Chapter 176: Siguo Cliff Cave

Linghu Chong hasn't had a good night's sleep since Yue Lingshan left Huashan.

As soon as I close my eyes, Yue Lingshan's lively and indistinguishable singing voice will ring in my ears.

Even though he knew he shouldn't do this, he couldn't control his emotions at all.

Linghu Chong felt a pang of pain in his heart, and simply picked up his sword and slashed at the stone wall.

Suddenly he felt a surge of internal force in his dantian. He thrust out with his sword regardless of anything. His posture of exerting force was exactly the same as Madam Yue's "Unparalleled, Ning's Sword".

With a "swish" sound, the long sword actually penetrated into the stone wall up to the handle.

Linghu Chong was shocked, and thought to himself that even if his martial arts skills had improved rapidly in the past few months, it would be impossible for him to pierce the stone wall with his sword all the way to the handle.

How much pure and powerful internal force is needed to be infused into the sword blade in order to make it penetrate the stone?
"Like thorns in rotten wood, even Master and Mistress may not be able to do this. Could it be that anger has stimulated one's potential?" Linghu Chong frowned slightly and began to think, is he angry?

What is so angry about?

He was stunned and didn't dare to think further.

He then pulled out the sword and prepared to go back to the cave to sleep.

But when he drew the sword, he felt that the stone wall seemed to be only a thin layer, with an empty space of two or three inches.

Linghu Chong became curious and stabbed with the sword again. With a "snap" sound, the sword broke into two pieces. It turned out that his internal energy was not enough this time and it could not even penetrate a two or three-inch stone slab.

"Oh Linghu Chong, Linghu Chong. No wonder Master scolded you for not striving for progress. If it was Senior Brother Ou, he would probably have been pierced with one sword!"

After a bitter smile, he simply went outside the cave, picked up a huge stone, and smashed it against the stone wall with all his strength. When the stones hit each other, a faint echo came from behind the stone wall, and it was obvious that there was a large open space behind it.

"Huh? Is it really hollow?"

Linghu Chong exerted all his strength to smash the stone again. Suddenly, with a loud bang, the stone passed through the stone wall and fell to the ground at the other end. However, the banging sound continued, and it was obvious that the stone was still rolling down.

After discovering a hidden world behind the stone wall, Linghu Chong immediately threw away all his worries.

He picked up another stone and smashed it again. After a few hits, a hole appeared in the stone wall, big enough for a head to fit through.

Linghu Chong hit the stone wall several times to make the hole bigger, then he lit a torch and went in.

I saw a narrow passage inside. When I looked down, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. I saw a skeleton lying at my feet.

"Could it be that the top of Mount Huashan is the tomb of some noble official? No, no."

Linghu Chong immediately shook his head to deny his guess. He calmed down and observed for a while, and found that the skeleton was not lying on its back, but lying prone like this?
Judging from its appearance, this narrow passage is not a tomb passage.

Bending over the skeleton, he saw that the clothes on his body had rotted and turned to dust. Beside him were two large axes, which glowed brightly under the light of the torch. It was obvious at a glance that they were not ordinary objects.

He picked up an axe, which felt heavy in his hand, probably weighing more than 40 pounds. He raised the axe and chopped at the stone wall beside him. With a "buzz" sound, he actually chopped off a large piece of stone.

Linghu Chong was startled again: "This axe is so sharp, I think it must be the weapon of a martial arts master."

He also saw that the place where the axe had chopped the stone wall was very smooth, just like tofu cut by a knife, and there were also many cuts on the side caused by the sharp axe. He walked along the passage, and after walking for nearly ten feet, he still hadn't reached the end.

"Did this person carve out this passage with an axe?!" Linghu Chong suddenly turned around to look at the corpse and said in admiration, "This senior's determination and martial arts skills are truly rare in the history!"

After walking a few more feet and turning left along the corridor, a huge stone cave appeared in front of us, big enough to accommodate thousands of people.

There were seven skeletons in the cave, some sitting and some lying, with weapons beside them, including a pair of iron plates, a pair of judge's pens, an iron rod, a copper rod, a weapon that looked like a thunder blocker, a three-pointed double-edged sword with wolf teeth, and another weapon that looked like a knife but not a knife, a sword but not a sword. I had never seen any weapons before.

Linghu Chong was stunned. With so many strange weapons, it seemed that these people were not the seniors of Huashan Sect.

Looking around again, he saw a dozen long swords thrown on the ground not far away.

He walked over and bent over to pick up one. He saw that the sword was shorter than ordinary swords, but the blade was twice as wide and heavy in the hand. It was the sword used by the Taishan School.

The other long swords, some of which are light and soft, are the weapons of the Hengshan School.

Some of the swords have curved blades and are one of the three types of long swords used by the Hengshan School.

They were all weapons used by the Five Mountains Sword Sects!
Linghu Chong raised the torch and saw sixteen large characters carved on a stone wall not far away: "The Five Mountains Sword Sects are shameless and vulgar, unable to win in duels, and plotting against others to harm others."

Each character is about a foot square, and is deeply engraved in the rock, which shows how angry the person who carved these sixteen characters was. Next to the sixteen large characters, there are countless small characters, all of which are curse words such as "despicable scoundrel", "extremely shameful", "low-ability", "cowardly", etc. The wall is full of curse words.

