After returning to China, all Gu Xiaobai could do was wait, and at the same time, he also had an unprecedented desire for strength, and the disparity in strength made him deeply realize that if he wanted to protect the people around him, he was far from enough now.

Back in the Hundred Birds Chaofeng Residence, Gu Xiaobai locked himself in the backyard, there were several workers in the front yard who were busy cleaning up the mess, this was arranged by Long Eryuan, and Gu Xiaobai's parents still lived in the old house, they knew that now was a critical moment in Gu Xiaobai's life, and they didn't want to cause trouble for their son.

On the third day after the three of them returned to China, they yawned and walked out of the living room, and after a few days of repairs, the Hundred Birds Chaofeng Residence was no longer as embarrassed as a few days ago, although the courtyard without the statue looked empty.

The first thing he did when he woke up every day was to go to the backyard to see Gu Xiaobai, in the past three days, he had been hiding in the backyard to cultivate his abilities, forgetting to sleep and eating, and he had not wasted a moment, she could even hear his cultivation voice all night.

Through the fence, every day saw Gu Xiaobai's body floating in mid-air, even Tian Tian and the Nine Tails were very envious of Gu Xiaobai's ability, although they couldn't achieve flight in the real sense, but just levitation was already very visually impactful.

After making sure that Gu Xiaobai was okay, he was just about to leave, but he heard Gu Xiaobai's hand ringing.

"Any news?"

“......”

"Oh, yes? Well, I know ......."

“......”

"Well, Uncle Long, is he okay?"

“......”

"Okay, it's okay, we must get Xiangyu back!"

Obviously, on the third day, Long Xiangyu still has no news, and the data has been being processed day and night in the CAO in the past few days, because it is almost impossible to make progress in a short period of time based on the clues provided by Gu Xiaobai alone, so the CAO formed a special operations group, and cooperated with the American paranormal community to investigate all possible options, but so far there has been no gratifying discovery.

Gu Xiaobai hung up the phone and continued to focus on the cultivation of abilities, he remembered what Sha Po had said, the easiest and most effective way to exercise abilities is to use abilities, just like human muscles, only continuous use will promote its growth. Gu Xiaobai could clearly feel his progress, because when he first learned to levitate his body, he could only hold on for a short time, but now he could maintain such a state for more than an hour, in order to make his cultivation more effective, he would choose to carry weights while levitating, which could effectively shorten the time he maintained, basically about ten minutes would deplete his ability.

In just three days, he had repeated it an unknown number of times, and he had turned a deaf ear to the painful feeling of depletion of his abilities, repeating it mechanically, the thirst for power driving him insane, completely unconcerned about whether his body could handle it.

At the end of another cycle, there was a pain all over his body, Gu Xiaobai collapsed to the ground because of the loss of strength, he looked at the clear blue sky, the sky was printed with Long Xiangyu's pretty face, and she was looking at herself with a smile.

Suddenly, Gu Xiaobai felt as if something in his body was broken, his eyes went dark, and he lost his hearing and vision.

When the bright light appeared again, what Gu Xiaobai saw was the familiar figure, and his grandfather Gu Xianhua was looking at him lovingly.

"Grandpa......"

"What's wrong, why are you crying?"

Gu Xiaobai stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, and when he looked down, his sleeves were really wet.

"Why am I crying?" Gu Xiaobai couldn't understand that he had suffered a lot on a desert island, and he hadn't cried a few times, but why did he cry now?

"Because you're still a child!" Gu Xianhua's palm, which was as rough as the bark of a tree, gently rested on his shoulder, "You are still a child, there are always things to be afraid of, there are people who are afraid of losing, and of course you will cry." ”

Gu Xiaobai waved his sleeves again and wiped away his tears.

"Grandpa, I saw you again, do you have a new move to teach me?"

Gu Xianhua shook his head, "No, this time it was your mental breakdown, in order to protect your consciousness, we can meet here, child, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Xiaobai shook his head for a while, and then he realized that after three consecutive days and three nights of ability cultivation, even if the rice did not enter, even the strongest body would not be able to stand it.

"No, I'm just ...... Overtrying. ”

Gu Xianhua sighed and said, "No matter what you encounter, I can feel your feelings, originally this is not something you can contact now, but I still decided to give you this opportunity." ”

"What a chance. ”

Gu Xianhua said: "Xiaobai, let me ask you, if you encounter an opponent who completely crushes you, and you have to defeat him, are you willing to accept the result gladly, or pay some price and fight?"

Gu Xiaobai almost didn't hesitate, "Of course it's a fight." ”

"So what I'm going to tell you now is...... A way to fight for it. ”

"Fight for it...... Solution?"

Gu Xianhua nodded, "Well, it's amazing, this is something I suddenly realized a long time ago, because the price is too great, so I haven't used it, but I know that you need it very much now." ”

Gu Xiaobai clenched his fists, and after a short struggle in his heart, he finally made up his mind that if he could, even if he used all his strength, he would bring Long Xiangyu back.

