Time flies, three years have passed, and when another winter in Baicao Valley is coming to an end, it also means that Ziyan's cultivation time is coming to an end.

Although it is the end of winter in Baicao Valley, the severe cold has not abated at all, and the snow covering the bamboo forest has not faded. The dragon sat by the window of the bamboo hut, sipping hot tea while admiring the snow outside.

"Ahh The dragon sighed softly.

A bundle of red hair suddenly hung down from the top edge of the window, and it was the face of a beautiful young girl, "Teacher, what are you sighing for!?" ”

Long lowered his eyebrows and squinted, and said lightly, "Weiwei, don't make trouble here in the future, if you let Ziyan and Yuan Ji know that you have been freer than them in the past three years, I don't care if they beat you." ”

"I'm not afraid." Yan Wei was suspended in the air, sighed hotly, and smiled brightly, three years have passed, Yan Wei is like an ugly duckling transformed into a beautiful princess, her personality has become cheerful and lively more than a star, and she can't tell that this is the yellow-haired girl who was afraid of everyone three years ago. In the past three years, Yan Wei has been studying with the dragon.

"Teacher, if Ziyan and Yuan Ji don't meet the requirements you said, do they really want to leave here?" Yan Wei asked.

"Even if I do, I'm leaving, because I don't have anything left to teach you." The dragon put down the teacup and grasped the iron sword at his waist, and suddenly he frowned, then looked out the window, and said in a low voice, "Here they are." ”

Yan Wei fell from the sky after hearing this, stood on the corridor, and raised her eyes to look at the hundred-mile bamboo forest below the giant tree.

In the calm valley, a sudden gust of wind suddenly rose, rolling up the snow covering the bamboo forest, and the withered yellow bamboo leaves flowed in the wind, playing a chaotic movement. Yan Wei saw a figure walking quickly on the bamboo forest in the distance, so fast that it almost seemed to melt into the wind.

Yan Wei was just about to say hello to the man, and the figure had already appeared in front of her. I saw Shangguan Yuanji holding a wind-cutting sword, his clothes were shabby but very clean, the mature temperament on Yuanji's body was perfectly exposed, his cold expression was even more indifferent than three years ago, and his eyes added a bit of murderous aura.

"Yuan Ji!" Yan Wei looked at Shangguan Yuanji with a smile.

The corners of Yuan Ji's mouth rose and he smiled lightly, "I didn't expect you to be the first to come back, Weiwei." ”

"Yuan disease." The dragon came out of the house.

"Teacher." Yuan Ji knelt on one knee, "Teacher, in the past three years, I have understood everything that the teacher has asked me to comprehend, and Yuan Ji has also been able to use the wind control technique proficiently in accordance with the teacher's requirements, as well as the sword technique, and the level of 'drawing the sword to break the stream' and 'seeing through' has also been reached." Shangguan Yuanji made a gesture and said.

Long smiled and nodded, "I already knew this, you two are doing very well, and now there is Ziyan, let's go...... Let's go to Neigu to find Ziyan. ”

"Yes." After Yan Wei finished speaking, she floated into the air.

Shangguan Yuanji also nodded, and followed Long and Yan Wei in the direction of Inner Valley.

The three teachers and students embarked on the road to the inner valley, and with just a pillar of incense, they arrived at the inner valley. Yuan Ji stepped on a bamboo branch and fell to the ground, he looked up at Yan Wei and said: "Yan Wei, it seems that you have made the most progress in the past three years, you have learned to 'step in the void' in just three years, and even I have not reached your level." ”

You must know that the so-called Void Step is the use of a gentle spirit to constantly hit the ground, causing a reaction force, forming the illusion that it can be suspended in the air, and the cultivator needs to have an extremely light body and strong mental power to maintain the uncontrollable spirit, which is not something that can be learned by a high level of exercise.

"Hee-hee, Yuan Ji has also become more powerful." Yan Wei stuck out her tongue and said with some embarrassment.

The dragon walked in front, the three of them got closer and closer to the clear water pool under the waterfall, the dragon's eyes had seen something through the dense bamboo forest, and when he first arrived in the valley, the dragon had already realized: the waterfall in the valley of Baicao, which had flowed for thousands of years, had no sound.

"Dongfang Ziyan, let me see your cultivation results..." The dragon said silently in his heart.

Just when the three of them arrived at the edge of the clear water pool, the incredible sight was astonishing.

The hundred-foot-high waterfall has dried up, and the rock wall behind the original waterfall has been exposed, and the ancient rock hidden in the rock wall layer has leaked out of doubt. But Qingshuitan was preserved, and a huge beast skeleton, ten zhang high, was placed on the other side of the pool.

"Is Ziyan cultivating here?" Yan Wei was stunned, compared to the bamboo house, this is the real wild jungle valley where the weak eat the strong.

Yuan Ji held the long sword, jumped to the other end of the waterhole in a few steps, and quickly walked to the skeleton, at the mouth of the beast, he saw, a pile of fire that had not yet been extinguished, and a few carpets of animal skins, and finally what he saw was to his surprise, it was a small hill made of the bones of dead beasts, all lying on the dry grass slope, climbing the dry grass slope, and there were white bones at a glance.

"Teacher! Come and see!! Shangguan Yuanji beckoned Long and Yan Wei, he couldn't believe his eyes, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, which was the sound of people's feet walking on the snow. Yuan Ji stood up and saw a familiar figure, standing in front of him.

The man, dressed in tattered robes, with long, messy hair and a young snow deer in his arms, was walking this way.

