Chapter 9, A Hole in a Cave

"Monk, how far is it?" had been walking for nearly an hour, and Liu San'er couldn't help but ask again. This was the fifth time he had asked the same question, and he thought he was talking nonsense, but he still opened his mouth. Just agreed with the monk, and made a poisonous oath, the monk gave him the exercises to protect himself, and he provided convenience for the monk to heal his injuries until he basically recovered. However, he didn't need to find a place, and the monk said that there was a fairly safe place not far to the south, and he also stored some food in it. So, there is now this one.

The monk smiled: "Why are you not patient? At the moment, it should take about a quarter of an hour. ”

"A quarter of an hour...... I hope so, but if you don't admit it when you get to the place later, or if you make a plan to harm me, you will swear not to attack, and I will turn my face and be ruthless. Liu San'er gasped, and in the end, it seemed that he had changed into a different person.

The monk looked relaxed, not at all as embarrassed as he had been on the river beach before, and said with a smile: "If the monks don't speak, how can Taoist friends still not trust the poor monks? Even if the previous things are not mentioned, the poor monk who betrays the Buddha must be repaid well, and the exercises are really not on the body, if not, they must be offered with both hands first, so as to remove the vigilance of Taoist friends." ”

"Carrying the Buddha, monk, you really dare to brag nonsense!" It's okay not to mention it, but as soon as Liu San mentions it, he wants to throw the monk on his back away. I can't be tired, but the monk is happy. It was also his own doing, and he did not hesitate to carry it on his back in order to get the life-saving technique in the monk's mouth. It's not that the monk is in danger at the moment, and he is afraid of being attacked from behind. The upper body has been confiscated by him and searched before, and the vital part of the spine is also pressed in his hand, which can give a fatal blow at any time. It was really unbearable to be pressed by the monk's more than 200 catties of good meat, although he had walked with weights before, but when had he carried it so heavily and walked so long as he did now?

After a night in Tonggulou, Liu San'er completely knew his catties and two, and learned from the pain, since the third layer of Qi training can only open the storage bag like a waste person, and the talisman and magic weapon cannot be used, it is particularly important to master a life-saving exercise.

The monk twisted his body, looking indifferent: "Why don't you dare, the poor monk is a disciple of Buddhism, what is wrong with saying that he is a Buddha?" hehe...... Buddhism has its own benefits of Buddhism, and people outside the Taoist family can't understand it, so why don't they abandon the Tao and practice Buddhism......"

"Stop, stop! Monk really I don't know about your Buddhist precepts and all kinds of dogmas?" Liu San'er was alert and didn't want to listen to the monk anymore. It's not that he is not determined to be afraid of being bewitched, but he is really afraid or contradicts all kinds of Buddhism in the book, and he does not dare to agree.

The monk is now in a delicate situation, so naturally he will not be bored with himself, he looked in front of him, saw a small hill vaguely appearing in front of him, and said with a smile: "It's the one in front!"

"I've been by the mountain a few times before, but it's unremarkable, and it doesn't seem to be anything special except for the weeds. Liu San'er also saw the hill. The hill is naturally in the south of Dazhou Mountain, because it is too small to even have a name, but it is not far from the big river before, the mountain is only dozens of zhang, the grass and trees are lush, and there have always been people. The few times he had passed by before had been in a hurry, and he really couldn't see where he and the monk could hide.

The monk immediately smiled: "Since Daoist friends have passed by here several times and feel that there is nothing special, those people will naturally think so, isn't it safe here?"

"It's hard to say!" Although he felt that what the monk said was also reasonable, Liu San'er didn't want to admit it, so he invisibly accelerated his pace. Under the guidance of the monk, after walking for another quarter of an hour, I finally saw the so-called hiding place.

A natural underground cave, surrounded by thorns on the periphery, almost impermeable, except for insects and ants, wild beasts can not enter inside. Putting the monk aside, Liu San'er was busy for a while, and finally used the ice dagger to cut a hole that could barely accommodate one person to enter, first picked up the monk and blocked the way in front of him, and then entered it in the dark.

The monk's body is a few laps larger than Liu San'er, and the hole is opened according to Liu San'er's body shape, and he is inevitably injured by thorns, his clothes are scraped and tattered, and he screams in pain. After walking down for about twenty or thirty zhang, he finally stepped on the bottom, and took out the fire fold candle for lighting from the monk's storage bag and lit it, and the darkness in front of him finally disappeared, and he didn't care about the situation in the cave, so he quickly restored the hole entrance, and after playing with it for a while, he thought it should be about the same, and then he was relieved and turned back. Looking back, the monk was sitting cross-legged pranayama, his face was much better, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to move for a while. Scanning the hole again, hole after hole, water after water, just standing at his angle, he could see at least three inner holes extending inward, and the ravine was even more incalculable. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing to do except the stalactites and stalagmites and stones, and there is water dripping from the stalactites on the ground, although there are ravines to flow, but because the gas circulation is not smooth, and the terrain is slow, it is still a little slippery.

