Chapter 11: The Secret Realm
The road under the cliff is very difficult to walk, the craggy strange rocks are like sharp knives, and Liu Xunxiang's straw shoes are painful when stepping on them.
The road to the top of the cliff is even steeper and uneven and thorny, walking for about half a day, Rao is Liu Xunxiang's body has been transformed by gray fog, and he still feels that his legs are like several pounds of pig iron tied to it, and the sweaty Liu Xunxiang feels that he is out of breath every step he takes, although he can see the place on the cliff, but when he really walks on the real road, he always feels that the road is so long, and it seems that the hope of going to the top is so far away, which makes Liu Xunxiang can't help but have a trace of despair from the bottom of his heart.
"You have to go up, you have to go up to have hope, Du Zhong stabbed me in the chest with a knife and couldn't kill me, the big snake chased me for so long and couldn't eat me, I shouldn't give up hope of living by myself, I haven't found the slightest opportunity to cultivate immortals, I can't give up like this, I can go up, I will definitely be able to!" Liu Xunxiang buried his head and cheered himself up step by step like an old ox plowing the field.
Liu Xunxiang knew that she couldn't stop or rest, because once she stopped, she would no longer have the courage and belief to continue to move up.
Time passed in a hurry, and Liu Xunxiang had already walked for a day and a night, but fortunately, such a place was not in the right place, so there were few large beasts in general, and this was the only lucky thing in all the tragic things.
The worn straw sandals have been thrown away by Liu Xunxiang, and the naked feet have been slowly ground out of blood blisters, dragging out a shallow blood stain behind him, and every step is accompanied by the pain of drilling the heart from the soles of the feet, and later, Liu Xunxiang is almost climbing up with both hands and feet.
From time to time, a few streamers crossed the sky, and one after another monks flew through the air, and no one cared that there was such a young man under the clouds who endured the pain for the persistence in his heart.
During the day on the second day, Liu Xunxiang's hands also became bloody and blurry, even the sweat began to have a faint red, and the knees, fingers, and toes became bloody and blurry, not so much walking, but climbing like a beast, Liu Xunxiang no longer knew about his current situation, and now Liu Xunxiang can insist on climbing, completely relying on his own will to support.
Fortunately, when the sun star set in the west on the second day, Liu Xunxiang climbed up, turned over and lay on the ground, Liu Xunxiang felt that he was struggling to breathe now, the afterglow of the sun star was poured on his body, and Liu Xunxiang slowly closed his eyes.
"Stinky boy, get up if you don't die, and if you go to sleep, you will wait here for death when the beast comes. ”
Liu Xunxiang didn't know how long she had been asleep, but she felt that a familiar voice had been surrounding her ears, and she opened her eyes and saw the sloppy old man holding the leg of an unknown animal and eating with a mouth full of oil.
After Liu Xunxiang saw the sloppy old man, she first quickly touched her chest, and found that the bracelet and the Dan bottle on her chest were still there, and after breathing a sigh of relief, she looked at the sloppy old man and smirked, although she wanted to cry in her heart, but Liu Xunxiang couldn't cry, from the moment she left home to the present, every step that Liu Xunxiang has experienced, but if there is a slight mistake, she may never wake up again.
Looking at Liu Xunxiang's smirk, even the sloppy old man who has gone through all kinds of situations in the world still flashed a trace of unbearability in the depths of his eyes, where is this laughter, this is clearly a silent cry.
A little tired of laughing, Liu Xunxiang closed his eyes and lay on the ground again, this time, the sloppy old man did not urge him, but sat silently next to him and drank the wine in the gourd.
After the sky was completely dark, Liu Xunxiang walked back to the cave with the sloppy old man, and under the leadership of the sloppy old man, he rarely encountered wild beasts along the way, let alone strange beasts.
"Old man, what kind of cultivation are you? I see that other monks can fly around in the sky, why haven't I seen you fly, don't you know how to fly?" asked Liu Xunxiang as she looked at the old man leading the way in front of her.
