Heavenly Book in the Cave

Jiang Ming, seeing the Black Water Mysterious Snake feign death and escape into the sea, was truly infuriated. In the end, he was still somewhat arrogant, thinking he had the Black Water Mysterious Snake cornered. He hadn't anticipated that the Black Water Mysterious Snake's physical body was so tough, exceeding his expectations, leading to his failure to kill it with a single blow.

However, Jiang Ming's trip was to find the first volume of the Heavenly Book in the Blood Drop Cave. Although the Black Water Mysterious Snake's escape was a bit regrettable, Jiang Ming still had a great harvest. This Blood Drop Cave was not so easy to find. In the original story, Zhang Xiao Fan was swept away by the waves stirred up by the Black Water Mysterious Snake, crashing into a distant cliff, and during the subsequent slide down, he grabbed a tree, thus falling into the Blood Drop Cave.

Jiang Ming believed that snakes have a sense of territory and would not appear in other places for no reason. Therefore, Jiang Ming's current location must be similar to the situation in the original story. So, as long as he searched for the cliff and the big tree according to the trajectory of the waves stirred up by the Black Water Mysterious Snake, the success rate should be much higher than searching blindly. If he really couldn't find it, Jiang Ming would have no choice but to continuously activate his Heavenly Human Realm Primordial Spirit to scan the entire Ruthless Sea. However, this was a last resort, as continuously activating the Primordial Spirit over a large area was very draining on mental energy, and recovery afterward would be quite troublesome.

Following this line of thought, Jiang Ming began to search for the big tree at the cliff of the Ruthless Sea. After flying on his sword for a quarter of an hour, Jiang Ming finally found the big tree at the cliff. And near this tree, he finally discovered a cave entrance.

Jiang Ming looked at the cave entrance, thinking, Finally here. Seeing this, Jiang Ming didn't linger and immediately entered the cave. After entering, Jiang Ming found that this cave was a closed and humid place, with a ceiling about two people tall and a width of about three feet on both sides, making it very narrow. He walked along the passage inside the cave, all the way to the pool at the end. Looking at the seven half-palm-sized red stones embedded in the cave ceiling, with water droplets falling from time to time, he thought, This is the Blood Drop Cave gate.

Jiang Ming knew the plot, so he naturally knew how to open this gate. Jiang Ming looked at the reflection of the seven red stones in the pool, reached into the bottom with his right hand, and pressed the seven raised places in sequence. Suddenly, a harsh but heavy "kacha" sound rang out in the cave, and the stone gate of the water curtain thickness finally opened.

Jiang Ming walked into the cave, passed through a long passage, crossed two huge statues of demonic cult deities, and arrived at a cave entrance. He saw that on the stone tablet in front of the cave entrance, ten large characters were engraved: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs!" Each character on this tablet was almost half a person in size. Looking at it up close, it had the momentum of coming out to meet you and roaring towards the sky. Seeing this, Jiang Ming sighed in his heart, "As expected of someone who can unify the demonic cult."

Seeing this, Jiang Ming then used the Destruction Sword Intent to engrave on the other wall: "Jiang Ming, beloved disciple of Tian Buyi of Da Zhu Peak, Qing Yun, has visited here." Then, without looking back, he walked towards the Heavenly Book.

Jiang Ming turned around and around along the passage in this cave, and finally came to a medium-sized stone room. On the shelf on one side of the stone room, there were many iron weapons covered with rust, but they were all broken and dilapidated, after all, so many years had passed. The shelf on the other side was empty, but it was covered with labels. In the last grid, there was an iron box. When Jiang Ming saw this box, he understood that the thing in this box was the He Huan Bell, but there was poison in the box.

Jiang Ming naturally didn't need this He Huan Bell, but he wanted to prank someone, so he engraved four characters on this box: "Beware of poison." Then he walked forward contentedly. As for whether Bi Yao would come later, seeing the continuous words on this road, whether she would have the courage to open it, that was not something Jiang Ming could control. However, Jiang Ming still hoped that Bi Yao would not come here.

Jiang Ming walked into the stone room engraved with the Heavenly Book, and saw that the entire stone carving on the wall of this stone room was densely packed with words:

"Heavenly Book Volume One"

"The creation of heaven and earth refers to the time of chaos, when ignorance was undivided, the sun and moon contained their brilliance, and heaven and earth mixed their bodies. After the vast change, the clear and turbid were revealed.

Heavenly phenomena have no punishment, and the Dao praises no name. Therefore, saying there is no self, no person, no sentient being, no life span, is to reach enlightenment. Holding to one righteous path, embodying one's own nature, heaven and earth take the origin as their heart."

As Jiang Ming looked at the first volume of the Heavenly Book, the Taiji Xuanqing Dao in his body operated frantically, faintly showing signs of breaking into the Shangqing realm. Even Jiang Ming's other martial arts techniques had considerable insights. Jiang Ming had a premonition that as long as he collected all five volumes of the Heavenly Book, Jiang Ming's current martial arts techniques would have a great possibility of breaking through the upper limit, thereby deducing the next stage of the techniques.

Jiang Ming looked at the skeleton on the ground, with some words engraved behind it. Jiang Ming guessed that it must be something like "The golden bell rings crisply, the blood-devouring is a mistake." When he read the original story in his previous life, Jiang Ming sighed at Zhang Xiao Fan's fate. Fortunately, it was Zhang Xiao Fan's character. If it were someone more extreme, he would have destroyed Qing Yun to bury Bi Yao with him! After finally becoming a demon and changing his name to Gui Li, he didn't touch the people of Qing Yun. On the contrary, in the Western Great Swamp, he saved the people of Qing Yun several times. It can be seen that even after Zhang Xiao Fan became a demon, he never changed.

After obtaining the Heavenly Book, Jiang Ming thought that this trip was barely complete, except for the Black Water Mysterious Snake running away. Then, without lingering, he walked in the direction he came from.

Flying on his sword all the way, after a few hours, he finally left Kong Sang Mountain. As for why Jiang Ming didn't open the Blood Drop Cave's mechanism to go out directly, of course, it was because he was afraid that Zhang Xiao Fan and Bi Yao would really be trapped and die inside, becoming a pair of doomed lovers. The correction force of fate is very terrifying. Whoever can see through fate, even if they are not the strongest, is very difficult! It is said that first is fate, second is luck, and third is feng shui, which shows the terrible nature of the Dao of Fate.

After Jiang Ming left Kong Sang Mountain, he flew east on his sword all the way. If there was anything special in the Zhu Xian world, then the Full Moon Well in Small Pond Town must be on the list.

Jiang Ming went east all the way, out of the Kong Sang Mountain boundary, and flew for a full two days. Anyway, the Seven Peaks Tournament was still early. That bear child Zhang Xiao Fan was probably still chopping Black Bamboo on the back mountain of Da Zhu Peak. This chop lasted for three years, and it also took three years to practice the first level of the Taiji Xuanqing Dao, which can be described as earth-shattering.

On this day, Jiang Ming saw that the ground gradually showed signs of human habitation, and then landed on the ground. Looking into the distance of the ancient road, there was a town. Walking to the entrance of the town, there was a stone tablet with the inscription: Small Pond Town.