Chapter 34: The Ancient Cave
Four people are not easy to come out from the mountains of bat corpses, but are already in a terrible mess, the body stained with dirty dark blood not to mention, is the smell is also feel the stench is incomparable.
The four of them are the Qingyun door, usually always clean, especially the small bamboo peak of Lu Xueqi, is the nature of the love of cleanliness, at this moment the scene, really more difficult than cutting her three knives.
Four people busy to the distance to go, at the moment they just want to leave that pile of disgusting bat corpses as far away as possible. A breath out of a long way, came to a fairly flat rock, four people patting clothes, finishing more time, only whisked off some debris, but those traces of bat blood, the stench of fishy smell, but no matter how to linger.
Zhang Xiaofan and other three men are okay some, but Lu Xueqi usually cold face at this time is more like frost like snow, ruthless in the clothes on the brush, vigorously rubbing, it seems not to get these disgusting things from her body is never give up.
Only these blood stains seem to be particularly sticky, very quickly, Qi Hao, Zeng Shushu and Zhang Xiaofan all gave up their efforts, only Lu Xueqi still refused to give up with a white face. The three men looked at each other in dismay, even the most seasoned Qi Hao now looked a little embarrassed, not knowing what to say.
Just when the four men were silent, and only Lu Xueqi frowned and rubbed her clothes, a few whistles suddenly came from the sky, and everyone raised their eyes to look, only to see four rays of light flashing in the sky, two yellows, one white, and one green, and a few moments later, these four rays of light landed in front of them, and after a burst of flashes, four figures appeared.
The left side of the two, but two monks, a little after a tall, thick eyebrows, huge eyes, full of flesh, not angry, if not wearing a robe, I'm afraid also be thought of as a roadblock robbery bandits.
But standing in front of him another monk, is shorter than him a head of young monks, and he is completely different, white skin, bright eyes, a moonlight white robe, look let a person feel a little thin, but in any case there is no contempt of the heart.
Two people on the right side, respectively, a man and a woman two young people, male handsome, female beautiful, standing together extremely well-matched, just like the golden children in front of the seat of the gods and goddesses.
These four people looked towards the four people of the Qing Yun Sect, seeing the blood stains on their bodies, they all frowned, the young white monk first clamored a Buddha's name, saying, "Amitabha Buddha, may I ask if the four masters are under the Qing Yun Sect?"
Qing Yun four people looked at each other, Qi Hao out of the crowd, returned a salute, said: "Precisely, in the next Qi Hao, may I ask you are..."
The young monk smiled faintly and said, "I'm Fa Xiang from Tianyin Temple, and this is my younger brother, Fa Shan. These two next to me are the outstanding disciples of Burning Incense Valley, Li Xun and Yan Hong."
The taller Fa Shan even urned a greeting, but that Burning Incense Valley's Li Xun and Yan Hong were arrogant, nodding their heads slightly, even if they had met the salute.
Qi Hao frowned, and then ignored the two people from Burning Incense Valley and said to Dharma Phase, "Ah! I've long heard of Tianyin Temple's Dharma phase senior brother's great name, known as a rare talent of a thousand years by the righteous cultivators, and I've got to see it today, and it's really too elegant!"
Fa Xiang smiled faintly and said, "Qi senior brother really fallacious reputation, small monk qualification blunt, only benefactor Pu Hong not abandon, teach me the true method, in order to do some good deeds for the world's people, but do not dare to be compared with the Qingyun Sect all senior brothers."
Qi Hao laughed out loud, waving his hands repeatedly, saying, "Senior Fa Xiang is too modest, come, I will introduce you all to a few of my senior brothers and sisters." Saying this, he introduced Zhang Xiaofan's three to them, Zhang Xiaofan saluted along with them, but somehow, he felt that that Dharma Phase's gaze seemed to brighten up a bit when Qi Hao introduced him, and looked at him one more time.
At this time, the face of Li Xun of Burning Incense Valley, who had been left out to dry since the beginning of the conversation, was already not looking too good, and when Qi Hao finished his introduction, he suddenly opened his mouth and said coldly, "Senior Qi, your Qing Yun Sect has always regarded itself as the leader of the righteous path, and the Taoist true method is unique in the world, so how is it that when you see them today, each of them is in such a sorry state?"
Green Cloud Sect four people's face is a change, Zhang Xiaofan looked at him a set of eyes over the top of the posture is even more disgusted, the corner of the corner of the eye, but see Lu Xueqi do not know when to stop brushing the move of the clothes, jade face containing frost, coldly looked at the burning incense Valley two people, but more is with that called Yan Hong's beautiful woman against the eyes.
