Chunyang First Headmaster

Chapter 28 Adventures in the Cave
"Where am I..."

Chu Xun moved slightly and woke up slowly.

"I... didn't die?" This was Chu Xun's first thought.

But when he saw the situation around him clearly, the little bit of luck that he had survived the catastrophe immediately disappeared.

I was lying in the bottom of the valley, the surroundings were dark, dark and damp, and the air was filled with stale musty smell.

He tried his best to sit up, but his whole body was so weak that he couldn't even move a little finger.

"Why didn't I die... Jumping off such a high cliff, is it true that I, Chu Xun, really hate people? Even God won't accept me."

Looking at the towering cliff above his head, Chu Xun discovered that there were clumps of plants growing horizontally in the stone wall, and he was probably buffered by these plants all the way, so he was lucky not to fall to his death.

Chu Xun lay quietly on the soft ground. It took some time before he regained some strength and struggled to stand up.

The goal was a long and narrow valley. Countless dead branches and leaves and rotten fruits were thickly spread on the bottom of the valley. The place where I just lay down was deeply sunken, forming a complete human shape.

"Hehe..." He laughed twice in a hoarse voice, he didn't know whether he was smiling wryly or rejoicing, shook his head, and sighed, "Unexpectedly, I can't even die now."

He staggered forward, even though the twigs hung up his clothes in tatters, he didn't seem to notice, he just moved forward with difficulty.

"what?"

In front of the stone wall, there is a cave as high as a person. If you look inside, you can't see your fingers. It's so dark that it penetrates people.

"Anyway, they are all people who are going to die. If there are any beasts and poisonous snakes inside, it will be clean after a bite!"

Chu Xun made up his mind, groped his body for a while, took out flint, lit a few dead branches as torches, and walked into the depths of the cave step by step.

Unexpectedly, there was a flat path inside the cave.

He was still extremely weak at this moment, dragging his heavy steps, moving deeper step by step.

Except for the sound of my own footsteps and heartbeat in the darkness, the silence was so maddening.

Although the aisle is very long, at the end of the walk, there is a musty and damp smell, which makes Chu Xun sneezes a few times.

The flames extended to the end, Chu Xun looked intently, and when he saw the situation in the cave clearly, he couldn't help being so shocked that the hairs all over his body stood on end, and dense goose bumps suddenly appeared on his skin.

In front of you is a stone cave with a radius of more than ten feet. Two thick stone pillars stand in the cave, and the surface is engraved with mysterious lines.

In the middle of the stone pillar, a skinny old man sat cross-legged, his limbs were tightly locked by thick and long iron chains, extending all the way to the thick stone pillar.

The old man had been imprisoned for an unknown amount of time, his hair and beard were dragging on his chest like messy hay, and his whole body was covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Huh—" Chu Xun took a heavy breath, and his frightened mood gradually calmed down.

Although the situation in front of him was extremely weird, it was just a dead person after all.

He didn't dare to touch the corpse indiscriminately, but looked around for a while, and saw that there were no other traces in the cave except for the stone pillar and the corpse.

"I don't know who this prisoner is. Since he intends to put him to death, it's better to hack him to death. Why bother to build this chain of stone pillars?"

Chu Xun's gaze fell on the thick stone pillar, and he tried to touch the exquisite stone patterns with his hands. After a while, he couldn't guess what these patterns meant.

Under the light of the fire, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some handwriting on the ground in front of the corpse.

With courage, Chu Xun walked to the side of the corpse step by step, stretched out his head to carefully read the handwriting on the ground, and read it slowly.

"My name is Yuesha."

"Across the rivers and lakes for dozens of years, willing to enmity and hatred, killing everyone who can be killed, proud of the world."

"From time to time, there is the sword master Yun Xiao, who told me that I have entered the way of the devil, so what about the devil? Doing what you want is your nature!"

"On the Fourth Nine of the Chongming Dynasty, Xiao invited 13 righteous swordsmen to defeat me at the foot of Qilian Mountain..."

As Chu Xun read the line, he couldn't help being secretly surprised.

"Chongming Sijiu, that's already 120 years!"

Thinking back 120 years ago, this old man fought all over the world and fought with thirteen swordsmen. The battle must have been earth-shattering.

Chu Xun was anxious to read the text behind, and dragged his feet forward a few steps, but unexpectedly, with a clang, the chain that was locked on the stone pillar was pulled.

When the chain moved, it dragged the corpse forward, and then straightened it again, which shocked Chu Xun's dead soul.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it has been dead for more than 100 years..."

He collected himself and was about to continue looking at the handwriting in front of the old man when he stopped suddenly.

——Because he suddenly remembered a problem that he had been ignoring all along.

"Since it has been dead for more than 100 years...why...why is this corpse still not rotten?"

