Early the next morning, the reward and punishment hall of the inner gate gathered the monks of the first three competitions, as well as the elders and consuls of the inner gate, and Elder Zhengyi was also there.

"Welcome all disciples to join the inner gate, now the top three competition is about to begin, the competition is located in a secret realm in the mountain behind the sect, there is a demon beast called the ice armor pangolin in the secret realm, hunt them and seize their inner dan, the deadline is three days, and finally ranked according to the number of inner dan, the top three can not only become the elder disciples of the inner gate, but also have other rewards, you understand?" The Great Elder Qingfeng, the head of the Reward and Punishment Hall, said.

Immediately, Elder Qingfeng stepped into the air with both feet, and several other elders followed suit, while this Luo Xuan and the other thirty monks could only run towards the back mountain. Flying in the air is an ability that can only be comprehended by monks in the out-of-body period, and the out-of-body period, as the name suggests, is to release one's divine consciousness from the outside of consciousness, feel the power of space, and also feel the breath of many monks in an area.

After everyone arrived at the back mountain, they saw a blue-green altar surrounded by four stone pillars in the center of the clearing, and then a palm-sized purple token appeared in the hand of Elder Qingfeng, injecting spiritual power into the four stone pillars in turn, and after a roar, four rays of light were released from the top of the four stone pillars to converge together, and a portal appeared in front of Luo Xuan and the others.

"Disciples, you can go in, remember, you only have seven days, and the secret realm will be automatically closed after seven days." Elder Qingfeng said.

Then Luo Xuan and the others entered in a trance for a while, and then entered the secret realm.

"Elder Qingfeng, that monk named Luo Xuan seems to be making rapid progress, the Outer Sect Sect records that he only joined the Heavenly Martial Sect more than two months ago, and his aura was only in the early stage of Jindan at that time, and now I feel that he is already comparable to a mid-stage monk." Elder Zhengyi said softly.

"It seems that my Heavenly Martial Sect has produced a genius," Elder Qingfeng said, and then showed an unpredictable smile.

After entering the secret realm, Luo Xuan found that everyone else was gone, and they seemed to be scattered by random teleportation in the secret realm.

Luo Xuan looked at a snow-covered forest, and on the other side was a towering snow-capped mountain in the distance.

"I didn't expect that there was such a cold and snowy place in this secret realm", Luo Xuan walked towards the forest with his gun, but he didn't know that he had been followed. After walking for a few hours, Luo Xuan came to a frozen lake, where a monk was hunting an ice-armored pangolin. Luo Xuan, who was watching the battle in the dark, found that the ice armor pangolin's defense seemed to be very strong, judging from the power of the attack, the sharp knife in the monk's hand was not weaker than a high-level magic weapon, and it might even be a low-level aura, but the knife did not cause much damage to the ice armor pangolin's body. The monk also seemed to be aware of Luo Xuan's existence, so he stopped and looked around: "Since Your Excellency has encountered it, why don't you show up, do you have other ideas?" Luo Xuan, who wanted to continue to observe, was startled by the sudden knife light, and walked out and appeared by the lake.

"Senior brother's soul power is so strong, he can even release his soul power to sense me peeking in the dark", Luo Xuan hugged his fists. Luo Xuan sensed through his breath that the other party's cultivation was in the middle of the infancy, unless he had hidden part of his breath.

"It's you, called Luo Xuan? Defeated Lin Fan, good means, admire! My name is Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng also clenched his fists and saluted back.

"It's just a fluke to win a move, but Senior Brother Jiang Cheng, the power of the sword that split the ice armor pangolin just now is no less than that of a monk in the out-of-body period." After all, the other party Yuan Yuan could have the ability of an out-of-body stage monk in his infancy, so Luo Xuan had no choice but to coax him. If he really made a move, Luo Xuan was not 100% sure that he would be able to defeat him.

"Brother Luo, you're welcome, just call me by name!" Jiang Cheng scratched his head and smiled.

"Oh! Let the pangolin run! Jiang Cheng stomped his foot angrily.

"It's not too much of a problem, such a big secret realm, there should be a lot of ice armor pangolins."

"You're thinking too easily, I found three pangolins here when I first came in, but their defenses are surprisingly strong, and they're fast." Jiang Cheng said dejectedly.

"Three? Presumably, this ice-armored pangolin also lives in groups, if you find their residence, you will get a lot of Neidan. Luo Xuan said thoughtfully.

"Brother Luo, why don't we go together, and then we will hunt the Nedan fifty-fifty divided?" Jiang Cheng looked at Luo Xuan and asked.

Luo Xuan could see Jiang Cheng's thoughts at a glance - Jiang Cheng knew that even if he found the territory of the Ice Armor Pangolin, he would not be able to kill them all, and he had definitely seen his own battles and knew that he was much stronger than him, so he pulled himself along.

"This is a good proposal, then let's go together to find it" Luo Xuan looked sure.

In Luo Xuan's opinion, although it was definitely much easier to hunt the Ice Armor Pangolin Beast by himself than Jiang Cheng, if he found a group of Ice Armor Pangolins, he would not be able to pocket all the Inner Dan of the Pangolin, and with Jiang Cheng's help, he would be able to better surround them. The two of them searched deep into the forest, and soon found a hole in the ground, and the hole was bottomless, it was pitch black, and there would be a biting cold wind blowing out.

"This wind is so cold, I feel like it will be frozen in an instant, I don't know if this will be the hiding place of the Ice Armor Pangolin," Jiang Cheng said as he looked at the tree hole.

"Although the wind in this tree cave is extremely biting, ordinary people will never dare to enter it easily, and the defense of that ice-armored pangolin is very strong, maybe it will use this as a territory." As soon as Luo Xuan said that, he was surrounded by chaotic spiritual power, forming several layers of shields.

"Brother Luo really wants to go down? The wind at the entrance of this cave is already like this, and I wonder if it will be worse below. Jiang Cheng reminded on the side.

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, maybe there will be a lot of them below, or you wait for me here, if there are too many, I will lure them up, and the two of us will be killed reasonably." Luo Xuan said firmly.

"Okay, then I'll guard the hole for you." Jiang Cheng gave a thumbs up.

With that, Luo Xuan plunged headlong. Luo Xuan felt around the deep cave as he descended, there were only some ice crystals when he first came in, but after descending a pillar of incense, there was already a thick layer of ice around the deep cave, and the wind became even colder, and Luo Xuan, who had condensed the spiritual power shield, was also trembling. After about a pillar of incense, Luo Xuan arrived at the bottom, and what caught his eye was a huge ice cave, and there were three roads around it.

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