Chapter 233
Though they have plenty of food and drinks, they can’t stay here forever . Rong Donglin tries to stand up . He is not in pain anymore . Lin checks on his shank and tells him he is not fully healed and the wood board has to stay on longer .
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They decide to go down .
Lin wants to use the strong vines around them . Her is light and it will be easy for her to jump between rocks by the vines . She collects lots of thick vines and chops them up with her sword . It takes her quite a while to tie the vines together into a long rope .
Lin Luoran doesn’t know how long the rope is . The rope piles up on the web like a little hill .
Lin Luoran digs out a huge rock and ties it on the end of the rope . Then she throws the rock down .
In the mist, they can’t see what is going on in the dark . Lin starts to pull the rope when the rock hit the bottom .
The end of the rope is wet . Lin is glad . When she pulls the rock up, it is dripping water . Rong and Lin now know what is down there!
It is water! This is good news . First, water can ease the momentum of them falling . Second, if it is running water, they may have a chance of finding an exit .
Lin Luoran begins to dig into the rocks around her . She wanted to tie the rope to the web, but she was afraid that the web might break . Thus, she decides to make a spike out of the rock to keep the end of the rope in place .
It is not an easy work to do .
Fortunately, the Bright Sword is sharp enough . Besides, Lin has great strength after her bone marrow is cleansed and her meridians are cleaned . The only problem is that all the dust sprays all over her body .
It is the first time Rong has ever seen Lin in such a mess . Back when they met on the crowded train, Lin could stay composed like she was enjoying a cup of nice tea .
“Cultivation must be hard . ” Rong thinks . He keeps pulling the rope that Lin gave him to check whether it is firm or not .
The two of them are busy doing their work for quite a while . Lin Luoran finally digs through the rocks when her hands are sore .
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They have taken some of the vines from the web, so they must walk carefully to avoid falling down accidentally .
They need strength to carry out this plan . Lin Luoran decides to make a feast . She takes out some fruits and a jar of spirit wine out of her space . She made the wine by herself, and it is rather mild . Rong has two cups of wine and feels warm all over his body . Lin drinks a cup of the monkey fruit wine made by the old monkey in the secret land . Reiki flushes in her meridians . Unfortunately, her pubic area is still inaccessible and her Wakan is out of use . Nevertheless, Lin feels more energetic thanks to the wine .
“Ok . I’ll go down first . I’ll pull the rope if it is safe . ” Lin flicks the dust off herself and says smartly .
Rong has no choice but to follow Lin’s direction . His leg is not fully healed . If something dangerous happens down there, he will slow Lin down . The best option is to let her go down first .
“Miss Lin, be careful . ”
Lin nods . She entangles the rope around her wrist and jumps!
Lin is out of Rong’s sight in a few seconds . Rong respects Lin for being so brave . He wonders what kind of man deserves to be with her .
Lin Luoran doesn’t look so good while falling .
The wind makes her hair messy… Minutes later, she falls into the water .
“Plop . ” Water splashes . The water is so deep and cold .
When she emerges from the water, she is quite clean . Lin is shivering because of the coldness .
The water is extremely cold . Thanks to the monkey fruit wine, Lin is alright now . She looks around . The pond is deep, but not so large . She pulls the vines and swims to the shore .
Rong pulls the rope up . After getting to the shore, Lin Luoran looks around and becomes excited .
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Rong Donglin jumps . When he lands in the water, his leg is hurt again by the momentum . Painful and cold, Rong almost couldn’t get out of the pond .
Lin lights a fire on the shore . She stands by the fire and looks at Rong smilingly . She throws a vine to him and pulls him out of the pond .
The fire drives the coldness away . Lin takes out some meat and salt and starts to make a barbecue .
Since Lin can’t use her fire Wakan, she picks a stick and goes to get fire by the mini volcano in her space . There are plenty of wood sticks on the ground . This place must be surrounded by trees before the dragons left .
“Miss Lin, what is this?” Rong asks while his teeth are chattering .
“Venison . ” She hunted a deer on Mount Jiuhua and put the meat in her space . She never expected to eat the venison at such a place .
The venison smells good . Rong gets more and more hungry after Lin spreads salt and chilly on the meat .
Wow, this tastes so good! Rong takes a bite of the hot meat . He feels energetic after the meal .
When the meal is over, their clothes are dry . Lin Luoran makes two torches and gives one to Rong . The two of them begin to observe this place .
It’s so cold . They have to keep moving forward .
The aisle is neat . It must be man-made . Rong and Lin look at each other and begin to have doubts about what this place used to be .
The torchlight is dim . Lin Luoran checks on the sides of the aisle sometimes . The stone wall is clean and shining, but there are deep cracks on the wall . The cracks look like the scratches of beasts .
Can they be the scratches of dragons?
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The two of them speed up . Rong’s left leg is in pain and the way he walks is hilarious . However, none of them is in the mood for laughing . The atmosphere is so serious . They are here to find the treasures of the dragons, and they don’t want to confront any real dragon .
The dragons should have all left… Lin hopes .
There are also cracks and potholes on the ground . Some of the cracks don’t really look like scratches . They are more like the trace of spells and magic weapons . A war might have happened here .
They walk for a while and reach an arched cave as tall as three or four persons in total . An iron gate is locked by a rusted bronze lock .
“No Shui Nationality Allowed . ”
This warning is carved on the gate in the Shui script . Some dragon design is carved around the words . The identity of the person who wrote this warning is apparent .
“Miss Lin, we are not from the Shui nationality . ”
Lin pushes the iron gate . However, the gate doesn’t open as a gate should . Instead, it falls back . The gate is broken as such a long time has passed . As the saying goes, nothing stands the erosion of time, even if the forbidden area of Dragons .
“Boom . ” The gate falls on the ground . Dust is everywhere . The cave has been sealed for so long that a rotten smell comes out .
The air is foul . Lin Luoran waits for a while to let fresh air come inside the cave . Then she goes in with Rong Donglin .
The torches light the cave up . Rong sees a lamp post on the wall first .
Lin lights the lamp with the torch . A fragrant smell pervades . Rong worries that the smell may be toxic . Lin waves her hand and says, “Don’t worry . This is the smell of Ever-burning Light . ”
Rong has read about Ever-burning Light . It is fueled by the oil made from mermaids, which can burn forever… It is said that the tomb of the first emperor of Huaxia is light up by the Ever-burning Light .
Nevertheless, thinking about the oil made from mermaids, Rong is disgusted by the fragrant smell .
Lin finds more lamp posts on the wall and goes to light them up . The entire cave is bright as daylight now .
The cave is around ten meters high and a hundred meters wide . She can see every corner of the cave clearly .
The first thing Lin and Rong see is a skeleton in the center of the cave .
Rong screams .
Lin is frightened as well .
The skeleton is shining under the light . More importantly, Lin has never seen such a huge skeleton!
Is this the skeleton of a whale? A dinosaur? No . The size of a whale or dinosaur is not as big as this skeleton .
There are two horns on the head of the skeleton . Lin knows what creature the skeleton belongs to, but she can’t accept the fact for now .
Everybody would be stunned by this . This is the skeleton of a dragon . Even it’s a dead one, with its bones over there, the dignity still can’t be covered .
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