Chapter 50 Rock Bottom
"My Murong family is quite wealthy. How much do you think it is?"

"Oh, are you going to test me with money? Which Jianghu person can't stand such a test?"

Is Lu Ping short of money?
It looks like it's missing, but it's not.

When he really needed money, he had many ways to make it, including the treasures he found in the secret passage yesterday and the treasure in the underground palace they were looking for now.

Therefore, Lu Ping certainly did not find Murong Jiu's approach of wanting to repay his favor by spending money unattractive.

"So what are your plans?"

Zhang Jing frowned: "As long as you can say it, we can definitely do it!"

"Oh? You mean, you will do whatever I plan to do?"

Lu Ping raised his eyebrows and looked at the two women again and again.

Hmm... Although these cousins ​​are not very old, they have pretty good figures. Why not let them...

"I think it would be better if you two pledged your love to each other."

Was that person so shameless that he actually read out my thoughts in public? !
Lu Ping was shocked, turned around and saw that the person who was talking was Xiao Yuer.

Oh, that's okay.

but……

"Two?" Lu Ping smiled wickedly and looked at Xiao Yuer with a teasing look.

Xiao Yu'er was immediately furious, and stretched out his hands to protect Tie Xinlan behind him: "Two are not enough? You beast, you are so ungrateful!"

This action of protecting food made Lu Ping laugh: "Why are you so nervous? The Iron Girl hasn't spoken yet!"

When Tie Xinlan saw Xiao Yuer's actions and heard what he said, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips. But when she noticed the jealous looks from the people around her, she felt shy again.

The girl then quickly restrained her expression and gave Lu Ping a fist bump: "I will repay you for saving my life! From now on, whenever Big Brother asks me to do something, Tie Xinlan will do my best to help!"

Tying a grass knot and holding a ring...at least it is better than being a slave in the next life.

But it still makes people feel hurt when they hear it, and they feel that they are not handsome enough...

Of course, Lu Ping knew that people in the martial arts world were different from ordinary people.

Only a helpless and weak woman would easily say words like "I will pledge my life to you", but for a man in the martial arts world, saying "I will repay you with a grass ring" or "I will never break my promise even if I have to go through fire and water". These are the most sincere ways of expressing gratitude.

"Not bad, not bad... This is what our young heroes should do!"

Lu Ping nodded with satisfaction, then pointed at the two sisters next to him, "Unlike the two over there, hesitating, fussy, and dithering!"

Zhang Jing and Murong Jiu felt ashamed and angry when they heard this.

In fact, their personalities have nothing to do with hesitating, nagging, or quibbling.

With their hot tempers, if it were someone else, at a different time, they would probably lose their temper and attack immediately. But it is different now. They have just received life-saving grace from Lu Ping, so how can they have the nerve to lose their temper?
But to follow Xiaoyuer's words and agree to marry me is absolutely impossible!
Not to mention that she was still a virgin and had no interest in love, Murong Jiu had an engagement arranged by her parents - even though she was not interested in it.

Originally, what Tie Xinlan did was the best way, but now they are a step slower. If they repeat it again, they will be suspected of following the trend and make people think they are uncultured.

Others talk a lot, and then you hold it in for a long time, and finally say "Me too". Isn't this uncultured?
While chatting, several people took off their parachutes and began to search the valley.

"This place is surrounded by mountains like the bottom of a bottle, with tall trees and lush branches and leaves. It should be the place mentioned in the records. I just don't know where the tree with the tunnel is..."

Lu Ping muttered to himself for a few words, then turned to the others and said, "How about this, the six of us split up and act separately. This way the search should be faster."

Then he reminded, "There must be traces around the entrance of the tunnel, so be careful when searching! Also, don't act rashly after you find the location, notify everyone to gather first!"

It has to be said that more people means faster work efficiency. After a while, Lin Pingzhi made a discovery and called everyone over.

However, when everyone arrived, they realized that what he found was not the entrance to the underground palace, but a strangely shaped parachute.

"Boss, could this thing also be..."

