After saying that, Xu Cheng left.
The village elder looked at his back from afar, and after thinking for a bit, he asked, "Do you have any difficulties? Or else you wouldn't have come here. "
Xu Cheng looked at the simple villagers at the foot of the mountain, and then he looked up and said, "It's nothing. If you guys need money, just let me know."
He would help as much as he could.
The village elder said to him, "Whether you want it or not, I still have to give you the Xu Family's things. Your dad's not very talented, and not everyone can learn Maze Fist, so he learned other kinds of calligraphy. But since the Xu Family was born into an escort family that has been around for thousands of years, they naturally have their own ways of doing martial arts. This way is Maze Fist, the quintessence of the Xu Family."
"Then I already know it," Xu Cheng said.
"Come with me," the village elder said, and then he walked away with the help of his cane.
Xu Cheng saw him walking towards the entrance of the village, so he could only follow.
Following the waterfall, Xu Cheng followed the village elder to the so-called "Xu Tomb"!
It turned out that it was just like what the kids said, this whole area was a graveyard!
Similar to ancient tombstones, there were no names, and there were some bones exposed. Xu Cheng conservatively estimated that there were at least a few thousand bones here.
"These are?" he curiously asked the bones at his feet.
"They're all from the previous generations who searched for the Xu Family Village. In fact, there's no Xu Family Village at all. What's here is just a treasure vault left behind by the Xu Family. Some of them wandered around here searching, and some of them would run into each other and kill each other. Look at those bones, most of them were left behind by the five major families back then.
"Didn't the five major families ransack the Xu Family already? Is there more? "Xu Cheng asked curiously.
"The Xu Family has been traveling the world through an escort agency for generations, how could they keep all their resources at home? Of course, there has to be a treasure vault. Every generation of the Xu Family traveled the world and saw all kinds of rare treasures, weapons, and antiques. Their treasure vault would definitely attract a lot of adventurers and clans to explore. After all, as a famous escort agency for the rich and powerful, how could they survive if they didn't have any power? In the past, the Xu family had been very powerful. How powerful was it? They have spies and sphere of influence in the Jianghu outside of the bureaucracy. It's really difficult to rob them. Otherwise, they wouldn't be an aristocratic family with a thousand years of history. "
Xu Cheng chuckled. "I didn't expect my family to have such a powerful background. It turns out that I'm also a man with a powerful background. Sigh, it seems like my life will be a lot more colorful in the future."
"At that time, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial family had become poor and had no money, they wouldn't have attacked the escort agency. Sigh, the Five Great Clans actually had the permission of the imperial court behind them. They used the excuse of colluding with foreign enemies against the escort agency and began to purge all of the escort agency's branches throughout the country. They practically uprooted the Xu Family and all the forces of the Xu Family. After the Xu family fell, this place became the target of everyone's search. They were all aiming for the treasures and martial arts books inside. "The village chief said," That's why this place became the Xu tomb, the place where the corpses of these people are buried. "
Xu Cheng frowned. "Then is the Xu Family's treasure here?"
The village chief smiled faintly. "If not, then why would I be guarding this place?"
Xu Cheng: "Grandpa, have you ever thought about getting this treasure and living a more comfortable life?"
The village chief sighed. "I'm actually a slave, a servant of the Xu Family. Grandpa saw that I was talented, so he raised me, taught me how to be a good person, and treated me like his own son. What he gave me was something that a slave can only dream of. He told me that every generation of the Xu Family would have a generation that's not going to be able to take over, and he was afraid of ruining what the Xu Family's ancestors had left behind. So, he told me to take care of the Xu Family. He didn't want the Xu Family's descendants to take care of the Xu Family.
Xu Cheng sighed in his heart. "Feudalism really kills."
There was indeed a huge gap between the feudal class in people's hearts. It was as if morality and faith were stuck there. Some people were born thinking that they were slaves and should have the fate of being slaves. They never had any thoughts of changing or questioning it. They felt that it was blasphemy against the gods.
"Grandpa, do you know what's inside?"
The village chief shook his head. "I don't even know how to get in."
"Then how can you be so sure that there's a treasure trove inside?" Xu Cheng was speechless. "Maybe you guys have been fooled for hundreds of years."
"That's not my problem. I just need to be responsible for handing it over to the descendants of the Xu Family. Your father was obsessed with your mother back then, and he didn't have the face to receive these benefits, so he never came. Since you are here today, I want to hand it over to you so that I can rest in peace."
As they talked, the two came to the end of the waterfall, a cliff.
Below them was the end of the waterfall, and the water poured down from the mountainside all the way to the bottom of the mountain. The waves roared and roared, shocking everyone who saw it.
"According to Grandpa, this waterfall didn't flow here in the past, so they dug a cave in the middle of the mountain and drained the water here. Then, they used the waterfall to cover the cave entrance on the cliff, and that is where the Xu Family's treasure trove is located. There's only one entrance, and it's very difficult for normal people to get in because the water is very strong. If you go down the waterfall, you will only drown in the whirlpool at the bottom. There's no way to stay on the cliff and drill into the waterfall."
Xu Cheng looked down at the waterfall that reached into the clouds. Without modern equipment and waterproofing, it was really hard to find the exact location of the cave entrance. It was obviously impossible to go up from below, but it was possible to go down from above with a steel wire rope. No wonder it was so difficult for people in the past to get in. Without any equipment, it was very difficult to get into the cave inside the waterfall. Also, the steel wire rope had to be sturdy, and if someone was accidentally washed down, there would be a huge whirlpool at the bottom. People who weren't good at swimming would drown there.
"Do I have to go back and find equipment?" Xu Cheng bitterly smiled.
The village elder was about to leave with his walking stick. "What's inside has nothing to do with me anymore. Whether you want it or not, it's all up to you. I'll be going first. Also, if you go out, I hope you don't tell anyone about this place. We can't keep up with the pace of the outside world anymore, and we just want to live like this without competing with the world. "
Xu Cheng couldn't help but bow to the old man. "Thank you."
Before the old man left, he said to him, "I see that you are injured. If you stay, you can rest here before going out. This place is very suitable for cultivation."
"Okay, then what should I call you?" Xu Cheng looked at the village elder and asked.
"I don't have a name, but I gave myself one, Xu Wuming." The village elder faintly smiled and then left.
(End of Chapter 1)
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