MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Truth

The two of them messed around in the stone cave for half a day, but still couldn’t find the exit. Shen Yucheng simply sat cross-legged on the ground, staring blankly at the bottomless dark cave.

He glanced sideways at Mo Yifeng, who was standing by the wall, not saying a word, his expression not looking too good either.

Shen Yucheng sighed, and weakly asked, “How many days has it been?”

His voice echoed back and forth in the stone cave, making the place seem even emptier. He waited for a while, thinking that the other person was too lazy to pay attention to him, but Mo Yifeng slowly opened his mouth, “Exactly seven days.”

Seven days.

Shen Yucheng raised his head, going over the events of the past few days in his mind. They stumbled into this secret cave and discovered Liu Mingzhen’s secret of being in seclusion in the medical clinic. They originally wanted to quickly return to the surface, but after searching back and forth for a long time, the exit was nowhere to be found.

They had also tried to force their way out, but Liu Mingzhen had treated this place as a hiding place, and the arrays inside and outside the cave suppressed spiritual power. Any attack that hit the stone wall would have its power directly halved, so it was useless.

Then, they began to dig three feet into the ground to find mechanisms, staying up for seven days and seven nights, but it was still all for naught.

Shen Yucheng retracted his gaze, but discovered something – Mo Yifeng’s expression had been wrong since yesterday, and he was saying even fewer words. Although this guy usually didn’t talk much, this kind of deathly silence was really spine-chilling.

…

Once I get out, I must stay far away from this guy. This person’s aura is too strong. Being with him feels like being pressed down by something, making it hard to breathe.

Thinking like this, a faint question came from the side: “Are you hungry? Are you feeling unwell?”

Shen Yucheng was stunned for a moment, not expecting this kid to have a caring side. But to be honest, apart from being depressed, he didn’t have any physical problems. “Not hungry, I’m fine, thanks for your concern.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn’t notice Mo Yifeng’s sharp eyes staring straight at him from between his hair.

Mo Yifeng’s tone was still calm: “That’s good. We’ve been trapped here for so long, a normal person should have died after three days without water. I thought you wouldn’t be able to hold on.”

Shen Yucheng felt a chill down his spine, and his shirt was soaked with cold sweat.

The other person continued to say to himself: “In that case, your body is really good, comparable to those cultivators who practice abstinence from grains. Don’t you think so?”

His tone wasn’t heavy, but as soon as the words came out, pressure came rushing over. Shen Yucheng felt a gaze shooting straight from his left, as if trying to dissect his entire being.

His back stiffened, as if he could already feel the pain of being slowly sliced to death.

— Crap, I’ve been tested.

He was indeed careless. Ordinary low-level cultivators cannot abstain from grains, and he is pretending to be a physically strong mortal, how could he still be alive and kicking after not eating or drinking for a week?

No explanation is right now.

He’s screwed either way.

Mo Yifeng stared at him without speaking, the gloom in his eyes deepened.

Shen Yucheng was still trying hard to think of a way out, when suddenly a force attacked him from the front, dragging his entire body to the ground, his back hitting the ground heavily. His true body is a Nascent Soul cultivator, so he didn’t feel any pain, but before he could react, he found Mo Yifeng directly pressing down on him.

“Hey! Get off!” He wanted to struggle, but his hands were firmly held down by the other person, unable to move. He could only kick his legs subconsciously.

He used to be the one pressing others on the ground to beat them up in the slums, he didn’t expect to be reversed one day?

If it was the old Mo Yifeng, he could still struggle, but the current Mo Yifeng…

— Damn it, why is he so strong?!

Shen Yucheng glared at him hatefully, and finally didn’t bother moving.

Mo Yifeng seemed to be waiting for him to stop resisting before slowly opening his mouth: “So, what is your cultivation level? Why can’t I detect it?”

Shen Yucheng turned his head away, not saying a word. His cultivation level is covered by special Puppet Dao techniques. Unless he actively removes it, outsiders cannot detect it at all.

This is a secret method he discovered after running around for ten years.

“This disciple’s cultivation level is low. If the lord personally investigates and still doesn’t believe it, this disciple can’t do anything about it.”

Mo Yifeng didn’t speak, and the two of them remained in a stalemate. Shen Yucheng was about to push him away, when Mo Yifeng suddenly leaned closer, their faces almost touching.

