A moment later, Xia Haoran's figure appeared in Xiaobai's cave mansion.

Xia Haoran said to himself: "In a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed, and I don't know how the spiritual spring in the cave has recovered." ”

As he spoke, Xia Haoran took out the jade plate hidden in the storage ring.

After a few tricks, the stone cave instantly changed, Xia Haoran didn't pay too much attention to it, and pressed the mechanism on the stone wall inside, and then, the heavy stone door rumbled up.

Xia Haoran stepped into the portal.

In the cave, everything is still the same. The difference is that after more than eight months of precipitation and accumulation, the aura here has now become much richer.

Although it is not as dense and foggy as when he came in last year, the aura here is also quite impressive. According to Xia Haoran's estimation, if it is for Xiaobai's classmates to marry Dan, it is obviously insufficient, but it is enough for Li Mengyao to build a foundation. It seems that when the time comes, Xiaobai will have to think of another way.

Xia Haoran sighed for a while, then took out a few jade bottles from the storage ring and filled them with some spiritual spring water. Then he walked out of the cave, and the aura here had to be accumulated.

As the saying goes: good steel is used on the edge of a knife.

Although these spiritual qi in the cave are also very rich now, if Xia Haoran, who is already at the peak of the late stage of Jindan, is allowed to absorb and refine, even if they are all absorbed and absorbed, they will not gain much. Because of the path of cultivation, from low to high, the spiritual energy required has also accumulated from less to more, and what he needs in the later stage of Jindan is already a huge amount.

Therefore, even if he was allowed to absorb and refine all of this place, his improvement would not be so obvious. Rather than this, it is better to keep it for Li Mengyao to use to build a foundation in the future.

You must know that the richer the aura of heaven and earth, the higher the precision of the energy. A cultivator, if he absorbs the pure spiritual energy at the spiritual spring or spiritual vein to break through, it is naturally much stronger than the thin free spiritual energy absorbed in the natural world.

And these spiritual spring waters have no effect on Xia Haoran, who is already at the peak of the late stage of Jindan. However, for Li Mengyao, as well as his parents and relatives, as well as those big-headed soldiers who had just stepped into the path of cultivation, there were infinite benefits and wonderful uses. These spiritual springs, even if an ordinary person drinks them for a long time, will also have great benefits and improvements for their bodies.

Inside the cave.

Xia Haoran casually pinched a few spells, restarted the sealing formation, and then put away the jade plate. Immediately, with a wave of his hand, a set of tea sets, tea leaves, and thermos pots instantly appeared on the stone table. He sat crooked on the stone bench and leisurely brewed tea.

Li Zhao and the others in the small valley, it seems that it is impossible to evacuate today, in order to prevent more people from knowing their secrets and knowing the secrets of the secret realm, he decided to delay it for a day. Now that the target location has been determined, what else is he worried about? What's more, the last thing he lacks is time and patience.

Under the observation of Xia Haoran's divine sense, Li Zhao and the others rested all night, and finally left the small valley in the early morning of the next day. Of course, Han Jie's body was also taken away by them. As for the corpses of the twenty-seven mercenaries, they are still lying there naked, and no one pays attention to them.

An hour later, Xia Haoran appeared in front of the pile of corpses. I saw him play a magic trick, and a flame appeared out of thin air, and instantly fell on those corpses, and quickly burned these corpses to ashes.

Xia Haoran withdrew the flames, and then turned around and walked towards the small valley.

The dead are great!

Even the two corpses outside were cleaned up by Xia Haoran when they left yesterday. No matter what they did or how many bad things they did in their lifetime, now that people are dead, they can't leave their corpse wilderness alone, and they deserve the respect of the living.

This is a matter of human ethics.

As for Li Zhao and the others, since it was over, Xia Haoran forgot about it. Between them and him, they are destined to be just strangers who meet in Pingshui, and they just meet at the same time.

However, Xia Haoran deliberately took a second look, the overall quality of the five surviving people in the team is not bad, but it is only relative to ordinary people. If they are bold and blessed, perhaps, in the next few months, they will meet again one day.

Of course, that's all for later.

Standing in front of the cliff again, Xia Haoran held the animal skin map in his hand and quietly observed. At this moment, the secret realm marked "Under the Twin Peaks" on the animal skin map emitted a faint halo slightly, and it trembled spontaneously slightly.

Xia Haoran shifted his gaze from the beast skin map to the cliff in front of him, and his divine sense had sensed the existence of a formation ban here before. However, it was precisely because of this formation that his divine sense could not see the scene behind him through the formation ban.

If it comes, it will be safe.