Qi Hao, after all, old in the human world, although there is a slight anger in the heart, but still quickly recovered, a smile, said: "I do not hide from you, under the same door with the three people last night to this, I want to find the ancient cave of the ten thousand bats, I did not expect to run into the countless bats ⋯."
Fa Xiang four people heard this, their faces changed, the tall horse Fa Shan wide-eyed, gruff voice, said: "Well, that is in the Cave of Ten Thousand Bats in the countless beasts, ferocious and cruel, difficult to deal with very."
Qi Hao was so smart that when he heard it, he knew that these four people in front of him were most likely to have come a few days earlier, and had also run into these headache-inducing guys. His mind turned sharply, but suddenly he heard Zeng Shushu let out a long laugh behind him, walked up and smiled at that Fa Shan, "Brother Fa Shan, in that case, you guys have also encountered these bloodsucking bats?"
Fa Shan nodded his head, seemingly a straightforward person, and said, "Yes, those bats were too many in number, so we had to retreat."
Zeng Shushu "ah", sighed, said: "I do not hide, we also encountered those bats last night, would like to eliminate harm for the people, but unexpectedly from morning to night, let us how to use our strength, but always kill is not able to kill, and in the end, can only be expelled from these ferocious creatures back to the cave, but also ended up with all the filth, alas! Alas! Shame, shame!"
He turned back to look at Qi Hao, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled, saying in unison, "Shame! Shame on you!"
The crowd all changed their faces, the difference was that Li Xun of Burning Incense Valley hummed, his face had a disdainful look; that beautiful woman Yan Hong seemed to be a bit coy, but her face also clearly showed disbelief. And Tianyin Temple's Dharma phase smiled without saying anything, Fa Shan's face but up with admiration, Zhang Xiaofan was frozen for a moment, looked at the two people who smiled brightly and incomparably.
A few moments later, Fa Xiang smiled and said, "This empty mulberry mountain matter, our three sect elders would have to our young generation to suffer some experience, now the number of people have arrived, but the Qingyun door of the brothers came far hard, why don't we rest for a day, tomorrow morning, and then into the ancient cave of ten thousand bats to investigate how?"
At this time, Li Xun, who was standing next to him, snorted coldly and said, "Senior Fa Xiang has a point, or else after we go in, someone will have to find some excuses again."
In addition to Zhang Xiaofan, Qi Hao, Zeng Shushu and Lu Xueqi, who came from the famous Qingyun family, which one was not favored by their respective masters in their respective lineage, which one did not have some arrogance in their bones.
At that moment, Qi Hao coldly snorted, said: "Li Xun senior brother has a point, otherwise to my now tired body, then also want to save you, that can not help!"
Li Xun obviously did not expect the people under the Qingyun door one is also so arrogant, he was born in the burning incense valley, since childhood has been valued by the master, the cultivation of Taoism, in the same generation, in addition to a few people, none not far better than the other generation of the same family, which has developed the arrogance of the personality of the eye of the world, how to stand this gas, and at once his face changed, staring at the qi hao said: "In that case, the qi In that case, Qi Hao said, "In that case, Qi Hao's cultivation is far superior to mine, so I would like to ask for some advice."
Concerning the face of the division, Qi Hao body, to walk out, suddenly saw Lu Xueqi suddenly came out from behind, playful to stand in the field, coldly said: "Do not bother Qi brother, I come to teach the burning incense valley of the Immortal Law."
Li Xun suddenly stunned, only to see Lu Xueqi although a blood stains, but a jade face skin is reflected white as snow, although the expression of cold, austere, but there are looking down on the world, floating out of the dust of the clear beauty. He has never seen such a stunning color, for a moment actually stayed for a moment.
At the same time, the heavenly sound temple phallic phase came out, smiled and said: "all brothers, we came here is to investigate the remaining party of the devil, before we go, I think all the teachers and seniors have been taught, if they know that we are here in the spirit of the matter, I'm afraid to go back to not inevitably be chastisement, and then again, this is also a small matter, or we all back off a step, how? "
Li Xun back to God, hummed, tilted his head to look at the sky, although not speak but the meaning is also quite obvious. Qi Hao at this moment in his heart thought of the instructions of Daoist Xuan Zhenzhen before his departure, and he also had some regrets, it was just the right time to take advantage of the opportunity to get off the stage, so he called out from the back, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Dharma Phase has a point, let's just make peace with each other!"
