I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 289: Inside the Cave

[The pace has been a bit slow recently, but it will soon come to an end. I didn't plan to write so much at first, but once I started, I couldn't control myself. The pace will pick up later. I have been reflecting on my writing and there are many problems. Please forgive me. As a newcomer, there is so much to learn, and it's easy to make mistakes if I'm not careful. Please understand.]

Soon, the three of them arrived at the place where Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu were. It seems that they also wanted to enter from here.

Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu still concealed their cultivation levels and had ordinary appearances. The three cultivators could tell at a glance that they were from the Endless Pleasure Sect. Among them, there was a pair of male and female cultivators who seemed to be a couple. They were both at the late Foundation Building stage. There was also a masked woman with an elegant figure, at the mid Foundation Building stage.

When the three of them saw that Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu were already there, they became cautious. However, after seeing the cultivation levels and ordinary appearances of Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu, they didn't pay any attention to them and walked past the three of them.

From their appearance, it seemed that they had been here more than once.

"Senior, should we enter from here?" Lin Yuanwu asked.

The reason why Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu entered from here was because it was mentioned in the jade slip that this left path was the safest. Lin Qing also wanted to start from the easiest and gradually progress to the more difficult paths. Now that three cultivators had already entered, Lin Yuanwu hesitated.

Lin Qing smiled and said, "Of course we should enter from here. Although there is a path on the right, this cave is so large that it can absorb divine sense from the outside. Once inside, there may be more restrictions, and the chances of encountering them are slim."

Upon hearing Lin Qing's words, Lin Yuanwu nodded and followed Lin Qing inside.

As soon as they entered, Lin Qing felt a chill in his heart. His thoughts were indeed correct. If divine sense was like entering mud and sand outside, inside it felt like being oppressed by a heavy object weighing thousands of pounds. Although Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu at the Violet Palace stage could barely keep their divine sense outside their bodies as long as they didn't touch the surrounding walls, this kind of pressure was completely unbearable for those at the Foundation Building stage.

At this moment, Lin Qing didn't go deeper. He used the light from outside to take a look. The path he and Lin Yuanwu were currently walking on was directly excavated by the Dali cultivators, not the entrance of the cave itself.

According to the jade slip, this excavated passage was about thirty-seven zhang long and connected to an underground lava cave.

What made Lin Qing curious was that the walls of this passage were made of a bluish-gray rock, extremely hard and comparable to a high-grade first-tier magic weapon. Lin Qing tested it slightly and found that it was no different from a high-grade first-tier magic weapon.

"It's really amazing. It must have been difficult to excavate it back then."

After sighing, Lin Qing continued to go deeper with Lin Yuanwu. Due to the lighting conditions, both Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu took out a night pearl, a natural treasure with the effect of a magic weapon, similar to a water pearl. However, these two types of treasures were very common. The ones Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu had were even better, emitting a white light with a radius of more than ten zhang in the darkness, illuminating the front.

They quickly walked through the passage, and what came into view was a cave that was more than thirty zhang deep underground. The top of the cave was less than one zhang away from them, and above it were towering mountains. This was a natural hollow at the bottom of a mountain.

After taking a walk with the night pearl, Lin Qing shook his head.

According to the jade slip, this was originally a lava cave. When it was first discovered, the cave was filled with stalactites, which had been there for an unknown number of years and were full of spiritual energy, comparable to high-grade spiritual stones.

However, all these stalactites had been completely divided up. Lin Qing even discovered traces of magic weapons scraping certain areas. It seemed that not even a trace was left behind.

Looking to the right, there was a curved staircase. The three people from earlier had already disappeared, probably going up this staircase.

Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu also walked towards the staircase.

Speaking of it, when this ancient cave was discovered, the entrance defense was too strong, so the Dali cultivator came up with a small path that could penetrate the entire cave. If we were to put it in mortal terms, it would be like a tomb raider digging a hole to steal treasures. The principle is similar.

So Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu are walking on this kind of small path.

After climbing the stairs, according to the jade slip, the left mountain peak is about a thousand zhang high, and it has been hollowed out into dozens of internal medicinal gardens, growing various precious spiritual herbs.

But Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu, needless to say, arrived too late and didn't find any spiritual herbs.

Lin Qing didn't mind. His goal for this trip was the middle mountain peak. According to the jade slip, the three peaks in the middle were the true residence of the ancient cultivators. The mountains on the left and right were just medicinal gardens, and of course, the mountain on the right had some other functions, but they were not important. What was important was the middle mountain peak.

After entering the left mountain peak, Lin Qing's main purpose was to broaden his horizons and focus on the middle mountain peak.

As for the three people who entered earlier, Lin Qing didn't find them along the way. Needless to say, they also took the direct route through the left path to the middle.

The thousand-zhang high mountain peak had even more winding paths inside, but for Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu, who were Purple Mansion cultivators, these paths were nothing.

Moreover, they didn't need to reach the summit, but after walking for a while, they turned into the path leading to the middle mountain peak.

Speaking of these three mountains, they were connected to each other until halfway up the mountain, and all of them had been excavated to create passages.

After turning into the middle mountain peak, Lin Qing and Lin Yuanwu found themselves halfway up the mountain. At this moment, there were two paths in front of them: one leading directly to the summit of the middle peak, and the other leading to the bottom of the middle peak.

And the bottom of the middle peak was the true entrance to this cave, but until now, the unknown restrictions set up there had not been broken.

In the eyes of the cultivators of Dali, there should have been other defensive measures in these three mountains, but after a long time, many restrictions had directly dissipated. However, the entrance to this cave was undoubtedly of utmost importance, so it still had defensive capabilities to this day.

But that was not important anymore. The cave was dead, but people were alive, which is why new paths were excavated at the bottom of the left and right mountain peaks.

Lin Qing had already read the jade slip. The upward path was originally the ancient cultivators' library or something similar, while the downward path led to their residence and a storage room.

It was said that after a lot of effort was made to break through the downward path, many good things were discovered, which led to many conflicts.

As for the upward path, although it was a library, nine out of ten times it was empty and no precious books were found. There were rumors of another hidden library, but it had not been discovered to this day.

"Elder, should we go up or down?" Lin Yuanwu asked.

Lin Qing looked down the path below and nodded, saying, "Let's go, let's go down and take a look at the residence below. It is said that there is still a hidden library above, but this cave has been discovered for over seventy years, and so many cultivators in Dali haven't found it. We will only have a superficial understanding if we just take a quick look. Let's go down and take a look."

"Elder is right."

Lin Yuanwu nodded and followed Lin Qing down.

(End of this chapter)