CHAPTER XIII

"Brother Jiu, are you cold? It's so cold here," Tao'er said tremblingly.

"It feels a little cold, grandpa, are you cold?"

"It's a little cold, Jiu'er, come with me. After Liu San finished speaking, he walked towards the stream, and Lin Jiu followed Liu San all the time, and he didn't ask why.

Liu San walked to the stream, stuck the crutches in his hand into the water and took them out again, and said to Lin Jiu, "You lead Tao'er and stand here without moving." Lin Jiu nodded, the two little guys looked at the old man inexplicably, and then looked at Liu San holding the crutches, walking slowly forward like a wooden sword stabbed out, about a foot away, the bottom of the wet crutches was half a foot long and instantly became ice, Liu San took the crutches back, and gently patted the half-foot-long ice with his hand and shattered the ground, the crutches were directly frozen, this crutches have been used for many years, although the wood is unknown wood, but it is also much stronger than ordinary wood, Liu San turned to look at the two stunned little guys and said"Now no one is allowed to leave Xiao Jiu for half a step, and if you go out, you will directly become an ice sculpture."

"Why can't you take half a step away from me?"

"Alas, I can't finish talking to you in a few words, I'll talk about it when we get out safely" Liu San waved his hand, turned around and whispered to himself, "It seems that not only is the strength of resistance smaller, but even the range has become smaller, when I first found out, it was more than ten zhang!" Liu San muttered to himself, "It's so cold here, how did this little beast get here?" and turned his head to look at the motionless Xiaobai in the first place.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about?" Lin Jiu asked curiously when he heard Liu San's whisper. Liu San thought about the problem as if he didn't hear Lin Jiu speak.

Xiao Bai in Lin Jiu's arms also looked at Lin Jiu in surprise at this time, it saw Liu San's actions just now and discovered Liu San's intentions, at this time it may also remember the cold outside, but it had been thinking about letting Lin Jiu come in before, but it forgot the cold inside, and now that it thought of this, it was also surprised by Lin Jiu.

"Grandpa, you better tell me about it. Lin Jiu pulled Tao'er to Liu San's side and begged

"It's very dangerous here, if you go any further, even if you feel cold, we won't be able to go any further, no matter what the situation is, we have to get out immediately. ”

"Okay, got it grandpa"

After that, the three of them walked for a long time, Liu San was so tired that he couldn't remember the time, Tao'er's feet were blistered, and just when the dry food was about to be eaten, Xiaobai in Lin Jiu's arms trembled slightly, Lin Jiu immediately felt that Xiaobai was wrong, stopped and lowered his head and asked, "Xiaobai, what's wrong with you"

Lin Jiu saw Xiaobai's thin body trembling constantly, his eyes looking straight ahead, Lin Jiu hurriedly looked up, and Tao'er's shout also sounded in his ears, "Brother Jiu, look." ”

In the darkness ahead, through the bright light of the torches, I vaguely saw a gate inlaid on the stone wall, the three of them were stunned and hurriedly walked over, and when they arrived at the door, Liu Sanyi waved his hand and the three stopped, Liu San was afraid that there was a mechanism in front of the door, and when they arrived at the door, they found that the gate was really big, and the three of them looked up and only saw the middle part, and they didn't know how high it was in the darkness above, and the range of the torch was limited, and the three of them walked sideways for more than 20 zhang to see the middle line of the door, and the gate was actually more than 20 zhang from the side of the door to the middle line, Lin Jiu and the three of them all looked at each other and looked at each other, and their eyes were shocked, when did the three of them who didn't go out of the village all day see such a big door.

Lin Jiu slowly approached the gate with a torch, wanting to see what this gate was made of, the black gate felt cold, Tao'er pointed to the gate and said, "Brother Jiu, how did you say such a big gate was made?"

Lin Jiu looked at Tao'er and didn't speak, then touched the white fox in his arms and said, "Xiaobai, what's behind this door?"

