Yours truly, Ouyang Feng

Chapter 48 48, Qiu Shui’s Legacy!
Even Lin Chaoying trusted Hong Qi, whom she had just met, let alone Ouyang Feng.

If he were to ask who in this world is the most trustworthy, then perhaps his brother and sister-in-law would have to be ranked behind, and Hong Qi would have to be ranked first.

At that moment Ouyang Feng also agreed with Hong Qi to keep watch, and then took out a torch brought by the Five Tigers of Qinling, lit it with a fire starter, and threw it into the cave.

Seeing that the torch continued to burn after falling to the ground and did not go out, Ouyang Feng picked up an iron pickaxe, nodded to Hong Qi, and jumped down the cave.

Lin Chaoying also took a torch and a shovel and jumped down, leaving Hong Qi alone outside.

Seeing that Ouyang Feng and Lin Chaoying trusted him so much and handed over the retreat plan to him without hesitation, Hong Qi felt like they had found a confidant. He stood outside the cave entrance, leaning on a bamboo stick, with a sharp gaze, keeping his eyes and ears open, concentrating to the utmost.

At this moment, even if there were delicious food he had never tasted before placed in front of him, he probably would not be distracted.

In the cave.

Ouyang Feng picked up the torch on the ground and shone it around. He saw that this was a stone corridor with cracks all over the walls and the dome, which showed that it had been damaged in an earthquake more than 40 years ago.

At this time, Lin Chaoying also landed. Ouyang Feng nodded slightly to Lin Chaoying and walked towards the depths of the tunnel with a torch.

As he walked forward, listening to Lin Chaoying's deliberately heavier footsteps behind him, Ouyang Feng thought to himself:
If I had not arrived, according to the original trajectory, Lin Chaoying and Hong Qi would still come to Xingqing Mansion separately to find the Five Tigers of Qinling.

They might meet and get to know each other, but they would not meet Ouyang Feng, and no one would persuade Lin Chaoying to restrain herself. Then, with Lin Chaoying's impatience, she would probably kill the Five Tigers of Qinling at the first opportunity and then leave directly with Hong Qi.

In this way, the Five Tigers of Qinling will not have the chance to dig out the cave, and Li Qiu Shui's Xiaoyao martial arts will be buried underground forever and completely lost.

All Lin Chaoying got was the "fossil pill", which she would use to cheat in the future and win the Tomb of the Living Dead.

Now that I have inserted myself into this period of history and have even walked into the corridor leading to the "Qiu Shui Legacy", how will the future of Lin Chaoying and Hong Qi develop?

Ouyang Feng was thinking leisurely when he suddenly heard Lin Chaoying say:

"Xiao Ouyang, how old are you this year?"

"Eighteen and two months. What's wrong?"

"At such a young age, your martial arts skills are so advanced that you broke the calf of Tiaojianhu, who specializes in leg skills, with your kicking skills, and severely injured Heihu, the King of Vajra Palms, with your palm power... Are you really some old monster who has rejuvenated?"

"It's really not true."

"Then you are truly gifted."

“It has something to do with talent, but it’s mainly about good luck.”

Lin Chaoying would not ask him about the opportunity, and the two of them fell silent for a while.

Soon, the tunnel ahead showed signs of collapse, but it was still barely wide enough for people to pass through. The two men pressed their backs against the side of the tunnel wall and squeezed through the collapsed area. A stone door appeared ahead. Ouyang Feng stepped forward and knocked on the stone door. After listening for a while, he said:

"The passage behind the stone gate seems to have collapsed. This gate has been blocked by the landslide. I'm afraid it can't be opened normally from either side."

"Wouldn't that mean we would return empty-handed?"

Lin Chaoying said, and her tone was not disappointed.

"You can try this 'Fossil Pill'."

Ouyang Feng took out the gray-white pill, pressed the pill on the stone gate, rolled it over a large area for a while, and then used a pickaxe to dig at the stone gate that had been softened by the fossil pill, and dug out a two-foot square hole.

As expected, the entrance of the cave was blocked by collapsed mud and rocks.

Seeing this, Lin Chaoying advised, "Go back. There is no point in wasting so much time on a treasure whose origin is unknown."

Ouyang Feng thought for a moment and said, "Half an hour. If we can't get through in half an hour, we'll go back."

Lin Chaoying shook her head, but did not say anything about going back. She accompanied Ouyang Feng to clear the tunnel.

Half an hour later, with the help of the fossil, the two of them actually dug out a passage with pickaxes and shovels.

