Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 209 The Fate of the Beauty Stone

They managed to tie the ropes to the two pull rings without any major incident.

Lin Fan looked down at his feet. "Damn, I forgot to think about how to get down."

However, after only a brief moment of stunned silence, Lin Fan, in a flash of inspiration, realized he could tie himself up with a rope and slowly slide down. Fortunately, the rope was long enough, and everything seemed to have been planned from the beginning.

"Just pretend I'm resting up there after using the spider eggs. Nobody will find it strange, right?" Lin Fan muttered to himself.

"Acheng, you're still so clueless. You always think about the front but not the back." As he slowly slid down the rope, Ziyue's voice rang directly in his mind.

"Really? Am I such a thoughtless person?"

"It's not that we didn't consider things thoroughly, it's just that we only focused on achieving our goals and didn't care about any way out. But I wouldn't call that a flaw."

"Ok."

Thud. Lin Fan had landed on the ground.

Don't waste time.

Niu Dadan drove the carriage, pulling on a ring to one side while Lin Fan pulled it with his bare hands.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Fan took out a pitted and uneven pill and swallowed it.

Nineteen pills remain.

With the rope taut, everything was ready.

Chen Ergou started banging on the huge door again.

Clap clap, clap clap clap, clap clap clap clap.

The giant gate hesitated for a moment, then began to loosen.

Niu Dadan waved his whip to drive the two fine horses.

Lin Fan held onto a rope as thick as his forearm, his feet sinking deep into the mud.

Click, click.

The door moved.

Lin Fan stumbled backward, one step at a time, while the carriage struggled to move forward.

The giant gate finally opened a crack, and sunlight shone in from the other side, casting a long, bright beam.

Whoosh.

The black knife flew out from behind Lin Fan.

The black sword and the black gold folding fan spiraled through the air and hurtled towards the crevice.

Lin Fan was taken aback and immediately gave up pulling the rope to chase after Ze Zhishan, who was already flying close to the ground on the folding fan.

"Junior sister, no, Zezhishan! What are you doing!"

Lin Fan ran very fast, but the folding fan flew even faster, covering more than ten meters in an instant.

Just as Lin Fan's hand was about to grasp the hilt of the black knife, a fan and a knife passed through the crack in the door one after the other.

Lin Fan ran to the door, but the door wasn't open wide enough for him to stick out one hand.

Regardless of whether it would work or not, Lin Fan gripped the open gap and began to pull the giant door to both sides.

The door opened a little faster than before, but this time the opening lasted for a shorter period of time.

Realizing it had been tricked, the giant gate quickly came to a stop; under the influence of inertia and tension, one could even see it struggling to slow down until it came to a complete halt.

The door stopped completely again, not an inch could be pulled.

Standing in front of the door, Lin Fan's eyebrows shot up. "What exactly is she trying to do!"

The door was finally opened just wide enough for a person to pass through.

"Brother Fan, should we let Er Gou try again? We're still far from enough for the carriage to get there," Niu Dadan asked from behind.

"No, I don't think that will work. Let's just walk there."

The first to arrive was Niu Dadan, followed by Sun Ruolan, who was clearly pregnant.

Her slightly protruding belly really made everyone hold their breath.

Next up are Lin Fan and Chen Ergou.

"Brother Lin, should we go find your knife first?" Sun Ruolan asked, panting.

Lin Fan frowned in confusion. "Never mind, it's just a sharp weapon, it's not that important."

Lin Fan touched his scabbard, then removed it and put it in his pocket.

Chen Ergou's eyes lit up. "Brother Fan, I'll go find it for you, but let's make a deal: if I find it, the knife is mine. I'll have someone make a new knife for you using that fan!"

Lin Fan didn't hesitate, "Whatever you want. Once you find it, you can do whatever you want with it."

Niu Dadan and Sun Ruolan looked at Lin Fan strangely. Something was wrong, very strange. Wasn't Lin Fan so protective of that knife before? He never let it out of his sight, and just now he was chasing after it with his life on the line. But now he didn't care at all.

Sun Ruolan asked tentatively, "Brother Lin, is Miss Ziyue alright?"

Lin Fan looked at her with clear eyes, puzzled. "Who is Zi Yue?"

Sun Ruolan hesitated for a moment, her eyes darting around before she smiled and said, "No, it's nothing. Brother Lin, you've been too tired lately, you've been having hallucinations."

Lin Fan touched his head. "I do keep having strange dreams. Never mind them, let's hurry up and save Doctor Lei."

Although Sun Ruolan still can't get used to Lin Fan's unpredictable behavior, it doesn't affect her determination to repay him and Doctor Lei for their kindness to her and her husband.

So the three of them walked toward the spot left by Doctor Lei.

Chen Ergou observed for a while, then found a direction to look for the black knife. It's unclear how he determined where the knife would be.

Sun Ruolan's long, slender legs beneath her skirt had completely turned to wood, so despite being pregnant, her stamina far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Half a day later, in the evening, they achieved their goal.

Niu Dadan quickly helped his pregnant wife sit down and rest on a grassy area halfway up the mountain.

One of Duan Ye's men saw Lin Fan and excitedly ran over.

"Have you been guarding this place the whole time? And no one has come here?"

The knight, who had been guarding the place in fear and trembling, had run out of rations. When he finally saw someone coming, he was extremely excited. "Reporting to my lord, I have been guarding this place the whole time. I didn't even dare to sleep for too long. No one has come near. There were some wild beasts, but I chased them away."

Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought that since Mo Jushan had set up a magic weapon to prevent him from getting close to this place, he would definitely not let him get close to it.

The knight led Lin Fan to two giant rocks. These rocks were snow-white and somewhat rounded, with a dark ravine in the middle through which spring water flowed.

"This place is called 'Beauty Stone'," the knight explained.

Lin Fan looked up and frowned. "Where are the beauties?"

The knight was about to explain when Lin Fan waved his hand to stop him, "Let's not dwell on this, it's not important."

The knight nodded and continued, "Climb in through this crevice. That's how Doctor Lei climbed in. By the way, legend has it that this crevice is called the 'Path of Fate.' Once you go in, time will reverse, you'll be young again, turn into an infant, and eventually disappear completely."

Lin Fan looked at the knight in confusion. Logically speaking, this secret passage leading to Crab Mountain should be a hidden place, so why does it seem to be quite famous? If that's the case, why do people say they can't find it?

So he asked, "Brother, how do you know all this?"

“Oh,” the knight said casually, “because I’m a local, and my home is in the 18th village of Moju. The legend of this ‘Beauty Stone’ is quite famous, isn’t it?”

"If that's the case, why hasn't anyone discovered that you can enter Crab Mountain from this side?"

"I don't know about that. But as far as I know, all those who dared to go in and explore never came out again. That's why there are legends about people turning back into babies and disappearing completely."

Lin Fan nodded; it made sense. However, it also indicated that the cave was extremely dangerous. Doctor Lei's 'death lamp' was pointing this way, so the direction couldn't be wrong. He just didn't know if he had made it through safely.

"Let's go in and give it a try, no matter what." Lin Fan was about to jump in when he suddenly looked up. A faint emotion was coming from above him.

A black wooden arm suddenly emerged from the snow-white boulder and slammed down heavily towards the two of them.