Chapter Thirty-Seven - Go to the Tomb
I said: "Dalong, this is the inheritance ring of my Xunlong Celestial Master sect. When you wear it on your hand, it can protect you from being corroded by corpse energy or evil spirits. Even corpse poison can resist it. You
Take it."
When Hu Dalong saw me handing him the ring of the leader of the Xunlong Celestial Master sect, Hu Dalong quickly shook his head.
Hu Dalong had long heard Li Kun and Xu Tian mention the inheritance ring.
But because there are only three inheritance rings of the Xunlong Celestial Master now, and one of them belongs to the head of the Xunlong Celestial Master, Hu Dalong has never had a token of the Xunlong Celestial Master.
As long as there is no inheritance ring, it cannot be said to be a Dragon-seeking Heavenly Master, so this matter has always made Hu Dalong very distressed.
But what Hu Dalong never expected was that I would give him the inheritance ring of this leader.
Seeing Hu Dalong shaking his head, I said: "Why are you so polite to me? This thing is for protection. Put it on quickly before going to the grave."
After hearing what I said, Hu Dalong shook his head and pushed back my outstretched hand.
Then he said: "This ring is the inheritance token of the master. Even if I have just started, how can I take your things?"
I rolled my eyes at him, knowing exactly what Hu Dalong meant. It was nothing more than that this was the so-called leader's thing.
Hu Dalong continued: "And this ring is an important item for personal protection. If I take it away from you, then you will be gone. No, no, no."
I said: "This ring is just an object. It is not that important to me. Although it is a token of the master, it is really dispensable to me. First, I really don't have to worry about anything if I go to the grave."
Corpse energy or the erosion of evil spirits."
With that said, I took out the Soul-Severing Sword from my waist and continued: "This Soul-Severing Sword is specially designed to absorb the evil spirits and corpses in the world. As long as I carry it with me, this evil spirit will not have any interference with me.
So you can rest assured about this.”
"The second thing is the token of the leader. The token of the leader of Xunlong Celestial Master is not just a ring. Anyone can wear this thing, but not everyone can use the treasure of the leader of Xunlong Celestial Master."
Yes, this Xunlong Celestial Master’s Plate is the real token of the head of the Xunlong Celestial Master, so just wear this ring, otherwise you will have the nerve to say that you are also a Xunlong Celestial Master.”
After listening to what I said, Xu Tian, who was above me, also said: "Old Liu is right, Dalong, please hurry up and take it. It will be good for you to have this ring in your hand."
Li Kun also said: "Oh, Third Brother, when did you become so stained? Hurry up, take it with you and open the door quickly so that we can get out."
After hearing what the rest of us said, Hu Dalong turned to look at me.
I handed the ring to Hu Dalong again and said, "Put it on quickly, and then the four of us will open the door."
Hu Dalong nodded, then took the ring in his hand, but still said to me: "Whenever we quit, I will return this ring to you."
I nodded, smiled and said, "Okay, that's no problem."
After saying that, Hu Dalong put the ring on his hand, and then I greeted Captain Fang and Saji.
There is a gap in the wooden door, but because it is full of hard soil, the door has grown dead, so the gap must be cleaned.
I covered the soul-killing knife with my right hand, and then started to clean up the hard soil in the crack of the door.
After doing all this, I nodded to the three of us, and then all four of us grabbed the crack in the door with our hands.
Then I said: "One, two, three, pull!"
The four of them exerted their strength in unison, and the huge wooden door in front of them suddenly made a rattling sound.
Immediately, the huge wooden door, which was nearly four meters high and more than three meters wide, was slowly pulled open by us.
When the wooden door opened, pieces of soil suddenly fell inside, and for a while the four of us couldn't open our eyes.
But none of the four people shouted to stop, and they had no intention of letting go. Under the gaze of everyone above, the huge wooden door was immediately opened by us by a gap of about one meter.
Because the pit was dug relatively narrow, when the wooden door was opened, the four of us were already blocked on the other side.
I called to Li Kun and Du Jun to pull us up.
After a few of us went up, Gai Wancheng had already jumped down and was looking at the scene inside the wooden door.
Just after a few of us came up, everyone couldn't help but froze for a moment when they saw the wooden door.
Then Gai Wancheng said: "Hey, darling, how deep is it in here?"
