Chapter Seventy-One: The Cave of the Immortals
readx;? Hearing Master's call, I hurriedly ran out from under the idol. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć At the same time, my ten brothers who were resting in the backyard also rushed in from the backyard after hearing Master's call, and came to Master almost at the same time as me.
Seeing that the Master standing in front of the statue was safe and sound, my hanging heart finally relaxed, and I hurriedly asked the Master, "Master, have you made any new discoveries?" The disciple seems to have heard something open just now?"
"You ask me? I still want to ask you? Chongyang, what the hell were you doing lying under this statue just now?"
When I heard Master ask me what I was doing before, I quickly described in detail how I found a guqin under the feet of this statue and how I pressed the guqin on the soles of my feet.
Knowing that I had found the pattern of a guqin under the feet of the idol, my master's eyes suddenly emitted a burst of light, and he hurriedly raised his right hand and pointed to the idol in front of him, and at the same time instructed his disciples, "Quick, go and see, is there any mechanism on this altar that has been touched by Chongyang?"
At Master's command, my brothers and sisters immediately gathered towards the altar that Master had pointed to. As one of them climbed up to the altar first, he saw at a glance that a secret grid had been opened on the platform of this altar, and he quickly turned back to the master who was facing me and shouted, "Master, a secret grid has been opened on this altar. ā
Hearing my senior brother say that a secret grid had been opened on the altar, my curiosity was immediately aroused, and I couldn't help but think, "It seems that this secret grid on the altar should have been opened after I pressed the guqin under the feet of the statue." I don't know what kind of stuff is hidden in this dark compartment?"
Speaking of curiosity, in fact, my master was even more curious than me, and I saw that he hurriedly reminded the disciples who were gathered around the altar: "What are you people still doing in a daze, let's see if there is anything hidden in this secret compartment?"
Under the Master's reminder, the brothers and sisters standing on the altar took out something from this secret compartment with all their hands and feet. When they saw the appearance of this thing, they immediately replied to the master who was talking nonsense, "Master, it turned out to be a stone piano hidden here. ā
"Shiqin?" Hearing that what was hidden in the secret compartment turned out to be a stone qin, my master's eyes lit up again, and he immediately said excitedly to the disciples on the altar: "Quick, quickly carry this stone qin to the master." ā
Soon, my brothers and sisters carried the stone qin they had found in the dark grid to the master. Looking at the stone qin in front of him, my master's heart was simply happy, and he said excitedly to all the disciples present: "It seems that the painting that I got before my master was not painted by the painter out of thin air, but after careful conception. That is to say, there is indeed a fairy cave hidden in the backyard of this Yuwang Temple. ā
"Master, are you joking? Didn't you just go to the backyard of Yuwang Temple? There is no hill like the one depicted in the painting, how can there be any immortal cave?" After listening to Master's words, one of the disciples couldn't help but tease.
The other disciples nodded and agreed, "Yes, yes." ā
My master was not at all moved by his disciple's ridicule. "What do you know? Come on, carry this stone lyre into the backyard. After speaking, he pointed to two of the disciples and instructed the two of them to carry the stone qin on the ground to the backyard.
After the two senior brothers carried the stone qin to a flat ground in the backyard, my master raised his hand and pointed to the stones embedded in the ground of the backyard, and gave another order to the ten senior brothers present: "Go, you all give me to the middle of these stone piles in the backyard to see if there are any other clues on these stones." As soon as you find any new clues, you must tell them as soon as possible. After instructing my ten senior brothers, my master turned his head and said kind words to me, "By the way, Chongyang, you can also go up and have a look with your senior brothers." The teacher knows that you have always been careful in doing things, so I am more at ease with you, and you should look carefully after you go up. ā
When I heard that Master wanted me to follow my brothers and sisters to the middle of these stone piles in the courtyard, although I was reluctant to do so, I didn't dare to disobey Master's order, so I had to follow my brothers and sisters to the middle of the stone piles. Speaking of unhappiness, my brothers and sisters are naturally not happy in their hearts, because the stones embedded in the ground of the backyard and between the stones are covered with green moss, and walking in the middle of such a pile of stones will cause a big fall if you are not careful. They had already suffered in these stone piles before, so although they didn't dare to hide from it, they were also full of complaints in their hearts. When they entered the middle of the stone pile, they seemed to be looking for clues on the stones with their heads down, but in fact, they were just pretending to be perfunctory to my master. What's more, after looking for a while in the middle of the pile of stones, some of them sat down in the middle of the pile of stones and began to secretly take out dry food and eat it.
