Chapter 631 The Hidden Cave Is Opened

Relative to the Wenwen Tree, he is currently located due north, that is -

The hurdles in acquired gossip.

The weather today is good, cloudless, and the peaks are indistinct. If you look far into the distance, you can actually see the peaks farther away.

The snow-capped Tianshu Peak and the nameless peak on its side.

That is the location of the Naturalization Tower.

Looking from He Lingchuan's perspective, the Naturalization Tower is a little east-south to the south!

He murmured: "Li?"

Isn’t the south just the departure position in the gossip of the day after tomorrow?

The Naturalization Tower, the Questioning Tree, and the huge rock he is standing on now basically form a straight line from south to north.

From this point of view, he should be looking in the right direction.

He Lingchuan turned around and continued heading north, that is, following the extension of this straight line.

There is no road ahead, and the mountain is very steep, all the way down to the bottom of the valley.

Then, he saw a pool of water.

In fact, this is a wall cave formed by cracks and concavities in the roots of the mountain, and has been washed away by running water over the years. Xushan has been weathered by wind, frost, rain and snow, and there are as many as eight hundred if not thousands of potholes and depressions like this.

But the water here is very clear, and you can't see the bottom; the water is not frozen, and there is still white steam coming out faintly.

The sharp rocks on all sides are like barriers, surrounding it in the middle, forming a rarely known paradise in the mountains. The surroundings were quiet, except for the occasional ape cry.

But what surprised him the most was that there was someone by the pool!

One male and one female.

The man is over forty years old, of medium build, with good clothes and a neatly trimmed beard.

The woman is in her early twenties, with an oval face, peach blossom eyes, and her hair styled in a feminine bun.

The man wrapped her in a silver rat cloak, and they hugged each other and kissed her.

He Lingchuan waited patiently for them to stop.

The woman pushed her companion away, her hair disheveled, and whispered: "My sister-in-law came with me. She is resting in front of Tianxuan Peak. I can't stay too long!"

The man was willing to let her go, so he held her and put her to the edge of the pool: "Don't panic, I will transfer your man away this time when I get back, so that he won't get in the way..."

Chidong is much warmer than other places. Should the pair of wild mandarin ducks want to take a bath in the hot spring? He Lingchuan grabbed a stone and flicked it out, hitting them at their feet with a click.

The two were startled.

When the man looked up and saw He Lingchuan, he couldn't help but be shocked, "Who are you!"

An outsider suddenly appeared here, and the woman quickly broke away and straightened her head.

He Lingchuan looked at him, then at her, blinked, and suddenly grinned: "It's not easy for you to seduce someone else's wife and have to go to a remote mountain."

"None of your business!" the man said angrily, "Get out of here!"

He Lingchuan jumped off the boulder and walked slowly over.

The woman's face turned red and she suddenly turned around and ran away.

Only then did He Lingchuan discover that there was a path going up the mountain beside the pool.

It seems that these two people did not jump over through the stone ridge.

"Aqian!" The man called back to her. Seeing that she didn't look back, he said angrily, "You brat, don't let me see you again!" After that, he turned to leave.

He Lingchuan crossed his arms and said, "If you want to die, just follow me."

"What's the meaning?"

"When she jumped down the path, an arm stretched out from the mountain col and helped her up." He Lingchuan cooed in the direction where the woman disappeared, "That was a man's arm, but she didn't scream and even started talking. ”

The woman did not scream out loud, but even talked to the other person carefully. It was obvious that both parties knew each other. Thanks to his good hearing, he heard the woman say: "There's someone coming up here again... hurry up..."

The man asked suspiciously: "What exactly do you want to say?"

"There are people ambushing here, waiting for you to go down, maybe there are more than one." The wind was blowing here just now, and He Lingchuan had already heard two heavy breathing sounds, "I don't know if this immortal dance will cost money or life."

Of course, now that he, an outsider, has stepped in, the guys behind the col have already retreated.

The man was shocked: "You're talking nonsense!"

"Didn't she invite you here today?"

The man immediately shut up and looked away.

It was indeed his subordinate's wife who spoke first and asked him to come to the mountain to play. She also found this small peak. There is no human habitation here. If someone falls into the valley and dies, he doesn't know how long it will take him to be discovered.

Is that black-hearted woman planning to kill him together with her husband?

The man swallowed and suddenly realized what he was doing. He raised his legs and climbed up the boulder.

Regardless of whether there is an ambush on the way down the mountain, wouldn't it be safe if he walked from the stone ridge to Tianji Peak?

Suddenly there was a flower in front of his eyes, and the young man who had been standing by the pool suddenly appeared on the big rock in front of him.

This time it looked like a ghost. The man was so frightened that his hands shook and almost slipped: "W-what do you want to do?"

He Lingchuan knelt down and grinned at him: "You're already here, why don't you do me a favor?"

"no no……"

…

He Lingchuan walked to the back of the col and saw that everyone was gone.

Come on, he saves the trouble.

I reached into the pool and found that the water was warm, even a little bit hot.

Yes, the terrain here is lower than that of Daoshu Cave, and it is also closer to the geothermal heat.

He casually cut a branch seven or eight feet long and probed into the water, but he still couldn't find the bottom.

