The two men exited the passage and entered the second passage to the right of the throne. At the end of this passage, the stone door is opened, it is actually a spacious and luxurious stone room, which is carved beams and paintings, bead curtains and jade cases, gold cups and jade cups, full of luxury, almost every daily utensils are worth a lot of money, even the utensils in the Daze Garden, the most magnificent mansion of the Lin family, the largest family in the south of the Yangtze River, on the shore of Poyang Lake, are not as good as here.

Ye Shuying looked around the room, lit the unburned candles on the candlesticks, and said, "Strangely, the stone chambers that the other passages lead to are all closed, but this most spacious palace-like stone room has a wide open door, and there seem to be a lot of utensils in the room. Didn't anyone come here after the death of those people outside? But the contents of the box were gone......

Xiao Shu casually picked up a mutton fat jade bottle, looked at it carefully, and said: "If I remember correctly, Lin Zhiyuan has a mutton fat jade bottle like this, which is said to be an antiquity of the Han Dynasty. ”

Xiao Shu put down the jade net bottle, picked up a celadon vase under the windowsill, looked at the bottom of the bottle, and said with a smile: "The seventh year of Tianbao is a thing from the Tang Dynasty." If you take it out and sell it, you can sell it for a few hundred taels of silver. ”

Ye Shuying also casually picked up a crystal clear jade cup on the table, blew away the dust in the cup, and said: "It seems that the master here has a lot of money, and he is rich enough to rival the country. It's just that even if he is rich and glorious, after a hundred years, he will not be the same as rotten bones, and these things are just empty halls, what is the difference between them and ordinary wood and stone utensils?"

Xiao Shu smiled: "Of course there is a difference, if it is just an ordinary appliance, at least you won't make such an emotion, right?"

Ye Shuying smiled: "That's a good thing to say. ”

The two walked through the beaded curtain around the two rosewood brocade screens and walked into the inner room, but there was an accident again.

Behind the screen sat a ragged man with unkempt hair, his head bowed, his hands tucked into his sleeves, his feet in old black cloth shoes, and two thick rusty iron chains locked at his ankles, the other ends of which were locked to two large stone pillars.

When the two of them saw this, they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts: "How can there be anyone here?"

Ye Shuying cautiously stepped forward and shouted, "Senior......"

The man was motionless, and Xiao Shu said, "There is no food or water in this house, and he is locked here again, but I am afraid that he will already die." ”

Ye Shuying approached cautiously and pulled out the man's hair that covered his face, only to see that behind the messy hair was Bai Sensen's skeleton, which was very scary by candlelight. Ye Shuying was startled, hurriedly retreated, and said, "It turned out to be a dry bone, but I don't know why he is trapped here." ”

Xiao Shu stepped forward, tore off a piece of the corner of his clothes on the bones, twisted it, and said, "This person and those people outside did not die at the same time. The clothes on the bones outside had all turned to dust, and the clothes on this man's body, although rotten, were still intact, and he should have been dead for less than twenty years. I just don't know who trapped him here. ”

Ye Shuying said: "I'm afraid this is only known to the person who imprisoned him here. Let's go, look elsewhere. ”

Xiao Shu said: "I've seen all the passages, what else are you looking for?"

Ye Shuying said: "Of course, it is the most important place. Don't you think there's something missing here?"

Xiao Shu said: "Entrance!"

Ye Shuying said: "Yes, there is everything here, but the entrance is missing." The contents of this room were not brought in from the passage through which we entered.

Ye Shuying and Xiao Shu came out of the luxurious stone room, stood in front of the throne, looked at the dry bones on the throne, and then looked at the boulder facing the dry bones, thinking that the entrance was most likely behind the boulder.

The two of them walked to the boulder again, looked at it carefully, and found nothing unusual near the boulder, and there was no mechanism, so they looked at each other, and at the same time drew their swords and plunged into the rock. The two swords stabbed straight in, and the sword body was only halfway in, and then they paused, and the two of them luckily pushed forward to miss the hilt. The rock was very hard and thick, and there was no sense of emptiness inside, so even if there was really a way out from behind, it was difficult to get out.

