Time passes like a white horse.

Hundreds of days and nights have passed, and Lin Zheng has been locked up in the patio for two years now.

Lin Zheng opened his eyes and stood up, and Xiao Hei circled affectionately around him.

Lin Zheng's height has grown a lot, it is already close to 1.7 meters, and if you don't look at the terrible scars on his body due to burns, he is also a handsome and beautiful young man.

And the black snake Xiao Hei who fell from the patio half a year ago has grown from a small snake of less than three feet to a long snake of more than 30 feet.

During this period, Lin Zheng made rapid progress, and just today he broke through to the ninth level of Qi training, and the black snake Xiao Hei was even more terrifying, having reached the peak of the first-level spirit beast, and was only one step away from breaking through to become a second-level demonic beast.

Lin Zheng went from one to nine years of Qi cultivation by relying on penance day after day and night, while Xiao Hei only occasionally swallowed the medicinal power of some pills except for snoring and sleeping, and this talent was beyond Lin Zheng's reach.

It's a pity that the super tonic pill is about to be absorbed by Xiao Hei, and at this time, there are less than two hundred pills left in Lin Zheng's hand, and Lin Zheng will soon starve to death if he doesn't want to go out.

At this time, Lin Zheng walked back and forth in the patio and muttered to himself: "It stands to reason that after the rainwater falls into the well, the patio should be filled, but since the water is discharged, it means that there is a secret door or secret room." ”

But Lin Zheng searched countless times in the past three years, but he didn't find anything unusual about the incomparably smooth walls washed by the rain.

The main reason is that it is extremely dark under this patio, only there is a trace of light directly below the well, how can Lin Zheng find the mechanism just by groping around.

At this moment, Lin Zheng, who was walking casually, suddenly found that the touch of a piece of bluestone under his feet was a little different, because he couldn't see in the dark, so he knelt on the ground and groped carefully.

There are some lines on this bluestone slab, and Lin Zheng, who was groping, suddenly felt that these lines were somewhat familiar.

The memory goes back to the scene when I met Lin Yan and passed through the mountain temple.

"There are four hexagrams on the left above this white fish, and there are four hexagrams on the left, and there are four hexagrams on the left side of the black fish: Kun, Gen, Kan, and Xun. The head and tail of the white fish are alive, and the head and tail of the black fish are dead, and the mystery is abnormal."

Lin Zheng still clearly remembers what Lin Yan said at that time.

"Black and white fish, this is black and white fish. Lin Zheng shouted with some excitement.

Lin Zheng turned the bluestone slab depicting black and white fish with force, making a squeaky sound.

The fingers rubbed the edge of the slate to find the two hexagrams of dry and shock, and turned them in turn.

"Boom"

There was a loud noise from the smooth wall, and several ancient characters on the wall that Lin Zheng couldn't understand emitted a golden light, and then the walls slowly parted, and the light came out, forming a secret passage.

"Blackie, we have a chance to go out. Lin Zheng excitedly shouted at the little black coiled on his body and entered the secret passage.

The secret passage is very long, and on both sides are the everlasting lamps that have been burning for thousands of years, emitting a faint firelight.

Lin Zheng followed the light to the end of the secret passage and saw an iron door that had long been corroded by time, and Lin Zheng gently pushed it open.

There was another thing inside the door, and there was a spacious hall hidden.

Dozens of puppet warriors with long knives in the main hall stood in two columns, the huge pool flowed with turquoise water, more than a dozen birds and beasts of different sizes were lying quietly on their stomachs, and in the center of the hall was a stone platform with three iron boxes on it.

This beast is very cleverly made, each corner has its own use, and the wooden parts are perfectly connected, the smallest is only about 30 centimeters, and the largest is 30 meters high.

"It's so spectacular, what the hell is this?" Lin Zheng looked at the scene in front of him and sighed, not to mention that he was a peasant boy who had never seen the world, I am afraid that searching the entire dynasty may not be able to find someone who knows the origin and usefulness of this thing.

Lin Zheng hung Xiao Hei around his neck and walked towards the center of the main hall.

Lin Zheng didn't notice that after he had just stepped out, a certain part of the puppet warrior and the machine beast flashed blue light, and then white flames appeared in his eyes.

"Zilala"

"Zilala"

At this moment, the puppet warriors standing on both sides of the main hall suddenly turned their heads strangely to face Lin Zheng, and waved their long knives and walked towards Lin Zheng step by step.