"I call it 'Dragon Shadow,' and it instantly boosts the ability to a terrifying level, but then the side effects are also huge, and although I don't know what the side effects are, I can vaguely feel that the side effects are related to the spirit. ”

"In short, it's better not to use it until it's life and death, right?"

Gu Xianhua nodded, this was exactly what he suggested to his grandson.

"Quick, you don't have much time to see me, we have to hurry. ”

In this way, although Gu Xiaobai was in a coma, his consciousness was still working, Gu Xianhua completely taught him the "Dragon Shadow" from beginning to end, Gu Xiaobai listened carefully, but at the same time, he was also afraid of this suicidal move, what he was afraid of was not its terrifying side effects, but the determination to live to die.

When Gu Xiaobai woke up again, he was already in his room, and the Nine-Tails was looking at him gently.

"You're awake, great!"

Gu Xiaobai only remembered that he fainted because of the extreme ability training, and he vaguely remembered that he saw his grandfather Gu Xianhua in a dream.

Yes, I learned the Dragon Shadow. Gu Xiaobai had an extra piece of information in his head, that is, about the dragon shadow, when he was born and died, he lived to die, this is the mantra of the dragon shadow, symbolizing the belief of abandoning everything and fighting to the death.

"What's going on over there with Long Eryuan, is there any news coming out?"

Nine-Tails shook his head, "Not yet." ”

Gu Xiaobai sighed, his two fists clenched together.

Suddenly, Nine-Tails grabbed Gu Xiaobai's slightly trembling fist with his jade hand.

"Don't worry, there should be results soon, you can't go on like this, your cultivation is too extreme and your body will collapse first. ”

Gu Xiaobai sighed, he knew that his cultivation in the last few days had been a bit excessive, and he secretly decided in his heart that before the news came out from Long Eryuan, he only needed to concentrate on cultivating Dragon Shadow.

Gu Xiaobai was in a coma for a whole day, plus the previous three days, it is now the fourth day that Long Eryuan began to investigate, and after coordinating with the United States, CAO has sent more than ten teams to the western United States to screen all possible places, in just four days, the location of the investigation has exceeded half of the total plan, and unfortunately, the target is not within this half.

Finally, on the sixth day, when Gu Xiaobai was concentrating on cultivating Dragon Shadow, Long Eryuan called, this was the first time that Long Eryuan took the initiative to call after the investigation began, Gu Xiaobai couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and his hands trembled slightly to connect.

"Xiaobai, I found it, my old man quietly placed a tracker on Xiangyu before, but because of the blocking of the signal, the detection range was very small, only about three kilometers, and we finally caught it. Long Eryuan's tone was very excited, he also received the news just now.

"Where?" Gu Xiaobai forcibly endured the excitement in his heart.

"The Yellowstone supervolcano in the United States, that signal came from inside, I already ......" The rest of the words Gu Xiaobai didn't intend to listen to at all, he quickly hung up the phone.

"Sister Xiangyu has found it?" Nine-Tails and Tiantian were standing a few steps behind them, and they could hear the conversation between the two clearly.

"Yes, get ready, let's go to the United States!"

In the dim space, there were clusters of things like pillars of light projected overhead, John had seen such a scene at the scene of the play, he stretched out his hand and touched the surroundings, there were hard stones everywhere, but fortunately these stones did not scratch him, it is strange to say, he slid all the way down the hollow, and actually landed firmly on the ground, and did not feel like falling from a height.

"Kevin, where are you?"

In the darkness, seeing nothing, John asked in a whisper at first, but when his voice rose louder and there was still no answer, he stood up cautiously and groped his way forward.

"Kevin, Kevin, where are you?"

He could clearly feel the flow of air around him, but he didn't feel the slightest bit angry, and what he longed for most was a flashlight, and although those pillars of light were also bright, they couldn't illuminate where he wanted to see.

Suddenly, John felt himself hit a soft object, and he took two steps back alertly, then slowly reached over to touch the other.

But before the hands could touch each other, countless flames suddenly rose in the dark space, and everything around them instantly lit up.

Now in front of him is a girl of her own age, she is glaring at her angrily, her face is gloomy, like a character in a ghost movie.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, don't look at me like that......"

The girl apparently did not understand what he was saying, and frowned and said nothing.

John looked around, this was obviously the space under the round pit, the area was very large, the size of two or three football fields, the clearance height was not low, and the nearest top stone wall was twenty or thirty meters high.

"Here it is...... Your home?"

The girl still didn't speak, and John thought she was mute.

Finally, the girl sighed and said a long list of words that he didn't understand.

"Are you...... Chinese?"

Suddenly, John's eyes went dark, and the girl was missing from his field of vision.