From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 50: Sun and Moon in the Pot
There was a fire burning in the cave. Li Yang followed the movements of the golden toad and began to look at the stone carving carefully.

Chi Yanhong was awakened by the noise of the man and the frog, and followed them.

"Fellow Daoist, I have already seen these nine stone carvings countless times. You have also browsed through them several times. There is nothing mysterious about them, right?"

Chi Yanhong sighed. She also felt it was unusual when she saw these nine stone carvings, but the fact was that these were indeed just ordinary stone carvings. The sword immortals of Mount Emei did not leave any opportunities for future generations.

She had also seen the burial objects that fell from the hanging coffins of the Bai people on the cliff. They were all very mundane things. They might be considered antiques and worth some money if placed outside, but they were of no use to her at all.

Li Yang shook his head: "No, the golden toad's condition is very wrong."

He pointed at the golden toad and said, "This guy never gets up early unless there is something profitable. He is more sensitive to spiritual energy and other treasures than I am. There must be something on this stone carving that we haven't explored yet."

Chi Yanhong looked at the golden toad and found that the little guy was restless on the ground, as if he wanted to get into the stone carving.

"It's indeed a bit strange..." Chi Yanhong nodded, and followed Li Yang to explore every inch of the texture of the stone carving.

Li Yang thought for a moment, and after sending Chi Yanhong and Jin Chan away, he directly drove the sword energy to chop at the stone carving. For a moment, stone chips flew everywhere. After cutting the entire stone carving off the cliff, Li Yang dug half a meter deeper into the rock body, but still found nothing.

"Weird, I thought it might be the same as the piece of iron used to refine the sword, that something was sealed in the rock..." Li Yang muttered to himself and retreated from the hole dug by the sword energy.

"Li Yang, look at the golden toad!"

Chi Yanhong outside pointed at the ground with a surprised tone. Li Yang looked in the direction Chi Yanhong pointed and found that the golden toad was no longer paying attention to the rock wall, but was jumping around on the cut stone murals.

The mural was cut by Li Yang to a thickness of only two centimeters, and Jin Chan kept playing around with the Taoist's right hand on the stone carving.

“Is it not the rock mass that’s weird, but this stone carving?”

The two looked at each other and both noticed something strange.

Chi Yanhong walked around the stone carving, frowning and thinking. After turning around twice, he suddenly spoke:

"There is a lost magic in our lineage called the Sun and Moon in the Pot."

"It is said that there was a master named Hu Gong who roamed the streets during the day, practicing medicine to save people. But at dusk, when the sun set, he would jump into a pot to rest and meditate. There was a different world inside the pot, a world of its own."

Chi Yanhong's tone was very uncertain. After thousands of years of inheritance, most of the Dharma had been lost. The remaining things were mixed with true and false in strange stories, making it difficult to distinguish.

"You mean, there is a magic similar to the one in Journey to the West, where Zhen Yuanzi has the universe in his sleeves, and there is another new world in this stone carving?"

Li Yang's eyes lit up. This was very possible.

He picked up the golden toad and looked at the place where the Taoist's right hand was pointing on the stone carving. If there was another world, then this place should be the entrance to that world.

Li Yang thought about it and did not use sword energy. Instead, he practiced the Jade Toad Energy Eating Method. A few wisps of spiritual energy brushed across the entire stone carving. When the spiritual energy was taken back, Li Yang keenly discovered that a trace of spiritual energy was missing.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yang sat cross-legged on the ground and poured all his spiritual energy into the stone carvings. Sure enough, he sensed a suction force and a gap where the Taoist's fingers were.

"There's hope!" Li Yang was extremely excited, and frantically urged his spiritual energy to flow into the gap in the stone carvings.

This infusion took a full half hour, and even with Li Yang's innate recovery speed, he could hardly recover.