Xiaobai looked at Lin Jiu, then looked at the door in front of him, stretched out a paw and pointed lightly at the other half of the door, nodded, Lin Jiu looked at the other half of the door in the dark, and then beckoned Liu San and Tao'er to walk slowly over there, and walked more than 20 zhang, and never found anything abnormal, only to find that a doorpost that was originally standing against the wall collapsed a small section, thinking that this door is so huge, the bottom of the doorpost fell a little bit, the exposed gap is like opening a small door, it is dark and can't see the situation inside, there are gusts of cold wind blowing out from there from time to time, Lin Jiu stretched the torch inside to see, Just take a look out of the foot, I can't see how thick this door is, this gap is about two zhang high and three feet wide, it is very easy to pass Lin Jiu turned his head and looked at Liu San behind him

"This seems to be an earthquake in the mountain, which caused this gate post to collapse, Xiaobai must have gone in, but I don't know if there is any danger now" Liu San thought about it and said

"Xiaobai, have you ever been in?" Lin Jiu lowered his head and asked Xiaobai again

Xiao Bai looked at the gap and nodded, and pointed with his paw again, meaning to let them in.

Lin Jiu looked at Liu San and said, "Xiao Bai must have discovered this place by accident, but Xiao Bai can go in and come out safely, which means that there should be no danger here, anyway, let's all come here, why don't we go in and have a look?"

Liu San hesitated for a moment but nodded, Lin Jiu was the first to enter with a torch, and Tao'er and Liu San hurriedly followed, not daring to go too far from Lin Jiu.

This gap is not very deep, only about a zhang or so to the end, under the light of the torch only saw nothing around him, the distance is a piece of black, but the foot is not a mountain stone, but a large flat stone slab, under the light of the fire glowing cyan light, I don't know how big it is, behind him is the stone wall and the gate, suddenly Xiao Bai jumped from Lin Jiu's arms, ran forward, Xiao Bai has no physical strength to run not very fast, but it can be seen that it has used all its strength

"Xiaobai" Lin Jiu only shouted urgently, and he couldn't see Xiaobai's figure. The three of them stood still and didn't dare to move, "What about grandpa?"

Liu San also didn't know what to do for a while, although there were no accidents, but in an unfamiliar environment, especially such a strange place, in the small mountain village for so many years, no one has ever heard of such a place, so many years no one has been here, such a big door is not built by manpower, don't think about it, just the cold outside, it is not something that people can bear, if it weren't for Lin Jiu, they wouldn't have been able to walk here, if it weren't for Xiaobai's strong request to bring them here, they wouldn't have come to this strange place。

Just when Liu San was still thinking about what to do, a little light lit up in the depths of the cave, and in this dark cave, that little bit of light immediately made the three of them discover, that little bit of light like a star in the sky in the dark night, after flashing twice, it became brighter and brighter, and it was constantly rising upward.

As it grew higher and higher, the light became the size of a plate, and it rose to a height that required three people to look up, and the pale white light did not look dazzling at all, and when it rose to the point of not moving, there was a click, like the sound of something embedded in a groove.

The disc-sized bright light is like the moon hanging in the sky, followed by the bright light as the center, swinging a circle of visible light curtain water lines, shaking and spreading outward, everywhere lit up a fist-sized light, the entire cave top is like a dazzling starry sky, the circle of light ripples out more than a hundred zhang in size, the whole cave is lit up, the three people are surprised by the mouth of the boss, in this life has never seen such a big cave, even if there is light on the top of the cave, it has to be very hard to see the top of the cave, from the foot to the front straight out, it is also almost a hundred zhang distance to see only the edge that can be seen。

The darkness behind is still unclear, there is nothing in the whole large space, only a neat two-foot square small stone platform on the ground more than twenty zhang away, about a foot high, on top of which is a black strange-shaped shelf, and a small copper bowl is placed in the corner of the platform.