Chu Xun bravely stretched out the torch in front of the corpse bit by bit, but suddenly found that the eyes of the "corpse" were opened in the messy hair, shining with a strange green light, which was unblinking. staring at himself.

"Ah—" In the cave, Chu Xun's screams rang out.

He was so startled that the hairs on his body stood on end, and his hair even felt standing upright. He backed up again and again, and sat down on the ground. The torch also fell, and the light of the fire quickly shrank and disappeared, and the cave was suddenly dark.

"Boy, don't be afraid!"

A hoarse voice resounded faintly in the cave.

Probably because he hadn’t spoken for a long time, the old man’s voice seemed extremely strange. Not only was his speech slurred, but he also seemed to be weak, and his voice was as thin as a gnat. I can't really hear what he's saying.

"My whole body is trapped by this sky-locking chain, I can't move, let alone harm you!"

Chu Xun's frightened mind calmed down a little, and he was relieved when he thought that the old man was indeed firmly locked on the stone pillar.

"You, are you a human or a ghost?"

"Hehehe..." The old man laughed a few times and replied, "What do you think?"

Chu Xun took courage, fumbled and lit the torch again.Stretch the torch forward little by little.

Under the light of the fire, the old man also slowly raised his head.I saw that his upper body was empty, and his lower body was wearing a pair of almost rotten fur pants. His whole body was shriveled, and the thick joints seemed to be pierced from under the skin. His head was full of dry long hair, and his beard was even longer than his hair. Can't see faces clearly.

"Not bad, not bad, although he doesn't have much cultivation, but his courage is different from ordinary people." The old man's green eyes flickered under the firelight, and his speech gradually became fluent, "I didn't get scared by the old man, and he was able to do it so quickly. To be free from fear is a big deal."

Chu Xun opened his mouth, but found that he had nothing to say, and asked after a while, "Are you Yue Sha?"

"Hahaha!" The old man's laughter was as sharp as an eagle's owl, "I don't think anyone knows the name of this old man? Kid, what is the age now?"

"The 33rd year of the Yuan Dynasty. More than 120 years have passed since the Fourth Ninth Festival of the Ming Dynasty..."

It's been 120 years... The old man sighed faintly, "Sword Master Yun and others must have been turned into loess."

Chu Xun rubbed his nose, feeling that it is better not to talk too much with the old man, so he cupped his hands and said, "Farewell, junior!"

"The viscera and six internal organs have all been displaced, and the meridians have been dislocated, and they are almost exhausted. Boy, if you can live for more than three days after going out from here, it will be considered that the old man is blind." Xun trembled all over.

"How do you know?" Chu Xun stopped in surprise.

"Hmph, judging from your signs, it's clear that you fell from a very high place. Could it be that the old man can't see that?" If so, your life will not be long. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you take a deep breath and try?”

"Oh—" Chu Xun nodded expressionlessly, turned around and was about to leave.

"Boy, are you not afraid of death?"

There was a hint of doubt in the old man's tone.

"If you are afraid of death, why would you jump off the cliff?" Chu Xun shook his head with a wry smile, unwilling to talk to the old man.

"No wonder you have no fear in your heart! It turns out that you have the desire to die early!" The voice of the old man came from behind, "However, do you have your parents alive? What else is on your mind? Or... there is something unspeakable, you must die Why?"

The look in Chu Xun's eyes gradually disappeared.

Because the old man's words aroused countless thoughts in Chu Xun's heart.

That's right, it doesn't matter if I die. The poor old father who is over fifty years old is still working hard on Zhuangzi, waiting for me to go back.

The vast majority of Zhuangzi have the surname Ye, and those who migrated from other surnames are almost bullied everywhere.

My mother died young, my father was simple and honest, he was bullied by the big family in the village, and he just laughed and let it go.In order to be able to read and write for himself, the old father almost gave up everything, kneeling in front of his master's door and begging.

Although he worked extremely hard in the school, he didn't get praise and awards, but satire and sarcasm more.The goal of getting ahead has become out of reach.

Until I saw a martial arts genius from a family with the same foreign surname, who was accepted as a core disciple by the sect, that family became very popular almost overnight.Chu Xun's mind was immediately touched.

He doesn't have too many pursuits, perhaps his biggest goal is to make his father's life better.As for being bullied by peers, being scolded as useless countless times-what does it matter?As long as one can embark on this road of seeking martial arts, everything will be easily solved.

Chu Xun stood there quietly, but the old man was also silent, and the cave fell into an indescribable silence.

"You..." Chu Xun finally turned his head slowly, looked directly at the old man locked in the stone pillar, and said word by word, "...What exactly do you want to say?"

The corner of the old man's mouth was raised, showing a very strange smile.

"I will teach you how to save your life, and I will also allow you to acquire superior martial arts skills." The old man's expression gradually became serious, "What you have to do is to help me find out the truth about an incident that happened back then."

(End of this chapter)