The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 380 The large stone at the entrance of the Langhuan Blessed Land cave cannot be moved?
Rumble.

The waterfall cascades down the cliff like a jade dragon, pouring into a clear lake below.

Except where the waterfall cascades down, the lake is extremely calm.

The sun shone on the lake, reflecting a bright ball of light.

Scattered across the meadows along the lake shore, some unidentified flowers bloom.

A young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old walked briskly from among the flowers and grass, his face beaming with joy.

However, his clothes were tattered, probably torn and ripped by thorns, branches or something similar.

He looked quite disheveled!

The young man approached and asked curiously, "Great hero, did you also fall down the waterfall?"

Xu Xingchen, who was deep in thought, finally came to her senses, looked the young man up and down, smiled slightly, and said, "That's right, I also fell from up there."

The young man looked at Xu Xingchen's clothes, which were wrinkled from fighting the wind and rain, and then looked down at his own tattered clothes. He said with sympathy, "We are both pitiful people who have fallen on hard times. We have fallen into this deep valley and I'm afraid we will never get out!"

Xu Xingchen asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"

The young man looked around and said, "I've already walked around this area and found that there are cliffs in all four directions, too high to climb; naturally, there's no way out!"

Xu Xingchen laughed and said, "That's not necessarily true. I've learned some martial arts, and I'm quite good at lightness techniques. Perhaps I can find a place to climb up."

To everyone's surprise, the young master shook his head and said, "It's no use. The mountain walls on all sides are too steep. Even if you know martial arts, you can't climb up!"

Xu Xingchen looked the young man up and down a few more times and asked curiously, "Young master, your steps are unsteady. You don't seem to have practiced martial arts."

The young master said, "What's so great about martial arts?! After learning it, you're bound to fight and kill; I don't like it."

As Xu Xingchen listened to these familiar words, and then turned to look at the surrounding valleys, the cascading waterfall, the calm lake, and the strikingly smooth stone wall dozens of feet high next to the waterfall, a sense of realization suddenly arose in his heart.

He turned around and looked at the young man in front of him again, asking meaningfully, "My surname is Xu, and my given name is Xingchen. I am a martial artist who has traveled the world. May I ask your honorable name, young master?"

The young man straightened his disheveled clothes, cupped his hands, and said, "My surname is Duan, my given name is Yu, and I am from Dali, Yunnan."

"It really is you," Xu Xingchen thought to himself, but his expression remained unchanged as he continued, "So it's Young Master Duan. I've heard that the royal family of Dali, Yunnan, also bears the surname Duan; presumably, Young Master Duan comes from a prestigious family."

Duan Yu said a few words of modesty, then said with a bitter face, "If we can't get out, we're afraid we'll lose our lives here; it's just a pity that Miss Zhong is still being held captive by the Shennong Gang. If I can't find her father to rescue her, neither Miss Zhong nor the Shennong Gang members will survive."

Xu Xingchen smiled calmly and said, "Young Master Duan, there's no need to worry too much. As the saying goes, there's always a way out. Let's look around some more. Perhaps we can find a cave or a path to get out."

Duan Yu's expression brightened, and he exclaimed, "Ah, Young Master Xu's words have truly awakened me from my dream; let's search some more, and perhaps we really can find a way out."

The two parted ways, one heading east and the other west, each carefully searching for a way out of the valley.

The valley is not large, only about three miles in size.

Just as Duan Yu had said, the four directions of east, west, south, and north were all steep, straight mountain walls with very few places to gain leverage.

They then separated and tore apart the vines and weeds that covered the foot of the mountain, revealing that behind them was still a stone wall connected to the top.

Xu Xingchen walked to a certain place, turned around but could not see Duan Yu's figure, so he punched the stone wall.

Snapped!
The sturdy stone wall has cracked open with spiderweb-like fissures the size of a washbasin.

Xu Xingchen touched the cracks that were still structurally stable, lost in thought.

"If this punch of mine were in the previous world, it would have been enough to blast a crater."

"In this world, all that can be done is create cracks."

"This demonstrates just how resilient and stable the material structure of this world is."

"However, if I can damage these rocks, these cliffs and precipices in front of me cannot stop me."

Xu Xingchen looked up at the straight mountain peaks hidden in the rolling clouds, then quickly looked away.

"We haven't even found the Blessed Land of Langhuan yet, how can we possibly leave now?"

Xu Xingchen remembered that the entrance to the Langhuan Paradise described in the book should be behind a large rock.

Although the boulder was enormous, Duan Yu, who had no martial arts skills, was able to move it, indicating that it had a mechanism.

So, when Xu Xingchen was looking for a way out, he saw some large rocks and tried to push them with his hands.

It is extremely stable and cannot be moved by many stones.

A few stones could be pushed and made to sway, but after careful observation, Xu Xingchen found that there were no openings behind them.

As the sun began to set, the two met again by the lake, inquiring about each other's situation, but still found nothing.

Duan Yu's stomach rumbled with hunger, and he turned around to look for some wild fruit to fill his stomach.

Xu Xingchen smiled and plunged into the lake.

After a while.
Two large fish then leaped out of the water, wagging their tails, and landed on the grass in front of Duan Yu.

