"Did you really find anything?" Sunset Shadow was a little surprised.

"Wait a minute." Yuan Ming said, his body was longitudinal, and he jumped into the river.

Different from the last difficult survival, Yuan Ming fell to the bottom of the river this time, and he no longer had to struggle like that, his body was like an iron ox in the Zhenhe River, no matter how the river washed, he would not move.

He walked upstream, muddy and sandy as he walked upstream, unable to block his view.

Soon, he came to the place where he picked up the stealing tripod, after so many years of washing, there is a recessed round mark on the reef there, which was originally embedded there.

And from the back of that reef, a few steps upstream, on another reef in the water, a white dry skeleton appeared.

It was embedded in a groove in the reef, and the robe it was wrapped in had not yet completely decayed, dragging out tattered strips of flocculents, swaying like aquatic plants in the undercurrent of the river.

Yuan Ming stepped forward in a few steps, grabbed the white bone, pulled it out of the crack in the stone, and was about to return with it, when he saw a metallic reflection under his body.

He immediately leaned down, brushed away the mud and sand, and pulled out a palm-sized golden token from it.

Yuan Ming frowned and looked at it, and saw the word "Shuangxian" written on the token in ancient seal font, and then turned it over, and found that there were also two words "Katu" engraved on the back.

He examined it more closely, and when he saw that there was nothing else, he dragged the white bone to the surface.

Back on the shore, Sunset Shadow examines the corpse and then the token.

"But what did you find?" Yuan Ming asked.

After all, his cultivation days were short, and although his time in southern Xinjiang was long, his cultivation was too low at that time, and he was sent to the fence, so the information he could get was limited after all.

"I can't see anything useful on this corpse, but the word 'Twin Immortals' reminds me that there seems to be a Twin Immortal Sect in the Southern and Western Regions." Sunset frowned and thought for a moment, then said.

"The Twin Immortal Sect?" Yuan Ming wondered.

"That force is not very similar to other sects, but it is a bit like a cultivation religion, they believe in the two gods of turtle immortals and snake immortals, although the power is all over the southern and western regions, but they only operate in their own territory, and rarely interfere in outside affairs. Do you think this token has something to do with the dry bones and stealing the Tianding? Sunset said.

"It's too early to draw conclusions, but the only ones that can be found in that body of water are the ones that are most likely to be related to stealing Tianding." Yuan Ming said.

"When the matter on Red Lotus Island is over, let's investigate this Twin Immortal Sect again." Sunset thought for a moment and said.

"That's what I mean." As he spoke, Yuan Ming waved his hand and put away all the tokens and bones.

Afterwards, the two continued on their way.

……

More than half a month later.

In an open valley in southern Xinjiang, the vegetation is flourishing and the scenery is pleasant.

On the side of the valley, the terraced fields that are increasing one after another are stacked, and many of the various spiritual materials planted on them have reached the flowering season, blooming a large number of gorgeous flowers, forming a beautiful picture of the terraced flowers.

Under the terraces, near a lake, there is a magnificent mountain villa that covers an area of not small, and the buildings are arranged one after another in the courtyard of seven or eight entrances, and you can see that it is not an ordinary family at a glance.

On the flat road leading to the valley, Yuan Ming walked side by side with the evening shadow.

However, in order to avoid trouble, after Yuan Ming left the river valley, he used the blood bone mask early, transformed his appearance, and turned into a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

"Is this really your Xi family's secret stronghold in southern Xinjiang?" Yuan Ming looked at the surrounding scenery and said with some doubts.

"What, do you think it's too high-profile and not secretive enough?" Sunset asked with a smile.

"It's a little." Yuan Ming also smiled.

"As the so-called big hidden in the city, this place has always been used as a manor for cultivating ordinary elixirs, and the affairs it operates are also elixir business, so even if someone has the heart to investigate, they can't find anything." Sunset replied.

"After all, it's a bit bold to hide your body here." Yuan Ming didn't agree very much.

While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the gate of the manor.

When the attendant at the door saw that the two men had stopped outside the door, he hurriedly came up to inquire.

"The two of you look at each other, but they're new merchants?" The squire stepped forward and saluted, and asked politely.

"Take this to meet the owner, he will naturally know." Sunset Shadow flipped over and took out a jade, handed it to the attendant, and commanded.

When the latter heard this, although he hesitated slightly, he still said "you wait" and immediately rushed towards the courtyard.

Not long after, a middle-aged man with quite thoughtful facial features, a slightly thin body, and a short beard under his chin walked out quickly, and the moment he saw the sunset, there was no joy in his eyes, but a touch of doubt appeared.

But after a moment of careful probing, the doubt turned into surprise, and even his eyes lit up.

"Girl, after so many years, you can be regarded as coming back." The middle-aged man greeted him and said hurriedly.

"I've seen the second uncle." Sunset smiled and saluted.

