Qingyun Valley used to be an extremely beautiful place.

Just like Xiaoliang Mountain, three thousand three hundred years ago, it was affected by spiritual power fluctuations and became a small world in the spatial rift. Different from Xiaoliang Mountain, where master duels have taken place, Qingyun Valley has always been a quiet and peaceful place.

Until that crack became what it is now.

The crack is wide enough, and the lightning between the cracks will disappear. Without the hindrance of thunder and lightning, the cold air and evil spirits of the forest of the dead entered this small world.

Huang Shaoyan will never forget that disaster.

First, the cold qi quickly penetrated into Qingyun Valley. The grass and trees in Qingyun Valley began to be affected, and some spirit plants and trees even began to languish. The elders of the valley were uneasy, and took two of the best juniors in the valley to the forest of the dead to find out.

Huang Shaoyan is one of them.

The other is Huang Shaoyan's lover, named Yunshang.

Soon after entering the Forest of the Dead, the three of them were attacked by evil spirits. When they first encountered the evil spirit, the three of them were very panicked. In the chaos, Huang Shaoyan lost contact with the elder and Yunsheng.

Huang Shaoyan had been fleeing and searching in the Forest of the Dead for a long time, and if he hadn't discovered that some trees were extremely strange and could temporarily avoid the perception of evil spirits, his life would have been lost. But he still didn't find any trace of Yunshang and the others, and had to return to Qingyun Valley.

However, in just a few days, Qingyun Valley has changed.

"The evil spirit, dressed in white with a blurred face, held a spear in his hand. I saw with my own eyes that he killed my uncle with a single spear...... If it weren't for my uncle's desperate entanglement with that evil spirit to make me escape, I would ......" When mentioning this evil spirit, Huang Shaoyan's eyes would always be red, and his angular face would tremble. "One day, I will make him pay for it with blood!"

This tragic experience, in the past three months, Cao Chen has heard Huang Shaoyan say it many times. The room full of spiritual seats, Cao Chen also went in. Thinking of his parents and relatives who he will never be able to see, Cao Chen will feel some empathy.

"Sometimes, I always think that if I had gone with my uncle to fight that evil spirit, maybe ...... Even if you die, you don't have to live with such hatred......" Huang Shaoyan couldn't help crying when he talked about it.

Cao Chen comforted him, "Sometimes, it takes more courage to live than to die. ”

In the past three months, Cao Chen has also learned a little about the Forest of the Dead.

The evil spirits that roam around in this forest of the dead are actually divided into levels. It seems that among these evil spirits, the clearer the appearance, the more powerful it is. If there is any magic weapon, it will be very important.

Cao Chen and Huang Shaoyan were lucky, they had never met such a tough guy.

For three months, they dug holes in the Forest of the Dead in search of treasure, and although they didn't find anything particularly good, they also gained a lot.

Cao Chen's storage ring was stuffed with all kinds of gadgets. Some are fragments of clothes, some are the remains of some weapons and magic weapons, and some are strange things of unknown nature......

Cao Chen would always put them all away.

The lesson that his trash cans were desperately fought for made Cao Chen realize that it was likely that what he thought was waste was actually an excellent magic weapon.

Kung Fu will always live up to those who have perseverance.

Huang Shaoyan finally found a storage belt.

The two escaped the perception of evil spirits and fled back to the small courtyard where the two temporarily lived in Qingyun Valley.

Looking at the belt that was almost rotten, Cao Chen's eyes lit up, "Quickly take out the contents and take a look, maybe there is a super magic weapon." ”

Huang Shaoyan smiled bitterly, "How can there be so many super magic weapons." With that, he tried to take out the contents of the storage belt. But after the spirit trick was tempted, Huang Shaoyan was stunned, "Huh? Odd. As he spoke, he picked up the storage belt and looked at it for a long time, and finally understood, "It's amazing." The spatial formation used for this storage belt is actually different from what I knew. ”

Cao Chen was stunned for a moment, took the belt, and tried it with his anti-spirit technique, but it was unsuccessful.

