Chapter 68: Nine-Bend Winding Cave

Not long after, Wang Zhenqiu and the others successfully solved the group of people in the cave.

After reuniting, Zhang Chulan revealed his discovery, and the crowd suddenly realized, each of them terrified.

Without hesitation, they used their means one after another and rushed toward the cave just now.

But when they returned to the cave, Lin Yu's figure had long since disappeared, and only Baron was sitting quietly on the ground.

Xia Liuqing glared at Baron: "Foreigner, you let him run away?!"

"Let him run?"

Baron glanced at him, his tone a bit self-deprecating: "Do I have the qualifications to let that person run?"

The crowd was startled when they heard this. Wang Zhenqiu frowned, his eyes swept over the surrounding rock walls, and found no trace of fighting at all.

This is even more terrifying than the messy scene, because it shows that Baron had no power to resist in front of that person!

Wang Zhenqiu's heart sank.

Xia Liuqing and the others also discovered this, and their faces became a bit ugly.

Baron stood up and said calmly: "Don't worry, just like the cockroach girl said, he has no malice toward us, he just had a few questions he wanted to get answers to from me."

"As for what these questions are, that is my personal privacy, and I can't tell you for the time being..."

Speaking of this, he paused and looked at the crowd with some confusion.

"Why are there only you guys? Where is Zhang Chulan?"

What?!

Wang Zhenqiu's pupils shrank, and he turned his head sharply, sure enough, he did not see Zhang Chulan's figure.

... Damn it, just focusing on that mysterious young man, I actually forgot this guy!

Wang Zhenqiu gritted his teeth and showed a rare look of annoyance.

From the beginning, he felt that Zhang Chulan's purpose was not pure, but at that time he couldn't figure out the reason.

Now it seems that his guess was indeed correct. Zhang Chulan would rather take such a risk to act alone, which shows that what he wants is highly likely in Wugensheng's collection!

Thinking of this, Wang Zhenqiu immediately ran, ignoring the astonished eyes of the crowd, and rushed out of the cave.

According to the structure of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Heaven-Reaching Valley, after passing through the Three-Vehicle Power Valley, it is the cave named "What is a Person".

If that narrow valley symbolizes the human spine, then the cave is the head connected to the spine.

And at the focus of this cave, which is the Baihui acupoint of the head, there is a high-platform building similar to a temple.

After obtaining the "Six-Storehouse Immortal Thief", Lin Yu took He Jingfeng through the chaotic battlefield and quietly arrived here.

Walking up the high platform along the stone steps, Lin Yu stopped and looked at the two sunken footprints in front of him: "You have seen the plot, so leave the matter of opening the door to you!"

"Alright."

He Jingfeng nodded, then squatted down, channeled Qi to his fingertips, and pointed at the Yongquan acupoints of the two footprints respectively.

In an instant, a loud rumbling sound came from the ground, and the stone bricks in the center of the high platform sank, revealing a huge Taiji pattern.

Immediately after, the two Taiji Yin-Yang fish moved, slowly opening to both sides like a stone door, revealing the secret passage entrance hidden under the Taiji pattern, and the spiral stone steps in the entrance.

And under these stone steps is the inheritance left by Daoist Master Zi Yang Zhang Boduan in the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley!

Back then, Wugensheng solved this puzzle but didn't tell anyone, only giving Jin Feng two hints.

The first hint was the name of the cave "What is a Person", and the second hint was a simple word "Sincerity".

Through the name "What is a Person", and the structure of the valley and cave similar to the spine and head, it can be inferred that the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley is teaching living beings how to be a person.

The monkey whose Du meridian was opened by the Three-Vehicle Power will gradually stand upright, which shows that the person in the eyes of Daoist Master Zi Yang must first be able to stand upright between heaven and earth.

But just standing upright is not enough; the cultivator also needs a "sincerity".

Sincerity is trust, and it is also the way of heaven. The way of heaven is the rule of world operation, without any room for maneuver. People following the way of heaven must also implement it 100%, without any discount.

Therefore, the lying-down spine valley and the head cave are not truly standing upright.

The two inconspicuous footprints on the high platform are the real answer to solving this puzzle.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by bursts of roaring, the Taiji Yin-Yang fish opened completely.

Lin Yu took a step, brought He Jingfeng into the secret passage, and followed the spiral stone steps to the bottom.

Here, there is a square stone cave, with the four characters "Human Body is Hard to Obtain" engraved above the entrance. Judging from the handwriting, it should have been left by Daoist Master Zi Yang back then.