Yuan Ming didn't speak, and also hugged his fists and saluted.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man glanced at Yuan Ming with a somewhat strange expression, but did not greet him.

Xiying said: "This is my second uncle, Xi Dongliu, who has been stationed here with a few people from the Yudan period. ”

Yuan Ming nodded secretly in his heart and remained silent.

"Let's go in and talk." Xi Dongliu led the two to the courtyard.

A few people walked through a heavy courtyard, and the further back they went, the fewer people in the courtyard, and the more forbidden places were hidden in the shadows.

After the company passed through the quadruple courtyard, there was no attendant in the entire courtyard, and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and only the footsteps of the three of them echoed in the courtyard.

When he walked to the courtyard, Xi Dongliu suddenly stopped, turned his head and glanced at Yuan Ming again, and suddenly asked thoughtlessly: "He's not a puppet?" ”

Yuan Ming was stunned when he heard this, turned his head and glanced at Xiying, not understanding why her second uncle asked this.

"No, his surname is Yuan, and he is a friend of mine." Sunset said simply.

After hearing this, Xi Dongliu's brows furrowed even deeper, as if he had heard something extremely difficult to understand.

"Girl, don't blame the second uncle for thinking about it, I know very well that you have rejected the opposite sex since you were a child, and I have never seen you make a friend of the opposite sex since I was a child in the family." Xi Dongliu couldn't help but say.

"Second uncle, I just have such a temperament and don't like to make friends with people." Sunset denied.

"That's right." When he heard the rumors, he was noncommittal.

"By the way, second uncle, I remember that it was Uncle Chen who used to guard this place, why is it replaced by you now?" Sunset asked, changing the subject.

"Come to Southern Xinjiang with the patriarch to do some errands, and it just so happens that your Uncle Chen is also going back, so I will guard him here." Xi Dongliu replied.

"Father is also in southern Xinjiang?" Sunset said in surprise.

"Yes, but he's not here at the villa, if you want to see him, it will take a while." Xi Dongliu nodded.

"Not in a hurry. Second uncle, you first arrange a place for my friend to live, we need to stay here for about half a month. Sunset didn't pay much attention to it and said.

After that, Xiying left first and walked to the deeper courtyard, and Xidongliu took Yuan Ming to a guest room in one of the four courtyards.

"Yuan Daoyou, huh? Please take a break here, your daily meals will be brought by a waiter, and if you feel bored, you can go to the front yard or in the valley to play freely. Xi Dongliu pushed open the door of the guest room and said to Yuan Ming.

The tone is neither salty nor light, not enthusiastic, nor cold.

But the implication of this is obvious, that is, let him not go to the backyard at will.

"I'm tired, but I may also need to retreat these days, so I won't go out or eat." Yuan Ming didn't care about this, but said indifferently.

"In that case, I will take care of it so that no one comes here to disturb me, and you can rest assured that you can retreat." Hearing this, Xi Dongliu nodded and said.

"Thank you." Yuan Ming hugged his fists.

Xi Dongliu immediately said goodbye and turned to leave.

After Yuan Ming closed the door, he took out a forbidden talisman and pasted it on the door, then vacated a vacant space in the house, arranged a forbidden magic circle, and then sat cross-legged inside.

After he took out the stealing Tianding, he took a closer look at this treasure who had accompanied him all the way to practice, and sighed in his heart.

This time, he was going to try to steal the Tianding again.

The previous attempt only allowed him to successfully refine the external prohibition of stealing the Heavenly Ding, and if he wanted to completely master this treasure, he must also complete the internal prohibition of the sacrifice.

After Yuan Ming breathed for a while, he picked up the Stealing Heaven Ding with both hands, opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of mana, enveloping the Stealing Heaven Ding.

Immediately, he instructed the Master Shura to teach him the secret method of sacrifice and refinement, and began to try to refine and steal the Heavenly Ding.

The golden lines on the Heaven Stealing Ding quickly emerged, but they did not cause any blockage to Yuan Ming's mana, and they easily penetrated into it.

But at the same time, Yuan Ming's eyes suddenly bloomed, and the person also entered the Heaven Stealing Ding by himself, and sat cross-legged on the white jade lotus platform.

"Did I enter the Stealing Heaven Ding? It's not right......" Yuan Ming was startled at first, and then immediately realized that something was wrong.

Although he did appear on the White Jade Lotus Platform, there was a vast expanse of white around him, and it was not the space in the Heavenly Peak at all.

"Now is not the time to think about this." Yuan Ming shook his head, got rid of the distracting thoughts, and immediately controlled the mana and infiltrated towards the white jade lotus platform under him.

I saw that the light on the white jade lotus platform lit up, and more dense and complex patterns emerged, centering on Yuan Ming's body, spreading out to all sides until it covered the entire lotus platform.

When Yuan Ming's mana seeped into those golden lines, he immediately felt a blocking force, and it became difficult to move an inch again.

(End of chapter)