Chapter 21 Treasures in the Cave
Facing the morning mist in the mountains.

With the help of the ropes installed by the bodyguards, Li Zhi climbed to the part of the rock wall that was suspected to be the entrance to the cave.

Then he waved the Luoyang shovel in his hand and began to chisel the rock.

"Bang, bang, bang, crash."

Holding a sharp Luoyang shovel, Li Zhi's mountain-opening efficiency is almost comparable to the forward speed of a hard rock tunnel boring machine.

He dug large pieces of rock out of the rock wall.

Two hours later, he dug out an elliptical cave on the rock wall, which was one meter and two meters deep and about one meter in diameter.

Then Li Zhi squatted in the cave and continued mining.

The ancestral Luoyang shovel played a huge role at this time. The digging speed in his hands was comparable to the drilling speed of a pneumatic pick.

By noon, Li Zhi had already dug a three-meter-deep hole in the rock wall.

It seemed that in his hands, there was no difference between the hard rock wall and the loess.

The deeper he dug, the more Li Zhi could feel a comfortable breath emanating from the rock.

It seems to be the smell of spiritual energy.

When I feel tired, I sit on the ground and practice breathing techniques to restore my strength.

The recovery effect of breathing in spiritual energy is much more efficient than eating.

In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, Li Zhi finally felt that the Luoyang shovel in his hand seemed to have inserted into the gap in the mountain.

Then, a rich spiritual energy escaped from the holes.

Suddenly inhaling such rich spiritual energy, Li Zhi's soul seemed to be sublimated.

The tired body was instantly restored to vitality.

And it is a state of full blood resurrection.

After pausing for a while, Li Zhi finally dug through the cave.

What comes into view is a huge natural cave.

The hole he dug was about three meters above the ground.

Li Zhi pulled out a burning flame lighting stick and threw it into the cave.

I got a rough idea of ​​the size of the cave.

It is about twenty meters high, and the length and width of the bottom of the cave are about one hundred meters.

The ground is bumpy, with only a narrow path leading directly to an area in the southeast direction.

It seems that there used to be a large pool of water at the bottom of the cave.

Li Zhi saw that the air inside was fresh and there was no feeling of stuffiness, so he jumped in directly.

Then, he pulled out a burning flame lighting stick every few meters, directly dispelling the darkness that had been hidden for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.

When we came to a platform area in the southeast corner, we saw several stone benches, a stone table, and a stone couch leaning against the wall of the cave. It seemed to be where the owner of this place slept.

Next to the stone bed there is a bookshelf carved on the wall of the cave.

There were some scrolls made of jade slips placed on it, and the ropes binding the jade slips seemed to have rotted.

In a pool southwest of the platform, there is a dark red alchemy furnace that is more than one meter tall.

There are signs of burning at the bottom of the pool, as if there was once an underground fire pool there.

Apart from that, there is nothing else.

Then, Li Zhi took out a high-power LED lamp from his backpack and instantly illuminated the platform area.

Only then could he see the true appearance of the dark red alchemy furnace.

There are many animal patterns engraved on the alchemy furnace made of unknown metal, which seems to indicate its efficacy.

Li Zhi couldn't help but reach out and touch the alchemy furnace.

The furnace instantly lit up with a bloody light, and then began to shrink rapidly.

When it became the size of a fist, the blood light converged and then it fell heavily to the ground.

In an instant, Li Zhi seemed to feel the earth shaking.

The entire cave seemed to be collapsing, and he was so scared that he quickly dodged.

After a moment, the shaking feeling disappeared.

Taking a look at the entrance in the distance, Li Zhi seemed to feel that this cave was not inside the mountain, but existed in another space.

The shaking feeling just now seemed to be the shaking caused by the collapse of space after the alchemy furnace fell heavily to the ground.

Li Zhi hurriedly put on the snakeskin bag, picked up a small flat shovel, and went to dig the alchemy furnace in the pond.

Although the stove is only the size of a fist, Li Zhi feels that it weighs at least more than 400 kilograms.

Fortunately, Li Zhi practiced breathing techniques which greatly increased his strength, otherwise he might not be able to lift it.

After putting the fist-sized stove into a snakeskin bag, Li Zhi carried it out of the pool.

After gently placing it on the ground, Li Zhi went to the bookshelf next to the stone couch, carefully opened the scroll, and then took out his digital camera to take pictures one by one.

Then he tied up the scrolls and put them into a snakeskin bag.

There are twenty scrolls woven with jade pieces on the bookshelf.

Li Zhi took photos of them all and packed them up.

