For several days, Zhou Xiaotian repeated the same thing and gradually adapted to life here.

After the morning class, he brought some food and set out for the back mountain early. Walking on the long-abandoned stone path leading to the back mountain, the green bamboos on both sides rustled with the breeze, Zhou Xiaotian looked left and right, his eyes flickered, as if he was expecting something, but walking in the bamboo forest was the same as before, no different. Since saying goodbye to the little fox, Zhou Xiaotian has never seen it again, and he can't help but feel a little lost in his heart.

As you walk along the stone path, the bamboo forests on both sides gradually thin, weeds and shrubs grow everywhere, and the rugged mountain path becomes more and more difficult to walk.

Finally, after rounding a sharp bend, the trail was abruptly stopped by a pile of high rocks. The rocks are piled up like a hill, and the weeds are overgrown between the crevices of the chaotic rocks, which seems to have been caused by a landslide a long time ago.

Zhou Xiaotian visually inspected it, and the rocks were about three people high, and the slope was not very steep. Seeing that it was still early, he wanted to climb over the pile of rocks, and went on, spitting on the palms of his hands, rubbing his hands, and using all his limbs together, he crawled towards the top of the pile.

Zhou Xiaotian has been sick for a long time, his body is already weak and weak, and the pile of rocks is covered with moss and weeds, which is very slippery, and after a while, he has already scratched several scars, and he is tired and panting.

After half a day of hard work, he finally climbed to the top of the pile of rocks, when he stood up straight, usually in front of him, his eyes suddenly lit up, a clearing suddenly appeared in front of the vast forest, and looked carefully, it was a large black pool, within dozens of meters around the pool, the terrain was flat, except for the bluestone path when he came, there was no other exit, and the ground was full of strange-shaped gravel, here was the black water cold pool formed after the collapse of the Demon Shadow Peak thousands of years ago, but now few people know.

Under the bright sunlight, the endless forest looks even greener. Zhou Xiaotian stepped on the gravel, staggered to the edge of the pool, the breeze came slowly, swept across the silent water, and a trace of coolness greeted him. Looking at the wide black pool, he suddenly felt quiet in his heart, as if he had lost his soul for a long time, and the scenes of the past on Shane Mountain came to his mind, thinking of the village and his parents who are now buried under the avalanche, and thinking of his own loneliness now, and he couldn't help but silently slip from the corners of his eyes with tears.

"Chirp... Chirp..."

The sad thoughts were interrupted by the sudden sound of 'chirping' on his side, Zhou Xiaotian turned his head to look to the side, only to see the little white fox who had disappeared for a long time appeared beside him at some point, turning in a circle on his own, turning around twice and squatting down, a pair of big watery eyes looked at him curiously, with two long pointed ears, and his mouth made a chirping sound from time to time.

Zhou Xiaotian wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and saw the little fox rubbing his trouser legs with his head like a child, and he couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and the corners of his mouth naturally showed a smile.

"Where have you been these days? I don't see you every day when I collect firewood along the stone path, and I think you don't want to see me!"

The little fox seemed to feel aggrieved, and screamed hard, as if he was explaining himself.

Zhou Xiaotian felt a little funny, and said: "Okay, okay, it's okay if I blame you?" Seeing that you are white and flawless, just like the snow on the Snow Mountain, I will call you Xiaoxue in the future!"

The little fox surrounded Zhou Xiaotian excitedly and jubilantly, and seemed to like the name very much.

As he spoke, he took out a packet of jerky from his arms, bent down and squatted down, and shared their food with each other.

After eating and drinking, one person and one fox lazily lay on a huge rock next to the black water cold pool, basking in the sun warmly, and gradually fell asleep in a daze.

The sky gradually darkened, in the starry night, the sleeping Zhou Xiaotian and Xiaoxue were still unaware, and a trace of imperceptible azure light energy slowly gushed out from the exquisite beads on Zhou Xiaotian's chest, as if the cocooned silk tightly wrapped Zhou Xiaotian's whole body, slowly seeping into his body, and the abrasions all over his body healed quickly, which was very strange in the dark night.

