Wuxia Fantasy: Starting with the Revitalization of the Beggars' Sect

The shouts of Zhu Changling and the others on the cliff grew closer and closer. Lin Ye didn't know if they had really discovered him, but he still decisively untied the rope around his waist.

He climbed up the tree trunk and soon reached the stone platform.

He didn't loosen the rope. After standing on the stone platform, he took out a tinderbox, burned off one section, leaving one piece, and let the other piece burn on its own before throwing it back to the other side.

Zhu Changling and the others on the cliff looked down, but their view was mostly obscured by the thin mist in the mountains.

"There's only one rope. Brother Wuji isn't going down from here, is he?"

He shouted down the cliff again:

"Brother Wuji—Brother Wuji!"

As long as they weren't confronted directly, they continued to cling to a sliver of hope and call Lin Ye by his name without any restraint.

However, Lin Ye had already found the cave entrance. The entrance was quite narrow, just enough for him to enter. He crawled into the cave, and after crawling for about ten feet, the cave became narrower and narrower, barely enough for his body, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Lin Ye didn't think much of it and just kept climbing in. Suddenly, he felt a gust of cool wind blowing from the front.

A surge of joy filled my heart, knowing that we were almost there.

Sure enough, after climbing several more feet, the space in front of him suddenly opened up. He could no longer only crawl, but squat down, and then gradually stand up with his back bent. Now he could finally see the moonlight shining in front of him.

They quickened their pace and reached the cave entrance on this side in a few steps. Looking down, they saw that the cave entrance was only a few feet above the ground.

He leaped lightly and landed on the ground, immediately feeling a sense of relief as the gloom vanished.

He couldn't help but close his eyes, savoring this moment of tranquility.

On the other side, Yao Qingquan originally wanted to pull the rope up the cliff, but he hadn't pulled for long when he realized something was wrong; he couldn't feel any weight on the other side at all.

After pulling for only about ten feet, they discovered a trail of flames spreading at the other end of the rope.

He and Zhu Changling exchanged glances, and he whispered, "That kid burned the ropes, and he's indeed down there."

Zhu Changling pondered, "There are cliffs all below, so he definitely couldn't find a safe place to stay. He probably used the rope to escape to the bottom of the cliff, then turned around and burned the rope to stop us from chasing him."

Thinking of this situation, he led most of his men to the bottom of the cliff. To prevent this from being a feint by Zhang Wuji, he left another group of men to search the nearby mountains.

Although the cliff is thousands of feet high, there is a path leading down to it, but the mountain path is rugged and difficult to traverse.

In fact, if he had known there was another stone platform in the middle of the cliff, Zhu Changling would have definitely sent someone to fetch a rope and gone down the cliff himself to search for it.

By the moonlight, I briefly observed the surrounding landscape and found it to be just as described in the original work: fragrant flowers and lush trees.

He then returned to the cave and retraced his steps. After glancing outside and confirming that Zhu Changling and the others had not come down from the cliff, he returned to the valley.

He opened a package he was carrying with him. Inside the package were an axe, a chisel, a dozen gold bars, and a dozen silver bars.

He obtained this from Hongmei Manor before leaving, and considering the weight and carrying issues, he didn't take much gold and silver.

Since Zhu Changling and others had the intention to harm him first, the money he took was not ill-gotten gains.

In the words of a previous generation, this is compensation for emotional distress.

However, when he tried to collect the gold and silver, he attempted to directly deposit it into the system, but failed. Otherwise, he wouldn't have carried it all the way here.

He rewrapped the package, put the axe in his arms, and slept with his side against the cave entrance for the night.

In this way, if someone comes, he will notice them immediately, and the first thing the person will show is their head.

Confined by the narrow cave, no matter how skilled he was in martial arts, he could only be at his own mercy.

At that time, he only needs to raise his axe and bring it down.

Just in case, he found a large rock beforehand and blocked the entrance to the cave so that he could detect any movement and wouldn't fall into a deep sleep.

He slept for a night and didn't wake up until the white sunlight shone into the valley the next morning.

I glanced at the hole on the left; the rock was still blocking the way.

Knowing that he was safe for the time being, Lin Ye ignored it and jumped down from the rock at the cave entrance. Yesterday, he had only explored a small area in front of him, and today he planned to get a full view of the valley.

Actually, it doesn't take much effort. It's only about two li from north to south and a little over two li from east to west, forming a trapezoidal shape, with the narrowest side being about one li wide.

It is surrounded by towering snow-capped peaks, isolated from the outside world. To the west, there is a deep pool, and the great waterfall cascades down from the cliff above.

However, it's not at the top of the cliff, but halfway up the mountain. There's a huge crevice in the rock halfway up the mountain, and the waterfall flows down from that crevice.

The valley was lush with vegetation, and seven or eight wild goats were grazing on the ground. When they saw the uninvited guest, Lin Ye, they looked up and stared at him for a long time before scattering and fleeing.

Lin Ye smiled and said, "We were told that the wild goats here don't shy away from people."

The monkeys in the trees were quite bold. They didn't run away when Lin Ye arrived. They just chattered and stared at Lin Ye with great curiosity.

Apart from that, no wild animals were found in the mountains.

Lin Ye didn't forget his main task. He tried to find the white ape among the monkeys. According to the original story, the Nine Yang Manual was hidden in the belly of a white ape.

As they were searching, a commotion suddenly broke out among the monkeys. One monkey was shouting loudly, holding a package in its hand. The other monkeys ignored Lin Ye.

They hopped and jumped around the tree, quickly gathering around the monkey.

Lin Ye was taken aback. The package looked very familiar. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was his own package.

There's no food inside.

Lin Ye spoke to the monkey troop.

The monkeys ignored them, and in the ensuing scramble, the bundle broke apart, and gold and silver bars fell like ripe fruit.

A quick-handed monkey grabbed a piece of gold, sniffed it, and realizing it wasn't food, casually tossed it to the ground.

Lin Ye suddenly thought of something, took out a dozen or so steamed buns from his storage space, and threw them one by one onto the tree.

The monkeys smelled the food and rushed over, quickly grabbing two pieces each.

While they were eating, Lin Ye looked around carefully again, but there wasn't a single white ape.

Lin Ye frowned slightly. This valley wasn't very big, and any commotion could be detected on the other side. If there were still monkeys, there was no reason why they wouldn't come over.

But it's hard to say.

Lin Ye ignored the gold and silver bars on the ground and searched around in the other direction, but still couldn't find them.

However, when he returned, the monkeys unexpectedly helped him collect the gold and silver bars and piled them together, placing them on the gray cloth that was wrapped around them.

"You guys are quite sensible."

Lin Ye said something and then tried to take the package back.

At this moment, a monkey silently walked up to the package and placed an oilcloth bundle on top of the pile of gold and silver bars.

After doing this, it wobbled back up the tree.

Lin Ye was taken aback.

"That oilcloth wrapping..."