Taoism moves mountains

Chapter 9 Under the Deep Cliff
  The cliff is shrouded in clouds and mist, and you can't see the bottom at a glance. If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely be scared to the point where your eyes are black and your legs are weak.

The two thieves, Xiling and Banshan, had always made a living by climbing into the heavens and the earth, and the cliffs and abyss were not a problem for them.

It's just that those engineers and soldiers of Luo Pizi have never experienced it, so they are frightened and dare not try it.

Not long after Jiang Yang and Min Gushao went down the cliff, they sensed something flying up from the bottom of the cliff with a "chirp" sound.

The two quickly moved closer to the cliff to avoid being injured.

What was seen flying up was a loud arrow, which exploded after flying out of the deep cliff, and then the excited shouts of the people in Xiling came from the top of the mountain.

That should be the signal arrow sent by the first two people. Chen Yuguan on the top of the mountain was naturally overjoyed, and then ordered the others to stand by. He only took thirty brothers down to find out.

In fact, the cliff is not very smooth. It is just that there is a lot of moss, which makes it feel slippery. Even Jiang Yang slipped on his feet several times. The gravel and soil between the rocks continued to fall, which was shocking.

Min Gushao and Jiang Yang were much more tired climbing down the cliff than the people at Xiling who climbed down the ladder. They had to take a break to catch their breath, but gradually fell behind Chen Yulou who had just come down.

However, there were also accidents. The engineers sent by Luo Ruffian were inexperienced and fearful. One of them slipped directly from the centipede hanging ladder. As expected, he would definitely end up with a broken body and brittle bones.

"Hold on tight and go down slowly." Min Gushao saw the tragedy and reminded Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang responded and accepted the concern.

Someone in Xiling saw Jiang Yang and Min Gushao descending slowly, and he actually sneered: "Moshan is so timid and cherishes its life, why are there only these few people left?"

Chen Yuguan felt embarrassed and quickly cursed: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Keep your hands steady."

After comparing the methods used by the two factions to climb deep cliffs, we can understand what it means to be brave among skilled people.

Chen Yuguan naturally saw that although their method was safe, they were inferior to others in terms of personal skills, and he recognized this.

Therefore, he felt a little ashamed when his subordinates ridiculed him. Doesn't this mean that he and others are more cowardly and cherish their lives?

In the middle, Jiang Yang saw many elixirs growing on the cliffs. He also knew many Chinese herbal medicines from his memory of a doctor in his previous life.

In addition to large pieces of Ganoderma lucidum, there are also many precious herbs such as fern grass and dendrobium on the cliff. However, these herbs are nourished and grown by the surrounding poisonous gas. I am afraid that their medicinal properties have mutated.

Jiang Yang could only regretfully let go of these centuries-old poisons.

The group of people descended slowly, working hard for nearly an hour, and finally reached the bottom of the cliff, all sweating profusely.

When Chen Yuguan and the others stepped on the ground, they took a deep breath, and their tense bodies and minds suddenly relaxed.

The surrounding environment is surrounded by cliffs, and they are standing on the roof of a huge palace, with rubble and rubble everywhere.

But they couldn't see the two people who came down first to inquire. They shouted hurriedly, but there was no response. As a result, they found a centipede ladder in a large hole in the palace.

Chen Yuguan and others looked down from the big hole. It was pitch black and there was no movement under the palace.

Hong Gu Liang shouted several times, but still no response.

At this time, Chen Yuguan's expression became serious.

Jiang Yang and Min Gushao also came down at this time, and they didn't feel very tired even though they were practicing the Turtle Breathing Skill.

After landing, Jiang Yang did not immediately go to watch the others. Instead, he knotted his own sky-drilling rope and hung it up so that ordinary people could not catch it.

Min Gushao looked at him doubtfully, wondering why Jiang Yang did this.

"It's important to be on guard against others, so you don't worry about them taking over." Jiang Yang remembered that Lieutenant Yang, who was covetous and fearful of death under Luo Pizi, stole their sky-drilling rope when he was escaping, so he had to be on guard.

Min Guxiao thought about it and thought it was right, so he tied a knot in his Sky-Diamond Cable and hung it up.

After the two of them got the Sky Drilling Cable, they walked towards Chen Yuguan and the others.

"Brother Mingushao, I took a look. There are cliffs around the top of the temple. There should be no other way out." Chen Yuguan said.

He was born with night eyes and could see clearly even under the dark cliff.

Neither Min Gushao nor Jiang Yang responded to him, and looked around.

With the faint light, Jiang Yang saw the broken rubble on the roof of the palace, and combined with his memory, he roughly understood what caused it.

Chen Yuguan didn't waste much time and gave the order: "Your Majesty, be careful."

"Wait! Are you going to go down like this?" Seeing that they were going down like this, Jiang Yang shouted quickly.

"Brother Jiang, what's wrong?" Chen Yugan asked doubtfully.

"Brother Chen, do you think this hole was broken from above or from below?" Jiang Yang asked, pointing to the big hole.

When everyone heard it, many people were confused, but the wise people immediately began to watch and analyze.

There are no huge rocks under the palace, but there are many scattered tiles around the big hole. It is obvious that the big hole was broken from below.

"What on earth is going on?" Chen Yuguan understood, but he couldn't guess the reason.

Min Gushao did the same and asked Jiang Yang, "What did you see?"

Jiang Yang turned around and pointed at the scratch not far away, and said with a serious face: "The scratch over there looks like it was crushed by something huge, so I suspect that there is a huge monster here, and this big monster The hole was also made by it."

