"Are you content, when the strong men of the Dragon Palace arrive, do you still have the life to discuss these?" The old man kept in his hands, and the tips of his right index finger and middle finger sacrificed two traces of vitality, turned into a pair of scissors, cut off the stem of the ground fruit in front of him, and held the fruit firmly into the black brocade box in the palm of his left hand.

Xi Xiao swept his eyes and caught a glimpse of the surging insect soil at the rhizome that had become a thin layer. The insects, which used to be as slender as bamboo sticks, are now as thick as thumbs, and they are still devouring each other, and even if there is only one mouthpart left, they do not stop chewing, and they seem to have no pain.

Most of the worms that were chewed turned into crumbs, fell on the dense roots, and were frantically sucked by the roots, and disappeared into the rhizomes in the blink of an eye. In some places, the insect soil became extremely thin, revealing a little white debris, and Xi Xiao took a closer look and found a white phalange.

The weather was only slightly cool, but Xi Xiao felt like falling into an ice cave.

"Wait a minute. The old man did not look back, but continued to walk towards the next fruit.

When the old man picked all the fruits, there was no one complete insect on the ground, either only half of it was left, or only a head was left, and it was still grinning and squirming towards the nearest kind, and the insects were all white bones, but they were all stumps and broken arms, and Xi Xiao roughly swept it, and there were more than fifty skulls on the broken ground.

"Let's go~" The old man and the girl quickly packed up the things in the big and small stone houses, and walked straight out of the valley, and Xi Xiao had to follow step by step.

The brightly colored flowers behind them lost their nutrient supply and quickly decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a cold wind blew, and the withered flowers decomposed silently, turning into particles of dust and fluttering in the wind, and the three of them had just walked out of the valley.

Forty-one days after leaving the valley, they came to a vast desert, where the grass was not deep, only black and yellow sea rocks and sea sand everywhere.

"It's finally here!" The three of them came to a stop in front of a pile of strange rocks and boulders, and the old man led the way in the cracks of the boulders, zigzag and walked for more than two hundred feet. She began to climb and jump along the gentle slope of the boulder face, and the old woman was short in stature, but she was also extremely light and flexible.

Xi Xiao was injured and almost fell off the boulder several times, but fortunately, the old woman dragged him every time. In this way, more than 200 zhang distance on the top of the boulder, the top surface has become more and more flat, and there have been traces of artificial polishing, and there are also figures flickering not far away.

"Kill the six ghosts!" shouted the other side.

"Three swallows!" replied the old man.

"It's the door master!" "The door master is back!" cheers came and went, and Dao Dao's figure flashed and ran towards the three of them.

Xi Xiao saw that there were seven people who came, all dressed in white, wearing high crowns, full of energy, quite similar to the old man's bearing, a bit of the demeanor of a child of a family, and the crooked way of the evil sect that others said.

"For half a year. Have you cultivated well?" the old man looked around at everyone with a smile, "Hey, what about your junior brother?"

Everyone's smile froze instantly, and then showed a look of grief and indignation, and many people held back their tears, but the tears still flowed down without a fight.

Seeing that no one answered, the old man stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the young man in front of him, "Feng Yu, you are their brother, you say, what's wrong with Ba'er!"

"Master!" The young man knelt down with a puff and choked up: "The eighth child didn't listen to everyone's advice, so he had to go to Xilin Lao'er to seek revenge, and three months ago, while everyone was unprepared, he quietly slipped out... His Soul Stone... The Soul Stone was extinguished a month ago."

Xi Xiao heard the name of Xilin Lao'er, and couldn't help frowning slightly, this person is the henchman of Xi's vast land, Zhen Nanhou.

When the old woman heard this, she cried out sadly, "Ba'er.. Ba'er.. You suffered this misfortune at a young age... God doesn't open his eyes.. I swear to kill the Xilin dog thief alive. Sacrifice to you with his head.."

The old man looked up to the sky and sighed, looked sideways and scolded: "Okay! Life and death are fateful, and the dignified male and female are vicious, how can you cry like this!"

"I treat Ba'er as my own, I can't be so cold-blooded and ruthless!" the old woman stopped crying and glared at the old man viciously.

The old man turned a deaf ear and walked in the direction where the apprentice came, and the two young men in white led the old woman with the girl's figure to follow, and Xi Xiao had to follow step by step, attracting the other men in white to look sideways.

