Chapter 43 The Right Passageway

When Zhu Mingyang recovered ninety percent of his internal strength. He opened his eyes, and Gu Yingjie was not there. He stood up and looked around quickly, but did not find Gu Yingjie. He was afraid that Wang Zedong would come back to catch Gu Yingjie, but only then did he realized that Mu Dishi has left the cave, and there is no reason for Wang Zedong to come back to take Gu Yingjie as his hostage.

The noise from the right side rang Zhu Mingyang's ears. He quickly ran towards the right passageway and he saw many martial artists fighting against Gu Yingjie. He rushed forward and kicked the hand of one of the martial artists and broken the other martial artists' hands.

Zhu Mingyang grabbed Gu Yingjie by the arm and dragged him behind Zhu Mingyang. He hurriedly hit the three people in front of him, knocking them directly to the wall. When Zhu Mingyang turned around, Gu Yingjie grabbed Zhu Mingyang's neck with both hands.

Zhu Mingyang grabbed Gu Yingjie's wrists. He said, "Yingjie." He pushed Gu Yingjie to the entrance of the cave with his internal force. Zhu Mingyang opened Gu Yingjie's hands and held his hands tightly. "Yingjie, it's me. Mingyang..."

Gu Yingjie shouted loudly, "Mingyang! I will avenge you."

Zhu Mingyang, "Yingjie…looked closely, it's me."

Gu Yingjie, "Xiaowen, go to hell." He roared and slammed Zhu Mingyang's left shoulder fiercely.

With a powerful blow from Gu Yingjie, Zhu Mingyang flew out of the cave and hit one of the larger statues. The powerful collision broke the stone statue in half, and Zhu Mingyang fell to the ground, spouting a mouthful of blood.

Gu Yingjie grabbed a small statue in his right hand and flew towards Zhu Mingyang. He threw the statuette at Zhu Mingyang.

Ma Jingguo rushed forward, kicked the statuette to the side of the cave, and began to attack Gu Yingjie.

Yan Zhanjin rushed to Zhu Mingyang, "Mingyang…" He helped Zhu Mingyang up. "Are you alright?"

Zhu Mingyang shouted, "Ma-xiong there is something wrong with Yingjie, don't hurt him."

Yan Zhanjin asked, "Did he hurt you?"

Zhu Mingyang, "He didn't mean it. There is something wrong." He rushed forward and grabbed Gu Yingjie's right arm, while Ma Jingguo held Gu Yingjie's left arm.

Yan Zhanjin and Miao Mingzhu walked to Gu Yingjie. Miao Mingzhu asked Yan Zhanjin, "Do you smell it?"

Yang Zhanjin asked Miao Mingzhu, "What do you smell?"

Miao Mingzhu snorted, "I smelled a faint poisonous gas from him."

Zhu Mingyang, "Help him."

Miao Mingzhu, "There is no antidote. This medicine is produced in Persia and used in brothels and prisons. With a single inhalation, you can unearth a person's darkest secret."

Zhu Mingyang, "Help him if you know how."

Miao Mingzhu, "I have told you that there is no antidote, and there is no harm to the body. When his stomach is digested, he will be back to normal." She smiled triumphantly. "At the same time, knock him unconscious if you don't want him to roam around like this."

Ma Jingguo raised his hand to hit Gu Yingjie, but Zhu Mingyang stopped him. Zhu Mingyang looked at Ma Jingguo angrily, "What are you doing?"

Ma Jingguo, "You heard her."

Yan Zhanjin said, "Ma-xiong, he will wake up with a sore neck. I have a better idea." He took out a small pill. He walked to Gu Yingjie. Gu Yingjie refused to opened his mouth. He clenched his teeth tightly.

Gu Yingjie looked at Yan Zhanjin and said, "Father, you have already ordered Mingyang to be killed, so you should kill me too."

Yang Zhanjin said, "Since you want to die so badly, open your mouth and follow Mingyang."

Gu Yingjie opened his mouth, Yan Zhanjin stuffed the pill into Gu Yingjie's mouth, and Gu Yingjie swallowed the pill. After a while, Gu Yingjie slowly closed his eyes and fell into Zhu Mingyang's arms.

Zhu Mingyang looked at Yan Zhanjin. Yan Zhanjin smiled and said, "It's just a sleeping pill, he will wake up in a few hours, don't worry."

Cao Yanmei said, "Let's rest here first, and consider the next step." She turned to Zhu Mingyang. "Where did my father and my ge go?"

Zhu Mingyang replied, "Left."

Cao Yanmei, "What do you mean?"

Zhu Mingyang explained, "There are three passageways to choose after entering the cave. Your father and your brother picked the one on the left. Yueguang sector and other martial artists followed them."

Ma Jingguo asked, "What about Mu Dishi?"

Zhu Mingyang said, "He has already left."

Yan Zhanjin asked, "How did Gu Gongzi become like this?"

Zhu Mingyang, "I don't know. I found him in the right passageway. He was already looking like this."

Miao Mingzhu, "There must be something in that right passageway that makes people act this way." She stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

Yan Zhanjin said, "What are you doing, Miao Xiaojie?"