"Hey! Ziyan!! Yuan Ji shouted loudly.

I saw someone exhale a breath of heat, "Yuan Ji, Wei Wei... And the teacher, why are you all here? With that, he smiled, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth.

"Ziyan, you did the first two, the waterfall still has animal bones, what about the third?" The dragon smiled and held out three fingers.

"What three?" Yan Wei asked.

Ziyan put the little snow deer on the ground, "Oh, the assessment task given to me by the teacher before is to use the power of flames to evaporate the entire waterfall..."

"Evaporate..."Yuan Ji wondered how the waterfall dried up just now, he looked at the cliff, "Ziyan, I really underestimated you before... Then these hundreds of animal bones are you..."

"That's right, these are slain monsters." Dongfang Ziyan stroked his long forehead hair, revealing a scar on the corner of his right eye, "It was very difficult at the beginning, and I almost died." As he spoke, he thoughtfully touched the scar at the corner of his eye.

"Teacher, I did encounter some difficulties when I was cultivating the Mechanism Technique at the beginning, but I found a lot of things in this place that made me enlightened." Dongfang Ziyan said with a smile.

"Although the mechanism technique is a kind of mechanical technique, there are very few people who can understand the mysteries in it, you now know why I let you cultivate in this deep mountain and valley." "Tell me what you've learned," said the dragon. ”

Shangguan Yuanji and Yan Wei couldn't understand most of the conversation between the two of them, so they could only sit aside and listen.

Zi Yan stretched out his right hand, "The so-called 'weapon' is just a technique of spiritual power* metal particles in the air," Zi Yan waved his right hand, and the metal particles visible to the naked eye rotated around his right hand.

"It's... It's the same as the old man I met in the small town of Aslan. Shangguan Yuanji looked at it and broke out in a cold sweat.

"When it is gathered and formed, it becomes an offensive and a device, which is called a 'machine'. This is basic mechanics. After saying that, Ziyan's right hand was covered by metal arm armor.

"I've only heard of mechanics as magical as magic before, Ziyan, you're awesome!!" Yan Wei clapped her hands and said.

"I'm just getting started, thanks to the teacher's guidance." Ziyan said with a smile again.

"I heard my father say that the Ximen family is a mechanical family, and the eldest daughter of the Ximen family master, Ximen Cangyue, is a mechanical genius, and I think Ziyan's talent is not lost to her." Shangguan Yuanji rarely said so much.

"Hahahaha, don't be embarrassed to say that." Dongfang Ziyan had a smug and intoxicated expression on his face.

Long slapped Ziyan on the head, and Ziyan almost planted himself on the ground, "Just a little achievement is triumphant like this, where did you get the pride that you promised me before you finished it!" ”

Ziyan touched his head and smiled, "Don't worry, teacher!" You have to believe in the strength of your students! As he spoke, the mechanical arm in Ziyan's right hand was lifted into the void, and a metal buzz sounded, and four metal walls rose from the ground to surround himself and the dragon! There is an electric current flowing on the mechanical wall.

Faced with the sudden change, Yuan Ji stood up excitedly, "Tricks!" I've only heard of it before, but now I'll see it! ”

"Yuan Ji, what is a trick?" Yan Wei asked puzzled.

"Mechanism technique, and 'Shura body', 'alchemy', 'necromancy' four thaumaturgy, of which the mechanism technique is the use of mechanical techniques to arrange the array of the essence of the technique, the legend covers the heaven and earth of the ingenuity of the Qimen Dunjia covers the essence of the technique." Shangguan Yuanji's tone was cold.

"I've never heard of it." In Yan Wei's words, Yuan Ji was overwhelmed and fell to the ground.

Suddenly, the mechanical wall surrounding Ziyan and Long suddenly exploded, and two people jumped out of the smoke of the explosion, both of them covered in dust. "Teacher, the third one is over!!" Yan Wei stood up excitedly.

Long touched Ziyan's hair, although Ziyan and they have grown a lot taller in the past three years, there is still a gap compared to Long's height of one meter nine, "This kid has done more successfully than I thought, the three of you have done a good job, in this way, I will rest assured that you go to the Demon Realm." ”

"To the Demon Realm?!" The three of them spoke in unison.

"Yes." The dragon nodded.

"Ask!" The three of them said in unison.

"Ask one by one." Long said lightly.

Shangguan Yuanji spoke first: "Go to the Demon Realm?" How to get there? There are three realms of barriers to block it! ”

"Where is the Demon Realm?" Yan Wei asked.

"Teacher, is there the murderer who killed Emperor Xuan in the Demon Realm?" Dongfang Ziyan rubbed his hands.

Long Xian was silent for a while, and said slowly: "I want you to go to the Demon Realm, there must be a way to get in, from here to Beihai, it is also a kind of training, as for what Ziyan said to find the murderer of Emperor Xuan, you must not go to death, all I ask is to let you break through..." Know what a real world of the jungle is. Long said lightly.

"Then we... Are you leaving? Shangguan Yuan asked.

"You're all fourteen years old, what progress can you make if you stay here all the time, the real world is still waiting for you to discover." The dragon said, a relieved smile on his face, "Without further ado, you should set off now, and when you arrive in the northern frontier, it will be just in time for the snowstorm season." ”

The three of them looked at each other a few times, Yan Wei suddenly fell to the ground, and Ziyan and Yuan Ji also fell to the ground with a thud.

"Unforgettable! Needless to say! Yuan Ji's firm voice echoed in this snow-covered valley, lingering for a long time.