Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 221 0220: Treasure Cave!

Cheng Zongyang thought it would be nearby, but he ended up following the mole for a whole day and night!
This distance was far beyond Cheng Zongyang's expectations.

"This location should be in the Tianduan Mountain area south of the county, right?" Cheng Zongyang corresponded to some places in his mind.

But these are just speculations, so we can only continue to follow the mole.

Finally, when it was almost dawn, they arrived at a cliff.

Without the mole saying anything, he noticed a hole in the ground and a lot of rubble that had been dug out.

Looking at this cave, Cheng Zongyang looked at the surrounding cliffs again. It didn't look like a place with gold mines or silver mines.

When he arrived at the entrance of the cave, Cheng Zongyang saw the mole stopped at the entrance, and then he saw it crawling down into the cave.

Climbing the cave entrance?
Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang had no choice but to follow. He had no doubts about the mole beast.

But in order to ensure that nothing would follow them down, they took out a magnet and placed it next to the cave entrance, and then followed the mole beast down.

Because they were underground, the geomagnetic field had little effect on the mole beast, and the beast and the man gradually crawled down.

The underground passage is quite long, and the route dug by the mole is winding, not straight down.

After climbing down for nearly a quarter of an hour, I finally saw the mole falling.

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang knew the place.

Sure enough, after the mole beast landed, he heard a muffled sound. Cheng Zongyang crawled forward another meter or two, and reached out his hand to touch nothing.

"I didn't expect there was a cave underground." Although Cheng Zongyang couldn't see clearly, he could feel it vaguely.

It was pitch dark in the underground passage, but he didn't wait any longer and continued to crawl forward, then he climbed on the edge of the wall with both hands and jumped down. As a result, he landed on the ground immediately after he jumped.

The height was estimated to be only about two or three meters, and I suddenly felt a little awkward. I thought it would be very high.

However, the surrounding environment was extremely dark, and he immediately disappeared from the spot and entered the wilderness world.

He took out several torches and tinders from the wilderness, lit them one by one, and stuck them into the ground.

With the light of four torches, the situation of the underground cave could be seen clearly.

When he saw this, he was a little stunned.

This cave is quite large, covering an area of ​​about 100 to 200 square meters. The walls are somewhat smooth, which is not natural but man-made.

But in the middle of front of him there were a lot of large boxes piled up, but these boxes had rotted, revealing the yellow and white things he had always dreamed of.

The gold and silver were scattered on the ground, and among them were many poisonous insects such as centipedes and spiders that ran out due to the light and noise.

Cheng Zongyang swallowed his saliva. There were several large rotten boxes piled up in the right corner, and many colorful gems reflecting light were scattered on the ground.

On the left wall, Cheng Zongyang also saw several corpses sitting against the wall.

Seeing this, he never imagined that the mole would find a treasure cave!

He first took out a magnet to suppress the poisonous insects inside to avoid any accidental injuries. At the same time, he also placed a stone leather purse on the mole beast and rewarded it with ten red blood pills.

The mole was very happy to see this, and took the pill to the side and started eating it.

Cheng Zongyang ignored it and inserted three of the torches in three locations in the cave to make the light inside brighter. He held one in his hand.

Now he started to check them one by one.

Because of the magnet, all the poisonous insects in the cave were unable to move and fainted.

Cheng Zongyang took out his Tang sword and rummaged through all the gold and jewelry. He also checked the box and was grinning from ear to ear when he saw that it was full of treasures.

Although we don’t know how much there is, but looking at the countless boxes piled up in the middle of the cave, it means that the amount of gold and silver is not low, and each one is a gold ingot.

Cheng Zongyang took another quick look at the gold and silver ingots, and when he saw the mark of fifty taels engraved on the bottom, the smile on his face became even more difficult to suppress.

"This amount should be far more than what Li Lu brought back!"

Putting down the treasures, he came to the place where the four corpses were.

The four bodies, which had already turned into skeletons, were leaning against the wall one by one. Their bodies were already covered with dust. After a little scraping, it was found that they were covered with armor and their weapons were placed beside them.

"Soldiers?" Cheng Zongyang looked puzzled. He then knocked on their bones with a knife, making a ding-ding sound.

This time, he was even more shocked!

According to normal thinking, the boxes used to store treasures are not made of ordinary wood. He had just checked the wood and it was indeed not ordinary wood.

But these wooden boxes have rotted into this state, which means they have been here for quite some time.

Although there are environmental factors involved, it still took more than ten years to achieve this appearance.

The fact that after more than ten years, the bones of these corpses are still so hard is enough to prove one thing!

