Chapter 120: Dragon’s Den, Tiger’s Lair

Yes, after finding Ruoxue, what should I say? Should I say, “Long time no see”?

Once in the Dragon Tomb, abandon the mortal world… If Ruoxue wanted to see me, if she wanted to say something to me, she could have done so long ago… I remembered that night in India when Ruoxue appeared, it was because Ruoyue’s life was in danger… I remembered when I was injured and about to lose my life, my master vaguely mentioned that Ruoxue had appeared…

I believe she has feelings for me, and when it comes to life and death, she will worry about me.

But if she still had feelings for our love, she would not have acted this way, not facing me or saying anything to me… So, after I was obliterated, what could I say to Dao Tongzi when he found her? And Dao Tongzi was not me, and he would not have wanted to spend his life with Ru Xue.

From the fragments of those memories, it seems that there is a woman in his heart, and that woman’s name is Wei Chaoyu.

Thinking of Ru Xue and then thinking of Wei Chaoyu, Dao Tongzi and I let out a muffled groan at the same time, as if two pieces of heartache were erupting at the same time in one person’s body.

I couldn’t suppress my emotions. Once I became sad, the emotions would overwhelm me like a tidal wave… and Daotongzi’s will had now slowly become dominant, but he forced himself to suppress these feelings for Chen Chengyi… and slowly, his heart was still again.

But this time, my own will was so clear that I could clearly feel my own decadence and pain… The will that was destined to be swallowed gradually sank… Just like a patient who had been pronounced ‘death’ by a doctor, waiting for the day when he would disappear.

The difference is that others have a limited time in life, but I… from the moment of integration, I was no longer purely Chen Chengyi, I didn’t even have a limited time.

“What you have promised me, I will do my best to fulfill… and with your abilities, you will never be able to escape from this underground cave… From now on, you must suppress your emotions. I will handle everything in the underground cave… and what I promised you is that you still have a chance to remain a whole person. At that time, I will use a secret method to put myself to sleep, but this situation… heh… the effect of the spell is limited, at most three days. If you can successfully escape from the cave, you must make good use of these three days.”

This time, after the Taoist boy finished speaking, his will returned to silence, and his mood returned to its usual calm. Now, he was in control, and so was my entire mood. Even my sadness was not too strong.

My own will is silent in the corner. If I were to say that the battle with Tao Tongzi’s will was a battle… I was completely demoralized from the start, and could only wait in the corner to be slowly annihilated.

In this silence, I fell into a state of sleep, wrapped in layer after layer of memories, like the only warmth I had in my hands, unwilling to let go…

I don’t know how long it took, but the state of the tiger began to slowly come alive… That is to say, I could feel that it was already in a shallow state of sleep, ready to wake up at any time, and the energy that had been consumed before had been almost completely digested… At this time, I fought back.

In its shallow sleep, I could still feel its dependence and trust in me, and I didn’t feel that I had undergone any earth-shattering changes at this time.

“Let’s go,” the Taoist monk said, always so calm and unruffled, as if the next step was not a journey into a dragon’s den, but a leisurely stroll.

At this time, I was almost in a state of complete sleep, but because it was my own body, I could still feel all the changes in the outside world. I saw myself walking downwards, and the bronze gate that belonged to the second layer of the cave slowly appeared in my eyes.

I suddenly remembered something, struggling to make my will audible. My will was very vague, but also very firm. I said to the Taoist boy, “Sihu… Sihu is even closer to me than my own brother. Don’t calmly calculate everything, just think about sacrificing it… Don’t sacrifice Sihu. For it, my attitude is unwavering, living and dying together.”

Faced with my request, Daotongzi’s will was silent. At this time, I had already reached the bronze gate, reached out and pulled the bronze bolt… At the moment the bolt hit the ground… I finally received a response from Daotongzi: “Yes. But for the overall situation, some feelings are useless. I never thought that my next life would be like this, and that I would be such a different person.”

After saying that, the Taoist boy pushed open the bronze gate… and my will, after receiving a response, returned to the state of being unable to lead, only able to feel.

Compared to my hesitation, the Taoist boy had only a calm determination. As soon as the door opened, he walked in… and just like the last time, after he crossed the threshold, the door behind him slammed shut.

The Taoist boy naturally did not have the same childish behavior as I did, trying to see if the door could be opened again. He just stood in the small cave, which was brighter than the previous two caves, and thought for a moment.

This time, unlike the previous two caves, there was a big change… the main road was divided into two, corresponding to two bronze gates, and the place where I was was a very small cave, small enough to be like a room, and it really was like a room.

There was a table and chairs, and even a bed, and a place for personal hygiene.

If it had been me, I would have looked up, found the so-called connection hole, and demanded an answer.

After settling some personal matters, he still calmly sat down in the chair. He frowned lightly, tapping his fingertips against his nose, as if he was thinking about something. I was in a deep sleep and couldn’t reach the core of this thinking… but I could feel that he was thinking about what the mysterious power in the second cave had said.

“Don’t be so smart. What you guess is always right? It depends on your fate! If you choose right, we will pass by each other without any connection. If you choose wrong, I don’t care about your life or death.” I don’t understand why the Taoist monk keeps thinking about this sentence, but I find that he is thinking about it and a smile appears on his face. He exclaims, “So that’s it!” and then falls silent.

I felt as if he was turning over my memories… However, because he was not completely integrated, he could only know a limited amount, and he was not interested in those fragmented memories. He was only probing my memories of all the secret arts and secret methods.

I could sense that he was somewhat disdainful of those spells… He just casually flipped through the past, and that was it. Occasionally, when he came across some of the unique spells of my Li family, he would sit down and think for a while. Although he wasn’t disdainful, his mood was just plain and ordinary.

Only when he saw the secret arts did he suddenly become less calm… One by one, the secret arts made him concentrate on thinking and deducing… But it seemed that he also felt that this was too wasteful of time, so he first looked at them in general.

Finally, when he saw the technique of the broken void that was used in the final battle at the Lake of a Thousand Demons, the Taoist acolyte suddenly stood up, and it was clear that his mood was not calm either… Not only was it not calm, but he was also surprised. He muttered, “This… This should be the secret technique of this world? No, definitely not?”

Thinking like this, he noticed my memory, and he calmed down and prepared to probe into my memory.

But at this moment, a voice interrupted the Taoist boy: “Chen Chengyi, I didn’t expect you to come here. You have surprised many people and worried many people.”

“This has nothing to do with me. I came in to do my job, so just do my job. Which of these two roads is the main road?” At this time, Daotongzi turned around and finally looked up. As before, the so-called contact person appeared.

But the Taoist monk didn’t waste any time on small talk, and asked the most important question.

“Hey, Chen Chengyi, you’re not the same as the legend… What? In the secret caves of my Snow Mountain lineage, even your heart has been polished?” The voice was full of surprise.

The Taoist boy was silent. I could feel his thoughts. He was unmoved by such questions. The only response he had was two words: “Boring.”

The voice from above didn’t mind the snub, and the words came from afar, saying, “To be honest, those two are both main roads. In the future, there will be more and more branches, as long as they correspond to the bronze gates, they are all main roads, so you can just go as you like.”

“Huh, your Snow Mountain lineage is hiding quite a few dragon dens and tiger dens.” Faced with this answer, I, who was originally dormant, couldn’t help but be shocked, but the Taoist boy was calm and collected, and only responded with a faint response.