On the morning of the second day after arriving in Wushi, Li Jingwei still got up at five o'clock early. This is a routine he has developed over the years.

Due to the time difference, at five o'clock in China Standard Time, Wushi was still shrouded in night.

Li Jingwei came to the garden behind the hotel, found a relatively empty lawn, warmed up first, and then started tai chi.

Since entering the realm of selflessness, he has a deeper understanding of the way of Taiji. In particular, after being inspired by Zhou Chenggang on the plane to Wushi, I have a new understanding of what 'selflessness' is.

Tai Chi cultivation not only pays attention to refining the body and practicing qi, but also pays more attention to cultivating the mind. If you are not in a state of mind, even if you are successful in practicing qi and refining your body, it is difficult to improve your realm. A discussion with Zhou Chenggang made Li Jingwei's mood qualitatively improved.

With Li Jingwei performing Taijiquan, one move and one style are more natural. Gradually, he seemed to disappear into the surrounding environment, and the qi around heaven and earth also merged with his breath.

According to Mengkai's previous statement, from Wushi, it will take nearly four hours to drive to reach the Tianshan Mountains, and then it will take more than several hours to walk the mountain road to reach the location of the Tianshan Cold Pool. So, it's important to leave early in the morning.

Li Jingwei practiced until about six o'clock, and then went back to the room to wash. Then I had a simple breakfast with Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai. Before seven o'clock, the three of them set off early.

What Li Jingwei and the others didn't know was that at around ten o'clock, an expedition team also set off from the hotel where they lived and headed in the direction of Tianshan Mountain. At noon and in the afternoon, two more expeditions left Wushi and drove to the Tianshan Mountains.

Although Li Jingwei and his entourage set off very early, when they arrived at the foot of the Tianshan Cold Pool, it was already nearly eleven o'clock. They parked their car at a camp of the guards troops, hastily settled their lunch, and went up the hill with their equipment on their backs.

Since there were not many members of the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance, it was impossible to send many guardians, and the daily protection mainly relied on the local armed forces.

To reach the Tianshan Cold Pool, you need to climb over the rather steep Longji Peak, and when the three of them came to the vicinity of the Tianshan Cold Pool, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Tianshan cold pond around the far away, layers of mountains and green, the scenery is beautiful. However, there is indeed no grass within three meters of the shore of Hantan. Before people get closer, they can feel a chill. Looking at the whole Hantan at this time, there was a dead silence, and the dark green pool water looked bottomless. The center of the cold pool is as dark as ink, like a bottomless pit, as if it wants to suck all the light into it.

Meng Kai instructed the two of them to set up their tents together on a flat ground a little far from the cold pool, and rested for a while.

"Jingwei, after you go down, if you feel uncomfortable, shake this carbon nanochain immediately, and Yuanpeng and I will pull you up. There are no electronic signals here, and there is no place for high-tech electronic equipment here. Meng Kai cautiously told Li Jingwei.

Because in order to deal with the emergency, two people must stay on shore. For example, in the event of an attack by an animal or a person, one person can escort and one person can carry out rescue. This is also the usual practice of the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance when encountering tasks, often in teams of two, and they can help each other.

In addition, this special compressed air cylinder can usually keep people underwater for about five hours. Depending on the repair, the time will be slightly longer or slightly shorter. However, you should not wait until the air runs out to return, and reserve some air on the way back. Meng Kai then said to Li Jingwei seriously.

"Okay, Uncle Meng. Li Jingwei put on a wetsuit and replied while stretching his body.

