“I feel we might higher make a rope for me to go down into the cave to research,” Cheng Ying broke the silence. “Maybe … maybe … Sister-in-law slipped …”

Huang Rong sighed. “Very properly, let’s discover out.”

They instantly unsheathed their weapons and gathered tree bark, which was then braided into an extended rope. They labored exhausting and round daybreak, greater than 100 zhangs [a zhang is approximately 10 feet or 3 meters] of rope was prepared. A number of of the kids instantly supplied to go down first. “Let me go first,” mentioned Yang Guo.

All people checked out Huang Rong for approval. Mrs. Guo thought exhausting. She was certain that if she mentioned ‘no’, Yang Guo would insist on going anyway; but when she mentioned ‘sure’ and – God forbid – Xiao Longnü had been discovered inside, Yang Guo will surely not be prepared to come back again up. Whereas she hesitated, Cheng Ying as soon as once more supplied an answer, “Brother Yang, let me go. Do not you belief me?”

Aside from his spouse, Cheng Ying was the one individual Yang Guo liked and revered. In addition to, he felt weak from extreme grief anyway, so he simply nodded his settlement.

Wu Santong and his sons, together with Yelu Qi slowly lowered Miss Cheng into the opening. The cave entrance was situated on or close to the hilltop, so we will safely conclude that the depth of the cave is roughly the identical as the peak of the hill itself. Due to this fact, after they had nearly run out of rope, Cheng Ying lastly reached the underside.

All people stood across the gap with out making any sound; intently trying on the gap, ready for some phrase from Cheng Ying. It was a suspenseful second, because it appeared like Cheng Ying stayed within the cave for a very long time.

Huang Rong and Zhu Ziliu exchanged a look; they each had an identical thought, “If Xiao Longnü is absolutely useless inside, Yang Guo would absolutely leap into the opening. We should not let him accomplish that.”

Yang Guo caught sight of their trade, he thought, “If I actually wish to die, I can do this quietly, no have to contain all of you; in contrast to that silly couple earlier.”

Out of the blue the rope in Wu Santong’s fingers moved. “Fast! Pull!” Guo Fu and the Wu Brothers shouted nearly concurrently. Rapidly they helped pulling the rope. Even earlier than she reached the highest, Cheng Ying had shouted at prime or her lungs, “Not right here! Sister-in-law shouldn’t be right here!”

All people was so relieved that they sighed nearly concurrently. Just a little later Cheng Ying reached the highest and instantly mentioned, “I’ve appeared each the place, each nook of the cave. Nothing was there besides Gongsun Zhi and Qiu Qianchi’s our bodies.”

Zhu Ziliu spoke in a low and considerably muffled voice: “Now we have appeared in every single place, so I feel Miss Lengthy has already left the valley.”

Out of the blue, Lu Wushuang mentioned, “There may be one other place the place we now have not gone to look. Maybe she is attempting to fish that Passionless Capsule out…”

Yang Guo’s coronary heart skipped a beat. Earlier than Lu Wushuang might end talking, he dashed in the direction of the Damaged Coronary heart Cliff. As he ran, he shouted: “Lengthy’er, Lengthy’er!” When he obtained to the sting of the cliff, he appeared into the deep ravine under. All he noticed was an unlimited sheet of grayish mist, how might anybody be seen in there?

He thought, “Lengthy’er’s ideas are easy and pure. If she had any issues, she would have definitely not stored them from me.” Then, he recalled the phrases that Xiao Longnü had uttered earlier, “She had requested me solely to recollect eternally the vow that she had requested of me. I might naturally by no means go in opposition to her needs, so why was there even a necessity to talk of it? However she didn’t even ask something of me within the first place.”

Lifting his head, he mentioned in a mushy voice: “Lengthy’er, Lengthy’er, the place precisely have you ever gone? What are the phrases that you really want me to obey?” Wanting throughout the ravine on the Damaged Coronary heart Cliff, he might nearly think about the vague determine of a lady in white with a pink flower within the hair by certainly one of her temples. The girl appeared to maneuver swiftly as she engaged Gongsun Zhi in an intense battle with the pair of swords in her fingers.

“Lengthy’er!” known as Yang Guo. Then, pulling himself collectively, he realized that Xiao Longnü was not there. All he noticed had been floating sheets of whitish mist … however that pink flower was certainly on the backside of the other cliff.

Struck by the oddity of the invention, he thought, “When Lengthy’er fought Gongsun Zhi in that place yesterday, the flower was definitely not there. The entire space is nothing however rock that doesn’t encourage even the expansion of grass or bushes; how can there be any flowers? If I say that the wind blew the flower there; that will be an excessive amount of of a coincidence.”

Exerting his inner vitality he leaped towards the cliff and crossed the stone bridge. His chest tightened! That flower was the one he slipped into his spouse’s hair just some hours in the past. He was certain of it, since one facet of the flower was a bit flattened.

Yang Guo bent down and picked the flower up. Beneath it he discovered a paper bundle, which he rapidly opened. Inside he discovered just a few strands of purple grass, the “Severed Gut Grass”. His coronary heart was beating quick. He appeared on the paper, however he discovered nothing, not even a single stroke of a personality was to be seen.

Out of the blue he heard Lu Wushuang shout, “Brother Yang, what are you doing?”

He turned his head and his gaze was caught by two traces of characters carved by a sword on the cliff’s wall. It learn, “Sixteen years from now we are going to meet right here. The love between husband and spouse is profoundly nice. Don’t break your promise.” Beneath was carved in smaller characters, “Xiao Longnü addresses my husband Yang-Lang. Please treasure this and I encourage that you simply fulfill this reunion.”

Yang Guo stared at these characters like he was dropping his thoughts. His head felt dizzy. He actually couldn’t decipher what it meant. Unanswerable questions stored floating round in his thoughts. “She needs me to satisfy her right here in sixteen years; then the place did she go? She is closely poisoned, she won’t survive one other ten days and even half a 12 months; how can she wait sixteen years? She is aware of I threw the Passionless Capsule away, why did she ask me to attend sixteen years?” The extra he thought, the extra his thoughts was confused; he staggered just a few instances and nearly fell down.

The others stood on the other facet of the cliff and noticed his dazed and confused situation; they had been afraid he would possibly make a mistaken step and fall down into the bottomless abyss under. However the stone bridge was so slender that just one individual might stand on it. Yang Guo’s martial arts had been so profound that if somebody went to him and he acted up they will surely die collectively. Huang Rong frowned and turning to Cheng Ying she mentioned, “Shimei [Younger Martial Sister], go speak to him. I feel he’ll hearken to you.”

“Very properly, I’ll go to him,” she responded, leaping onto the rock, and strolling slowly towards Yang Guo.

Listening to footsteps coming close to Yang Guo snapped, “Go away!” He turned his head with fireplace in his eyes.

“Yang Da Ge, it is me,” the younger miss mentioned softly. “I simply wish to make it easier to discover Yang Da Sao, nothing else.”

Yang Guo stared exhausting at her unhappy face. Slowly his countenance softened.

“Is that this pink flower left by Sister-in-law?” requested Cheng Ying, approaching him.

“Sure,” he mentioned, “She needs me to attend sixteen years…Why sixteen years?”

Cheng Ying learn the message. She was perplexed. “Madame Guo may be very clever, nothing can get previous her,” she mentioned, “Why do not we ask her what she thinks. I’m certain she will resolve this puzzle.”