Shen Yucheng was so frightened that he breathed lightly, looking at Mo Yifeng’s handsome face so close, he was a little dazed for a moment.

Mo Yifeng stared at him, his tone unhurried: “There is another way, spiritual breath exchange, and we’ll know with one try.”

Shen Yucheng’s mind “buzzed” and he almost suspected he had heard wrong.

Shen Yucheng didn’t expect the other person to go this far to find out his cultivation level.

Spiritual breath exchange… that is something only Dao companions would do, to be able to see the other person’s spiritual breath clearly.

If it came to that, Shen Yucheng wasn’t sure if his Puppet Dao techniques could hide it.

Seeing Mo Yifeng getting closer and closer, he wanted to turn his head away, but the other person directly reached out and pinched his chin, forcing him to face himself. Shen Yucheng couldn’t struggle, his heart filled with despair, his eyes desperately scanning around, and finally stopping on the coffin on the ground —

Wait?

He suddenly discovered that on the wooden surface of the coffin bottom, there was a faint dark line.

Like some kind of mechanism!

…

Shen Yucheng was stunned for a moment, something came to his mind, and he had a flash of inspiration: “Wait a minute! I found the mechanism!”

Mo Yifeng’s movements paused slightly. Shen Yucheng took the opportunity to push him away, quickly got up, turned the coffin over, and groped for the black line.

Sure enough, the depression on the wooden surface was very slight, but it did exist.

He looked back at the place where he had just been lying. If he hadn’t seen it from this angle, he wouldn’t have been able to discover this detail at all.

Suddenly, his shoulder sank, Mo Yifeng grabbed him, his eyes full of suspicion.

— This guy is really hard to fool…

But Mo Yifeng still knew what was important and focused on the matter at hand first. He stared at the bottom of the coffin: “Try pressing it down.”

Shen Yucheng nodded and did as he was told —

However, the mechanism didn’t move at all.

???

He tried pulling, yanking, and knocking, but it was still useless.

Shen Yucheng frowned and began to doubt whether this was really a mechanism. Mo Yifeng suddenly reached out and touched it —

The next moment, the depression automatically popped open, and a few things fell out of it.

Shen Yucheng raised his head in surprise, not knowing whether Mo Yifeng had accidentally stumbled upon it, or whether he had other clues…

He picked up the things on the ground, a piece of paper, and a small cloth bag. He first opened the paper, the handwriting on the paper was scribbled.

[The pain of separation from loved ones is no greater than cutting out flesh from the heart. Although I cannot escape, I do not wish others to suffer this hardship with me.

If a fated person obtains this letter, it is woven by fate. This pill, the remaining of my life, I only wish it can save the last life of you or someone important to you. Liu prays that God bless you.]

Shen Yucheng was silent for a moment, opened the small cloth bag, took out a pill with two fingers, and gently rotated it. According to the letter, this should be a life-saving medicine.

It’s just a pity that Liu Mingzhen couldn’t save his relatives back then.

The two of them fell silent looking at these things. In the end, they were able to discover this mechanism only because Shen Yucheng happened to be lying on the ground and accidentally saw the secret compartment at the bottom of the coffin from a certain angle.

Why did Liu Mingzhen hide the medicine in this kind of place?

A possibility flashed through Shen Yucheng’s mind.

— Back then, Liu Mingzhen’s wife and children should have been placed in this coffin, and he stayed in this stone cave alone for several months, day after day accompanied by three cold corpses.

Liu Mingzhen researched medical skills here, frantically looking for a way to save his relatives. But when people are in despair, there will always be moments of collapse. And the place where Liu Mingzhen hid the medicine was exactly the easiest place to see when people were tired and lay down, turning their heads to look at the coffin.

— Perhaps Liu Mingzhen once lay on the ground like this, looking at the bottom of the coffin, and finally decided to hide the medicine here.

— Or perhaps, he felt that only those who were in true despair would, like him, lie in this place, gazing at the things they cherished most.

Shen Yucheng turned his head to look at Mo Yifeng, and then he understood why the mechanism only opened when he gently touched the bottom of the coffin just now.

— Liu Mingzhen may have reached out countless times like this, gently stroking the bottom of the coffin, as if trying to feel his wife’s temperature through this layer of cold wood.