With that said, Gai Wancheng picked up a stone and threw it down along the wooden door.
Then Gai Wancheng lay at the door and listened carefully.
After a while, the sound of stones falling to the ground was heard from inside.
I also jumped down from above, then I turned on my headlight and looked inside.
I saw that the body of this big tree was actually hollow, and the bottom was not a staircase or steps, but a large, dark and bottomless hole, which looked like a deep well.
The diameter of the willow tree is at least seven or eight meters, but when I looked closely, I saw that the tree body was hollowed out by at least four meters in width.
Moreover, something similar to cement was used to cover the inside of the willow tree at the center of the willow tree.
The inside of the willow tree presents a circle, but underneath the willow tree there are extremely thick roots coiling back and forth in the hollow interior space.
If we judge the depth from the stone Gai Wancheng threw just now, I estimate that the depth below is at least forty or fifty meters.
Gai Wancheng turned to me and said, "The total ropes we brought are only about twenty meters at most, but the bottom is so deep that the climbing ropes we brought are not long enough."
At this time, I was lying down at the entrance, and then stretched out my hand to grab a thick root below the entrance of the cave.
Under Gai Wancheng's gaze, I pulled the rhizome hard several times with my right hand, but the rhizome of the willow tree was extremely hard and strong. No matter how hard I pulled the rhizome, it would not move at all.
Gai Wancheng was a little confused when he saw my action, and then he said, "What are you doing?"
I squatted down and patted the soil on my body, and then said to Gai Wancheng: "Look at these rhizomes, these thick rhizomes should extend all the way to the bottom, and the rhizomes of this willow tree are extremely tough, even if we lie down
There is no problem with the rhizome." Gai Wancheng said: "You mean, we just grab the rhizome of this willow tree and go down?"
I shook my head and said: "This is only a small part of it. If it goes on like this, it will not only be unsafe but also too slow. Let's connect all the ropes together first, and then we go down one by one until we reach the end of the rope."
We can grab the roots and slide down, which is a lot safer."
After hearing what I said, Gai Wancheng also nodded and said: "This is the only safer way now. By the time we reach the end of the rope, we will probably not be very far from the ground, and everything will be easy to say by then.
"
I nodded, and then asked Hu Dalong and Li Kun to pull Gai Wancheng and us up.
The two of them nodded, and after the two of us went up, everyone asked me what was going on down there.
I briefly explained the following situation to everyone, and then explained how to proceed.
After listening to what I said, everyone nodded.
Although the willow branches and leaves of this big tree are dead, fortunately, the roots of this big tree are still extremely tough.
There was nothing around, so we tied the climbing rope to the thick root above the entrance.
Then everyone started to connect all the climbing ropes they brought together, and took out all the carabiners and other things.
After everyone was sorted out, Hu Dalong said to me: "Let me go down to explore the situation first. I will call you when there is no problem."
But Du Jun on the side had already thrown the climbing rope and other things from the entrance of the cave, and now he had hung the carabiner on the climbing rope and was ready to go down.
Seeing this, Gai Wancheng waved his hands to us and said, "Just leave this kind of pathfinding work to us. I'm sorry for bothering you all the time."
Seeing that Du Jun was about to go down, I quickly jumped down from the top.
I didn't stop Du Jun, but I reached out and handed a walkie-talkie into Du Jun's hand.
Then I said: "The channels have been adjusted. If you find anything wrong after you go down, just call me and I will pull you up immediately."
Du Jun nodded, reached out and took the intercom, and then hung the intercom on the pocket on his chest.
After hanging up the walkie-talkie, Du Jun grabbed the climbing rope with both hands, faced the door of the tree, and then began to slowly slide down.
Seeing that Du Jun had begun to slowly slide down, Gai Wancheng and we both squatted at the entrance of the cave and picked up flashlights to shine down.
This was also to allow Du Jun to see clearly what was going on around him, and Gai Wancheng and the two of us could also use the light from Du Jun's headlamp to see what was going on below.
But there were simply too many thick tree roots below, and Du Jun's descent was obviously much slower.
In most places, Du Jun had to go around the tree roots and get down from the other side, but the climbing rope below became Du Jun's biggest trouble.
Because the climbing rope had been disrupted when it was thrown down, and it still fell through a small gap.
Chapter completed!