Relative to the Asking Tree, he is now located due north, which is-

The position in the gossip of the day after tomorrow.

The weather is good today, the sky is cloudless, the peaks are small, and if you look far away, you can actually see the peaks in the distance.

The snow-capped Tianshu Peak, and the nameless small peak on its side.

That's where the naturalization tower is located.

From He Lingchuan's point of view, the naturalization tower is a little south-east!

He muttered, "Leave? ”

The south, isn't it the departure in the gossip of the day after tomorrow?

The Naturalization Tower, the Asking Tree, and the boulder he is now standing on are basically in a straight line from south to north.

In this way, he should be looking for the right direction.

He Lingchuan turned around and continued to move northward, that is, along the extension of this straight line.

There is no road ahead, and the mountain is very steep, descending all the way to the valley bottom.

Then he saw a pool of water.

In fact, this is a wall hole formed by the cracked and concave roots of the mountain, and it has been washed by flowing water over the years. The market mountain has been weathered by wind, frost, rain and snow, and there are 800 potholes and depressions like this.

But the water here is very clear, and you can't see it to the end; There was no freezing on the surface of the water, and there was still faint white vapor coming out.

The sharp rocks on all sides are like a barrier, enclosing it in the middle, forming a little-known paradise in the mountains. The surroundings were quiet, with the occasional ape crying.

But what surprised him the most was that there were actually people by the pool!

One man and one woman.

The man was over forty years old, of medium stature, well clothed, and his beard was neatly trimmed.

The woman is in her early twenties, with a goose egg face, peach blossom eyes, and a woman's hair in a bun.

The man wrapped her in a silver rat, and the two hugged each other and kissed each other.

He Lingchuan waited patiently for them to stop.

The woman pushed away her companion, her temples were scattered, and she whispered: "My sister-in-law came with me, she is resting at Tianxuan Peak in front, I can't stay too long!" ”

Where is the man willing to put it, hug her and put her by the pool: "Don't panic, I'll transfer your man away when I go back this time, so that he won't get in the way......"

The pond cave is much warmer than elsewhere, should this pair of wild mandarin ducks want to soak in the hot springs? He Lingchuan grabbed a stone casually and popped it out, hitting them with a click.

The two were startled.

As soon as the man looked up and saw He Lingchuan coldly, he couldn't help but be surprised, "Who are you!" ”

Outsiders suddenly appeared here, and the woman quickly broke free and straightened her head.

He Lingchuan looked at him, then at her, blinked, and suddenly grinned: "You seduce other people's wives, and you have to go to the barren mountains and mountains, it's not easy." ”

"What's your business!" The man said angrily, "Get out! ”

He Lingchuan jumped off the boulder and paced slowly.

The woman's face was flushed, and she suddenly turned around and fled.

He Lingchuan realized that there was a path up the mountain by the pool.

It seems that these two people did not jump through the stone crest.

"Ah Qian!" The man turned around and called her, but when he saw that she didn't look back, he said angrily, "Stinky boy, don't let me see you again!" Then he turned around and left.

He Lingchuan crossed his arms and said, "If you want to die, follow it." ”

"What do you mean?"

"When she jumped off the path, an arm reached out from the col and helped her." He Lingchuan pouted in the direction where the woman disappeared, "It was the man's arm, but she didn't scream, and she still spoke." ”

The woman did not scream, but also cut carefully with the other party, obviously the two sides recognized. Thanks to his good ear, he heard the woman say, "There is another person from above...... Let's go......"

The man asked, "What the hell are you trying to say?" ”

"There's someone lying in ambush here, waiting for you to go down, maybe there's more than one." The wind was blowing here, and He Lingchuan had already heard two heavy breaths, "This immortal jumps don't know if he wants money or death." ”

Of course, now that an outsider has stepped in, the guy behind the col has retreated.

The man was shocked: "You are talking nonsense!" ”

"Didn't she ask you to come up today?"

The man immediately shut up, his gaze wandering.

It was indeed the subordinate's wife who spoke first and asked him to come up the mountain to play, and she also found this small peak. This place is deserted, and if someone falls into the valley and dies, it is not known that the Year of the Monkey will be discovered.

The black-hearted mother-in-law, is she going to kill him with her husband?

The man swallowed his saliva, suddenly reacted, raised his leg and climbed onto the boulder.

Regardless of whether there was an ambush on the way down the mountain, wouldn't it be safe for him to walk from Shicrest to Tianji Peak?

Suddenly there was a flower in front of him, and the young man who was standing by the pool suddenly appeared on the big stone in front of him.

This time he was like a ghost, and the man's hands shook in fright, and he almost slipped down: "You, what are you going to do?" ”

He Lingchuan squatted down and grinned at him: "It's all here, why don't you do me a favor?" ”

"No, no......"

……

He Lingchuan walked behind the col and saw that everyone had run out.

Well, he's got a lot of trouble.

Reaching into the pool, you find that the water is warm and even a little hot.

Yes, the terrain here is lower than the Aska Tree Cave, and it is also closer to the geothermal heat.

He casually cut a seven- or eight-foot-long branch and poked into the water, but he still couldn't find the bottom of it.

Don't look at the diameter of this irregular pond is less than two zhang, but in fact, it is eroded deeper and deeper by the flowing water.

