Chapter 344: Visiting the Mountain

Liu Xiao blinked his eyes, seriously digesting the news brought by Lin Shuangyu. After a while, he asked: "Why is your sect so eager to participate in the war?"

Lin Shuangyu said: "Do you know why the dispute between the Jinting Sect and the Qingyu Sect started?"

Liu Xiao thought for a while and said: "When I was in your sect, I heard Altar Master Wu of the Baofeng Temple mention it, saying it was about fighting for a treasure?"

Lin Shuangyu nodded: "It is indeed a treasure, a treasure that can open an ancient cave dwelling."

"A key?"

"Something like that."

"So, Lin Shijie, you want to go to the ancient cave dwelling?"

"Right, who doesn't want to go?"

Liu Xiao really didn't want to go.

In his cognition, finding what treasure in an ancient cave dwelling, or gaining what realization from exploring a void crack, usually happens to those outstanding geniuses, such as the four young outstanding talents in Jingxiang, Jing Zhao of the Qingyu Sect, Sun Zhenliu of the Dongyang Sect, Lu Yuanlang of the Tianmu Mountain, Qu Xuanzhi of the Zhanglong Sect, etc. If one day, Liu Xiao heard that one of them had suddenly attained immortality, he wouldn't feel strange at all.

Liu Xiao had no heaven-defying talent and had a relatively clear assessment of himself. He couldn't afford such an encounter. As a Wulong Mountain cultivator, when encountering an opportunity, even if there was a 30% or 40% possibility, he dared to fight for it, but if there wasn't even a 10% possibility, and it was very likely to cost his life, then it was better to stay far away.

Therefore, what was a great opportunity for Lin Shuangyu and the others was two life-and-death hurdles for Liu Xiao: first, be cannon fodder to charge and fight, then go up the mountain of knives and down the sea of fire and into the oil pan...

Liu Xiao didn't dare to go himself, but he didn't oppose Lin Shuangyu and the others going. Lin Shuangyu belonged to the outstanding figures. Not only was she from a famous sect, but she was also a sword cultivator. This opportunity was the best trial for her. It was just that he was quite puzzled, why did Lin Shuangyu have to take this small path of his?

"Lin Shijie, do you really want to participate in the war in the name of my Three Mystical Sect? Using the name of my Three Mystical Sect and just gathering a sect out of thin air seems to be no different, right? It's not that I don't want to help with this favor. If you really want to use it, I have no words. That Sect Master token can be lent to you. I'm just curious."

Lin Shuangyu was very certain: "No way, I really have to ask Xiaolou to help with this favor. This kind of dispute over an ancient cave dwelling is participated in by ancient sects. Our South Sea Sword Sect is naturally an ancient great sect that has been established for thousands or ten thousand years, but who let us not be able to go? I can't visit any ancient sects for a while, so I can only join your Three Mystical Sect."

Liu Xiao finally woke up: "Ancient sect... Sect Master token?"

Lin Shuangyu was gratified: "Since Xiaolou knows about the Sect Master token, it means what the Su family said is true."

"The Su family... told you?"

"Yes, Xiaolou won't blame them, right?"

"Ah, no, no. Being able to help Lin Shijie is a good thing... It's just that I don't quite understand, why must an ancient sect participate? This rule... is quite strange."

"After the ancient cave dwelling is opened, you need the Sect Master token of an ancient sect to enter. It's that simple."

Liu Xiao nodded while pondering, and asked Lin Shuangyu to wait here, while he went to the peak.

Reaching out and summoning, he summoned the Sect Master token array plate from under the stone crevice. The spiritual eye immediately closed. Soon, the smell of spiritual power could no longer be smelled on the peak.

Bai and Xiao Hei widened their eyes, turning around anxiously on the peak, trying hard to find it, but they couldn't find anything.

Even the thunder fire essence that settled in the stone crevice had a response to this change, and the flame jumped a few times.