No matter what is behind the formation ban, no matter what is in this secret realm, Xia Haoran will go in and break in. A beautiful opportunity is just around the corner, and it is not his character to cringe and fear.

Moreover, he had spent so much time and energy on his long journey to come here this time, wasn't it just to go to explore the secret realm inside? What's more, this was a treasure gifted to him by Venerable Qingyang.

Xia Haoran knew that the other party was playing a big stick and candy trick for him, but for him at the moment, this was definitely a deal that was beneficial to himself and harmless!

Take people with short hands and eat people with short mouths.

Now that he has received many benefits from Venerable Qingyang, when he grows up, it is not impossible to help the other party a little favor.

Although he didn't know what kind of person Venerable Qingyang was in real life, the other party's style of acting in front of him even if he had to say ugly things was very in line with Xia Haoran's temperament. Therefore, Xia Haoran not only did not have the slightest evil feeling towards Venerable Qingyang in his heart, but was more admiration and praise!

Xia Haoran stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on the cliff, his mind slowly integrated into this formation with his divine sense, and began to quickly crack this formation.

The detection standard of this secret realm is the foundation building period, so the outside formation ban is not as powerful as imagined. According to Xia Haoran's estimate, it is about the second level of "Array Solution".

But this also gave Xia Haoran a wake-up call.

It seems that these nine secret realms not only have strict requirements for the strength of the detectors, but also have the same assessment standards for the level of formation. This is only the first secret realm, the entry condition is the foundation building period, the second level of the "Array Solution", so the next secret realm of the Jindan period, how many formation requirements will be?

Thinking of this, Xia Haoran couldn't help but shake his head, secretly revealing a trace of bitter smile, this Qingyang Venerable, not to mention his thoughtfulness, is really well-intentioned!

Half an hour later.

Xia Haoran withdrew his palm and smiled slightly.

At this moment, he could feel that the surface of the mountain wall showed a trace of ripples like illusory ripples, and Xia Haoran walked directly into the cliff without hesitation.

When Xia Haoran's body touched the 'cliff', the 'cliff' was really like the surface of the water, with a slight ripple, but it did not prevent Xia Haoran's body from entering the 'cliff' at all.

If there are still others at the scene, if this strange scene is seen by outsiders, it will definitely be amazing!

A big living person just walked directly into the cliff and disappeared. This situation, this scene, this thing is as weird as it sounds......

After breaking through the formation ban, there was a long cave passage behind it, about forty or fifty meters long. When Xia Haoran first came in, he had already turned on his divine sense to check the entire situation inside.

It's not dark inside the passage.

A faint glow of fluorescence sprinkled the entire passage like moonlight. Xia Haoran noticed that on the stone wall at the top of the passage, every five or six meters, there was a shining bead.

This should be the Pearl of the Night, right?

Xia Haoran really wanted to dig it all out immediately, and then bring it back to Li Mengyao to play. As for the lighting or something, he really didn't care. With his current cultivation and divine sense, any darkness would have no effect on him in the slightest.

He roughly counted, and there were almost a dozen night pearls inlaid in the entire passage. What a waste! If this thing were to be taken out for money, it should be able to sell for a spicy price......

However, these are just Xia Haoran's thoughts. Even if there is such a treasure, it is impossible for him to take it out and sell it for money. Besides, now he is not short of that money at all, and he doesn't need that kind of treasure to go out and lose.

At the end of the passage is a gate.

It is said to be a door, but it is not really a door, but a portal that resembles a kind of spatial passage. Presumably, as long as you pass through this spatial passage, the real secret realm is inside.

Xia Haoran looked at it carefully. On the quaint and deep door, there is only a small sword-shaped groove. Xia Haoran just raised his eyes and glanced at it, and unexpectedly took out the "Qingshuang" sword from the storage ring.

He took the saber and compared it with the groove on the door, and yes! In terms of size and shape, the groove on the door matched the "Qingshuang" saber very well.

It seems that Venerable Qingyang is using this sword as a token to open the secret realm here.

Xia Haoran muttered to himself with a slanderous mouth: "What a bad old guy." This saber is also his daughter's personal body, and it is a bit too narrow to use it as a key to open the secret realm. ”

After adjusting his mood slightly, Xia Haoran immediately made a decision and carefully put the Qingshuang Saber into the groove. In an instant, Xia Haoran felt the door vibrate, and then ...... The portal slowly opened.

Xia Haoran didn't hesitate, took a step directly, and walked towards the door in front of him. Then, the figure quickly entered the door and disappeared into the dark passage......

At the same time, the Qingshuang Saber automatically detached from the groove and quickly returned to Xia Haoran's hand. As Xia Haoran stepped into the space passage, the portal outside closed again.