The northern edge of the lake was actually not far from the manor, and if they had chosen to explore in this direction in the first place, they might have already reached it. The manor is built on the southern slope of the mountain, and the sunny side of this mountain is where the most moon reishi is grown. Crossing this peak and heading north, the foot of the mountain seems to be an endless open plain, but after a short walk, you will reach the end.

What's at the end of the world? not an abyss, not a line, not a wall, but nothing. The concept of "nothing" itself is indescribable, because there should not even be a definition, let alone a vacuum in the physical sense.

Is there darkness without light? Not really, because darkness itself is a visual image or a thermodynamic concept. Language is difficult to describe, and when it comes to the senses, it is more like a "fog", which cannot be sensed by consciousness, and even the divine consciousness of the superior cannot penetrate.

When you get to this "fog", you can't go any further. This is not because I am afraid of stepping on the void, because emptiness itself is also a concept, and if there is no space, it is impossible for people to walk into it. For example, Ding Qi wants to move forward, but finds that his body is not moving, or that his consciousness has lost control of his body.

When he stopped thinking about it, everything went back to normal, as if the process didn't exist, and he didn't keep any memories, let alone consume any time. Nothing, of course, means no time and space. No one can walk into the fog and not remember what they went through, only that they have tried.

The consciousness is stagnant, but the consciousness does not disappear, and when it wants to come back, it will come back from the same place. It was an incredible experience, and Xian Hao told Ding Qi that she had never even dreamed of reaching the edge of the world, and that perhaps this was the most suitable place to cultivate the Hidden Realm.

Xian Hao will enter Xiaojing Lake every day, constantly marching towards the edge of the world, but he will always stay at the edge of the world. A few days later, she had completed her cultivation in the Micro Realm and entered the Hidden Realm that Ding Qi said, and she no longer needed to always hold the knife in her hand, as long as she carried it with her and placed it in a place that she could sense at any time, she would not lose her memory when she entered and exited the Xiaojing Lake.

This may be the reason for the knife, Xian Hao has been carrying it with her for many years, and has even become a part of herself. It may not be appropriate to use that knife to replace Jing Wenshi as the key to enter and exit Xiaojing Lake, but her efforts are not ordinary.

Among all of them, if you talk about the original "cultivation" the deepest, of course, Tan Hanchuan, if you talk about the most thorough understanding of the secret method of the other party, of course, it is Ding Qi himself, and now the highest realm is Xian Hao. It may be that after the revenge was avenged, Xian Hao had nothing else to do in her heart, this is the new direction of her life.

The hidden realm in the secret method outside the square is not the floating door hidden technique, but since Ding Qi is called this title, there must be similarities in the state, and Xian Hao is also the most handy in cultivation.

On this day, when Xian Hao was standing at the end of the world to cultivate, Ding Qi was also looking at her at the end of the world, and time and space seemed to always freeze. When the two turned around, the sunset in the distance was shining, Ding Qi was still holding a stone in his hand, and Xian Hao's short knife was stuck in his belt. Ding Qi asked, "Does your knife have a name?"

Xian Hao: "Yes, it's called a dry bone knife." ”

Normally, no one will give a name to a knife, such as a kitchen knife or a fruit knife at home, would you give it a special name or something? There is also a name that summarizes the shape of the utensil, such as a gold wire big ring knife, a thick-backed chopping knife, rather than the name of the knife itself. The sword has its own name, as if it has life and spirituality.

Ding Qi's tone changed and said, "It's a very special name, but fortunately you don't have to always hold it in your hand now." As he spoke, his left hand took her right hand, and then gently pulled it. Behind him is the end of the world, losing the center of gravity and falling down is just an illusion, and the person will not really lose his balance, but will only maintain his original posture.

was so stunned, Xian Hao was already in his arms. Ding Qi had already told her, "I want to hug you!" and it turned out that this wish was only fulfilled at the end of the world.

