Chapter 32

This is a small room, the air inside is pungent with mold, as if it has been uninhabited for a long time. In front, there is another door. Luo Fan pushed the door open, and the scene before him suddenly became bright.

The light was somewhat blinding to Luo Fan, who had been relying on a lighter for illumination in the dark for quite some time. He shielded his eyes with his hand and then slowly removed it to look around. This was a round stone room, the light coming from the left, but it was hazy, not like daylight.

As he walked toward the source of the light, he suddenly saw a large spotted fish swim past the window. Luo Fan was greatly surprised. Taking a few more steps, he saw several silver fish leisurely swim past the window. Upon closer inspection, the window turned out to be a large piece of crystal embedded in the stone wall, about the size of a copper basin, through which the light was shining.

"Is this the bottom of a lake? That's pretty impressive!" Luo Fan muttered to himself as he continued to explore the surroundings. There was a stone table in the room, with a stool in front of it, covered in dust, indicating that no one had been there for many years.

"Is there no way out?" Luo Fan looked around with some confusion and finally noticed a crack in one of the stone walls. He pushed on the wall, which turned out to be a door. It slowly moved aside, revealing a cave. Looking inside, he saw a stone staircase. Following the staircase down, after about ten steps, another door appeared before him. He pushed the door open, and the scene before him suddenly became bright, followed by a shock. He saw a woman in palace attire, holding a long sword, the tip of which was pointed at his chest.

After the initial shock, Luo Fan seemed to realize something and burst into laughter: "It's really like searching high and low in vain! This must be the statue of Li Qiushui!"

Looking at the jade statue, Luo Fan couldn't help but marvel at it. The woman had a thousand graces, her skin as smooth as snow, and she looked almost alive. Her yellow silk blouse had not decayed over time, and her eyes were bright and full of spirit. Even if he had known beforehand, Luo Fan still felt as if she were a living person. The eyes of the jade statue made him feel uneasy.

After observing for a long time, Luo Fan discovered that the eyes were made of black gemstones, which seemed to deepen the more he looked at them. The light in the eyes seemed to flow. The reason the jade statue looked so lifelike was mainly due to the lively eyes.

The jade on the statue's face had a faint rosy hue, making it indistinguishable from human skin. When Luo Fan walked to the side of the statue, the eyes seemed to follow him, as if it were alive. Luo Fan was greatly startled and walked back to his original position, where the statue's eyes seemed to follow him again. No matter where he stood, the statue's eyes always followed him, and the expression in the eyes was hard to fathom, seeming both joyful and loving, deeply affectionate, and also sorrowful.

"Damn, am I seeing a ghost?" Luo Fan felt a wave of shock and doubt, standing there for a long time. Recalling a line from a drama in his previous life, he asked, "Immortal? Demon?"

The gemstones in the statue's eyes changed, as if they were confused by his words. Luo Fan was so startled that he jumped back and even drew his sword halfway!

However, seeing that the statue had not moved from the beginning, Luo Fan calmed down and thought, "This cave is full of high-tech stuff." He then noticed that the hair on the statue was like real hair, with a loose bun and a jade bracelet on the side, adorned with two pearls the size of his thumb, shining brightly. The walls were also inlaid with pearls and diamonds, their light reflecting off each other. On the west wall, six large crystals were embedded, with green water visible outside, making the stone room several times brighter than the first one.

Luo Fan observed the jade statue for a while and thought, "No wonder Duan Yu fell in love with a statue, even Wuyazi couldn't resist its charm. This statue is really eerie! I even have the impulse to take it home!"

However, he then thought of Xiaolongnü, and quickly recited a few words about Long'er in his mind, stopping his thoughts and beginning to look around.

On the east wall, the surface was scraped smooth, with dozens of lines of text, all from the "Zhuangzi." Luo Fan, being a shut-in, knew a few lines. The writing was graceful, as if carved with great force, each stroke penetrating the stone wall by nearly half an inch. At the end of the text, a line read, "Wuyazi wrote this for Qiushui. In the cave, there are no sun or moon, and this is the greatest joy in the world."

"It seems this is the place, but where is the martial arts manual?" Luo Fan remembered that the manual was in a cushion. Looking down, he indeed saw two cushions on the ground. He quickly tore them open, and a tattered silk scroll fell out.

Luo Fan picked it up and spread it out in his hand. The scroll was filled with nude portraits, some standing, some lying, some showing the front, some the back. The faces were all the same, but the expressions varied, some joyful, some sad, some affectionate, some angry. There were thirty-six images in total, each with colored lines indicating acupoints and cultivation techniques. At the end of the scroll, the words "Lingbo Weibu" were written, followed by numerous footprints, labeled with terms like "Zumei" and "Wuwang."