Duan Yu happily stepped forward and caught one, saying to Xu Xingchen, who had leaped out of the lake and landed on the shore, "Brother Xu's martial arts are indeed extraordinary. Catching fish in the water is a piece of cake for you; so it seems that learning martial arts is not entirely useless after all. It's just a pity that the two of us are unarmed, so even if we wanted to eat these fish raw, we couldn't."

Xu Xingchen walked to a large rock nearby and punched the corner of it.

Snapped!
The soil in that spot was thin, and when it was hit by the force of the punch, it instantly shattered into several pieces and broke off from the large rock.

Xu Xingchen picked out a stone with a sharp edge and returned to Duan Yu, who was somewhat dumbfounded. He smiled and said, "Look, isn't this just a stone knife?" Duan Yu finally came to his senses and looked back and forth between the stone with a broken corner and Xu Xingchen. He said in surprise, "Brother Xu, your martial arts are really amazing. You can actually shatter a stone with one punch."

Xu Xingchen picked up another fish from the ground, went to the lakeside, and used a stone knife to gut and clean it. He said, "What's so great about this?! Anyone who practices martial arts and reaches a certain level can break stones!"

Duan Yu shook his head and said, "How is that possible? I have seen many martial arts practitioners, and at most they can break a wooden stake, but I have never seen them break a stone."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xingchen seemed to be deep in thought.

His hands didn't stop moving; he quickly cleaned the fish in his hand, then took another fish from Duan Yu who had come closer and cleaned it in no time.

He stood up and said to Duan Yu, "Let's gather some more firewood, build a fire, and grill these two fish. They'll taste even better!"

"Huh, you can even barbecue? Brother Xu is truly a capable person." Duan Yu happily went to gather firewood from the surrounding area.

Xu Xingchen also gathered some dry branches and firewood, and found some dry grass.

The dry branches and firewood were piled up, leaving a hole underneath.

Click! Click!
Two white stones collided, sparks flying and landing on the dry, velvety grass.

Wisps of blue smoke rose from the velvet grass.

With a gentle blow from Xu Xingchen, small flames quickly rose from the velvet grass.

Under Duan Yu's delighted gaze, a bonfire quickly blazed up.

Stick two fish on two tree branches and roast them over a fire.

While waiting, Xu Xingchen chatted with Duan Yu and discovered that Duan Yu was indeed extremely knowledgeable about the I Ching, Confucianism, and Buddhist classics, and was even able to keep up with Xu Xingchen's train of thought.

Duan Yu was also surprised to find that Brother Xu in front of him was able to discuss various schools of thought with him in a "balanced and even" manner.

Moreover, his words often contained profound meanings, frequently giving him a sense of sudden enlightenment.

Before we knew it, we were engrossed in conversation.

Even during the subsequent fish meal, he continued talking non-stop.

Talking
Duan Yu gradually realized that Brother Xu's understanding of Taoist allusions could only be described as "unfathomable".

In terms of Confucianism, it falls short.

Later Buddhist scriptures were somewhat lacking.

But overall, he still outperformed him in every aspect.
This surprised and delighted him!
After finishing their grilled fish, the two drank some clear lake water to soothe their stomachs.

at this time.

The bright moon rises from the east, and its light shines into the deep valley.

Thus, a bright moon in the sky and a bright moon in the lake reflected each other, creating an exceptionally beautiful scene.

After eating and drinking his fill, Duan Yu felt his lower abdomen was bloated, so he got up and went to the nearby woods to relieve himself.

Xu Xingchen waited by the fire for a long time, but Duan Yu did not return. Just as she was wondering about this, she suddenly noticed something flickering and shaking out of the corner of her eye, and quickly looked up.

On the left side of the waterfall, which resembles a jade dragon, a hazy figure was shaking its head and swaying its limbs on a smooth, jade-like stone wall, looking extremely comical.

"Boundless Jade Wall."

Xu Xingchen murmured to himself, looking at the vaguely familiar figure on the Boundless Jade Wall.

If it wasn't Duan Yu, then who else could it be?!

"Could it be that he has found the entrance to the Blessed Land of Langhuan?"

Xu Xingchen stood up and walked towards the woods where Duan Yu had disappeared.

Passing through the woods, they saw Duan Yu standing in front of a smooth, mirror-like rock, twisting his body.

The moonlight cast his shadow on the large rock in front of him, and through reflection, it was also reflected on the Wuliang Jade Wall to the left of the waterfall.

Upon seeing Xu Xingchen arrive, Duan Yu exclaimed with delight, "Brother Xu, look! I've discovered the secret of the Boundless Jade Wall!"

"Back then, there must have been a man and a woman living in seclusion here."

"Every night at this time, they would practice their swordsmanship in front of this large rock, and their shadows would be reflected on the immeasurable jade wall beside the waterfall."

"Later, the man disappeared. We don't know if he left or died."

The remaining woman was alone.

"Not two years later, the woman also disappeared."

As he finished speaking, Duan Yu's tone became wistful, and it was unclear whether he was sighing and lamenting for that perfect couple.

During their previous casual conversation, Xu Xingchen had already learned about Duan Yu's various experiences in Wuliang Mountain; therefore, she naturally understood what Duan Yu had just said.

He walked up to the smooth, mirror-like boulder and saw that Duan Yu had already torn away and cleared away the vines and weeds covering it. He thought to himself, "This boulder should be the entrance to the Langhuan Paradise."

Thinking it to myself, I reached out and pushed.

As a result, the boulder did not budge an inch!
(End of this chapter)