The two glanced at each other, Cao Chen directly took out her big knife, and without asking Huang Shaoyan, he slashed the big knife on the storage belt.

"Hey! Don't ......" Before Huang Shaoyan's words fell, he heard a bang, and the two of them were bounced away by the release of the space on the belt.

The storage belt was broken by Cao Chen, and the contents inside also appeared—more than a dozen very strange colorful stones. Cao Chen picked it up and looked at it for a long time, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Why does it look like an ordinary pebble?" ”

Huang Shaoyan pinched a stone, looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "It's indeed very similar." Since it's not a good thing, Huang Shaoyan said, "Let's divide it in half, well, twelve stones, six for each of us." ”

"What, how can I take advantage of you, say who picked it up, there are no rules, and my brother has to settle the account." Cao Chen waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be polite to me, keep it for yourself." After that, Cao Chen smiled again and said, "Xiao Huang, it's not me who hit you, these rags we got back recently are actually useless." I've got a good treasure to open your eyes. ”

As he spoke, Cao Chen took out the trash can from the storage ring. "Na! Absolutely the best in the world. There were two cultivation masters before, and they were desperate to compete for this thing. ”

Huang Shaoyan looked at Cao Chen suspiciously, then reached out and took the trash can, looked at it over and over, and after confirming that this thing was an ordinary trash can, he was a little funny in his heart, and he was also a little unclear, so I didn't know what Cao Chen meant. Returning the trash can to Cao Chen, Huang Shao hesitated for a moment and said, "It's really a good baby." ”

"yes. Hahaha. Cao Chenle couldn't see his teeth and eyes, and said with a smile, "Do you want it?" ”

A broken trash can, what do I want it for?!

Huang Shaoyan couldn't figure it out, but he didn't directly refuse, hesitated, and asked Cao Chen tentatively, "Why?" You want to give it to me? ”

"Ahem, didn't I say it just now, my brother is settling accounts." Cao Chen said, "Naturally, it's a fair deal." ”

"Oh, what do you want?"

"I don't want anything of your value either, don't worry, your Qingtian Sword, I'm not interested." Cao Chen smiled, "I remember that you seem to have a bracelet that looks rough...... "It looks like a very ordinary bracelet, but Cao Chen always feels that the bracelet seems to be extremely magical, but when he glanced at it in a hurry, Cao Chen felt that he seemed to be able to detect a very strange aura from the bracelet.

Huang Shaoyan twisted his brows and said very seriously, "Don't think about it!" It was a token of love given to me by Yunshang. ”

"Ahem, that's ......" Cao Chen was a little surprised.

Huang Shaoyan suddenly stretched out his hand, pushed Cao Chen's head, pushed her out of the room directly, and said coldly, "Sleep, sleep." Then he slammed the door shut.

Cao Chen stood outside the door, raised his middle finger at the door, and then went back to his room in a daze.

After habitually cultivating once, and the task was completed, Cao Chen took out the garbage he had recently scooped up from the forest of the dead to study. None of these things are really good, and even if there are some very strange magic weapons, they are just fragments of some magic weapons. Coupled with the baptism of years and the corrosion of the cold breath in the forest of the dead, these fragments are no longer much different from garbage.

But Cao Chen still likes to study these fragments when he has nothing to do, and those strange and simple formations on the fragments can always bring unexpected gains to Cao Chen.

After more than three months of research, and occasionally communicating with Huang Shaoyan, Cao Chen had already determined that these fragments were probably some things from the extremely ancient early stage of cultivation.

On the basis of only an empty theory of cultivation, the magic weapon that the predecessors studied step by step can always give people an extremely shocking understanding. Although the refining and formation layout of these magic weapons were extremely rudimentary and even full of loopholes, the thinking and thinking patterns of the predecessors were not found in the current cultivation realm.

Cao Chen didn't understand these joints, but he just thought that without the teachings of his elders, these fragments were excellent teaching materials for him to learn the knowledge of the cultivation realm.