Lu Xueqi looked at the crowd, hummed and walked back, seeing Zhang Xiaofan looking at himself, her eyes swept over Zhang Xiaofan's face, and she walked aside alone.
Zhang Xiaofan was glanced at by her, his heart suddenly went cold, and an indescribable feeling flooded his heart.
Only to hear Dharma Phase say again, "In that case, let's go down the mountain first, and go back up to the mountain to investigate in the early morning tomorrow!"
By this time, the crowd had no objections, so Dharma phase led the way, the crowd followed his sword and came to a small hill thirty miles away from the empty mulberry mountain, here there was actually a bay of clear spring, exactly what the Qing Yun Sect crowd needed. At the same time, all the people in the water freshen up a bit, and find a secluded place to change clothes, which came out to meet with Fasang and others.
Lu Xueqi is the body of a daughter, not very convenient, change clothes place also find the farthest, so the last one to come out. The crowd looked, only to see her freshened up, radiant, in the original clear beauty is actually added a few points of charm, are immediately bright. Needless to say that Zeng Shushu, Li Xun and other people's eyes glowing, that is, that has been silent burning incense Valley Yan Hong, also looked at her a few more eyes.
These eight today's three major sects of the righteousness of the most "excellent" disciples sit around the ground, talk about it, Zhang Xiaofan from the Fasang and other people just know, empty Sangshan mountain "ten thousand bats in the ancient cave" in the bats is the year when the demonic cult of fae, ferocious and cruel, sex good bloodsucking, was an accomplice to the eight. This is the devil's accomplices, eight hundred years ago after the destruction of the devil's stronghold in this place, there are still a few bats survived.
Over time, actually flourished, with today's huge scale, every time out of the predator, the 500-mile radius to get all uninhabited.
However, these bats seem to be afraid of sunlight, so they are only active at night, daytime are perched in the ancient cave of ten thousand bats, last night, the Qingyun door is coincidentally encountered, if it is the daytime on the mountain, it can be nothing.
Hearing this, Zeng Shushu frowned, to the Fa Xiang asked: "Fa Xiang senior brother, those animals since they are in the ancient cave of ten thousand bats, how do we go in to explore?"
Fa Xiang hesitated for a moment and said, "According to my monk's observation these days, these beasts are only hanging upside down on the roof of the ancient cave in the daytime and are not active, so we may or may not be able to go in."
Zeng Shushu was dumbfounded, but Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help but say, "That means that Fasang senior brother you are not sure, maybe those guys saw us enter the cave and pounced over, how can that be?"
Dharma Phase looked toward him, and there seemed to be some hidden light flickering in his eyes, but his demeanor was still gentle as he said, "That's exactly it. Little monk in fact also do not have ten percent certainty, but the teacher's orders, always have to do, not if also try, the big deal is that we withdraw. Today, I and the law good teacher brother and the burning incense valley two masters wanted to go in to explore some, did not think that is met you, so good, more people good care!"
"Hmph", is a side of Li Xun and cold snort, Qingyun door four people at the same time to look over to him, Li Xun is not the slightest fear, only when he saw Lu Xueqi's eyes look over, more or less change in expression.
Qi Hao ignored him and turned his head to Fa Xiang and said, "There is one more thing that I would like to ask Fa Xiang senior brother."
Fa Xiang said, "Senior Brother Qi, please speak."
Qi Hao said, "Three months ago, my Qing Yun Sect's Long Sect disciple, Senior Brother Xiao Yicai Xiao has come here first, I wonder if you all know where he is now?"
Fa Xiang shook his head and said, "We arrived here with the two of us from Burning Incense Valley, and have not seen Senior Brother Xiao."
Qi Hao furrowed his brows and murmured.
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The next day, the sun rises, Zhang Xiaofan and other eight people will come to the empty mulberry mountain, but see the mountain is deserted, sand and gravel all over the ground, a large mountain, even the sound of ordinary birds can not be heard, it is expected that not early to do those ferocious bats snacks, or has long since been migrated out of the peak.
Fasang and others came a few days earlier, has found the location of the ancient cave of ten thousand bats. At that moment, all the people followed, all the way carefully, finally came to the entrance of the cave of the ancient cave of the ten thousand bats.
Here is a huge cave in the mountains, located in the shade of the sun, slightly downward sloping, only the entrance to the cave has a little light, and then inside is pitch black. Standing in the cave entrance is still five or six feet away from the place, but the people feel the cave wind blowing out a burst, brushing the face, cold into the bone. At the same time, there are still some rustling sounds, like whispers, like ghosts cry, let a person's heart numb.
