When I was at the entrance of the cave, the smell was still very strong, and it smelled strong.

But after entering the cave, the taste faded, and the further down I went, the more the taste became less and less, but the temperature became lower and lower, so low that I shivered, and I hurriedly turned on the yin qi to protect my whole body.

"Senpai, where is this?" I looked at Senpai, who had been walking in front.

"This is the Ice Cave. He walked in front, and the light in front of him was getting brighter and brighter, and it was aqua blue, even beautiful, but it was very cold, and the whole person shivered.

He said: "You call me Yueyangzi or Yueyang Dao Chief, I am a Taoist priest of the Quanzhen Dragon Sect. ”

"Okay, Senior Yue Yang. I looked at the cave on the edge, and I could already see that there were blue crystals on the hole, like diamond crystals, and I said, "What is this? Ice cubes?"

"Xuan Bing!" he didn't look back, he didn't stop, but continued to walk forward, saying as he went.

"What is Xuan Bing?" I wasn't verbose, I just wanted to know the truth.

"This kind of thing will not exist in nature, we have an idiom called Taoism Tongxuan, this Xuan word can only be understood but not spoken, this kind of thing has surpassed human understanding, and it can't be explained by science, you have the right to treat him as ordinary ice. Yueyang Dao Chang said.

"Can you tell me, then, how did this thing come from?" I was really curious, how could there be ice under the desert, and if this ice was burned with fire, would it turn into water? Can it be drunk?

"This thing is the crystallization of the energy of the large array, due to the surplus power of the large array, the energy has been accumulated, and over time this kind of Xuan Ice has been formed. Yueyang Dao Chang said: "This kind of thing can not be touched by ordinary people, nor can it be absorbed by people, under the sun, directly into gas, Taoists can use them, but if they are not properly absorbed, they will also be poisoned and die, the gas that was ignited just now is not what liquefied gas or biogas, but Xuan Qi, the gas emitted by Xuan Ice." ”

After some explanation, I probably know the origin of this kind of thing, but it completely subverts my understanding, this is neither the kind of ice that freezes in nature, nor the kind of ice that crystallizes in chemistry.

Then the further I went, the more I felt that it was not just a decrease in temperature, but that with each step, it seemed that the pressure was getting bigger and bigger, as if there was resistance everywhere, and it took a lot of strength to take a step.

"This is where the Xuan Qi is extremely rich, and cultivating here can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Daoist Yue Yang said: "The pressure and gravity here are several times heavier than outside, and it is not easy for the human body to absorb this kind of Xuan Qi, but you should be able to absorb it, because I found that the Qi in your body is not True Qi, but a cold gas, and this Xuan Qi should be similar to the Yin Qi." ”

My movements were very slow, because my actions were under several times the pressure, but I found that the speed of Yue Yang Dao Chang was the same as usual, as if it was not affected at all, so I asked him, "Senior, why are you not affected by this Xuan Qi?"

"Because I'm used to it, I've been here for a long time, from the beginning of being like you, to now moving freely, this Xuan Qi is like the air I breathe, extremely relaxed. ”

"Do I have a question for you?" I thought for a moment.

"You ask. ”

"Are you really a person in the early years of the Republic of China? If you are, you are now more than 100 years old, but you look only fifty or sixty years old, and you don't know what is happening outside, as if you are isolated from the world. I thought about it and told him what I had in my heart.

"It's all the effect of this Xuanqi, when the imperial system was overthrown, the world was in chaos, the world was in chaos, the people were in trouble, the disciples of the world's Taoism went down the mountain one after another, in order to save the people in the world as their own responsibility, I was also a member of the mountain at that time, and then by chance, I came here, found this Xuanbing Cave, and was also curious about why people in this cave would be so slow, and then I found that it was beneficial to cultivation, using pressure to forge the body, and overcoming pressure was tempering myself at the same time, when I was used to Xuanqi, the speed in this cave was the same as usual, and I learned to get out of the customs。 He smiled bitterly and said: "But the era when I came out of the customs was not a good era, after going out for a few years, the master has been a person, the master has passed away for decades, and even the brothers of my generation are not alive, so I walked the rivers and lakes, but in the end I found that it was better here, at least there was no dispute with the world, and finally I returned here and continued to cultivate." ”

"You said that the pressure of this Xuan Bing is equivalent to us personally bearing several times the gravity outside, which should be helpful for cultivation, but if you can stay young forever, then this is a bit terrifying, here, can you not eat or drink?" I asked him rhetorically.

"Yes, you can really go without eating or drinking here. He nodded and said: "Absorb this Xuan Qi, the power you need is in it, but as soon as you get out of here, the whole person will be hungry, this Xuan Qi seems to be able to absorb and digest, but there is no way to store it in the body, I have tried, after entering the body, it is wrapped and digested by the True Qi, but it is not absorbed much, if it is absorbed more, the part that cannot be digested will be excreted from the body." ”

"It's not scientific!" I scratched at my head.

He smiled slightly and said: "In the whole Lop Nur, there are many such ice caves, where there are statues, there are generally such ice caves, which is also the source of the statue totem, the source of accumulated power. ”

"I see!" I nodded.

"If you want a scientific explanation, then you listen to Chi Hai, he will tell you that Lop Nur is just at the overlap of two time zones, so this overlapping place, the time vacuum, time stops, after 10,000 years inside, the outside has been turned upside down, but what are the people inside, what will always be like. ”

"Chi Hai really said that?" I looked at Daoist Yue Yang in surprise.

"yes, that's how he explained it, but it doesn't make sense. Daoist Yue Yang touched his beard and said with a smile: "But the time vacuum he said does have a little bit of this meaning, but it stopped without saying that the time stopped, I feel that it is passing more slowly, as if this pressure is estimated to be several times slower than the outside, but I think it is not a problem of overlapping time zones, but the Xuan Qi generated by the large array and the evil qi released by the underground witch clan collide, and the time vacuum generated makes the time flow inside very slow." ”

I nodded, I don't know what it looks like!

But since it can help my cultivation, I naturally have to make good use of it.

I said, "Senior, how can I use these Xuan Qi to cultivate?"

"You try to absorb these Xuan Qi first, and see if it will be absorbed by you? If you can, that's great, if not, let's use the second set of plans, which is the method I use for my own cultivation!"

"Okay. I sat down instantly, the pores of my whole body opened, and I tried to let this Xuan Qi enter my body, but the Xuan Qi was extremely heavy.