Xiao Bai was lying under the platform, not moving, there was still some milky white liquid hanging from the corner of his mouth, Xiao Bai stretched out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, looking at Lin Jiu and Liu San.

Even if they haven't seen the world, the two of them know that Xiaobai must be eating something unusual, because they already have a different feeling when they look at Xiaobai in such a short time, although they are still lying on their stomachs, they can't see the feeling of dying of exhaustion in their eyes.

Lin Jiu pulled Liu San and Tao'er and walked slowly towards Xiaobai, but they walked more than ten zhang, Lin Jiu, who was walking in the middle, suddenly lost his hands, Lin Jiu stood in place and turned his head in surprise to look at the two people behind him, the two of them were one step behind Lin Jiu, and they were touching something in front of them with their hands.

"What's wrong with Grandpa?" Lin Jiu hurriedly asked.

"I don't know what's going on, Momoie and I can't move forward, it seems like there's an invisible wall here"

"No, there is no wall. Lin Jiu turned around and took a step back, standing beside the two of them again, Lin Jiu wanted to take their hands and continue to walk forward.

Liu San waved his hand, signaling the two of them not to move, he couldn't take a step forward without taking a step, so he took another step back, and then asked Tao'er to take a step forward, the same situation, followed by Lin Jiu, but Lin Jiu took three steps forward without hindrance, Lin Jiu turned to look at the two of them, and he was also surprised, the three of them were stunned, why is this.

Lin Jiu ran to Liu San's side at once, "Grandpa, why can't you get along with Tao'er, but I can walk over?"

When Liu Sanzheng didn't know what to say, a deep voice came from the empty cave, "You're finally here"

"Who, who's talking, who are you? do you recognize me? Did you let Xiaobai bring me here?" Lin Jiu shouted loudly as he looked up at the patches of white light on the top of the cave

Xiao Bai under the stone platform in the distance was startled by this voice and stood up, and then slowly knelt down like a person, but the three of them were still shocked by this sentence, and they didn't see Xiao Bai's strange movements at this time.

After a short silence, the voice sounded again: "Xiaobai, that little fox, your name is quite appropriate, yes, I recognize you, I recognize the old man behind you, it was he who brought you to the vicinity of this Silver Dragon Mountain more than ten years ago." ”

"Who the hell are you? ”

"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is why you were brought here so early by that little fox, and let that little fox suffer so badly"

Lin Jiu looked at Xiao Bai, who was still kneeling on the ground in the distance, and asked, "Did you raise Xiao Bai?"

"No, it stumbled here by accident, I just made a deal with it"

"Where are you, why can't I see your people?" After saying this, Lin Jiu slowly became bolder.

"You're early, if you're too late, I'll be able to show up to see you, I just asked you, why were you brought here so early by this little fox, and if it was injured, it could come here to heal itself. ”

"Why should I tell you, that it is good to tell you?"

"Ahaha, hahaha, you kid is so funny, good? What good do you want?"

Lin Jiu turned around and walked to Liu San's side, slowly taking Liu San's hand, after all, he was still young, and he was ridiculed by a stranger, and he still couldn't wipe his face.

Liu San eased his mind, he didn't dare to talk nonsense without knowing whether the other party was friend or foe, at this time he looked around, and saw Xiao Bai who was still kneeling on the ground, and after retracting his eyes, he sighed softly and said" There is a small mountain village here, a few days ago was killed by a group of people from outside, our grandfather and grandson were fortunate that the white fox desperately protected to escape here, I had no intention of rushing here, but the white fox has been guiding us here, my grandson can not rest assured that this little fox fairy, I have to accompany here, if it disturbs you, please forgive me. ”

"Grandpa" Lin Jiu pulled Liu San's hand, and Liu San waved his hand to signal not to speak.