"In this cold pool, there are indeed some special fish and other creatures. However, as far as I know, no one has ever seen the Red Flame Snake, and I don't know what it looks like, whether it is aggressive, or not? So, if you encounter danger, you must pull the carbon nanochain immediately. ”

As Meng Kai spoke, he took out another dagger and said, "This dagger was found by your grandfather from the stone wall in the cold pool back then, and later handed it over to the Xuanyuan Dragon League. Because it has the word 'slashing dragon' on it, it is called 'slaying dragon dagger'. According to the appraisal of experts, it should have been refined during the Yuan Dynasty, but I don't know how it was left in the cold pool, and after hundreds of years, it has not been corroded, and it is still extremely sharp. The old man Zhang Longcheng specially asked me to lend it out and give it to you for self-defense underwater. ”

Li Jingwei took the dagger, and he felt that the weight of the dagger was very heavy, and there was a faint chill. He gestured a few times and said, "Uncle Meng, I don't know how to use a dagger, so don't bring it." With that, he handed the dagger back to Monquet.

Seeing this, Meng Kai said, "Take it, maybe you will need it underwater." ”

When Li Jingwei heard this, he no longer shirked. He first came to the Hantan to get used to it for a while, then used the buckle to fasten the carbon nano chain around his waist, held the dagger in one hand, and made an OK gesture to Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai with the other, and then jumped into the cold pool.

Suddenly, the bone-chilling cold air reported Li Jingwei from all directions. Li Jingwei did not rush to dive to a deep depth, but first observed the underwater situation. Luckily, the overhead lights are still working, and the water is transparent, so you can see about 3 meters underwater. This is consistent with what his grandfather said, and it also reassures Li Jingwei a lot.

Hantan is not big, the size of a football field, but how deep the deepest part is has not yet been discovered. Li Jingwei first swam around the cold pool at a depth of about two meters underwater and had some understanding of the basic situation.

Although I had heard a lot from my grandfather, Meng Kai and others before, Li Jingwei felt that it was still very necessary to familiarize myself with the preliminary situation.

In Li Jingwei's concept, I think the word 'fluke' is the most unacceptable. People may be lucky enough to do one or two things, but if you rely on luck to do things, you will definitely fail. Whatever is 'pre-planned' will not necessarily be 'established', but if it is not 'pre-planned', it will be 'abolished'.

Li Jingwei noticed that the cold pool is surrounded by stones and little soil, which may also be the reason for the high visibility of the pool. There are still creatures in the cold pool, such as the transparent small fish that I heard about before, if you don't look closely, it is indeed not easy to find. This fish swims extremely fast and fleetingly.

Li Jingwei chose to dive deep from the backlight, because he found that there were more transparent small fish in the backlight. If there is a red flame snake in the cold pool, it must be hunted, then diving down from a place with more fish, the chance of encountering the red flame snake will be higher.

After diving to a depth of about ten meters underwater, Li Jingwei obviously felt that the water temperature was lower. Li Jingwei tried to circle the pond at this depth, but still found nothing.

In the end, high-tech technology can still play some role. Li Jingwei can control the lengthening or shrinking of the carbon nanochain through the buckle tied to his waist. If it is an ordinary rope, Li Jingwei swims in the water for a week, and I am afraid that Meng Kai on the shore will also follow him around the cold pool for a week.

After continuing to dive 20 meters underwater, there was still no sign of a red flame snake, not even a large fish or shrimp.

Since it was late when he arrived here today, Li Jingwei originally planned to dive up to 20 meters. However, there was no real discovery in the water, which made him a little unwilling. So, he continued to dive to a depth of 30 meters.

A metal thermometer on the wrist shows that at this position, the water temperature has dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius. The cold pool water and water pressure have begun to make Li Jingwei begin to bear a greater impact psychologically and physically. However, seeing the temperature displayed on the thermometer, a question immediately appeared in Li Jingwei's heart: Why didn't the water freeze?

Usually, zero degrees Celsius is the freezing point and is also the temperature at which ice and water coexist. Even in Antarctica, the minimum temperature for non-freezing is only minus 1.7 degrees Celsius, which is due to the high amount of salt in the seawater. The temperature of the pool water at this location is minus 6 degrees Celsius, and its severe cold degree is self-evident, but why is it still not frozen?

Englishman Lewis once set a world record by swimming in Antarctic waters of -1.7 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes in swimming trunks alone. According to media reports, it took Lewis 4 months to regain his consciousness after such a physical challenge. It can be seen that swimming in cold water has a serious impact on the body.