These people were all warriors in their lifetime, and some of them were above the middle third rank, otherwise their bones would not be so hard.

With this guess, and looking at their sitting postures, it is obvious that they all died peacefully.

starve?

suicide?

Cheng Zongyang continued to check around with doubts. As a result, he saw a passageway covered with spider webs.

I burned the spider webs with fire and walked inside with the help of the firelight. I also found some boxes around the three-meter-wide passage. The rotten wooden boxes also revealed weapons and armor!

Although these weapons and armors have long been rusted, there are still quite a few of them.

"Are these people not soldiers from the Daliang court?"

Cheng Zongyang was a little puzzled, wondering who would store so much treasure here.

But it was useless to think too much, so he followed the passage to the exit and found that the entrance was closed by a stone door.

He clapped his hands lightly, making a clapping sound, and his intuition was quite heavy.

"That shouldn't be the case." Cheng Zongyang frowned. "If those people are warriors above the third rank, with their internal strength, they should be able to open the stone door, right?"

Thinking of this, Cheng Zongyang suddenly circulated his true energy, and with a "bang", he slammed the stone gate with his full-strength Vajra Palm.

In an instant, the cave was shaking, and dust was scattered and falling, making Cheng Zongyang look a little dusty.

But looking at the unchanged stone gate, Cheng Zongyang knew why those people could not get out and died here.

The granite at that time could leave marks, but as a result, there was not even a print of his palm left on this stone door, which was enough to show how hard and heavy this stone door was!

"This is definitely not something that ordinary forces can do." Cheng Zongyang frowned and walked back, planning to deal with the things inside and then go outside to take a look.

All the gold, silver, and jewellery were put into the market hut. The weapons and armour were not wasted either and were also put into the hut.

But at this time, he found that there was actually an empty box next to the original jewels, but it was covered by the scattered jewels and there was no treasure inside.

He searched carefully with a torch and found more than thirty bottles and jars, a dozen books that had been gnawed and rotted by insects, as well as some stone slabs, animal skins, etc.

Cheng Zongyang suppressed his curiosity and took a small wooden box from the market hut, put all the books in it, and then slowly checked them later. But all the books and classics were in pieces and could not be checked.

After searching again and seeing that there was nothing left, he came to the four skeletons.

At this time, he turned his head and looked at the mole: "Dig four pits for me, I will bury them later." When the mole heard Cheng Zongyang's words, he started digging the pits without saying a word.

Cheng Zongyang then added: "Try to dig the gate later to see if you can dig it out."

"Chichi..." The mole beast responded again.

Cheng Zongyang looked back at the four skeletons. Based on his previous experience, there should be something on the skeletons.

In front of the cave where the ghost-faced spider was, good things were found from two corpses.

I used a knife to move the first skeleton aside, and after removing the armor, I saw something fall out.

When the torch was brought closer, two small porcelain bottles and something similar to a waist badge were revealed.

Cheng Zongyang pulled it aside and looked carefully again. When he saw that there was no more, he put the first skeleton aside.

Next is the second one.

I got a porcelain vase, a waist badge, and a booklet that had long since decayed into ashes.

The third body contained two porcelain bottles, a waist badge, but also a dagger.

But the next moment, his eyes fell on the wall where the third skeleton was.

When he looked closer, he found that the words were carved. Cheng Zongyang scanned it and the words became clear.

[Dad, Mom, second brother, third sister, take care! ]

Looking at this line of words, Cheng Zongyang frowned.

The Riddler?
What's going on is not clear.

Cheng Zongyang ignored the unimportant last words clue and began to look at the fourth skeleton.

Cheng Zongyang noticed something different about the armor on the skeleton under the firelight. There was no porcelain bottle on it, but there was a long jade box, a piece of animal skin scroll, and a metal key that was broken into two parts.

After Cheng Zongyang collected the things, he looked at the weapons on the ground.

As a result, Cheng Zongyang noticed that the four weapons were still as bright as new, without the rusty spots in the box.

"It should be a good weapon."

Cheng Zongyang smiled and put it into the market hut. Then his eyes fell on the armor on the skeleton, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. He had to have a sense of public morality.

After the mole had dug the four pits, Cheng Zongyang directed it to the door.

Cheng Zongyang buried all the bones, glanced at the empty cave, and smiled.

This time, I made a lot of money! It was more profitable than discovering a gold mine!

When he arrived at the stone gate, he found that he couldn't open it even with all his strength. In front of the mole beast, the stone gate was just a stone that was more difficult to dig.

It's like a person wearing iron claws and digging the ground. He can dig some, but not much and not quickly.

