Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 1263 Hidden Passage in the Lake

Lin Feng didn't answer. He stood up, glanced around, and then turned around.

"I have other things to do. Please take care of Master's matter."

After saying that, he vanished from the house in a flash.

Master Lengquan opened his mouth to speak, but he didn't expect Lin Feng to walk so fast that he didn't even see how he left. He felt a blur before his eyes and the person was gone.

After a long while, Lengquan let out a long sigh.

"Alas, I am old and feeble. I shall go to the back mountain to cultivate in seclusion."

Lin Fengfei leaped down the mountain in less than a quarter of an hour. The journey from the foot of the mountain to the warship, a distance of several dozen miles in the night, took only a little over two quarters of an hour.

Qiao Jushan and Ye Liangcai remained obediently on the ship. Their strong sense of discipline ensured that no one wandered off while they waited, even though several days had passed.

The two were overjoyed to see Lin Feng return.

They knew that Lin Feng's trip to Yuquan Temple was extremely dangerous, but they also knew that they couldn't help him, so they could only stay there helplessly.

"Get me some food, I'm starving."

Seeing Lin Feng's disheveled appearance, one could tell he had been through a fierce battle.

Ye Liangcai quickly brought over the food and hot water.

Lin Feng wolfed down his food.

I don't know how many days have passed, but I'm completely empty inside and starving.

Although I can still manage, it's not as comfortable as having something to eat.

Having eaten and drunk their fill, Lin Feng was in high spirits. Ignoring everything else, he called out, and the three of them led their warhorses off the boat.

“Let’s go and visit Wan Quan’s manor. There’s always been a knot in my heart there.”

Without asking any questions, the two spurred their horses and followed Lin Feng toward the southern foot of Yufu Mountain.

Now that he was here, Lin Feng decided to take another look. The fact that Wan Quan had slit his throat in front of him was really strange to him.

By daybreak, the three men and their three riders had arrived at the manor gate.

The tall, sturdy manor fence, neglected for a long time, has sprouted many new buds, some of which have already grown branches and leaves.

Ye Liangcai went up and knocked on the door. The three of them waited for a long time before a soldier opened the small door.

The three entered the garden, and because the estate was very large, they rode warhorses and strolled around for a while.

Lin Feng saw that the pavilions and towers in the manor were all deserted, and it was such a pity that such exquisite buildings were abandoned.

However, given the existing system of the eight prefectures in Zhenxi, this place is truly unusable.

Cui Ying, the garrison commander of Jingnan Prefecture, only sent a team of ten soldiers to take turns on duty here.

These ten soldiers were merely there to guard the gate.

Because the estate is so large, the entire compound is estimated to cover an area of ​​two to three thousand acres, and there's simply no way to take care of everything else.

The three rode their horses around the vast manor. After half a day, they arrived at a lake in the backyard. The green water was clear and pristine, seemingly unpolluted.

Lin Feng looked down at his tattered clothes, his body covered in dust and grime.

"Get me some clothes, I'm going downstairs to take a shower."

After saying that, he tore off his tattered clothes, and naked, he leaped off his warhorse and plunged into the lake.

The cool lake water invigorated Lin Feng, making him feel extremely happy.

Ye Liangcai and his companion didn't need to search for clothes; they simply followed Pei Qiyin's instructions and brought extra clothes for Lin Feng when they set off.

The two stood by the lake, watching Lin Feng, who resembled a large white fish, darting and diving in the water with great agility.

The lake is very large, and there is a pavilion built in it, which is surrounded by large lotus leaves.

Lin Feng circled the pavilion and spotted some fat fish lurking under the lotus leaves. He decided to catch a couple so he could have a good meal today.

The water was clear and the underwater visibility was high. Lin Feng followed a large fish and disappeared into the lotus leaves.

The big fish vanished in an instant.

Lin Feng spread his consciousness and instantly locked onto the fish's location. He twisted his body and smoothly rushed towards the big fish.

The big fish was very alert, knowing that danger was approaching, and hid deep in the lotus leaves.

Lin Feng cheated by using his consciousness to locate the fish, and in a short time he arrived near the big fish.

Just as he reached out to grab the big fish, he suddenly stopped.

Lin Feng's consciousness encompassed a body of water beneath the lotus leaves, including the pavilion in the lake.

However, in Lin Feng's mind, he discovered that the pavilion was hollow underneath, seemingly a secret passage.

With his current energy, he can already see some blurry scenes inside through the thick barrier.

A thought seemed to flash through his mind, making some connections, yet they were somewhat vague.

Lin Feng gave up catching fish, emerged from the water, darted onto the pavilion in the lake, squatted down, and carefully observed the structure of the pavilion.

In the middle are stone tables and benches, all carefully carved from high-quality white marble with a very smooth surface.

On the stone table was carved a Tai Chi Bagua diagram, with two fat fish, one yin and one yang, intertwined with each other. The eyes of the two fish were inlaid with gemstones, gleaming brightly.

If it were an ordinary person, they wouldn't notice anything unusual on the surface.

But Lin Feng is no ordinary person; he can see through the surface and directly see the internal structure.

Sure enough, there was a mechanism inside the stone table. Below the two gem-encrusted fish eyes, there were two holes, one facing north and the other south.

Lin Feng used his hand to rotate the Tai Chi pattern in the middle, aligning the two fish eyes with the two holes below, and then pressed down hard.

The next moment, a creaking sound came from the stone table, which spun and moved to the side, revealing a large hole underneath.

Lin Feng nodded. This mechanism was ingeniously designed. If you didn't know about the holes below, even if you could turn the yin-yang fish, you wouldn't be able to trigger the mechanism at the entrance.

Even if you can rotate it, you can't press it down, or you can rotate it and press it down, but you can't align it with the hole below, so you still can't open the mechanism.

The entrance to the dark cave was bottomless, but it posed no challenge for Lin Feng.

Turning his head to look at Ye Liangcai and the other person on the lake shore, Lin Feng realized that they were too far away to call out to them, so he had to go down and check on them himself.

Without much effort, Lin Feng's consciousness scanned all the mechanisms inside the cave entrance. He jumped forward and fell straight down.

Lin Feng avoided any place that could trigger mechanisms, and when he landed on a set of steps, he walked down the steps.

It was pitch black all around, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Lin Feng scanned the area with his senses, completely ignoring the darkness.

The passageway, which is taller than a person, is built with stones on both sides and is paved with bluestone, making it very flat.

Lin Feng stretched out his arms, estimating the width of the passage to be more than half a zhang (approximately 1.3 meters).

The cave was cold and gloomy, but that didn't bother Lin Feng.

Keep going forward, the passage turns left and right, and there are also forks in the road.

With just a mental scan, one can know that at the end of the fork in the road, there is a large, cool, and dry room.

The room was filled with hundreds of large wooden boxes, each containing a silver ingot weighing about fifty taels.

Standing at the crossroads, Lin Feng sighed inwardly, "Damn, Wan Quan is even more greedy than Eunuch Zhu."

But thinking about it, it makes sense. At that time, Wan Quan was the Grand Tutor who held absolute power and was also the commander of the Imperial Guards. Outside of the court, he was the one who made all the decisions.

This silver is probably only a part of his wealth.

The ground is sloping, and it should be going downhill.

Lin Feng continued walking down the path, his mind filled with even greater amazement. Such a massive undertaking could not be completed in a year or six months.

Moreover, it requires the support of a huge amount of human, material and financial resources.