Seeing this, my master was very annoyed and immediately reprimanded the disciples who were sitting in the middle of the pile of stones and secretly eating: "Okay few of you, the master asked you to come to work, but you came to work in a perfunctory manner, and you actually took me behind my back to eat, so what will happen to you after the teacher goes back? Don't you like to eat? Okay! After you go back, the teacher will make you hungry for three days and three nights." ā
Hearing that his master would starve himself for three days and three nights after he returned, the disciples who were sitting in the middle of the pile of stones and stealing food hurriedly stood up, and at the same time threw the dry food in their hands under their feet, and kept begging the master for mercy. In the process of these disciples begging for mercy, one of the disciples accidentally stepped on the dry food scraps that he had thrown on the ground before, and suddenly his feet slipped, and the whole person fell to the ground, with his feet facing the sky, and even threw out a shoe on his feet.
The disciple who fell to the ground was croaking in pain, and at the same time did not forget to complain in his mouth: "I don't come up to look for it myself, I only know how to send us." Eh, it hurts me. ā
Seeing that my senior brother was lying on the ground and couldn't get up for a while, I hurriedly helped him pick up his shoes. Just as I was bending down to pick up the shoe that my brother had dropped from a stone, I suddenly realized that there was also a guqin carved on this stone. Seeing the guqin pattern on the stone, I was so excited that I didn't even bother to pick up my shoes, and shouted to the master who was facing me: "Master, Master, come and see here, there is also a guqin carved on the stone here." ā
When I learned that I had found another guqin pattern on a stone in the middle of the stone pile, my master was overjoyed and immediately replied to me, "Chongyang, are you telling the truth? With that, he quickly stepped out of his feet and hurried into the middle of the pile of stones, and despite the slippery nature of the stones under his feet, he took three steps and two steps to my side.
But before my master could come to me, I couldn't wait to get up and press the Guqin on the stone. As a result, just like the guqin carved on the soles of the statue's feet, the guqin carved on the stone can also be moved. As I pressed the guqin on the top of the stone into the inside of the stone, I immediately heard a "click" sound in my ears.
As soon as I heard this voice, I knew that it came from the middle of the stone pile, and those senior brothers who were standing in the middle of the stone pile hurriedly surrounded the direction from which this sound came from. They soon discovered that a stone pit had been sunken out in the ground in the middle of the pile. Looking at this stone pit that is sunken in the center of the stone pile, my senior brothers and sisters, you can't guess what the use of this stone pit is.
While my brothers and sisters were talking to each other, my master also rushed to the edge of the pit. After staring at this stone pit for a long time, something suddenly occurred in his heart, and he hurriedly ordered the two disciples who had carried the stone qin from the main hall to the backyard before, "You two go and carry that stone qin here." ā
Hearing that the master was going to carry the stone qin by himself again, the two disciples did not dare to disobey, and slowly retreated from the middle of the stone pile to the place where the stone qin was placed, and then carefully carried the stone qin to the stone pit in the center of the stone pile. Just as the two of them put the stone qin they were carrying in their hands on the ground, a low voice suddenly sounded in the ears of everyone present: "No, don't! Get out of here." This deep voice seemed to come from the ground in the courtyard, and it frightened everyone present.
"Who? Who was talking just now? Did you hear me?" one of the disciples was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately asked the crowd in fear.
"I heard it too, and it seemed to be coming from under the ground. ā
"Is there a living person buried under the ground?"
"Don't talk nonsense, if people are buried under the ground, how can they live?" and my brothers and sisters began to talk among themselves again, and the scene immediately fell into chaos.
This sudden voice from beneath the ground seemed to be trying to stop our group from doing anything else, which made my master hesitate a little. But as my master's gaze fell on the stone lyre on the ground, the great temptation in front of his eyes quickly overcame the fear and hesitation in his heart. After confirming that nothing unusual had happened around him, my master gritted his teeth and said to the disciples present, "You don't have to be afraid, that voice just now was just a gust of wind. Now, give me this lyre, and put it in this pit. ā
The brothers and sisters present heard it very clearly, and the voice just now was definitely not a rumor, but a human voice. Therefore, they all stood in place, moving and moving, and none of them wanted to come forward and move the stone qin on the ground. Seeing that none of my disciples were willing to come forward, my master kept glancing at me, suggesting that I should take the lead.
