A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 420 Under the Abyss
When Wu Shidao walked back into the room again, he was holding a brocade bag in his hand. He walked to a table, opened the bag, took out a stack of things that seemed to be some very thin animal skins from the bag, and spread the soft, waxy yellow animal skin on the table.

Fan Hongjiao, Lu Geng and others had also gathered around the tables.

Duan Rong also walked over, he stood behind Wang Yue and looked at the table. Wang Yue was short and only reached Duan Rong's chest, standing there, it did not affect his viewing at all.

The spread-out soft, waxy yellow animal hide took up almost half of the table, and was covered with densely packed crisscrossing lines and markings.

Wu Shidao pointed at a few places in the picture and said thoughtfully, "The cycles of these places I often visit are not right."

In fact, this was also the reason why Wu Shidao did not immediately agree when Fan Hongjiao first mentioned it.

Fan Hongjiao looked at the geomancy map, frowned slightly, and said, "In this case, we can only wait at this stream."

Lu Geng said: "It depends on luck if you wait. If you are unlucky, you may not be able to see them even after waiting for two or three days."

Fan Hongjiao said: "If you are afraid of waiting, you don't have to go."

Lu Geng was choked by Fan Hongjiao and was speechless for a long time.

Wu Shidao turned his head and glanced at Duan Rong. It was obviously not a good choice to wait there. However, Fan Hongjiao seemed to want to take Duan Rong away as soon as possible, so she would rather wait there by the stream.

Fan Hongjiao did this not entirely because she wanted to take care of Duan Rong. In fact, when Zhu He left, he asked Fan Hongjiao to take Duan Rong to the Dark Forest to gain some experience as soon as possible.

She was just following her master's orders!

After all, Fan Hongjiao is the senior sister of the group. Since she has made up her mind, Lu Geng, Wang Yue and others can only obey her.

After discussing the direction to sneak into the dark forest, several people prepared themselves and set off. Duan Rong asked Wang Yue what he needed to prepare, and Wang Yue told him that he didn't need to prepare anything, just follow them when the time comes.

About an incense stick later, they met again at the door of the conference room. After everyone was there, Fan Hongjiao led them along the corridor and turned down to the attic.

When they reached the first floor of the attic, Duan Rong originally thought that they would leave the attic, but he saw Fan Hongjiao suddenly push open a rather hidden door.

Behind that door, there were actually stairs that continued to extend downwards.

They were already on the first floor of the attic. If they went down any further, wouldn't they have to enter the interior of the mountain?

Duan Rong frowned slightly, but saw that the others all looked calm.

Follow them through the door and down the stairs.

The stairs leading down were dark and gloomy, as if leading to the endless underworld.

Lu Geng, who was walking at the back, had already taken out a tinderbox and lit the torch that had been prepared long ago.

At the beginning, there were wooden stairs like the ones leading to the attic. As Duan Rong walked along, he found that the stairs under his feet had turned into hard stone steps without him noticing.

The walls on both sides are already stone walls covered with moss.

None of them spoke, and their footsteps echoed in the empty space. They kept walking like this, as if time had stopped.

Apart from the deep stone steps, there was no reference point and I had no idea how far I had walked in these dark stone steps.

As they walked, just when Duan Rong was feeling a little nervous, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him.

At this moment, Duan Rong heard several sighs around him. It turned out that he was not the only one who was nervous. The others should have been leaving not for the first time, but they were still feeling nervous.

This is probably a physiological reaction. Walking in this unchanging tunnel, I gradually develop the illusion that I will continue walking like this forever...

They walked up the stone steps and into the bright light ahead.

It was a small stone chamber. The stone walls on all four sides were carved with dense animal patterns. Several animal heads looked ferocious and looked quite terrifying under the light of the fire.

I saw a haggard old man sitting cross-legged on a cushion in the corner.

They walked into the stone chamber. Fan Hongjiao looked at the old man and said with a smile, "Mr. Yi, have you been guarding this door these days?"

The old man raised his eyelids, and his cloudy eyes swept over the people coldly. Duan Rong felt a chill in his heart when he saw that look.

The old man locked his eyes on Duan Rong and asked, "Who is that boy? I don't recognize him!"

Fan Hongjiao said, "He is the new disciple of Yunfu Peak." Fan Hongjiao turned around and said, "Duan Rong! Bring me your sect's cloud certificate and show it to the senior."

