derstood. “Yingying, both our lives were saved by this divine sect’s senior.”

“Divine sect’s senior?” Yingying queried.

“Back then, ten elders from the divine sect attacked Huashan. They were all imprisoned in this cave without any way of escaping, and they all died with unsatisfied regret. All they left behind were ten sets of bones. This thigh bone, I don’t know which elder it belonged to. I accidentally picked that one up and Zuo Lengchan luckily cut a section off it. This bone has this phosphorus light that the two of us can use to see,” Linghu Chong explained.

Yingying let out a long sigh then bowed towards that bone and said, “So it’s our sect’s elder, sorry for the offence.”

Linghu Chong took a few more paper and lighted them up. Then he found two torches and lighted them up also. “I wonder what happened to Martial Uncle Mo?” Then he shouted, “Martial Uncle Mo, Martial Uncle Mo!” But there was still no sound. Linghu Chong felt in his heart that Martial Uncle Mo cared for him. So he was feeling sad that he had died in this cave today. He glanced around the ground looking at the corpses, but it was very difficult to search for Mr. Mo Da’s corpse. He thought, “We haven’t escaped from danger yet, we can’t linger around here. I’ll come back later to look for Martial Uncle Mo’s corpse then I’ll bury him properly.”

Linghu Chong turned around and pulled on Lin Pingzhi’s chest as he went towards the tunnel. Yingying knew he had promised Yue Lingshan to tend to Lin Pingzhi. So without saying anything, she picked up that yaoqin which had holes in a few places and followed behind him. They used the narrow tunnel that had been dug by those elders to go out step by step.

Linghu Chong lifted his sword up to be prepared. He was thinking Zuo Lengchan was very calculating and since the cave’s entrance had been sealed, then he surely would have dispatched people to guard the narrow tunnel. He had to be careful of the guard trying to stop him inside the cave. But after walking all the way through the tunnel, he still saw no one. Linghu Chong softly opened the stone covering up the entrance, and he felt the light dazzling his eyes. The ferocious fight inside the cave had gone on for so long that he didn’t feel how much time had actually passed, and the sky had actually turned bright. He saw there was no one outside the cave and he immediately pulled Lin Pingzhi out, and Yingying followed him out. There was a sword in Linghu Chong’s hand, enough light for him to see, he was at a spacious place, they had really gone out of danger. He sucked in a breath of fresh air and felt unspeakable comfort.

“When your master punished you before, was it at this cave?” Yingying asked.

“That’s right. What do you think?” Linghu Chong laughingly replied.

Yingying smiled. “I think you weren’t here meditating, but your…” She was thinking of saying ‘your little martial sister’, but why would she mention Yue Lingshan to make him sad? So she quickly stopped.

“Grand martial uncle Feng lives somewhere nearby. I wonder if he’s doing fine. I’ve always thought of this. He first said, he doesn’t want to meet anyone from Huashan School, but I’m no longer in Huashan School,” Linghu Chong said.

“Yes. Let’s go meet him,” Yingying said.

Linghu Chong sheathed his sword and let go of Lin Pingzhi. He pulled on Yingying’s hand and went out of the cave.