Chapter 26: Cave
Giant Deer City is not a prosperous place.
This is a garrison for troops. Military food and ordnance are all here.
Every time the Great Qin Dynasty crusade against foreign countries and rebellions, it had to mobilized military resources in Julu and then go on an expedition.
Su Yue looked at the edge of this important military town for a while, but did not go in, because today's defense of Julu City is particularly strict, and there is also a team of stauncible sergeants patrol around the city wall.
He also noticed that the houses around Julu City were empty, and the people obviously moved elsewhere.
"How could this happen? Are you going to start a war again?"
The appearance of Julu City immediately gave Su Yue a signal that Daqin was going to use troops. It seems that in recent days, there will be news to spread all over the world, but I don't know who he is going to fight against?
In the past, Su Yue might have to care about it, but now, he is not in the mood to care so much. The poplar forest marked on the map is not far away, which is the most important thing for him now.
After leaving the Giant Deer City, Su Yue rushed to the Poplar Forest.
Thirty miles outside the city, in a blink of an eye, bypassing a hidden valley, there was indeed a poplar forest.
This poplar forest has no vision, just like an ordinary forest, lush, and there are birds nesting and hovering in it.
Qi'er stood on Su Yue's shoulder, looked up and looked at him. After feeling for a while, he nodded to Su Yue, as if to say.
"That's right, it's here."
Su Yue held down his excitement and walked towards the poplar forest. He knew that there was a Yimu magic array here, but he still wanted to enter the array. If he didn't enter the array, how could he break the array?
Step into the poplar forest, I suddenly had a special feeling, as if the surrounding trees were immediately different from the previous step, with some subtle changes. Su Yue suddenly turned around and found that his way of arrival had disappeared, and the thick white fog did not know when it would rise, covering all his sight.
Especially when he operated his spiritual power, he also found that there was a faint wood spirit in the poplar forest, and even a sense of danger.
Su Yue took a few steps forward and saw more than a dozen white bones, which were dry to varying degrees. It is estimated that he was the unlucky man who strayed into the poplar forest over the years.
Su Yue knows nothing about the array, and can only turn to Qier.
As early as when he learned that this formation was Yimu's magic array, he was already confident. After all, this formation was not profound. At this moment, he looked around faintly and raised his little claws to the southeast.
Su Yue stepped forward quickly and took seven steps in the southeast direction.
After seven steps, the fog surged, but it faded a lot. Su Yue was shocked and knew that the first step was right.
She is slightly proud. She is the most disgusted of killing in her life, so she won't look at Su Yue when she kills people. And she likes to study the formation most. The feeling of breaking the formation is what she has always enjoyed. Looking around again, Qier seemed to be calculating something. After a little time, he pointed to the north.
Su Yue stepped forward again and still took seven steps out. There was a rumbling sound in the fog, and the white fog was much thinner.
After that, under the guidance of Qi'er, Su Yue walked continuously in the southwest, in the south direction, and his footsteps fell. There was a loud noise in the white fog, and the white fog all dispersed, revealing the scene in front of him.
Appearing in front of Su Yue is a low mountain. Opposite the mountain is a poplar forest. There are three bluestones in front of the mountain. After bypassing the bluestone, a cave appeared with a stone door sealed.
"It's really the former cave!"
Su Yue was inexplicably surprised. He walked to the cave and touched the stone door, but saw mottled traces on the stone door, which seemed to be caused by cutting with knives and axes. Especially at the base of the stone door, it was actually a black mark. I guess someone wanted to open the door with fire.
With a smile, there are people in the world who want to break the practitioner's cave like this. She really doesn't know whether it's better to be whimsic or delusional. Jumping down from Su Yue's shoulder, he pointed to the stone door, and then wrote two words on the ground with his little claws.
"Spiritual power."
"Do you want me to input spiritual power into the stone gate?" Su Yue asked.
nodded his head.
The owner of the cave obviously intends to leave a inheritance. The outer Yimu illusion array is to prevent mortals from breaking in. This stone door is an identity verification. Only practitioners can open it, and ordinary mortals can't do it.
Su Yue put his palm against the stone door and entered the spiritual power. As soon as he started, a strange feeling appeared. The stone gate seemed to turn into a greedy beast. Without Su Yue's active input of spiritual power, a magnificent attraction appeared by himself, attracting all the spiritual power in Su Yue's meridians, and then swallowed into the stone gate. .
With such a huge consumption, Su Yue was very uncomfortable, and his face was immediately pale. Fortunately, after absorbing most of the spiritual power, the stone door was finally satisfied and made a loud noise, and the whole stone door showed ferocious cracks.
Su Yue gasped for a while and pushed it gently. The stone door immediately came down and became a piece of gravel.
In this way, Su Yue is more convinced that there must be an inheritance in the cave, otherwise there will be no one-time prohibition of Shimen. It is estimated that there is something in it. After taking it away, the cave will be meaningless.
Su Yue's heart was even hotter. He stepped over the gravel and stepped into the cave.
Today is his first contact with a practitioner. This huge and profound terrorist system finally reveals a trivial corner.