"No need!" the old man sighed, "It's not a good place. Go ahead."

Although the old man said so, Duan Rong clearly felt a powerful spiritual consciousness that instantly penetrated his Dantian. The old man obviously checked his cultivation.

Fan Hongjiao clasped his fists respectfully and said, "Mr. Xie Yi!"

The old man hummed softly with his nose, then closed his eyes and continued to meditate.

Fan Hongjiao brought a few people to a stone wall beside the old man. She suddenly took out a key of rather strange shape from her waist and inserted the key into something.

Duan Rong clearly saw Fan Hongjiao insert the key into the mouth of a ferocious beast head on the stone wall, and then turn it, and the stone door in front of him burst open.

Fan Hongjiao pulled out the key and entered the stone gate. The others followed, with Lu Geng holding a torch and walking at the end.

Inside the stone gate is a long dark corridor.

Duan Rong walked between Wang Yue and Lu Geng, looking forward intently, and saw that the end of the corridor was dark, as if there was no end in sight.

Duan Rong sighed lightly, thinking that this time it would take a long time.

But this time, after walking only a few hundred meters, I reached the end of the corridor.

They turned somewhere at the end of the corridor.

The space of this stone chamber is surprisingly large, and the ceiling is also very high. The whole stone chamber is long and narrow, giving people a sense of sudden openness as soon as they walk in.

The most astonishing thing was that there was a whistling sound of wind in this space, which made the torch in Lu Geng's hand flicker.

Duan Rong's eyes narrowed. How could there be the sound of wind in such a confined space?
He soon discovered a clue. There was a dark crack on the floor of the long and narrow stone chamber, and the whistling wind came from that crack.

In this long and narrow space, there are thick black iron rings fixed at equal intervals on the stone walls, and on the iron rings are iron chains as thick as a child's arm.

The iron chain was fixed on the stone wall, but extended into the dark gap where the sound of wind was blowing.

At this time, the others were already standing in front of an iron chain, but Duan Rong was still standing at the entrance of the stone chamber, digesting the shocking and strange scene before him.

Fan Hongjiao shook the chain in his hand and said, "Junior brother, come here and grab a chain. Slide down this chain and you will reach the dark forest." Upon hearing this, Duan Rong walked over, stood beside Fan Hongjiao, and reached out to grab a cold chain.

Fan Hongjiao instructed him, "Keep sliding until your feet touch the ground."

After Fan Hongjiao finished speaking, he suddenly jumped into the dark gap and was instantly swallowed up by the darkness.

Then, Wu Shidao and Wang Yue almost disappeared into the dark gap together.

Lu Geng glanced at Duan Rong without saying anything. He swung the torch in his hand and threw it at Duan Rong's feet. Then he grabbed the chain and jumped into the dark gap.

The torch fell at Duan Rong's feet and was whistling in the strong wind coming through the gap.

At this moment, he was the only one left in this space.

Duan Rong grabbed the chain and took a look at the gap beside his feet. The gap was like the mouth of a giant beast, slightly open, but the inside was bottomless.

Duan Rong took a deep breath, still grabbed the chain and jumped down.

The iron chain in his hand was smooth and cold. Duan Rong slowly slid down along the chain. He could feel that Fan Hongjiao and the others were no longer around. They were obviously sliding down at a faster speed.

Duan Rong's eyesight gradually adapted to the darkness, and he could roughly recognize objects in this pitch-black environment.

He could see the iron chain not far from him shaking violently. Duan Rong knew that this was caused by Fan Hongjiao's rapid descent.

In front and behind him were dark stone walls, and he seemed to be in a crack somewhere deep underground.

After adapting to the environment for a while, Duan Rong's mentality finally stabilized a little. With a thought, his spiritual sense suddenly released. He found that this crack did not seem to be short. Its length had exceeded the coverage of his spiritual sense.

Under the cover of his spiritual sense, Duan Rong clearly sensed that several other iron chains nearby were shaking violently.

Obviously, they are all declining rapidly!

Duan Rong's eyes fixed, and he began to slide down quickly. His hands suddenly loosened, and his body immediately fell down. After several feet, the speed made Duan Rong have difficulty breathing. He suddenly grabbed the chain, and the chain in his hand began to shake violently.

Duan Rong kicked his body suddenly, took a breath, and then let go again, and his body fell down again.

