy. You won't borrow it, so I'll have to make this decision. ”
Bei Yuankai was very disdainful of this: "If you steal, you steal, what reason do you find!"
Bei Yuan glanced at his brother and said, "Don't say much, 'thieves also have a way'." ”
In Ye Shenrong's room of the Tianyun Sect, Ye Shenrong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Bei Yuankai and Bei Yuanguan once came to visit Xue Yuelin successively, all for the sake of hiding the sword diagram. After that, he found the opportunity to give Xue Yuelin a dream soul incense and successfully controlled her, but he didn't expect that Bei Yuanshu had already replaced Bai Juan. Since Xue Yuelin was already in the Tribulation Realm, Ye Shenrong could naturally control her to perform psychic techniques.
Facing the mysterious master who suddenly appeared, Yi Liuchen and the others were dumbfounded. The masters of the Tribulation Period communicate with spiritism, and the people of the Mahayana Period can't hear it, and they don't know what to do now.
"There's no drama now, it's none of our business, let's all go up. Lu Hailong's voice suddenly sounded in the hearts of the Mahayana stage cultivators. Everyone was amazed, it turned out that spiritism was still not lost!
Seeing the puzzled eyes of everyone looking at him, Lu Hailong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "These are all masters of the Tribulation Realm. I didn't expect the attraction of the Zhanlu Immortal Sword to be so great, and it attracted all the masters of the Tribulation Realm, and with them, we had no chance to obtain the Zhanlu Immortal Sword. ”
Lu Hailong took the lead in going upstream, and the others also floated one after another. Although unwilling, there is nothing to be done. Who knows what kind of temper those people who cross the realm of tribulation, and if they stay at the bottom of the lake and provoke any of them, they will definitely have no good fruit to eat.
At the bottom of the lake, Bao Shihan said: "Without further ado, let's think about how to move this boulder first!"
"There's something quirky about this stone. Bei Yuankai stepped forward and lightly touched the boulder.
"Nonsense!" Bei Yuan closed his mouth, "Who doesn't know that there are weirdness? Biyou Sword Immortal is also really, they have found a place and don't let people enter the cave happily." ”
"With the strength of a few of us, can we push it away?" Zhao Chanyu proposed.
"Then try it. Xue Yuelin said.
Pei Yuankai suddenly laughed: "Don't worry. ”
"What's wrong with you?" Bao Shihan said dissatisfiedly. Among all the people present, he was the most eager to seek the sword.
"Isn't it time to come out, it's time to contribute!" Bei Yuanshu also smiled.
"Hahaha...... It is worthy of being called 'thief saint' and 'thief god', this keen insight, admire!" A burst of laughter sounded in the hearts of everyone, and a few more people appeared not far away.
"'Flying Peng' Bai Tianheng, 'Thunder Flash' Meng Fantao, 'Bone Soft' Huangfu Yu, 'Bibo Fairy' Helian Xin. Okay, okay, it's getting more and more lively!" Pei Yuan laughed.
"We came a little late, but fortunately we caught up, haha!" "Feipeng outside the sky" Bai Heng is a master of cultivating immortals who has a long reputation for "Feipeng Swordsmanship". He was born in the Night Sect, and in his early years, he lost his right arm in a fierce fight with Du Chengpo, the "Flame Madness" of the Red Sun Sect. Bai Heng, who had only one arm left, was not depressed, and continued to practice Feipeng swordsmanship with his left arm. His perseverance is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Looking at its appearance, it is angular, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a stubble around his mouth, showing the color of fortitude. One hair was floating in the water, with a dark complexion and a sturdy body, except for the empty right arm, which was slightly inconsistent.
Meng Fantao was a thin man, with a long scar on the left side of his face, a pair of eagle eyes extremely sharp, and his voice was hoarse and cold: "Everyone, I haven't seen you for a long time." "He's made famous for his lightning-fast body.
"So it's a pleasure to see you all who still haven't crossed the catastrophe. A soft voice rang out. Huangfu Yu, who was born in the Taiqing Sect, was dressed in purple clothes, with a beautiful face that was out of the ordinary, and under the curved willow eyebrows, there was a pair of starry eyes that seemed to be able to speak. Speaking of the title of "Turning Bones into Softness", it is related to the swordsmanship practiced by Huangfu Yu. She has a sweet appearance and a gentle personality. When performing swordsmanship, it is like a clear spring, and the movements are elegant and comfortable, which is very different from Zhao Chanyu's charm.
The cold woman in blue beside Huangfu Yu was Helian Xin, who was also from the Taiqing Sect. She and Huangfuyu are sisters and are always inseparable. Her appearance is no worse than Huangfu Yu, but it is too cold, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world. She has a big hobby, which is to play the piano, and only when she plays the piano will she smile and her face will become tender and watery. Coincidentally, Huangfuyu prefers drumming, and the two of them are in their spare time, and the piano is harmonious, like the sound of nature.
"In that case, let's work together. Bao Shihan said.
Zhao Chanyu, Bao Shihan, Yuan Qitian, Yang Zhiyuan, Xue Yuelin, Bei Yuankai, Bei Yuanguan, Bai Tianheng, Meng Fantao, Huang Fuyu, Helianxin, a total of eleven masters of the Tribulation Period, gathered in front of the boulder, and pushed it in one direction together, but after counting the breath, the boulder still did not move.
"What's the matter? There are so many of us, we can't even push a big stone?" Meng Fantao was shocked.
"Biyou Sword Immortal must not be so boring, let's play the game of pushing stones. I think there must be a mechanism here. "Yuan Qi Tiandao.
"Think about it, my brain is not working. Bei Yuan took a few steps away, sat on the ground, and began to meditate.
Bao Shihan circled around the boulder, tapping the boulder inch by inch with his knuckles, looking for possible mechanisms. Zhao Chanyu, Huangfu Yu and Helian Xin walked aside and chatted. Xue Yuelin was controlled by Ye Shenrong, and he didn't dare to talk to others, so he also sat on the ground and pretended to meditate. The rest of the people gathered together and wrote and drew on the mud at the bottom of the lake against the Tibetan sword drawing.
How do you get into the mysterious Fire Cloud Cave?