Don't look at the fact that the diameter of this irregular pool is less than two feet, but it is actually being eroded deeper and deeper by the flowing water.

More importantly, He Lingchuan saw roots under the water.

Thick, snake-like tree roots.

He murmured: "Dongli enters Kanshui."

The "Kanshui" in the sermon of Lord Mu Ling refers to the pool directly north of the Wenwen tree, right?

He took out a turtle charm from his arms and hung it with fishing line.

This is the token left by Dongli Zhenren who passed away by the Xianling Lake. He asked someone with a predestined relationship to send it back to the Guihua Tower in Shouan Mountain (Xushan) and offered a reward.

But the last time He Lingchuan sent it back as he was told, the stone tower simply refused to accept it.

He Lingchuan kept thinking whether there were other reasons.

Until he heard the third sentence of the prayer from Mu Ling Zun:

"Dongli enters Kanshui."

The "Dongli" here actually refers to the tortoise shell left to him by Dongli Zhenren, which has the talisman engraved on it.

And from the perspective of the direction, it can also be said that it is the tortoise talisman that was rejected by the Guihua Tower in the south (Li position).

Then the "Kanshui" in the prayer, the water in the north (Kan position), is probably here.

So He Lingchuan threw the tortoise talisman into the pool and watched it slowly sink.

Something strange happened:

When the tortoise talisman sank, large groups of bubbles gurgled out of the pool, and the water level dropped sharply.

In just a dozen breaths, the pool was empty.

In front of He Lingchuan was a bottomless cave!

The entrance to the Daodao Peak cave that everyone had been searching for for hundreds of years was not on the Daodao Peak, but hidden here!

He Lingchuan saw a few copper coins by the water, which showed that occasionally someone would climb here and use the pool as a wishing pool to throw coins, but he didn't find anything unusual.

He Lingchuan grabbed the fishing line and took back the turtle talisman, and the water in the pool didn't rise again.

It seems that Venerable Mu Ling had long ago modified the rules for opening the cave, and used the turtle talisman of Master Dongli as the key to the door.

He Lingchuan threw a few stones into the cave.

They rolled down the cracks in the rocks, making a clanging sound.

It seems that this place is not deep or steep.

He Lingchuan patted the man behind him: "It's up to you."

He originally wanted to plot against the guards of Tianji Peak to do this. But isn't there a ready-made one in front of him? It's him.

The man had a wooden expression and stood behind him without saying a word, like a puppet.

He Lingchuan handed him a sack and he walked into the cave.

The water in the pool receded, revealing stone steps underneath, but they were a bit slippery.

But two feet down, the air around him became noticeably hotter, and the light became brighter the further down he went.

The man had been controlled by He Lingchuan and turned into his living puppet, and his words and actions were controlled by him for a short period of time.

This move was the "Heart Shadow Transmission" taught by Xi Yunhe, and it was the first time He Lingchuan used it.

He walked back directly, climbed all the way up, jumped over the stone ridge and returned to Tianji Peak.

There is also a small hill in the southwest of Tianji Peak, where a pavilion was built for tourists to stay. Now it is late autumn, and when people sit on the stone chair, the cold air rises from their buttocks, so the guests here come and go and don't stay for too long.

He Lingchuan leaned against the railing, pretending to look out from the railing, but in fact he was observing the newly opened cave through the puppet.

Now he was only a few dozen feet away from the puppet in a straight line, and he had not yet left the effective range of "Heart and Shadow Transmission".

This magical power still consumed a lot of real energy, thanks to his rich reserves. If it were half a year ago, his real energy would probably only be enough for a few dozen breaths.

Not all caves are small worlds in themselves, at least this one is not. It is just a space opened underground. The road under the puppet's feet became wider and wider, and the next second, the front opened up and came to a bright world.

Three feet in front of him was the golden red ocean of magma!

But the magma here was unusually quiet, and it had not flowed for a long time. It was not as noisy as under the Star Picking Tower, but only occasionally bubbled.

In theory, this was a world of high temperature and poisonous smoke, and a living person would have suffocated if he got so close.

However, the humanoid puppet felt a little hot, but his breathing was still smooth and there was no discomfort.

This was probably related to the runes on the surrounding rock walls and the ubiquitous tree roots.

Yes, the roots of the Tao Tree stretched straight into the ground, and He Lingchuan even saw some of them actually digging directly into the magma pool.

Is this tree not afraid of high temperatures?

Think about it again. The Tao Tree is more than 4,000 years old. The age of the Treasure Tree King has to be five times that of the Tao Tree. And this spiritual tree has also experienced a great catastrophe and has borne many attacks from gods and demons.

It should be able to withstand a little geothermal heat under Tianji Peak.

Only after seeing all this, He Lingchuan realized that the Tao Tree and Tianji Peak have completely merged into one, and it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. No wonder the Heavenly Palace left it alone, otherwise once the Tao Tree died, Tianji Peak would probably collapse.

This underground space was originally opened up by the overflow of magma, but the Dahuan Sect set up a talisman array here, relying on geothermal energy, and it has been running well for two thousand years. The magma is boiling, but the stone chamber is relatively cool, so a flowing wind is formed here, blowing to the top.

It can be seen that there is still a gap above, reaching the ground directly.