When the old man heard this, he was immediately angry, turned around and scolded: "Little rabbit cub, you talk nonsense about the old man, I will break your legs, who said that the old man I can't fly, the old man just disdains to fly, besides, the old man, I am dressed so tattered, fly to the sky, don't the people below look at everything cleanly, old man, I don't want to lose face?"
"I don't see you looking like a face-saving person. ”
“......”
Soon, an old man and a young man returned to the cave in the frolicking and scolding, looking at the words left by themselves on the ground in the cave, Liu Xunxiang was a little distracted for a while, but in just a few days, Liu Xunxiang felt as if he had passed a Jiazi.
Shaking his head, Liu Xunxiang asked, "Old man, do you know why so many monks have come to the mountains in the past two days?"
The sloppy old man, who was still lying in the old place, shook his head and said, "What can be something that my old man doesn't know, I heard that there is a treasure in this mountain." ”
When Liu Xunxiang heard this, she immediately became interested: "What baby, can you let me condense the spirit of cultivating immortals?"
"Even if you can, do you think it's up to you and me to grab it? Not to mention the monks who came this time, I'm afraid that there are a lot of people from the Huadan Realm, and the two of us are not enough to stuff our teeth, so don't think about it." ”
Liu Xunxiang was immediately deflated when she heard this, she was a mortal, plus the sloppy old man, a half-hung monk, not to mention a monk in the Huadan Realm, it is estimated that a black wolf can kill the two of them several times.
"Then how did you find me?" asked Liu Xunxiang curiously.
The old man shrugged his shoulders and said with a nonchalant expression: "I found the edge of the cliff following the traces of the giant snake's crawling, but the old man, I don't have such a good figure as you as a young man, I jumped down without saying a word, and finally found the road that seemed to lead directly to the bottom of the cliff, and I waited there, but I didn't expect you kid to be so slow, and waited for you for several days before you climbed up." ”
“.......”
After a while, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved Liu Xunxiang couldn't help but scold the sloppy old man: "I'll grass your uncle!"
After losing her temper, Liu Xunxiang silently walked to the side and lay down, but she couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, so she got up and sat cross-legged again, and after thinking about the content of the qi induction chapter in the silk book in her mind, she began to cultivate.
With Liu Xunxiang's cultivation, the surrounding aura began to slowly gather beside Liu Xunxiang's body again, but as before, the aura refused to enter Liu Xunxiang's body, and only lingered around Liu Xunxiang, but this time the gray mist didn't seem to have any movement.
The sloppy old man didn't pay much attention at first, but when he saw the aura gathered around Liu Xunxiang, he sat up, looked at Liu Xunxiang left and right for a long time, and then shook his head and muttered: "Tut-tut, it's really incredible, after so many years, the old man is still lucky to see the old man again." ”
After that, the old man walked to the entrance of the cave alone with the wine jug, looked at the moon and stars in the night sky, and poured a sip of wine.
The sky was slightly bright, Liu Xunxiang opened his eyes, saw that there was no old man in the cave, thought about it a little, or made up his mind, and was about to take the stone to leave a word on the ground, when a sloppy old man's voice came from outside the cave: "What, you kid left a word and ran away from home and became addicted, right?"
Liu Xunxiang was suddenly embarrassed, and the old man said slowly when he saw this: "Okay, I know that you kid is a thief and wants to go and see what kind of treasure is in that mountain pimple, in fact, the old man is also curious, so the old man still decided to go with you, so if you die, the old man can still collect a corpse for you." ”
Liu Xunxiang wanted to scold back, but when she thought that her first death was the corpse collected by the sloppy old man in front of her, she didn't talk but pouted her ass to pack up her baggage.
Seeing this, the old man kicked Liu Xunxiang's buttocks, and then said, "Before leaving, go and put traps around us, so that there will be no one in us for a few days, and there will be a litter of beasts in the cave when we come back." ”
Liu Xunxiang glared at the sloppy old man, and then went out to set traps, in the mountains during this time, dealing with some beasts every day, Liu Xunxiang himself figured out a lot of traps for catching beasts.