Lin Yu stepped into the stone cave, and what caught his eye was an extremely spacious grotto.

Many dense small characters were engraved on the cave wall, some of which had been erased, and the remaining handwriting was scattered. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it can be restored.

"This Wugensheng is truly not a human son!"

Lin Yu looked at the erased handwriting and said with some gnashing of teeth: "He felt that Daoist Master Zi Yang was messing around as a teacher, so he modified the valley on his own initiative and erased the inheritance left by others."

"Little did he know that the strength of the Qi maze outside the valley had long ago made a strict screening of those who entered the valley."

"Any cultivator who can break into the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley has a deep Dao practice and a high understanding of arithmetic."

"If you really want to talk about it, Daoist Master Zi Yang was just looking for a successor who could inherit his own Dao lineage. It was you, the lawless leader of the School of Yangism, who used the particularity of the Divine Bright Spirit to trigger a bug and used the exhaustive method to find the correct path, which gave ordinary people outside the qualification to enter the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley!"

Lin Yu became more and more angry as he spoke, and finally couldn't help but make a move. His consciousness swept over and erased the five characters "Nine-Bend Winding Cave" that Wugensheng used to accuse Daoist Master Zi Yang of messing around as a teacher on the stone wall.

And the moment his consciousness swept over the stone wall, Lin Yu suddenly sensed that something seemed to be left in the stone wall.

His heart moved, and he immediately used his consciousness to contact it, and sure enough, he received a clear mental fluctuation.

"Human body is hard to obtain, time is easy to change, it is hard to measure the length of cultivation, how to escape karma..."

"Those who refine the golden liquid and return the elixir are hard to meet and easy to succeed. They must understand Yin and Yang and deeply reach the creation, only then can..."

Lin Yu's eyes lit up: "Is this Daoist Master Zi Yang's 'Wuzhen Chapter'?"

He just said it!

As an existence suspected to be an immortal in the worldview of "Under One Person", how could Daoist Master Zi Yang's inheritance be easily destroyed?

Although the handwriting on the stone wall is gone, the remaining charm is still there, which can be considered a gain!

Lin Yu immediately turned anger into joy and happily accepted the "Wuzhen Chapter".

Seeing this scene, He Jingfeng's mouth twitched, knowing that his Big Brother Lin was not speaking up for Daoist Master Zi Yang at all, but just feeling sorry for the inheritance erased by Wugensheng!

Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps came from above the stone steps.

Lin Yu had already obtained what he wanted most, so he turned around without nostalgia and said happily:

"Let's go, Little He, let's go see Zhang Chulan..."

At the same time, Zhang Chulan shook off the crowd and arrived at this high platform first.

According to the map provided by Granny Jin Feng, this is where Wugensheng's collection is located.

"If I didn't guess wrong before, Wugensheng's collection had long been taken away by the people behind the scenes, but even so, they still gathered such a team and deliberately arrived at this valley on the same day as us."

"This shows that besides Wugensheng's collection, they have other purposes..."

To verify this guess, Zhang Chulan risked offending everyone and took advantage of the time when everyone went to find Baron to break into this high platform alone.

But... why is there nothing here?

No, it's not that there is nothing, it's that someone has arrived first!

Zhang Chulan's expression was grim, his eyes locked tightly on the entrance of the secret passage.

The next second, unhurried footsteps came from the secret passage.

Two figures stepped on the stone steps and appeared in front of Zhang Chulan.

"It's you?!"

Looking at that familiar face, Zhang Chulan's heart sank.

Lin Yu smiled slightly and asked knowingly: "Zhang Chulan, what are you looking for?"

After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Chulan to answer, Lin Yu took out an oil painting on his own and said with a half-smile: "Is it this?"

"..."

Zhang Chulan's pupils shrank, staring tightly at the oil painting that had some years on it.

I saw that the oil painting clearly depicted a smiling little girl with a delicate face, clear eyes, wearing clothing from the Republic of China period, and braiding a thick braid...

No matter from which angle you look at it, it looks like a smaller version of Feng Baobao!

Lin Yu admired the oil painting in his hand and clicked his tongue in wonder: "Although I don't like Wugensheng, I have to admit that he is indeed a talented cultivator. Even the oil paintings that spread from the West back then can have such attainments!"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Chulan and smiled: "The little girl in this painting is Feng Baobao beside you, right?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 69 =====