"Desperately protect? I don't think I will meet any masters in the remoteness here, with the ability of that white-haired beast, even if you meet a junior in the later stage, you can also protect you from difficulties, why are you desperate?" While the man spoke, a beam of white light flew down from above to surround Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai's face was painful, but he didn't move, and the white light disappeared in the blink of an eye, followed by the man's angry voice, "Why is the fake Dan gone? Who did it?" Xiao Bai was lying on the ground trembling all the time, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, and Lin Jiu and the three of them didn't know what to say when they stood still.

After waiting for a while, the deep voice sounded again: "Boy, what do you say? Why is Xiaobai's fake pill gone, if you meet someone in the cultivation who is scattered, it can't save you even if you fight for ten lives." ”

Lin Jiu thought about it and told the man how he met Xiaobai, how Xiaobai rescued Wang Orion, and how Xiaobai was besieged by people to bite the fake pill in order to get them out of trouble, but it was not very detailed

"It seems that this little beast is quite affectionate and righteous, but this fake Dan is not true but it is not easy to become a Dan, I have known it for almost a hundred years and I have never seen it treat me like this, it only knew you that time to break the fake Dan, it's really strange, hey, what's your name that kid?"

Lin Jiuyi heard this person say that he and Xiaobai have known each other for hundreds of years, could it be that this unseen words came from the mouth of a ghost? The more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, so he said in a trembling voice, "My name is Lin Jiu, I don't know your surname, old man?"

"Grandpa, you haven't seen me, how do you know I'm an old man?"

"As you said yourself, you've known Xiaobai for about a hundred years, so even Xiaobai, who you knew when you were a child, is almost 100 years old now, right?"

"Heh, you are very smart, but the old man is more than 100 years old, as for how old the old man can't remember, and I don't want to tell you, I'm afraid of scaring you when I say it, you don't lose if you call me grandpa, I'm afraid that my ancestors can also be called." ”

"Grandpa, can Xiaobai's illness be cured?"

"It's not a disease, although it just drank some of the spiritual juice I left behind, but after all, it's just a temporary decline to slow it down, and it will die in a short time, and without the fake pill is equivalent to losing its life. ”

Lin Jiuyi was frightened and hurriedly ran to Xiao Bai's side and hugged Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai had become very thin, Lin Jiu just picked up Xiao Bai, and heard a "Xiao Jiu" behind him

Lin Jiu hurriedly turned around but saw that Liu San and Tao'er had turned into two icemen, it turned out that the temperature here was too low, and it was Lin Jiu who had no accident by their side all the time, just now Lin Jiu was worried about Xiaobai's safety and left the two of them, these two people were blocked by an invisible barrier, Liu San, you were frozen into an iceman before you could shout Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu ran to Liu San'er again, no matter how he slapped the ice, it was very solid, Lin Jiu kept shouting that his grandfather kept beating the ice, and he was so anxious that he cried.

"Don't cry, boy Lin, cut your index finger, use your blood to draw a blood line one foot in front of them, draw about two feet long, this outer array will be useless in the place where your blood has drawn, you can bring the two of them in, and then the cold air enters the bloodline to collect the corpse."

Lin Jiu didn't think about it after hearing this, so he took out the dagger from his arms and pointed it at his right hand, and then drew a blood line on the ground, and then got up and went to hug Liu San's body, and after the two ice cubes, one big and one small, were brought in, Lin Jiu hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, what should I do now?"

