The sound of light footsteps echoed in the cave, not hurried or slow, Xia Qingyang's expression was not wavering, his eyes were calm as water, and his naturally drooping hands swung back and forth with his walking, drawing a perfect arc, and the center of the arc was the handle of the hunting knife.

A short period of dozens of meters, but at this time it seems extremely long, although he has been playing ambushes and raids in the mountains for ten years, fighting with people, but he does not have much experience, Xia Qingyang still can't do the ultimate realm without revealing a trace of emotion.

His heart couldn't help beating a little faster, the soul power of the ten soul knots in his body was ready to gush out at any time, the white soul star could appear in any position with his thoughts, the arc of the swing of his arms gradually decreased, and the originally light steps began to emit a slightly heavy sound.

However, all these changes are extremely subtle, even Xia Qingyang himself may not be able to fully perceive them, only the most cunning and old beast can catch them in advance, he doesn't believe that the person in the secret has this ability.

It was only two zhang away from the fork in the road, and Xia Qingyang's fallen feet suddenly secretly increased a little force, and the rough soles and the dry ground suddenly had violent friction, which was the only flaw, but Xia Qingyang was full of confidence in the strength of the two sides, and the distance between two zhang was just a blink of an eye for him now.

It is true that the slight air shock caused by the friction sound was drowned out by the air flow brought out by Xia Qingyang's body, and he stepped to the side of the fork in the road, and before his body landed, he twisted in the air.

The hunting knife appeared in his hand at the same time, and with the force of the rotation of his waist and abdomen and the swing of his arm, it slashed down to the corner, leaving a white match in the air, which was a perfect knife, making the corners of Xia Qingyang's mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

But the next moment, his smile froze on his face.

"How is that possible!" he fell to the ground with a look of disbelief, looked at the empty cave, and turned abruptly, but there was still no one there.

Xia Qingyang's brows were tightly furrowed, an unprecedented sense of crisis struck, and it was reasonable that he couldn't find it when the opponent was still breathing, but when he moved quickly in the cave, with the current realm gap between the two sides, it was impossible to find it.

"I'm underestimating you. Xia Qingyang looked at the empty cave, muttered to himself, then collected his thoughts and continued to walk towards the entrance, although the original path has long been forgotten, but the general direction is always remembered.

Despite this, it took Xia Qingyang about an hour to return to the entrance.

"It's a magical labyrinth, and if I hadn't gone deeper, it wouldn't have been easy to get back, but it just proves that my guess was right. Xia Qingyang did not rush to find the map, but found a place with a wide field of vision, and sat down with his back against the cave wall.

After walking for a long time, I was also a little hungry, so I took out a snack from my arms, took off the water bladder on my waist, hurriedly dealt with a few mouthfuls, and then held the hunting knife in my hand, and searched for it along the inside of the cave without missing an inch.

The area at the entrance of the cave is not as neat as the inside of the labyrinth, weeds and rocks can be seen everywhere, just like an ordinary cave, Xia Qingyang's eyes wandered back and forth, not letting go of a little clue, and soon he had a harvest.

In a weedy pile, next to a few rocks, there was a piece of worn-out paper, the size of a palm, which would only be regarded as a piece of waste paper that was thrown away if you didn't pay attention.

Xia Qingyang was overjoyed, but the surface was very calm, and after waiting for a while, he got up and slowly walked to the side of the paper, leaned over to pick it up, looked at it, and finally smiled, sure enough, it was a map, although it was incomplete, but it was better than breaking in without a purpose.

He checked the map, observed the initial journey, and it was indeed exactly the same, wrote it down, put it in his arms, glanced around, and whispered to himself: "Since you don't have the courage to make a move, why follow up." With that, he smiled faintly and got back on the road.

With the guidance of the map, Xia Qingyang's travel speed was greatly improved, and he soon went hundreds of meters deeper, but by here, the incomplete map had lost its effect, and in the face of multiple forks in the road, Xia Qingyang learned well this time and began to search nearby.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to find a piece of paper in a depression above his head, another broken map, which happened to be seamlessly connected with the previous one, and Xia Qingyang was inevitably a little proud at this time.

After going deep into the labyrinth for thousands of kilometers like this, Xia Qingyang held three broken maps in his hand, and he already knew the area he had walked through, but the fourth map had not been found for a long time.

But Xia Qingyang, who had experience and tasted the sweetness, did not rush to overturn his guess, and almost stubbornly searched inch by inch at a narrow fork in the road, and finally let him find a clue, there is an area above the cave wall that is quite dark, and it is nothing if you don't look closely, if you look closely, you will find that it does look out of place.

Reaching out and touching it, the cold and slippery feeling is no different from the cave wall, but when you hit it hard, the sound is exceptionally crisp, not as thick as other areas, Xia Qingyang understands that it is because the back of this cave wall is empty.

