Qin Ruixiang arranged two more people to send the poplar iron ox down the mountain.

When they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, the two took out two motorcycles from the homes of two mountain people and drove back to Baoji with the poplar iron ox respectively.

Fortunately, I didn't encounter the man in black again along the way, and I caught the last long-distance bus from Baoji to Xi'an.

It was already evening when he returned to Xi'an, and Bai Yang didn't dare to delay more, so he still found Ding Sicheng to report to him.

As soon as Ding Sicheng heard that the man in black had wiped out Gao Ruixin and a few other Qin-seeking sectarians, he couldn't help frowning and said, "Immortal Cave map? I really didn't expect this so-called Immortal Cave map to reappear after more than a hundred years!"

Bai Yang didn't expect Ding Sicheng to have heard of the map of the Immortal Cave, so he couldn't help but blurt out and ask: "What does Uncle Ding mean, there really is a map of the Immortal Cave in this world?"

Ding Sicheng nodded and said, "Not only is there a map of the Immortal Cave, but I have also seen a "Journey to the Immortal Cave" with my own eyes, which should have been two or three hundred years ago......

Ding Sicheng looked far away and spoke slowly, while Poplar Tie Niu listened quietly.

It turned out that two or three hundred years ago, it was also the middle of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, when the world was prosperous and the country was prosperous, and there was a talented man who was erudite and talented and had strong martial arts. Whenever he encountered strange scenes, he recorded them in the form of "Travelogue".

And the "Journey to the Immortal Cave" mentioned by Ding Sicheng was written by this talent.

According to this travelogue, this Xiucai found a large karst cave like a fairy cave in the Caolian Peak of the Qinling Mountains, and the stalactites in the cave are upside down and stalagmites are lined with thousands of weather.

At the end of the cave there was a pure white jade bed, on which lay a sleeping immortal.

When Ding Sicheng told this, Bai Yang and Tie Niu made an "ah" sound at the same time, and Tie Niu blurted out: "Sleeping immortal, how can this ...... Why is it so like taking the elixir of immortality? But ...... Several alchemists have already died, how can it be that there is another sleeping immortal in this Great Qinling Mountain?"

He also wanted to ask this question for Bai Yang, but Bai Yang knew that Ding Sicheng might not be able to answer this question, so he hurriedly asked: "What about later? Does this travelogue record what happened to this immortal and whether he woke up from a sound sleep?"

"No!" Ding Sicheng shook his head, "That Xiucai has been by the immortal's side for more than ten days, and the immortal has never woken up, but his face has always been ruddy and fresh, and he has not been pale and weak because he has not eaten water and rice for more than ten days. The reason why Xiucai believed that this sleeping man was an immortal was the main reason. Na Xiucai didn't dare to disturb the immortal's sleep, and quietly retreated from the cave, and then wrote this "Immortal Cave Travelogue". In his travelogue, he also mentions that he painted a landscape painting, and the scenery depicted is the scenery around the fairy cave. ”

Bai Yang and Tie Niu looked at each other, and Bai Yang said again: "The man in black forced Xun Qin to hand over the map of the immortal cave, presumably this is this landscape painting?"

"Very likely!" Ding Sicheng nodded, "It's a pity that this Xiucai's calligraphy and painting are not particularly good, so his "Immortal Cave Travels" is not widely circulated, and the landscape painting he painted is even more unknown. Until more than a hundred years ago, there was an inverted dou sect that was said to have obtained a map of the immortal cave, and according to this map, he entered the Qinling Mountains to find the Caolian Peak immortal cave. No one knows if it was found, but this inverted Dou sect was destroyed soon after, and the map of the Immortal Cave was lost. Only this "Journey to the Immortal Cave" has been compiled and transcribed, but it has been circulated to this day. It's just that there are very few people who have actually read this travelogue. ”

Bai Yang has heard a lot of legendary stories in the inverted world from the mouth of the old man Bai since he was a child, but the old man Bai has never mentioned the word "fairy cave", which shows that this so-called "fairy cave" is not widely spread in the inverted bucket world. Qin Ruixiang repeatedly swore that he had never heard of the "Immortal Cave", which seemed to be true.

"If the things recorded in this Xiucai's travelogue are all true, then Uncle Ding thinks that this so-called immortal will be who it is?" asked Bai Yang carefully.

"It's hard for me to say this!" Ding Sicheng shook his head, "After all, you are the ones who have really fought with a few alchemists, if you can't guess, I can't guess!"

"Will it ...... It was also a certain guard of the Snow God Palace who fell into a deep sleep for a long time, so he had to find a large karst cave and hide in it to recuperate......?"

He stopped abruptly at this point, as if he had thought of something that didn't make sense.

"So what?" asked Poplar.

"I don't think it's right!" Tie Niu shook his head, "Because people who have eaten immortal medicine can wake up at any time after falling asleep, such as the few alchemists we met, every time they woke up and attacked us as soon as we opened the coffin! But this Xiucai has been guarding the immortal he said for more than ten days, but the immortal has never woken up!"