Lu Ping nodded seriously, and looked carefully at the disintegrating equipment made of bamboo sticks, red ropes and oil paper on the ground. He said with certainty: "It is indeed a flying kite... No, to be more precise, it should be a hang glider!" Xiao Yuer walked up to touch the hang glider and analyzed: "Its model is still very new, and there is not much dust on it, which means its owner came here not long before us, probably a few days, but definitely no more than half a month."

Tie Xinlan frowned: "But during the search just now, none of us saw anyone else in this valley, not even a corpse!"

"So there are only two possibilities. One is that the other party has found the underground palace and has entered it!"

"What about the other possibility?"

Xiao Yuer then replied: "The second possibility is, of course, that person is already dead, and his body was taken away by the owner of the underground palace."

Lu Ping nodded: "No matter which one it is, it proves that the underground palace really exists!"

After walking forward and observing carefully, Lu Ping discovered a suspicious point.

This set of falling apart hang gliders is actually very perfect, both in terms of material selection and workmanship, it is much better than the parachute that Lu Ping had made before with his half-baked skills.

The reason why it is falling apart now is not because it was damaged during the landing process, but because it was dismantled and destroyed by humans after it landed safely.

From this doubt, two more doubts can be derived: Who is the owner of the wooden kite? Why did the man prepare to jump off the cliff?

With this doubt in mind, the group began their second search.

Soon, Xiao Yuer also made a discovery. It was a tree with very thick branches, very green leaves, and very different textures of the bark on the upper and lower parts.

A few people reached out and knocked, and a door opened in the lower half of the bark, revealing a pitch-black cave.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this is undoubtedly the entrance to the underground palace."

"I don't know how deep this cave is?"

Lu Ping poked his head inside, and after a few seconds he came out and said, "The cave isn't deep, and the space inside isn't very big. If I'm not mistaken, there should be an elevator controlled by a mechanism inside."

"Let's go down and have a look!"

Several people entered the elevator.

This elevator is made of steel, and the space is about the same size as a normal elevator. Not to mention the height, just in terms of the floor space, about ten people can stand on it at a time.

After groping around for a while, they quickly found the switch that controlled the raising and lowering of the ladder. They reached out and pulled it, and the ladder slowly lowered.

"This mechanism is really ingenious. I wonder who built it?"

Lu Ping sighed: "This place is surrounded by high mountains and hidden by clouds. If this palace was not built underground but on the ground, it would definitely be a good place to live in seclusion!"

Lu Ping suddenly thought of something that he had ignored before.

In the original novel, Xiao Yuer and Jiang Yulang entered the bottom floor of the underground palace and opened the passage that connected to the living water, and then escaped from the valley along the waterway.

But before this, Xiao Mimi didn't know about this waterway, and she couldn't swim.

So the question is, this valley is surrounded by cliffs hundreds of feet high, with no other exits, so how did Xiao Mimi leave here, get to the entrance of the cave and jump down with Xiao Yuer? And how did she supply food to her palace?

Could it be possible to climb up?
It’s impossible just by thinking about it!
Even if one practices the two skills of Tiyunzong and Gekkowanqiang to perfection, it is estimated that it is still difficult to climb up an inward-sloping cliff that is hundreds of feet high!

What's more, when Ouyang Ting built the underground palace, he only wanted to kill other participants after creating peerless magic skills and seize the achievements of everyone alone, but he would not let himself stay in the underground palace for the rest of his life.

If the other four martial arts masters had not seen the exit with their own eyes, they would not have agreed to let Ouyang Ting come here.

Therefore, this underground palace must have a secret passage leading out of the valley!
When the elevator stopped, the door opened and a passage appeared in front of him, with exquisitely carved stone walls on both sides, inlaid with shining copper lamps.

At the end of the passage is a door carved with figures and flowers. The workmanship is also very exquisite, and it must have been made with at least ten years of experience.

But at this moment, they were not in the mood to appreciate the hard work of the craftsmen.

Lu Ping walked in front and pushed the door open with one hand.

(End of this chapter)

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