Chapter 41: The Cave of the Pine Cliff

The mountain is not high, there are immortals, the name is not deep, the water is not deep, there is a dragon, the spirit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut if the immortals are gone, what is the use of the famous mountains! Although the water is clear and blue, if the dragon is gone, its water will become mediocre. Therefore, in the vicissitudes of the world, many things will always change with the change of things and stars, and nothing in the world is absolute, and absoluteness is not necessarily a good thing. It's like this towering mountain of kings, time is gone, and it's still there. Although I wanted to go with the wind back then, not all of them went with the wind. For example, the mysterious Red Leaf Dragon! When everything does not dissipate with time, but is hidden in time, life and death, gathering and dispersing, will change with the change of circumstances. Falling from a high altitude, time slips by, and now what will the fall of Li Xuan and Duan Xiaotian mean?

Cotton-wool clouds cascade on the King's Mountain. The king cliff, the fog lingers, the cliff is volleyed on three sides, straight as a knife and an axe, at least more than 100 zhang from the ground. However, although the cliff is dangerous, it has never stopped the high vitality of the pine, although the cliff is strong, the pine roots can still take root in it, and grow tenaciously. The pine hanging on the cliff wall, or a lone show, or three or two lingering, leaned out from the rock wall, with thousands of attitudes, looking forward to the stars and the stars, and keeping the wind and frost of the years.

Who can survive falling off such a high cliff?

Li Xuan was hugged tightly by Duan Xiaotian, and heard Lin Dongtu shouting: "Do you want to jump off the cliff to commit suicide...... In the shout, his left arm grew violently, and he grabbed the back collar of Li Xuan's shirt. Although Lin Dongtu shot quickly, he still didn't grab half of Li Xuan's shirt, and his five fingers swept over the back of his neck, driven by the inertia of his fall, and almost fell with it. And Li Xuan, who was held by Duan Xiaotian's hands and feet, couldn't move, only felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck, and fell sharply down the cliff.

The downward trend is urgent. In an instant, Li Xuan only felt that his mind was empty, the strong wind was blowing in his face, the wind was loud in his ears, the mountain was no longer a mountain, the sky was no longer the sky, and the clouds were not clouds, everything was turned upside down in an instant, spinning and flying, the clothes were fierce, and the whole person was like a bird without wings, although he was in the sky, he had no hope of returning to the sky. Alas, seeing that the fall was irreversible, Li Xuan said secretly: "Bitter! It seems that this time I am really going to die here in such a hurry and pain!"

When a person falls, it always feels like a long time, as if it were hundreds of years. In fact, if calculated by speed, the time to fall is always very short, maybe only a blink of an eye, a breath, and life. Life is fragile, as you can see.

Li Xuan closed his eyes and waited for death, and suddenly felt a 'boom', like a thunderbolt over his head, as if he was being slapped by the waves on the soft sand, and in the chaos and despair, he felt that his body seemed to be blocked by a large canopy, and it bounced high. You must know that the force of the fall is beyond imagination, extremely violent, and it is by no means describable in words, but when a loud noise accompanied by a 'Titica' sound, the two have been bounced. This bounce was abruptly unimaginable, the two rolled up a few times, and then fell rapidly, and at the moment when this bounce fell, Duan Xiaotian had already let go of his hand that was holding Li Xuan tightly.

There are many fantastical things in the world, most of them are unimaginable, although there are legends of resurrection from the dead, but legends are legends after all, some exist, and some come from people's imagination. If it was before, Li Xuan would never believe that a person who fell from a Baizhang cliff would still not die, and he would still survive the catastrophe. But what he didn't believe had happened, and it had happened to him.

I don't know how long I was in a coma, Li Xuan slowly woke up. He struggled to open his eyes, and first saw the white clouds flowing around his body, the cold wind lingering in his ears, and a light sun hanging in the Mengmeng Valley, flickering and dark, as if he was on the other side of the world.

Li Xuan bit his lip gently, and the painful feeling made him sober a lot, but the rumbling brain made him only awake for a while, and then he passed out again. I don't know how long later, when he woke up again, he felt that the heavens and the earth were floating, and his body and mind seemed to be swimming in the blue waves. When he woke up this time, he could clearly feel the pain in his limbs, he slowly raised his right hand and pinched his cheek hard, and the pain came again, only to know that he was not dead, everything was not in a dream. He was not in a dream, could it be that he was in the underworld of Hades? But he obviously felt pain! He made up his mind and made sure that he was still alive! He was not dead, he was really alive.