Since the night he got rid of Fan Yang and the assassin, Xian Hao seemed to have become much gentler in front of him, no longer the kind of look that rejected people thousands of miles away, but on the other hand, he felt a little distant, as if he couldn't find an opportunity to get closer to him. Ding Qi also understood that it was time to take the initiative to do something about it.

To get along with a girl like Xian Hao, you must be patient and not in a hurry, but you must also look at the right time, this process is unique. Xian Hao was startled, and then felt that his waist was tightened. She didn't dare to look up and buried her face in Ding Qi's chest...... Her body is so soft, and the smell she exudes is very fragrant.

The next day, Xian Hao didn't enter Xiaojing Lake, but ran to Ding Qi's small building with a tablet and a tape measure, and went to measure the data and draw a map. Tintzy, on the other hand, took the time to go back to the apartment, intending to bring all his belongings.

When Ah Quan left the apartment that night, he not only took one thing with him, but also left another thing, and he put the key to the apartment on the table, so he didn't lock it when he went out. This was an unusual move, did he know that he couldn't come back? Under normal circumstances, even if Shi Buquan no longer borrowed this apartment, he should have returned the key to Ding Qi instead of staying in the house.

Later, everyone searched for Ah Quan's whereabouts, and then went to find the "Fangwai Tuzhi" that he might have hidden at Jinghu University. This apartment, of course, Ding Qi and the others checked, and found nothing else. Some time ago, Tintze gave the key to Shanny, who often wanders around the area, and should have also checked Tincey's apartment, but also found nothing.

Since the last time someone came, the door of this apartment has been closed for half a month, and today it was opened again by Dingqi. In fact, Ding Qi no longer needs this apartment, and can negotiate with the landlord to quit the rent early, as long as he makes up an extra month's rent.

But Ding Qi didn't want to do that, he always felt that there was something in this house, since it had been rented for a year, and now it has only been half a year, so let's continue to keep it, if it goes back, it seems that some kind of clue or thought has been broken.

Ding Qi sat at the table and took the key and fell into deep thought, no one found a clue, things seemed to be back to square one, then the only clue left by Ah Quan should be this key. A piece of label was attached to the key, which was the room number of Tintzi's apartment: 2216.

This is not posted by Ding Qi, nor is it posted by Ah Quan. This kind of label paper is attached to the key to prevent confusion with other keys, and the landlord gave Ding Qi two keys, both of which have been labeled.

Ding Qi took the key and looked at it for a long time, and then subconsciously opened the drawer, how many times he had turned over the sundries in the drawer, there were student IDs, teacher IDs, campus cards, and a few batteries and two signature pens that he had not returned to the school......

The pens have been opened and checked, and there are still a few jingwen stones in the original drawer, and the stones have been removed. As the drawer opened, Ding Qi suddenly smelled a faint smell, the kind of pine smell that many pieces of furniture often emitted. Suddenly, as if he realized something, he stood up sharply and knocked over the chair behind him.

He pulled the drawer out entirely, looked at the sides, the back, and the bottom, and found nothing sticky, then went under the table and looked up, and then reached for the bottom of the table, and his fingertips seemed to feel something different.

With a hard squeeze of his fingertips, he pulled out a key that was stuck to a small piece of wood. At the bottom of the table above the drawer, a small shallow compartment had been dug and sealed with a thin piece of wood, barely visible. Ah Quan's craftsmanship Ding Qi has seen it, and he once set back the two table legs that Lao Tan had cut off, which are almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.

Ding Qi could find out that it was because he suddenly smelled the scent of pine just now. In fact, many wooden furniture often emit a similar smell, which comes from the volatilization of lacquer or glue. Something very ordinary struck Tincey as unusual, because he had lived in this apartment and had used this desk, and he had never smelled it when he opened the drawer.

The small pieces of wood and the key are glued with rosin, which is not easy to see, but it is easy to pick off. Why didn't anyone else find out? Because they didn't know at all -- opening a drawer shouldn't smell like this. Maybe it was because he didn't pay attention, maybe because the drawer had been opened many times during that time.

