Xu Cheng took a deep breath and laid on the ground, sweating profusely.
After a while, he sat up straight on the ground, looked around, and then looked at the entrance of the cave.
Then, he looked at the footprints.
She was in a daze for a while.
He crawled back to the footprints, squatted down, and carefully looked at them. He tried to use his common sense and experience to try to see through the mysteries behind them.
In short, he knew that these footprints couldn't be randomly guessed. There must be a pattern to them.
But what kind of principle was it based on?
Xu Cheng expressed that he wanted to try again, so he used his own speed to quickly complete all nine steps from the first one.
The result was the same as always, he triggered the mechanism. However, he dodged quickly, and this time, he didn't use the turtle shell and easily dodged it.
Xu Cheng walked back and tried again.
Just now, he gambled on the first step.
He casually stepped on the next step, and the mechanism activated.
After dodging it, he tried the first step.
Again, it was a mechanism.
After five or six steps, he panted and said, "There are so many hidden weapons in this mechanism? Are they not finished? After so much time, won't the arrows go moldy? "
Although he was complaining, he still couldn't get hit by the arrows. After all, the arrowheads were poisoned, and these skeletons were probably masters. The arrows probably weren't fatal to them, but the poison!
Xu Cheng stepped on the first step and didn't trigger the mechanism.
He let out a sigh of relief. At least, it meant that these footprints were indeed mechanisms.
Xu Cheng continued to guess the second step, the remaining eight footprints. However, his second step was wrong, and the mechanism still triggered. Luckily, he dodged it.
So, he went back and guessed the second step.
Just like that, an entire day passed. At night, the white light outside the waterfall had already dimmed.
Xu Cheng squatted in the corner and ate bread. His two hands directly reached out of the cave to fill his mouth with water from the waterfall. Needless to say, in this kind of environment, it was quite a different feeling. After eating and drinking, he came back to start a fire and continued to study the mechanism.
He had already tested the seventh step, and the remaining two steps were actually very easy to guess. When he guessed the eighth step, he felt that he should be able to open the heavy stone door, but who knew that when he stepped on the last step, there was no movement.
Xu Cheng immediately ran over and pushed the stone door, but there was still no reaction.
He looked at the mechanism, then at the door.
"Holy sh * t, don't tell me these steps are repetitive?" Xu Cheng was speechless, feeling like he was about to collapse. They had spent an entire day here.
He looked at the waterfall outside. It was already night time. If he went out now, he probably wouldn't be able to stay in the village for the night.
If he just left like this, it was obviously not his style. Since he was already here, he would not be willing to go in and see what was going on.
In fact, he didn't even need to think about it to know that it was nothing but gold, silver, and jewelry. However, Xu Cheng felt that since his father asked Mr. Lin to tell him that he could come here to take a look when he had no other choice, then it meant that the Xu Family's genealogy must have recorded that this place didn't only contain gold, silver, and jewelry. There must be something that could help him.
However, Xu Cheng was also filled with curiosity.
"If he can help me, then he can definitely help my father back then. Why didn't he come here?" Xu Cheng thought.
If it was just because his father felt sorry for the family and deliberately didn't want to come, then it was also impossible. In a life and death situation, all taboos should be taken lightly. After all, the Xu Family was already at the point where it was the end of its bloodline, so why didn't he come?
If he knew this would happen, Xu Cheng would have asked his father this question. Or could it be that Xu Cheng and his father couldn't do anything about this mechanism?
Xu Cheng walked in front of the mechanism and quickly walked through the previous nine steps again. Then, he stopped. Just as he was about to study the 10th step, he suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment in his mind.
Right!
If he had slowly walked through these nine steps just now, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But just now, after he quickly walked through them, he felt a familiar feeling!
That's right, a familiar feeling.
Subconsciously, Xu Cheng repeated those 9 steps from the beginning again!
He seemed to have some idea of the next step, but he still had to try. So, on the foundation of this ninth step, he stepped onto the 10th step!
Then, no other mechanism was triggered!
Xu Cheng's mind suddenly shook, and he immediately stepped onto the next step!
The mechanism still didn't trigger!
His whole body was filled with excitement.
Got it!
He finally understood the principle behind this mechanism.
This footstep was designed around the Xu family's Mystifying Fist's' Mystifying Steps' chant!
This mechanism belonged to the Lost Footwork!
He finally understood why his father couldn't come in and open this place. It was because his father didn't learn the Lost Fist. At that time, the Lost Fist's chant was probably stolen by Zhang Chenfeng.
Also, the chant and techniques of the Lost Fist were very hard to understand, or else there would be no one in the entire Dragon Division who couldn't learn it. Back then, Zhang Chenfeng tried to find a successor to replace his legacy, but even Bei Shan and the others couldn't learn it, which showed how difficult it was. His father might have talent, but he clearly wasn't suited for the Lost Fist. Because he couldn't open this treasure vault?
After Xu Cheng backed out, he began practicing the steps of the Maze Fist. He repeated the steps of the Maze Fist, and when he stepped 27 times, the heavy stone door suddenly opened.
Xu Cheng was overjoyed. He immediately backed out of the mechanism, picked up his backpack, food, and fire, and ran into the stone door.
This time, there were some metal shelves inside.
On the shelves, there were all kinds of weapons.
Yes, the weapons used by the people of the past: knives, swords, halberds, wolf tooth hammers, bone whips, spears, and so on.
Xu Cheng bitterly smiled. "It can't be just these, right? That's right, in the era of cold weapons, these weapons were the lethal weapons of the time. There are at least tens of thousands of weapons here, enough to arm a mountain back then. "
To be honest, these weapons were all smelted from top-notch materials, and even if they were used now, they would still be worth a lot of money, not to mention they were antiques.
However, these were completely useless to Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng sat on a step and looked at the weapon shelves around him. He should've known that the things that the ancient people couldn't bear to part with were too worthless to modern people.
On those weapon shelves, there wasn't even a single internal martial arts book, which made Xu Cheng a bit disappointed.
Before Xu Cheng came in, he did some research on this mountain, and he guessed that this cave shouldn't be that shallow, and there should be deeper parts. So, he started looking around this floor to see if there were any mechanisms that could go deeper.
Xu Cheng searched for a long time, but he didn't find anything.
He saw that the weapons were neatly arranged, and out of curiosity, he went over to pull a weapon. In the end, he triggered a mechanism, and a short blade directly stabbed into Xu Cheng's calf, causing him to suddenly kneel down in pain.
Xu Cheng let out a sigh of relief, and his train of thought was very jumpy as he analyzed, "It seems like these weapons aren't that easy to get. Since they were afraid of people taking the weapons, then there must be some mechanisms that were made into weapons, or else they wouldn't use hidden weapons to cover up the mechanisms."
(End of Chapter)
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