Time is verdant, spring goes to winter, snow is flying, and three years have passed.

In the winter of this year, the sky of Yue Kingdom seemed to be torn apart by someone to open a huge gap, and cold wind and snow would sometimes pour out of the gap and fall on the land of the entire Yue Kingdom.

In the north of the country, 8 kilometers away from the jurisdiction of Jeju Province, there is a small town with a small population called Huai'an.

At this time, in the bustling center of the town, under the ancient locust tree that had stood for many years, a thin old man with messy white hair and greasy clothes hugged his shivering body from the cold.

Under his messy white hair, a pair of old candle eyes, through the cold wind blowing the hair, were staring at the passers-by in front of him without blinking, his chapped lips closed and closed, as if muttering in a low voice: "Aoki, Aoki, Aoki............"

Whenever the eighteen-year-old and nineteen-year-old youth walked in front of him, the old man would drag his frozen and dull body like a madman, go up and grab the clothes of passers-by, and keep whispering: "You are not Aoki, you are not, you are not, you are not ......." “

But his actions were exchanged for punches and kicks from passers-by, as well as such words: "The old madman from there? If you are sick, you should die quickly, what are you doing with the master?"

Su Hong stood in front of the gate of the reservoir, looked at the road covered by ice and snow, sighed lightly, helplessly picked up the wooden barrel, and walked slowly in the direction of Pengling River.

As his footsteps entered the valley, stepping on the ice and snow all over the ground, making a creaking sound, looking at the stream condensed by ice and snow in front of him, Su Hong smiled at the corner of his mouth, knowing that today's water is not to be picked.

He looked left and right a few times, and when he was sure that there was no one around, he took out the half of the parchment that he had found in the futon from his bosom.

Su Hong touched the gap in the parchment scroll in his palm, he felt pity again, in the past three years, he had already pondered the things in his hand thoroughly, and knew that the handwriting recorded on the parchment scroll was a mantra that belonged to cultivation.

At first, while Duan Hui was asleep, he practiced in his room, but he did not get the slightest effect, and after months of research, he came to the stream that carried water, and breathed according to the mantra, but there was an astonishing change.

During that meditation and spitting, Su Hong clearly felt that countless smoke-like gases were sucked into his mouth and nose from the stream.

The moment these gases are inhaled into the body, it is like drinking the juice of the mountains and fields, the juice of the colored fruit, which is cool and delicious, and after a while, it penetrates into the pores of the body.

Since that time, even if Su Hong doesn't have to eat every day, he is refreshed and energetic, which completely plays the role of Bigu.

This is also the root cause of his yellow face and thin muscles and dull eyes like Duan Hui after he came to the miscellaneous service area, just like Duan Hui every day, but he did not become like the latter.

From the incomplete records on the half of the parchment scroll, Su Hong had already guessed that this kind of gas inhaled into the body was called spiritual energy.

It's just that one day two months ago, as usual, he came to the stream again to meditate and breathe, but he felt obviously unwell.

This discomfort made him puzzled, and the moment the aura was inhaled into his body, he would feel a feeling of distension in his abdomen.

At first, Su Hong didn't need to care, but with each absorption, there seemed to be a round ball in his abdomen, which was constantly expanding and getting bigger, and so on several times, the feeling of expansion was violent.

So much so that in the past two months, whenever Su Hong had free time, he would stand on the bank of the creek, holding the parchment roll and entering a state of thought.

"Could it be that the other half is really as I guessed before? The other half that is missing is the mantra for transforming the aura? And the half in my hand is the mantra for absorbing the aura? Looking at the parchment roll in his palm, which was only half in his hand, Su Hong shook his head uncertainly.

Pengling Creek, outside the valley, there are three people walking towards the valley intersection at this moment, stepping on the ice and snow all over the ground.

Walking side by side in front of them, a man and a woman dressed in white, if you just look at their age, they are all about eighteen or nineteen years old.

Among them, the young man in white clothes, with a long and lofty aura, is very extraordinary, the corners of his mouth are slightly upturned, and his eyes are gloomy, as if in this Penglai Sect, few people can let him take a second look.