Half an hour later, Li Yang, who was almost exhausted, finally felt the gap saturated, and water-like lines appeared on the surface of the stone carving.
"Fellow Daoist, come with me!" Li Yang was overjoyed, and quickly pulled Chi Yanhong and Jin Chan towards the stone wall.

There was no physical obstruction in this leap. Li Yang only felt the scenery in front of him change, and then his feet stepped on empty air and fell down.

When Li Yang opened his eyes, he and Chi Yanhong were already in a small stone chamber with several shelves in it, and no one knew what was on them.

Suddenly, the golden toad sensed something and rushed out like a mad dog, swallowing the object in a stone box in one gulp.

Li Yang had no time to stop it and picked up the golden toad. He saw that its belly was round, it burped, and blinked its eyes innocently.

"Blessings and infinite blessings, you fellow, I have worked so hard for a long time and got nothing, and you are the first to intercept the autumn wind?"

Li Yang pressed the golden toad with both hands and rolled it into a ball and flattened it. The golden toad was bullied so badly that it jumped directly onto Chi Yanhong's shoulder with a very aggrieved expression.

“Forget it, forget it. Without the golden toad, we can’t discover the mystery of this stone carving. There are still so many boxes. Let’s look for an opportunity first.” As he said this, Chi Yanhong knocked on the golden toad’s head as a small punishment.

Li Yang looked up at the space above and saw that the circle had become much dimmer. They didn't have much time left.

Time was urgent, so Li Yang quickly searched for the stone boxes in the cave. There were 35 stone boxes in total. Li Yang searched around and found that most of these stone boxes were empty.

In a box, the two found a volume of ancient seal script, but as soon as they touched it, the volume immediately turned into ashes.

Li Yang sighed, feeling extremely heartbroken. He thought that it was probably because the time was too long and there was no spiritual energy nourishing this space, so the books naturally decayed.

After flipping through more than a dozen boxes, Li Yang still didn't find any valuable items. His face turned green. God knew what the Golden Toad had swallowed all of a sudden. This guy was a Taoist alien species and was naturally sensitive to treasures. It was possible that what he swallowed was the most precious thing in the cave.

The more unknown something is, the more it inspires imagination. Li Yang angrily beat up the golden toad again, making it cry out in pleasure.

After all, Jin Chan had saved Chi Yanhong's life, so Chi Yanhong had to speak out to stop him, and Jin Chan escaped from his clutches.

The golden toad lay on Chi Yanhong's shoulder, tears in his eyes. He thought, how could it, a Taoist species born and raised by heaven and earth, be bullied so badly by a two-legged beast? It was really embarrassing.

Fortunately, Chi Yanhong found a jade slip in a stone box. The slip was densely engraved with ancient seal script and cloud patterns, which looked very extraordinary. The two of them quickly inspected it and waited to study it after going out.

Then Li Yang found a jade bottle, which seemed to contain elixirs made by the sword immortal at the bottom of the cliff. However, when the jade bottle was opened, a clear air flew out and the elixir disappeared without a trace.

Li Yang knew that the elixir had evaporated due to the long time left, so he had to put away the jade bottle with regret.

The ring of jade slips above the space was completely dark, and a faint repulsive force lingered around the two of them. After searching the 35 stone boxes and jade slips, the two of them packed up their gains and prepared to leave this cave.

Suddenly, Li Yang's innate sword energy came out of his body uncontrollably, as if being pulled by something, and with a whoosh, it slashed towards the center of the space.

With a loud bang, rubble flew everywhere, and a stone box appeared after the ground was drilled through.

There is actually a 36th stone box in this space! Li Yang activated the control of objects and took the things in the box. It felt icy cold in his hand, like a piece of weapon fragment.

The scenery before my eyes changed, and when I opened my eyes again, the two men and the frog were already in the cave.

Li Yang lowered his head to look at the stone carvings on the ground. A breeze blew, and the stone carvings broke apart from where the Taoist's fingers were holding them. The hard rock instantly turned into powder all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)