Chapter 6

Tang Qingyu walked around the frozen lake a few times but didn't find anything. He thought to himself, 'When I was doing the Ancient Tombs quest in Wulin Legend, I remember reading that there were descendants of the Ancient Tombs who were active in Wulin during the Ming Dynasty. During the Lion Slaughtering Convention at Shaolin Temple, they helped the Ming Cult leader resolve a crisis. So Chongyang Palace still exists, but the Ancient Tombs are gone?

Or did they move? '

At this time, it was dusk, and the sun was setting. Tang Qingyu had no choice but to leave. When he turned around, he saw a fox running around the lake quickly and ran straight into the rocks.

Tang Qingyu was stunned and thought to himself, "Is this fox a demon?"

How could it jump into the rock? '

Tang Qingyu's curiosity was piqued. He walked to the stone where the fox had "transmigrated" into and found that it was a stone covered by many vines.

He looked around but couldn't find anything. He couldn't help but reach out to touch it and almost jumped in fright – his hand had also "transmigrated" into the rock!

When he moved his hand, it seemed that his hand could move freely.

Tang Qingyu calmed down and looked at it carefully. It turned out that there were two stones with almost the same color pattern. They were arranged one after the other, so they looked like one stone. The fox must have run into the gap between the two stones just now, as if it had entered the stone.

The gap between the two pieces of stone was not big. Tang Qingyu, who was full of curiosity, stepped forward and squeezed in. He found that there seemed to be a cave inside, but the collapsed stone blocked only a small opening about a foot wide. Behind the small opening, there was no sunlight at all.

Tang Qingyu frowned and took two steps back to look carefully.

Obviously, the place that was "hiding" behind the cave was usually hidden underwater, because … He looked up at the place about two meters above the entrance of the cave. If it was summer, it would be covered with vines, so he couldn't see clearly. But now, it was winter, and the vines were yellow and withered. He could see a "line" at that height. Below the "line", there were obvious dried algae, which was obviously formed by being immersed in water all year round.

The two "camouflage" stones at the entrance of the cave were of a different color from the walls. Furthermore, their surfaces were smooth and looked as if they were man-made. However, it was obvious that the outer one had collapsed and blocked part of the entrance. There were also signs of collapsed stones at the back of the cave. Otherwise, it would be a bigger cave entrance …

Suddenly, an idea popped into his head.

When he chatted with Kiyoshi Genko in the morning, he said that Shaanxi had been suffering from drought for the past few years, so the water level of this frozen lake wouldn't be as low as it was now. This cave must be a man-made passage hidden underwater!

As a native of the wuxia world who transmigrated to Wulin Legend, Tang Qingyu carefully read every quest's information, so … he clearly remembered that the third generation leader of the Ancient Tombs, Xiao Longnu and her disciple, Yang Guo, escaped through the underwater passage in order to avoid the vengeful traitor, Li Mochou.

So he was now in Mount Zhongnan, in an "underwater" passage that was obviously man-made.

There couldn't be such a coincidence in this world, right?

Tang Qingyu poked his head into the cave to take a closer look, and found that even though the collapsed stones had shrunk the cave, it would be difficult for him to crawl in with his current size. Then he remembered that when he was clearing a dungeon with Xiao Bai, he also had to crawl into a cave, and then he bought the "Bone Shrinking Skill" book to make it easier to clear the dungeon. If he wore the in-game clothes, had the in-game face, and knew the in-game qinggong, then all the in-game skills would be imprinted in his head.

Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself down and searched for the feeling in his body. For a moment, he seemed to have the illusion that everything around him was rapidly flowing data and codes. Then, in the next moment, as if he had instinctively used the Huashan Sect's Qinggong without realizing it, his muscles and bones were crackling and popping.

He shrank.

Lowering his head, Tang Qingyu crawled into the cave that was only a foot wide.

Originally, after a night of heavy snow, the dark clouds had dispersed, and the sky was clear for thousands of miles in Mount Zhongnan.

As soon as he crawled in, he was greeted by a bunch of green eyes staring at his face.

A scream was choked in his throat, and Tang Qingyu choked on his internal energy.

Eight glossy green eyes, furry legs …

There were many species of arthropods, and they were distributed all over the world except Antarctica.

They were distributed from sea level to 5,000 meters above sea level, and they were all terrestrial.

The body was divided into two parts, the cephalothorax (front body) and the abdomen (back body). The cephalothorax was covered with a carapace and a breastplate.

No antennae, no wings, no compound eyes, only a single eye. Generally, there were eight eyes, but there were also six, four, or two eyes. Some of the genera even had no eyes. In terms of the color and function of the eyes, there were two types, night and day … (Note: Information from Baidu)

With so much information about spiders suddenly appearing in his mind, Tang Qingyu, who was dripping with cold sweat, subconsciously wanted to shake his head to get rid of the chaotic information. However, the narrow space was obviously not enough for him to complete such a large movement, so he still did not move.