"Congratulations, host, you have obtained the Lingbo Weibu, gaining 13,000 fortune points and 13,000 fortune energy. Do you want to learn it?"

"Learn!" The nude portraits, though well-drawn and beautiful, did not particularly attract Luo Fan, who had studied many adult films. He was more amazed that the fortune points for Lingbo Weibu seemed higher than expected, but he wouldn't complain about having too many fortune points. Besides, he still needed to obtain the Beiming Shen Gong, and he was still short of over 10,000 points to reach 50,000. He felt a bit disappointed, thinking that he would have to visit Dali's Tianlong Temple.

Suddenly, he felt a sense of excitement. Sensing the usage method of Lingbo Weibu in his mind, he realized that it was not as simple as he thought. It was not just based on the I Ching's 64 hexagrams but also included the technique of flying through the air!

"Damn!" Luo Fan realized he had found a treasure! Flying through the air, isn't that the realm of immortals? Originally, when watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Child of Tian Shan," he thought the movie was too exaggerated, with things like flying in the air and teleportation. But now it seemed that flying in the air was real!

Luo Fan immediately tried it in the stone cave. With the Nine Yang Divine Skill, which allowed him to master various lightness skills, he found that he couldn't fly in the air!

However, he soon calmed down. Flying through the air wasn't that easy to learn. In the original story, even the three elders of the Xianyao Sect didn't show how they flew, and even if they could, they couldn't fly very far, making it seem like they just had good lightness skills. Duan Yu used Lingbo Weibu throughout "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" but never flew, so it seemed that flying through the air wasn't that easy!

But this was still a pleasant surprise.

Putting away the silk scroll of Lingbo Weibu, Luo Fan still had some hope for the Beiming Shen Gong and decided to search further. Just as he was about to start, he noticed a line of small text on the ground:

"Immortal Sister, I know my time is near... The Beiming Shen Gong, if obtained by evil, will bring disaster to the world. I have destroyed it, leaving only Lingbo Weibu. I have taken a pair of your plain shoes, and even on the Naihe Bridge, I will not forget you."

Luo Fan looked at the jade statue's feet and indeed saw a pair of bare feet, without any shoes.

Luo Fan thought, "Is Duan Yu a foot fetishist?" But this was irrelevant to him. He searched the surroundings but found nothing unusual. He then walked through the moon-shaped door on the left, entering another stone room. There was a stone bed, and to the left of the bed was a stone table with a nineteen-line chessboard, with over two hundred chess pieces on it, black and white in opposition, the game not yet finished.

Luo Fan knew a little about Go and recognized the famous "Zhenlong Chessboard" from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes." He spent some time memorizing the chessboard and then looked up. At the foot of the stone bed, there was another moon-shaped door, with the words "Langhuan Fudi" carved on the wall beside it. Stepping through the door, he looked around and sighed with relief. The "Langhuan Fudi" was a large stone cave, several times larger than the outer stone room. The cave was lined with wooden bookshelves, which were rotten and decayed. Luo Fan knew this was the real "Langhuan Fudi," but the martial arts manuals had been moved to the Man Tuo Manor by Wang Yuyan's mother, Li Qingluo. Therefore, he didn't bother to look closely, just searching through the cave. After a circle, he returned to the jade statue, finding no trace of the Beiming Shen Gong or any other items of value.

"It seems there's nothing else of value to find." Luo Fan thought and followed the stone staircase beside the room.

After about a hundred steps, he faintly heard the sound of water. After another two hundred steps, the water sound was deafening, and light was visible ahead. He quickened his pace, reached the end of the staircase, and saw a small cave that could barely fit a person. Peering out, he was startled to see a large river outside, with turbulent waves and a rapid current. The riverbank was steep and rugged, and there was no path. However, with his excellent lightness skills, Luo Fan stepped on the rocks and headed toward the cliff of Wuliang Mountain, where Yang Guo was probably waiting anxiously.

With the help of Lingbo Weibu, Luo Fan's speed was even faster. It didn't take long for him to reach the place where he had descended the cliff. He saw Yang Guo fighting with over a dozen swordsmen. Yang Guo, having learned the Dugu Nine Swords from Luo Fan, had improved, but fighting against so many was still challenging. He was already struggling. Suddenly, a swordsman saw an opening and was about to stab Yang Guo. Luo Fan let out a cold snort, kicked a pebble on the ground, and it hit the swordsman's sword, causing him to lose his grip and drop it.

The swordsmen suddenly noticed that their opponent had help. The leader, pointing his sword at Luo Fan, asked arrogantly, "Who are you?"

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