Linghu Chong was very angry and thought to himself, "So he was captured and imprisoned by my Five Mountains Sword Sect. No wonder he was so angry that he carved some curse words on the stone wall. This behavior is despicable and shameless."

He raised the torch and shone it on the stone wall, only to see a line of words engraved on it: "Fan Song and Zhao He broke the Hengshan sword technique here."

Beside this row were countless figures, each in a group of two, one wielding a sword and the other wielding an axe. A rough count showed that there were at least five or six hundred figures. It was obvious that the figures wielding axes were trying to crack the swordsmanship of the figures wielding swords.

Next to these human figures, a line of words suddenly appeared: "Zhang Chengyun and Zhang Chengfeng completely broke the Huashan swordsmanship."

Linghu Chong could not help but sneer, thinking: "Shameless bastards, how bold and arrogant. Huashan swordsmanship is so subtle and profound that even Senior Brother Ou, who had gathered many masters from Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Dian Cang, etc. to exchange ideas, could only break three moves in half a day. Who do you think you are? How dare you say you've broken it all?!"

As I concentrated my attention, I saw a picture next to the line of words. Although the figure of the swordsman was drawn with only a few hasty strokes and the lines were very simple, it was clear from the posture that it was a move from the basic sword technique of our school - Here Comes the Phoenix. The sword flew out lightly and agilely.

The human figure folded against him holds a straight weapon in his hand, and it is unclear whether it is a stick or a spear. It seems that the tip of the weapon is pointing directly at the tip of the opponent's sword, and the posture is extremely clumsy.

Linghu Chong pondered, "Our sect's move 'The Phoenix Arrives' contains five back-up moves. How can this stupid move be able to break it?"

But looking at the figure in the picture again, the clumsiness contains the meaning of endless and continuous

Although the move "The Phoenix Comes" has five follow-up moves, the stick of that man seems to contain six or seven of them, which can easily deal with the various follow-up moves of "The Phoenix Comes".

He stared at the human figure drawn with a few strokes, feeling somewhat surprised, and thought: "Our move 'The Phoenix Comes' is actually very common, but the latter move is extremely powerful. The enemy will block and dodge if they know the opportunity. If they have difficulty breaking it, they will suffer a great loss. However, the opponent's stick can really break our move 'The Wind Comes', which is a good idea."

Gradually, surprise turned into admiration, and deep in my heart, an indescribable emotion arose.

When he turned his head to look at the second set of figures, he was immediately cheered up when he saw that the sword wielder was using a move from his own school called "Pine Trees Welcoming Guests."

Because he spent a full month to master this move, it has become one of his special skills when facing the enemy.

However, not surprisingly, 'Pine Trees Welcoming Guests' was also cracked!

Linghu Chong was stunned for a long time until a spark fell on the back of his hand and he came to his senses.

He continued to look. The sword moves carved on the stone wall were all his sect's unique moves, and the opponent had used ingenious and ruthless moves to break them. The more Linghu Chong looked, the more shocked he became: "They actually cracked it?! Who are these people? Could they be stronger than the masters at the 'Making Friends Through Martial Arts' conference?!"

"What would Senior Brother Ou think if he saw someone breaking through the Hengshan Sword Technique?"

Linghu Chong recalled what Ou Zanghua said at the "Making Friends Through Martial Arts" conference. In Brother Ou's opinion, martial arts can only improve through communication.

Therefore, if he saw these murals, he would be very happy, and then he would practice Hengshan swordsmanship together with Mr. Mo Da and Uncle Liu.

Instead of being like me, as if my self-confidence has been hit.

Thinking of this, Linghu Chong immediately perked up: "That's right, I shouldn't sink into despair, but should improve my Huashan swordsmanship based on this flaw! But is the Huashan swordsmanship I'm improving still the Huashan swordsmanship?"

I don't know how long it took, but I heard someone yelling, "Brother, where are you?"

Linghu Chong was startled and quickly turned around and walked out of the stone cave. He quickly passed through the narrow passage, went through the cave entrance, and returned to his own cave. He only heard Lu Dayou calling out to the outside of the cliff.

He immediately ran to a large rock on the back cliff, sat cross-legged, and shouted: "I am meditating here, Sixth Junior Brother, what's the matter?"

Lu Dayou came over after hearing the noise. When he saw Linghu Chong, he smiled and said, "So you are here, Senior Brother! I am here to bring you food. I dare not bring you any wine as Master has strictly prohibited it. But today I have specially asked Chef Zhou to make a roast chicken for you, Senior Brother, please try it."

"That's great!" After hearing this, Linghu Chong smiled and jumped down from the rock.

The fellow disciples sat on the Cliff of Repentance, eating delicious roast chicken and gazing at the towering peaks of Mount Hua, looking quite relaxed.

"Sixth Junior Brother, did Master send back any message?" Linghu Chong asked while biting a chicken leg and looking at the clouds.

Lu Dayou was chewing chicken wings on the side and shook his head, "No."

"What's going on in the sect?"

"Hmm." Lu Dayou paused for a moment before saying, "There is no news in the sect, but there is a rumor in the county town below the mountain that a group of people recently robbed a wealthy businessman and wiped out his sect. Such methods are very similar to those of the Demon Cult."

Linghu Chong said, "It's possible. Sixth Junior Brother, you need to restrain Lingming, Lingyue and the others. Don't go down the mountain during this period of time. Wait until Master comes back before making plans."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)