Fortunately, after a moment, his mind was clear again. He focused and looked, and was secretly relieved. It turned out to be a type of spider that was commonly seen in dark and damp places. It was big and looked scary, but in fact, it was not poisonous.

The spider "stared" at Tang Qingyu for a long time, and finally silently crawled away.

Letting out a long breath, Tang Qingyu silently circulated his internal energy, and guided the internal energy that had just shaken his dantian to the point where it hurt. After it calmed down, he continued to crawl inside.

After crawling a few more feet, there was no more sunlight in the cave. However, Tang Qingyu took out a torch and some light from Chongyang Palace, and looked deeper into the cave.

Originally, Tang Qingyu was prepared for the cave to collapse and become narrower. However, when he looked closer, he realized that the narrowness of the cave entrance was due to a few large pieces of rock that were originally embedded in the stone walls to support the weight of the cave. They fell off and overlapped with each other. After passing through the half-collapsed entrance, the cave was actually quite spacious.

Holding the candle, Tang Qingyu went deeper into the cave, and after a few meters, it suddenly opened up. The space was large enough to fit Tang Qingyu. He straightened his body and walked in.

Patting the dirt off his body, Tang Qingyu realized that the path in front of him was slanted upwards.

Tang Qingyu remembered that in Wulin Legend, Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu escaped by diving into the Gu Mu. Water flows downwards, so they definitely could not have gone upwards. They could only have gone downwards, into the depths of the lake, and then escaped through the water.

Now that Tang Qingyu was entering the Gu Mu from the outside, he would naturally be climbing from the bottom to the top. The slanted path in front of him meant that there was a high possibility that this was the entrance to the Gu Mu.

Thinking of this, Tang Qingyu hesitated.

When he woke up in the morning, Kiyoshi Genko asked him how long he would be staying. After a moment of confusion, Tang Qingyu thought of the legendary Gu Mu beside Chongyang Palace. When Xiao Bai was chatting and ranking the ultimate Wulin secret manuals, Xiao Bai praised the Nine Yin Manual. He even told him about the experts who learned the Nine Yin Manual. At the same time, he looked down on the Huashan school's Mantra, Zixia, saying that this Neigong was a defective version of the Sunflower Manual. It couldn't even compare to the Neigong from the Peripatetic school. Even the Jade Heart Sutra from the Ancient Tombs would beat it.

Therefore, Tang Qingyu was a little curious. He wanted to know what the legendary Secret Art of Peerless Martial Arts looked like. Since he was quite nostalgic in the game and joined the Huashan Sect, he had no way of knowing if he would have learned the Art of Dark North, which could absorb other people's Qi for his own use if he had joined the Carefree Sect.

Tang Qingyu didn't know what he should do, so he thought about it again and again … Maybe he should fulfill his dreams … Not beat up Feng Qingyang, get married and have kids … Maybe he should try to become a world-famous hero?

He wasn't flustered and exasperated by what he had experienced in his past life. Perhaps it hadn't been glorious enough, or perhaps it had been too mundane, but he had done everything he could to live the best life he could.

But … but there were some things he regretted. He regretted that, as a martial artist, he had never been able to reach the pinnacle of martial arts. He regretted that, as a disciple of Mount Hua, he had been unable to stop the infighting between the Masters of Energy and the Sword Masters. He regretted that he had lived, but no one in the jianghu remembered him. He regretted that he had been born in a wonderful era, but the jianghu hadn't been as wonderful as he had been …

Therefore, Tang Qingyu thought that maybe he should try to live a more wonderful life. Maybe he could try to become a world-famous hero?

Everything here seemed real.

The world seemed real.

It wasn't a game.

In the game world, he was listening, but that was because the data programming had set the rules for him to listen. Now that he had leveled up, the rules of the data programming would "set the rules" for him to be able to hear further, see further, wield his sword faster, and increase his physical strength.

Everything had been planned out.

Over time, when he was in the game world, his feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, joy, sound, color, and taste were all things he could touch, feel, hear, and see. Or were they just strings of programming that he had to touch, feel, smell, and see?

How could he tell?

Even so, Tang Qingyu didn't think there was anything to complain about. After all … not many people would have the opportunity to open their eyes in another world after dying. Therefore, he was grateful, regardless of what it was that had allowed him to continue living.

But a world that wasn't programmed, a world that was more real, was better than a game world that might shut down because of the loss of players.

Much better.

So, what was the first rule of Xiao Bai's' Quick Guide to Becoming a Hero '?

Oh, right. A hero has to be strong in martial arts. Very strong.

What was the 'Nine Yin Manual'? Oh, right. Xiao Bai said that it was a peerless martial arts secret manual that completely defeated the 'Purple Cloud Skill'.

He was curious. Not only did he want to find out if the legendary Ancient Tombs really existed, but he also wanted to see how powerful the 'Nine Yin Manual' that completely defeated the 'Purple Cloud Skill' was.

It seemed that this legendary martial arts secret manual was carved on the roof of a stone room in the Ancient Tombs …

These complicated thoughts had driven him to this place, but at this moment, Tang Qingyu was a little hesitant.