The top of the boulder pile has been manually chiseled, and the gaps have been filled, and the walk is as if walking on the ground. Walk forward more than 100 zhang distance, everyone came to a square boulder with a length and width of three zhang, there is a square crypt half a zhang wide in the center, faintly visible at the mouth of the hole to pick up steps, the old man is familiar with the first to drill in.

There are a total of ninety-nine steps, and the rock bodies on both sides are inlaid with night pearls of different sizes, barely illuminating the passage. Connecting with the last step of the stairs, is a square of acres and sizes, more than two zhang high, there are more than 100 small stone rooms chiseled on the rock mass on three sides, a curtain mat is simply hung on the door of the room, and nearly 100 disciples dressed in white clothes come out behind the curtain mat at this moment, and they keep saluting the male and female poisonous evil.

The male shook his head, the female was indifferent, turned around and walked forward for more than ten zhang, and came to the entrance of the steps leading to the second floor of the square, with a total of 88 steps, connecting the square and the stone room of the same size.

The third layer of seventy-seven steps, the square is planted with all kinds of colorful flowers and herbs, Xi Xiao studied the "Hundred Herbs Sutra", and knew nearly half of them, all of which are highly poisonous things, and there are more than 40 stone rooms.

The fourth layer is sixty-six steps, dozens of half-zhang wide place-shaped deep pits on the square, the pit is bred with various poisons such as spiders, centipedes, colorful giant snakes, etc., sizzling endlessly, and the three walls are chiseled into strip-shaped grooves, and all kinds of books and notes are placed.

On the fifth floor, there are fifty-five steps, and there are one hundred and ten furnaces on the square, and there are two styles, one is round with a top and no ears, and the other is a square opening with two ears. A small number of Yuanding is emitting a trace of white smoke, refining the poison of medicinal herbs, and there are more than 20 stone rooms.

This huge stone, which can accommodate the entire sect, is far more huge than Xi Xiao imagined, and the bare ground is only a tip, less than one percent of the stone body.

The old man stopped on the fifth floor, looked at the eldest apprentice Feng Yu and pointed at Xi Xiao and said, "You settle this son, and continue to be in charge of the affairs of the door in the near future, I have important matters to discuss with the old woman." ”

Feng Yu said yes, and the men in white watched the two elders continue to descend to the sixth floor until the figure disappeared, and then they all looked at Xi Xiao.

"Are you the master's new land apprentice?" Feng Yu said politely.

"Hmm.. I made an agreement with the two seniors to do a test of the poison of the Earth Human Gu. Xi Xiao said truthfully.

"Oh." Suddenly, half of them cast envious eyes, and half of them had a suffocating look, but no one said a word, and began to disperse.

Feng Yu lived in the innermost room on the fifth floor, settled Xi Xiao next door, and found two young people who had just entered the deep sea realm to be on duty in front of the door, and called it for Xi Xiao to call.

After three days like this, the male and female took Xi Xiao to the sixth layer. The square is only half an acre in size, and there is nothing except for a huge ball in the field.

The round ball is made of stainless steel, more than two feet high, the workmanship is extremely fine, there is no trace of gaps in nature, and there is an arc groove at the bottom of the ball to fix it.

"I agreed with the old woman that I would test the poison today. The old man said slowly, "The name of this thing is called the Breathless Ball." Hence the name, in its fully closed state, it will be completely cut off from all contact with the outside world, and even a line of air flow will not be able to invade. ”

"The old woman will constantly inject poison gas into the ball of breath, and if you can stay in the ball for seven hundred and forty-nine days without dying, you have passed the test. ”

"If you don't die, you can leave?" said Xi Xiao tentatively.

"Of course. The old man bowed his head and said, "You can also choose to stay and inherit my mantle." ”

"Being able to resist the poisonous gas and not dying, is the innate genius of refining poison, and the hard work of the day after tomorrow is important, but sometimes without talent, it is extremely difficult to reach the peak!" The dwarf old woman added: "We have accepted a total of sixteen apprentices, because of the poison test, the original six children have become the current three children, and the nine children have become the current five children, alas.."

Xi Xiao secretly said badly, whether this poison test is dead or alive, I'm afraid it won't end well, it's really just out of the tiger's den and into the wolf pit.

Under the signal of the old man's eyes, the old woman walked to the breathless ball, stretched out her hand to inject the vitality into the ball, and after a breath, the surface of the ball began to exude a faint blue, and the complex formation patterns were all over the ball body.