Episode 14: Searching for the Sword Mound
As the saying goes, it is reasonable... Cough cough, he travels all over the world with courtesy. Jiang Chen relies on fighting for the family and robbing the house... Bah! He is a chivalrous and righteous person who robs the rich and helps the poor. He still has some money on him. After all, he is also a poor person, so he naturally needs relief.
After giving away a series of generous gifts, Jiang Chen finally learned the specific location of the valley where the healing farmers who escaped that day. He was overjoyed and hurried out of Xiangyang City and went to search for it. It was just because he guessed that the one-horned snake was most likely the Pusiqu snake, which was only found near Dugu Qiubai's sword tomb.
As the name suggests, the sword tomb is the tomb of the sword. As for who Dugu Qiubai is, he knows it by his name, "Dugu Yisheng, but I just want to lose." This statement may be a bit too arrogant and pretentious in the eyes of others, but you really don't say that this person has never suffered a defeat in his life. In his time, the heroes bowed their heads and the sword was so sharp that they pretended not to give full marks.
There is still some time before the Beggars' Sect holds a martial arts conference. It doesn't matter if he stays in Xiangyang City, so he thought about going to the sword tomb to find out if there is any secret book of Dugu Nine Swords. Even if not, I remember that there is a Qingfeng sword with iron-cut iron like mud in the sword tomb, which is just used to deal with the Golden Wheel Dharma King's big wheel!
However, although snakes have a certain area, the area is not small. Jiang Chen used the Pusiqu snake as a punctuation to find the Dugu Sword Tomb. There are trees and weeds in the forest, and there are not only one cave. Jiang Chen had no choice but to search for it one by one. Sometimes a cave that looked very similar, but there was nothing when he went in. Some caves had wild honeycombs. Seeing that there were dense brown wild bees crawling on it, Jiang Chen was so scared that he hurriedly retreated. By the way, he didn't want to be stung into a fat man.
After a lot of trouble, the sword tomb was not found yet. He asked him to find a valley where the Bosqu snakes gathered. It was densely packed inside. There were hundreds or thousands of snakes, two or three meters long and one meter short. There were golden threads on his back and a one-horn on his head, looking like a shrinking dragon.
Jiang Chen thought about it, this should be because over the past sixteen years, the Divine Eagle and Yang Guo went out to explore the world and live a leisurely life, so that the Pusiqu snake in this valley had no natural enemies. Therefore, the reproduction speed increased greatly, which led to such a huge number in front of him.
Because he was curious about the snake, Jiang Chen simply hunted a Bosi Qu snake more than two meters long and took out the snake gall. This thing was very fishy and smelly. If it hadn't been for the great benefit of internal cultivation, he would have never been willing to eat it. He put it in his mouth and bit it gently, and the outer skin of the ball would break, and he immediately had a mouth full of bitterness.
The juice was extremely fishy and bitter and extremely unpalatable. Jiang Chen just wanted to spray it out, but considering that the snake gallbladder was extremely effective and might have great use for him, he barely swallowed it into his stomach. After a while, he was lucky, but he felt his breathing smoothly. When he stood up and raised his hand and stretched his feet, he was not only unconscious of being tired, but was more energetic than usual.
Then, he used the power of the snake gallbladder medicine to practice his skills. He was vaguely much lighter than usual, and his internal strength improved, but it was not obvious. However, with his current internal strength, the snake gallbladder can still perform such a effect, which is really an amazing magical treasure.
Moreover, in addition to increasing his internal strength, he was also surprised to find that the snake gall of the Pusiqu snake has the effect of increasing people's strength. Although a snake gall did not increase his strength much, his strength actually increased by 10 or 20 kilograms.
Although Qiu Qianren's iron palm skills are excellent martial arts both inside and outside, Jiang Chen obtained his martial arts with his talent for reincarnation, and his external skills are naturally not weak, but there is still a certain gap between him and a true top external skill master. Since the snake gallbladder of the Pusiqu Snake can increase his strength, it can naturally help him practice external skills.
At that moment, Jiang Chen began his snake-catching journey. In just a few days, the number of Pusiqu snakes in the nearby valleys was greatly reduced. He ate most of the snake galls directly, or put them in a bamboo tube to seal them and hide them in the watch space. It has to be said that it is really convenient to have such a portable space.
After eating a lot of snake gallbladder, coupled with the effective method of iron palm qi, Jiang Chen's external skills naturally surged upwards like a rocket. Even if he didn't use internal skills, he would hit him at this time, and a few would have seven or eight hundred kilograms of strength. Even a martial arts master would not dare to resist easily.