Miao Mingzhu, "I want to know what made him like this. If I can fine this plant, I will harvest it." She continued to walk towards the front door.

Ma Jingguo stood up quickly and followed Miao Mingzhu.

Yan Zhanjin, "Ma-xiong, what are you doing?"

Ma Jingguo, "I'll be back soon."

When Ma Jingguo and Miao Mingzhu walked to the right passage in the cave. Miao Mingzhu looked at Ma Jingguo and said, "You want to follow me because you want that kind of poison, right?"

Ma Jinggou said, "I would rather own it than let you own it."

Miao Mingzhu, "Your determination impressed me. You want to put your hand on it because you want to feed it to Mu Dishi. You want to know what lies deeply inside Mu Dishi's heart. If that person is you." She smirked. "Or him."

Ma Jingguo said, "I suggest that we work together to achieve our common goals."

Miao Mingzhu, "If I refuse, what can you do?"

Ma Jingguo said, "If you were to refuse, I will used my title as your young master."

Miao Mingzhu smiled and said, "Don't value yourself too much."

Ma Jingguo smiled and said, "After you."

Miao Mingzhu smiled and she led the way.

When Ma Jingguo and Miao Mingzhu entered the cave, it was humid and hot. They were sweating profusely. Ma Jingguo touched the wall and quickly pulled away his right hand.

Ma Jingguo looked at Miao Mingzhu and said, "It's very hot."

Miao Mingzhu said, "We must be deep underground now."

Ma Jingguo, "With no water, we can't go further down."

Miao Mingzhu said, "There must be an exit somewhere ahead of us, hurry up."

Ma Jingguo and Miao Mingzhu left quickly, looking for an exit. They found a clear light. As they got closer and closer, they heard laughter and giggles.

Standing in front of the exit, Ma Jingguo and Miao Mingzhu saw many martial artists holding on to stones and laughed loudly. The open area in the cave is not too big, there are tall stalactites everywhere. Some martial artist were killed, while others were still picking up rocks and stuffing inside their robes. They noticed that there were five different clans inside. Each clan has collected a high pile of rocks by their side, and they are guarding it.

A martial artist said, "If you don't touch ours, we won't touch yours either."

The clan with more people began to attack the clan with fewer people. After a while, everyone in the cave began to kill each other.

Ma Jingguo saw a small pond. He looked at Miao Mingzhu and whispered, "You see there is water."

Miao Mingzhu said, "Don't touch the water. We should go now." She grabbed his hand.

One martial artist shouted, "The two of them are trying to steal our treasures."

Miao Mingzhu released Ma Jingguo's hand and threw four pink balls at the martial artists who were chasing behind them towards the entrance. Suddenly, the stalactite protruded from the wall, and the wall began to move inward. Ma Jingguo and Miao Mingzhu heard painful screams from the martial artists chasing them.

Ma Jingguo shouted, "Someone must have active a trap switch. Run."

Near the entrance of the cave, a strong wall began to slide down from the top of the cave. The solid wall reminded Ma Jingguo of the ten thousands pound stone door inside Mu Dishi's cave.

Ma Jingguo grabbed Miao Mingzhu's hands and threw her over the sliding stone wall. A crazy martial artist grabbed Ma Jingguo's shoulder, and Ma Jingguo grabbed his hand, twisted it around and hit him in the neck. When the stone wall sliding towards the ground, more mad martial artists joined the battle.

Miao Mingzhu shouted, "Hurry the wall is dropping down."

Four more mad martial artists rushed towards Ma Jingguo, and ten leaves flew directly to the four mad martial artists Ma Jingguo quickly broke free and rolled past the closed stone wall. Ma Jingguo was ten inches away from being crush by the dropping wall.

Ma Jingguo got up and looked at Gu Yingjie. He said, "Thank you."

Yan Zhanjin, "What did you guy see?"

Miao Mingzhu said, "A bunch of crazy martial artists who treat stones as gold." She looked at Gu Yingjie. "Did you drink anything?"

Gu Yingjie replied, "No." Gu Yingjie pointed to the front entrance. "I ate two wolfberries."

Yan Zhanjin said, "Generally, wolfberry is not poisonous."

Miao Mingzhu, "Generally not, but the wolfberry grown here may be deliberately poisoned." Miao Mingzhu looked at Gu Yingjie. "Which way did my da shixiong went."

Gu Yingjie, "Right. He followed Cao gongzi and leader Cao."

Suddenly, what was whirring across the wall was Cao Wenyan being pushed by a stalactite to the wall on the middle passageway. Gu Yingjie sent a leaf and cut off the tip of the stalactite. The sliding wall began to slowly crush Cao Wenyan toward the dull stalactite inch by inch.

Suddenly another wall slide up and Wang Biming sprint towards Cao Wenyan's back.

Cao Yanmei screamed, "Ge…"

Cao Wenyan can do nothing. If he let go of one of his hands, the wall would provocatively knock him into the stalactite.

As soon as Ma Jingguo saw Wan Biming, his anger rose. He quickly grabbed a handful of wolfberries and drew the knife from behind the belt. He jumped over Cao Wenyan's head, and went straight to Wang Biming, who was about to hit Cao Wenyan. Miao Mingzhu quickly followed Ma Jingguo.