At this time, Ye Shuying was hungry and cooed, so he drew his sword and withdrew it into the sheath and asked Xiao Shu, "What time is it?"

Xiao Shu said: "It was already dawn when I came down, and now it should be the middle of the day." ”

Ye Shuying said: "That's it, let's go out first, and then have the opportunity to explore later." ”

The two of them left the mysterious cave and came out of the water, only to see that the original torches had been burned out and extinguished.

Ye Shuying relied on his memory to find the fire fold left under the torch, and lit a candle brought out of the warehouse in the cave. After the two wrung out the water on their clothes, they sat cross-legged and exercised, only to see the steaming white gas rise, and after a while, the clothes dried.

The two glanced at each other, Ye Shuying took the candle, and returned the same way with Xiao Shu, without any further delay along the way, and only arrived at the stone where the "Last Words" carved by the "Scholar Sword" Lu Yan about an hour later.

Ye Shuying saw those twelve words again, and couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect a generation of famous swords to fall here, and even the bones were not left." ”

Xiao Shu said: "That's not necessarily. How do you know that he must be dead, and that there are no bones left, and that if I can come down to you, won't anyone come down to look for him?"

Ye Shuying thought for a while, suddenly smiled, and said, "Yes, maybe he didn't die at all." On the day of the Nanjing City Peony Flower Festival, the 'Little Divine Dragon' Yang Ming originally wanted to kill Zhang Xuan to avenge the 'Scholar Sword', but later failed because of a woman. But at that time, his master Yun Piao was also there, in fact, it was not difficult to deal with those brocade guards and kill Zhang Xuan, but their master and apprentice actually let Zhang Xuan go. I couldn't understand why they let Zhang Xuan go, but now it seems that there is only one explanation, that is, the 'Scholar Sword' is not dead at all. ”

Ye Shuying said as she held the candle high, shone it above her head, didn't see the rope, and said, "Didn't you say that the rope came down?"

Xiao Shu smiled: "On it." The rope is not long enough, I'm afraid there are still eight or nine zhang away from here, I'll carry you. ”

Ye Shuying said: "Are you sure?"

Xiao Shu nodded, pulled out the sword he had just obtained, slightly bowed his waist, toes to the ground, dantian lifted his breath, and jumped up to the ground "poof" to be more than two zhang high, until the rise was at the end, when he was about to fall, his wrist shook lightly, cut a hole in the stone wall, and then fell back to the original place. He jumped up a second time, and when he reached the end of his ascent, he stepped on the small hole that had just been cut out, and then he jumped up with all his strength, and jumped up nearly two feet high, and then cut a hole in the stone wall in the other direction according to the previous method. After repeating this several times, he cut five or six holes before returning to Ye Shuying's side, carrying him on his back, jumping upwards according to the previous method, stepping on the edge of the small hole that had been chopped out, and then jumping up with his strength, it was like jumping on a branch, and he quickly grasped the lower end of the rope. At this point, it is much easier to climb upwards.

After a while, the two of them were close to the entrance of the cave, and they could perceive the light shining from the entrance of the cave into the cave, and they could faintly see the blue sky outside the cave when they looked up.

Xiao Shu climbed up four or five zhang further, and seeing that the distance from the cave was less than one zhang, Ye Shuying suddenly said, "Wait, listen." ”

Xiao Shu twisted the rope to his arm, and stopped with his feet against the stone wall for the time being, only to hear a whimpering sound from outside the bottomless pit, like crying, it sounded very desolate. Ye Shuying remembered that Shen Yuhong had a hole flute on her body when she left Qiyun Peak, and her heart was happy and moved, and she said, "It must be Hong'er, she didn't leave." He was excited, so he left Xiao Shu's back, and he pulled the rope and jumped out of the cave first.

Ye Shuying came out of the bottomless pit, and only then did he stand firm, and the sound of the flute also stopped abruptly.