After doing all this, Li Zhi immediately picked up the snakeskin bag and left the cave.

In other words, the snakeskin bag handed down from his ancestors, made from the skin of an unknown monster, was strong enough for him to carry those things away.

When he returned to the immortal worship platform outside, Li Zhi felt a foul air suddenly blowing out of the cave on the rock wall, not knowing whether it was an illusion.

Then he climbed up again to observe whether there were any traces of the cave at the bottom of the cave.

The alternate dimension has collapsed.

It seemed that Li Zhi took away the alchemy furnace that suppressed the space, which led to the collapse of that space.

It was getting dark outside, and Li Zhi could only stay there for one night.

When he arrived at the tent where Yao Le had lived before, Li Zhi turned on the camera and began to read the contents on the jade slips.

Sure enough, he found the subsequent scriptures of the Book of Eternal Life.

But there are only three volumes of scriptures: Daogong Volume, Siji Volume and Hualong Volume.

In addition to cultivation methods, other jade slips also record some cultivation experiences and strange stories.

Li Zhi learned the real name of the Longevity Sutra from his experience in cultivation. It is called "Innate Longevity Gong".

According to the records on the jade slips, "The Xiantian Changsheng Gong" is a quasi-imperial scripture.

It was created by the ancient monk Changshou Taoist, who used one-third of the "Wuhuang Sutra" as a blueprint and combined it with Kunlun Qigong to create a method of practicing the Wheel of Life.

After achieving success in cultivation, the cultivator's vitality is extremely strong, and his life span can be almost one-third longer than that of cultivators at the same level.

What shocked Li Zhi even more was that the jade slip also recorded that the founder of their Taoist lineage, the Taoist Changshou, had lived for 15,000 years with the cultivation of the third level of the Quasi-Emperor. His life span was so long that it was almost comparable to the life span of an ordinary emperor.

At the same time, he also learned the origin of the alchemy furnace.

It is called the Wanyu Furnace, and it is a top-level great sage magic weapon left by the Taoist Changshou. It is almost transformed into a quasi-imperial magic weapon.

It is a divine furnace made of phoenix bones, phoenix blood, red gold and nine-day soil. Collect the essence and blood of all spirits, put it in the furnace to refine, and then bathe yourself in it to enhance your vitality.

It is said that it was the Taoist Changshou who dug out a secret about the Immortal Emperor from the ruins of the ancient heaven and forged this furnace.

For some unknown reason, the Taoist Changshou did not cultivate this furnace into a quasi-imperial divine weapon.

Instead, he forged another quasi-imperial weapon, the Hundred Herbs Map.

It is said that an ancient medicinal garden is sealed in the Hundred Herbs Map, in which there is a demigod tree, the longevity fruit tree, which was cultivated from the core of a ginseng fruit tree.

At the same time, Li Zhi also learned that the true original text of "Xiantian Changsheng Gong" was recorded on a page of a golden book made of eternal blue gold.

At the same time, three great emperor runes related to the way of life were recorded on that page of the golden book.

Those three great emperor runes originated from the incomplete copy of "The Empress Wa Sutra" obtained by Taoist Changshou.

At the same time, Li Zhi also learned that the original "Innate Longevity Skill" was in the hands of the senior brother of the owner of this cave.

And his senior brother is a genuine great sage-level strongman.

His senior brother’s cave was not in the Qinling Mountains, but on Mount Tai. It was a genuine Great Sage’s cave.

The owner of this cave had only the cultivation level of a saint during his lifetime.

And he is a relatively poor saint.

He used all his wealth to buy various spiritual bloods.

In the end, he lived for eight thousand years before he passed away.

According to his description, the era he lived in should be the period between Emperor Void and Emperor Hengyu.

After briefly reading those things, Li Zhi tossed and turned and couldn't sleep all night.

The next day, at dawn, he left Baixiantai carrying his things.

As for the bodies of those people, they would soon be eaten clean by the wild beasts in the mountains.

Carrying the Wanyu Furnace and the jade slip, Li Zhi did not return to the city, but returned to his hometown.

Start flipping the house right away.

And a new secret room was built fifteen meters underground.

He then copied the scriptures twice and stored the original and the copy in a secret room underground.

At the same time, he also put the copy of the secret book, the small flat shovel, the brush, and the oil lamp back into the secret room.

Finally, he returned to the city with the Luoyang shovel, snakeskin bag and a collection edition of "Innate Longevity Kung Fu".

Four months have passed since he went out this time.

The two little ones in the family are about to celebrate their first birthday.

(End of this chapter)