Although this place is already very good, it is still very dangerous because it is too close to the entrance of the cave. If nothing else, the fire in the cave alone may be discovered by the pursuers passing by. Liu San'er didn't dare to delay time, and pushed the monk: "Hey, you won't be healing here, right?"

"How is that possible, go inside!" the monk immediately pointed in the direction. I was unexpectedly able to move, and I recovered so quickly.

Since the monk can move, Liu San'er will naturally not carry it anymore, and waits for guidance with an expressionless face. More than 200 catties of good meat, but he is not willing to touch it again if there is a little possibility.

Seeing Liu San'er's appearance, how could the monk not understand that he had to walk on his own, scolded for a while, and finally got up, staggering and about to fall.

Liu San'er saw it in his eyes, and wanted to step forward to help him. But thinking of the monk's cunning and cunning, he still put out his thoughts, and just took the candle and lit it in the back.

The two of them walked one after the other, and in a short time passed through more than a dozen holes, completely away from the way they came. Although Liu San'er almost never forgot to read the book, he couldn't remember the way, and he was dizzy for a while, so he just followed the monk. This cave has obviously not entered for a long time, and there should be no mechanism to arrange the formation, and he is not afraid of the monk in front of him. The most important thing is that the two have no conflict of interest at the moment, and the monk has to rely on him to take care of him, so he is naturally quite relieved.

The further he went, the more humid it became, until the candle flame was the size of a soybean grain, and the monk stopped after entering a new cave.

The new cave is not big, but because of the light, Liu San'er can only see the outline of the cave and a pool the size of a square tabletop.

The monk walked to the waterhole first and looked around, squinted his eyes and looked around, and finally determined something, and said to Liu San'er: "This is it!"

"Here?" Liu San'er took a candle and looked around slightly, and found that there was nothing special, but the waterhole was a little eye-catching. There are nearly thirty karst caves that I have just walked through, but the waterhole only exists in this cave, and the monk has focused on it, I am afraid that it will not be just a coordinate. So he approached and looked at the pool, and finally understood what was going on, and sighed: "I see... But how did you outsiders find out about such a remote place?"

"Hey, hey... Monks have their own means of becoming monks, and Taoist friends naturally can't understand if they don't enter the Buddha's door..."At this time, the monk actually mentioned the words of letting Liu San abandon the Tao and cultivate Buddhism.

Liu San'er was in the mood to listen, and when the monk was speaking, he suddenly pushed it, and his heart finally came out with a bad breath.

But listen to the "poof"!

The monk plunged into the water, shouted "my day", and then sank to the bottom.

Touched the temperature of the water, neither lukewarm nor hot, and went through the things since he saw the monk in his mind, there was no omission, and there was no explanation that could not be explained, and he finally made sure that the monk had no enmity with him and no longer had a reason to calculate himself, Liu San'er then put the candle and the things on his body into the storage bag, only grabbed the ice dagger to defend himself, ran the qi collection method, and slowly sank into the water.

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When he climbed out of the water again, he saw that the monk who had been taken away from the storage bag was sitting on a stone bench with his head bowed, chewing something in his mouth.

When the monk heard the sound of water, he naturally knew that Liu San'er was coming, swallowed the thing in three or two bites, choked with a somewhat hideous expression, and then pretended that nothing had happened, smiled at Liu San'er, and said, "It's not bad here, right?"

"Indeed..."Liu San'er groaned, looking around curiously.

It is still a karst cave, approximately elliptical, but the area is about ten acres in size, which is the largest karst cave Liu San'er has seen. The walls of the cave around and at the top are inlaid with no less than 100 night pearls the size of pigeon eggs, which are not enough to illuminate the cave as if it were daylight, but it is enough to make people see normally. The breeze flows in the rock crevices, so as not to suffocate people, and there is a small stone cave that can be seen at the end at a glance on the edge of the waterhole, and there are some dense text and pictures on the cave wall in the distance, and I don't bother to look at it for a while. On the ground are hand-carved stone tables, stone benches, stone beds, and even wooden boxes.

The box is two large and one small, the big one can hold an adult man, and the small one can also hold more than a dozen or twenty books.

The monk pointed to one of the large boxes and said, "That... This box is all for food, Taoist friends are at their own convenience!"

Nodding his head in understanding, he was already hungry. Liu San'er was not polite, walked over and opened the lid of the box, flipped it over, and was dumbfounded, and when he looked at the monk again, the contempt had jumped on his face.

The monk was a little embarrassed, and his old face was slightly red.

This box is actually full of bacon and jerky, and the full box has already eaten a small half, and normal people can't do it for ten days and half a month. Thinking of the monk's previous actions, I don't know what he chewed in his mouth before.

"Monk, have you broken your vows?" Liu San'er grabbed a piece of jerky and put it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, feeling that his stomach felt a lot better, and then he took out another piece of bacon and looked at the monk with a smile.