"Looks like this map must be behind the walls of this cave. Xia Qingyang reached out to touch the dagger, but felt empty, and then remembered that he had given it to Ji Zhong, although the hunting knife was sharp, it was not suitable for digging.

"Ho!" Xia Qingyang sat on the horse with his waist down, pushed his palms flat against the cave wall, gathered all his strength, and pushed forward.

"Squeak-" The piercing friction sound was very uncomfortable, but Xia Qingyang was pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect to push it, and the cave wall moved, he took a closer look, and where the cave wall met the surroundings, there was a slight crack.

With hope, Xia Qingyang mustered all his strength and pushed one by one, but he didn't want this push to push hundreds of times, the squeaky sound came and went, and the cracks were indeed gradually expanding, but there were still 108,000 miles away from the extent that a person could pass through.

"How long is this going to be pushed?" Xia Qingyang couldn't help but feel a little depressed, he is now a one-star soul master, his arms have the strength of a thousand catties, and he is still working so hard, if he is an ordinary person, I am afraid that he may not be able to push it away for three days and three nights.

After drinking some water to replenish his water, Xia Qingyang stopped for a while, thinking about countermeasures, but he didn't come up with a good way to face the bare cave wall for a long time.

In desperation, Xia Qingyang stood up and retreated a few hundred times, and the crack gradually became a fist wide, but the inside was not like the cave outside, and there was a special spar on the top of the cave to provide light, and it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

"It can't be that I guessed wrong, right?" Xia Qingyang even began to doubt his judgment, but there was no other way to think about it, not to mention that he had rarely given up halfway in doing things, since it had reached this point, he had to continue to push, how could he see what was inside.

In this way, Xia Qingyang pushed and rested, pushing back and forth more than a thousand times in total, with his current strength and physical strength, his tired arms were sore, and it was almost difficult to lift up, but he finally pushed the gap between the cave walls to half a foot wide, and he could squeeze into it sideways.

Xia Qingyang didn't rush in, he sat down and rested for a while, adjusted his state, stretched the hunting knife into it first, and observed the situation inside through the reflection.

The space behind the cave wall is not large, only a square foot, except for a stone platform in the middle, there is nothing.

After Xia Qingyang was sure that there was no danger, he turned sideways into the hole within the cave and went straight to the stone platform, but there was no paper on it, but a square jade the size of a thumb belly, with strange patterns engraved on it.

Picked up the jade and looked at it, Xia Qingyang didn't know what it was, and when he looked down, he found a few lines of small characters engraved on the stone platform: You can come here, which means that you are an extremely careful and persevering person.

Xia Qingyang couldn't help blushing a little, but he had the idea of giving up, and this was also due to the fact that he was a one-star soul master, if he still had the same strength as before, he didn't dare to say that he could insist on pushing the cave wall away.

Read on: there is no maze map here, as you don't need a map for the rest of the journey, and as a reward for you, give you a soul talisman that can be crushed in case of danger to save your life, because you will encounter beasts or even monsters in front of you.

"Boring!" This is Xia Qingyang's first reaction after reading it, he came in so hard, and in the end he just got such a dispensable thing, he didn't understand the soul rune, so he didn't know the preciousness and function of the soul rune.

This design is indeed not a step that must be solved through the maze, but as an assessment of perseverance in the Brave Martial Arts and Wisdom Letter, it is also a crucial content, and as a reward, it is not easy to clearly inform the road ahead without a map, plus a soul talisman, it is definitely a cost-effective deal, but Xia Qingyang can't understand it now.

He put away the soul talisman a little stupidly, turned around and drilled out, thinking about the beasts and even demon beasts in front of him, how to deal with them in case he encountered them.

Half of his body had just come out, and his head was still tilted inward, Xia Qingyang suddenly felt an alarm in his heart, the whole person was like falling into an ice cave, and a cold qi directly locked on him, and the arm stretched out outside had clearly felt the fierce murderous aura cutting through the skin.

"It's careless!" Xia Qingyang didn't have time to regret it, but fortunately, he was used to holding the hunting knife in his right hand, and without thinking, the white soul star appeared on the back of his right hand, and infinitely close to the finger position, and the hunting knife made a clanging and trembling sound.

"What the hell!" came an old exclamation, followed by the sound of the wind in the distance.

"When-" The hunting knife fell to the ground, and Xia Qingyang's right arm was cut in half by a sharp weapon, embedded in it, if it wasn't for the hunting knife, I am afraid that it would have been cut off directly.

Xia Qingyang endured the pain and doubts, got out, picked up the hunting knife on the ground with his left hand for the first time, and looked up into the distance.

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