And the woman in white beside him looks even more moving, with a cute green silk, with a white ribbon, tied into a ponytail and gently behind her, under the curved willow eyebrows, is a pair of clear pupils, long eyelashes tremble slightly, and a faint red powder is revealed in the white skin.

Behind the two of them was Zhou Lin, who was wearing a basket shirt with a black mole in the corner of his eye, and at this moment he was smiling, pointing to the intersection of the valley and saying: "Senior Brother Ye, Senior Sister Zhou, there is Pengling Creek in front, and the scenery here is not much better than watching the end of the world." “

Although Zhou Lin entered the sect a few years earlier than the two, the strong in the cultivation realm are respected, and now Ye Tian is the fifth layer of condensation, and Zhou Ting is the fourth layer, both of them have elders as masters, even if Zhou Lin is unwilling in his heart, he still has to call the two senior brothers, senior sisters.

"Zhou Lin, are you sure?If after I read it with my junior sister, it is too different from what you said, do you know the consequences?" Ye Tian turned around and stared at Zhou Lin coldly.

"Little bastard, if you hadn't taken the shit luck and were favored by the Great Elder as a disciple, what kind of thing are you?" But Zhou Lin could only think about these words in his heart, and then said with a flattering smile: "Of course, although Senior Brother went to take a look, if what I said was half false, Senior Brother Ren would punish him at will, and Senior Brother would have no complaints." “

Ye Tian nodded with satisfaction, turned around and whispered to Zhou Ting beside him: "Senior sister, you see that Senior Brother Zhou is so sure, why don't we go forward and take a look?"

Zhou Ting turned her beautiful face, looked at Ye Tian who was full of expectation, and said impatiently: "What is there to see in this ice and snow?" Senior Brother Ye, you invited me here, if you have nothing to say, I will leave first, today I respect her old man, and I happen to have a set of exercises to teach me. “

Zhou Ting turned around and stepped out, Ye Tian frowned slightly, and hurriedly stretched out his right hand and grabbed Zhou Ting's slender wrist.

"Senior brother, even if you are a disciple of the Great Elder. If I tell the Master about this. I'm afraid you will also be punished by the Great Elder, right?" Looking at the wrist that was grabbed by Ye Tian, Zhou Ting showed a look of disgust on her face.

Just as the two were at a stalemate, a young man carrying a wooden barrel walked out of the entrance of the valley.

"Su Hong?"

The person who walked out with a wooden barrel was very similar to the young man she met on the boat three years ago in Zhou Ting's memory.

"Is it really you?"

Zhou Ting showed surprise on her face, struggled to hold Ye Tian's wrist, and didn't look at Ye Tian, who was full of anger, stepped on the snow all over the ground, and ran towards Su Hong.

She was dancing in green silk, dressed in white, and ran to the back of the young man holding the barrel, looking at Ye Tian's eyes, he clenched his fists, and said to Zhou Lin beside him with a gloomy face: "Who is this person?"

Zhou Lin took two steps forward, and after carefully looking at the person at the intersection for a few moments, he looked at Ye Tian and said in a low voice: "This person's name is Su Hong, Penglai Island three years ago, senior brother, do you still have an impression?"

"Su Hong?" Ye Tian squinted, how could he forget the game he had arranged by himself three years ago.

"So your name is Su Hong? Okay, very good, the lesson I gave you three years ago seems to be too young. Ye Tian snorted coldly, clenched his fists, and turned around and walked in the direction of the miscellaneous area.

Zhou Lin smiled at the corner of his mouth, and hurriedly followed Ye Tian's footsteps, and secretly said in his heart, there is a good show to watch now.

"Su Hong, you stop for me. Zhou Tingxiu frowned slightly, and shouted coquettishly, seeing her running towards her, this hateful Su Hong pretended not to see it, and turned around to go elsewhere,

Su Hong sighed lightly and stopped, he had already recognized Zhou Ting, but there was still Ye Tian Zhou Lin standing next to her, so he pretended not to see it clearly and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Zhou Ting, long time no see. Su Hong turned his head and smiled, only to see the woman in front of him again, wearing a white dress that represented the inner disciples, and he felt bitter in his heart.