After a moment of soberness, Li Xuan looked at the cold and gray cliff, and understood that when he and Duan Xiaotian fell from the top of the cliff, they were blocked by a pine tree growing in the sky on the cliff wall, and when they bounced up, they unloaded most of the force of the fall, and in the process, Duan Xiaotian let go of his arms, lost his direction, and fell down to the cliff alone, but he himself was bounced up, and when he fell, he fell on another conjoined pine tree about seven or eight feet away from the lower right of the cliff pine.

I don't know that after lying down for a long time, Li Xuan felt much more awake, endured the pain all over his body, and tried to sit up, but he didn't sit up completely, and looked around the cliff again, but he was so shocked that he could barely hold it. It turned out that the conjoined double pine that he had fallen on was born in a gap in the rock wall, and the loose body poked out more than ten feet away. Although the thickest pine trunk is only like an adult's arm, the pine trunk is bent and strong, like a small umbrella that grows upward, and it is falling on this small umbrella.

The forces of nature are all interdependent, mutually reinforcing, and sharing weal and woe. The double pine protruding from the cliff is rooted in the cliff, I don't know that after hundreds of years, its roots are strong and tough, strong and spicy, not afraid of wind and frost erosion, deeply rooted in the cracks of the rock wall, it seems that it is okay to maintain the heavy pine crown, but it may be difficult to withstand the force of Li Xuan's huge fall. But it still saved Li Xuan's life! Could it be that time implies some kind of unknown power? Li Xuan's heart was amazed, and when he looked closely, he saw an unknown broad-leaved vine snaking out of the cracks, and although it was not very vigorous, it was old-fashioned. These tenacious vines are tangled and entangled on the cliff pine, pulling at the pine trunk and heavy crown like a high bridge cable, so Li Xuan's ability to stay on the cliff pine hanging in the air is also the result of this vine entanglement.

He looked at his situation on the pine with trepidation, and secretly exclaimed in his heart: "Fortunately, this pine and the vines are interdependent, entwined and growing, if it were not for this, I would really be able to avoid death, and there will be no bones left...... but this happy thought only passed by, and immediately became worried, and he secretly said: "Bitter! Now that I have fallen in this place where there is no heaven and no land, how can I get out? If I stay on the pine crown and can't get out, I will let myself die here just because of hunger!" The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and I was sighing, but when I heard a snort, the wind rose vigorously between the cliffs, and a fishy, weird, and murderous aura came with the wind, filling the cliffs.

Strange to say, this strange mountain wind came and went quickly, and after a short time, the mountain fog began to be endless, and the danger of the pine shaking the leaves instantly returned to calm, and the originally shaky cliff was also inexplicably quiet.

Everything suddenly went from purgatory to fairyland, and the trembling heart disappeared in an instant.

People, born in this world, will always encounter unsatisfactory things, as the so-called, life is always unsatisfactory nine times out of ten. There is only one life and only one death, and the things of life and death can no longer be simply represented by the words unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory. However, in a person's life, in addition to life and death, good and unexpected, there are also miracles. But what is a miracle? A miracle is between life and death, unexpected. When you are not dead when you die, and when you are most depressed, you suddenly encounter a turning point, this is a miracle. Miracles are miraculous and illusory, and if you can think of them, you may not be able to get them. Moreover, there can never always be miracles in a person's life, but at the moment of life and death, there is always hope that miracles will happen. A miracle is enough.

Li Xuan calmed down, secretly wondered how strange the wind came, raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that this place was dozens of zhang away from the top of the cliff, and if he reached the bottom of the cliff, it would be even farther. If there is another strong wind in the mountains, you will not be able to control it, and you will fall. He carefully turned his body around, pressed his feet on the trunk of the tree, and clenched the loose crown tightly, not daring to make any movement, letting his body and mind float with the wind. But after only a while, I felt disgusted in my chest, almost wanted to vomit, and said secretly: "This up and down, life and death, after all, is not the way......" After thinking about it, there is nothing to be done, seeing that it is getting westerly, and the sorrow is even worse. After some time, his belly began to rumble.

I think that since last night, after being drugged by Duan Xiaotian's soft tendons at dusk, he has never eaten anything again, and it is really painful to be hungry at this time. But how could there be something to feed the stomach on the cliff? Thinking that maybe just watching myself die here, I couldn't help but feel sad from it, and I couldn't suppress my suppressed emotions anymore, and I looked up to the sky and wept for a long time.

