In the "Wind Bamboo Hall", Jing Fan and Zhou Xiaotian's master and apprentice talked all night until the remaining candles burned out and the cigarettes were gone. Jing Fan, who is usually serious and unsmiling, is actually extremely gentle in his heart, although he does not fancy Zhou Xiaotian's qualifications and talents, but after all, he is a master and apprentice, and when Zhou Xiaotian is about to leave, he is also doubly considerate.

After a long conversation this night, Zhou Xiaotian regarded his mentor Jingfan as a father-like existence, which made him feel more dependent on his heart after the death of his parents.

The next day, Zhou Xiaotian got up a little late, when he opened his eyes and looked around at the room that had accompanied him for three years, he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, the room that had been living for three years was about to leave tomorrow, he carefully checked every corner, and wanted to reflect all this in his mind.

Pushing open the door, for some reason, this morning on the Aocang Peak was foggy, a foot away was full of fog, and on the ginkgo tree that vaguely appeared, the branches of the emerald green leaves hung with drops of morning dew.

There was a sudden 'chirping' sound behind him, and a ball of white velvet quickly crawled onto his shoulder, and his little paws kept playing with his fur hat on the top of Zhou Xiaotian's head. A smile hung on the corner of Zhou Xiaotian's mouth, and he scolded with a smile: "Naughty little thing!"

The little fox seemed to be very angry, screamed a few times, and then buried his head and bit his ear a few times to show his displeasure.

Zhou Xiaotian's ears were a little itchy by it, and he couldn't help laughing a few times, hugged it from his shoulders in his arms, and carried the bamboo basket towards the back mountain as usual.

Walking on the bluestone path, the morning fog is getting thicker and thicker, and there is no sign of subsiding, usually such weather is rarely encountered in the entire Qingsang Mountain, although Zhou Xiaotian has doubts in his heart, he does not care too much.

He walked very slowly under the fog, and walked for a long time before he came to the cold pool. In the fog, you can't see the edge of the cold pool. Every time he stood on the edge of the pool, looking at the calm water, Zhou Xiaotian always felt unprecedented peace in his heart.

The little fox on his shoulder flashed to the side very obediently, lying on a rock, looking at Zhou Xiaotian reluctantly.

Zhou Xiaotian crossed his legs and sat down, he closed his eyes and breathed deeply, the first layer of the Taishang Xuanxuan Secret Technique operated freely, and the streams of spiritual energy turned into threads of spirit and submerged into his Heavenly Spirit Acupoint. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Still can't you?"

Three years have never stopped, and the realm of the Taishang Xuanxuan Void Dao Void is still not allowed to advance an inch, Zhou Xiaotian looked ahead helplessly, "Is your cultivation qualification really so bad?"

Just as he was thinking, above the water in front of him, a thick fog suddenly began to gather, and the vultures spun counterclockwise, and the little fox's temperament changed greatly, like a frightened bird, and immediately bounced up from the rocks, bowed his waist, and grinned with porcelain teeth, as if facing a great enemy. Zhou Xiaotian was curious, and couldn't help but stare ahead, trying to see things in the fog clearly, and when he came to his senses, he found that his gaze seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't move away from the swirling fog no matter what.

Suddenly, for some reason, the Taishang Xuan Void Secret in his body operated on its own. More aura soaked into his body from the swirling mist at an extremely fast speed, condensing in the dantian. These cyan auras are faintly mixed with a hint of dead ash.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the swirl of mist, faintly not very real, the man casually pointed to a beam of dead gray light between the little fox's eyebrows, and the little fox suddenly collapsed on the ground, no longer moving. Zhou Xiaotian thought that he was afraid of seeing a ghost, and he wanted to run away but couldn't move.

Zhou Xiaotian's whole body was churning with qi and blood, and the pain was unbearable. There are more and more spiritual energy in the dantian, and it is constantly expanding, as if it is about to explode.

"There's no need to struggle, I have no ill will towards you. In the swirl of mist, the man's voice was soft and irresistible.