Tie Niu's words were not unreasonable, but Bai Yang thought about it for a while, then quickly shook his head and said: "I don't think that people who have eaten immortal medicine can wake up at any time after falling asleep, I think the few alchemists we met were not because we woke them up, but because the maids and guards around them first used some method to wake them up after they noticed our invasion......

Poplar suddenly stopped talking about this, because he vaguely seemed to think of something very important.

"Do you mean that this so-called immortal is one of the guards of the Snow God Palace?"

Bai Yang took a breath and said, "I don't think this person will be a guard of the Snow God Palace, after all, the Snow Goddess has stored all the immortal medicine and immortal medicine list in that big stone box, and the guards can only ask the Snow Goddess for medicine if they want to live forever." And once it began to fall into a deep sleep, the snow goddess would freeze it, and there was no chance for the guards to go to the Qinling Mountains thousands of miles away to find a cave to sleep peacefully. ”

"But what if one of the guards escaped in advance?" Tie Niu retorted, "After all, the Snow Goddess still needs the guards to go down the mountain from time to time to buy things, maybe there is a certain guard who doesn't want to follow the Snow Goddess in the ice cave anymore, so he slipped away while going down the mountain? Maybe after he left the Snow God Palace, he was afraid of being chased and killed by the Snow Goddess, so he walked thousands of miles into the Qinling Mountain Range, and found a big karst cave, spent a few years to arrange the cave, and then fell asleep in the cave!"

Tie Niu's long inference, even Ding Sicheng nodded again and again, and said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out, I really didn't expect Tie Niu to be able to make such a detailed and reasonable analysis and inference now!"

Tie Niu smiled, seeing that Bai Yang was frowning and seemed to be thinking about something, he couldn't help but open his mouth and asked: "Old Bai, do you think what I said is unreasonable? We also assumed that the man in black was the guard of the Snow God Palace, and you also said that you can't rule out this possibility!"

Bai Yang nodded and said, "I didn't say that this possibility must be ruled out, after all, several alchemists are already dead, and the only ones who can access the immortal medicine can only be the maids and guards of these alchemists......"

When he said this, he stopped again, and a thought instantly crossed his mind, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "No, it's not only the alchemist's maid guards who can access the immortal medicine, there is also one person in this world, at least one man, who not only has the immortal medicine in his hand, but even the immortal medicine list!"

When he said this, Tie Niu was still in a daze, but Ding Sicheng's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "I remember that after you came back from Xiangxi Miao Village, in your report to me, you mentioned that the Miao Village goddess had been plotted against ......."

He didn't finish his words, but it wasn't him who stopped, but Tie Niu blurted out.

"Yes, the reason why that evil Biyou Goddess became evil is because there was once a handsome man who deceived her feelings, and while she was sleeping, he stole the immortal medicine and the immortal medicine list, and almost stabbed the sleeping Biyou Goddess to death!

"Yes, we have been discussing who else in the world can be as great as a few alchemists, and we thought of the guards of the Snow God Palace, but we forgot about this thief who cheated and stole medicine!" Bai Yang said.

His words made Tie Niu stunned, and he couldn't help but shout again.

"Lao Bai, we're talking about the immortal in the fairy cave, but what do you mean...... It doesn't mean that the masked man in black is the thief who deceived the Biyu Goddess, right?"

"I think it's possible!" Bai Yang nodded, "After all, he knows how to point points, and his ability is higher than that of the Snow God Palace guards, but it is far worse than a few alchemists! It just so happens that this thief has only lived for five or six hundred years, and he has not eaten the immortal medicine quenched from the alchemy divine furnace, so his ability is definitely not as good as a few alchemists!"

"Not bad, not bad!" Tie Niu couldn't help but nod again and again, "According to what you say, the man in black must be the evil thief, but if the man in black is the evil thief, then who will the so-called immortal in the immortal cave be?"

"I guess it's the same thief!"

Bai Yang replied, looked at Ding Sicheng, and saw Ding Sicheng looking at him intently, so Bai Yang straightened out his thoughts and continued.

"We all know that if we take the immortal medicine, we will definitely fall into a deep sleep from time to time to recuperate, and according to the records in the Biyou Goddess Palace, the thief who cheated and stole the medicine was the Biyou Goddess who met five or six hundred years ago. He knew from the mouth of the Biyou Goddess that he would often fall into a deep sleep after taking the immortal medicine, so after leaving the Biyou Goddess Palace, he immediately entered the mountains to find a good place to retreat, and finally found this immortal cave in the Qinling Mountains. And when Xiucai entered the immortal cave, he was just in time for the thief to fall into a deep sleep, and he was regarded as a sleeping immortal by Xiucai. When Xiu left, the thief woke up, and he had an immortal medicine list in his hand, so he refined the immortal medicine himself after that, so that he himself lived for a long time until now. ”

(Please see Chapter 430 "Running to the Pioneer Sect")