262 Way Out
âYes, but the road is too hard to get through, itâs rocky and slippery, what if Ying falls? After all, Yingâs leg still hurts.â
Elder Yi restrained himself from tapping the young manâs head.
âSpoiled kid, we just start walking and you already complaining, your leg is fine, do you think this old man is a fool who doesnât know you have the ability to heal in an instant? This rotten childâ
BaiYing laughed happily.
âHehehe, Yingâer just got my inner strength back, its all thanks to Elder Yi, so does it mean, Ying will live then?â
âEmm, more and less like thatâ
âElder Yi why youâre so stingy, just tell me to make Ying little bit relievedâ
Elder Yi once again flicks the boyâs forehead.
âAt least this naughty boy will keep living for decades or maybe hundreds of years!â
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âYeayy!â
The two proceeded cautiously along the connecting path that Elder Yi had found long ago, but he was lazy to find out what was at the end because the cold Stone Cave valley itself was very comfortable for him.
âSo Elder, what brought Elder to this cave?â
BaiYing asked, the twoâs voices echoing to the end of what seemed like quite a long road.
âEm, the story is quite complicated, whether a child like you can follow it quickly or notâ
âThis Elder is always underestimated Ying? Even though Ying is a little bit stupid but at least I could follow the storyâ
Elder Yiâs laugh of loud,
âHahahaha, this kid claims himself to be stupid, why is there such a naive kid?â
BaiYing pouted even more.
âThis old man is such annoying, so are you going to tell or not?â
âHahaha, around forty years ago, um, the story is that Elder Yi was also very naive, my internal energy was paralyzed and all my veins were torn because I forcing it, at that time, heh, just to think about it make me furious, my brother deceive me and took a hundred-year grass which can be used as medicine to maximize the internal energy.â
âA hundred-year grass? Ying seems to have heard of it, did, Elder Yi confront him? And you guys have a fight?â
Elder Yi frowned.
âWell, had the story gone there already? It too fast?â
BaiYing refrained from getting angry, the man always teasing him.
âElder Yi, you do this on purpose is it?â
Elder Yiâs laughter echoed through the cave.
âHahahahaha, this little Ying is really smart, isnât it?â
âStop it, donât make fun of me, Elder Yi just tell the story and donât ask too many questions backâ
âThis kid, you were the one who interrupted earlierâ
âIâm not, Ying just made sureâ
âItâs the same thingâ
âElder Yi is so annoyingâ
âHahahaha what a cute kid, I havenât laughed this much and loudly in a long time, this is so much fun, how about we just stay in the cave valley for a while, well at least until your profound energy and core meridians are intactâ
âWeâve discussed it, Elder Yi said Ying can practice it by myself, so let quickly find a way out from here, Ying is hungryâ
âYou just ate four slices of boiled sweet potatoes, and thereâs a lot of any kind of food inside your backpackâ
âPrecisely, because of that, we have to find a good place to eat, quickly, come on Elder Yiâ
BaiYing grabbed Elder Yiâs hand and continued their way down the long hallway that had not reached the end yet, how could the path be so long? According to Brother YoTang, the Cold Rock cave is indeed very large and has many rooms in it, which if pulled straight from the foot of the valley can take a day to reach the end, but if you take a winding road and go around in the cave itself, it may take days.
âOh, when weâll arrive?â
âWe just started a few minutes agoâ
âWhat? Really? Why does it take so long?â
âThis spoiled bratâ
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âYour Majesty be carefulâ
Said ShinYa seeing the path in front of them starting to light up, donât know where it came from but they entered a big cave with high ceilings and a large room, with so many large stone coffins in the middle of the room and also some on the rock. Not an ordinary stone coffin, some are still quite clearly carved, still in smooth and beautiful shape.
LuoXiang stopped in the middle of the room, turning his body to look around.
âThis is the tomb of the elder of the Medicine valley, in fact, long before the Medicine valley was formed as a college, there were many elders who ran the valley by themselves, according to my Masterâs story, in this cave there are almost a hundred tombs of the former elders, including the great master Baoyiâ
LuoXiang turned his head.