The cave is very small, and there is no so-called mechanism trap. After entering, a row of long lights lit up by itself.
Walking carefully in the cave, Su Yueman looked around curiously. It seemed that he did not expect that the practitioner's cave would be so simple, and there was nothing but lighting.
He doesn't know that what practitioners pursue all their lives is strength and long life. Few people care about other things.
Entering the depths of the cave, what appeared in front of Su Yue was a high platform. On the high platform were three things, a sword, a jade slip, and a brocade box.
Su Yue was happy. He was about to go up to have a look, but he was grabbed by his head and shook his head at him.
The things of the practitioner can't be moved casually. Sometimes things that seem to be harmless will be killed once touched. Su Yue doesn't understand these common sense, but he has to remind him.
After being stopped by Qier, Su Yue also woke up and looked at the high platform again, but found that there was a fourth thing on the high platform, a skeleton.
"Is this the remains of the original owner of the cave?"
Su Yue muttered and walked forward to find that although the owner of the cave had been dead for many years, his bones exuded a light jade color and a faint aura.
Qi'er suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Before this life, it was a perfect foundation, and he was only one step away from stepping into the spiritual platform, so his bones are not rotten."
Su Yue was stunned and asked, "It's daytime at this moment. How can you talk?"
The white fox jumped lightly to the high platform and said, "There is a prohibition in this cave, which is isolated from the outside world, so the aura can be sealed, which is far stronger than the Wu Pavilion, and even better than the essence of the moon, so I can speak."
Su Yue asked again, "Then why didn't you say anything before?"
Qi'er pointed to the white bone and sighed, "This is the test set by the owner of this cave. After the prince passed, the white bone was exposed, and at the same time, the prohibition also appeared, so that I could speak with the help of aura."
"The test of the owner of the cave?"
Su Yue is even more puzzled when he went through the test.
"Before every monk dies, if he wants to leave an inheritance, he will inevitably set a test. The stronger he is, the stronger the test will be. Some inheritance, even if everyone knows where it is, no one dares to cove it. It is because the cave owner was too strong before his life, and the test set up was too horrible. If he could not pass it, he would disappear.
"The cultivation of the owner of the cave is not high, but the perfection of building the foundation is also an unattainable state for the prince. If he is willing to test the prince, I'm afraid the prince will not pass."
"But fortunately, this is the human world. It is estimated that the owner of the cave also knows that it is difficult for monks to appear in the human world, so the test set up is very basic, which is to test people's hearts. The prince still remembers that when he first entered the cave, he only saw three things on the high platform, but there was no skeleton. If the prince is immersed in greed and goes straight to take three things, it will immediately trigger a ban and there will be no place to die. So I stopped the prince and let him wake up, and then the skeleton appeared, because the prince had been freed from greed.
Qi'er said.
"In this way, Qi'er saved my life again..."
Su Yue was a little creepy. How could he think that the inheritance of practitioners would be so dangerous.
"The prince should be glad that the owner of the cave does not have too much heart to test, otherwise, it will not be so easy to get this inheritance."
Qi'er smiled softly, and the words were quite relaxed. As she said, the test has passed, and now there is no need to be nervous.
The real test of this cave is actually the original intention. When you see the treasure, you will subconsciously be greedy. If you are influenced by greed, then you are not worthy to inherit Taoism and will be immediately banned and hanged. Su Yue thought for a while, but felt that the test was very exquisite, but he heard that this was only the simplest test. He couldn't help sighing in his heart. The road to practice was long, and it was really not so easy to go down.
"The prince can collect treasures now."
The child reminded.
Su Yue nodded, but did not move. He bowed to the white bone and said.
"The seniors opened up and let the juniors pass the test by chance. The younger generation is very grateful."
After worshiping, Su Yue grabbed Yu Jian with a little excitement.
As soon as he held Yu Jian, Su Yue's face was white, and his body staggered and almost fell down. Because at the moment when he held Yu Jian, a huge message poured into his sea of knowledge. Unexpectedly, he almost got out of his hand and left Yu Jian.
Finally, the things in the jade slips entered the sea of knowledge, and the jade slips also turned into ashes.
Su Yue closed his eyes and watched the information in the sea.
"I have been practicing Taoism for 200 years, and I have finally achieved something. I have built a perfect foundation and half a step on the spiritual platform. However, God's will plays tricks on people, and it is difficult to take a key step, so the longevity is exhausted and sits here. Later, if the younger generation gets my inheritance, they will make a vow to practice kendo and never give up for the rest of their lives. When Kendo is completed, you should rush to Zhouyu and dominate the three lifetimes!"
"The three things on the high platform are my flying sword. It is watered with my heart and blood. It can be subdued. There is a sword pill in the brocade box, which sealed my lifelong feelings. If I can subdue it, I will save a hundred years of hard work and go straight to the hall of Kendo!"
Two short sentences revealed a message that made Su Yue terrmented, and he muttered.
"Sword cultivation..."
Hearing this, his expression also changed, and a complex color gushed out on his face.
"It's actually Jian Xiu."