Zhou Xiaotian, who was sleeping in Qingmang, had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and seemed to enjoy it very much, but Qingmang lasted for a while and then quietly disappeared in the exquisite pearl, as if nothing had happened.

"Plop"

When Zhou Xiaotian turned over, a stone on the rock was squeezed into the water, Xiaoxue on the side heard a strange sound, a clever person woke up quickly, looked around cautiously, saw that there was no abnormality, and lowered his head and gently licked Zhou Xiaotian's face.

Zhou Xiaotian felt an itch in his ears, woke up in a daze, stretched his waist, rubbed his eyes, and hurriedly sat up when he saw that it was late.

"Oops, it's getting dark, why am I asleep here?"

He hurriedly got down from the rock, picked up the bamboo basket and walked towards the stone path, Xiaoxue chased after him, and just walked to the pile of rubble, a silver bell-like sound sounded in the distance, Zhou Xiaotian was startled and hurriedly hid.

"Master, I just saw a ball of blue light there, is there something strange about to be born?"

Zhou Xiaotian just hidden, in the distance, the blue and white two rays of light flashed, and I saw two figures hanging steadily above the black water cold pool, among the green mangs is a quiet and dignified beauty, Tsing Yi Taoist robe is draped, looking more than thirty years old, graceful, it is the Qingsang Five Peaks in the mirror of the first Jingyue real person, next to her stood a little girl in white, with beautiful eyebrows, a pair of bright eyes watery, extremely smart, lovely.

At this time, the two were looking at the rock where Zhou Xiaotian was lying not long ago, and the little girl looked full of doubts, pouting and saying, "I obviously saw a ball of blue light here, why is it gone?"

After speaking, she raised the flying sword under her feet, looked around the rock carefully, and said while looking at it carefully: "Master, you said that this rock is not a treasure, or we can move it back." ”

Jing Yue's face turned pale, and she said sharply: "Yue'er, don't mess around!" This rock is just an ordinary dead thing, the blue light you see should be just a demon beast with a slight cultivation on the mountain, it is estimated that it has already run away at this time, so let's go back to the mirror peak with me!"

The little girl named Yue'er was reprimanded, as if she had been greatly wronged, and returned to Jing Yue with her head down.

The two of them were about to leave, when suddenly there was a sound of breaking the sky, and another green light galloped from the direction of Ao Cang Peak, and the green light stopped in front of Jing Yue and the real people, and after a flash of light, a person appeared.

"Senior Brother Jia Nan!" Zhou Xiaotian couldn't help shouting excitedly when he saw the figure of the person who came.

The three people in the air all looked at Zhou Xiaotian's hiding place. Jia Nan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Zhou Xiaotian who appeared.

Then he turned his head and hugged his fist towards Jing Yue and said, "Jia Nan, a disciple of Ao Cangfeng, has seen Master Jing Yue. He looked at the little girl again, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and said without changing his face: "Presumably this is Senior Sister Gu Yue! Senior Sister Gu Yue is really a genius, although she is young, her cultivation is already good, I didn't expect that she can already fight with the sword, and she can manipulate it freely, she should have entered the third layer of the realm of the True Void Realm for a long time." ”

It's no wonder that he was surprised, the Taishang Xuan Xuan Technique, the cultivation process from shallow to deep, the more difficult it is to cultivate, the fourth layer of the Dao Void Realm is relatively easy to cultivate, but even so, most people will take five or six years to cultivate, but after entering the realm of true emptiness, it becomes more and more difficult to practice, almost every layer of exercises has to be practiced for five years, the second layer of the realm of true void is a watershed, those with slightly worse qualifications will stagnate here all their lives, and it is not uncommon for some to practice for fifty or sixty years. In the future, those who can break through the realm of true void and enter the realm of Taivoid will only be the first seat of the five veins of Qingsang and the six people of Xuandao in today's world. As for the Void Realm of the Supreme Realm, no one has cultivated it.

