Chapter 22 - Under the Cliff (2/2)

The Earth Dragon Worms were slothful creatures. They could rest for a scarily long time after a full meal. Possibly it might have been stuck here since its birth and could never have had a chance to get out of the entangled roots.

Ye Shang and the white bird were still falling down the cliff, and with the transcending height, their speed kept increasing at an abnormal pace.

Boom!

A dull thump erupted; that was the sound of the tentacle being stretched taut. Ye Shang and the white bird then sprang into the air from the pulling force of the tentacle, before plummeting once again.

The severely wounded Earth Dragon Worm’s tentacle had already been stretched violently once before, and it was no longer able to hold on as the two of them descended. Thus, Ye Shang and the white bird struggled free from the tentacle, and continued their free fall.

Crack!

Ye Shang felt that his bones had been shattered since seething chills of pain were running down his entire body.

He looked up at the sky, on the cliff, the two red tentacles were still shaking.

Ye Shang knew that he didn’t die because the tentacles were long enough.

Shaking his body, he found that he broke his right arm with some minor bruises all over his body.

The white bird stood beside him and was in an exceptionally better state than him. When the  Earth Dragon Worm loosened it, it intellectually flapped its wings thereby reducing the impulse from its harsh landing.

Sitting up, Ye Shang tried to find the medicinal herbs in his pocket.

After touching the bottles, Ye Shang found that his Bigu Pills and Core Elixir were still fine. Even though the bottle of the Vein Pills were broken, the medicine was still intact.

After taking a Vein Pill, he fed the white bird some herbs to help in waning the healing time of its injured wings.

Ye Shang looked around the surrounding environment and found that he was now on a platform which was two or three meters wide.

Ye Shang stretched out and looked down at the platform, but he couldn’t see the bottom since it was quite misty.

Turning around, Ye Shang looked towards the other direction of the platform and found an unusual place.

There were traces of humans left on the cliff.

Looking closely, Ye Shang found a stone gate under the cover of the vines, which should be called a hole, and there were clear handwritten characters on both sides of the stone gate.

On the left side was ‘Awake’, and on the right side was ‘Enlightenment’.

Looking at the hole covered by the vines, Ye Shang went in with the black iron spear.

Usually, Ye Shang wouldn’t do it recklessly, however, he had no choice since it was too dangerous out there.

The platform was small. If any monster rushed out from the hole, he would be forced to jump off the platform, thus he’d better fight inside the hole.

Originally, Ye Shang thought that the cave was dark and damp and was filled with snakes and bugs, but he found out that it was a clear passage, except for a little moss at the entrance.

The cave was very clean and jewels with a half-inch of diameter inlaid on its ceiling.

Turning his head toward the stone wall, he saw some knife marks.

Looking closely, he found a knife mark at a distance of two or three feet.  Thus it could be said that these walls were created after a long toil of cleaving the stone for at least five or six times.

Holding the black iron spear, Ye Shang tapped against the wall. With the crisp sounds created by the stone, he could tell how hard the stone wall was, as there wasn’t any stone powder dropping and no marks were left on the wall.