After circling the pond for a week again, Li Jingwei still found no signs of the Red Flame Snake. However, Li Jingwei noticed that the time it takes him to circumnavigate the lake at 2, 10, 20 and 30 meters underwater is increasing.

Since he was swimming close to the wall, although the water pressure would slow him down, the time should not be so bad. Then there is only one explanation, this Tianshan Hantan is not cone-shaped, that is, the lower the space, the smaller it is, and it is likely to be a gourd-shaped, that is, the lower it is, the more concave it is, and the further down, the larger the space.

Li Jingwei turned off the light on his helmet and turned his head to the water, finding that the light on it had become hazy and a little soft. Suddenly, he noticed a strange phenomenon, without being disturbed, which almost transparent small fish swim along the S-shaped curve, reflected in the circular mouth of the pool, as if forming a constantly rotating Taiji diagram, and the place where the fish swim is the place away from the fire.

Li Jingwei slowly closed his eyes and quietly felt the magic of this moment. Suddenly, he felt as if there was a breath of qi flowing in his body, all over his limbs, endless, quiet and subtle, his coming and his future could not be traced.

Li Jingwei didn't realize that his body had slowly come to the center of the cold pool. The fish above swam faster and faster, and the entire cold pool seemed to have turned into a gossip array, running from the bottom of the cold pool. Originating from the two invisible qi of yin and yang at the bottom of the cold pool, slowly pouring into the body from Li Jingwei's legs, the yang energy is vast and vast like the condensation of a spring, and the yin energy is as deep as a smoke lake, which is interactively integrated in Li Jingwei's body, sometimes soft and accepting all things, sometimes muddy and swallowing the world.

In the end, everything fell into obscurity, and the small fish that used to swim disappeared.

At this moment, Li Jingwei entered a wonderful state. Although his eyes were closed, Li Jingwei seemed to clearly feel everything in the cold pool around him. The discomfort caused by the cold and water pressure also seemed to disappear, and he actually had a feeling of being clear and reborn.

Suddenly, Li Jingwei felt his waist tighten, and a force pulled him upward. When I looked up, the hazy and soft light above was gone, and it was pitch black all around. It should have been dark.

After waking up, I felt the bone-chilling cold of the pool water and the oppressive force of the water. Li Jingwei tried to mobilize the air flow in his body just now, but he didn't expect it to succeed. As the air currents run through the body, the discomfort of cold and water pressure immediately lessens slightly.

What Li Jingwei didn't know was that he had been in the water for nearly 6 hours.

Although Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai didn't feel him pull the carbon nanochain to warn, they were still relieved, because 6 hours was close to the air supply limit of the compressed air bottle that Li Jingwei was carrying. So, they couldn't rest assured, so they pulled the carbon nano chain, trying to pull Li Jingwei up.

Li Jingwei was afraid that they would be worried, so he shook the carbon nanochain, and decided to return first and come down tomorrow to look for it.

When Li Jingwei came ashore and saw that he was fine, Zhang Yuanpeng and the others were relieved. When Li Jingwei told the two of them what they saw in the water, they were also surprised. Especially when it was said that Li Jingwei could mobilize the airflow in his body to keep out the cold, Zhang Yuanpeng was also puzzled.

Zhang Yuanpeng thinks that Li Jingwei is running the qi of Tai Chi, but he can't say why he can resist the cold. Since Zhang Yuanpeng is also a Tai Chi practitioner, he can also mobilize the true qi in his body, and after listening to Li Jingwei's words, he wanted to go down and try it.

When Meng Kai saw that there was still a large amount of gas in the compressed air bottle that Li Jingwei was carrying, he was even more puzzled. Stay underwater for 6 hours, and under normal circumstances, the air should run out. However, Li Jingwei didn't seem to use it. Under questioning, Li Jingwei only said that he seemed to have a dream for a while, and the specific details were not clear at all.

Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai Li Jingwei couldn't say clearly, so they didn't ask anymore. Fortunately, Li Jingwei is safe, let's talk about the rest tomorrow.