Because this slowly volatile odor will only become more noticeable after accumulating in an enclosed space for a period of time, if the drawer is always opened, the volatile gas will dissipate at any time. No one has touched this drawer for half a month now, so Ding Qi can only smell it when he opens it.

This two-centimeter-long little key does not have any other features or signs, and I don't know what kind of lock it is for?

Ah Quan left two things in the apartment, both of them were keys, one in the light and the other in the dark, it was impossible to say that there was no connection! But what did he want to say? Ding Qi put the two keys in his hand, almost like a sacrificial Jing Wenshi, trying to sense them with his heart, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something.

Tintzy picked up his chair, restored the drawers to their original shape, put the keys away, and left the apartment as usual. He drove to the city center, parked his car in the parking lot of a large supermarket, and when he left, he didn't take the car again, he also changed his outfit and made a simple makeup, first took a taxi and then took the bus, and went around in a big circle to the south gate of Jinghu University.

Ding Qi didn't know and didn't find out that anyone was following him, he did it just out of instinctive caution after experiencing the dangers of the rivers and lakes, and he also learned from Tan Hanchuan at the beginning. The library building is very spacious and beautifully repaired, and there are rows of lockers at the corners of the stairs on each floor and along the walls in the corridors, and there are also reminders posted next to them: clean up after leaving the library every day, otherwise pick the lock!

This is an old-fashioned self-service locker, and you need to bring your own lock to lock it for easy storage of your belongings. This also means that the library is responsible for the safekeeping of valuables, and the library is not responsible if valuables are lost. In order to prevent someone from always occupying the locker and not cleaning it, that's why I posted a reminder like that.

Tincey had worked in the library for a long time, and he knew very well that the hint was actually a scare, and the library staff had never actually picked the lock.

Ah Quan has also been in the library of Jinghu University for a long time, and he must have discovered this inside story, otherwise another person would really not think of hiding things in such a place, and I am afraid he would not dare to think about it. Because the reminder posted next to it is too conspicuous: things can only be temporarily stored when entering the library, and they must be taken away when they leave the library, and they cannot be left overnight, otherwise the library will pick the lock and clean it.

Ding Qi found the locker number 2216, and sure enough, it was occupied, and there was a yellow lock hanging from it. Ding Qi tried his best to pretend that nothing happened, took out the key and inserted it into the lock hole and twisted it gently, but subconsciously held his breath.

There was only a click, as if it were a crisp sound in my head, and the lock opened! Two things lay quietly in the locker, a familiar scroll and a silver bracelet. Ding Qi tried his best to stabilize the rhythm of his heartbeat, didn't take a closer look here, put everything in his backpack, closed the door and left, and of course took the lock with him.

Shi Buquan returned to the apartment that night, and it took less than ten seconds to come out, and he definitely didn't have time to do that kind of action under the table, he should have hidden it before. In fact, even if Ding Qi can't find the little key, it doesn't matter, the apartment key left on the desktop is already a hint.

If Ding Qi calmed down and pondered carefully, he should be able to think of it, and I'm afraid only he can think of it. Even if he didn't find the hidden little key, Ding Qi could find things the same, the difference was to go to the library to pick the lock or pick the lock.

Who owns the "Fangwai Tuzhi"? It belongs to the library of Jinghu University, and it was also "stolen" by Shi Buquan and Ding Qi together. Logically speaking, Shi Buquan would either return it to the library of Jinghu University or leave it to Ding Qi. And Shi Buquan's choice was to put it back in the library, but left the clues to find it to Ding Qi.

Ding Qi flagged down a taxi outside the school's west gate to go back to the city center, picked up his own car and drove it back...... That night, the five of them closed the door in the study on the first floor and carefully checked the things that Ding Qi had retrieved, and Ye Xing also came today, so he was also present.

The bracelet seems to be made of silver, and the outer ring is decorated with blue-black cloud gas, I don't know how to get it, it looks like the texture of the material itself. Tintzy wore it on his right wrist, a little tight, but still wearable. This should be the "treasure" that Ah Quan stole before, as Ding Qi had previously inferred, it was a portable ornament.