And the art of the sword is a kind of retreat in the cultivation realm, and it can only be cultivated to reach the realm of the third layer of the realm of true void. Gu Yue is young, not a year or two older than Zhou Xiaotian, and now that she is stepping on a flying sword and cultivating fast, how can Jia Nan not be amazed by her talent?

Hearing Jia Nan's praise, Gu Yue's face was full of pride, and she was slightly dissatisfied Chao Jingyue coquettishly said: "Master, you see that Senior Brother Jia Nan said that I am talented and intelligent, and my cultivation is high, but you always say that my cultivation is insufficient, and let me work hard to cultivate every day." ”

Jing Yue glanced at her, but she was used to pampering her on weekdays, and she didn't say much.

Zhou Xiaotian hurried to the front at this time, followed by Xiaoxue, who was chirping. The three people in the air also put away their swords and fell.

As soon as Jia Nan landed, he pulled Zhou Xiaotian closer, looked him up and down carefully, and then said, "It's so late, why don't you go back?"

"Yes... I'm sorry, I... I overslept before I knew it!" While speaking, Zhou Xiaotian's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, although Jia Nan's tone was slightly reproachful, he couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.

"It's good that nothing happened!" Seeing that Zhou Xiaotian was fine, Jia Nan thought of Jingyue and the others, and pulled Zhou Xiaotian up and said, "Xiaotian, come and see Uncle Jingyue and Senior Sister Guyue." ”

Zhou Xiaotian responded and shouted, "Uncle Jingyue, Master Guyue..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Yue hurriedly said, "Stop, I'm your senior sister Gu Yue, not a junior sister!"

Zhou Xiaotian let out a simple 'oh' and said, "Senior Sister Gu Yue is good!" raised his head and secretly looked at Gu Yue, and saw that her lips were red and her teeth were white, and she was so good-looking, she didn't realize that her face was red.

Gu Yue blushed when she saw him shy, and grinned, and Xiao Xue on the side attracted her idea, "What a cute little fox!" said and reached forward to pet it.

Seeing this, Xiaoxue hurriedly hid behind Zhou Xiaotian, shrunk her head, bared her teeth at Gu Yue, and chirped.

"Yue'er!"

was scolded by Jing Yue, Gu Yue pouted and retreated aggrievedly.

Jing Yue turned to Jia Nan and the others again and asked, "Is your master okay lately?"

"After Master came back with his little junior brother last time, he went into retreat and practiced, saying that he wanted to hit the bottleneck!"

"Oh?" Jing Yue was slightly startled at first, but quickly regained her composure, and said: "Although your master is the last in my generation, but the way to cultivation is the latecomer, I am afraid that when he comes out of the customs this time, he will be the second person to enter the fourth layer of the Taixu Realm after the senior brother of the master, and he is only one step away from the legendary Xuanjie Realm." ”

Jia Nan usually only knew that his master's cultivation was unfathomable, but he didn't expect it to be so high, and he was probably one of the best people in the cultivation world.

"I hope Master has all the best in this retreat!" he couldn't help but rejoice in Master's breakthrough.

Then he said to Jing Yue: "By the way, I don't know where my uncle and sister are going?"

Hearing Jia Nan's question, Jing Yue said lightly: "Some time ago, this girl was grounded in the empty mulberry cliff, and she thought about it in front of the wall. ”

Jia Nan also looked very different, and said: "This place belongs to the back mountain of Aocang Peak, and no one has stepped on it all year round, if it weren't for the little junior brother here today, I didn't know that there was a waterhole here." I wonder what Uncle Shi has discovered?"

"It's just a flash of blue light, but I haven't found anything, maybe it's some beasts that have some Taoism practicing here!" Jing Yue seemed puzzled in her heart, but she didn't pay too much attention to it, and continued: "Since there is nothing to do, let's go back!"