"You Taoist priests, can you call lightning? To be honest, some of our practitioners in the lineage of the out-of-body experiences have Taoist cultivation techniques, but we have never seen lightning techniques before. It seems that people on our side are too narrow-minded." Chang Xin's voice was slightly lower.
"Not all can. The Thunder Law of Mount Si is also possessed by Cloud Lin Mountain. It depends on the inheritance of each sect. You will naturally not find a Taoist who randomly searches for one in your folk.” I paused and then said, “What are mountain demons most afraid of?”
"Thunder..." Chang Xin answered firmly.
"Yes, it's very simple. The immortals next to you are afraid of thunder, so it's impossible for those Taoist cultivators in the out-of-body experiences lineage to learn thunder techniques actively." I paused and continued to explain: "Even if there is an opportunity, they cannot learn it. This is not because you are ignorant. Frankly speaking, before I knew about the out-of-body experiences, I had no understanding of them at all. I didn't even know that humans can borrow the strength of these beings considered as immortals."
Chang Xin nodded, his demeanor becoming more cautious. He asked, "Can I ask Master Luo another time in the future?"
My eyes were truly slightly surprised; had Chang Xin not remembered the beating?
"That's right. I didn't use my full strength before. Indeed, the fox spirit is afraid of thunder. However, I can still ask the fox to take over my body. The fox doesn't fear thunder, and it was told to me by my future father-in-law that there are some special ways to kill the fox, but nothing else works." Chang Xin explained seriously.
I scanned up and down at Chang Xin for a moment and shook my head slightly.
"This..." Chang Xin was about to speak.
At this time, Liang Jie Shi came over, and he looked somewhat nervous and anxious. He pulled Chang Xin aside and whispered a few words to him.
Chang Xin's gaze at me has completely changed.
Finally, it was dark again. After a rest, everyone's spirits were relatively good.
After Lao Gong came out, he still took on Liang Jie Shi's body, holding a compass and slowly walking around the area.
The moonlight was very bright, reflecting on the river, and the speed of the river flow seemed to be very slow, like a mirror.
The group followed Liang Jie Shi for about two miles before he stopped. Lao Gong murmured with suspicion, "It must be here, but I can't see the entrance to the tomb passage."
The position we were in was just next to a slightly rugged mountain foot, where the river hit the rocky mountain foot. That area looked very smooth.
Everyone remained silent, afraid of disturbing Lao Gong's analysis.
"It's really strange... I..."
Lao Gong climbed out of Liang Jie Shi's shoulder, and his face had a slightly gloomy expression.
"Right there's a hole! In the water!" suddenly, Xu Jin shouted loudly.
This immediately drew the attention of everyone, including me, and our gaze fell towards the place Xu Jin was pointing to.
As expected, there was a black hole in the middle of the river outside the foot of the mountain.
It seemed as if there was a person inside the hole, lurking and observing us covertly.
Fei Fang's face revealed a surprised expression. The few people at the site of the coffin exchanged glances, and Liang Jie Shi had just regained consciousness and was still somewhat confused.
"How can there be a hole in the water? It's too strange and eerie... Fengshui?" Fei Fang was slightly more calm, but his eyes were filled with confusion.
"Send someone down to take a look," he said gravely.
At once, someone removed their belongings and was about to jump into the water.
"Stop moving!" Lao Gong finally spoke up.
"What's the hurry." He muttered, "Lao Gong hasn't said anything yet."
Fei Fang only looked at Lao Gong, his eyes full of questions.
"Think with your toes. Is it possible for a hole to be in the water?" Lao Gong looked at Fei Fang's expression as if he was looking at an idiot.
"This... I..." Fei Fang felt a bit embarrassed for a moment.
In fact, this can be seen that Fei Fang is too eager to find the previous Yaoyang cultivator.
However, it cannot be entirely blamed on Fei Fang. The hole in the water looked too real, as if there were a protruding place in the middle of the river, just happened to surface, just happened to be a hole, just happened to have someone watching us inside!
"This is a reflection, an aura, moonlight, all coming together at the right time and place to form something. It's also a form of temptation; for people who don't understand fengshui, they would definitely think, let's go check it out in the water?"
"If you really want to send someone over, let's see if they can still come back alive." Lao Gong dragged out the words, giving off a slightly eccentric tone.
Of course, Lao Gong had no ill intent. He had always been like this.
The person whom Fei Fang had ordered looked slightly uneasy, standing in place not knowing what to do.
"Don't you carry the things and thank Lao Gong for saving your life?" Fei Fang coughed and said to the person again.
The person quickly hung the backpack on their back and, bowing to Lao Gong, respectfully thanked him for the advice.
This time, Lao Gong returned to my shoulder. He muttered two sentences, "Don't thank me yet, the last cultivator in this place all died here. Whether you can go back alive, and how many of you can go back alive, is still uncertain. So be careful yourselves."
After saying that, Lao Gong stared at the water, lifting his head slightly to look at the mountain in the upper right corner, as if he were searching for the origin of the reflection.
I also looked in that direction, but I didn't see anything.
"Master, you go up from here, and we'll go to investigate," Lao Gong glanced in a certain direction.
The place I looked at was very smooth and steep, about 20 meters high. It looked more like a protrusion on the mountain foot, with no trees around, making it difficult to climb.
I slightly frowned and looked further back, preparing to climb a mountain that was the same height as it from a further distance first, and then circle around from the back.
My magical skills are quite good now, but my physical strength and agility are a bit lacking. The elders might not have a problem with it, but for me, it's quite challenging.
Just as I was taking a step forward, Lao Gong finally realized it. He had a slightly awkward expression on his face.
At this time, the few people from the coffin site, following Fei Fang's order, began to act. They took out some steel claws, nylon ropes, and other tools that could be used for rock climbing from their backpacks. Even though the smooth rock wall looked difficult to climb, they were able to find cracks to embed the steel claws into, allowing them to climb up.
Chang Xin had been eager to try, but he stopped as well.
"Appearances can deceive, since everyone is here, we cannot let you take on dangerous tasks all the time. Climbing mountains and crossing rivers are small matters for people from the underworld. The people from the coffin site can go set up ropes first, and we'll all go up together to investigate." Fei Fang said in a low voice.
I nodded, and my gaze relaxed a lot.
Lao Gong whispered in my ear, "Master, you need to practice more. As a candidate of Mount Si's regulations and the little junior, if you can't leap from eaves and walls, it would be a laughingstock."
"..."
Ten to fifteen minutes later, the people from the coffin site had set up the ropes, and we climbed up to the cliff at the edge of the water.
In an instant upon reaching the top, the view before us was entirely different!
Looking up from the water's edge on the cliff, there was a dense forest, full of lush greenery.
But standing on the cliff, looking at the mountain behind us, we could see dense and densely packed scaffolding hung on the mountain wall. At a height of nearly 100 meters, it was the end of the scaffolding, with a deep cave at its end.
From our vantage point, we couldn't see inside the cave clearly, but looking back towards the water's surface, the cave was very clear.
There was indeed a person inside the cave, but they slightly raised their arms, as if they were signaling to us.
The man's face became slightly clearer, withered and dried, bones protruding, clearly a dead person!
His skin was dark and bruised, turning blue, already transformed into a blue corpse! Moreover, his skeletal structure was large, creating a striking visual contrast.
"Yaoyang cultivator?" I pondered.