Not enough. Even so, Jiang Chen has not yet stimulated all the potential of snake gallbladder. A large amount of snake gallbladder medicinal power has been stored everywhere in his body. He only waited for a long time in the future. As he continued to practice, he could naturally gradually exert it and turn it into the power he used.
On this day, as usual, he searched for Dugu Qiubai's sword tomb nearby, and found a large cave in a deep valley. When he walked in, he saw that the cave was dark, but in fact it was very shallow. He was less than three feet away and had reached the end. A stone table and a stone bench followed by a look.
"This is the cave where Dugu Qiubai lived in seclusion in the past?!" Seeing this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but be overjoyed. He wandered in the mountains and forests for nearly a month. What was he doing? Seeing that the purpose was about to be achieved, how could he not be happy?
At this moment, he looked at the cave and saw a pile of rocks rising up at the corner of the cave, which looked like a tomb. Jiang Chen thought to himself, "I think this is Dugu Qiubai's tomb. I don't know if there is a sword score left by him?" But if he really wanted him to dig someone's grave, he couldn't help but hesitate and thought to himself, "It's better to go to the sword tomb to see it. If there is no harvest, it's not too late to come back."
When he looked up slightly, he saw that there seemed to be words written on the cave wall, but the moss was covered with dust and could not be seen clearly in the dark. Jiang Chen lit a dead branch on fire and reached out to wipe off the moss on the cave wall. Sure enough, three lines of words appeared. The handwriting was very thin, but the stone was extremely deep, and it was clearly marked with extremely sharp weapons:
"I have been circling the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years, killing all the enemies and defeating all the heroes, and there is no resistance in the world. There is nothing to be able to do. I can only live in seclusion in the deep valley and regard Diao as my friend. Alas, I have been seeking an enemy in my life but cannot get it, and I am truly lonely and embarrassed."
The following signature is: "The sword demon Dugu Qiubai."
Although I had known this passage for a long time, I had a unique insight when I saw it with my own eyes. Jiang Chen recited these three lines of words several times. He was shocked and admired, and also felt the loneliness and embarrassment. He thought that Dugu Qiubai was really charming and invincible. He fought all over the world. This was something that many people could not dream of, but he ran to this deep valley to live in seclusion.
But then he thought that since Dugu Qiubai was known as "invincible", his martial arts were so profound and exquisite. This person was known as "Sword Demon", and he was naturally a god of swords, and his name was "Qiubai". He thought that he was a man who traveled all over the world to find a victory for himself. He never could do what he wanted. He finally became depressed here, remembering his predecessor Feng Lie, and couldn't help but fascinated.
After a long time of retreat, he held the lit dead branches and looked in the cave for a week, and no other remains were found. There was no other mark on the tomb of the stone pile. It was notes that after this strange man died, the god carvings were piled with stones on his body. He came out for a while and admired this senior stranger more and more. He couldn't help but kneel down in front of the stone tomb and bowed three times.
After leaving the cave, he decided to go about it, and after walking about a mile, he saw that the cliff was like a huge screen, soaring into the sky. About twenty meters above the ground in the middle of the cliff, a large stone three or four meters square was growing, like a platform, with words vaguely carved on the stone.
Jiang Chen looked up and saw clearly that it was the two big words "Sword Tomb". He couldn't help but be overjoyed. He thought that he had finally found this place. He walked closer to the cliff, but saw that the stone walls were not growing, and the bareness was really beyond the reach of his hands and feet. If he hadn't known the mystery, he would have had a headache about how to get up.
He looked at it for a while, and found that there were clusters of moss growing on the cliff every few feet, dozens of clusters arranged straight up. With a thought, he jumped up, reached to the bottom clump of moss and grabbed a handful of black mud. It was indeed a small cave. It was dug by Dugu Qiubai with a sharp weapon back then. Over time, mud accumulated in the cave, so moss grew. Although Yang Guo's occasional visit, there were not many times, and the interval was long. In addition, there were often winds and rains in the mountains, so there were no changes.
Jiang Chen had the intention to explore the sword tomb, so he naturally wanted to go up. He took a breath and his body slowly rose several feet. His left foot stepped in the first small hole, followed by a rushing up, and his right foot pointed at the second bunch of moss and kicked in. The soft mud burst out, and there was indeed another **** on the stone wall that could accommodate his foot.
Now he has such a profound skill, and he can be said to be unparalleled. He rushed up to the platform in one breath. Looking up, he saw two lines of stone carvings with smaller fonts next to the two big characters "Sword Tomb" on the big stone:
Chapter completed!