"What a familiar voice!" Zhou Xiaotian was puzzled, but in his panic, he couldn't figure out who it was.

As soon as the man's words fell, the cyan aura around him was mixed with a dead gray mist, and the speed of condensation towards Zhou Xiaotian accelerated even more.

The dead gray aura was entrenched in the dantian of Zhou Xiaotian's abdomen, like an immortal zombie worm, which would not melt for a hundred years. Even the muscles and veins of the whole body, thousands of points and hundreds of bones are all entwined with a trace of dead gray.

Zhou Xiaotian's upper and lower teeth were tightly interlocked, the big beads of sweat on his forehead were dripping down his cheeks, and his limbs were shaking because of the pain.

Finally, the man walked slowly out of the mist vortex towards Zhou Xiaotian, and the aura around him was not as dense as before.

Zhou Xiaotian's body Taishang Xuan Xuan Jue stopped running, no longer frantically absorbing spiritual energy, he sat on the ground weakly, gasping for breath, and his body also floated up and down rhythmically with his breathing.

At this moment, he focused all his attention on the mysterious man, looking at the slow and clear figure of the man, his heart kept beating wildly, I don't know if it was fear or what he was expecting.

One step, two steps, three steps......

"Ahh

"You are, you are ......"

The familiar figure, the kind face, there was surprise, there was joy, Zhou Xiaotian's voice trembled, but he couldn't name the person halfway through the conversation.

The man came to Zhou Xiaotian, slowly squatted down, and gently stroked his forehead with one hand, Zhou Xiaotian only felt a soft force pouring into his body, extremely comfortable, and his eyes were getting heavier and heavier, he tried to resist the sleepiness that attacked, but everything was in vain.

While Zhou Xiaotian was asleep, the man sighed, "Everything is fate, you can't break free, you can't escape." One day you'll understand. ”

With that, he picked up Zhou Xiaotian from the rocks and disappeared into the mist out of thin air.

When Zhou Xiaotian woke up again, he found himself lying in his room, as if everything was just a fictional dream. He got up and pushed open the door, the sun was shining, the light was warm on his face, and there was no sign of the fog before. He scratched his head in confusion, unable to understand what was going on.

"Get up!" Jia Nan's delicate voice came from the corridor.

Zhou Xiaotian turned his head to look at it, saw that it was Jia Nan, and said respectfully: "Second senior brother!"

Jia Nan nodded and said, "I saw that the door of your room was not opened this morning, and I thought you were unwell, so I didn't ask you to get up. ”

Zhou Xiaotian took the package handed over by Jia Nan, and was even more puzzled in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "Senior brother, are you saying that I have never stepped out of the door today?"

Jia Nan couldn't understand why Zhou Xiaotian asked himself like this, so he had to say truthfully: "Yes, the weather is very good today, I got up earlier than before, and I haven't seen you out of the room, what's wrong?"

"Oh, isn't it foggy this morning, how can the weather be so good?" Zhou Xiaotian asked suspiciously.

Jia Nan saw that his words were very strange, and couldn't help but worry: "Xiaotian, are you okay?" I see that your face is a little ashen, are you having some nightmares?"

"No, it's okay, maybe it's really my nightmare!" Zhou Xiaotian laughed at himself and said to himself: "The whole village is buried, how can I see him?"

"Who do you see?" Jia Nan asked curiously.

"No, it's nothing!" Zhou Xiaotian hurriedly replied, "How could Ao Cangfeng be so quiet today, what about the other senior brothers?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, today is the sect's six-year martial arts ceremony, except for the dead fat man copying the Taishang Xuanxu Secret Secret Mental Method in the room, Master and the other junior brothers have gone to the main peak Ling Tianfeng to participate in the opening ceremony. ”

"It must be very lively there!" Zhou Xiaotian was obviously very yearning.

Jia Nan smiled, his face exaggerated, and described: "That scene is quite big, it is really, gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are ringing, red flags are displayed, and there are crowds of people." ”

When Zhou Xiaotian heard these words, he felt a little familiar, and he seemed to have thought of something in his heart, and he couldn't help but laugh.