"Ahh

Shen Yuan, who had just gotten out of the car, couldn't help but sneeze.

Stretched out his hand and rubbed his somewhat sour nose, Shen Yuan was a little puzzled, he had already stepped into the realm of refining his breathing method, and he could not invade the cold and heat every day, and there was no possibility of catching a cold at all.

"Could it be that someone is talking about me?"

muttered casually, Shen Yuan didn't care, and walked directly towards his rental room.

Wencheng, where Shen Yuan is located, is a typical resource-based industrial city, because a huge coal mine began to develop, and many factories were built around the coal mine to form the city.

But like the fate of most resource-based industrial cities, Wencheng lost its vitality after the depletion of its giant coal mines, leaving behind large swaths of abandoned factories and residential areas in the old city, and focusing the entire city entirely on the new city.

It has been three months since Shen Yuan moved to this old town, and the main reason for moving to the old city is that the housing prices here are cheap, and you can rent an independent courtyard for a few hundred yuan.

Although the location is a little remote, it is not a problem at all for Shen Yuan, who has no travel requirements.

And because the surrounding factories have been abandoned for more than ten years, the pollution of the factories has also made the environment of the old city quite good, and even the abandoned mines not far away have shown some signs of revival in more than ten years.

Walking through a remote alley, Shen Yuan walked towards the small courtyard that covered an area of just over a hundred square meters.

Unlocking the rusty lock, Shen Yuan pushed open the door, and was greeted by a gravel floor and an ancient wooden corridor with verdant vines entwined around it.

On the left side of the courtyard, there is also a jujube tree with lush foliage, and the square stone table under the tree is staggered with lines, and it is a Go chessboard.

However, Shen Yuan didn't know how to play chess, so the chessboard carved from the stone table was of little use.

Dropping the backpack casually, Shen Yuan sat down in front of the stone table, his mind immersed in this familiar environment and gradually relaxed.

In the past few days of going to the Cloud Mountain Range, Shen Yuan seemed to be relaxed and comfortable along the way, but in fact, his spirit has been very tense.

Especially after experiencing the matter of the Falling Cloud Cave Heaven, facing the great power that wiped out all the living beings in the Cave Heaven completely surpassed Shen Yuan's cognition, and even made Shen Yuan's mental pressure reach the limit.

It wasn't until he returned to this small courtyard that Shen Yuan could really relax.

Sitting at the stone table, Shen Yuan's breathing gradually became longer, and the cloud and mist breathing method seemed to merge into that tranquil mind to exude a mysterious rhythm.

As the minutes passed, the entire courtyard seemed to be completely immersed in tranquility.

I don't know how long it took, a crisp sound like broken glass sounded in Shen Yuan's heart, and the mysterious rhythm brought by the breathing method began to spread in all directions, and spiritual energy began to gather within a radius of more than ten meters.

The leaves of the jujube trees in the courtyard rustled, and the pothos on the promenade swayed in the breeze, and the instinct of the creatures made them take the initiative to accept the aura that gathered from them.

When that aura followed the rhythm of the breathing method and merged into the Great Zhou Tian Circulation in Shen Yuan's body, Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

The pair of black and white eyes on Junxiu's face flashed with a cold glow, and the breeze in the courtyard turned into a killing autumn breeze at this moment.

The branches swayed, and a large number of fallen leaves fell with the wind, and the leaves that had just fallen from the branches were stained with a dull color that did not belong to this world.

But everything was just fleeting, and when the cold in Shen Yuan's eyes dissipated and returned to peace, everything seemed to have never happened.

"Finally a breakthrough!"

Shen Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face.

After experiencing the incident of the Falling Cloud Cave Heaven, he practiced the Cloud Mist Breathing Method for half a year and finally helped him complete the breakthrough and successfully stepped from the early stage of the Refining Realm to the middle stage.

The main task in the refining realm stage is actually to accumulate and strengthen one's own essence to prepare for the next refining and refining qi, so there is not much difference between the early and middle stages.

