"Next, I will retreat for a period of time, you two will protect the Dharma for me, Xiao Jiang can ask Master Yuding if he doesn't understand anything in practice, do you understand?"

"Understood!"

"That's good."

After instructing these Natsuki to officially start the retreat.

The two of them guarded outside the cave, and Natsuki used the stone gate and formation to completely seal the cave.

I don't know how many years this retreat will be, but after breaking the pass, he Xia Shu will definitely be famous in the west.

Over the years, the white snake in front of Jinxia Cave has gone through the cold and heat, and together with a green snake encountered on the way, it came to a canyon outside Yongzhou City.

This canyon is called Snake Valley, I heard that there is a kind of strange snake here, black and white, touch the grass and trees to die, it can be described as highly poisonous, so it is called Snake Valley, but this is just a rumor of folk humans, and the rumor of the demon world is not like that.

Among the monsters who awakened their wisdom, it is said that there is a mysterious cave in the Snake Valley called the Snake Cave, and the owner of the Snake Cave, the Snake Mother, is a big demon, practicing the legendary Taiyin Sutra, and the magic power is amazing.

Now the snake mother has opened the door, and the people who have awakened their wisdom can worship under her door regardless of whether they have cultivated into human form or not.

On that day, when she heard the Fa White Snake in front of Jinxia Cave, she knew that there was no possibility of worshipping under the immortal sect of Yuquan Mountain, but what she gained that day was not small, and she felt that there was not much time left before she could transform into a shape, so she wanted to choose a good teacher to worship under her door.

After wandering for half a year, inquiring about the news in many ways, the white snake knew that the snake mother with the Taiyin Sutra was her best choice, so she embarked on the road to Yongzhou.

Cold and summer, year after year, Tang monks and apprentices have traveled all the way west, and have quietly passed the seventeen or eighteen difficulties, and there is still no movement in the direction of Yuquan Mountain.

In front of the sealed cave door, the red queen who was sitting cross-legged on the ground lowered his head, obviously entering a low-power standby state, and Xiao Jiang listened to lectures in the Jinxia Cave every day.

With the guidance of Yuding Zhenren, Xiao Jiang's strength has progressed rapidly, and he is more handy with the power of the phoenix that melts into the bloodline, but he always feels that something is missing in his life.

In the spring of the fourth year, the ice and snow melted on Yuquan Mountain, and the murmuring mountain spring water began to flow again, and a touch of spring color also appeared on the branches.

The low-power dormant red queen only thought that today was another ordinary day, but suddenly she opened her eyes and turned to look at the cave behind her.

There's an immense power there.

"Boom~~"

There was a sudden explosion and the stone gate shattered instantly, and the red queen quickly retreated, and a figure standing in the dust in the line of sight directly turned into a rainbow, projecting the direction of the sky.

"Hum~~"

With a turn of rainbow light, seventy-two changes evolved directly in mid-air.

"Journey to the West" has never made it clear that the eighty-nine Xuangong is actually the seventy-two changes of the earth, because it has been implied that it is obvious enough, and the number of eight or nine is not seventy-two, so there was no winner at all in the battle of changes between Yang Jian and Sun Wukong five hundred years ago.

Seventy-two is the number of earth evils, not a real reference, eight or nine Xuangong evolves all things in the world with the way of change, and leads directly to the supreme avenue, which can be called mysterious.

At the moment when the vision occurred, two figures, an old man and a young one, also rushed out of the Jinxia Cave.

"Grandpa, is that Dad?"

Xiao Jiang pointed to the sky and looked up and asked.

"Well, four years of spring and autumn have passed in a hurry, and it seems that his eight or nine Xuangong has made a breakthrough."

Yuding Zhenren nodded, the grass, trees, mountains and stones, birds and beasts, men, women and children were constantly changing, and he could see the changes in Xia Shu's realm at the moment.

"Huh~~"

The process of evolution did not last long, and at the end of the day, Xia Shu directly turned into a ray of light and appeared in front of the Jade Ding Zhenren.

"I've seen the master, but I haven't seen it for four years, and the disciple has made a breakthrough!"

Xia Shu stepped forward and saluted, compared to the moment when he first became an immortal, the momentum of the whole person became more restrained, and the dazzling light in his eyes was also hidden at this moment, as if he had reached a new realm.

At this moment, Xia Shu is still a Taiyi True Immortal, but his combat power cannot be the same as at the beginning.

Just like five hundred years ago, a certain Taiyi Scattered Immortal turned the Three Realms upside down with his own strength.

The realm returns to the realm, the combat power returns to the combat power, those with a low realm can also kill a peerless god of war by fighting, and those with a high realm can also be a golden immortal who is dedicated to cultivating the avenue and has never touched the matter of swords.

Not to mention the Journey to the West, it was not uncommon to see people in the War of the Gods, among which the most famous were the Sect Interceptors.

Of course, they were killed, and there were other people who killed them.

After four years of penance, the strength of extreme growth also made Xia Shu's heart rise heroic.

Maybe he should go to the mouth of the river? Have a fight with his cheap senior brother Erlang God to see who is strong and who is weak?

Let's talk about this later, Natsuki's combat experience in this world is only the battle with the multi-eyed golden dragon, and he doesn't want to be beaten up because of his lack of experience, so much shameless.

"Yes, yes, but what are your plans for the future?"

Yuding Zhenren stroked his beard and asked, Yicheng went down the mountain is his tradition of teaching, so he asked.

"The disciple has no plans, and I ask the master for some advice."

"The calamity has risen again, and the people in our realm do not want to be involved in it, so they will lock the mountain gate and hide from the world, but you are different, as a person outside the realm, you can go anywhere in the world and the world."

This is also Natsuki's advantage, he is not limited by this world.

Those who are not on the list of gods are basically hidden, which is also one of the reasons why the demons of the four continents rise together.

"As a teacher, I don't know when you will leave this world, but before leaving, you can clear a few demons for the common people in the world, and you will end the cause and effect between you and my master and apprentice."

When Yuding Zhenren accepted Xia Shu as an apprentice, he didn't think about any return, but after preaching, teaching, and solving doubts, the two had a master-apprentice relationship, and the cause and effect were over.

Now what he is talking about is teaching Xia Shu how to do this cause and effect, just like the Bodhi Patriarch and Sun Wukong back then.

"Master!"

"Needless to say, let's do it!"

Yuding Zhenren swept away the dust and turned to leave, leaving only Natsuki and Xiao Jiang who didn't understand what was happening.

"Dad, what's wrong with my grandfather?"

"Nothing, it's just that we're getting out of here."

Xia Shu turned to look at the vast mountains of Yuquan Mountain, although he had been here for four years, he was very unfamiliar with every grass and tree here as he was busy cultivating.

In the same way, he didn't stay with Yuding Zhenren as long as Xiao Jiang, which is a pity,

"Your Excellency the Administrator!"

The Red Queen flew in from a distance, and the three of them were together again.

"Well, let's go."

Xia Shu flicked his sleeves and wrapped the two of them in the clouds, and turned around and bowed three times in the direction of Jinxia Cave before driving away in the fog.

The love between him and Yuding Zhenren is here, and they may never meet again after being separated forever.

This may be the helplessness of the traverser, my father realized it back then, and now it's his turn.