Tired of research, Cao Chen fell asleep. When he woke up, he followed Huang Shaoyan into the forest of the dead and continued to dig a pit.

Now, the place where they dug the pit is getting farther and farther away from Qingyun Valley. If you want to return to Qingyun Valley in the future, it will be a little inconvenient.

The Forest of the Dead was very large, even if it was near the crack in Qingyun Valley, it was enough for Cao Chen and Huang Shaoyan to dig for a long time, but Huang Shaoyan still insisted on digging far away.

Cao Chen understood that this guy was trying to find Yunshang.

Rationally speaking, Cao Chen certainly didn't want to go too deep into the Forest of the Dead. Because she found that the deeper she went, the stronger the evil spirits in the Forest of the Dead. With Cao Chen's current cultivation at the third level of Qi refining, if he was discovered by these evil spirits, if he was extremely unfortunate enough to not find those withered trees that could make the evil spirits temporarily unable to perceive him, he would definitely die.

However, Cao Chen still followed Huang Shaoyan farther and farther.

Anyway, Huang Shaoyan saved his life and is his friend. When a friend is in trouble, he naturally wants to help. In addition to this idea, Cao Chen also has some selfish intentions.

Perhaps, further down, I can't say if I can find Yuetong.

Although Yuetong deceived Cao Chen very badly, Cao Chen still regarded Yuetong as his friend in his heart.

Digging a pit is always a boring thing to do, after all, not every time you dig a pit, you can find any treasure.

When he was really bored, Cao Chen would joke with Huang Shaoyan and say, "Engong, you saved my life, how can I repay you?" ”

"As long as it's not a personal promise, it's okay." Huang Shaoyan also responded jokingly.

"Hey, you're going too far. I'm not interested in making promises, but when you say that, why do you feel like I'm unbearable? Forget it, since you saved my life, I won't make a move on you, and the two of us will be even, and we will not owe each other in the future. ”

"Okay." Huang Shaoyan never expected Cao Chen to repay him anything. has been with Cao Chen for a long time, and he is also used to Cao Chen's occasional scoundrel words.

Time passed, and the two did not continue to go deeper into the Forest of the Dead in the end.

They found that the deeper they went, the more powerful the spirits became, but more and more. It's too dangerous to go deeper. And, more importantly, Qingyun Valley has begun to be completely corroded by the Yin Qi of the Forest of the Dead. Much of the food is no longer edible, and the water is contaminated. The black water doesn't look like it's drinkable.

After dividing a piece of dry food with Cao Chen, Huang Shaoyan licked his interfering lips and said, "What I was most worried about has happened." There is not much food left. As he spoke, he glanced at Cao Chen. He really didn't expect that although Cao Chen was not tall, only up to his chest, he was a full rice bucket, and he was very edible. If not, how can the rest of the food last for another three months? At that time, he may rely on the insights he got from the half piece of jade slip he found before, and successfully break through the ninth layer of the condensation vein, and maybe he will be able to successfully build a foundation. After building the foundation, borrowing Cao Chen's ragged clothes, Huang Shaoyan was seventy percent sure that he could successfully enter Xiaoliang Mountain. Although Xiaoliang Mountain will be eroded by the yin qi of the forest of the dead sooner or later, it can always allow himself and Cao Chen to hold on for a little longer.

Well, now that the food won't last until then.

Cao Chen took a bite of dry food.

It's hard to swallow without water. After chewing for a long time, Cao Chen swallowed it with difficulty, and then said to Huang Shaoyan, "Alas, there is no way, or you can eat me, I can always hold on to the foundation." ”

"Okay." Huang Shaoyan said, "It's a pity, there is no seasoning, it must not be very delicious." ”

"That's good." Cao Chen stopped joking with Huang Shaoyan, thought about it, and said, "You say...... We are not able to pass through the cracks, but ...... Some items, can they be passed? If we can, can we take advantage of the cracks in Xiaoliangshan and exchange some food with the poor ghosts there? ”