To some extent, Liu Mingzhen’s state at that time was already abnormal.

But thinking of this, Shen Yucheng himself could think of these things, and his mentality was not very normal either.

Hopefully he was overthinking it, otherwise…

— Liu Mingzhen’s months in this stone cave were probably as torturous as living in hell.

Boom–!

Suddenly, the stone wall on the right side of the coffin shook violently, and a white light penetrated into the stone cave, dispelling all darkness.

The intense light made Shen Yucheng unable to adapt for a while, and his vision was blurred. In that instant, a phantom appeared in his vision —

A man in a black and cyan robe, holding his wife in one hand and pulling two children in the other, they were laughing and talking as they walked towards the exit of the stone cave.

The souls locked here for many years dissipated with the revelation of the truth.

“Aren’t you leaving?”

Mo Yifeng’s voice pulled Shen Yucheng back to reality. The other person was already standing at the entrance of the cave, blocking the light so that his expression could not be seen clearly.

Shen Yucheng walked forward, and the figures of the two merged into the light, and they left the stone cave together.

As soon as he stepped out of the cave, Shen Yucheng heard Mo Yifeng say in a low voice, “When we get back, we must do spiritual breath exchange.”

Shen Yucheng: “…”

This bastard still remembers this?

After leaving the stone cave, they found themselves in a small forest. Mo Yifeng scanned the surroundings and recognized the place: “It’s the backyard of the medical clinic.”

This time, they have found out the reason why the Liu family suddenly attacked the Li family. On the surface, the Liu family is looking for the prescription left by Liu Mingzhen, but from Liu Mingzhen’s experience that year, it is not difficult to guess…

— The Liu family head is probably experiencing the same pain as Liu Mingzhen back then.

Shen Yucheng remembered that the Liu family head had a son…

But in any case, their mission has been completed, and there is no need to stay here any longer.

“Let’s go back.” Mo Yifeng had already risen on his sword, looking like he was in a hurry to leave this place.

However, Shen Yucheng looked back at the medical clinic, was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly turned around and said, “Wait, before we leave, I want to give the Liu family a big gift.”

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Liu Family Main Hall —

“Get out!”

The man roared angrily, the ceramic teacups in the hall shattered on the ground, and the family servants kneeling below trembled all over with fright.

“You bunch of useless people! You searched the medical clinic before, but couldn’t find anything! Now my son is still lying inside, his life hanging by a thread. If you can’t cure him, you’ll be buried with him!”

The man flew into a rage, and only then did someone outside the door walk in quickly, holding a piece of paper in both hands: “Family head, this was found at the entrance to the young master’s room.”

The man snorted coldly, took it casually, and just opened it —

A shrill scream resounded from afar, echoing throughout the entire Liu family. The man’s expression changed drastically, he suddenly raised his head, pushed away the person in front of him, and rushed towards the source of the sound.

Along the way, he heard the voice repeatedly shouting: “Father… it hurts so much…”

The man rushed into the room, and saw the young man on the bed raising his hands helplessly, his body trembling. Finally, his hands fell weakly, his lips trembled slightly, and he could no longer make a sound.

Seeing this, the man staggered forward, tightly grabbed the young man’s hand, his voice trembling: “Son! Hold on! Father can’t lose you… Quick! Summon the doctor!”

He shouted hoarsely, but the huge Liu family was silent, no one responded. The man could only watch as the warmth in the young man’s hands dissipated bit by bit…

…

“…Family head — Lord! Wake up!”

The man woke up with a start, he was still sitting in the main hall, and the servant in front of him cautiously called out to him.

The man panted and looked down at the piece of paper in his hand, his heart shrank suddenly.

[The traitor buried by the family head in the Li family has been found and will be sent back tomorrow, you’re welcome. As a return gift, let the family head experience the feeling of being separated from his loved ones first. I hope you will like it.]

The man’s face was livid. At this time, an invisible golden thread slowly dissipated at the back of his neck…

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“Where did you go just now?” On the way back to Lingfeng Sect, Mo Yifeng turned his head and asked.

Shen Yucheng looked back at the Liu family through the golden thread, and smiled: “Before this family head dies, there will be no Liu-Li war for the time being.”