Chapter 25 Chapter 25

Amidst the flocks of birds flying around, the rubble on the walls rolled down, and the flames in the fire belt were also scattered and danced in all directions. Seeing that the water in the stream between Haizi was getting shallower and almost dried up, Di Renjie shouted: "Not good, At this time, the water level has dropped, and the oil released from Fangcai Rock has gathered on the water surface, once the fire spreads, I am afraid that we will have nowhere to escape." When Di Chunlin and Yuehei San heard this, they saw that there seemed to be flames in the corner of the cave, and the situation was critical, so they didn't think too much about it, and hurriedly found their way down from the viewing platform. There was a lot of noise, and while fleeing to the cave along the rocky road, he asked loudly: "Master, where should we go? Should we go out in the direction of Renqi?" Di Renjie couldn't turn his head, so he said: " I'm afraid that the water has been cut off there, and the fire has spread, and you and I have no wings, so we can't go out from there." Linyue listened behind her, her heart sank, she slowed down in the flickering fire, and she became dazed. For a while, I saw mother and concubine, father, palace scenery, plateau mountains and rivers, and Yang Ju, etc., and I was confused, as if I completely forgot where I was, and I didn't know how to avoid the strange birds flying in the sky.Hei Sanben was in front of Linyue, and when he turned around, he saw Linyue's expression of joy and sorrow, and he couldn't care less, reached out his hand to pull Linyue, and shouted: "Go!" Linyue was startled, Looking up, seeing Hei San glaring at him angrily, Fang Rumeng woke up, tightened Hei San's hand, and ran forward.

Suddenly Li Yuanfang and Ayu's voices sounded from a corner of the cave wall, and they both shouted together: "My lord, we are here!" Di Renjie and the others were invigorated when they heard the sound, and the group of people followed the sound and bypassed Haizi. Li Yuanfang hurried forward. The water flow is connected, so it has not been ignited yet; only those rocks above the water surface are left. The crowd was fuming, but fortunately, the support of the mountain rock was broken, and the support did not know what kind of wood it was, but it was not afraid of the fire, and was brought down by a group of birds. Li Yuanfang hurriedly helped Di Renjie climb up the rock from the place where there was no fire, and everyone fled to the rock wall because the rock was originally a place where treasure chests were placed, and the space was very small, so they had to go Li Yuanfang supported Di Renjie, Ayu and Di Chun, and Linyue and Hei San. They were like monkeys, hanging on the rocks in midair.

Looking down at this time, there are fires everywhere, the strange bird locked the treasure chest with one foot, and it was inconvenient to fly, and lost its head, so it couldn't see, some treasure chests were actually ignited by flames, and the flames rushed up , the birds screamed again and again, but they couldn't get rid of the treasure box, so they only flew and collided in the air, which ignited more companions, and many of them were burned to death and fell into the sea. Hearing that, everyone looked around: the bottom has become a sea of ​​flames, on this rock wall, there is no way to retreat, and it won't be long before they will be smoked into coke.

Li Yuanfang regretted: "My lord, Ayu and I did find the valve to release the water under the water. We wanted to wait for the rock road to appear so that we could lead everyone out of the cave, but unexpectedly we still couldn't escape the fire." Di Renjie looked into the distance, thoughtful, and smiled when he heard the words: "Yuan Fang, it's not your fault. The formation in the cave should have been calculated by the person who set up the formation." Then he said: "You fell for Yang Ju's poison, how do you feel now?" Li Yuanfang said: "As long as you don't act rashly, it doesn't matter."

Ayu on the other side was already in a hurry, pushing Di Chun to think of a way, and kept annoyed: "Bodhisattva bless you", "It would be great if I could really get the 'Tian Shui Back Flow'!" Di Chun couldn't be bothered, and said: "What is the backflow of water in the sky? I think it's not bad enough if the fire is burning now, so let's flood it again?" A Yuding said: "Anyway, let's put out the fire first, and then we can think of a way! Brother Li, don't you think so? " Li Yuanfang shook his head, unwilling to interrupt, Di Renjie suddenly remembered something when he heard the words, he hurriedly took out the imprint of the copper box just now from his bosom, lit the fire, and murmured: "The Yuejing well under the Fushui River looks at the sky... Watching the sky... using the well... the ax to go down... the water mansion, yes, it must be like this!"

Li Yuanfang wondered: "My lord, do you mean that this line of characters must be read upside down?" Di Renjie's eyes lit up, and he said anxiously: "That's right, Ah Yu reminded me in one sentence - 'Tian Shui reflux', a strange technique, originally there is a difference between yang escape and yin escape, from the first palace to the ninth palace is yang escape. , the nine palaces to the first palace are Yin Dun, and I can't go into details now, but this is not important. The important thing is that the words on the copper box are also arranged in reverse order. It's really annoying."

Ayu, Linyue and others were not far away from Di Renjie. Hearing Di Renjie's words here, they all knew that there was hope for escape, so they all waited quietly, not daring to disturb Di Renjie's thoughts. At this time, all the seas in the cave were on fire, and the flames rushed to each other, and the strange birds died in sevens and eighties. The rest did not dare to fly low, but only slammed into the air and the rock wall, and knocked down many rocks and supports. , the treasure box was overturned, or smashed into pieces, but the iron chains were still tightly wrapped around the strange bird's feet.