What's more, He Lingchuan saw that there were still roots under the water.

Thick, snake-like roots.

He muttered, "East leaves the Kanshui." ”

The "Kanshui" in the words of the Wood Spirit Venerable refers to this pool directly north of the Dao Tree, right?

He took out a turtle talisman from his bosom and hung it with a fishing line.

This is the token left by Dongli Zhenren on the shore of Xianling Lake, and he asked someone to send back the naturalization tower of Shou'an Mountain (Market Mountain) and was rewarded.

But last time, He Lingchuan returned as promised, and the stone pagoda simply refused.

He Lingchuan kept thinking about whether there was any other reason for this.

Until he heard the third words of the Wood Spirit Venerable:

"East leaves into Kanshui."

The "Dongli" here actually refers to the tortoise shell left to him by Dongli Zhenren, which is engraved with runes.

And from the point of view of the direction, it can also be said that it is a turtle charm that was rejected by the Southern (Off-Place) Naturalization Tower.

Then the "kanshui" in the proverb, the water in the north (kan position), is probably here.

So He Lingchuan threw the turtle talisman into the pool and watched it sink slowly.

Something strange happened:

When the turtle charm sank, large bubbles bubbled up in the pool, and the water level dropped sharply.

After only a dozen rests before and after, the pool ran out of water.

In front of He Lingchuan is a bottomless hole!

Everyone has been searching for hundreds of years and has not been able to ask the Dao Peak Cave Mansion, it turns out that the entrance is not on the Dao Peak, but hidden here!

He Lingchuan saw a few copper coins at the water's edge, and it can be seen that occasionally some people climb here and use this pool as a wishing pool to put coins, but they did not find anything abnormal.

He Lingchuan grabbed the fishing line and withdrew the turtle talisman, and the water in the pond did not rise again.

It seems that the Wood Spirit Venerable has long since revised the rules for opening the cave mansion and used the turtle talisman of Dongli Zhenren as the key to the door.

He Lingchuan threw a few stones into the hole.

They rolled down the cracks in the rocks, and there was a loud sound.

It seems that the head is neither deep nor steep.

He Lingchuan patted the man behind him: "It's up to you." ”

He originally wanted to plot against the guards of Tianji Peak to do this. But isn't there a ready-made one in front of you, and it's him.

The man looked blank and stood behind him without moving, like a puppet.

He Lingchuan handed him a sack, and he walked into the cave.

The water receded, revealing stone steps at the bottom, but it was a little slippery.

But two feet down, the air around me became noticeably hotter, and the farther you went underground, the brighter the light became.

This man has been controlled by He Lingchuan and turned into his living puppet, and his words and deeds are controlled by him for a short time.

This hand is the "Shadow of the Heart" taught by Xi Yunhe, and He Lingchuan is still the first time to show it.

He himself walked straight back, climbing all the way up, jumping over the stone crest and returning to Tianji Peak.

There is also a small mountain bag in the southwest of Tianji Peak, and a pavilion has been built for tourists to settle down. It's late autumn now, and as soon as people sit on the stone chairs, the cold rises from under the puffs, so the guests here come and go and don't stay long.

He Lingchuan leaned against the railing, making the appearance of looking from afar, but in fact, he observed the newly opened cave through the puppet.

Now he is only a few dozen feet away from the puppet in a straight line, and he has not yet left the effective range of "Heart Shadow Transmission".

This supernatural power is still quite consuming of real power, thanks to his abundant reserves. If it had been changed half a year ago, his little true power would probably only be enough for a few dozen breaths.

Not all caves are a small world of their own, at least not this one. It was just a space underground, and the path under the puppet's feet became wider and wider, and the next second it opened up in front of it, and it came to a bright world.

Three feet in front of you is a sea of magma!

But the magma here is unusually quiet, and it has not flowed for a long time, and it is not as noisy as the downstairs of the star-picking building, except for the occasional bubble.

It stands to reason that this is a world of heat and poisonous smoke, and the living have been suffocated so early.

However, the humanoid golem felt a little hot, and it was still breathing smoothly and there was no discomfort.

This probably has something to do with the runes on the surrounding rock walls, as well as the ubiquitous tree roots.

Yes, the roots of the Dao Tree stretched straight into the ground, and He Lingchuan even saw that several of them actually went directly into the magma pool.

Isn't this tree afraid of high temperatures?

Thinking about it again, the Dao Tree is already more than four thousand years old, and the Treasure Tree King's age has to be increased five times to catch up with it. And this spiritual tree has also experienced catastrophes and has carried many attacks from gods and demons.

A little geothermal under the Dimensity Peak, it should be able to withstand it.

It was only by witnessing all this that He Lingchuan understood that the Dao Tree and Tianji Peak had completely merged into a whole, and it was difficult to distinguish each other. No wonder the Heavenly Palace left it uncut down, otherwise as soon as the Dao Tree died, Tianji Peak would probably collapse.

This underground space was originally created by magma overflowing, but the Great Returning Sect set up a rune array here, relying on geothermal energy, and it has worked well for 2,000 years. The lava was hot, but the stone chamber was relatively cool, so a flowing wind formed here and whistled towards the top.

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It can be seen that there is still a gap above, reaching the ground.