Singing with a Sword

The following is the main text of the novel "{?$article_title?}" ({?$jieqi_title?}) provided by {?$jieqi_sitename?}. Please enjoy! Suddenly, a faint light shone out of the cave. Gui Buzhong and Yi Ranxiao instinctively thought that Luo Rong and the others had come looking for them. However, after waiting for a long time, no one crawled out of the cave.

"Not them?" Gui Buzhong said. "Then where does this cave lead? And most importantly, there is light inside this cave! Could it lead to the outside? But even if it leads to the outside, we can't get out."

Yi Ranxiao looked at the light and suddenly remembered something, saying, "No, brother, this light isn't sunlight, it's an ever-burning lamp from an ancient tomb!"

"An ever-burning lamp? An ancient tomb?" Gui Buzhong exclaimed in surprise. "Could this be a cave leading to an ancient tomb?" Yi Ranxiao nodded. "It's possible!"

Gui Buzhong immediately became interested and said with great eagerness, "After cultivators die, very few build tombs, except for those wealthy cultivators who are rich and possess a lot of cultivation resources, and who are unwilling to give these resources away, so they bury them underground." His eyes gleamed as he stared at the cave entrance, licked his lips, and said, "Maybe there are a lot of magical treasures and secret manuals inside this tomb! Brother, let's go in and take a look!"

"Brother, every tomb has many traps and mechanisms. It's very dangerous for us to rush in unprepared!"

Gui Buzhong said dismissively, "Haha, brother, don't forget, we're both incredibly fast! No matter how dangerous the traps in this tomb are, they can't harm either of us!"

Yi Ranxiao thought it made sense. Back then, when she was thrown into the stone path as cannon fodder, if she had known the Misty Shadow Step, she might have been able to dodge the lightning attack with her speed! Even if she couldn't completely dodge it, she wouldn't have been directly electrocuted.

“Alright then, let’s be careful and watch our step,” Yi Ranxiao said. Then, Gui Buzhong excitedly entered the stone cave. Although tomb raiding was dangerous, Gui Buzhong really enjoyed it.

The two walked cautiously through the cave, turning several corners until artificial stone slabs appeared on the cave walls. The slabs were carved with various patterns. Gui Buzhong examined the patterns closely, his brow furrowing slightly. Yi Ranxiao was also looking at the patterns, as if... as if he had seen them somewhere before.

The two continued walking forward, but their pace slowed down. The closer they got to the tomb, the greater the danger became, and they naturally had to be more vigilant and careful.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! ...

Suddenly, hundreds of arrows shot out from both walls, raining down on the two men like a storm. How fast did they react? With a swift movement of their feet, they easily dodged the arrow attack, which struck the opposite wall and then scattered on the ground.

"You think these traps can stop us brothers?" Gui Buzhong said disdainfully, but before he finished speaking, he shouted, "Watch out!"

Suddenly, a large amount of lightning erupted from the wall! It was almost exactly the same as what happened in Lin Fengling's fake tomb!

Gui Buzhong and Yi Ranxiao immediately sprang into action again, their feet moving with the speed of the wind, leaving only afterimages as they swiftly moved away from the area affected by the lightning strikes. The lightning bolts only struck their afterimages.

"That was close!" Gui Buzhong patted his chest. He had indeed been careless. "Luckily you reminded me, brother, otherwise I would have been electrocuted!"

The two continued walking forward. Yi Ranxiao already had some guesses in her mind. The stone slabs in this passage were almost identical to those in Lin Fengling's fake tomb, and the mechanisms were also very similar. Could it be that this tomb was Lin Fengling's real burial place?

Of course, this was just speculation. The two walked for a while, turned a corner, and saw a door. The words "Great Luo Dan Dao, Tomb of Lin Fengling" were clearly written on the door!

"It really is!" Yi Ranxiao thought to herself.

Gui Buzhong immediately walked closer, looked at the large characters, and said in surprise, "Oh dear, I remember Lin Fengling's tomb was in Hanshan, how come it's near Dongtai City? The two are a hundred miles apart, the error shouldn't be this big! Tsk tsk, that's right, it must be a smokescreen set up by Lin Fengling before he died!"

He then fumbled and knocked on the door, muttering to himself, "This door is very sturdy; it can't be opened by force. There must be a mechanism. But where is it?"

Yi Ranxiao walked over and said, "Big brother, let me try." He then knocked on the three characters in order, and a dull "boom" sounded as the hard stone door opened automatically.

Gui Buzhong stared at Yi Ranxiao in surprise, his mouth agape. "Brother, how are you so smart? You found the mechanism so quickly? No, you must have known beforehand! Oh, I get it, you're a disciple of the Great Luo Dan Dao, no wonder you know the Earth Divine Fist!"

Yi Ranxiao laughed and said, "Brother, I only learned how to open the stone gate by chance. I am not a disciple of the Great Luo Dan Dao. I also learned the Earth Divine Fist by chance."

Indeed, Yi Ranxiao was very lucky. After news of Lin Fengling's tomb spread, some audacious individuals attempted to rob it. Some found the correct way to open the chamber door but went to the wrong place, ending up in a fake tomb; others found the real tomb but had no way to open the door and ultimately returned empty-handed. Yi Ranxiao, however, first learned how to open the door from Luo Yunxiao, and today, by sheer chance, stumbled upon the location of the real tomb.

If others knew about his good fortune, wouldn't they be green with envy? Sure enough, Gui Buzhong gave him a strange look and said, "You little rascal, just how many extraordinary encounters have you had? Hehe, you must tell me later!" He looked eagerly into the tomb chamber, "Now, let's go in and see how many treasures Lin Fengling brought with him as burial goods."

However, the furnishings inside the tomb were extremely simple, containing only a coffin and murals on the walls. Gui Buzhong was greatly disappointed and cursed, "Damn it, Lin Fengling is really stingy! He went to so much trouble to build this tomb, and all we get is a broken coffin!"

As he spoke, he went over to look at the murals on the wall. The murals depicted all sorts of people: some were wounded and coughing up blood, with a pill in front of them; others had a pill in their mouths and were running at full speed; still others were completely blackened, seemingly poisoned, yet they were pointing at the pill in front of them…

"Damn it, what on earth are these paintings?" Gui Buzhong studied them for a long time but couldn't figure them out. "This Lin Fengling has a really twisted sense of humor. He actually painted so many nonsensical murals on his own tomb. I think he's deliberately playing a trick on people!"

Yi Ranxiao was much calmer than Gui Buzhong. In his previous life, he had read some tomb raiding novels and knew that even the murals in tombs contained hidden secrets, perhaps even earth-shattering ones. So he carefully observed the murals, pondering their meaning...

"The person who was injured and vomiting blood had a pill in front of him, which should mean that the pill was a good medicine for healing injuries; the person who was running at high speed had a pill in his mouth, well, I think it should be a kind of auxiliary medicine, which can make people faster or enhance other skills; and the person whose whole body was black had a pill in front of him, which should be poison!"

Yi Ranxiao slowly analyzed, "So, this mural should be explaining the effects of various elixirs!"

Gui Buzhong's eyes lit up. "Wow, you're really clever, brother!" But his expression darkened again. "But what's the use? These pills only exist in the murals. They're illusory, not real. We can't get them. We can only look at them."