Ding Qi always felt that this ornament was unusual, and there was a faint connection between it and the mind in a subtle state. This is similar to Jingwenshi, but at the moment it cannot achieve the effect of being able to fully place the mind, not only because the thing is not suitable, but also because it is still a strange thing.

As for the scroll, it is the "Fangwai Tuzhi" that everyone has been looking for for a long time. Spread it out on the desk and slowly unfold it, with someone on both sides carefully holding it up. It is impossible to fully open a scroll of more than five meters at one time, and when it is unfolded here, someone over there will be responsible for re-rolling. After opening it, you can first see the four words "Fangwai Tuzhi", and there is also the inscription of "Zhu Jingyi" next to it.

The handwriting of this "South Gate Demon King", they have already seen it in Xiaojing Lake, and it turns out that this volume of "Fangwai Tuzhi" is also left by him.

The first picture after the title is the location of Xiaojing Lake, which everyone has already seen. Looking further back, there is actually a column of markings: Thirty miles south of Jinghu Station, there is Xiaojing Lake. There is no owner outside, the door is self-open, and it is vegan. It was the first time I saw the outside of the square, and it was also the pure model of the world outside the world that I saw.

This column of markings is something that everyone has not seen before, and presumably Ah Quan did not fix it at that time. Look closely at the yellowed paper, covered with cobweb-like lines, it is simply put together with fragments, the smallest fragment is almost the size of a grain of rice, you can imagine the extent of damage at the beginning, fortunately it can be basically pieced together.

Further back, there is a fragmentary picture, and it is difficult to make out what it is. Because the damage is too severe, no matter how great Ah Quan's ability is, he can't completely repair it, so he can only frame the fragments that can still be retained in the corresponding positions. Read on...... The last entry of the scroll is the Great Red Mountain.

There is also a column of markings behind the map of Da Chi Mountain: Jingyang enters the river, traces a thousand steps along the east bank, and is called the Great Chi Mountain since ancient times, and the portal is here. I don't know when there is an immortal family refining two world rings, which is a treasure of entering the world, and you can fit your wrist as you like. Wei was made a priest. In this realm, the god of the Lord is worshipped.

There is also a bracelet drawn next to it, which is the silver bracelet that Ding Qi cut off on his right wrist at the moment. The scroll is unfolded here and it comes to an end, and there are only a few words left by Zhu Jingyi behind it: I have been looking for a prescription in my life, and I am determined to do this, starting from the Jinghu Station, three hundred years later, and ending at the Jinghu Station, whether there is really a providence in the dark.

Looking at the payment again, it is the ninth year of Yongle, that is, 1411.

Zhu Jingyi, who left the "Fangwai Atlas", claimed that he had spent 300 years searching for the worlds outside the prescription, and finally made this atlas. According to the last message in the atlas, didn't he start to suggest the outside world from the Song Dynasty? The first thing he found was Xiaojing Lake, which he probably discovered by accident.

Who can live for 300 years? If you see this thing under other circumstances, you may think it is nonsense, but now everyone knows that whether it is Xiaojing Lake or Da Chi Mountain, it is true that this Zhu Jingyi is probably not lying. Why can he live so long, is he really an immortal, or is it because of the bait of the immortal family?

The painting left by Zhu Jingyi in the Xiaojinghu Manor was signed in the seventh year of Yongle, that is, in 1409. According to these clues, he may have discovered Xiaojinghu by accident as early as the Song Dynasty, and then kept looking for other worlds, and returned to the area of Jinghu City three hundred years later, and finally discovered Dachishan.

It was at that time that Zhu Jingyi built a manor in Xiaojing Lake, and also left this volume of "Fangwai Tuzhi". Where Zhu Jingyi went later is unknown. It is even more difficult to verify why "Fangwai Tuzhi" was later collected by Chishan Temple.

Including Xiaojing Lake and Da Chi Mountain, there are as many as fifteen places in the Fangwai world recorded in this volume of "Fangwai Tuzhi". Some of the contents are illegible, but the decipherable parts still contain the nine worlds outside the prescription.