âMaster BaoYi? Whereâs his tomb?â
YoTang scratched his head, looked around, he didnât find what his teacher said about his Great Master who meditated until his last breath at this cave, but he shouldnât be in one of the coffins.
âEh, according to Masterâs map, Masterâs meditation room is still in the next part of the cave, um, this, where is it?â
LuoXiang glanced at the map that Healer Ou had painted on the cowhide sheet, indeed thereâs a lot of rooms were marked on the map, is this cave really that big?
As they were busy staring at the map to find the next route, a sound echoed from all around them, like a huge rumbling sound.
âYour Majesty please be careful, my Teacher said thereâs a lot of very dangerous Stone ants in this cave,â exclaimed YoTang.
The Crown Prince was on alert, his eyes alert with sharp ears trying to find the source of the sound.
âWhat do you mean by the Stone ants? Are they very dangerous?â
YoTang readied his sword.
âAccording to Teacher, Stone ants should not come out from their heap and they wonât randomly attack peoples, and according to Teacher, we have to avoid their bites, the bites of Stone ants can cause full paralysis so and they will eat their prey slowly bite by bitesâ
âMaster Yo donât joke, what do you mean by eating the prey slowly? Are they that vicious?â asked ShinYa worriedly.
âShouldnât be that dangerous to humans since weâre much bigger, but...â
YoTangâs eyes widened, and so did the Crown Prince when he saw what come in large not far in front of them.
âMaster Yo you said they werenât very big? Then what you called this?â grumbled the Crown Prince preparing to attack when the creatures which YoTang thought were Stone ants turned out to be more like insects with sharp teeth and many legs, swarmed in large numbers and itâs larger than rabbits.
âBe careful Your Majesty!â ShinYa protected them with their protective energy, but donât know how long they going to stand from it, that swarm of insects came from nowhere and surrounded them in the center of the tomb, ShinYaâs protective energy probably wouldnât last long.
âYour Majesty, what should we do?â
The Crown Prince glanced up at them, where there was a tall rock not far in front of them with a ramp that was gentle enough for them to climb, he glanced at YoTang.
âMaster Yo, you brought the rope, right? Climb on up and pull us one by oneâ
YoTang looked up, he nodded and let go of the rope hanging from his waist, the only way was to go up.
After several attempts, YoTang finally managed to tie the rope, after ensuring the rope was strong enough, he glanced at the Crown Prince.
âYour Majesty, Your Majesty go up firstâ
LuoXiang looked towards ShinYa.
âMaster Shin you can cast spells from above right?â
ShinYa looked at YoTang, he nodded.
âYes I can, Your Majesty, but, I canât possibly climb such a high rockâ
âYou will go up with YoTang firstâ
âNo Your Majesty we will follow after youâ ShinYa interrupted.
The Crown Prince stands with his sword.
âDonât argue Master Shin, just climb up and keep chanting your spell from up there, I will fight them as best I canâ
âForgive servant, Your Majesty, but that canât be done, as the Crown Prince...â
LuoXiang looked at the two sharply.
âAre you guys starting to go against my orders? These insects are nothing compared to beasts and demi-demon humans, hurry up, we donât have much timeâ
Finally, ShinYa and YoTang complied, holding on to YoTang who helped him climb the rock ShinYa kept chanting his spell, while LuoXiang was on standby if the protective circle broke sometimes, this is no joke, the insects are very vicious creatures, their teeth are sharp with a head the size of a human head with many legs around the body, which part is called as an ant?
LuoXiang got ready when he felt ShinYaâs aura slightly shaken, ShinYa who was climbing on the rock was brought down by YoTang, he was ready to cast his spell again when his foot accidentally stepped on the rock which made him lose his balance for a second.
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âOh noâ and that made all the spells disperse, the protective circle surrounding the Crown Prince shattered in an instant.
âNo, Your Majesty!â
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