Nanakashin Temple –

In the silent grove of the outer courtyard, a pleasant sound of the piano is coming from the depths of the grove, sometimes like a clear stream, sometimes like fresh branches and leaves, or fragrant flowers, the whole outer courtyard now knows, this piano sound can only come from one person, because Ren Pingsheng, who made a big splash in the night of the raid on the ashram, is already the most famous teacher in the whole school. However, he himself did not seem to care much about such a reputation, and his life after that night was still the same as usual, taking lessons during the day and playing the piano at night. These days are more leisurely, because almost the whole class of his teaching has already participated in the registration of the inner courtyard trials, and most of them have gone out to perform tasks these days, and there are no classes, and they play the piano in this silent and uninhabited grove almost all day.

"Mr. Ren, good piano skills. ”

I don't know when, a figure stopped in front of Ren Pingsheng, stopped and listened for a long, long time, and waited until Ren Pingsheng's song was over, and then said slowly. Ren Pingsheng still sat in place, looked up at the stranger figure in front of him, and responded politely:

"Thank you, sir, for your ......"

Before Ren Pingsheng finished speaking, his expression suddenly became unnatural, and everything in the surrounding space seemed to be stagnant, whether it was the noisy cicadas on the tall trees, or the butterflies that landed on the flower buds, or even the reflection of the bright moon reflected on the small pool, they were all frozen in that moment. Ren Pingsheng's face was a little heavy, looking at the man in front of him who was dressed in black and covered his face with a black gauze hat, stood up, bowed solemnly, and said unhurriedly:

"The juniors are rude, I don't know the seniors' honorific names......"

Before Ren Pingsheng finished speaking, he suddenly saw the man in black in front of him stretching out his right hand, and the pitch-black storage ring carried on the middle finger of his right hand was engraved with a unique mark - "Xiao". Seeing this mark, Ren Pingsheng's eyes suddenly became heavy, he swallowed his saliva, and said in a respectful tone:

"Ren, a junior, has seen Mr. Xiao. ”

"I don't like the people over there, but for the sake of you saving Qizhongyuan, I don't care about you, don't tell anyone that I came to you, and I know you have something over there, but I still have to ask you for one thing....."

At this moment, inside the underground cold river-

"A sword—cold weather!"

Xiao Yihan stood in front of this huge ice gate, took a deep breath, and condensed the battle qi in his hand on the long sword, even a thin layer of frost was attached to the blade, and he didn't know how long it had been accumulating, with Xiao Yihan's soft drink, a pitch-black sword shadow immediately slammed into the ice door, and suddenly the mighty sword intent swept wildly in this small space, and even Xiao Yihan himself was forced back a few steps by his sword qi, although he was still not able to completely break through this ice gate, but Xiao Yihan was not discouraged, but showed a smug smile。

When he came here two days ago, he was blocked by this surprisingly strong huge ice gate, and he spent two days here, but he was not idle, trying to break this ice gate on the one hand, and practicing with this ice gate on the other. Since he fought with He Jing, Xiao Yihan has discovered his weakness, although his cold qi and kendo are easy to face opponents of the same level, but he lacks a killing move to win with one blow to enemies with higher cultivation, so in the past two days, he studied carefully, and finally studied his own self-created tricks, this powerful sword down, although it has not completely broken the ice gate, but the rest is just a matter of making up another sword.

Maybe it was the destruction of this ice gate, and the breath behind the ice door was constantly transmitted through the ice door, and even Xiao Yihan had to deal with the cold air carefully, after all, the secret treasure stored behind the ice door could suppress the Xuanyang Gate Ancestor, thinking of this, he took out the purple-red gourd from He Jing's storage ring again, although the blazing breath made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he endured it. The other hand drew the long sword at his waist and slashed towards the huge ice gate in front of him.

