The inner wall of the deep hole, which is almost vertically downward, is carved out of the inner wall and spirals downward, allowing only the toes to be on it.

It's hard to find under the cover of moss, if it weren't for Wan Yanxi's keen perception, she would have passed by here.

Gu Shengchao raised his torch and looked down, the darkness was bottomless.

"You wait here, I'll go down and see." Gu Shengchao was unwilling to let Wan Yanxi follow him and make a mistake.

Wan Yanxi grabbed Gu Shengchao's hand tightly: "If you are blessed and enjoy hardship, I will accompany you down." ”

"But ......"

Gu Shengchao stared at the bottomless deep hole with some hesitation.

He can wield a sword, but he is not skilled enough to have a wide enough range to wield. Such a small space will inevitably hit a wall left and right, and there are unpredictable risks.

The safest thing to do is to keep your feet on the ground.

However, the shallow groove on the stone wall only allows the toes to be pointed on the top, and only one person can move forward, not two people side by side.

Let Wan Yanxi walk in front, lest she stumble and fall and fall too late to protect; Let her walk behind, and I'm worried about slipping and falling under my feet, but I still can't help in time.

Gu Shengchao untied the rope on his back, connected the front end to the flying tiger claw and fixed it on the stone wall at the entrance of the cave, grabbed the rope with one hand and held the torch high with the other, and discussed: "Or, I'll carry you down?" ”

"Okay!"

Wan Yanxi leaned on his back without hesitation.

Gu Shengchao just said casually, if the other party didn't agree to make another plan, he didn't expect her to agree so easily.

He pulled the rope hard to make sure it was secure, and then slowly released the rope while carrying Wan Yanxi on his back and slowly walked down the cave wall.

The moss is slippery and the grooves are shallow, and if you are not careful, you will fall.

It can be seen that the people who came in and out of here at the beginning were very athletic, and they were very comparable.

The rope is about to run out, and the two also reach the bottom.

Gu Shengchao shook the rope slightly, and the flying tiger's claws fell, and he recoiled the rope for next time.

Underneath is a straight tunnel that has been clearly artificially excavated, or has widened and heightened the original natural cave.

There is only one road, and there is no fork in the road.

After turning a corner, it was a deep hole that went vertically downward, and the inner wall was carved with shallow grooves.

It's still the old way, Gu Shengchao fixed it with the flying tiger claw, and after picking it up, Yan Xi pulled the rope and slowly descended.

The hole was deeper than the first, and one rope was not long enough, and another rope was attached to reach the bottom of the hole.

In this way, five deep holes were descended in succession, and a stone staircase appeared in front of it.

The stone staircase was wet and covered with moss.

The two walked down hand in hand, each searching ahead with their senses.

Obviously, all of this was artificially repaired, but so far, Gu Shengchao had not found any breath of a living creature.

When he was about to reach a corner, a gust of wind swept by, almost blowing out the torch in Gu Shengchao's hand.

The wind became stronger.

The surrounding temperature is also getting hotter.

He leaned sideways to block the torch, first baring his head to observe the situation behind the corner.

A square tunnel with light coming in at the end.

It's not just ordinary lighting, it's the natural daylight of daylight.

The ancient saint was overjoyed, and let the wind extinguish the torch, he took Wan Yanxi's hand and said excitedly: "We came out, we found the exit." ”

The two trotted out of the hole.

After not seeing the light of day for a long time, Gu Shengchao couldn't open his eyes all of a sudden, and he adapted to a tea time before he could open his eyes and enjoy the scenery in front of him.

They went all the way down, probably to the bottom.

In contrast to the desolate early winter scene above, the lower part is lush with green grass and trees.

The sweltering weather was like early summer, and both of them were sweating on their foreheads.

They took off their outer robes separately, revealing their close-fitting short jackets, and the two of them felt comfortable and cool.

"What the hell is this place, it's so hot." Gu Shengchao used his palm as a fan and complained.

All around are towering cliffs, in the middle of a hundred miles of flat river, in the distance faintly heard the sound of running water and insects chirping frogs.

It is really an excellent place for self-cultivation and seclusion.

"Brother Gu, have we walked out of the mountains?" Wan Yanxi's perception range is limited, and he can't find the towering peaks in the distance.

Gu Shengchao told her truthfully: "We are still trapped at the bottom of the valley, surrounded by mountains and cliffs. ”

He summoned the sword and put it flat on the grass, pulled Yan Xi to stand on it to protect him, and advised: "Stand firm, I'll take you to enjoy the different scenery here." ”

The sword rose slowly, about the treetops.

After Gu Shengchao helped Yanzi to stand firm, she naturally leaned back, just leaning on Gu Shengchao's arms. Although it is a little embarrassing for the two of them, it is the safest way. Gu Shengchao can not only easily control the sword, but Wan Yanxi can also stand firmly on it without falling.

Slowly urging the sword, the two flew forward.

Gu Shengchao then discovered the reason for the sweltering heat here, it turned out that there were several ground cracks in the grass, and the heat continued to emerge like a steamer and enveloped the entire valley.

Standing high and looking far away, it didn't take long to see a waterfall pouring down from the gap in the cliff wall, landing to form a pool of water.

The two of them stood on the sword and swept past the waterfall, and Gu Shengchao deliberately took a handful and prepared to pour it on top of his head to cool down.

In such a humid and sultry environment, the water of the waterfall was actually cold and biting, Gu Shengchao was stimulated and couldn't help but shiver, completely dispelled the idea of pouring on the top of his head, and hurriedly let go of his hand to leak the ice water.

