Chapter 68: The Great Cai Armory
No one could have imagined that the way to open the Great Cai Armory would be so loud!
As if they wanted everyone around to know!
Honest Monk Liaocheng didn’t say a word, he just ran towards the armory.
If the people from Three Mountains and Seven Academies had opened the armory secretly, how would the wandering martial artists know?
But the scene before them clearly showed that the way the Great Cai Armory was opened was beyond the control of Three Mountains and Seven Academies.
This meant there was an opportunity for the wandering martial artists to seize!
Shi Feizhe also realized this after a moment’s thought, and saw Liaocheng had already run out of sight.
Damn, the Honest Monk is truly honest!
So, he also hurried after him. He chased for fifteen minutes, reaching the foot of Eight Mountains and Twelve Caves, but still couldn’t see Liaocheng.
This baldy, he’s got some skills!
The Eight Mountains and Twelve Caves were originally sealed off by the people of Three Mountains and Seven Academies.
There were checkpoints on the mountain paths, and patrols in the mountains, strictly prohibiting anyone else from entering. It was clear they treated the Great Cai Armory as their private treasure.
Now, it was different!
The sudden burst of light from the Great Cai Armory had thrown them into chaos. They didn’t know whether to report to their sects or continue the blockade, or even enter directly.
Moreover, countless people were rushing from all directions in the dark mountains, charging towards their blockade, just to enter the Great Cai Armory!
These people far outnumbered them. How could they possibly stop them?
Therefore, Shi Feizhe easily broke through the blockade of Three Mountains and Seven Academies. Many people even flew over his head openly, and they were Zhoutian experts!
Then, a True Realm expert’s pressure was released from the mountain.
“This is the forbidden ground of Three Mountains and Seven Academies. All unauthorized personnel, leave immediately, lest this old man shows no mercy!”
A deep, aged, and authoritative voice came from the mountain.
The True Realm expert of Three Mountains and Seven Academies had arrived.
Shi Feizhe, now between the See the Truth and Qi Sea realm, no longer felt his heart pounding and his breath catching under the pressure of a True Realm expert like he did back then.
However, he felt as if he was underwater, with resistance in every movement.
This was the instinctive resistance of a martial artist’s body under the pressure of a True Realm expert.
“Old fart Si, others may fear you, but I don’t!” A voice rose from another direction, followed by another True Realm pressure.
“Star Plucker Jia Dakong! You’re here too!” Si Chen, the one called “Old fart Si,” said with a serious face.
“Haha! Treasures of heaven and earth belong to those who are virtuous! Why do you say the Great Cai Armory belongs to your Three Mountains and Seven Academies?”
As Jia Dakong spoke, several shining stars suddenly fell from the light-shrouded sky, smashing towards Si Chen.
“It doesn’t belong to you, you demon!” Si Chen raised his hand, and countless bamboo slips revolved around him, striking the falling stars.
Then, the two True Realm experts clashed head-on! The booming shockwaves were like a hurricane sweeping through the mountains, blowing the trees into a mess.
Shi Feizhe, enduring both the pressure and the shockwaves, crawled and rolled to the source of the light.
The source of the light was a peculiar place.
Looking down from the sky, the Eight Mountains and Twelve Caves appeared as eight mountain peaks clustered together. Five peaks surrounded three, like a flower bud.
Within the eight mountains were several caves, all containing books from the Great Cai Dynasty.
Some were martial arts manuals, others were miscellaneous books. Three Mountains and Seven Academies had previously started excavating caves from here.
The three peaks in the center held the most important martial arts books.
Now, the junction of these three peaks seemed to have split into three parts, revealing three mountain walls. The light from below illuminated the smooth, jade-like surfaces of the walls, making them look otherworldly.
There were three faint downward doors beneath the three mountain walls, seemingly the entrances.
Many people who had actually reached the doors beneath the three walls hesitated, seemingly unsure of something.
Why had the Great Cai Armory become like this?
What did the three doors represent?
What was behind the doors?
The light this time was so sudden, could there be a conspiracy?
Was someone tricking them into coming here, just to scout the way?
“Hehe, if you’re afraid, I’m not! Life and death are determined by fate, riches and honor are bestowed by heaven! I’m alone, I’ll die if I die!”
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A burly man, seeing so many people hesitating at the doors, laughed loudly and was the first to enter one.
As he entered, others followed him in a rush.
Some chose the nearest door, some chose the farthest, some used divination to choose, and some chanted Buddhist scriptures before entering.
The figure chanting scriptures seemed to be Liaocheng.
When Shi Feizhe arrived in front of the three stone walls, he discovered they were incredibly smooth, like mirrors. The soaring light was actually a faint glow emitted from the ground between the walls, reflected upwards by the walls!
Damn, the whole world feels different now!
To enter or not to enter? Shi Feizhe hesitated.
Could he come back out if he went in?
He had True Realm cultivation techniques, so the Great Cai Armory wasn’t that important to him.
But… he thought of the young man who begged him for martial arts.
Could the wish to spread martial arts throughout the land be stopped by a little danger?
With so many books in the Great Cai Armory, he could accumulate more martial arts knowledge and achieve his goal faster!
A hard-working wage slave won’t have bad luck!
After thinking it over, Shi Feizhe gritted his teeth and chose the door with the fewest people.
Entering the glowing door, Shi Feizhe saw a downward passage behind it.
The passage was very spacious, seemingly able to accommodate seven or eight people walking side by side. There were bronze lamps on both sides, designed for burning oil, but no one had lit them.
The downward stairs were very neatly built, with almost uniform height and width, as if measured with a ruler. This indicated that the construction standards of the entire armory were very strict.
Even in his past life, Shi Feizhe had seen idiots who couldn’t even build stairs properly.
After walking downwards for about fifteen minutes, roughly four or five hundred meters below the mountain, Shi Feizhe suddenly heard voices.
They were the martial artists who had entered earlier.
“Good technique! Good technique!”
“The Great Cai Armory is truly amazing!”
“Damn, why don’t I recognize these words!”
“Hiss… I don’t recognize them either!”
Following the voices, Shi Feizhe arrived at a hall with a glowing pearl embedded in the ceiling. The hall was surrounded by blue-white stone walls.
Although the light wasn’t bright, it was enough to see people and the walls.
More than ten martial artists were demonstrating techniques in front of a side wall.
Amazingly, whenever someone demonstrated a technique in front of the wall, the corresponding stone brick would slowly flip over, revealing the side engraved with the technique!
Looking around, Shi Feizhe saw that the wall in the hall was as large as one or two football fields, with a circumference of perhaps a thousand meters. （ The circumference of a football field is 346 meters. ）
Each technique brick was only a few meters wide, didn’t that mean there were hundreds of techniques?
Even more incredible, Shi Feizhe saw another entrance deeper in the hall, seemingly leading to another hall.
It was worthy of being the Great Cai Armory, probably containing thousands upon thousands of martial arts manuals.
The only problem was that the bricks would only flip when different techniques were demonstrated in front of the wall.
Techniques that had already been demonstrated would no longer trigger the bricks to flip.
The flipped bricks recorded the techniques collected and organized by the Great Cai Dynasty. As for whether they could be understood, that was another matter!
These chapters have been a bit rough. （ It’s almost time for the book to be officially released, I’ll be doing a ten-chapter burst update then, even if it costs me my liver! ）