This was not the end, the dozen or so trap beasts also stood up from their knees, the birds flew high, and the beasts took an attack stance. There was a hoarse roar like metal grinding.

"Oh, my mother"

Lin Zheng screamed in fright, and ran towards the position of the iron gate when he came in.

"Bell. ”

But just when Lin Zheng was about to escape, the iron door suddenly closed, and no matter how Lin Zheng knocked it, he couldn't open it.

"Damn" Lin Zheng cursed, leaning against the iron gate and having no way out.

At this time, many puppet warriors and trap beasts formed an encirclement to trap Lin Zheng firmly, and this time he couldn't escape.

Lin Zheng took Xiao Hei off his neck with his left hand and hid it behind him, closed his eyes and raised his right arm in an attempt to resist the puppet warrior's long knife and the sharp claws of the trap beast

"Puff puff puff"

The movements of the trap beast and the puppet warrior came to an abrupt halt, the blue light went out, and the white flames in their eye sockets vanished.

These puppets have been guarding this place for thousands of years, and even if there are remnants of energy in the core that drives them, there aren't too many of them.

From discovering Lin Zheng's invasion to surrounding the latter, their energy had been exhausted in just a few breaths.

"Thankfully, I almost left my life here. Lin Zheng was in a big disaster, panting and slumped on the ground and wiped a cold sweat that scared out.

When he got up again, the puppet was no longer able to stop him, and Lin Zheng easily came to the stone platform in the center of the main hall.

"With such a ferocious monster guarding it, the contents of these three iron boxes are certainly not ordinary. Lin Zheng stretched out his hand to open the box, and the moment his fingers touched the box, the image of a man dressed as a scholar suddenly appeared.

"Housheng, congratulations on your qualifications to become my heir. ”

Lin Zheng was so frightened by the sudden image that he took two steps back, only to realize that it was just a phantom.

Lin Zheng's experience today is very thrilling and bumpy, if it weren't for his strong ability to bear, he would have been scared stupid a long time ago.

The man has a bookish aura unique to a scholar, but there is a trace of uninhibited domineering looking down on the common people between his eyebrows.

He was just an image, talking to himself.

"My name is Yi Yan, born in the ninth year of Peng Ze, I was a fallen talent to create a mechanism by chance, the world calls me Yanshi, one of the nine martial saints in the world, the great catastrophe once in a thousand years is approaching, I know that I will die in this battle, I have lived for countless years, I have already seen through life and death, death is not terrible for me, but I regret that I have never had a disciple in my life. In order to prevent the trick from being lost, I built a secret room here and added some small tests to find the successor. ”

"The puppets and trap beasts I left behind will be greatly reduced in strength when uncontrolled, but they still have a lot of power, and if you want to defeat them, you need at least the peak strength of the Martial King, and this kind of strength will not ruin my reputation if you become my disciple. ”

Lin Zheng couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, Peng Ze's era was nearly a thousand years ago, and these puppets were obviously lucky to survive because of the loss of power.

Otherwise, even the great masters of the peak realm of the Martial King can only be barely counted as his disciples, how can he Lin Zheng enter his magic eye with a small Qi Cultivation Ninefold.

You must know that the most powerful person he has ever seen is only Lin Wei in the realm of the Great Martial Master, and the Great Martial Master is a heaven and an underground compared to the Martial King, let alone the legendary Martial Saint.

Lin Zheng knew that this was a big opportunity, and it was a big opportunity to make earth-shaking changes in his cultivation path.

The image disappeared as soon as he finished speaking, and Lin Zheng did not rush to check the three iron boxes, but quietly digested the huge information contained in the words of the martial saint Yiyan.

After clarifying his thoughts, Lin Zheng came to two conclusions.

First: If you cultivate to the realm of martial saints, you can survive for countless years, which is Lin Zheng's dream - immortality.

Second: Every thousand years, there will be a great catastrophe that even the Martial Saint cannot be spared, if you think about it, each era is bounded by a thousand years, and when a thousand years come, it will be destroyed and the next era will be opened, which may be related to the great catastrophe mentioned by Yi Yan. Since the beginning of the Peng Ze era, there are now only eighteen years left before the next catastrophe comes.

Of course, this is just Lin Zheng's speculation, and he will not affect his state of mind because of these things.