The Cloud Mist Breathing Method was originally a foundation building method, and the effect that could be exerted after stepping into the middle stage of Shen Yuan's formal refining realm was already very small, and as for using the Cloud Mist Breathing Method to break through to the Qi Transformation Realm, there was no possibility.

However, fortunately, Shen Yuan has already obtained the follow-up exercises, and in the next period of time, Shen Yuan can also officially practice the follow-up "Zixia Refining Qi Method", and the cultivation speed will increase rapidly for a period of time, and it is foreseeable that it will not be difficult to break through the Qi Transformation Realm.

After seeing the tragic situation of the Falling Cloud Cave Sky, Shen Yuan began to feel a little urgent about improving his strength.

He inherited the position of the suzerain of the Falling Cloud Sect, and no one was sure that the catastrophe that happened in the Falling Cloud Cave Heaven would also affect him, and he had to obtain enough strength to protect himself before he really encountered the catastrophe.

Shen Yuan was about to get up and go back to his room to begin to comprehend the Zixia Qi Refining Method, but suddenly heard a low noise in his abdomen, and then he remembered that he hadn't eaten anything all day today.

And counting the few days in the Cloud Mountain Range, Shen Yuan ate some compressed food prepared in advance, and never ate a good meal at all.

The Refining Realm's growth depends not only on spiritual energy, but also on the replenishment of external food.

Shen Yuan had found some legends about ancient cultivators, in the era of lack of spiritual energy, there were geniuses who stepped into the realm of refining essence and could not be replenished by the spiritual energy from the outside world, so they had to eat a large amount of ordinary food to replenish the essence element, and even left a legend of eating a cow every day.

However, Shen Yuan's modern aura was far from lacking to that extent, but food replenishment was still necessary.

After returning to the room and taking a look at the empty old-fashioned refrigerator, Shen Yuan turned around and walked out of the small courtyard and closed the door casually, walking in the direction of the vegetable market.

There are not many people on the streets of the old town, and even in the vegetable market, you can only see some elderly people buying vegetables and preparing dinner, and there are no young people in sight.

Skillfully picking vegetables in front of the stall, the aunts who set up the stalls chatted about the short topics of the parents first, but suddenly the words of an aunt attracted Shen Yuan's attention.

"Have you heard? Someone saw a dragon on the side of the old mine. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately aroused the interest of many uncles and aunts, and everyone began to discuss around this topic.

"You mean the incident that came out the night before?"

"A few gangsters who didn't have a job heard that there were ancient tombs under the old mine, so they ran to the old mine in the middle of the night to rob the tomb, but they were scared half to death, and when they came back to see people, they said they had met a dragon."

"You are still an old employee in the mine, do you believe this kind of thing?"

"You can't say that, you look at all kinds of strange things happening everywhere on the Internet recently, some people say that they saw the small mountain high ape king in Changbai Mountain, and some people photographed a big snake with nine heads at the abandoned nuclear power plant in Yingzhou.

Even the Yunwu Mountain Range, which is only a few hundred kilometers away from us, seems to have some abnormalities, and the Zhennan Hou Mansion dispatched the Zhennan Army to block the Yunwu Mountain Range, and there is not even much news on the Internet about this matter.

If it weren't for the fact that my second uncle's nephew was a staff member of the scenic spot, I would definitely not know about it. ”

"So some things are better to believe than not to be."

Originally, Shen Yuan listened to the conversations of these uncles and aunts just for a good time, and he had been moving to the old city for more than half a year, and he could hear all kinds of rumors about the old mining area every three or five days.

Even at the beginning, Shen Yuan thought that there was really some strange treasure in the old mining area, and he ran into the mining area at night and squatted for half a night but didn't find anything, and then he became accustomed to it.

But when he heard a certain uncle swear the news about the Cloud Mountain Range, Shen Yuan was a little stunned.

It was the first time he had heard of the blockade of the Yunwu Mountains by the Zhennan Army, and judging from the time of the blockade by the army, it happened to be shortly after he left the Yunwu Mountain Range.

Thinking back to his experience in the Cloud Mountain Range, a bold thought rose in Shen Yuan's mind.

"Zhennanhou's blockade of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range won't have anything to do with me, right?"