After passing that passage, there was another passage ahead. At the end, they came across another stone gate. This stone gate also collapsed, but it was in better condition than the previous one. It only took two quarters of an hour to open it. This was repeated several times, and after passing through three stone gates, the two suddenly heard the sound of gurgling water, and they came to a deep underground stream.

The torch shone in the direction where the bottom of the ravine could not be seen. When the torch shone in the other direction, it was still about 20 to 30 feet away from here, and there was no place to lean on from above. Even Lin Chaoying could not jump over the distance of 20 to 30 feet, and it seemed that the two of them would be stopped here.

After walking so far and digging so much earth, they gave up halfway. Even Lin Chaoying, who didn't care about the treasure, felt a little unwilling. She looked at Ouyang Feng and asked him:

"What should we do now?"

Ouyang Feng said: "Let's take a look first."

He walked along the bank, using the torch to carefully illuminate the area below. Lin Chaoying was watching from the side. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she raised her hand and pointed:
"There's something here!"

Ouyang Feng shone the torch in the direction she indicated, and saw an extremely thin iron chain hanging on the bank of the stream, hanging straight down into the stream.

Ouyang Feng used an iron pickaxe to hook up the iron chain. He saw that the chain was completely black and more than five meters long. Although it was only as thick as a soybean, it was very heavy. Moreover, in this damp place, there was not even a trace of rust.

Lin Chaoying took one end of the iron chain and pulled it with both hands, but the iron chain didn't move at all. She used all her energy and pulled hard, but the iron chain didn't deform at all. She couldn't help but marvel:

"With my skill, an ordinary iron chain that is only as thick as a soybean should break with one pull, but this iron chain remains unchanged... I'm afraid it is made of the legendary black iron! Who is so extravagant as to use black iron to make an iron chain?"

Li Qiu Shui?

Ouyang Feng thought that perhaps only Li Qiushui, who came from the Xiaoyao Sect, could be so extravagant.

"Although this iron chain is only about five meters long, it should be no problem to reach the other side."

Ouyang Feng tied one end of the iron chain to the pickaxe, found a place closest to the other side, and was about to jump when Lin Chaoying said:

"You have always been the one paving the way. Now it's my turn."

As she spoke, she took the iron chain of the pickaxe, put the sword on her back, handed the torch and shovel to Ouyang Feng, and leaped towards the other side. She leaped nearly four meters high. When she was about to run out of energy, she gathered all her strength and threw the pickaxe towards the other side. The pickaxe flew to the other side of the deep ravine with a whoosh, and with a plop, it embedded deeply into the bank of the ravine.

Lin Chaoying grabbed the iron chain and pulled it with all her strength. Her body, which had already exhausted its strength, floated forward again and swung to the other side easily.

After reaching the shore, Lin Chaoying waved to Ouyang Feng, and Ouyang Feng also jumped to the other side.

His lightness skills were not as agile as Lin Chaoying's, but his explosive power was no less. He could jump nearly four meters in one leap. When he was about to fall, Lin Chaoying threw an iron chain at him. He reached out and grabbed the chain. Lin Chaoying pulled it gently and pulled him to the other side.

After reaching the shore, the two continued to move forward, passing by a bamboo forest that had long since died and withered, with only stumps left, and finally saw the entrance to a cave.

The cave corridor is half natural and half artificial, and is not very big. At the end, there is another stone door. A hole is made in the door using the same method as the fossil pill to dig out a passage. After entering, you come to a large hall decorated with a natural stone cave.

Ouyang Feng and Lin Chaoying each held a torch, illuminating the hall.

The hall was empty, with wet marks and moss all over the walls. In some places, there were still some dilapidated wooden scrolls hanging, but the scrolls were gone, obviously they had long since rotted into mud.

Seeing that the hall was empty, Lin Chaoying suddenly smiled and said:

"Xiao Ouyang, this trip is really in vain, there is nothing here."

"not necessarily."

Ouyang Feng said as he came to a dilapidated scroll and used a shovel to scrape off the moss on the stone wall under the scroll. Immediately, on the stone wall, a picture of a human figure in a leaping posture carved with yin and yang lines appeared.

There are arrow marks engraved inside the human-shaped picture, which seem to be the path of the true energy flowing through the meridians.

Seeing this, Lin Chaoying exclaimed:
"This seems to be... a diagram for the circulation of qi for some kind of light-weight body movement?"

"Seems to be."

Ouyang raised the corners of his lips and smiled, and used a shovel to scrape the moss on the stone wall. Lin Chaoying also drew out her sword and scraped the moss carefully.

With the combined efforts of the two, more stone carvings hidden by moss gradually came to light.

(End of this chapter)