Half a year later.

Winter in the Cangling Continent has arrived.

On the first day of the last month of the year, a burst of strong cold air that had not been seen in a hundred years blew through the westernmost part of the entire Cangling Continent, enveloping the entire Jianyan Country, as well as the northwest of the Cangling Kingdom and the southwestern part of the Canglan Kingdom.

Cangling Country is located in the middle of the Cangling Continent, and the climate of the whole country is mild and humid for most of the year, with very few extremely cold, extremely hot and extremely dry weather. From the perspective of the geography of the Cangling Continent, the country is divided into five major regions, namely the Northwest Region, the Northeast Region, the Southern Region, the Southeast Region, and the Central Region centered on the national capital, Cangling City. At this moment, the three provinces in the entire northwest region, as well as the northern part of the central region, including Cangling City, were all affected by this strong cold air from the westernmost part of the whole continent, and the temperature fell below the lowest point ever.

Cangling City, it snowed for the first time. In the past hundred years, even on the coldest days of winter, the temperature in Cangling City has never dropped below freezing. Even if there is occasional snow, it is only a very slight sleet, as fine as dust, as soft as a lady, and it melts when it lands, leaving no trace.

And now, for the first time, the snow white color covered the entire Cangling City. Countless high-rise buildings, magnificent halls, and vast bazaars have all been draped in a layer of white robes. The windows were covered with ice, the trees were covered with snow, and even the stone steps in front of the courtyard were stained white. The sky turned gray, and countless granular snowflakes fluttered in the air, filling the sky with gray clouds, and even the birds were shielded from them. On the wide road, horses and carriages no longer gallop freely, but move slowly, silently adding a series of footprints to the muddy and gray snowy road. People put on thick robes and coats, hats and gloves and went on with their lives in the snow. There is an atmosphere of tranquility throughout the city.

Cangling City has a total of fourteen city gates, which are located in the east, west, north and south. Four in the southeast and three in the northwest. It was about 10 a.m. There were several long queues at the middle gate of the northern gate of Cangling City.

I don't know why, on the road outside the city gate, dozens of huge circular deep pits with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a depth of nearly 10 meters suddenly appeared. These craters covered almost the entire length of the road, and even the area around them began to crack and sink. They appeared as if out of thin air, without warning or impact. Several law enforcement teams and psychic teams have blocked the main road and are surrounding the pit for analysis and investigation. The people who left the city formed several long lines, some walking, some riding on horseback and some riding in horse-drawn carriages. Law enforcement and patrols around the gates are diverting people who are about to leave the city, diverting them or directing them to detours.

In one of the processions of walkers, there was a man in a gray robe.

He was slender, tall but not big, as thin as a bamboo pole. He wore a light gray turban around his head, a gray and black mask on his face, a gray-white robe as wide as a sack, and a dark gray cloak with holes around his back. All over the body, exposed to the outside, are only a pair of gray eyes mixed with a little dark blue.

Most of the people who walked out of the city were ordinary civilians, and there were very few middle and high-level spiritual masters or wealthy people. In the ranks of the Pacers, his outfit can only be described as bizarre. But for some reason, no one looked at him as if he didn't exist at all. What's even more bizarre is that there is not a single trace of him being wet with snowflakes. The robes he was wearing, though old, were not dirty at all, and were as dry as if they had just been roasted by the fire, and there was no sign of wetting. But no one noticed his abnormality.

He just stood in the long line of walkers, moving forward little by little. It took him nearly ten minutes before he moved to the middle of the gate.

"Documents. One of the guards on the left side of the gate extended his hand to him.

He turned his head, put his thin, * hand into the pocket of his robe, and took out a yellow pamphlet half the size of a palm, and handed it to the guard. The guard glanced at him and motioned for him to pass.

He followed one of the teams around the pit-ridden road, walked a few dozen paces, and then immediately took off into the air and flew northeast. After flying a few hundred meters, his figure disappeared into thin air. No one noticed that there was an additional flyer in the air, only a few people behind them saw that a piece of space in front of them seemed to distort twice, and a figure disappeared. They all thought they were dazzled.

Fifteen kilometers northeast of Cangling City.

An oval-shaped valley resembling an inkstone sits between the arc-shaped mountains that surround it. In the middle of the valley is a military camp, dozens of tents and simple tents are located on both sides of the valley, and a road is vacated in the middle that leads to a cave in the middle of the valley. There is no special training ground in this barracks, but there is an open-air training ground about the size of the barracks, located in the middle of the two barracks.

