Restraining his excitement, Yan Liqiang walked towards the stone house.
The stone house had two rooms, one large and one small. Yan Liqiang first came to the smaller room.
There was no door in the room, but there was a leather curtain on the door. After so many years, it had completely decayed. Yan Liqiang lightly lifted the leather curtain with the black scale sword, and it fell to the ground.
It seems that no one has been here for a long time.
In the first room, there was a stone mill, a stone bench, and a stone platform. On the stone platform were some bottles and jars, as well as a stone medicine cauldron. However, these things were covered with a layer of dust. Yan Liqiang took a look in the room and came out.
Yan Liqiang walked out of the first room and came to the second room. He lifted the door curtain and walked in. He saw a dried corpse sitting on a stone bed, which scared Yan Liqiang.
By now, Yan Liqiang had seen all kinds of things. Ordinary mummies naturally could not scare Yan Liqiang. However, the mummy in the room was still sitting cross-legged on the stone bed after who knows how many years had passed. Its face was still lifelike, its hair and beard were still there, and its eyes were closed. Its body had not decayed, but it had lost water and looked a little shriveled.
After calming himself down, Yan Liqiang walked carefully into the room. Compared to the room next to it which looked like an alchemy room, the layout of this room was simpler. Apart from a stone bed and a stone table, there was nothing else.
Yan Liqiang first took a look at the mummy lying on the bed. There were no external injuries on the body, so it should be a natural death. However, it was a very magical thing that a corpse did not decay after death. As far as Yan Liqiang knew, only those who had achieved a very high level of cultivation, at least a martial arts master or above, could have a corpse that did not decay after death.
For some reason, the corpse was missing a hand and one of its sleeves was empty. There was nothing on the body except for a silver necklace around its neck. The necklace had dense runes on it, and the pendant of the necklace was actually a small black beast core crystal.
Damn, this necklace is actually a formation talisman equipment. Yan Liqiang was a little surprised. With the eyes of a formation talisman master, he looked at it carefully again. The necklace was made very beautifully, especially the combination of the formation talisman and the pendant on it, which was definitely the work of a master. Judging from the runes on the formation talisman, the function of the necklace is that it is a protective formation talisman, which is used to drive away poisonous snakes and insects and the like. It has a special function.
Out of respect for the deceased, Yan Liqiang certainly would not covet a necklace, and he believed that the things a person must carry with him when he dies must be his beloved things during his lifetime.
"Although we don't know each other, since we can meet here, it can be regarded as fate. Although your necklace is exquisite, I will be able to make it in a few years. I will not touch it. I'd better leave it to you!"
Yan Liqiang spoke to the corpse. He just glanced at the corpse and found that there seemed to be nothing in the room. He felt a little disappointed and was about to leave. But just when Yan Liqiang wanted to leave the room, his eyes swept over the sitting corpse again. After exclaiming, he stopped suddenly.
Because Yan Liqiang suddenly noticed that the only hand of the corpse was clenched into a fist and placed flat in front of the lower abdomen. He didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the index finger of that hand was not clenched but stretched out. Yan Liqiang walked closer again and looked in the direction of the outstretched index finger. The index finger seemed to be pointing at the ground of the stone table next to the stone bed.
Of course, the corpse's index finger pointing under the stone table might not have any meaning, it was just the natural movement of that person's finger, but what if it was a hint
Anyway, he has plenty of time now, so Yan Liqiang doesn't mind trying his luck.
The ground under the stone table was empty, with nothing on it except a layer of dust.
Yan Liqiang squatted on the ground and tapped the ground under the stone table lightly with the black scale sword. He found that the ground under the stone table was also solid and there was no hollow space, so naturally nothing could be hidden.
There was nothing underground. It seemed that he had thought too much. There should be no meaning in the finger pointing here. Yan Liqiang stood up, smiled self-deprecatingly, shook his head, and then continued to walk towards the door. But just when he was about to step out of the room, Yan Liqiang stopped suddenly. He turned around, looked in the direction where the corpse's finger was pointing, and quickly came to the dusty stone table. He stretched out his hand and fumbled under the stone table. After a few seconds, Yan Liqiang's face was instantly surprised. When Yan Liqiang took his hand out from under the stone table, he was holding a one-foot square movable stone slab in his hand, and the stone slab was densely covered with small characters.
—The fact that you were able to find this stone slab shows that we are destined to meet. If you had coveted the array talisman necklace on my neck just now, you would probably be dead now. There is a highly poisonous substance on the array talisman necklace. Anyone who touches it will die immediately. There is no cure. You didn't touch the necklace. That's good. Then the rest of the things here will be given to you.
—You can come here, you must have escaped from the mouth of the thousand-year-old leech outside. The fact that you can survive shows that you are blessed with a long life. Now you must be thinking about how to leave here. There is only one way to leave here, which is the pool of water in the cave. The pool of water is connected to the underground river. The water of the underground river is like a knife scraping bones. If you enter the underground river at ordinary times, you will definitely die and no body will be left. But in mid-December of each year, on the day of high tide of rivers and seas, under the influence of the power of the sun and the moon, the water in the underground river will slow down or even flow backwards, and you have one day to return to the surface through the underground river.
—That thousand-year-old leech is a unique creature in the world. Its blood and essence are so thick that they have been accumulated for thousands of years. It has eaten countless earth dragon fruits in this cave. It is really unimaginable. Especially for practitioners, it is the most precious. If I can collect the blood and essence of the thousand-year-old leech for myself, becoming a saint or an ancestor will be a piece of cake. I originally wanted to use it to refine the Emperor God Pill to advance to the Martial Emperor, but things don't always go as I wish. My life is coming to an end, and it is difficult for me to set a trap to subdue the thousand-year-old leech. The rest depends on fate. I don't know who will get the blood and essence of the thousand-year-old leech in the end.
—The fruit on the small tree surrounded by hot springs outside the stone house is the earth dragon fruit. It takes 360 years to mature. When mature, it will glow with seven colors and smell fragrant. But don't eat it. It is a great tonic for aquatic animals such as the thousand-year-old spirit leech, but it is extremely poisonous to humans. If you eat it, you will die. The things in the garden next to the stone house are all planted by me. Those red fruits and jade mushrooms are all edible.
—Back then, I had a nickname in the martial arts world, called the Thousand-Faced Demon Lord, and some moralists called me the Thousand-Faced **. I don’t know if my nickname is still circulating in the martial arts world now. I roamed the martial arts world and tasted all the beauties in the world. I was free to come and go in the imperial palace, several major sects, remote island countries, and the desert curtains, but I never forced any woman. It was all consensual. I was a hundred times better than those who appeared to be decent but were thieves and prostitutes behind their backs. Under the tripod of the medicine cauldron in the alchemy room next to me, there is a secret book. It is something I give to you. You can take it and practice it or not. As for the rest, that’s all…
—Xiaomei… Xiaomei… Xiaomei… Xiaomei…
The words carved on the back of the stone slab gradually became chaotic, and the remaining words were all "Xiaomei", which seemed to be a woman's name. The words seemed to be full of melancholy and regret...
(End of this chapter)