Chapter 124 The Stone Door That Cannot Be Opened
Opportunities are for those who are capable.
If you can't keep them, it's not an opportunity, but a fatal disaster.
Hu Mule was unwilling to give up. If he could get that opportunity completely, he would have a chance to break through to the Refining Skin Realm, not to mention the Refining Tendons and Bone Realm.
But Chu Liang showed up halfway and intercepted his opportunity directly.
Perhaps it was a cycle of cause and effect. He, Hu Mule, had been a mountain bandit for so many years, intercepted countless people, and finally became the one who was intercepted.
"If I tell you, can you spare my life?" Hu Mule was hopeful. Life is the most important thing. As long as life is still there, everything is hopeful.
"Yes." Chu Liang nodded.
"You have to swear!"
"Okay."
Chu Liang made a simple oath according to his request.
Hu Mule was relieved and began to tell the origin of this opportunity.
At the beginning, he was a guard of a herbal medicine shop in the city. His life was relatively stable. If nothing unexpected happened, he would spend his life like this.
Until that day, a mountain villager who was collecting herbs suddenly found the herbal medicine shop and said that he found a stone door in the mountains. The stone door was very heavy and could not be pushed open no matter how hard he tried.
Hearing this news, everyone in the herbal medicine shop immediately became interested.
This mountain villager must have encountered an adventure!
They went there one after another, and according to the guidance of the mountain villager, they found the stone door in a very hidden valley.
There was a token-like depression on the stone door, which obviously required some kind of token to open it.
The others tried one after another, but they could not shake it.
Finally, Hu Mule stepped forward to try.
"I failed too, but I found a corner of yellow paper in the gap of the stone door. I pulled it out with all my strength, and it was this volume of blood burning technique." Hu Mule said.
At that time, Hu Mule had the strength of only three strands of blood, but after he practiced the blood burning technique, he could actually match the warriors of four strands of blood.
The blood burning technique can actually help warriors fight across levels!
This discovery surprised everyone in the herbal medicine shop.
Just a scroll of secret arts found at the door has such power, what kind of treasure will be behind the door?
In excitement, everyone made an agreement and signed a secret agreement, promising not to tell anyone about this matter, and to find a way to open the stone door and share the treasure in the future.
As for the mountain man...
Everyone killed him and threw him deep in the forest, leaving the wild beasts to gnaw his corpse.
"He gave you an opportunity, but you killed him?" Chu Liang said.
"Yes, although he doesn't know anything, only the dead can keep secrets, so..."
Speaking of this, there was no regret on Hu Mule's face.
The road of martial arts is difficult and dangerous, and the resources of the bottom martial artists are all fought and scrambled for. If you are kind-hearted, it is difficult to go far on this road.
Once the mountain man died, only the people in the herbal medicine shop knew the secret.
But there are still too many people who know it.
A few days later, driven by greed, Hu Mule attacked and killed the four strongest blood masters in the herbal medicine shop, and then killed the rest of the members one by one.
"Even if I didn't kill them, they would kill me one day, so I took the initiative." Hu Mule talked about what happened back then.
Later, he became a wanted criminal in the city, escaped from the city, and became a mountain bandit.
Relying on the blood burning technique, he broke out many times, fought for several years, and slowly made his own reputation, becoming the "scarface" that everyone feared.
Every time he became stronger, he would try to open the stone door, but each time ended in failure.
After so many years, the stone door is still intact.
It seems that only by finding the token can it be opened.
"Where is the stone door?" Chu Liang asked him.
"It's here." Hu Mule replied.
"Oh?"
"Look over there, where the vines are hanging..."
Hu Mule stretched out his hand and pointed to a piece of dead vines on one side of the valley.
The vines hung down from the mountainside, twisting and winding one by one, hundreds and thousands, like burnt fingers, connected into one piece, covering a large area of the cliff.
Chu Liang walked over and used a knife to pick open a large piece of vines.
The cliffs behind were all black and blue, and there was no stone door at all.
Hu Mule explained: "After I killed those people, I came here specifically, carried a huge stone, blocked the door, and carefully cut it to make it blend with the surrounding cliffs. There are not many traces on the surface."
"I see."
Chu Liang's eyes moved slightly and he observed carefully.
Many bandits knew that Hu Mule had a secret. The two deputy village chiefs had tried to get the secret from him many times, but they never thought that the secret was hidden in the valley where they often rested.
Right under their noses!
After looking for a while, Chu Liang finally found an almost invisible gap.
"It's hidden. If you don't look carefully, you really can't see it."
Chu Liang took some effort to take out the huge stone.
A deep and quiet passage appeared in front of him. At the end of the passage was the stone door. The stone door was blue-gray in color, and there was a token-like depression on the surface, which was exactly the same as Hu Mule's description.
He let Hu Mule walk in front, carefully testing, without triggering any hidden weapons, and walked to the stone gate.
"You are so young, and you need to use poisonous smoke to deal with me. I think you haven't broken through the skin refining realm." Hu Mule said, "At most five strands of blood, equivalent to me, can't push this stone gate."
"Really?"
Chu Liang carefully studied the stone gate, and after a while, he asked the two little mice to go up and try.
These two little mice are close to five strands of blood and qi, and their strength is not bad. Although they look small, they are very strong.
They rubbed their little paws and went into battle at the same time, using all their strength. They were squeaking, but the stone door did not move at all.
"Sure enough."
Chu Liang was not surprised. Even Hu Mule, who used the Burning Blood Technique, could not push it. The performance of the two little mice was normal.
You know, after Hu Mule used the Burning Blood Technique, his strength was almost as strong as that of the early stage of the Refining Skin Realm.
"Master, this door is too heavy!" Rat Da shook his little paws.
"After we evolve again and become a great demon, come and try again." Rat Er also said.
They are not far from the peak of their current realm. As long as they reach the peak, they can use the Evolution Treasure Book to break through smoothly, and they will not be stuck like other monsters.
Chu Liang nodded slightly: "Well, opportunities are for those who are destined to have them. Maybe it's not the right time now."
He has a good mentality. It is a good opportunity to get the secret technique of burning blood tonight.
You can't ask for too much.
After saying that, he suddenly turned around, drew his knife in an instant, and the blade flashed.
Crack!
Hu Mule's eyes widened, his face was pale, and a thin blood line appeared on his neck.
"You...you swore that you would not kill me!"
"Well, but I never believe in oaths."
Chu Liang looked indifferent and wiped the cold blade.
"You also said that only the dead can keep secrets."