Nearly a hundred spirit masters were dividing into several groups to cultivate on the training ground. Instead of wearing ordinary military uniforms or armor, they wore black leather uniforms with golden vertical stripes. Each spirit master is printed with the national emblem of the Cangling Kingdom and the powerful word "Cangling" on the chest, and the pattern of the mother core and the twelve sub-cores is printed on the back. They were divided into several teams according to their different elemental attributes, and they cultivated in different positions on the training ground. The cultivation content of each team is different, and the cultivation method is also different. The only thing they have in common is that they all release their own spirit circles, and each of them has five spirit circles on them. It turned out to be a powerful spirit division army.

The gray-robed man landed on top of a low cliff at the entrance to the valley. Strictly speaking, there are no roads in and out of this valley, only through the cliffs. No one is allowed to fly in or out of the valley without permission. All the daily necessities and materials of the troops in the valley were transported by middle and high-level spirit masters using their own spiritual power or space compression technology.

On each side of the cliff stood five spirit masters in black leather uniforms. The gray-robed man took two steps forward, took out another pamphlet from the pocket of his robe, and handed it to the fifth spirit master on the left. The booklet is also the size of a palm, but its cover is green, and the front is embroidered with a pattern of the mother nucleus in gold thread.

The spirit master, dressed in a black leather military uniform, took the booklet, looked at it carefully, handed it back to the gray-robed man, and gave him a military salute.

"You please. ”

The gray-robed man returned the salute and jumped off the cliff. He didn't make himself invisible anymore, nor did he speed up, he just used his spiritual power to control his body and let himself fall slowly. This cliff is not very high, the vertical height is about one or two hundred meters.

He landed directly on the main road in the middle of the valley and walked along the main road towards the cave. Along the way, uniformed spirits continued to emerge from the barracks, either alone or in formation, but no one paid any attention to him.

He walked all the way to the door of the cave. The entrance to the cave is not large, and from the outside, it can only accommodate one adult at a time. The entrance to the cave is a stone gate that is opened or closed by spiritual power. The stone door is engraved with a sharp object with the pattern of the mother nucleus and the twelve sub-nuclei. Standing in the doorway stood two gatekeepers, also dressed in black leather uniforms.

He showed his green papers again. The two gatekeepers read the documents, opened their hands, and each released a wave of spiritual power, opened the stone door, and invited him in.

The cave was pitch black, and you could almost say you couldn't see your fingers. He raised his right arm, spread his right hand, and released a strange spiritual power cluster. This spiritual power group is double-layered, the inner layer is light gray, but the outer layer emits a faint silvery-white light. It just illuminates the way ahead.

Ahead is a stone path, about three times as wide as the opening, and the slope is not particularly steep. After a full hundred steps, he stepped out of another hole.

At his feet was a platform resembling the cliff outside the entrance to the cave. In front of him was a huge, bottomless cavern. In the middle of the cave is an incomparably large round stone pillar, with a length of at least fifty meters from the bottom of the cave to the level of the platform at the entrance. Numerous long, flattened or prismatic slabs protrude from the pillars like branches growing from the trunk of a tree, connecting each of the stone doors on the cave wall. If you look closely, you can see that each stone slab or small stone pillar is carved with strange patterns, and the large stone pillar in the center is carved with various ancient text passages and patterns.

"Master, I'm back. ”

The gray-robed man spoke. His voice was hoarse, like that of a wandering entertainer singing on the street with a musical instrument.

"You're back?"

A deep voice came from the bottom of the dark cavern. It was an old man's voice, and it sounded like a pebble thrown into a deep pool......

"Yes, Master," the gray-robed man's tone was respectful, "I have done everything you asked me to do. ”

"Good. Go back to your room and rest. ”

"Master, on my way back, I found a lot of strange phenomena......" The gray-robed man's brows furrowed. His eyebrows are not just gray, but also mixed with a hint of white, which looks a little old.

"The surface of the earth has collapsed, the rivers have changed color, and the spirit beasts have rioted, right?"

"Yes," the gray-robed man nodded, "you already know?"

"Of course I do. This is because the mother nucleus has undergone abnormal movements. ”

"What?" the gray-robed man was startled, "How could it be? When did it happen?"

"You don't have to worry about this for now. Let's go back to your own room first. I'll call you again if there's a need. ”

"Yes, Master. The gray-robed man leaned down and saluted the stone pillar