The mole was digging happily, as if encountering such difficult-to-dig stones was like encountering a challenge, or perhaps... a toy?
Cheng Zongyang did not disturb them, nor did he just wait, but entered the wilderness world.

Appearing in the market hut, Luo Dingran led people to move the things outside and was cleaning and sorting them.

At the door of the hut, Luo Dingran bowed to Cheng Zongyang.

"Sir, where did you find this? There are so many treasures?"

The things haven't been sorted out yet, and Luo Dingran doesn't know the exact quantity yet, he is just curious about the source.

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "It was discovered in Tianduan Mountain, a cave found by a mole beast. There were also four skeletons, which I buried. I will examine those bottles and jars later, and also look at those books and other things to see if I can find any clues."

Hearing this, Luo Dingran suddenly fell into deep thought. After a moment, he murmured, "Could that legend be true?"

"What?" Cheng Zongyang's eyes moved from the piles of gold and silver to Luo Dingran, "What's true?"

"Sir," Luo Dingran said, "What you just said reminded me of a legend. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it.

According to legend, twenty years ago, the Huangfu family hid half of their treasure resources in Tianduan Mountain. But no one has ever seen it, and no one has ever found it. So it was just regarded as a rumor and nothing happened.

Since these treasures were found in Tianduan Mountain, they are most likely from the Huangfu family.

I didn't expect that I would be found by you. So the legend is true. This means that there are still many in Tianduan Mountain."

At this time, a soul slave brought in four clean belts.

"Sir, steward, these four waist badges have been cleaned."

Luo Dingran took it, and the soul slave also stepped back to continue cleaning up.

Luo Dingran looked at the four waist badges, all of which were bronze tokens with the words [Huangfu] and [Yi] engraved on the front and back respectively.

"It's from the Huangfu family!" Luo Dingran's eyes flashed, "A Grade B guard from the Huangfu family!"

Cheng Zongyang's eyes flickered, and he asked, "What's going on with the Huangfu family?"

Luo Dingran said solemnly: "I was once a core member of a noble family, and I was exposed to many core secrets.

Daliang was founded more than four hundred years ago, but a royal family appeared more than two hundred years ago. They left Daliang with the entire family's resources and went to the place where the thirteen royal families are now, causing Daliang to suffer huge losses.

Later Daliang would purposefully suppress the development of the aristocratic families.

The Huangfu family was the closest family to the royal family in Daliang 20 years ago. The Huangfu family was famous for forging magic weapons. Its strength, financial resources, and influence were the strongest among all the families.

At that time, Xiangyang and Linchuan prefectures were almost within the Huangfu family's sphere of influence.

Later, in order to prevent the Huangfu family from becoming a real royal force and to separate the territories of the two prefectures, the late emperor launched a plan to exterminate the Huangfu family in the name of rebellion.

Among them, those who took action were the Liudao Division, the Rotation Division, and all the masters of the seven clans, including the Su family, the Zheng family, the Zhu family, etc., and they wiped out the Huangfu family in seven days.

But they only killed all the middle and high-level people. As for the others, they arrested those who could be caught, and if they couldn’t be caught, they just offered a reward.

Since then, the people of the Huangfu family have changed their names and surnames when they were at large, and they dare not use the surname Huangfu anymore."

After saying that, Luo Dingran returned to the treasure and added: "So, these treasures should have been hidden in advance by the Huangfu family because they knew that Daliang was going to take action against them. They should have been left for the future generations to gain power, or they may have been left for the descendants of Huangfu.

Similarly, when the Huangfu family fell into decline, the weapons they forged were also sought after by various forces. The magic weapons they forged were as sharp as our refined long swords and your Tang swords. "

Cheng Zongyang finally understood.

Come to think of it, with the strength of the Huangfu family, how could they not know that Daliang was going to take action? But all they could do was hide half of their property first.

The remaining half was used as bait to be divided among other clan forces in exchange for the escape of the bloodline, thus preventing those forces from frantically arresting all family members and asking about their whereabouts for money and resources.

When a whale falls, everything comes to life. When the Huangfu family falls, I don’t know how many forces will be able to eat. It is worth giving up half of it in exchange for a glimmer of hope for the tribe members.

Cheng Zongyang also guessed that the direct descendants of the Huangfu family had been sent away long ago, so there was no way they could be left behind to be killed.

Even thinking about conspiracy theories, it is estimated that the people of the Huangfu family have infiltrated various aristocratic families or the interior of Daliang.

Anyone with blood in their veins would definitely seek revenge for the genocide of their clan.

But how to report it is unknown.

(End of this chapter)