The monk's face turned even redder, and he coughed dryly: "Ahem! As the saying goes, wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart...... By the way, the other two boxes, one box other than that... I also packed some good wine, and a few good books in the small box, so you can do whatever you need!"

"What about the exercises, it's also in that box of books?" munched on the bacon, but Liu San'er was unambiguous. He was eating the meat now, and the wine could be drunk later, but the exercises had to be obtained immediately. It seems that this is already the monk's lair, and if he doesn't ask again, he will be a fool.

The monk shook his head, and then became serious, but pointed to the wall of the cave, which was the one that Liu San'er had noticed before that there were words and pictures: "There is, the Taoist friendship is self-sufficient!"

After that, the monk went back to his storage bag, and walked into the small stone cave by the waterhole without checking himself, probably to officially retreat and heal.

Liu San'er had already checked the storage bag, more than 30,000 taels of silver, and few spirit stones, only a few dozen first-order middle grades. There is only one magic weapon, which is a second-order medium-grade Zen staff, and the rest are commonly used by Buddhism such as incense, candles, paper money, etc., but the "thing" in the mouth of the monk and his group that night was hunted down, and I don't know where it was hidden.

was only a little curious about that "thing", and since he didn't see it in the storage bag, Liu San'er didn't bother to think about it. After eating, he drank a few sips of warm stomach wine, and then walked to the small box to see how good the good books in the monk's mouth were. It's okay not to look at it, I immediately entered the magic barrier, more than a dozen books by the same author, self-proclaimed Hehuan old man, the content is all experience and practice such as male and female **** asana, and some simple pictures, a few strokes are very vivid, which shows the depth of the pen. After reading it for a while, I felt that my throat was dry, and my body reacted, and I wanted to close the book to adjust, but my hand was still turning uncontrollably, and I read all the more than a dozen books in one go, and finally ran away as if I was running away, but my mind was full of men and women in the pictures, lingering, and then looking at the lower body, I actually unconsciously got wet, and the yang essence was first ejaculation!

It's too embarrassing, fortunately the monk didn't see it, otherwise I don't know what to be ridiculed into, even if I don't mock, I will have a handle to be held by the other party in the future, or such a handle.

Hurriedly went to the water's edge to wet the whole clothes to cover up his embarrassment, Liu San'er had cursed the monk no less than a hundred times in his heart. The book is closed, but the content is engraved in my mind, and I really regret that I didn't do it at the beginning. No wonder the old man acquiesced in his disciples reading other books, but had zero tolerance for such books, and often sent the third senior brother to his residence to find out the truth openly and secretly.

Since the image lingers, let's divert attention. Liu San'er immediately thought of the life-saving exercises, and walked quickly to the cave wall with many words and pictures engraved.

There are about forty or fifty drawings on the cave wall, some of which are damaged, but the whole does not affect the viewing. Each one is simply outlined, but the skill is not inferior to that of the old man, a few strokes are vivid and unusually ready to come out, with a few esoteric and difficult poems-like words below, and on both sides are carved with another kind of knife work in completely different small characters to illustrate the annotations.

Liu San'er skimmed through it cursoryly, and almost didn't understand a word, but those pictures were clear and clear, indicating that this was a sword book without a name, a sword book of ordinary martial arts.

Although he was a little disappointed, after that, Liu San'er still spent three days to roughly understand the sword book, feeling that it was terrible and ridiculous, and almost gave up to trouble the monk.

At the beginning of the sword spectrum, there are a few words written in a mysterious way: "If you want to make people die, you must first die by yourself, the form is like a withered tree, the heart is like dead ashes, you forget yourself, the one who kills does not die, and the living do not live." ”

It's all about life and death, Liu San'er doesn't know much about ordinary martial arts, and he can't understand it at this time, and the small words on the side are also cloudy fog covers, which are full of "death and death".

The picture is simple, a sword pierced someone's heart, and most of the swordsmen were hideous, like evil spirits running out of hell.

Each painting has the same content: the sword pierces the heart, the only difference being the angle of the sword.

What kind of sword is this? Heart-piercing sword technique? Liu San'er felt that this was a deceitful martial art, a prank made by someone, there really is such a sword technique, it is very easy to crack, as long as you bring a sturdy heart guard, you can not be invulnerable, no matter how clever the swordsmanship is, there is no pain and hideousness.

What does the monk's phrase "do it for oneself" means? Could it be that this mundane martial arts is really a bit of a ghost? It is still the kind that is quick to achieve. Originally, he saved his life, but now he has been given a technique of recruiting and killing, and killing people is to save his life? If you want to save your life, you should strike first? And he said that it can be done quickly, but if you want to kill more people, you can do it quickly?

There are too many questions, but it is inconvenient to disturb the monk at this time. Let's practice first, in order to forget those things. Thinking of this, Liu San immediately took out the soft sword obtained from the man in white.