It was unknown how long it had been before Duan Rong pulled his body again. The iron chain in his hand was shaking violently, and his body was like a willow swaying in the wind.

He stared down and saw bottomless darkness beneath his feet. The violently shaking iron chain seemed to lead him to the underworld.

Fan Hongjiao, Wu Shidao, Lu Geng and Wang Yue had landed on a patch of grass that was emitting a faint light. On the black stone wall behind them, several iron chains as thick as children's arms hung down from above.

Wang Yue clapped his hands and said, "How long do you think it will take for Junior Brother to come down?"

Fan Hongjiao snorted and said, "He's definitely better than you! The first time you came, the three of us waited for you here for three full hours!"

Wang Yue said dissatisfiedly: "Senior sister, why do you remember my ugly deeds most clearly and always bring them up to criticize me? Don't look at my junior brother who looks strong and vigorous, he may not be better than me. Let's find a place to rest. Maybe we have to wait for a long time!?"

"I don't think it's necessary." Wu Shidao said, "Look at how violently the iron chain is shaking. I estimate that it won't be long before Junior Brother comes down."

Wang Yue turned his head and saw that the chain next to the one used by Fan Hongjiao was shaking violently.

Although Wang Yue was the least experienced of the four, he had been to Yunfu Peak for several years, and he had come down to this dark forest countless times. He knew exactly what the shaking of the iron chain meant.

That degree of shaking meant that Duan Rong was falling at a speed that was close to the limit.

Fan Hongjiao looked at the iron chain and said with a smile, "What do you think? What did I say? Don't deny it, Wang Yue, you are just a chicken gut! How can my junior brother be like you?"

Wang Yue's face turned red, but he couldn't say anything to refute.

Duan Rong was falling, and suddenly he felt that the wind blowing across his cheek seemed to be slightly moist, which was somewhat different from the dry wind along the way.

Duan Rong's heart moved. Something had changed. Was it almost time?
He still remembered that when Fan Hongjiao jumped down, he told him to keep sliding down until his feet touched the ground.

Duan Rong grabbed the chain and hung himself up. He lowered his head and looked down at his feet. In the distant and endless darkness, he seemed to see a faint light.

A hint of joy immediately arose in his heart.

Although the faint light seemed to be still far away, he could already see it vaguely.

Duan Rong suddenly felt a surge of joy in his body, and he loosened his hands, letting his body fall downwards...

This went on for a long time. Duan Rong felt that the wind blowing across his cheeks had become moist and no longer dry. Instead, it felt a little gentle on his face, and there was already a certain smell in the wind.

The smell was very unique, it was hard to tell whether it was pleasant or unpleasant, but it was a strange smell he had never smelled before.

Duan Rong looked at the distant light under his feet again.

The faint light seemed to be closer, like a twinkling galaxy at the end of the darkness.

Duan Rong suddenly let go, and his body fell down again, but this time as his body fell faster and faster, breathing became difficult, Duan Rong did not hold his body, but abruptly began to practice his skills, holding his breath and letting his body continue to fall.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and the corners of his clothes and sleeves seemed to be torn apart, flapping wildly. The originally soft and moist wind was like a knife, scraping his face painfully.

But Duan Rong still held his breath and let his body continue to fall.

Seeing that the dim galaxy was just a few hundred meters below his feet, Duan Rong's body was falling so fast that it was just a shadow. The sound of wind passed by his ears, and there was an astonishingly loud noise.

Duan Rong just like that, flashed and fell like a meteorite, falling into the glowing galaxy.

Just as he was about to land, Duan Rong suddenly jumped up, bent his knees and hugged his head in mid-air. His whole body was like a ball. The energy of heaven and earth in his dantian instantly surged, like a thin film, wrapping around his body.

"Oh!"

With a loud bang, a black ball hit the ground next to the stone wall, with grass and dust flying everywhere.

Fan Hongjiao, Wu Shidao, Lu Geng and Wang Yue who were waiting there were all shocked!

Amidst the flying grass and dust, a figure jumped out. It was Duan Rong who arrived last.

Duan Rong looked at them with a smile. He saw that the grass and dust beside him had already dispersed, but there was a large pit on the ground, which was obviously made by him just now.

The four of them stared at Duan Rong in amazement, but Duan Rong clasped his fists and said with a smile, "Senior Sister Fan, three senior brothers! Sorry for the long wait! Duan Rong is late!"

(End of this chapter)