The tears were salty, salty with bitterness.

You must know that his character was originally open-minded and uninhibited, so that he would not be so fragile, even if Duan Xiaotian threatened him with a knife, Zhuge Dongfang's ruthless sneak attack, and Lin Dongtu's coercion and temptation did not make him feel half sad or retreat, but now the situation is indeed in a dilemma, and who can restrain himself in a situation where he can't go up, can't go down, can't leave, and can't fall! Crying loudly in a predicament can't solve the dilemma, but it can allow the heart of grief and indignation to vent and comfort.

After crying bitterly, Li Xuan was in a much better mood, put away his sadness, vomited slowly, and his mind gradually became clear. He couldn't help but look at the situation in front of him again, and saw that the trunks of the twin pines grew obliquely upward, the crown of the tree was like a cauldron facing the sky, looking up at the years without saying a word, and the broad-leaved vines entangled with the pines, although not lush, but the messy rhizomes covered most of the cracks. How deep is the crack? Through the branches, Li Xuan could vaguely see that the crack was about a dozen feet high, and the width could accommodate it. It seemed that a wind was blowing out of the cracks, and the broad leaves of the vines could not help but sway and sway. Seeing this, Li Xuan suddenly thought of the scene where he and Duan Xiaotian fell into the crypt earlier, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: "Could the crack blown by the wind lead to something else...... I can't care so much...... Although the chasm is narrow, if you can get in, you can shelter from the wind, in short, it is much better than hanging in the air. As I was thinking about it, I vaguely noticed that there seemed to be a few red wild fruits hidden among the broad leaves of the vines. In an instant, this discovery had already excited him.

There's nothing more exciting than seeing food when you're hungry.

Panicking can always complicate the situation, but a cool head can lead to unexpected gains. Li Xuan got up slowly, slowly climbed to the cliff along the swaying pine stem, carefully stood up and leaned up, and saw that he could pull the vine, so he slowly climbed up and poked his body into the crack. However, the vine at the crack was too entangled with the pine root, and Li Xuan was about to draw his sword to cut off the pine root vine branch, only to find that the bamboo pipe that Duan Xiaotian had given him before falling off the cliff was still in his hand.

Seeing the bamboo pipe, Li Xuan didn't know whether he was happy or worried, and said in his heart: "If it weren't for the happy encounter with Duan Xiaotian in the guest house, how could I have fallen into such a situation......?" These fruits are crystal clear, each two are born together, like a baby's clenched fist, it looks like the skin of the fruit is very thin, bright and dripping, before it comes close, there is a faint fragrance of incomparably clear. Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. Li Xuan didn't think about it, so he attached half of his body to the crack in the rock wall, opened the leaves, picked a red fruit, and chewed it. In the mouth, the red fruit is sweet and juicy, cold, crisp and sweet, and it is a sweet taste that I have never tasted. He ate four or five fruits in one go, and his strength had regained a great deal.

When I entered the crack in the rock wall, my eyes immediately became much darker. Li Xuan closed his eyes for a moment, adjusted his breathing, and opened his eyes again, and he could already see the situation in the rift. The entrance to the chasm was very narrow, and although it allowed only one person to pass through, it was very deep, and it was only when he groped his way forward that the situation suddenly became clear. Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Xuan could hardly believe everything that appeared in front of him, it turned out that at the end of the crack was a primitive cave about two zhang high and seven or eight zhang wide.

The primitive cave was formed in an unknown year and month, and the entrance crack was narrow, so the light had become nothing here.

Li Xuan tried to open his eyes wide, and took a closer look at the situation in the cave, and vaguely felt that the cave seemed to have a residential layout. He stood in a daze for a long time, then returned to the entrance of the rift, and broke a few pine branches and vines back into the cave. The pine branches are lit, and the cave immediately lights up, and the warm light and shadow shine on the stone wall in the cave, making people feel like they are in another world. Indeed, there were people living in the cave.

A stone bed, a rotten futon made of soft grass, a simple bookshelf with a dozen thread-bound books covered in thick dust, a wooden chair, a wooden basin, a stone nest, an incense burner the size of a fist, a simple horn comb on the rough stone table, and a Buddha dust...... Although the cave is covered with a thick layer of dust, it is impossible to tell how many years it has been deserted, but it can be seen from these objects that the person who lived in the cave must have been a woman. The more Li Xuan looked at it, the more suspicious he became, why did there be traces of survival in this lonely cave?