"Hmph, it's easy to say, if you break the ice, you will also hurt them, you go to the stone platform in front of Xiaobai, there is a shelf on that platform, move the shelf, there is a small hole under the base, there is a stone the size of an egg, you take it out, I can not be trapped by this external formation, temporarily meet with a clone, and also save them from the trap. ”

Lin Jiuyi ran to the edge of the stone platform without thinking about it, and pushed the shelf aside, but just when he reached the small hole, he paused, thinking to himself that this old man seems to have been trapped by this formation, if I let him out as he said, what should I do if I cause trouble? But grandpa and Tao'er were frozen into icemen, and they had to be saved, Lin Jiu looked at Xiaobai hesitantly, Xiaobai may have guessed what Lin Jiu was thinking at this time, and nodded to him gently, Lin Jiu believed that Xiaobai would not lie to him, so he put his hand into the hole, the small hole was not deep and did not reach Lin Jiu's elbow, he touched the stone, but when his fingers touched it, the sudden cold made him shiver all over his body, and he couldn't help but say, "It's so cold"

"Boy, that's the Earth Yin Stone, let alone touching it by ordinary people, walking into its hundred-zhang range is directly turning into ice cubes, and the Qi cultivation disciples who can't release the aura will also have to freeze into serious injuries, you and the white-haired beast are both spirits, so I'm not afraid of this thing, okay, don't hesitate, take it out quickly, and your grandfather can be buried on the spot after a while." ”

Lin Jiu didn't think much about it, grabbed the stone and took it out, but he didn't expect that the small stone seemed to weigh dozens of catties, Lin Jiu slowed down and stood on the platform, bent down and lifted it up, and when he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he was already sweating profusely, Lin Jiu shouted and took out the stone, quickly put it on the platform, and sat on the platform panting heavily.

At this time, the stone on the top of the cave flashed, and slowly darkened a point, and a crack opened on a piece of the floor on the ground with a click, and then a few clicks came, and the floor that was not far from the platform cracked was all shattered at once, and after falling down, a boxy hole was revealed, and the cold air was bubbling out of the hole, and a white light fell in front of Lin Jiu, it was a middle-aged man in a red robe, his eyes flashed brightly, and he looked breathtaking, and the middle-aged man in a red robe looked up and laughed when he looked up"Haha...... Ha ha...... It's been 3,000 years...... It's been 3,000 years...... Ha ha...... The old man is finally the first person to return to the outer battle alive, it is not in vain that I will sleep to preserve my strength and fight with the old man, hum" After speaking, the middle-aged man in the red robe turned his head to look at Lin Jiu, who was already scared.

smiled slightly and said, "Oh, by the way, you have to save your grandfather" Then I saw the middle-aged man pointing at Liu San and Tao'er in the air, the ice on the two of them had disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the two of them had no support without ice, and their bodies fell to the ground as soon as they were soft, Lin Jiu hurriedly ran over, and at this moment he didn't dare to stay away from the two of them, Lin Jiu hurriedly wanted to change into clean clothes for the two, but found that even the bags he was carrying were soaked, Liu San closed his eyes and didn't wake up, his face was pale, but Tao'er woke up slowly

"Brother Jiu, it's so cold, why are the clothes on my body wet?"

Before Lin Jiu could explain, the red-robed middle-aged man standing there raised his hand again, and a fire appeared out of thin air in front of the three of them. He nodded at the middle-aged man.

Tao'er followed Lin Jiu's gaze, "Hey, why is this uncle here, have you been talking just now?"

The middle-aged man in the red robe may have been in a good mood at this time, and he was not angry at all at all at Tao'er for calling him uncle, but laughed and said, "What? Is there anyone else talking to you besides me?"

Lin Jiu hurriedly pulled Tao'er and said, "Don't be rude to grandpa, call grandpa." ”

"Grandpa, but this uncle looks very young, and his hair is not gray."

Lin Jiu didn't know what to say for a while, seeing that this stranger was likely to be an old monster who had lived for thousands of years, if it weren't for the means revealed that Lin Jiu had never seen or heard of, he thought that this person had a broken brain, and he pointed to unice and make a fire out of thin air, what Lin Jiu saw today had surprised him, a soil bun who grew up in a mountain village.

At this time, Liu San also slowly woke up, struggled to get up, bowed to the middle-aged man in the red robe, and said, "Thank you, old fairy, for saving your life." ”

The middle-aged man just nodded and didn't speak.