"Squeak—"

With a crisp sound, the ice door that had resisted Xiao Yihan for more than two days was finally opened by this sharp sword, behind the huge ice door was a small cold ice room, surrounded by extremely solid, I don't know how many years of cold ice it has existed, the cold here is much colder and more terrifying than the outside world, even Xiao Yihan, who cultivates ice attribute battle qi, has to use all his strength to run the battle qi in his body to barely resist such cold. However, what surprised Xiao Yihan even more was that it was clear that this room had a terrifying cold atmosphere that was completely different from the outside world, but the interior was empty, and there was nothing that could be called a "secret treasure" at a glance. If I really want to say it, it is that this ice room is very suitable for his cultivation environment, but other than that, there is nothing special to be found.

"Is that nothing? that's it? Wait, that's ......."

Xiao Yihan saw the empty room, and said to himself in confusion, it was at this time that his afterglow suddenly swept to the ground in the center of the ice room, inlaid with a crystal clear colorless bead. This bead is about the size of a soybean, and it is transparent, but it has no other features, but Xiao Yihan sensed that something was wrong.

It stands to reason that in a cold environment like the ice room, even if an item that does not have ice attributes itself stays here for a long time, it will be contaminated with a little cold, but Xiao Yihan can't feel the slightest cold on this bead, and even the slightest energy fluctuation can't be detected, it looks like it's just an ordinary bead. But that's it, the more ordinary this bead is, the more Xiao Yihan feels that something is wrong, he leaned down and carefully observed the bead for a long time, but he has never been able to observe anything, the only thing he knows is only one conclusion - this bead is definitely not as simple as it seems.

Xiao Yihan didn't continue to hesitate, the longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it became, after all, he didn't know when the next team from Xuanyangmen would arrive, since there was something strange about this bead, then it would be good to bring him back, and then the matter would be studied slowly. Thinking of this, Xiao Yihan subconsciously wanted to pull the bead out of the ground with his hand, but the moment Xiao Yihan's finger touched the mysterious bead, the mysterious bead seemed to melt into Xiao Yihan's body, and before Xiao Yihan could react, the bead seemed to have merged with him.

"It's ...... What's going on?"

Xiao Yihan was frightened by this sudden happening, the bead actually integrated directly into his body without warning, so frightened that he hurriedly looked inside the direct body, and soon found that there was an extra transparent bead in his dantian in an instant, crystal clear and exuding a mysterious luster, but if you don't really 'see' it by means of internal vision, you can hardly feel the existence of this bead. After repeatedly confirming that this bead did not have any effect on him in his body, Xiao Yihan stood up, looked around, and saw nothing abnormal. Xiao Yihan was almost sure at this time that the mysterious, no, even weird bead in his body should be the secret treasure He Jing said, but this thing was beyond Xiao Yihan's cognition, and he couldn't understand it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yihan was also a lot more relieved, although there was something in his body that had a strange feeling, but it was not a bad thing after all, he put away the long sword, and was about to leave here, suddenly, the place under his feet where the beads were originally inlaid actually opened a narrow secret passage again, to Xiao Yihan's surprise, there was no cold in this secret passage, there was no ice, a small road built of ancient bricks and stones, it seemed to be a road that could lead to other places, and he walked into it driven by curiosity。

I don't know how long it took, Xiao Yihan finally walked to the end of this secret passage, which looked like the lowest end of a valley, and above it was a pitch-black and completely invisible dome, but it was not really the sky, he was still under the ground, and Xiao Yihan still had this self-knowledge. The surrounding temperature has already returned to normal temperature, and even Xiao Yihan, who has been in Hanchuan for several days, is still a little uncomfortable with such a temperature. It is also surrounded by steep rock walls, and it is almost impossible to climb directly.

I don't know how far from the sky, even the top of the cave.

I only know the land under my feet, with a radius of less than a dozen square meters.

Awe-inspiring can be regarded as having a slight feeling of sitting in a well and watching the sky.

"Here, there should be a way out...... There seems to be something up there......"