"Yo, remember that my name is Zhou Ting?" said, why did you run when you saw me coming?" Zhou Ting hung the green silk on her forehead behind her ears with her armrest, and looked at Su Hong with a blank face with wide eyes.

With her action, her flower and moon appearance were completely revealed, and Su Hong was also stunned, in just three years, the woman in front of her had grown from that pigtailed girl to this fairy beauty who was now captivating the country and the city.

"Why, three years ago on the dock, haven't you seen enough?" Zhou Ting looked at Su Hong with a smile.

Seeing Su Hong, who was carrying the wooden barrel, he hurriedly turned his red face to the side, and Zhou Ting smiled. stepped forward and took Su Hong's arm and walked into Pengling Creek in the valley.

In the hall of the miscellaneous service area, Zhao Gui leaned back on a wooden chair, holding a bamboo slip in his hand that recorded the number of miscellaneous disciples, and he was extremely engaged.

On the desk next to him, there was a plate of round green fruits, and at this time, Zhao Gui5 was reaching out to take one from the plate and taking a bite, not paying attention to Ye Tian who was close to him at all.

"Zhao Gui. “

A voice calling his name came from beside him, Zhao Gui got up, threw the bamboo slip in his hand on the desk, and instinctively scolded: "You look for ......." “

In this miscellaneous area, he Zhao Gui is heaven, he really wanted to know who was so blind, daring to call his name, and when he saw the person who came, his words were only half scolded, and he was stuck in his throat, and he bit half of the green fruit in his hand, and with his hand shaking, he fell to the ground with a glare, and rolled towards the corner.

"Ye, Senior Brother Ye...... I wasn't ...... just now. Zhao Gui couldn't believe that Ye Tian, the newly recruited disciple of the Great Elder, would come to the miscellaneous area, but just now he had scolded this pride of the heavens, and he wanted to open his mouth to explain, but at this critical time, he was frightened.

Ye Tian glanced at Zhao Gui, snorted coldly and took out a spirit stone the size of a fingernail from his arms, threw it in front of Zhao Gui, and said coldly when he turned around: "No matter what method you use, let Su Hong disappear into this world, and no one can know about it, and it has anything to do with me in the slightest." “

After Ye Tian walked out of the miscellaneous service hall, Zhao Gui wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, picked up the low-grade spirit stone the size of a fingernail from the ground, squinted his eyes the size of soybeans, and muttered in a low voice: "Su Hong, is your miscellaneous dog life only worth such a little?"

In the valley, next to the stream, Zhou Ting put her finger to her lips, looked at Su Hong in front of her with a smile on her face, and said softly in a mocking tone: "It's a little taller than before, and it's a lot more handsome, the only thing that hasn't changed is still like a fast wood, except for nodding, it's shaking your head." “

Regarding Zhou Ting's ridiculous words in front of him, Su Hong didn't know how to answer, so he could only shake his head and smile awkwardly.

"It's exactly the same as before. Seeing that Su Hong was like this again, Zhou Ting smiled, then put away her smiling face, pointed to the yellow cotton jacket that Su Hong was wearing and said softly: "In the past three years, have you been in the miscellaneous area?"

"Yes, I've always been there, Miscellaneous District. Su Hong looked at the slowly flowing stream under the frozen stream, and his voice revealed a hint of helplessness.

The two chatted until the sky was full of snowflakes, and Zhou Ting stuffed an elixir called Juling Pill into Su Hong's hand, and then walked out of the valley.

It's just that when she was about to walk out of the valley, she looked back at Su Hong with a smile on her face, and said softly: "At this time in three days, wait for me here, and I will send you the mantra of the ninth layer of condensing qi." “

After Zhou Ting finished speaking, she turned her head and stepped on the ice and snow all over the ground, and disappeared at the exit of the valley, but she never told the handsome young man behind her who spoke very little that in the past three years, she had looked for him countless times in the sect.

Zhou Ting's departing back fell in Su Hong's eyes, and he put the Ning Ling Pill into his arms preciously, although he said very little, he didn't like words.

But this woman, no matter what she said three years ago, "Su Hong, after entering the sect, if you have any difficulties, remember to come to Danmai to find me." "It's still the act of sending Dan today, as well as the words just now, which are worthy of Su Hong to keep her in mind.