Chapter 036 – He has been here


The river is so turbulent, if I jump in, I won’t drown, but I’ll be swept away by the current, won’t I?

What should I do?

It would be too embarrassing to admit that I can’t swim at this moment.

Just as Li Changqing was pondering what to do, Yin Changli suddenly blurted out anxiously, “Master, I can’t swim!”

“Good lad!” Li Changqing couldn’t help but glance at Yin Changli, suspecting that Yin Changli might be his real son.

“No worries.” Xu Muhai waved his hand, and a palm print instantly suppressed down.

“Freeze!”

With a single word, the raging river beneath the palm print froze instantly. At the same time, the palm print created a huge pit in the river, reaching the riverbed.

The surrounding water stopped flowing.

Such a miraculous technique greatly shocked Yin Changli.

“The Five Absolute Seals of Dao Mountain Ancient Land truly live up to their reputation.” Mu Qingge also sighed.

“We should hurry in, I’m afraid it won’t hold for long.” Xu Muhai urged.

“Let’s go!”

Without hesitation, they stepped into the deep pit.

Li Changqing took a deep breath and jumped in.

Li Changqing hadn’t expected the riverbed to be so deep, probably sixty meters. If an ordinary person jumped in, they would either drown or die from the fall.

Looking up at the frozen river above his head, Li Changqing’s heart pounded. If Xu Muhai’s Five Absolute Seals couldn’t hold, and the river collapsed, he would be swept away and die here.

But the moment they all landed on the riverbed, in the pitch-black bottom, they could see a rockery with a dark cave entrance. The Golden Silk Linlang Beast was waiting for them there.

Seeing them arrive, the Golden Silk Linlang Beast was the first to crawl into the cave.

“Be careful.” Mu Qingge reminded, her silver needle ready in her hand, prepared to act if anything went wrong.

Xu Muhai also nodded solemnly.

They entered the dark cave, which was winding and narrow.

Li Changqing, Mu Qingge, and Yin Changli were fine, but Xu Muhai, who was slightly overweight, had a hard time moving.

After a long and winding journey that lasted half an incense stick’s time, Li Changqing finally saw a glimmer of light ahead.

“We’re out.” Li Changqing stepped out of the narrow cave entrance.

The scene that greeted him was astonishing.

There was indeed a huge cave here, so deep that the bottom was not visible.

Just the part of the cave in front of them was about the size of two football fields.

Various glowing stones were embedded in the top of the cave, illuminating the entire cave so it wasn’t dark at all.

What surprised Li Changqing even more was that this place was clearly under the river, but there was not a drop of water.

All over the ground were various kinds of broken weapons and armor.

Swords, spears, halberds, everything was there.

They were scattered all over the ground, surrounded by piles of rotten wooden racks, as if these things had been placed here before and had been rummaged through.

“It seems someone has been living here in seclusion.” Xu Muhai and the others also came out and couldn’t help but comment on the situation.

“Master, this place looks like a treasure vault. There are many divine weapons and armors, but it’s a pity that they’re all decayed.” Yin Changli picked up a sword.

The sword should have been a good one, but it was broken.

Even the tassel was rotten.

“Because it’s been too long, very few divine weapons can remain intact for so many years.” Mu Qingge explained.

“It seems someone came here before us and rummaged around.” Xu Muhai walked over and saw several torn scrolls lying on the ground not far away.

The scrolls had lost their spiritual energy, and one could vaguely see that they depicted several spirit beasts.

“The spirit beasts in these paintings should have been guarding this place. Someone came and disturbed this place, then fought a great battle with the spirit beasts in the paintings, and finally left.” Xu Muhai speculated.

“It seems that the Golden Silk Linlang Beast is the only surviving spirit beast from the paintings.” Mu Qingge also wanted to go over and take a look, but after only two steps, she stepped on something.

Looking down, it was a red bead.

“This is…”

She picked up the red bead and found it to be very new, not like something from this cave.

“Red Water Stone?” Mu Qingge raised an eyebrow, “Red Water Stones are only found in the Cloud Wasteland, how could it appear here?”

Hearing this, Xu Muhai also came over and looked at the red bead. He seemed to think of something and quickly looked around on the ground.

“What are you looking for?” Seeing Xu Muhai’s reaction, Mu Qingge asked curiously.

“This.” Xu Muhai walked a few steps forward and picked up a rusty iron box. Inside the box, there was a square-shaped hole where something was missing.

“What is this?” Mu Qingge asked in surprise.

“Something here was taken away.” Xu Muhai took a deep breath, “The person who came here was Yan Dongchen from Yin Shilou. He took the Qishan Order from here, killed several spirit beasts from the paintings, and was probably injured by the Golden Silk Linlang Beast, which forced him to leave.”

“The Qishan Order has appeared?” Mu Qingge said in surprise.”Hmm.” Xu Muhai nodded, then sneakily glanced at Li Changqing not far away.

Li Changqing was still looking at the things in the hall with interest, completely ignoring what they were saying.

This left Xu Muhai quite puzzled.

In Xu Muhai’s view, it was somewhat unreasonable for Li Changqing to give the Qishan Order to his son, Li Hengsheng.

Entrusting the Qishan Order to a small warrior in the Transcendence Realm, wasn’t that asking for trouble?

How could the Ghost Clan possibly let it go?

What exactly was Li Changqing planning?

“I’ll explain the matter of the Qishan Order to you in detail later. I’m now interested in the identity of the owner of this cave.” Xu Muhai looked towards the depths of the cave.

At this time, the Golden Silk Linlang Beast also called out to the few people, seemingly wanting them to go inside.

“Let’s go, let’s go in and take a look.” Li Changqing said to the others.

Seeing that Li Changqing had said so, the others also agreed.

There was really nothing valuable here, all were junk, which made Li Changqing feel a bit frustrated. He came in to make a fortune, not to collect waste.

As they went deeper and deeper, Yin Changli, who was following behind, suddenly exclaimed, “There’s a scent of plants and trees!”

“Plants and trees scent?” Xu Muhai sniffed, but asked when he didn’t smell anything.

“It seems there should be herbs or something inside.” Mu Qingge laughed and said, “My disciple has a Xuanmu body, which is naturally sensitive and affinity to herbs. He can smell it, but I’m afraid you, Daoist Xu, can’t.”

“Xuanmu body, a natural-born Grandmaster of pill refining.” Xu Muhai also said with envy, “Your Medical King Valley is about to produce another remarkable junior.”


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