When Chen Yuguan heard this, he felt that it was some nonsense. He did not believe what Jiang Yang said. Instead, he felt that Jiang Yang seemed to be alarmist for the sake of competition.

No, many Xieling brothers started to panic.

"Brother Jiang, you are thinking too much." Chen Yuguan did not give Jiang Yang a good look. After all, Jiang Yang was disturbing the morale of the army. On the contrary, Min Gushao didn't think so. He felt that Jiang Yang used to be upright and talkative and might be alarmist, but judging from Jiang Yang's recent performance, what Jiang Yang said may not be unreasonable.

He walked over to the strange mark and examined it carefully.

Seeing that Chen Yuguan didn't believe him, Jiang Yang shook his head and whistled to his senior brother.

[It’s hard to be a good person these days! 】

After looking at the strange traces, Min Gushao looked at the far-reaching and long canyon, and said solemnly: "There is something weird in this place, don't be careless."

Over there, Chen Yuguan and others had already started to go down the hall, while Min Gushao and Jiang Yang didn't wait long at the top of the hall, and also went down the centipede ladder.

The palace was large, but in a mess.

It was full of dust, with many collapsed beams and columns, and even the curtains were in disrepair.

Jiang Yang used fire sticks to light up the candles on several candlesticks around him. The entire palace became much brighter and easier to see clearly.

There are many siege weapons used in ancient times in the palace, such as distance carts, bed crossbows, serial crossbow carts, etc. There are also many weapon racks with weapons arranged neatly.

"Boss, come here and look over here."

A brother Xieling shouted.

Everyone thought he had discovered something and ran over.

All I saw was a pool of yellow water on the ground, and all that remained were the clothes and weapons of the previous spies.

Chen Yugan's face was serious, and his heart was pounding: "I, Chen Yugan, have robbed ten tombs if not twenty, but I have never seen anything so weird." 】

"Isn't this a piece of clothing that jumps underground? Where are the others? And Sai Ling Monkey?" Chen Yuguan asked his brothers one after another.

Jiang Yang spoke out at this time: "Everyone, be careful, this is caused by poisoning. Because the poison is so violent, the flesh and bones have turned into a pool of blood."

Now we are all in the same boat and it is our duty to take care of each other. If we know something and fail to report it, it is not fair enough.

When Chen Yuguan heard Jiang Yang's reminder, his expression became even uglier, and he also warned aloud: "Brothers, be careful not to be bitten by poisonous insects."

At this moment, the pigeon behind brother Xieling started to stir, which attracted Chen Yuguan's attention and made him alert.

"Boss, look here!"

He yelled again, obviously seeing another person's relics.

Jiang Yang walked back to the whistle and reminded: "Brother, be careful, poisonous insects are coming out."

These poisonous centipedes are very poisonous. Once bitten, they will immediately turn into blood after a few breaths, leaving no bones or residue behind. They are absolutely extremely poisonous.

Arsenic is extremely poisonous, but after poisoning a person, there will be a whole corpse, which shows that the poisonous centipede is even more powerful.

Jiang Yang felt that ordinary people would definitely die if they were bitten. Even if he fed the third-grade detoxification pill, it would only delay death at most.

At this moment, something happened to a brother from Xieling. After he screamed in pain, his whole body, flesh and bones slowly turned into blood.

Several people around him witnessed it with their own eyes and couldn't help but look horrified.

After Jiang Yang's reminder just now, many people began to become nervous, for fear of being poisoned by poisonous insects. Now that they have witnessed the strange scene with their own eyes, can they not be frightened?

Chen Yuguan ran back with his people and saw the scene of death.

At this moment, there was a rustling sound all around.

Then someone screamed again, and then there was a strange scene of blood turning into water.

With the faint candlelight, everyone saw more and more poisonous centipedes crawling out. They were densely packed and countless, making everyone who saw them frightened and their scalps numb.

Immediately afterwards, people were bitten one after another, and wailing and hissing suddenly sounded all around.

"Brother, stand next to me and don't leave me two steps away." Jiang Yang said quickly when he saw Min Gushao taking out a gun.

Min Gushao looked at Jiang Yang doubtfully, and saw that the poisonous centipedes around him were two steps away from Jiang Yang, and felt strange.

"Remember the red fruit I ate before? Maybe it's because it has the effect of avoiding poison. I found it in the woods before, and the snakes and insects didn't dare to approach me." Jiang Yang explained.

After listening to Jiang Yang's words, Min Gushao's eyes lit up and he walked to Jiang Yang in surprise.

But Chen Yuguan finally realized it at this time. After all, several brothers died.

"Get out!" he shouted.

After receiving the order, the Xieling brothers quickly climbed up the centipede ladder to escape.

And for his own sake, Adjutant Yang actually shot Brother Xiling on the Centipede Staircase and climbed up the Centipede Staircase himself.

Jiang Yang and Min Gushao, who had been watching calmly, both saw this scene.

Jiang Yang directly raised his bow and arrow and aimed at him. Jiang Yang hated such a selfish person who stepped on other people's corpses to escape, and it was not a pity to kill him.

But Min Gushao grabbed Jiang Yang's hand holding the bow and said calmly: "Don't mind your own business."

Jiang Yang had no choice but to put down his bow and arrow and let the selfish man go.

(If there is a ditch, there will be fire. It would be strange if there is no fire in such a big deep ditch! The deep canyon and cliff between the two mountains stretch for a long time, without being connected or clamped, like a thin line of sky.)
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