If it weren't for my guidance, my master wouldn't have brought my brothers and sisters to this Yuwang Temple to look for some immortals. As soon as I thought of this, I had to stand up. Seeing that I stood up from among the brothers and sisters, my master immediately said: "Everyone has seen that Chongyang has already stood up first, who else wants to stand up second? Who wants to do the second one?"
After listening to Master's seductive words, my brothers and sisters instantly threw the fear in their hearts behind and rushed forward to move the stone qin. My master hurriedly stopped them and reminded, "Be careful! Don't break the stone qin." Don't be anxious, the teacher assures you that everyone present has a chance to ascend to immortality today. "Then my master ordered a disciple to come out among them, and asked him to carry the stone qin on the ground with me.
Together with the chosen brother, I lifted the stone pire on the ground, and then carefully lowered it into the stone pit. Coincidentally, the size of this stone pit will be able to accommodate this stone harp. After the two of us put the stone qin into the stone pit, everyone present held their breath and focused their eyes on the stone qin that had been placed in the stone pit, expecting what strange things would happen next.
Everyone waited around the edge of the stone pit for a long time, but there was no new movement in the entire backyard. Some of them began to be a little unbearable, so they casually found a stone by the stone pit and sat down, drinking water while eating the dry food they had brought with them, and at the same time kept chattering: "Ahem! I've been busy for most of the day, so I'm wasting my strength in vain." I said, Master, you won't allow us to eat something this time, will you? I see, let's go back after we've eaten. ā
I also followed my brothers and sisters to persuade my master: "Master, now that we have used up all the hints in this painting, we still haven't seen any hills in this backyard, let alone any fairy caves. I think we'd better go back, right?"
My master sighed and said unwillingly, "Ahem! With that, my master turned his body around and prepared to leave here. Just as he had taken the first step, he suddenly withdrew the foot he had taken, quickly turned his body, and came to the edge of this stone pit again. After that, he looked at the stone pit and said to me thoughtfully: "Chongyang, come over quickly, help the teacher turn this stone qin over, and let the piano try face down." ā
I reluctantly walked over, thinking, "Isn't this just an ordinary stone qin, what does it have to do with whether the front of it is above or below when placed in this stone pit? You haven't moved this stone qin before, of course you don't know, it's not light, after moving it once, my arm is still sore." Now that you want me to move, won't you call those brothers of mine to move? "Although I was extremely reluctant in my heart, I did not dare to disobey Master's order, so I had to move the stone qin out of the stone pit with him. Then he rolled over and put it back in the pit.
The unthinkable happened. As the piano was put face down and put back into the pit, it quickly sank into the pit and disappeared from the sight of the two of us. Before my master and I could figure out where the stone lyre had gone, the floor of the entire backyard began to shake violently.
I hurriedly lay down and grabbed a raised stone on the ground with both hands to prevent myself from rolling between the stones so that I wouldn't be bruised by them. Fortunately, I found out in time and was not injured in this violent tremor. Pity my brothers, they were completely unprepared for such a violent shaking of the ground beneath their feet. In the blink of an eye, they all fell on the stones in the middle of the pile, and they were screaming in pain.
The sudden violent shaking in the backyard lasted only a short time, and soon stopped. When the ground stopped shaking, I quickly got up from the ground to see what had happened before? The moment I looked up, I was surprised to find that the main hall of this temple in my sight seemed to be shorter than before, and I couldn't help but think, "Could it be that this main hall was collapsed by the shaking just now?" This idea was quickly denied by me, because I found that not only the main hall, but also the entire backyard surrounding the wall had become shorter, and at this moment I could see the world outside the wall at a glance. As my eyes fell to the ground beneath my feet, I finally realized that it wasn't the things I saw that had become shorter, but that the ground I was standing on had become taller. At this time, I was actually standing on the top of a small hill. What the hell is going on?
"Master, Master, look! there's really a cave here!" suddenly came the shouts of a senior brother at his feet.
What? The fairy cave in the painting really exists? So, are there really immortals in this fairy cave?
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