Di Renjie shouted: "Everyone must leave here quickly. If my prediction is correct, the way out is at the top of the cave. The rocks in this cave are mostly oily. Although the fire can't reach the rock wall now, the air in the cave has been heated for too long. Even if we don't burn up, we will suffocate to death." Fortunately, the places where the treasure chests protrude on the rock wall are not far apart, and as Di Chun said, they look like an upside-down screw shell, with each point spiraling toward the top of the cave. They pulled each other up and climbed up. The vines that were originally wrapped around the strange bird's body were dead at this time, hanging straight outside the rock wall. Di Chun pulled it, and it was very strong, just used it as a rope , to climb faster.

Li Yuanfang helped Di Renjie to walk at the front. Di Renjie was old and slightly fat, and it was very difficult to climb up. He was already sweating profusely, so he had to stop for a while, and pointed at the star map on the top of the cave. Said to Li Yuanfang: "The stars over there are like a flying Suzaku, they are the Suzaku Qisu in the south: Jinggui Liuxing Zhang Yizhen, the 'well' mentioned in the copper box print refers to the well in Qisu in the south. Each of the twenty-eight places has a corresponding place, and this "well" place corresponds to the division of ancient Yongzhou, which is also where Ningzhou is located today. The "water house" in the other sentence is the water house in the well. The four stars are located under the star 'Yue'." He pointed to Li Yuanfang to look at the brighter star, and said: "The four stars of Shuifu are also in the Milky Way, here, there, can you write it down?"

These few words were spoken very quickly, Li Yuanfang carefully argued, and silently wrote down, everyone dared not stop at the moment, seeing that there was still a distance from the top of the cave, the air was so hot that it was suffocating, Ayu and Linyue It is no longer supported, but the exit is ahead, so we had to encourage and support each other. Looking back, the stone was originally in the shape of layers of thin slices. At this time, the oily matter between the rock layers gradually dissolved, causing the stone to be brittle and easy to crack. Unable to bear the impact of the rest of the strange birds, pieces of the rock wall at the bottom loosened and fell into the water. Everyone felt their feet vibrate, and the whole cave wall shook non-stop, as if they were about to break free from the mountain. They were all terrified and tried their best to climb up.

Finally to the top of the cave, the suspended road built by rocks and brackets ends here. At the end is a slightly larger platform, which can accommodate several people. When everyone climbs on the platform, they will be able to reach the top of the cave full of stars. Going the wrong way, Li Yuanfang concentrated on looking for the four stars of the Water Palace that Di Renjie mentioned, and estimated the location. Fortunately, the location of the Milky Way is very easy to find. The roots and vines stretch from the Milky Way to the surrounding cave walls. Li Yuanfang pulled up a vine and was about to fly. Swinging over, Ayu shouted: "Wait a minute." Hastily came over, pulled another vine around Li Yuanfang's waist, and tied a knot carefully, so that he could feel relieved.Li Yuanfang knew the situation without hesitation, stepped on the rock, changed several vines in mid-air, stretched out his hand, and just climbed to the four stars of Shuifu. Firmly embedded in the rock on the top of the cave, we can also see the so-called Milky Way, which turned out to be a slanted rock crevice that communicates with the outside of the cave. , it is just that the position of the Milky Way is slightly concave inward.At this moment, there was a faint fresh wind blowing from the crevice in the rock, Li Yuanfang felt refreshed, grabbed the spar, and climbed up the slope of the crevice. Ayu waited below and couldn't see where Li Yuanfang was, so she shouted anxiously, and heard Li Yuanfang shout loudly: "My lord, I found the exit! One more person, just help me get a rattan ladder." Everyone was overjoyed, and at the moment Let Hei San also tie a vine like Li Yuanfang, and fly over.After waiting for a long while, Li Yuanfang saw a rattan ladder hanging down in the air. Li Yuanfang was still swinging back from the ladder. On the rock, some vines were pulled from the side and tied around several times. It was expected that it should be able to bear the weight of a person, so he pushed Di Renjie to go up the vine ladder first. Yue passed by first, followed by Ayu, Di Renjie, Di Chun and others. Ayu only urged the others to pass first, not daring to climb. Seeing that everyone arrived safely on the opposite side from the swinging rattan ladder, Li Yuanfang looked back at the loose rocks below. Most of the hanging road when I came here was damaged, and I shouted to Ah Yu to go quickly. Ah Yu had to touch the rattan ladder and climb forward. Halfway through the three souls, his body couldn't catch on the rattan ladder, and he was about to fall out of the ladder!Before everyone in the cracks of the rock could cry out in surprise, Li Yuanfang stepped onto the rattan ladder early and grabbed Ayu firmly. At this time, the rattan ladder couldn't bear the force, and the vibration of the rock intensified, and the lower end of the rattan ladder came loose. Li Yuanfang took advantage of the momentum , here Di Chun and Hei San stretched out their hands together, and pulled Li Yuanfang and A Yu up the slope of the rock crevice.Everyone didn't dare to stop for a while, they hurriedly climbed up the slanted seam, finally came out of the cave, and came to the cave above.