Pulling out the array key, the three Sect Master tokens were disassembled. The two tokens of the Ziji Sect and the Xingming Sect were taken back into the Qiankun bag, and his own Three Mystical token was held in his palm. Going down to the courtyard, he handed it to Lin Shuangyu: "Lin Shijie, is this it?"

Lin Shuangyu took it and looked at it, nodding: "Not bad, this is it." Soon she handed it back to Liu Xiao.

Liu Xiao held it and looked at it over and over again, but still couldn't feel any spirituality or abnormality, but he did indeed know that this thing was indeed strange. Otherwise, how to explain that it could be used to refine into an array plate, and could also find and open the spiritual eye?

Holding such a thing, how should one enter the ancient cave dwelling?

Perhaps knowing Liu Xiao's thoughts, Lin Shuangyu said: "I heard my master say that holding the token allows entry, and you will know when the time comes."

Liu Xiao nodded: "Then I should now..."

Lin Shuangyu said: "Visit the mountain, visit Zhanglong Mountain."

Coming down from Wulong Mountain, following the Wuchao River downstream, passing Wuchao Town, and walking more than ten miles, he abandoned the bamboo raft and went ashore, then walked one hundred and fifty miles northeast, which was Goose Mountain, where the Zang family, whom Liu Xiao helped harvest spirit fields in the past, lived.

In fact, Goose Mountain and Zhanglong Mountain are connected. The spirit fields under Goose Mountain originate from the spiritual power branches of Zhanglong Mountain. Bypassing Goose Mountain, in front is Zhanglong Mountain.

Entering from the valley and climbing for about four or five miles, a stone pillar mountain gate was already visible in front. On the smooth stone wall, there was a sword mark left by an unknown time. The sword mark crossed four simple seal characters—Tai Fu Jin Ding.

A blessed land is not a cave heaven; it is a place where spiritual springs and spiritual eyes gather, not a void small world.

The main peak behind the mountain gate is Tai Fu Jin Ding. The top of the mountain has no dangerous trend and is quite flat. Among the lush greenery, several golden-roofed halls are hidden. Standing at the mountain gate, one can already faintly feel the breath of spiritual power.

This is the blessed land of Zhanglong Mountain, with rich spiritual springs, and it is said that there is more than one.

Liu Xiao was not here for the first time. When he was a child, he followed his teacher to visit the mountain gate many times to appeal to the Zhanglong Sect and complain about the injustice they encountered as master and apprentice. Sometimes the appeal had a response, and sometimes it was useless. He was quite familiar with this mountain gate. At once, he walked to the left side of the mountain gate, grabbed a green bamboo, pulled it back, let go, and the bamboo pole bounced forward.

With a "puff" sound, the green bamboo knocked into the dense bamboo leaves in front, making a soft, defeated leather sound. Liu Xiao was stunned, and pulled the bamboo pole forward two more times, continuously making "puff" and "puff" sounds.

Someone came down from the winding path inside the mountain gate, frowned and stopped him: "Enough, enough, stop!"

Liu Xiao pointed to where the bamboo pole knocked: "Sixth Hou Hou Guanshi, should I change the tool?"

This inner gate Sixth Hou Hou Guanshi of the Zhanglong Sect looked up and said angrily: "There is too much rain this year!" As he spoke, he flew out a short sword, cut down the bamboo leaves and bamboo branches, revealing a red copper drum behind.

Liu Xiao stared carefully. His technique looked like a flying sword method, but it was actually a throwing path. After many years, this inner gate steward was still at Qi Refinement Stage 10, and he didn't know if he had reached perfection.

When he bounced the bamboo pole again, it made a "dong" drum sound.

The Sixth Hou Hou Guanshi nodded, put the short sword back into his sleeve, and then turned to look at Liu Xiao: "It's Xiaolou? It's been many years since I've seen you. I thought you were dead... Why did you come up the mountain today?" ===== CHAPTER 345 =====