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38不料段誉心急误事，反而惊动了那二人。只听得男的大声喝道:“什么人?”段誉一见自己暴露了，便没命地奔跑起来。那二人在后面紧紧追赶。
38 Unexpectedly, Duan Yu was so anxious to get things wrong that he surprised the two men. Only the man shouted, “Who is it?” Duan Yu ran away as soon as he saw that he was exposed. The two men followed closely behind.
39段誉跑啊跑，也不知自己已跑到了悬崖边。一不小心，突然脚下踏了个空，他“啊哟”一声喊出，身子便直往深谷坠落下去。
39 Duan Yu ran and ran, but he didn’t know he had reached the edge of the cliff. When he was not careful, he suddenly stepped into the air. He shouted “oh” and fell straight into the deep valley.
40段誉在半空中双手乱挥，猛然间屁股撞到了什么东西，身子向上弹起。他赶紧伸出双臂，牢牢抱住了崖边一棵古松的粗枝。
Duan Yu waved his hands in the air, and suddenly hit something with his butt and bounced up. He quickly stretched out his arms and firmly grasped the thick branches of an ancient pine at the edge of the cliff.
41费了好大的劲，段誉才慢慢地靠近崖壁，再沿着裂开大缝的山崖，攀援而下，来到了谷底。
After a lot of effort, Duan Yu slowly approached the cliff, then climbed down along the cracked cliff and reached the bottom of the valley.
42等到天亮，段誉环顾四周，见四面都是悬崖峭壁，根本没有出路，一时心里犯了难。再想到钟姑娘的性命还要等他去救，更是焦急万分。
When it was dawn, Duan Yu looked around and saw that there was no way out. It was even more anxious to think that Miss Zhong had to wait for him to save her life.
43段誉掉入谷中的第四日，终于通过一块岩石底下的机关，找到了一个三尺来高入口的洞穴。段誉大喜之下，也没多想洞中有无危险，一弯腰便进了洞。
On the fourth day after Duan Yu fell into the valley, he finally found a cave three feet high through the mechanism under a rock. Duan Yu was overjoyed and didn’t think much about the danger in the cave. He bent down and entered the cave.
44洞里有些很细致的石桌石椅，显然先前有人住过。在洞中，段誉还见到一个白玉雕成的宫装美女玉像，她身披一件淡黄色绸衫，奇怪的是一对眼睛还闪闪发光，跟活人一样。
44洞里有些很细致的石桌石椅，显然先前有人住过。在洞中，段誉还见到一个白玉雕成的宫装美女玉像，她身披一件淡黄色绸衫，奇怪的是一对眼睛还闪闪发光，跟活人一样。
45段誉以为遇到了仙女，连忙双膝跪倒，拜了下去。等他头磕下去，就见玉像右脚鞋上绣的是“磕首千遍，供我驱策”八字，左脚鞋上绣的是“遵行我命，百死无悔”八字。段誉看罢，当真口中数着数向玉像磕起头来。
45 Duan Yu thought he had met the fairy, so he quickly knelt down and bowed down. When he kowtowed his head, he saw that the jade statue’s right shoe was embroidered with the words “kowtow the first thousand times for me to urge”, and the left shoe was embroidered with the words “obey my life, die without regret”. Duan Yu looked at it and seriously kowtowed to the jade statue.
46等段誉磕足一千个头，已累得腰酸腿痛，仰天一跤摔倒在地。正要爬起身，伸手却在供人跪拜的蒲团下面摸出了一个绸包。
After waiting for Duan Yu to kowtow a thousand heads, he was tired and sore, and fell to the ground. Just as he was about to get up, he reached for a silk bag under the futon for people to kneel down.
47段誉赶紧打开绸包一一细看。原来包里藏有“北冥神功”秘笈图像三十六幅，还有“凌波微步”的无数足印步伐图。并且告诚看图人这是逍遥派武功精要，必须每日卯、午、酉三时都依图修练一次。
47 Duan Yu quickly opened the silk bag and looked at it one by one. The original bag contains 36 images of the secret collection of “Northern Divine Skill”, as well as countless footprint and step diagrams of “Lingbo Microstep”. And tell the people who read the map that this is the essence of Xiaoyao Sect’s martial arts. They must practice according to the map every day at three o’clock.
