Chapter 10: The Ladder

"Flying to the sky and the ground: the tendons are ropes, soft as reeds. Refined iron is claw, solid as a rock. Considering the needs of low-level cultivation for monks and the use of special environments, this product has both spiritual power control and mechanism control dual modes, which can be used without spiritual power, and the effect is particularly outstanding in the mountain and forest environment!

"Yinhui Xiangyun: With two grades of water and cloud essence as the main material, and hundreds of precious raw materials are added, the refining master refines it with yang fire, and it is completed after 9981 days. Enter a small amount of spiritual power, sit on the auspicious clouds, burn incense and blow Xiao, set up a formation in the wind, and pretend to be invisible...... Yinhui Xiangyun can carry four people at the same time, and the promotion period comes with a pearl, what are you hesitating about?

"Red Bat Wing: Are you worried about not having a flying sword? Do you want to experience the thrill of soaring in the sky? Red Bat Wing can perfectly solve your problem! It is simple to use, easy to control, good performance in the air, with a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour, with a [warm] charm, so that you can fly at high altitude as if you are in a greenhouse. Produced by famous teachers, quality assurance!"

These magic weapons were expensive, and Tang Chen couldn't afford to buy them, so he could only covet them.

In fact, all he can use is the Flying Hook, as for the silver glow auspicious clouds and red bat wings, they are magic weapons that can only be played by monks in the foundation building period, and Tang Chen's cultivation is still far behind.

Under the valley, the young man who silently looked up at the mountain peak looked extremely small.

The boy's fists clenched, and the loss and frustration swept away from his face.

The confused eyes gradually returned to clarity, and the thick eyebrows were as straight as knives.

The young man murmured: "One in a thousand chance, brother bet!"

Tom lay on the ground basking in the sun, his little head held high, and from time to time he opened his mouth to yawn, revealing two pairs of pointed canine teeth. Little Tom screamed a few times, trying to get Tang Chen's attention, but the latter was so busy that he turned his head to look at it at most, and when he saw that there was nothing to do, he continued to work hard.

Bored little Tom, he had to find a show to pass the time by himself.

Before Tang Chen fell into the valley, it had been living alone, without any companions, and needed to pass a lot of time every day, and the cat had a lot of experience in how to have fun. The beautiful blue tail swept around the ground, and little Tom suddenly stretched out his front paws, trying to grab his own tail, and the paws were not the same as the tail. Tom got up and continued to catch his prey relentlessly, the position of his tail changing as he moved, and no matter how quickly it started, it was always difficult to completely capture his own tail.

The kittens were rolling on the ground and having a good time.

Not far away, Tang Chen was still busy under the cliff, his whole body was wet with sweat.

He cut a large amount of green vine from the cliff, and the cliff, which had been covered with green, appeared a small clearing, revealing the obscured cliff face, as if the green canvas had been marked with a reddish-brown patch.

All the branches and leaves on the green vine had been cleared by Tang Chen, leaving the bare rattan. The rattan is thick and thin, the thick one is the size of two fingers, and the thin one is only the thickness of the little finger. After experiments, even the thinnest rattan can bear Tang Chen's weight, but for the sake of insurance, Tang Chen still decided to process these thin rattans, kneading the two strands of rattan into one strand, not only to ensure that the thin rattan will not be suddenly disconnected, but also after kneading, there will be a lot of protrusions on the vine rope, which is more conducive to climbing.

Climbing the cliff to cut vines, cleaning branches and leaves and knotting ropes, Tang Chen suffered a lot.

Before this, Tang Chen had hardly engaged in pure manual labor, and climbing the cliff along the rattan and cutting the rattan was a severe test for him. Even if Tang Chen had always had a good habit of sharpening kitchen knives, it was not an easy task to cut down the thick vines that were tangled together.

The originally white and tender hands were full of wounds, and he could hardly find a complete piece of skin, all of them were skin wounds, but every time he touched it, he gasped in pain. The sauce secreted by the rattan branches and leaves soaked in the wound, which was itchy and unbearable, and it was even more unbearable. At first, Tang Chen would still find a way to deal with his wounds, but he soon found that it was pointless to do so, because the wounds kept increasing, so he simply let it go, allowing the dirt, vine juice, sweat, and blood beads to cover his palm.

Tang Chen didn't want to be trapped in this desperate valley.

Although the chances of successfully climbing out of the valley are slim, it is the only way he can think of now. No matter how little hope there was, he had to do his best.

Before the action, Tang Chen imagined the difficulties he might encounter as much as possible, and made corresponding plans for this.

After comprehensively considering factors such as physical strength, wind power, safety, weight-bearing capacity, and supplies, Tang Chen decided to fight steadily. According to the plan, a temporary footing point is set up every 10 meters on the cliff for him to rest briefly and tie rattan ropes; in order to avoid a dilemma caused by the breaking of a certain section of rattan rope in the middle, two rattan ropes need to be tied to each section; a forward camp is set up every 100 meters, whether it is digging a hole in the cliff wall or building a larger platform following the principle of the plank road, the basic requirement is to be able to reserve some fresh water, so that he can meditate on it and recover his strength.

The whole operation was named "The Ladder Project", which means to climb out of the valley like a ladder.

The Ladder program is extremely stable.

In order to ensure maximum safety, a large number of rattan ropes and wooden sticks (wedged into the cliff are used to tie the rattan ropes and serve as a foothold). This means a lot of work and a lot of time to invest. For Tang Chen, it was a huge project.

This is a helpless thing, Tang Chen doesn't want to be trapped to death, let alone fall to death.

After the start of the project, new problems kept emerging.

For example, the safety of rattan ropes, the newly cut rattan rope is full of toughness, but if the time is long, the reliability of the rattan rope will be greatly reduced after the water loss. Tang Chen had to adjust his plan, the rattan rope had to be soaked in water to keep it hydrated, and in order not to pollute the only source of water, he needed to dig a pond and divert water to it as a long-term storage place for the rattan rope.

Another major challenge was that the physical exertion during the climb was much higher than expected.

Tang Chen realized this when he cut the vine, he remained still in mid-air, and his physical strength would continue to be consumed, and he had climbed to more than 20 meters above the ground with his bare hands when cutting the vine, and he couldn't continue it after holding on for long. However, building a ladder requires a load, and a rattan rope soaked in water is about 20 catties, which is more difficult than bare hands. Even though the Sky Ladder planned to set up advance camps every hundred meters, Tang Chen began to doubt whether he could successfully reach the first advance camp. Moreover, the more difficult the project becomes, even if it can be carried out smoothly, in the final stage, if Tang Chen wants to continue to build the "ladder", he must carry dozens of catties of rattan on his back and climb hundreds of meters high cliffs to work, which is desperate to think about......

Tang Chen, who had no more options, decided to continue to put the ladder plan into practice.

He has one more item in his daily routine: practice climbing every day, master the corresponding skills, and reduce physical exertion.