Gu Shengchao looked at it carefully, and the icy water flowed out of the pool, divided into several streams and flowed to various ground fissures, and in the ground, I don't know how to change, and then turned into steam and came up.

Skirting the woods ahead, two rows of stone houses appeared. But they had all collapsed, leaving only a few broken stone walls, and the roofs were gone.

The ancient saint was surprised, and urged the sword to fall.

"Why, there's still people living here?" Wan Yanxi also sensed something unusual.

"No, it's just a few dilapidated stone houses, and people have already moved out." Gu Shengchao didn't feel the breath of a living creature.

There were many large and small stones scattered on the ground, and Gu Shengchao was afraid that Yan Xi would stumble, so he held a sword in his left hand and pulled her over with his right hand to check.

The stone house is basically the same size, and although it has been abandoned, you can roughly deduce where the dormitory is and where the cooking room is.

The two rows of houses are basically dormitories, only one is used as a room, the cooking utensils are gone, and the broken stove and dark walls vaguely tell the excitement of the time.

From the remaining dormitories, it can be inferred that there were about 20 people living at the most, and they were all single.

Because everyone's tastes are different, it is difficult to adjust everyone's tastes, and once a family is formed, it will inevitably start from scratch.

Only bachelors in order to save trouble, eating will be enough, as long as they can eat enough, anyway, they don't have to cook and wash pots and pans by themselves, and cooking on a stove can also be explained.

Gu Shengchao observed carefully, and from time to time used his sword to provoke those broken bricks and tiles to look for them, but unfortunately he did not find anything valuable.

The two of them stood on their swords again and walked in the air, and not far from the house was a barren cultivated land, in which weeds and snakes and insects were scurrying, and it would not have been possible to distinguish them if it were not for the ridges of the past that made the wild grass form a grid of high and low heights.

Next to the cultivated field is a small forest, and a rare clearing is exposed in the middle of the forest, only sparse weeds, perhaps a past martial arts training ground.

Continuing to walk with the sword, on the cliff wall near the yin side, a big word suddenly appeared: "Enlightenment".

It is completely carved directly on the stone wall with a sharp blade, and has undergone the erosion of wind and rain, and is still simple and vigorous than the painting.

"Can you perceive that word?" Gu Shengchao asked casually.

"There is a situation." The two blurted out at the same time.

Both of them have their own strengths and weaknesses in perception, but they are both very sensitive to the fluctuations of aura.

Just now, they sensed that under the word "enlightenment", there was an obvious fluctuation of aura.

Gu Shengchao was also strange, he didn't perceive the existence of any aura, so where did the aura fluctuations come from?

Adjusting the direction, Gu Shengchao manipulated the sword to fall below the word "enlightenment".

When they got closer, they found that there was actually a spiritual vein here, and if there was any, it was releasing spiritual energy.

"You come first, you can absorb as much as you can." Gu Shengchao moved out of the way.

Wan Yan Xi smiled: "Thank you Brother Gu for giving in." ”

She pressed it with her palm close to the spiritual vein, and after a while, the spiritual vein no longer had any spiritual energy, and it became dim.

"So little?" Gu Shengchao was surprised, in his impression, the spiritual veins were generally huge and contained rich spiritual energy.

They had nothing to do, and looked into the distance against the cliff wall, and found that this was actually the highest point in the entire valley, and they could see the bottom of the valley at a glance.

Looking at the steam rising from the crack in the ground, moving in the wind, like a light fairy, Gu Shengchao suddenly realized.

Isn't that the essence of the Phoenix Dance Sword Technique?

The heart moves with the sword, the sword dances at will, and finally the sword is one, reaching the state of doing whatever you want.

"Let's go!"

Gu Shengchao was about to help Yan Xi walk onto the sword, but the two turned back in surprise.

The spiritual veins that had been depleted just now had vitality again, and the spiritual energy was released again.

After Yan Xi tentatively absorbed it again, it didn't take long for the spiritual veins to lose their aura again.

They had experience this time, and after waiting for a stick of incense, the spiritual veins were restored.

"Baby!"

Gu Shengchao couldn't help but sigh, it turned out that in this way, it was equivalent to having an inexhaustible spiritual mountain.

After circling the valley floor along the cliff and making no new discoveries, the ancient saint urged the sword back to the only clearing surrounded by the trees.

After landing on the ground, I found that the ground was all paved with bluestone slabs, and only a few weeds barely grew in the gaps between the stone slabs.

Gu Shengchao was puzzled, in such a hidden place, he didn't know who was here to live in seclusion and cultivate, and he didn't know why he abandoned this place.

"What does it smell like?" Wan Yanxi smelled the fragrance of flowers.

Gu Shengchao raised his head, and the woods around the martial arts training ground were all blooming with small golden flowers.

"Is it an acacia tree?" He couldn't be sure, because he had only seen it in the south of the Dawu Dynasty, and in such a bitter cold place as the Western Cold Kingdom, he couldn't be sure that he would not survive.

It doesn't matter if it's an acacia tree or not, he thought of Yu Zhenyu's manipulation of the Golden Silk Qingluan Armor that night, and said softly: "I want to borrow the phoenix dance sword of Sister Wanyan, is it okay?" ”

Wan Yanxi didn't speak, smiled and summoned the sword and handed it to him.

With the sword in his hand, Gu Shengchao was inexplicably excited in his heart.

Little by little, the true qi was channeled into the sword, and many light blue rays appeared on the edge of the Fengwu Sword, and other than that, there was no other change.

Gu Shengchao questioned his ability:

"Am I using the wrong method?"