At noon, Liu Xunxiang and the sloppy old man, who had arranged all the traps, set off into the depths of the mountain range.
At this time, in the depths of the mountain range, there were already many monks standing in front of a small mountain, and among these monks, there were also some people that Liu Xunxiang knew.
Among them, there are several monks wearing the black armor of the scale rhino army of Qinghe City, and behind these black armor monks stand a column of scale rhino army, and in front of these people stands a white-haired old man, if Liu Xunxiang is here, he will definitely be able to recognize this old man, because this old man is none other than the old man surnamed Xin from the Qinghe City City Lord's Mansion, in addition, Xiao Mowan, a girl who has had a relationship with Liu Xunxiang under the cliff, is also in the crowd.
Xiao Mowan's little head kept looking left and right, as if he was looking for someone, looking at Xiao Mowan's appearance, one of the women quipped: "Is Wan'er looking for your little master?"
Xiao Mowan's face turned red, and she immediately retorted: "Senior sister, you bullied Wan'er again, Wan'er just wanted to see if he was better, after all, he was thrown at the bottom of the cliff alone that day, and Wan'er was still a little uneasy in her heart." ”
Another woman took over the conversation and said, "Yo, our family has given away the close-fitting Wanling Bracelet at night, and I still feel uneasy, so how can I feel at ease?
The senior sisters and brothers around them all looked at Xiao Mowan with a smile on their faces after hearing this, Xiao Mowan's face turned even redder, so she had to grab the sleeve of a middle-aged woman in front of her and shake it: "Master, senior sister, they bullied me." ”
The middle-aged woman lovingly touched Xiao Mowan's little head, and said softly: "Wan'er, you are still young now, and it is the right thing to put more attention on improving your cultivation." ”
Xiao Mowan raised his little head and looked at the middle-aged woman and said aggrievedly: "Shizun even bullied me with you." ”
At this moment, a pale blue light curtain appeared on the surface of the hill, and the light curtain immediately fluctuated like a calm water surface wrinkled by the wind.
Seeing this, the middle-aged woman said: "Okay, don't make trouble, this secret realm is about to open, after a while the blue light curtain is stable, everyone should hurry up and rush in, after entering, everyone must be vigilant at any time, don't fall behind, late, you will follow me closely." ”
Xiao Mowan nodded, her eyes flashing with eagerness.
On the other side, Xin Lao also said to several monks in black armor behind him: "This Wang Panshan Secret Realm is said to be a cave left by a predecessor of the Soul Transformation Realm hundreds of years ago, and now with the passage of time, the prohibition of guarding has been loosened, and it will appear once every hundred years, there are countless pills and Dao methods and heavenly treasures, but there are also many prohibitions, everyone must be careful after entering, don't be greedy, once you get what we want, we will withdraw immediately, understand?"
The black-armored monks replied in unison, "No." ”
I don't know who was present shouted: "The light curtain is stable, fast forward." ”
In an instant, all the monks present shot towards the hill like bows and arrows off the string.
The monks who entered were like stones that had fallen into the water, causing the blue light curtain to stir up layers of waves.
Soon after all the monks entered, an old man and a young man emerged from the dense forest beside the hill.
Liu Xunxiang tore off the feathers of unknown birds on her head, and complained: "Old man, look at what road you are taking." ”
The sloppy old man smiled and said: "The road is a little worse, but it's close, you see, we just arrived in time, if it's late, we won't be able to get in." ”
Looking at the light blue light curtain covering the surface of the hill in front of her, Liu Xunxiang couldn't help but open her mouth wide: "This.... This... The mountain is glowing. ”
The sloppy old man slapped Liu Xunxiang's head and said, "Don't talk if you don't have knowledge, this thing is called a ban, and a monk with a little cultivation will be good, what's the fuss?" ”
"And will you?"
"Don't force the old man to do it. ”
An old man and a young man looked at the blue light curtain that was about to dissipate, and hurriedly ran over, and at the last moment when the light curtain dissipated, the two of them rushed in.