When Ye Shuying saw the person who was playing the flute, she couldn't help but be taken aback again. That flute is Shen Yuhong's cave flute, but the person who blows the flute is not Shen Yuhong, and he is idle.

How could Zhuang Xian appear here!

There was also an unkempt, blood-stained woman kneeling beside Zhuang Xian...... But it's Li Shuhua!

Ye Shuying was about to ask what was going on with them, Xiao Shu had already jumped out of the bottomless pit, and when he saw that it was a strange man, he drew his sword and stabbed it, using the first move of one move and two styles on the boulder in the cave.

Ye Shuying shouted: "Xiao Shu, stop it! he is not an enemy......" Before the words fell, he quickly rushed out, but it seemed that he was still a step too late, seeing Xiao Shu's sword stabbing Zhuang Xian's throat, and Zhuang Xian actually stood still, as if unconscious.

Xiao Shu's sword suddenly stopped in front of Zhuang Xian's throat, and suddenly stopped when the tip of the sword was less than two minutes away from his throat.

Ye Shuying breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, only to realize that she was so nervous for Zhuang Xian, was it really because he had saved Shen Yuhong? Ye Shuying didn't understand this inexplicable reason, but suddenly heard a soft sound of "dang", Xiao Shu's sword actually fell to the ground, his left hand clenched his right wrist, his right palm was purple and black, and his face showed a painful look.

Ye Shuying walked quickly to his side, he was surprised when he saw this, and suspected that Zhuang Xian had poisoned him, but thinking back on the situation just now, he couldn't think of how Zhuang Xian poisoned him. He only looked at Zhuang Xian suspiciously and said, "Mr. Zhuang......"

Zhuang Xian sneered and said, "It's really interesting, a Ye Shuying fell into the bottomless pit, not only did he die, but he also became two people." It's funny. As he spoke, he took out a vial from his arms, poured out a black pill, threw it to Ye Shuying, and said, "For the sake of him stopping in time, this is the antidote." It is indeed not easy to practice swordsmanship to send and receive freely, it seems that the two of you not only look the same, but also have the same martial arts. ”

It turns out that all martial arts practice, whether it is internal strength or moves, the most rare thing is to do what you want, send and receive freely.

Ye Shuying caught the antidote and said, "Thank you." Then he put it into Xiao Shu's mouth, and asked: "I don't know the hole flute in Mr. Zhuang's hand......"

Zhuang Xian rotated the hole flute in his hand and said, "Oh, this was picked up by the mouth of the bottomless pit, could it be yours?"

Ye Shuying said: "No, this is Hong'er's." I wonder if you saw her?"

Zhuang Xian said: "It's a pity that Zhuang didn't see her when he came, but he just saw this girl crying here. ”

Ye Shuying only felt a sense of loss, looked back at the bottomless pit, and found that there was a roast chicken next to the entrance of the cave, as well as a bottle of wine, and a few incense sticks and candles were lit next to it, and said in her heart: "Could these have been prepared by Hong'er?" She thought I was dead, so she left......

Seeing that Li Shuhua had already stood up, her face was haggard and embarrassed, and when she saw two young people who looked exactly the same, she was surprised, wiped away her tears, and said, "You guys...... How can you look exactly the same, ......?"

After Xiao Shu took the antidote, the poison on his hands quickly faded, and he also saw the sacrifices next to the bottomless pit, and asked, "These sacrifices, could it be Miss Li, you ......?"

Li Shuhua shook her head and said, "It's not me, it's this gentleman who brought it." ”

Zhuang Xian's expression seemed a little unnatural, he only sneered and said, "Zhuang is sacrificing a sword, not a person." Since the Yintai Sword was still there, Zhuang took his leave. This one is up to you. After speaking, he threw the hole flute to Ye Shuying, turned around and was about to float away.

Ye Shuying took the dong flute, hurriedly chased after it, and said, "Mr. Zhuang stays, I have something to ask." ”