Qi Hao looked at the cave two more times, turned back and gave a strong smile, saying, "In that case, let's go in."
The crowd was silent, and Fa Xiang nodded and said, "Exactly, but the danger inside this cave is unpredictable, you all had better prepare your immortal weapons just in case."
As it was a matter of life and death, all of them did not dare to be slow, and held their magic weapons in their hands, when Li Xun, Yan Hong and the two monks of Tianyin Temple saw Zhang Xiaofan take out a black-hued burning stick, they all froze for a moment, looking stunned.
Zhang Xiaofan's face was red, quite embarrassed, fortunately at this time, Lu Xueqi under her Tianya blue light, coldly said, "Go." Then the first to that dark cave to go, the crowd rushed to follow, this only to solve the siege.
Just as he was about to enter the entrance of the cave, that gloomy wind was getting more and more gloomy and cold, Dharma phase seemed to intentionally or unintentionally close to Zhang Xiaofan, Zhang Xiaofan sensed it and smiled at him.
Dharma Phase returned the smile while whispering, "Senior Brother Zhang, the front is treacherous, so you can follow behind me."
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned, but he saw that Dharma Phase had already stepped into that darkness, and for a moment, he could not think too much, and watched as all the people went into the cave, and also hurriedly followed him in.
Only after stepping into the cave, without taking a few steps, Zhang Xiaofan felt a softness under his feet, and the whole person sank downward, he was shocked, but fortunately, he only sank to his ankles and then stopped.
At this time the crowd has been in the darkness, but each of the magic treasure immortal weapon sacrificed, radiating a road of haze, Zhang Xiaofan to the feet to see, face immediately on the bitter down, the original feet stepped on the bat droppings is extremely thick, not to mention the stench, the foot is also trapped in the inside, the taste of that said how difficult to say how difficult to say.
He raised his eyes and looked forward, and saw that most of the other people also had the same look, especially the two women, Lu Xueqi and Yan Hong of Burning Incense Valley, were even more frowning and pale.
Zhang Xiaofan shook his head, barely settled down, after the crowd familiarized with the environment, and then walked towards the inside, at this time, the rustling sound like a demon whispering is also big at the same time, as if in the distance, but also seems to be right beside them, before and after the left and right, everywhere.
Just like this and walked three, four feet away, in the forefront of the Qi Hao suddenly whispered: "Slow!"
The crowd immediately stopped, only to see Qi Hao's ice-cold immortal sword slowly rising, the light gradually brightened, illuminating the cave in front of them, and the crowd held their breath.
This is a very big cave, the top of the cave is extremely high from the ground, under the white light of Ice Cold Immortal Sword, everyone saw countless black bats hanging upside down densely on the top of the cave, and almost couldn't see the rock of the cave at all.
And that "rustling" sound, is these animals friction low chirping born.
In the darkness, the bats that were illuminated by the white light seemed to feel uneasy, and one by one they moved, but did not fly, but used their claws to climb on the rocks and move towards the darkness, and some of them simply grabbed on to the same kind of body. Those fanged maws, which grew more and more gruesome in the darkness, were alarming.
The crowd didn't dare to breathe a breath, and after a moment's pause, they all realized that although the light here was particularly striking in the pitch-blackness, these bats did seem to be unmoving and wouldn't attack, and the crowd was more or less relieved to have discovered this.
Dharma Phase whispered, "Fortunately, the little monk's judgment is correct, gentlemen, let's continue on our way."
The crowd turned their heads, and again walked towards the depths of this terrifying ancient cave, the deeper end of the darkness. Along with the crowd's footsteps, the bat droppings under their feet are getting thicker and thicker, and under the white light of the Cold Ice Immortal Sword, the bats at the top of the cave actually seem to be endless, more and more bats, with sharp teeth and teeth, murmuring and low chirping, all whistling around them.
If it is not the eight of them are in the right way of immortal law, the mind is firm, change the ordinary people must go crazy.
In this way also do not know how long to walk, Zhang Xiaofan walked in the middle of the team, but the phantom also always walk in front of him, looking at the front of this young monk in a moonlight white monk robe also stained a few points of dirt, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly remembered Pu Zhi.
That person in the depths of memories, is it and this monk in front of him from the same place?
Ahead, there suddenly came a slight cry from Qi Hao, "Ah!"
Before Zhang Xiaofan could come back to his senses, he felt that there was something different about the feeling under his feet, and it was as if he had stepped on the hard ground.
